Showing posts with label Vince Vaughn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vince Vaughn. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Released Year: 1997
Directed by Steven Spielberg

Casted by:
Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm
Julianne Moore as Dr. Sarah Harding
Pete Postlethwaite as Roland Tembo
Arliss Howard as Peter Ludlow
Richard Attenborough as John Hammond
Vince Vaughn as Nick Van Owen
Vanessa Lee Chester as Kelly Curtis Malcolm
Story:
Four years after the incident at Jurassic Park, John Hammond has lost control of InGen to his nephew, Peter Ludlow. Ian Malcolm violated his non-disclosure agreement and went public about the events, but few believed him and threats of legal action prevented him from producing any evidence, leaving his academic reputation destroyed. One day, Hammond summons Malcolm to his home and tells him about "Site B," located on Isla Sorna, where the dinosaurs were actually engineered, before being sent to Isla Nublar when mature. The island was abandoned after a hurricane wiped out most of the facilities, and the creatures were left there to live wild. Hammond asks Malcolm to help him stop Ludlow from using Site B to bail out the bankrupt InGen, and to help him convince environmentalists to leave the island as a nature preserve. Malcolm initially refuses, but agrees to go after learning that his girlfriend, paleontologist Sarah Harding is already there.

Malcolm is joined by Eddie Carr, an engineer who built the group's custom vehicles, and Nick Van Owen, documentary producer and environmentalist. Shortly after arriving on the island, they encounter a Stegosaurus herd and meet Sarah. When they return to camp, they find Kelly, Malcolm's daughter, was accidentally locked in one of the vehicles while visiting him before departure and looking around. Malcolm tries to contact the boat to take them home, but they are interrupted by the arrival of an InGen team sent by and joined by Ludlow. The rival team quickly captures samples of several species, including Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus, Gallimimus, Pachycephalosaurus, Triceratops, and a swarm of Compsognathus, pointed out by paleontologist, Dr. Robert Burke. That night, Nick and Sarah sneak into the InGen camp to free the dinosaurs and cut the fuel lines on the vehicles. The freed dinosaurs cause a huge commotion as they escape, compounded by the exploding vehicles. Roland Tembo the leader of the InGen team, admonishes his second-in-command, Dieter Stark, for the lack of security.

Roland wishes to capture an adult male Tyrannosaurus, and creates a trap by breaking the leg of a baby T. rex so that its cries might lure its parents. When he returns to the camp, Nick frees the baby, taking it back to their trailer so Sarah can set its broken leg. The adult Tyrannosaurs come searching for their child and, after retrieving it, throws one half of the hinged trailer over a cliff with Malcolm, Nick, and Sarah inside. Eddie throws down a rope and tries to pull the trailer back up using one of the SUVs, but his SUV is attacked by the Tyrannosaurs. Eddie is torn in half and eaten. The trailer falls off the cliff, but its occupants survive by holding on to the rope, only to be rescued by Roland and the InGen team. With all of the communications equipment destroyed in the attacks, both groups team up to reach the old InGen compound's radio station, right through a Velociraptor nesting site. During the walk to the station Stark is killed by a pack of Compsognathus.

At night, the male Tyrannosaurus comes across the group's camp and pokes his head into Sarah and Kelly's tent, sniffing Sarah's jacket covered with blood from the baby's leg. One of the InGen team workers notices this and screams, waking up the rest of the group as they all begin to run, with the female Tyrannosaurus in pursuit. Dr. Burke is eaten, while hiding behind a waterfall, by the female Tyrannosaurus. After initially failing to kill the male Tyrannosaur (mainly because Nick stole the bullets from his gun), Roland uses a tranquilizer gun to knock the dinosaur out. After fleeing from the female Tyrannosaur, the InGen team passes through a field of tall grass and are picked off one-by-one by Velociraptors. Malcolm, Sarah, Nick, and Kelly pass through the field unharmed and Nick reaches the compound, but the others are attacked by three raptors and go into hiding. After a fight with the raptors, Ian, Sarah, and Kelly run towards a building where they reunite with Nick and contact a rescue helicopter. As they fly away, they see that Roland has caged the male Tyrannosaur and Ludlow preparing to ship it and the baby back to the mainland. However, Roland is depressed over Ajay's death (from the raptors) and resigns his post in InGen, declaring to Ludlow "I think I've spent enough time in the company of death." He then walks away towards a helicopter.

When the ship carrying the dinosaur arrives in San Diego, it crashes into the dock. A boarding party finds out the entire crew is dead. While searching for survivors, a guard opens the cargo hold and inadvertently releases the Tyrannosaur, which escapes into the city. Malcolm and Sarah learn that the Tyrannosaur stopped breathing due to a tranquilizer overdose, it was given amphetamines to bring it around, but not knowing the proper dosage, they administered too much and the dinosaur is out of control. Realizing that the Tyrannosaur will likely come for its infant, Malcolm and Sarah rush to the Jurassic Park amphitheater(which was Hammond's original idea before he decided to locate the park on an island) to get the baby T. rex, which had been brought in separately by plane, and during this time, the T. rex is wreaking havoc in San Diego, having eaten a fleeing civilian and a dog. They lure the adult with the baby and run back to the boat. Ludlow tries to intervene, but is trapped in the cargo hold, injured by the adult, and devoured by the baby. Malcolm and Sarah manage to tranquilize the adult before it can escape again, and seal it in the hold.

By morning, as Malcolm and Sarah fall asleep on the couch in their living room, Kelly watches television reports of the cargo ship on its way back to Site B, surrounded by a convoy of naval vessels. The program breaks away to an interview of restored InGen Chairman John Hammond, who explains that the island will now be left alone as a natural reserve so the dinosaurs can live free of human interference. He offers a quote by Malcolm, "Life will find a way." The scene cuts to Site B, where the family of Tyrannosaurs is shown reunited in the wild, alongside a herd of Stegosaurus migrating and a flock of Pteranodons flying overhead.
L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:
Not being fussy or what, but i really dont think this sequel is better than the 1st movie. Without Sam Neil, the whole movie seems lost (maybe it wanna suit the name of The Lost World? lol). For me, Jeff Goldblum is not really a good actor i must say. He seems to have the same expression through out the whole film. And Moore is kinda fat and clumsy in this movie.

Overall, the one thing that i like is the small dinos which came out in a swamp to attack. Nice :)

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Four Christmases

Released Year: 2008
Directed by Seth Gordon

Casted by:
Vince Vaughn as Brad McVie "Orlando"
Reese Witherspoon as Kate
Robert Duvall as Howard McVie, Brad's father
Sissy Spacek as Paula, Brad's mother
Jon Voight as Creighton, Kate's father
Mary Steenburgen as Marilyn, Kate's mother
Kristin Chenoweth as Courtney, Kate's Sister
Jon Favreau as Denver McVie, Brad's brother
Tim McGraw as Dallas McVie, Brad's brother
Story:
Orlando "Brad" McVie and his girlfriend, Kate are a happily unmarried and childfree, upscale San Franscisco couple whose respective households are somewhat similar - both bearing divorced parents, warring siblings with out-of-control kids and general awkward memories and simmering resentments from the past, which they find too embarrassing to share with each other.

In an effort to avoid these families at Christmas time, Brad and Kate pretend to be engaging in charitable work and escape to exotic sun-spots, such as Fiji, to enjoy a relaxing Christmas there. Unfortunately, in the third Christmas of their relationship, Brad and Kate are trapped at San Francisco International Airport by a fogbank that cancels every outbound flight. To make matters worse, they are caught on camera and then interviewed by a CBS 5 news crew, revealing their whereabouts to the whole city and, worst of all, their families.

With no escape, their lies foiled and no excuses to make, they find themselves unable to avoid a Christmas at home with their respective families. They first visit Brad's father, then Kate's mother, and then Brad's mother and, finally, Kate's father, thereby celebrating four Christmases in one day. As they brace themselves for a marathon of homecomings, Brad and Kate expect the worst, but are nevertheless unable to prepare themselves enough for what they get. As the day progresses, each discover a new secret about each other that both had been too embarrassed to tell each other about, and soon find their relationship on the verge of collapse.

While Brad counts down the minutes to freedom, Kate finds herself looking at the lives of Brad's and her own siblings and realises that she does want a marriage and children of her own, the prospect of which frightens Brad. Eventually, in the final visit of the day, at Kate's father's house, Kate asks Brad to let her spend the visit on her own and claims to her family that they had split up. Meanwhile, Brad spends some time at his own father's house with just his father and realises how empty his life is without a marriage and children, and that he loves Kate much too much to leave her.

He returns to her and they discuss the possibilities of having a child and getting married. The two then embark on their holiday in Fiji. A year later on New Year's Day, the couple welcomes their first born child, a baby girl, which they have spent the last nine months hiding from their families. However, as their baby is the first born in the New Year, a news crew comes to congratulate them - once again revealing them, and their new baby to the whole city, and their families.
L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:
A relaxing comedy love story is always nice to watch while spending ur time at home alone. Wow, Vince Vaughn is so damn tall !!! Or is it Reese Witherspoon too short?

Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Cell

Released Year: 2000
Directed by Tarsem Singh

Casted by:
Jennifer Lopez as Catherine Deane
Vincent D'Onofrio as Carl Rudolph Stargher
Vince Vaughn as Peter Novak
Story:
Catherine is an expert on the experimental treatment for coma patients. The lab eventually make up a virtual reality device that allows Catherine to enter into the minds of her patients and attempt to coax them into consciousness.

Carl is a crazy serial killer who killed all his victims by drowning them and breach the color off them while making them into dolls. Currently he caught a new victim and has set a remote to drown her in a tank, but Carl falls into a coma before the FBI agent Peter caught him. They send Carl to the lab to find out where he kept his victim.

Catherine enters Carl mind and found out that there are 2 parts of Carl inside. The innocent part is Carl childhood who were beaten and abuse by his father while the evil part is the one who do all the serial killing. Catherine was captured inside Carl's mind and Peter went in to rescue her. Inside there, they fought with evil Carl and managed to discover where he kept the last victim. Later on both of them exit Carl's mind. Peter went to save the last victim from tank while Catherine enters Carl mind again.

This time, Catherine do the reverse and lead Carl into her mind with full of hope. She guided Carl innocent part and killed off the evil part. This experiment was a success. Catherine then has used this reverse treatment to save all her coma patients.
L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:
The story is kinda new and different. But the whole story line is a bit dull and yet not very pulling out the emotion part.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Couples Retreat

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Peter Billingsley

Casted by:
Vince Vaughn as Dave
Jon Favreau as Joey
Jason Bateman as JAson
Malin Akerman as Ronnie
Kristin Davis as Lucy
Kristen Bell as Cynthia
Carlos Ponce as SalvadoreStory:
There was 4 couples who find their life miserable. Dave & Ronnie who has 2 boys but Dave seldom wanna take care of the household things which make Ronnie feel tired. Joey and Lucy who has been married for a few years but cannot have any kids, therefore they are fooling around behind each others back. Jason and Cynthia who wanna get divorce because Jason is too demanding and self center on everything. Shane who met Trudy a girl that is 20 years old younger than him.

After being persuade by Jason & Cynthia, all of them went for this couples retreat therapy in Eden West. But when they reach, they found out Eden West is for couples while Eden East is for single party. Desperately Joey and Lucy try to sneak over there for fun. Their couples therapy is boring at first but the girls get excited when they see Salvadore, the hot yoga instructor.

Shane and Trudy has an argument and Trudy run to Eden East by herself. To get Trudy back, the whole gang (which obviously persuade by Joey & Lucy) went to Eden East. While going there, Cynthia cannot stands with Jason's self center and decide to go her way instead. The girls followed her and they met up Salvadore who's swimming naked in a pool. Asking for fun, Salvadore brought all the girls to party.

Eventually, the guys are there too. Dave & Ronnie discover on each other needs and promise to be tolerate with each others. Jason apologize and promise to Cynthia that he will not be selfish again. While watching Salvadore luring around on Lucy, Joey get jealous and win Lucy back. In another hand, Shane decided to broke off with Trudy because they are in different generation. But at the end he met his ex-wife Jennifer who came all her way to Eden to seek for a reunion.

The movie ends with all happy ending.
L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:
Watch this movie with your love one and you will feel lovely :) Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau were one of the writer in this movie together with Dana Fox. Kinda relax and sweet of the movie, nothing too heavy just for me to spend my time while doing my count down with my love one.