A lawyer re-presenting a high profile client digs up massive stuff.
This movie is a full fun ride. If you like mind twisting thrillers then go no further then this one, it has all of it. Matthew McConaughey acted like he's doing these for years. All the twist and turns are really exiting. imdb rating for this movie is - 7.4, my rating 8.5/10. here is imdb link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189340/
It's about a house bird finding himself in a different challenging situation.
After releasing in 15 April 2011.. it still is in #72( June 28 ) so it doesn't really need any recommendation, but if you want to go through it then.. It was the best movie at that time.. Cast is Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx And George Lopez. There voice really sounded like bird. It'll suit you for any mood. imdb rating - 7.2.. my rating 8/10. imdb link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1436562/.
Usually I don't watch a movie without looking over its genre, story, about and etc. But this movie was just laying in there in my hard disk, i didn't had anything better to do. So i started watching this movie and i loved it. It might seem like a booring movie but it's not. Nice interesting drama with old plot i guess but the writer knew what to put and director knew how to make people stay with the movie. And not to mention Keanu Reeves awesome as usual. imdb rating for this movie is 6.2 but i rated full 7. here is imdb link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220888/
few movie stills..
And here is the theatrical movie trailer from youtube -
Everyonce in a while man/women dreams of such things that they can't have. I think this movies main idea was that. Movie was quite all right, interesting script kept the interest running till the end. When i first started to watch it I wasn't actually sure how it would go, but at last turned out good. But not that great. Maybe because it was though for me to take Bradley Cooper seriously. But Robert De Niro played cool. imdb rated it 7.2 but i rated 6 No hard fillings. ;) here is imdb link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/
imdb storyline -
An action-thriller about a writer who takes an experimental drug that allows him to use 100 percent of his mind. As one man evolves into the perfect version of himself, forces more corrupt than he can imagine mark him for assassination. Out-of-work writer Eddie Morra's (Cooper) rejection by girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) confirms his belief that he has zero future. That all vanishes the day an old friend introduces Eddie to NZT, a designer pharmaceutical that makes him laser focused and more confident than any man alive. Now on an NZT-fueled odyssey, everything Eddie's read, heard or seen is instantly organized and available to him. As the former nobody rises to the top of the financial world, he draws the attention of business mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who sees this enhanced version of Eddie as the tool to make billions. But brutal side effects jeopardize his meteoric ascent. With a dwindling stash and hit men who will eliminate him to get the NZT.
imdb user review -
The bottom line, See this movie. Why you ask? The story line isn't the best I have seen this year (check out "King's Speech" to see my comparison) but the concept that the movie is based on is something that hits deep in the human psyche. Ultimate power, intelligence and the ability to do whatever you want. As the movie title says, a world where you are "Limitless".
I felt the film started off a bit slow but stick out the first few minutes and you'll be glad you stayed. The rest of the movie's fast paced story line sucks you in to the very end.
I only wish that the movie had been longer. At just over 100 minutes I felt that the movie could have afforded to spend more time on character development. They do a good job of getting you into the main Eddie Morra's (Bradley Cooper) head, which, overall I think was primarily what sucked me in. However, I felt the film could have afforded to spend more time on giving the viewer a deeper insight into the relationship between the two main characters, Eddie Morra and Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro).
In the end I left the theater feeling that the movie was well worth my time to see, it met all of my expectations and, while short and lacking some depth, was overall entertaining and had me wishing that the story was real.
wikipedia movie plot - ( spolers )
Edward "Eddie" Morra (Bradley Cooper) is a writer who lives in New York City and has recently been dumped by his girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) in addition to failing to meet the deadline to turn in his new book, which he hasn't started yet. One day, Eddie comes across Vernon Gant (Johnny Whitworth), the brother of his ex-wife, Melissa Gant (Anna Friel). Vernon is a drug dealer, and he offers Eddie a sample of a new nootropic drug, NZT-48, claiming it has the ability for humans to access 100% of the brain's power, as opposed to the normal 20%. Eddie accepts, and, much to his surprise, the drug does indeed work, allowing him to finish his book.
Eddie asks Vernon for more of the drug, and Vernon agrees, after Eddie runs a few errands for him. When Eddie returns to Vernon's apartment, he finds Vernon murdered and promptly calls the police. He quickly deduces that Vernon was probably killed by someone who wanted his stash of NZT, and he searches Vernon's apartment for it. He finds the stash of NZT and a wad of cash and uses it to turn his life around. He abandons his writing career and starts trading stocks, borrowing capital from a Russian thug, Gennady. Eddie becomes rich at an incredibly fast pace and is soon employed by the powerful businessman Carl Van Loon (Robert DeNiro). Eddie also gets back together with Lindy. Meanwhile, he feels that he is being followed by a man in a tan coat (Tomas Arana). He also starts using more and more NZT, causing side effects to occur: lost time, frenetic activity, and heart palpitations.
Eddie fails to accomplish a task assigned to him by Van Loon because of an NZT hangover, and fears he might even have killed a woman during some lost time. He is contacted by his ex-wife Melissa and learns that she had been an NZT addict and that withdrawal from the drug causes major health and mental problems, possibly resulting in death. She warns Eddie to taper off the NZT before it's too late. When Gennady comes calling, he tries one of Eddie's pills. Gennady quickly realises the drug's effects and threatens Eddie until he agrees to give him more NZT, which Eddie supplies.
Despite Melissa's warnings, Eddie manages his consumption of the drug down to an acceptable level, and uses his fortune to hire a scientist to work on reverse engineering NZT, a process that could take years. He assists Carl again, this time on a big company merger deal with a rival businessman. Before the deal can take place, the rival falls ill, and Eddie understands that this illness must be due to withdrawal from NZT. Noticing the man in the tan coat working with the rival, he realizes the man's true mission—to steal Eddie's stash of NZT for his boss. Before the deal can take place, the stash is successfully stolen not by the man but by Eddie's lawyer, Brandt, who happens to also be working for the rival. Seeing no way out and desperate for more NZT, he returns home to find he has been followed by Gennady, but manages to kill him and his two thugs with intelligence gained from what he believes to be the last of the NZT—drank directly from Gennady's bloodstream. Later that night, Carl's business rival dies, and Eddie agrees to work with the man in the tan coat to retrieve his stolen NZT stashed away at Brandt's mansion.
One year later, Eddie's book has been published (titled Illuminating the Dark Fields—a reference to the novel on which the film is based), and Eddie is running for the United States Senate. In the midst of his campaign, Carl approaches Eddie with the revelation that he bought the company that secretly makes NZT and the back room NZT lab Eddie was financing has been shut down. Carl offers him an unlimited supply of NZT (admitting that they both know he is headed for Presidency); however, Eddie must use his political position to push Carl's agenda in return. Eddie refuses the offer, informing Carl that he no longer needs the drug. His prolonged use, plus a modified version by his private scientist has allowed him to come off of the drug. He also suggests that the drug may have permanently enhanced his brain. In the film's last scene, Eddie is eating lunch with Lindy, conversing with the waiter in Mandarin Chinese, and it is left ambiguous as to whether or not he is actually off of NZT-48.
[edit]
Here is the movie trailer, chk it our first if you haven't.
Maybe the most realistic movie about ET / Alien till now. Enjoyable from curtains up to credits. And they didn't shared any sci-fi mumboo jumboo, it was all about fun and jokes. Simon Pegg and Jason Bates was outstanding as usual. I'd recommend on a free afternoon with friends and few beers and popcorn. imdb rating is 7.2 where i rated 9. Here is imdb link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092026/.
paul 2011 the movie dvd cover
imdb storyline -
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. When he discovers he's been taken prisoner, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town-a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Frost). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
imdb user review -
I was on the Irish premier of the movie last Thursday with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost showing up and saying few words before the movie . First of all, I would like to say great cast especially Sigourney Weaver , Jason Bateman and my two mini stars of the movie Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio as agents Haggard and O'Reilly . The movie its self is very funny and the script well written , the small alien with voice from Seth Rogen its very real and well made by CG artists . Obviously the chemistry between Frost and Pegg is great like always ( you know what I'm saying if you remember Shaun of the dead or Hot Fuzz )Rogen as alien is a perfect cast with his IM SMOKING WEED voice and great lines . In summary well made , great cast , funny script what else do you need for Friday night . For me seven stars
wikipedia full plot - ( spoilers alert )
In 2009, Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) are two English comic book nerds and best friends who have travelled to America to attend the annual Comic-Con convention and to take a road trip in their RV to visit all the sites of major extraterrestrial importance. At night along the highway they investigate a crashed car and they meet and discover an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) who is in desperate need of their help.
Although shocked by the appearance of Paul, Graeme agrees to give Paul a ride, but Clive is not happy about the idea. Later, Lorenzo Zoil (Jason Bateman), a shady government agent, arrives at the site of the crashed car and informs his mysterious female superior over the radio that he's closing in on Paul, and she recommends using local law enforcement as back-up. Zoil then recruits two inept FBI agents, Haggard (Bill Hader) and O'Reilly (Joe Lo Truglio), to aid in his mission, without telling them the nature of their target.
Graeme, Clive and Paul pull into a motor park run by Ruth Buggs (Kristen Wiig), a creationist Christian, and her controlling father, Moses (John Carroll Lynch). The trio bond around their campgrill and Paul reveals that since he was captured by the government, he had been advising them in all manner of scientific and sociological achievements. Yet Paul had outlived his usefulness as a receptacle of knowledge, and his captors were intending to surgically remove Paul's brain in an attempt to harness his abilities. With help from a friend inside Area 51, Paul sent an S.O.S. to his home planet, and he was escaping to meet up with them. The next morning, Paul inadvertently reveals himself to Ruth, and the trio are forced to kidnap her and make a hasty escape. Paul then shatters Ruth's faith by sharing his knowledge of the universe via telepathic link; at first horrified, Ruth suddenly becomes eager to sin, which her father had raised her to fear doing. She initially doesn't trust Paul, but he heals her eye, as she has been blind in it since the age of four.
Eventually, Paul reveals his intention to return to the girl whose dog he crashed his ship on in 1947 and who subsequently saved his life, who is now an old woman, Tara Walton (Blythe Danner). After spending her life being ridiculed for what she said she saw, Tara seems grateful to see that Paul simply exists. She turns her gas cooker on to make tea, but is interrupted by Haggard and O'Reilly on one side of the house, and Zoil on the other. As the motley crew escapes and drives off with Paul, O'Reilly shoots at them, and the gas ignites, destroying the house. A winded Zoil tries to follow, but Haggard takes off first, running Moses (who'd also been tracking the RV) off the road, and catching up to the RV. However, thanks to an error of judgement, Haggard accidentally drives off a cliff, and is killed, leaving Zoil in hot pursuit. He reassures his superior that he'll have Paul within an hour, but she declares herself tired of waiting, and informs Zoil that she's ordered a military response.
When Paul, Graeme, Clive, Ruth and Tara arrive at the rendezvous, they set off a signal and wait. Eventually, eerie orange lights show up over the surrounding trees, and everyone believes that it is Paul's race. However, it is an army helicopter, with 'the Big Guy' (Sigourney Weaver) on board, Zoil's shadowy superior. As she and three troops move to shoot Paul, Zoil arrives, and it's revealed that he was Paul's inside contact who had helped him to escape. Zoil disarms the men, but is shot in the shoulder. Tara punches out 'the Big Guy', but Moses appears with a shotgun and shoots Graeme dead. Paul heals him and then collapses, exhausted. 'The Big Guy' regains consciousness, but is immediately crushed by the arriving alien ship. Paul begins to depart and informs Tara that she is going with him to live a better life and bids farewell to his friends hoping to meet them again one day.
Two years later, Graeme, Clive, and Ruth are shown again at a comic convention, promoting their new mega-successful comic book, "Paul".
Just finished watching this movie.. enjoyed and loved every second of it.. i might be overrating it because of my favorite actor Bill Nighy so i am not going to say a word about his acting, but still its a whole entertainment package. If you need anything to cheer up your mood i think this movie will do the trick. Emily Blunt has done an excellent job with her character, was very fluffy and charming with her words. Rupert Grint was as usual as Ron Weasley, no surprise there. Imdb rated it 6.8 where i rated 9. Here is imdb link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235189/.
Story line ( imdb ) -
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose. He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring in the process a young apprentice, Tony. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.
Cast
Bill Nighy as Victor Maynard: A middle aged hit man who is hired by Ferguson to kill Rose after she cons Ferguson out of £900,000. After missing an opportunity to shoot Rose, Ferguson sends his henchmen to do the deed. Victor kills one henchman and injures another when he is looking for Rose and, concealing his true profession, helps her escape with the help of nearby lay-about, Tony. He adopts Tony as his apprentice and Victor realizes he's fallen in love with Rose.
Emily Blunt as Rose: A bold con artist who oversteps the mark when she cons Ferguson out of £900,000 and fobs him off with a convincing copy of a Rembrandt self portrait. Realizing the danger she is in, she sticks with Victor and Tony in an attempt to escape her attempted assassination. Her mad-cap lifestyle takes a turn when she realizes her enjoyment of Victor's company.
Rupert Grint as Tony: A young man who witnesses Victor shooting Ferguson's bodyguard and decides to stick with Victor for safety. Victor employs him as an apprentice (with Tony thinking Victor is a private detective and later, upon learning Victor is a hit man, taking it in stride) and he soon realizes he has a 'killer instinct'.
Eileen Atkins as Louisa: Victor's formidable mother who, while impressed with his profession, is concerned as to what will happen to the family business.
Rupert Everett as Ferguson: A gangster who hires Victor to kill Rose.
Martin Freeman as Dixon: A sadistic assassin who plays second-fiddle to Victor Maynard. While in awe of Victor, Dixon jumps at the opportunity given to him by Ferguson to dispose of the greatest hit-man ever known.
Gregor Fisher as Mike: Ferguson's bumbling henchman whose several attempts to kill Victor, Rose, and Tony leave him in hospital ... and with one ear.
Geoff Bell as Fabian: Dixon's half-witted partner.
Emily Blunt Looked Stunning in the movie.
imdb user review -
If your taste is really obvious commercial and/or big budget comedies then this might not be for you but if you have a soft spot for classic British comedies that are a bit quirky, don't try to hard then this should definitely be up your street.
It has an excellent cast that all play their characters perfectly although very typically.
Rupert Everett is predictably his usual self as is Bill Nighy but both quite excellently so.
I've seen a couple of negative reviews of this movie but it needs to be emphasised that it's not a mass market comedy. The story is great and the timing of some of the jokes is absolutely perfect.
This is actually one of the few films I'd like to own a copy of when it's released.
i love this kind of serious look of him. i think i might be gay for him. Lol.
I just finished watching this, sad for me i watched a hindi movie called "Taxi No. 9 2 11" which was remake of this movie. I wish i hadn't watched the hindi version first. But still the story is very attractive, never lets you get out of its sight. I watched it in home and didn't paused the movie for a second or did nothing interrupting. imdb rate is 6.5 but i rate it 8. here is imdb link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264472/
wikipedia movie plot -
A successful New York attorney, Gavin Banek, is in a rush to file a power of appointment, which will prove a dead man signed his foundation over to Banek's law firm. He has a collision with another car, belonging to an insurance salesman, Doyle Gipson, who is also in a rush to a hearing to try to gain custody of his children and to prevent his estranged wife from taking them to Oregon. Banek tries to brush Gipson off with a blank check thereby disobeying the law. After Gipson refuses to accept the check and voices his desire to "do the right thing", that is, filing a police report and insurance claim, Banek strands Gipson, telling him, "better luck next time". After arriving to the court late, Gipson learns that it proceeded without him and that it didn't go in his favor.
Unfortunately for Banek, he dropped the crucial power of appointment file at the scene of the accident, and the judge gives him until the end of the day to re-obtain the papers and present them. Gipson, who took the papers, has no intention of returning them, and in desperation, Banek goes to someone skilled with computers and gets him to switch off Gipson's credit. Gipson needed credit for a loan so he could buy a house for his family, and he becomes further enraged, determined to make life difficult for Banek.
Both men continue to do morally reprehensible things in an attempt to one-up each other, and eventually they begin to question their actions. Though it is made clear that Banek and Gipson are radically different, they both have an angry, vengeful streak, each capable of abandoning his morals just to punish the other. The film ends with both men having a new outlook on life, concentrating on ethics and the moral implications of their actions. Ultimately the two men apologize to each other and Gipson returns the file, but it looks to be too late for both of what they were trying to do. Banek ends up using the file to force his boss to do the right thing and plans to represent Gipson pro bono so he can get the house he wants. Banek also visits Gipson's wife to explain everything to her, knowing he owes Gipson that much. The movie ends with Gipson's wife and children smiling at him from across the street, indicating a possible reconciliation or at the very least some kind of arrangement between the two in the future.
imdb Storyline -
An attorney in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman, who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties' part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity.
imdb user review - Spoilers Alert
Changing Lanes is much more complex than the trailer leads you to believe. From the preview, you'd think it is an action fan's over-revved, simple-minded revenge thriller with lots of vehicular mayhem. Believe it or not, it does more peeling back of the layers of insulation of the affluent/powerful end of the social spectrum than any film I have seen lately. (--And not in the way the disappointingly too-pat-to-downright-absurd 'John Q' did, either.)
It's a film noir, and one of the darkest at that, full of despair, cynicism and scathing revelations about human nature. It seems to say-- or really, and this is a major distinction, to be about characters some of whom believe-- that we all make deals of personal expedience with Morality, that no one escapes life formation uncompromised and therefore able to comment on or judge anyone else's choices or actions. It's the old amoral, nihilistic/relativistic universe routine, which says concepts of fairness, justice or morality are quaintly irrelevant, that stuff just keeps happening, always has and always will, que sera sera.
My favorite scene, which was revolting and ugly and creepy as anything in any horror film you can name, is when Affleck sits down in a fine restaurant to discuss with his wife the morality of the situation he has been sucked into and is getting in deeper by the hour. He recognizes rightly that his game of oneupmanship, and win-at-any-cost has gotten insanely out of control. He is beginning to question it all, everything in his life. He comes to his wife for solace, direction, insight, a hint of moral rectitude, any help she can offer. She helps him, alright-- by saying she knows he does dishonest things (like having an affair with a woman at the office, which up until she springs that, he thought was his little secret) and that she could have had an honest husband, if that was all she wanted. --Why would she make a scene over an infidelity and risk interrupting the flow of her resources, anyway, she asks. He splits the dinner, dazed and even more desperate. In the next scene we witness him doing more of those very things he has just been having moral anguish over. (Maybe he can't recognize the feel of moral anguish at first.)
The Affleck character has a tremendous amount at stake, courtesy a pretty nifty plot hook, that keeps him up to some very dirty tricks. Sure, he doesn't want to risk interrupting the flow of his resources, either. But I think it's clear that the real reason he keeps doing crummy things is because he is a man compulsively drawn to the rewards of a destructive mode of behavior. Others gamble or drink or eat too much. Affleck works the system, lying, cheating, and treating all people like garbage. That's his high, his inescapable need. He can't quit. (Late in the film, he agrees to hire an idealistic young intern because, he laughs uncontrollably to himself, he wants to see what the intern's optimism and altruism looks like after 5 years of hard weathering by his no-rules-in-life employer.) Affleck is sick, and while he finally recognizes that sickness, he resigns himself to keep doing the same thing because, as his boss tells himself, he is willing to believe he has done more good than harm at the end of the day. The Affleck character's motivations for being extra bad, in the episode of his life we glimpse here, are strong enough to keep Changing Lanes from being just another American psycho study; it's easy to believe we could turn Affleck, given a similar circumstance in our life.
The ending is a somewhat forced positive one, but not nearly as much a sell out as is usually the case with a made-by-committee major commercial film. I give the whole enterprise 8.5 out of 10 stars.
just finished watching this movie.. had a good movie time.. funny insurance agents doing crazy stuff.. this movie makes insurance agents look really good and attractive.. anyhow here is your imdb link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477837/ if you want to check it out or anything.. more then 3800 users voted 6.7 for this movie.. i voted 7. good old small town guy in big city type movie.. what i really like about this movie is they are good time pass and if you buy the dvd or go to the theater to watch this movie it wont be a complete waste of your money..
imdb story-line - Tim Lippe (Helms) was the guy people always thought would go places but then he just ... didn't. He's been living in über-sleepy Brown Valley, Wisconsin his whole life, still "pre-engaged" to his 7th grade teacher Macy Vanderhei (Weaver), while selling insurance to protect other people's dreams. But now, Tim's stalled life is about to get a kick-start because, for the first time in his 34 years, he's headed to a "major" metropolis - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - where he must try to save his company at a do-or-die insurance convention that, for him, will be entirely unconventional. From the minute he checks into his hotel with his ancient American Tourister and cummerbund money belt, it's clear Tim has no idea how the modern world really works. He is soon smitten with seductive Nebraskan insurance agent Joan Ostrowski-Fox (Heche) and awed by his experienced roommates, the straight-shooting Ronald Wilkes (Whitlock Jr.) and the suspicious Dean Zeigler (Reilly)...
