A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun
8 out of 10

This is a play by Lorraine Hansberry. This was the first play even preformed that was written by a African American woman. I recently read this in my English class and we are watching the movie, too.

Yes, it was recently made into a movie that aired on ABC this previous Monday. We have a copy of it that we are viewing in class. So far (we are about 3/4 done with it) I would give the movie about a 7 out of 10.

I would say to read to book before ever watching the movie on it.

Vantage Point

Vantage Point
9 out of 10

This movie was also awesome! I loved how it kept you guessing throughout the whole movie!!! It also had a bunch of twists and turns. It was good!

The story is in 8 different points of view. It's about a president assassination which 5 terrorists blowing up stuff, killing people, and even a kidnapping.

Here's a trailer of the movie. I think I've already posted it before, but just so you don't have to go looking for it again. I just love previews that give you goosebumps:

Jumper

Jumper
9.5 out of 10

I loved it! I loved it! It was a great movie. There was a lot of action. And even a little romance.

It's about a man named David who has a ability, to teleport, or "jump". As the years pass, David relizes there is an ongoing war between the "Jumpers" and those who believe all Jumpers must die with the reason of "God should be the only one who is everywhere at once."

And guess what? Jumper is also a book! Yeah. Written by Steven Gould. I havn't read it quite yet, but I have read about 9 pages and LOVE it! It's currently sitting at the top of my pile of books to read. I'll let you know how it turns out.

You know what I've noticed? All movies latly are either remakes, books that get turned into movies, or crappy because movie writters have nothing left to write about save those few exceptional movies such as Cloverfeld and Vantage Point. Oh. Here's the trailer:


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*UPDATE! MAY 11, 2008*

Jumper
by Steven Gould
5 out of 10

So After I saw the movie, I went out and bought the book. It was horrible. At first, I thought it would be just like the movie, but it is nothing like the novie at all! The movie is so much better, and that is pretty rare. But, I'm sure if I was to read the book first, I would like it better and complain that they made the movie all wrong. But come on. This was pretty bad.

It is the story of David Rice, who figures out he can teliport. He has an abusive father and his mother left when he was 12. So woth his newly obtained power, he runs away to New York City and starts to search for his mother. When he finally finds her and they reunite, she must go on a business trip in Europe, where she is blown up by terorists. That's pretty much it. So for a whole 300 pages or so he is just talking about how depressed he is and how much he wants to kill the guy that blew up his mom.

*Sigh* So just save yourself the time and read something else.

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Ok, yes, I promised to post more often, but... well, I've have to write a stupid essay... :(

The Spiderwick Chronicles
5 out of 10

So I went and saw this movie. I have read all the books, so that can be no excuse. I went and saw the movie last Friday, and I wasn't impressed. It was just a bad movie. Something about it. I'm sure it is a good little kid movie because every 7 year old (and younger) loved it. But I just wasn't pleased.

The movie's about these 3 siblings who find a book about this unknown world of magic around them. There is an evil oger who is trying to rule over all the magical creatures, and so the children are protecting the book from the oger.

While I'm talking about Spiderwick Chronicles, I'd like to say the books are pretty good. Again: they are more of a younger kid series, but they only take about a day to read one of the books.

Twilight Movie

The Twilight movie has got half a cast. Even though it does not say so one the movie sight, you can find out about it here on Stephenie Meyeer's blog. It's not too much like I pictured them when I read the books, but the new Twight y might be able to pass if they were alot of makeup and use alot of special effects.
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*UPDATE!! May 12, 2008*

There is a new Twilight trailer. It's pretty sweet. I can't wait for the movie to come out in December.
The trailer is below and here is Stephenie Meyer's movie page on her blog: http://stepheniemeyer.com/twilight_movie.html

Scary Movies

We are in a small scary movie time right now. There's One Missed Call, The Eye, Untraceable, ect. I've heard The Eye is really scary and that big though kids went and say it and screamed and got scared. So it must be pretty good.

This is the One Missed Call trailer:


This is The Eye trailer:


This is the Untraceable trailer.


I havn't heard too much from the other two. (That is, as in people I actually know say they like it or not. I don't know if I can trust the media with a good answer.) So if you've seen them, I'd like to know what you think of those.
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In other news, Justine Larbalastier has a new book coming out in September called How To Ditch Your Fairy. It looks good. (FYI, she'd Scott Westerfeld's wife. Cool, I know.) Here is her blog: http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/. I think the book looks good. I can't wait for it to come out.

Banning Books

There is a post on the blog of Scott Westerfeld. He said a school has to send home a slip that parents must sign so their kids can read a book. There are also people who read the book and feel it is inappropriate, even thought they don't even have kids that go to that school. It's like The Golden Compass dispute all over again. Here's a video of what the author of the book has to say:


Yeah. I don't think it is a big deal. Some people should be allowed to critique.

In other news, last night I went and saw Meet the Spartans. It was funny, but it wasn't the best movie ever or anything. It was one of those movies that if you see it with silly, fun people, it's funny and if you see it with more serious people it's way stupid. And I saw it with some of my Junior friends who are falarious. So it was funny for me. Here is a link to the trailer.

The Final Cut

Yes, I know. It's the old movie all the way back from 2004. But what made me think about it was a recent post on Scott Westerfeld's blog. The post was about how they are starting to put mini cameras into blind people's eyeballs so that they can see.

The movie is about a future world where everyone is encouraged to get a microchip that records everything you hear and see for your whole life. After you die, the Cutters will take the chip and make a video for everyone to remeber you by. It was pretty good. Watch the trailer at least.

And in book news, I just finished reading Speak. It was really good. I recomend it to all teen girls. You guys wouldn't like stuff like this. It's like a chick-flick book. And as I get to looking, it also appears to be a movie, too. Go figure.