The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass
7 out of 10

It's not the whole Anti-Christian thing that makes the rating lower than it could be, because, frankly, I would have never guessed until Philip Pullman said so himself. It's just a story. It was just hard, at parts, to follow the story line. Some things made you think, "What? Did I miss something? Where did that come from?" It was like they exspected the viewes to have read the book.

The movie is about a parallel universe where people's souls walk beside them as animals. The main character, Lyra dicovers the secrets the government is trying to hide and must travel to the icey north to save her friends along with all the children of her world.

Trailer:


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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

10 out of 10

This was a really good movie; a nice follow-up of the first movie. I enjoyed the whole movie, and the music was great too. I liked the fact that they didn't change it from the book by too much.

In this Chronicle of Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy are brought back to Narnia by Prince Caspian, who called them with Queen Susan's magical horn. 1,000 has past in Narnia since the children had last visited, and things have changed: Prince Caspian's evil uncle has taken over Narnia, preventing Caspian's rein over the land. It is up to the Pevensie children, Prince Caspian, and the remaining Narnias to defeat him.

Here is the trailer:

Peter Pan

Peter Pan
By. J. M. Barrie
8 out of 10

Most people have seen the Disney Movie Peter Pan (9 out of 10), and possibly the newer movie that is not animated (9 out of 10). I have recently read the book (Boarders addition with a few short stories in the back that give background on Peter Pan and such.)

It is about a young girl who, one night, meats Peter Pan. He takes Wendy and her brothers to Neverland where they have all kinds of adventures. It's really exciting and sort of cute in a way.

I like how Barrie made everything sound like how a little kid would think of things.

This was first a play. There is even a movie about how and why he wrote it. It is called Finding Neverland. That's a good movie. (8 out of 10).

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.

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.

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.

Star Trek

I'm not a fan of Star Trek or Star Wars or any of those SciFi Epic Space series shows/movies, but the Star Trek movie does come out in December and me and by friends are going to go see it. (They're fans) so I just wanted to address the subject to those other fans out there who didn't know about the new movie. Here's a trailer:

And you can also watch it here for a better picture. I noticed the one I got from Youtube was a little blurry.

Vantage Point also looks like a good movie. I saw a trailer of it on TV, but the trailer link on this page gives more about the movie, I think.

P.S. Does anyone remember that movie called The Initiation of Sarah? There is the old one, and then ABC redid it a few years ago. For some reason that popped into my head and I want to see who all has seen it.