The Accidental Husband

Released Year: 2008

Directed by Griffin Dunne

Casted by:

 Uma Thurman as Dr. Emmeline (Emma) Lloyd

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Patrick Sullivan

Colin Firth as Richard Braxton

Isabella Rossellini as Frau Greta Bollenbecker

Keir Dullea as Herr Karl Bollenbecker

Sam Shepard as Wilder Lloyd

Kristina Klebe as Katerina Bollenbecker

 Story:

Patrick Sullivan is looking forward to a life with, Sophia, until she calls into the show by famed love expert and radio host Dr. Emma Lloyd. Emma questions Sophia’s concept of romantic love and advises her to break their engagement, which she swiftly does.

Patrick is so upset that when he hears that Emma is about to be married herself, he allows his young neighbour, Ajay, to hack into public records and create a fake marriage between himself and Emma. Upon going to the public records office to get a marriage license, Emma and her perfect-gentleman fiancé, Richard, are told she is already married.

Emma sets out to find Patrick and give him annulment papers to sign so that she can marry Richard. Emma finds Patrick in a bar, and their initial meeting ends with her getting drunk. The next day, Patrick comes to Emma's work to give her the annulment papers as she is leaving for a wedding cake tasting. Patrick accompanies her to the tasting, where Frau Greta Bollenbecker assumes he is Emma's fiancé, Richard. Greta later comes to Emma's book launch because her husband, Herr Karl Bollenbecker is planning to liquidate Richard's publishing house. Greta meets Emma during the banquet and tells her of the same. Patrick still has the annulment papers, so he comes to the book launch. Matters get worse when Richard sees Greta and Karl with Emma and Patrick, who is posing as Richard, but Richard agrees to go along with it when he learns that Greta thinks Patrick will charm Karl so much that Karl will decide to continue business with "Richard".

Patrick invites them all to a Hindu "sacred thread ceremony" (Upanayana) rite-of-passage ritual for Ajay. Emma and the other guests have a really good time there, and she sees a whole new side of Patrick, who had been repulsive to her so far. There is a slight spark of attraction, but Emma flees the scene before anything else can happen.

Patrick decides to throw out everything related to Emma or Sophia, but instead reads Emma's book, "Real Love". He comes to confront her about the book because he thinks it only points out all the bad things in a relationship. Patrick and Emma continue their argument in an elevator. Suddenly Patrick flaunts his NYS Fire Department badge and asks the other occupants to leave the elevator. He then locks the elevator and proceeds to kiss Emma. Security staff see them through a CCTV in the elevator and ask them to leave.

Emma finally has the signed and notarized annulment papers, but she considers calling off her wedding. She goes to Patrick’s lodgings and they make love that night. The next morning, Emma finds all the papers related to her and Sophia in the trash. Patrick then confesses that he had initially wanted to teach her a lesson about love but then fell for her. Emma then goes back to the honorable Richard, who still loves her and says that she wants to marry him.

One day before her wedding, Patrick calls her at the radio station and tells her that he loves her. She does not answer him. The next day on her wedding day, she confides in her father, Wilder (Sam Shepard) and asks his advice. He tells her that the decision is hers. Richard comes to see Emma in the bridal chamber. Richard had also heard the radio show the night before when Patrick told Emma of his love for her. He tells her that he wants her to be happy, and they amicably break up.

Emma sets off the church's fire sprinklers in an attempt to get Patrick to the church. Meanwhile, The fire department where Patrick works is called to the church to put out the fire. When Patrick arrives there, Emma and Patrick get married and leave in the fire truck. The final scene shifts to a year later where it is shown that Emma is pregnant and that she and Patrick are still very much in love. The movie ends with a Tamil song "Swasame" from the movie Thenali in the background.

L² Scored: 3/10

L² Comment:

Lately I have not picked up those Romantic Comedy kinda movie to watch anymore.Its always the same old same old in all these similar genre's movie. Basically, this movie will never ever appeal again under my consideration ...

Kill Bill Volume 1

 Released Year: 2003

Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Casted by:

Uma Thurman as The Bride (Black Mamba)

Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii (Cottonmouth)

Vivica A. Fox as Vernita Green (Copperhead)

Michael Madsen as Budd (Sidewinder)

Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver (California Mountain Snake)

Julie Dreyfus as Sofie Fatale

Sonny Chiba as Hattori Hanzo

劉家輝 Gordon Liu as Johnny Mo

栗山千明 Chiaki Kuriyama as Gogo Yubari

 Story: 

An intertitle displays the proverb "Revenge is a dish best served cold". A pregnant woman, known as "The Bride", lies badly wounded at her wedding, telling an unseen Bill that she is carrying his baby as Bill shoots her in the head. However, it is later revealed that she miraculously survives the headshot, but was left comatose for four years.

The Bride's second revenge killing is shown some time after her recovery. The Bride finds Vernita Green at her home and fights her, but they cease after Vernita's young daughter Nikki arrives from school. It is revealed that both women are former members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, elite assassins under the employ of Bill. Bill and the Deadly Vipers had attacked The Bride at her wedding. While the two women are talking in the kitchen during their truce, Vernita attempts to kill The Bride with a pistol hidden in a box of "Kaboom" cereal. The shot misses the Bride, who retaliates by throwing a knife to Vernita's chest; she dies slowly. When the Bride notices Nikki standing in the doorway, she offers Nikki revenge should she seek it as an adult, then leaves. The Bride then strikes Vernita's name off a checklist; the name "O-Ren Ishii" has already been crossed out.

Going back to the time of her coma, another member of the Deadly Vipers, the one-eyed Elle Driver, enters The Bride's hospital room where she lies comatose, and prepares a lethal injection. Driver is interrupted by Bill on the phone, who states they will take action only if she awakes. Four years later, the Bride awakens and is horrified to discover that she is no longer pregnant. Meanwhile, she learns that a hospital worker named Buck has been raping her in her comatose state, and accepting cash from those who wish the chance to do the same. While a trucker is preparing to assault her, the Bride bites off his tongue, killing him. She then incapacitates and kills Buck by repeatedly smashing his head between a door and its jamb, and steals Buck's truck. She swears revenge, and picks her first target: O-Ren Ishii, who has since become the leader of the Tokyo yakuza.

Once she recovers, the Bride travels to Okinawa to obtain a sword from legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzō, who has sworn never to forge a sword again. After learning that her target is his former student, Bill, he agrees he is morally obligated to forge his finest sword for her. The Bride tracks down O-Ren at a Tokyo nightclub, challenging her to a fight and severing the arm of Sofie Fatale, O-Ren's assistant and a protégée of Bill's. She then fights off O-Ren's Yakuza army, including the elite "Crazy 88" squad and O-Ren's personal bodyguard, 17-year-old sadist Gogo Yubari, before dueling O-Ren in a snow-draped Japanese garden and killing her. She finally tortures Sofie into revealing information about Bill, leaving Sofie alive to tell Bill that the Bride is coming to kill him and the others. Bill asks Sofie whether the Bride knows that her daughter is, in fact, still alive.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

Gosh, this is such an awesome awesome movie... i should have watch it years ago, damn me!!! Uma Thurman & Lucy Liu is fighting their bitch paws off at each other and i totally love it~ the storyline is interesting and i was simply amazed with it...

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 風の谷のナウシカ

Released Year: 1984

Directed by 宫崎駿 Hayao Miyazaki

Voiced by:

島本須美 Sumi Shimamoto & Alison Lohman as Nausicaä    
 松田洋治 Yōji Matsuda & Shia LaBeouf & 泰迪羅賓 Teddy Robin as Asbel     

 榊原良子 Yoshiko Sakakibara & Uma Thurman as Kushana    
納谷悟朗 Goro Naya & Patrick Stewart as Master Yupa    

Story:

One thousand years have passed since the Seven Days of Fire, an apocalyptic war that destroyed human civilization and gave birth to the vast Toxic Jungle, a forest swarming with giant mutant insects in which everything is lethal to humans. Scattered settlements exist wherever the Toxic Jungle relents. The Valley of the Wind is one such settlement. The Valley's settlers have a prophecy stating that a warrior "clad in blue and surrounded by fields of gold" will one day reunite man and nature.

Nausicaä, the agile, cheerful and peace-loving princess of the Valley of the Wind, has managed to befriend the Toxic Jungle. She explores the Jungle and communicates with its creatures, including the gigantic, armored trilobite-like creatures called Ohmu. She often travels on a compact jet-powered glider in order to find out about the origins of the Toxic Jungle, understand its nature, and even find a cure for both humans and the world.

One night, during a visit by the Valley's swordsmaster, Lord Yupa, a large fixed-wing cargo aircraft from the kingdom of Tolmekia crashes in the Valley. Nausicaä tries to rescue an onboard passenger, the wounded Princess Lastelle of Pejite, who pleads with Nausicaä to destroy the cargo before dying. The cargo is an embryo of a Giant Warrior, lethal genetically engineered bioweapons that caused the Seven Days of Fire. The invading Tolmekians seized the embryo and Lastelle. The Tolmekian plane, however, was attacked by mutant insects before it crashed. One of the insects then emerges unscathed from the wreckage and seems poised to attack the frightened villagers, but Nausicaä uses a small bullroarer to create a high-pitched tune that helps calm it and after mounting her jet-glider, guides the insect out of the village to safety.

The next morning, Tolmekian troops, led by Princess Kushana and Officer Kurotowa, subjugate the Valley and secure the Giant Warrior embryo, killing Nausicaä's sick father in the process. Kushana plans to mature the Giant Warrior and then use it to burn the Toxic Jungle, even though history warns of fatal consequences. Her father's death drives Nausicaä berserk and she kills several Tolmekian soldiers before the fight is halted by Yupa. Kushana announces her decision to leave for Pejite along with five hostages from the Valley and Nausicaä. Before they leave, Nausicaä's master discovers her secret garden of jungle plants. According to Nausicaä, plants that grow in clean soil and water are not toxic. The jungle's soil, however, has long been tainted by man.

Kushana and her detachment never reach their destination, as an agile Pejite interceptor obliterates the entire Tolmekian wing before being shot down. Nausicaä, her fellow hostages and Kushana crash-land in the jungle, disturbing several Ohmu, which Nausicaä soothes. She then leaves to rescue Asbel, the Pejite pilot and the twin brother of Lastelle, but both are swallowed by quicksand and end up in a non-toxic world below the jungle. Nausicaä realizes that the jungle plants purify the polluted topsoil, producing clean water that remains hidden underground.

Nausicaä and Asbel return to Pejite, only to find it ravaged by the insects. Pejite survivors, boarding a single plane, reveal that they lured the creatures to eradicate the Tolmekians and are doing the same in the Valley to recapture the Giant Warrior. To prevent any intervention, they take Nausicaä captive, knocking Asbel out in the process. Later, with the help of Asbel and his mother, Nausicaä flees on a glider. While flying home, Nausicaä finds a team of Pejites using a wounded baby Ohmu to lead scores of enraged Ohmu into the Valley. Tolmekians deploy tanks and later the Giant Warrior against the herd to no avail: tanks prove too weak and the Giant Warrior, hatched ahead of time, soon disintegrates.

Nausicaä liberates the baby Ohmu and gains its trust; in the process, her pink dress becomes stained by the Ohmu's blue blood, turning completely blue. Both land in front of the herd, but are run over. The herd, however, calms down, and the Ohmu use their golden tentacles to heal Nausicaä's wounded body. Nausicaä awakens and starts to dance on top of the hundreds of glowing golden tentacles. Thus Nausicaä, "clad in blue, surrounded by the fields of gold" fulfills the prophecy. The Ohmu and Tolmekians leave the Valley afterwards, while the surviving Pejites remain with the Valley people, helping them rebuild. Meanwhile, a tree is beginning to grow underground, meaning that the planet is beginning to heal.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

After 5 years of directing his very first animation, Hayao Miyazaki used his comics which he has been Posted in the comic magazine at that time. The animation movie gone a big hit and won a lot of applause. For me, the movie definitely has a sense of education to teach human beings of stop polluting our own earth and stop war. Storyline kinda special but of coz a few parts are a bit boring though...

Motherhood

 Released Year: 2009

Directed by Katherine Dieckmann

Casted by:

Uma Thurman as Eliza Welch
Anthony Edwards as Avery McKendrik

 Story:

In Manhattan, Eliza is a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event. She is always busy with her housework and taking care of her son when her husband Avery is not helping at all.

Eliza always wanted to complete her novel which she was half way on it, but taking care of the housework and her baby son makes her look ugly and busy all the times, and Avery keeps on bringing back old novel from bookstores frustrated her. During her daughter's birthday, she went out since morning to buy all the preparation stuff. Carrying a lots of thing make her looks clumsy and frustrated, luckily a young man helps her out and she felt young again after dancing with him. She told this to Avery and wanted a new life.

Avery makes his change and sell off all the novel, and he did earn a bit and the family feel happy again.

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

Well, this is not those epic movie, but the story is quite nice, quite real for those mother. Uma Thurman looks so aunty, haha... well, she should looks like that in this movie. What i don't like about this movie, is the pace... Some parts are quite bored actually and the exciting part don't really create the moment for this movie too...

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Chris Columbus
Casted by:
Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson
Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase
Brandon T. Jackson as Grover Underwood
Pierce Brosnan as Chiron
Uma Thurman as Medusa

Story:

Movie starts with Poseidon appeared from the sea and went up to a towel to meet up with Zeus. Both brothers are arguing about the lost of the lightning weapon which Zeus create. Zeus suspect that Poseidon's son has stole the weapon and ask Poseidon to return it or else he will starts a war for it.

Son of Poseidon, Percy Jackson is a semi-god which mean he is a half god and half human. Percy never know his real identity until one day he was attacked by one of the teacher. But luckily he was saved by Grover and Chiron. Grover is his protection who is a half man and half goat while Chiron is half human combined with horse body.

Percy and Grover went back to find Percy's mum. While traveling to the training camp of the semi God, Percy's mum was caught by Hades. To rescue his mum, Percy need to learn all the tactics and fight he can get from Chiron. During the training, Percy meets the pretty Annabeth, daughter of Athena. When all the semi god students are having barbeque in the woods, Hades occurred from the fire and ask Percy to surrender the lightning weapon for him to exchange his mother back from hell.

Percy decided to leave and search for Hades. Eventually, Grover and Annabeth followed to help. Even Luke also lend out a good shield and flying shoes for Percy to accomplish this mission. But they need to find 3 pearls for their own used to get out from the hell after they enter. So, their first spot is on a statue garden. They discovered that Medusa is incharge at there, Medusa can turn others into rocks when you look at her eyes. Percy was smart enough to use the reflection and defeated Medusa by chopping her head off. Annabeth suggested to keep Medusa's head for a further use.

Their second location is at the Athena hall and they saw the pearl was at the Athena Statue's head. They will have to wait till the late night to get it. While knocking off 5 cleaners to unconsious, Percy used the flying shoes and managed to get the pearl. But then they found out the cleaners are actually the dragon with 5 heads. Three of them was unable to fight against the strong 5-head fire dragon, but luckily Grover remember Medua's head and turn the dragon into a statue instead.

Driving off their 3 pearl will be at the Lotus Casino in Las Vegas. After they eat the lotus, they were obssessed in the casino and forgot about their purpose of the journey. But in the end Percy was warned by a voice of his father and get the gang back into track. On the very last day of the war, they reach Hollywood and found the door to hell. The gang went there and met Hades. When Hades knocked down Percy, he discover that the lightning weapon was actually in the shield. Luke was the lightning thief !!! But in the end, Hades' wife released them but Grover has to stay and satisfy her sexual desire.

By saving Percy mother, they rush to the towel and handle the lightning weapon to Zeus. But Luke came with his flying shoes and tried to stop them. Luke told them his intention is to let the God fight against themselves and will try to take over their place and make the semi-god into the higher rank. Percy managed to control huge amount of water and defeat Luke.

Finally Percy managed to stop the war and explain everything to all the God assembly at there. Poseidon beg for Percy's forgiveness and Percy went back to the camp which where he belongs to.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Uma Thurman is the main reason i went for this film, this is exactly those poison ivy kind of character she's good at :) Her beautiful eye is breath-taking. Though she does not appear much but enough to make you remember her appearance. The story is kinda nice, but i'm not sure whether it follow the original novel or not.

Greek's God and Mythic Creatures are always the fancy kind of thing that i like. And all the actors and actresses are cute :) seriously, look at logan and u jst feel like pinching his cheeks~