Showing posts with label Joe Johnston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Johnston. Show all posts

Monday, August 1, 2011

Captain America: The First Avenger

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Joe Johnston

Casted by:
Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America
Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull
Sebastian Stan as Sgt. James "Bucky" Barnes
Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips
Stanley Tucci as Dr. Abraham Erskine
Story:
In March 1942, Nazi officer Johann Schmidt and his men invade Tønsberg, Norway, to steal a mysterious tesseract possessing untold powers. In New York City, Steve Rogers is rejected for World War II military duty due to various health and physical issues. While attending an exhibition of future technologies with his friend Bucky Barnes, Rogers attempts to again enlist. Having overheard Rogers' conversation with Barnes about wanting to help in the war, Dr. Abraham Erskine allows Rogers to enlist. Rogers is recruited as part of a "super-soldier" experiment under Erskine, Colonel Chester Phillips and Peggy Carter. Phillips is unconvinced of Erskine's claims that Rogers is the right person for the procedure but relents after seeing Rogers commit an act of self-sacrificing bravery. The night before the treatment, Erskine reveals to Rogers that Schmidt underwent an imperfect version of the treatment, becoming super-human but suffering side-effects.

In Europe, Schmidt and Dr. Arnim Zola successfully harness the energies of the tesseract, intending to use the power to fuel Zola's inventions. Schmidt, having discovered Erskine's location, dispatches an assassin to kill him. In America, Erskine subjects Rogers to the super-soldier treatment, injecting him with a special serum and dosing him with "vita-rays". Rogers emerges from the experiment taller and muscular. After the experiment, one of the attendees shoots and kills Erskine, revealing himself as Schmidt's assassin Heinz Kruger. Rogers pursues and captures Kruger but the assassin commits suicide via cyanide capsule before he can be interrogated.

With Erskine's death the super-soldier formula is lost. Rogers chooses to tour the nation in a colorful costume as "Captain America" to promote war bonds rather than be confined to a lab while scientists attempt to rediscover Erskine's formula. In Italy 1943, while touring to active servicemen, Rogers learns that Barnes' unit was lost in battle against Schmidt's forces. Refusing to believe Barnes is dead, Rogers mounts a solo-rescue attempt with Peggy and Howard Stark flying him behind enemy lines. Rogers infiltrates the fortress belonging to Schmidt's HYDRA organisation, freeing Barnes and the other captured soldiers. Rogers confronts Schmidt who reveals his face to be a mask, removing it to display the red-colored, skull-like face that earned him the nickname "The Red Skull". Schmidt escapes and Rogers returns to base with the freed soldiers.

Rogers recruits Barnes, Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, James Falsworth, and Jacques Dernier to attack the other known bases belonging to Hydra. Stark provides Rogers with a new outfit and a new, circular shield made of Vibranium, capable of negating large amounts of damage. Rogers and his team attack and destroy all of the known bases. The team later attacks a train carrying Zola. During the assault Zola is captured but Barnes falls from the train and is lost. Using information gathered from Zola, Rogers leads an attack on Schmidt's final base to stop him using his powerful weapons against American cities. Rogers manages to board Schmidt's jet before it takes off and confronts him. During the fight, Rogers damages Schmidt's container for the tesseract. Schmidt physically handles the tesseract, causing him to dissolve in a bright light. The tesseract falls to the floor of the plane, melting through the surface and falling to Earth.

Seeing no way to safely land the plane without risking the onboard weapons detonating, Rogers makes a date with Peggy via radio before purposely crashing the plane in the Arctic. Stark later recovers the tesseract from the floor of the ocean but the aircraft remains undiscovered and Rogers is declared inactive. Rogers awakens in a hospital room. Deducing something is wrong, he flees outside into what is revealed to be present day New York. Rogers is confronted by Nick Fury who informs him he has been "asleep" for nearly 70 years.

In a post-credits scene, Fury approaches Rogers and tells him that he has a mission for him.
L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:
I didn't read any of Captain America's comic before, but hell yeah this is a nice movie. Though i watch it in 3D, but seriously, its not worth as the 3D effect is not that much, so i think its ok if you guys just go for the normal 2D movie instead.

The whole story mention about how Captain America is born and how he transform into such a hottie, oopps, i mean superhero. But from the ending, the possibility of the rest of the actors/actresses to be film in the next movie (except Chris Evans & Samuel L Jackson) is to be zero i can say.

Chris Evans is the best thing to be view in the whole movie, especially his hot body. Pheww... just look at his nipples, so damn delicious :) lol

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Jurassic Park 3

Released Year: 2001
Directed by Joe Johnston

Casted by:
Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant
William H. Macy as Paul Kirby
Téa Leoni as Amanda Kirby
Alessandro Nivola as Billy Brennan
Trevor Morgan as Eric Kirby
Story:
In the beginning of the film, a boy named Eric Kirby and his soon-to-be stepfather, Ben Hildebrand, go parasailing near Isla Sorna with a "DINO-SOAR" Parasail. Meanwhile, the boat's crew disappear (presumably killed by a swimming dinosaur). Ben and Eric crash on the island. Scientists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler have continued their paleontological careers but are working independently. Ellie is married and has two children while Grant is still digging with his protégé, Billy Brennan. Grant is approached by Paul and Amanda Kirby who pretend to be wealthy and desire to tour Isla Sorna. Having chartered a plane, they want Grant to be their guide. He is reluctant at first, but eventually agrees after the Kirbys offer to fund his dig.

Grant suspects that something is not quite right when the plane carrying him, Billy, the Kirbys, and a trio of mercenaries, Udesky, Cooper, and M.B. Nash, begins to land. After Amanda uses a megaphone to call out to her son in the jungle, a roar is heard followed by several gunshots. Nash and Udesky emerge shouting they have to leave. The plane starts down the runway when Cooper suddenly appears, begging them to stop. Suddenly, a huge spinosaurus seizes him in its jaws and kills him. As it leaves the ground, the plane grazes the Spinosaurus, sending it out of control into the jungle and stranded up a tree. The Spinosaurus attacks again, tearing off the front of the cockpit, seizing Nash and devouring him. The plane remnant falls to the ground where Grant, Billy, Paul, Amanda, and Udesky are once again assaulted by the persistent spinosaurus. They finally escape when the dinosaur gets it head stuck between two trees. But their luck turns sour again as they blunder into a Tyrannosaurus eating a fresh kill. Disturbed, it pursues them back into the jungle where the Spinosaurus suddenly reappears. The two theropods engage in battle, with the Spinosaurus emerging victorious. The survivors slip away in the meantime. Grant learns that the Kirbys are actually searching for their son, Eric, who was stranded on the island along with Amanda's fiancé, Ben, in a parasailing accident eight weeks earlier. He decides to lead them to the coast, increasing their chances of rescue. Along the way, they discover the parasail, as well as Ben's skeletal remains. Billy salvages the parasail, and the Kirbys discover several nearby velociraptors nests.

The group then explores the abandoned InGen compound where they are attacked by a male Velociraptor. As they flee, the rest of the raptor pack joins in the pursuit and Udesky gets separated from the others and is attacked by the alpha female raptor. The rest take refuge in the trees. Amanda tries to help Udesky and is nearly ambushed by raptors who have set a trap. Failing at this, a male raptor finishes Udesky by snapping his neck killing him. Grant is separated from the group and nearly killed when Eric arrives and rescues him from several raptors with smoke bombs. He has survived on the island since the accident, living in an abandoned water truck. The following morning while trekking through the jungle, Eric recognizes the ringtone of his father's portable phone. The groups reunite, separated by a high barrier fence. Paul, puzzled at Eric's explanation as to how he detected them, points out the cell phone was lost when he gave it to Nash (who was eaten by the Spinosaurus). The ringing is heard again and the group spots the spinosaurus nearby which appears on Eric and Alan's side of the fence. The two run in panic and by a stroke of luck find a hole in the fence which they dive through. The survivors are reunited, but not giving up, the spinosaurus crashes through the fence and chases them until they find shelter in another building. Grant now discovers Billy has stolen two Velociraptor eggs. About to drop them in the river, he hesitates. "What will happen if they catch us with the eggs?" Grant responds, "What will happen if they catch us without them?"

To reach a boat docked in a nearby river, the group must pass through a massive aviary dome where they are attacked by pteranodons. Using the parasail he salvaged, Billy rescues Eric from a nest of Pteranodon infants, but is attacked and overwhelmed by several adults. The rest of the group assumes he is dead. The group escapes, but the dome's door is left ajar. The party finds the boat and while navigating down the river hear a phone ringing. This leads them to a dung pile containing the satellite phone the Spinosaurus had eaten from the plane, which they are forced to sift through in order to recover it. A ceratosaurus appears and nearly attacks, but backs off at the last moment upon smelling the dung which it knows marks the territory of another predator. As the gang travels down the river, the spinosaurus emerges from the water and attacks. Grant attempts to call Ellie on the satellite phone, but is dragged beneath the surface and can only yell "The river! Site B! The river!". Paul climbs to the top of a nearby crane to distract the monster, and Grant shoots a flare which ignites the oil that has spilled from the boat, scaring away the dinosaur.

The group is close to shore when raptors reappear, wanting their eggs back. Avoiding any sudden movement, the eggs are taken out and carefully placed on the ground. Two raptors gently take them away. The remaining raptors appear on the verge of attack when Grant imitates a Velociraptor call on a special pipe, one which replicates a raptor's resonating chamber like the one that Billy had rapid prototyped earlier in the film. Disconcerted, the raptors retreat. At the beach, United States Marine Corps helicopters and infantry arrive. The party boards a helicopter and Grant encounters Billy who was injured during the Pteranodon attack. As the helicopter departs, three Pteranodons are seen flying off in the distance. Eric asks Grant where they might be going and Grant speculates they are searching for new nesting grounds. Paul is glad that they're finally going home, and the film ends as the pteranodons fly off into the clouds.
L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:
This is horrible, i should say terrible if compare to the 1st two movie. There's nothing special about this. Heard that Jurassic Park 4 is coming in 2012, is it real? I'm not sure, hope that its not as suck as this.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Wolfman

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Joe Johnston

Casted by:
Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot
Anthony Hopkins as John Talbot
Emily Blunt as Gwen Conliffe
Hugo Weaving as Francis Aberline

Story:
Lawrence Talbot is a theater actor who received a letter from Gwen Conliffe, his brother's fiancee. Lawrence discover that his brother, Ben was missing when he went back to New York Talbot's mansion. John Talbot, Lawrence's father is still as weird as he used to be.

Few days later, Ben's body was discovered. Everyone suspect that Ben was attack by the bear in the Gypsy camp. To find out the truth, Lawrence and others went over the camp during the fullmoon and was attack by the wolfman. Lawrence got himself hurt when hunting down the wolfman. But surprisingly, the wounds and scars were heal by itself very quickly.

After get bit by the werewolf, Lawrence has been having weird illusion image flowing inside his mind. Lawrence even remember while he was small, he saw his mother killing herself by slashing razor on her throat. Lawrence also discover about the lycanthropy and werewolf will only kill by silver bullet. Francis Alberline as the police officer came to arrest Lawrence because suspect he will become the wolfman and hurt others. But John Talbot came and makes the policeman go away. During fullmoon, Lawrence finally found out he's one of the wolfman too.

After killing a few people when he's in the werewolf form, Lawrence feel guilty and went over to find Gwen and told her he has feeling for her. But Francis came and bring Gwen away. After figure something out, Lawrence discovered that John is the wolfman as well who kill Lawrence's mother and brother. Lawrence search for the silver bullet that their servant, Singh had. Lawrence used the silver bullet to kill John but not success. It seems like John has clear out the bullet powder which can't kill him. And about time of the fullmoon period, both of the father and son turn into werewolf and fight against each other.

The young werewolf is definitely not able to defeat the old and experienced wolfman. But one accident kick, the old wolfman fell into the fire and get himself burn. Taking this opportunity, the young werewolf smash off the head of the old wolfman and won the fight. But Francis and Gwen were here in the moment. The wolfman try to kill Gwen but was shot by Gwen with the silver bullet.

Before Lawrence die, he transform back into human form and thanks Gwen for ending this horrible life. With the dead of both wolfman, everyone thought this will be the end. But, nobody remember Francis was bit by the werewolf too...
L² Scored: 4/10

L² Comment:
Hmm~ seriously, i fall asleep in the cinema. Am i too tired? No, i don't think so... the story is pretty pretty lame and boring. Its only talk about how the werewolf transform and nothing else. But at least the make up is not bad for the werewolf.