Movie buffs are waiting zealously for the release of probably the most unusual movie of this season-"Singh Is Kinng". With Bollywood's current most interesting on screen pair in the lead, Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif, this film might just have the knack to strike the right chords of its viewers keeping in mind their chemistry in last year's Namastey London and Welcome.

Akshay Kumar plays a nonchalant Punjabi puttar who is compassionate, generous, courageous and noble. Nevertheless he has his own set of cons- he is gullible, imprudent and 'accident-prone'. Katrina, who plays Sonia, on the other hand, is a bubbly and joyful La student who tends to lose her cool at the sight of criminals.

Akshay Kumar is sent to Australia by the villagers to bring back his fellow villager, Lucky Singh. While on the look out Happy finds that Lucky actually is an underworld Don in Australia. Once, in an accident, Happy happens to save Lucky but unfortunately Lucky becomes paralyzed. Hence, Happy becomes the new King of the Australian Underworld.

The X factor of this movie is the distinctive portrayal of Sikhs. Kudos to Akshay Kumar who took to his turban with unconditional zest, which already is generating a fad amongst the youth. The turban or pagdi, has all of a sudden come in vogue. The credit must in fact be given to Sabina Khan for designing trendy and sophisticated turbans for Akshay Kumar in the movie. Even American rapper Snoop Dogg is seen wearing a turban for this movie.

Another element of this film which makes it a must-see is Katrina's style statement as she dons swanky creations by Manish Malhotra. Manish has once again proved that his caliber is unparalleled.

To put in a nutshell, Singh is Kinng gives the impression of a competent movie which is exceptional in its own sense. The initiative of rendering a never before image of a Sikh, depicting him vis-a-vis the stature of a King is surely eliciting the desired response from the audience. It depicts that the scenario is no more similar for the Sikhs who were regarded as bland in terms of fashion or style. It puts across a point that a Sikh too, can be a trendsetter. This message is very much evident in Narendra Kumar's recent collection shown in Lakme Fashion Week where he made his models put on turbans and walk the ramp.

The early decades of 1900s saw the rise of Hollywood patriotic films. Though this genre has become rare nowadays yet some directors find patriotic films as a call for the uplifting of mankind. The 1920s and 1940s saw the two World Wars. It was the perfect time to instill patriotism in the heart of common Americans. During World War II, literally, there were hundreds of films to support the war endeavor.

'Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress' and 'Sergeant York' are two of the 40s brand of Hollywood patriotic films still remembered. The plotline was almost the same for all the war movies. A young boy who never took troubles in his youth is selected for national duty. He then goes through various ordeals, cheats death, saves people and returns a hero.

Frank Capra was one of the major filmmakers of that time. He produced a series called 'Why we Fight'; to make Americans realize why they are fighting the Nazis and Japs. It was Hollywood which held hands to fight against the rise Fascism during the wartime.

Now, the enemy has changed; patriots have not. The nationalists in Hollywood patriotic films are waging war against the corrupt system or being targeted by the system. The heroes have changed their battlefield to space, sea or underwater. The main theme has remained same, saving the country or the world from the attack of an alien race, monsters or terrorism. The term patriotic is no longer confined to the concept of protecting the country from foreign invasion by other countries.

The year 1996 saw 'Independence Day' assaulting the box office with its concept of rescuing the world from an alien raid. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum save mankind from a possible wipeout. Mel Gibson came up with two back-to-back hits with his 'Braveheart' and 'The Patriot' to perk up the Hollywood patriotic films genre.

Steven Spielberg tried the concept of patriotism cum war movie in Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Twister, and Schindler's List. All these films dealt with patriotism, neo realism and redefining the sense.

'Midway' starred Charles Heston. It was a classic WWII film, and contained much footage from the real war. The true concept of patriotism in humn mind is inserted by the likes of 'A Wonderful Life'. This film tells about the sense of faith, hard work, value of family and services to others. 'Last of the Mohicans' was another astounding film in the genre of Hollywood patriotic films which showed the hardship and spirit of the builders of a new world.

One of the major problems which have staggered the morality of American people is the influence of Hollywood action films over patriotic films. Action films are marketed by showing mindless gore and violence during the entire screen time. Patriotic films are known to promote patriotism, love for the motherland, a sense of pride, and the responsibility to build up the state, providing service to others, unifying the people in times of crisis.

However, the action films, which have a strong dose of gore, ultra violence, killings, drugs and use of profane language, sink in more quickly among the present generation. The result has been a rise in violence in schools and colleges along with increased number of other degradations noticed in culture and society in general.

Born William Bradley Pitt, 8 December 1963, Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA

Raised in Springfield, Missouri but born in Oklahoma. His mother is named Jane Etta Hillhouse and his father, William (Bill) Pitt, worked in management at a Springfield trucking firm. He has two siblings, a younger brother, Douglas (Doug) Pitt and a younger sister Julie Neal Pitt.

Pitt attended Kickapoo High School where he was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals. He also posed for a campus calendar. He went on to the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism. He also occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He missed graduation by two credits and moved to California.

In California Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, dressing as a giant chicken while working for "el Pollo Loco" and moving refrigerators. Success in acting came later. His first starring role was in "The Dark Side of The Sun" released in 1997.

He played a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic Sea in search of a cure for a rare skin disease. The movie was shot in pre-war Yugoslavia during the summer of 1988. Editing was near to completion when civil war broke out in the region and much of the footage was lost. It was seven whole years before the lost footage was found and returned to Andjelo Arandjelovic a producer working on a distribution deal. Pitt's earnings? $1,523 per week for seven weeks.

He met Juliette Lewis on the set of "Too Young to Die?" while making the TV drama together in 1990. They dated and they also did Kalifornia together in 1993. He played the role of J.D. in "Thelma & Louise" (1991). Another movie he starred in was "Across The Tracks" with Rick Schroder and Carrie Snodgrass. Pitt was also listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1991" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 43.

In the 1992 movie "A River Runs Through It" he had to learn to fly. He practiced on top of buildings in Hollywood often hooking himself from the back of his head. He also shared a home in Southern California in 1992 with friend Buck Simmonds, who starred with him in "A River Runs Through It"

In 1994, after making "Legends of The Fall", he was given the title "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine.

In 1995 Empire magazine voted him number twenty-three of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history. Also in 1995 he turned down a role as an astronaut in Apollo 13 to accept his role in Se7en. In 1997 he was ranked number 32 in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time". He was also voted "Best Actor" by MTV viewers in 1995 for his part in MTV's "The Big Picture" (1988).

1996 was an eventful year for Pitt culminating in his engagement to Gwyneth Paltrow on December 20. He was also chosen as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by "People" magazine and he gave $100,000 to the Discovery Center, a museum of learning for children in his hometown Sprinfield MO.

In 1996 he purchased a mansion in Southern California for a reported $1.7 million. It is full of antiques and has a "vampirish" look to it.

The Chinese authorities banned Pitt from entering China in 1997 because of his role in the film "Seven Years In Tibet". He and Gwyneth Paltrow mutually agreed to split in June 1997.

He married Jennifer Aniston in 2000 and spent $1 million on their wedding. In 2001 he sued Damiani International who created the wedding ring he gave Jennifer Aniston. He claimed that it was his design and therefore exclusive to him. The company, however, had decided to cash in by selling replicas, indicating endorsement by Pitt and Aniston.

The pair claimed the company agreed to never reproduce their wedding rings, but it manufactured and sold "Brad and Jennifer" rings in 18 karat white or yellow gold, featuring either 12 or 13 diamonds and costing about $1,000 apiece.

He and ex-wife Jennifer Aniston reached a settlement with Damiani International in early 2002. Under the settlement, Pitt will now design jewelry for Damiani that Aniston will model in ads, and Damiani will stop selling the Pitt and Aniston copies.

He was the spokesman for Edwin Jeans ads in Japan. He was also the face of ads for a new Japanese canned coffee named Roots. He did a TV commercial for Toyota Altis that aired only in Asia. The car became very popular and its sales resulted in Toyota getting an almost 32% share of the passenger car market.

During the production of Troy in 2003 in which he plays Achilles he tore his Achilles tendon. The injury caused the production of Ocean's Twelve to be pushed back to April 2004. "Troy" was also released in 2004.

January, 2005 he announced the separation from his wife Jennifer Aniston after 4 1/2 years of marriage. They were finally divorced in October 2006. He and Angelina Jolie are now an item.

He had his first child with Angelia Jolie in May, 2006. Her name is Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. March 2007 - he and girlfriend Angelina Jolie adopted a 3-year-old boy named Pax Thien from Vietnam (born November 29th 2003). Pitt is also the adoptive father of Jolie's children Maddox and Zahara. He moved to New Orleans with Jolie and their four children in 2007.

Donated 5 million dollars of his own money to rebuild homes in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. He is a Patron of the Mineseeker Foundation and the Sole of Africa, a campaign dedicated to detecting and removing land mines in Africa. The Foundation's patrons include Nelson Mandela, Sir Richard Branson, Queen Noor, Graca Machel and John Paul de Joria.

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story - 1 Star (Terrible)

Only in Hollywood could a really terrible film with Ben Stiller that cost $20 million to produce pull in $167 worldwide. Welcome to "DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story", which Dreamworks and MGM passed on and Fox finally agreed to make when Stiller reduced his salary to less than a $1 million.

After seeing the unrated version of this comedic disaster, it would be difficult to recommend DodgeBall for viewing by youngsters at any rating.

There is a comedy in this script somewhere, but it will never rank as anything but a rank comedy with all of the unnecessary filthy language and sexual references that one might hear from teenage boys caught off guard in a public schoolyard.

Credit the writer/director of this film-Rawson Marshall Thurber-for the sophomoric script and juvenile directing. Thurber joins a host of other writer/directors who are totally beyond their ability in trying to write and direct the same film.

Thurber joins a not-so-exclusive club of fellow writer/directors who have fallen short, including Peter Weir for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Nancy Meyers for Something's Gotta Give, Thomas Bezucha for The Family Stone, Michael McGowan for Saint Ralph, Jared Hess for Napoleon Dynamite, Robert Rodriquez for Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and Paul Thomas Anderson for Punch-Drunk Love. The worst of these is Punch-Drunk Love hands down.

If you want an excellent movie by a writer/director, try Secondhand Lions by Tim McCanlies or Waking Ned Devine by Kirk Jones.

DodgeBall is the story of two guys who own health fitness centers-the underachiever Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn) at Average Joe's Gymnasium, and the egomanical White Goodman (Ben Stiller) at Global Gym. White hatches a plan to take over Peter's operation with the help of bank employee Kate Veatch (Christine Taylor), who falls for Peter's inept, unassuming charm.

To avoid being put out of business, Peter must come up with $50,000 and he, of course, doesn't really have a cent to his name. It is up to his band of misfit clients to help bail Peter out. They include a self-styled pirate, a scrawny nerd with eyes for an unattainable cheerleader, a weird follower of obscure sports, a dim-witted young man, and a cocky know-it-all.

Their answer is to enter a national dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas and capture the $50,000 winner's prize. Peter's team ends up in the finals against White's professional team and, well, you can surmise who wins in the end.

DodgeBall has cameo appearances by Lance Armstrong, Chuck Norris, William Shatner and David Hasselhoff.

DodgeBall was nominated as the Best Sports Movie by the ESPY Awards, the same year that "Million Dollar Baby" won an Oscar at the Academy Awards for the year's Best Picture. Clint Eastwood won an Oscar the same year for Best Director of Million Dollar Baby.

On the other hand, Ben Stiller (as White Goodman) was nominated for a Razzie Award as the Worst Actor. That pretty well sums up Stiller's performance.

In essence, DodgeBall is without substance as a fluffball contribution to comedy filmmaking and is probably best viewed by teenagers and young men.

Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley

Read more of my movie reviews on action adventure films, including:

"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" with Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow

"Pirates of the Caribbean: "Dead Man's Chest" with Johnny Depp as the perfect pirate

"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" with Johnny Depp

"The Departed" with megastars Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon

Indie Movies are basically different from a common blockbuster movie, such as The Dark Knight or Transformers from various aspects as it is produced in much more smaller scale in terms of money, production and casting.

From the start, Indie Movies are commonly independent film projects and it is usually shoot and produced with a small budget that can ranging from few thousands to an average of $10,000 as compared to big blockbuster movies that cost about few millions to be produce.

In terms of production, the cameras used in the shooting also vary from 16mm film camera to digital handy cam or using a mobile phone that technology that allows the user to shoot short film such as Nokia N95. These are affordable for consumers and with popular software such as iMovie, Adobe Premier Pro and Final Cut Pro which are made available for commercial and consumer level, film editing are much easier and cheaper to indie-inspired directors or producers.

Although it is common that one might not recognize directors, producers or casts in Indie Movies, however in the recent years, a lot of notable directors or actors/actresses are involved in Indie Movies, for example, Ellen Page starred in Juno and Jared Leto in Requiem for a Dream.

The support for Indie Movies has also helped in popularizing the indie industry such as the annual Sundance Film Festival. For example, well-known director and writer Quentin Tarantino's Indie Movie, Reservoir Dogs (1992) became a cult hit and made him famous when it was shown in the film festival and the movie has become a classic in the Indie Movie industry as it was well-received by critics on the movie overall including for the casts. He has gone on to produce many more independent films, for example Pulp Fiction.

Apart from the Sundance Film Festival, another form of support to Indie Movies is the Independent Spirit Award which are founded in 1984 (the award was originally known as FINDIE Awards - Friends of Independents) which is dedicated to indie industry - independent movies and independent filmmakers. Notably, Nokia has also started to organize competitions to generate more interest among the public or consumers to produce independent films and hence generate greater publicity in producing the Indie Movies industry.

I was not expecting the film to be of such grandeur. I was truly astonished to find myself with a sequel that can contend with the likes of The Godfather Part II and The Empire Strikes back. I have not seen a good film for a long time. Heath Ledger's performance was demented, psychotic, and even funny. I felt pretty crazy myself for laughing at some parts, but I honestly could not help it.

The performance can only be compared to Javier Bardem's in No Country For Old Men. Both movies are great, but I assure everyone that this one has a pretty solid ending. I have to say, Christopher Nolan gave this movie all he had, I honestly could not find any single problem with this movie. There were some parts that the audience, and most certainly myself were not expecting. Don't worry, I will not give anything away for those of you who somehow have yet to see this awesome movie. I want to encourage, no, command anyone who hasn't seen this movie to go out and see it and prove me wrong... I have not had such awe and allure at a film since many years ago. I'm happy to say this movie has renewed my hope for motion pictures once again. I can say without a doubt that this film is what true entertainment should is about. I'm not entirely certain that this will be remembered as a classic (which trust me, it should be), but what I am sure of, is that it will be remembered as a damned good movie.

Stanley Kubrick is undoubtedly one of cinema's true visionaries, having made films for the better part of half a century that have stood out as being some of the most unique films in history: 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Full Metal Jacket', 'The Shining' to name a few. I'm probably not as partial to his style, mainly because I find his films quite frustrating to watch (with the exception of Eyes Wide Shut). Sorry if I've offended the Kubrick purists out there, but although I recognise that he's brilliant, I don't think that necessarily makes his films easy to sit through. He really does take his time, minute by minute with each scene, and he tests an audience's patience.

When I first watched '2001: A Space Odyssey', I came to it having heard the stories of its 'classic' status and was keen to check it out given that I'm quite the sci-fi buff. I'm still not sure what to think. The opening sequence of the Sun coming up over the Earth combined with that now infamous music by Richard Strauss is nothing short of jaw-dropping and left a very strong first impression. When I saw that, it seemed like a perfect opening that captured the grandness of space.

Yet, the film then starts to progress through a rather unformulaic way. There's a story, and there isn't. We follow the progress of man's first step from being an ape to becoming what he is today, but after a few minutes of seeing those monkeys jump around in prehistoric times, I got the picture. I didn't need to see more than that but you do. Then there's the spectacular transition from one of the apes throwing a bone in to the air and it cuts to a spaceship of similar shape orbiting the Earth - a jump cut of a millenia! Then we get to see space ships and space stations dancing to the Blue Danube. It's quite beautiful and very well directed, yet for a lot of people I can imagine them wondering: what the hell is going on here? Then we move to the more straight-forward part of the narrative where we meet the infamous HAL, an artificial intelligence that runs the spaceship Gary Lockwood and his astronauts are running. This part of the film is about man vs machine - the idea that all things being equal, a computer should be perfect, but as is so cleverly demonstrated by Kubrick, HAL is definitely not and by that token we shouldn't put all our trust in a machine. And after the HAL storyline is resolved, we move to an extremely surreal journey through the cosmos where humanity meets its future with the famous image of the Star Child closing out the film, representing humanity's infancy in the universe (a symbolic mirror of the opening when apes became men). It's all very high concept, but you have to dig it out for yourself and I can imagine this might frustrate the casual viewer.

The film is a masterpiece. The film also depicts a very realistic vision of the Earth, the surface of the Moon, and our Solar System - impressive given the film was made before humanity went to the Moon. The images are nothing short of spectacular. What Kubrick does with the form will not be to everyone's taste but at least you can appreciate the man for trying something different. Imagine that happening in Hollywood today...

After the Wedding (Efter Brylluppet)
Made in: Denmark
Language: Danish, English, Hindi

Synopsis: Humanitarian Jacob Pedersen (Mads Mikkelsen) manages an orphanage in a poverty-stricken part of India. Dedicated to his work, he reluctantly returns to his native Denmark to meet billionaire businessman Jorgen Hannson (Rolf Lassgård).

Hannson has expressed interest in Jacob's cause, and considers a generous donation that would prevent Jacob's nearly bankrupt orphanage from closing.

At first Jacob feels only contempt for the filthy-rich and seemingly arrogant businessman. But things soon get complicated when Jorgen twists Jacob's arm into attending the wedding of Jorgen's daughter Anna (Stine Fischer Christensen).

There he meets Jorgen's wife Helene (Sidse Babett Knudsen), with whom Jacob has a complicated history. Was this reunion a coincidence, or a strange set-up?

As Jorgen's donation to the orphanage becomes more generous, the true motivation behind his sudden philanthropy begins to reveal shocking secrets and moral dilemmas. Jacob, Helene, Jorgen, and Anna find their lives bound together as they come to terms with their past and face an uncertain future.

Remarks: After the Wedding is a compelling, emotionally intense drama full of highly authentic performances and believable characters. The versatile Mads Mikkelsen once again does a great job, and the supporting cast is tremendous as well.

Director Susanne Bier concentrates on human complexity, which is the most effective theme of this foreign film. At first we're led to believe that this will be a story of Jacob's dedication to the poor vs. Jorgen's upper-class superficiality.

But as the movie progresses, we soon realize that everyone's lives and motivations are not nearly as clear cut as we (or the characters) initially perceive them to be. Everyone is fallible, and at the same time, sympathetic.

After the Wedding also deals with the life-changing power that the ultra-wealthy can wield. We see a blend of compassion, control, selfishness, and generosity behind Jorgen's desire to help Jacob's cause.

The presentation is very realistic, and in Susanne Bier's own words, this film doesn't offer simple answers to those human factors. Rather than making the story feel incomplete, it is instead intended to make the viewers think (and debate).

Who would like this movie: This movie's for you if you like powerful, intense dramas. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, After the Wedding is an emotionally heavy piece. Although it's not a depressing movie, it's quite sobering and shouldn't be watched if you're just in the mood for something entertaining.

The subject matter, however, cuts across cultural lines. So as long as you're keeping up with the subtitles, you shouldn't have any trouble following this film. It's a very well-made character drama with a solid story, but you have to be in the mood to watch it.

(3 out of 4 stars)

Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgård, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Stine Fischer Christensen, Christian Tafdrup
Year: 2006

Animation is one of the fastest-changing and most rewarding platforms to showcase one's creativity level. There are many professionals and upcoming animators who are work day and night to secure a position for themselves in the ever burgeoning market of cartoons and animations. Here, one can easily satiate his creative spirits by working for various TV programs, advertisements, commercials and computer games.

Early examples of animation work started appearing around 1910. At this time normal drawings were photographed one at a time to create a short animation clipping. Well, this traditional method was a very intensive and long drawn out process. Here hundreds of drawings were used for each minute of a short film. In recent times, it has been found that the animation industry is constantly evolving and creating easier and better ways to animate. Now it has become possible to make an animation movie sitting at home with the help of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork.

Here's an outline to help you make your own animation movie:
-Before drawing anything, figure out the basic theme of your movie. Will it be a comedy or action packed? Imagine your characters and then develop a plot.

- Now create a storyboard. It is not necessary to have the drawings of your storyboard to be the perfect ones. Rough drawings will do at this stage.

- A neatly laid out script is a must to give life to the characters of your storyline. Hence first write a script. Make sure to include everything as every small detail counts. Give stress on dialogues.

- Now conceptualize and write in detail the profiles of the various characters. It will help you to develop the story further.

- With the script ready, you are ready to begin the real animation work. Decide the animation technique you want to use. You can choose between flipbooks and the traditional method. While flipbooks are cost effective, it has several drawbacks such as absence of sound facility and limited film length.

On the other hand, traditional animation is time consuming and costly but it guarantees great quality. Apart from these two options, you can always use animation software. The various animation software programs come with easy to understand interface, different menus, palettes and toolbars etc.

-Once you are finished with developing the movie, it's time to edit it. Editing is very crucial to come up with quality product. All the minute errors can be mended at this stage.

-Show the final product to your family, friends, teachers or mentors and make note of their viewpoints regarding the movie. If they have any good suggestions regarding the movie which you find will make the animation film more entertaining and appealing do incorporate the ideas and make necessary changes.

-Now the animation movie is ready to be marketed. Well, for marketing you would need plenty of copies. The best way to do this is through CD/DVD replication or duplication. Both replication and duplication are reliable methods to copy your master disc into a number of copies. Depending upon how many copies you want to release in the market, you can choose between CD or DVD duplication or replication. Replication is usually the preferred method if you require more than 1000 units. There are many reputed companies providing CD/DVD duplication or DVD replication services.

- After the DVD replication or duplication job is over, think about the packaging part too. To make a positive impression amongst your buyers it is essential to package your product well. Some leading CD and DVD duplication and replication services providers also offer good quality on disc printing and CD packaging solutions.

You're probably thinking - "Oh no! Not another The Dark Knight review!" Trust me, this isn't one. This movie has already been reviewed ad nauseum and for the purpose of this article it is entirely irrelevant whether I personally liked it or not. Besides, anyone and their grandma calls themselves a critic nowadays so I'm not joining the ranks on this sole principle.

Even if you should have just returned from 40 days of fasting in the middle of desert you would have heard of the most commercially successful movie ever filmed. The Dark Knight broke box office records and set new highs in the world of commercial filmography. Everyone seems to have gone to see The Dark Knight, everyone seems to have written their "review" over at IMDB and everyone seems to have given it 10 out of 10 stars rating. It almost seemed as though the crowds were hypnotized and any rating other than 10 was not even an option.

I've been trying hard to think of anything more irritating than seemingly blindfolded fanboys who religiously repeat their "the best movie of the year" or "the best of all time" chants every time they get a chance and I couldn't. This ludicrous overhyping and overrating of a single picture created a force that resulted in a counterforce. Whether you call it the cause and effect phenomenon, or Newton's third law of motion, the outcome is clear. For many people - The Dark Knight Sucks. The movie is good - it's not great, but it's not a complete failure either.

If you enter "The Dark Knight Sucks" into Google search engine, you will get over 3 million results. Why would so many people react with utter underrating of a movie that's actually pretty decent? Your answer is above. One extreme calls for another. If one extremist labels it "the best movie ever", the other one responds with "The Dark Knight Sucks".

I can imagine some of those people who gave The Dark Knight 1 or 2 star out of 10 on IMDB, would have otherwise given it 6 or 7 stars, because even if they particularly didn't like it, they didn't really think it was that bad. But to balance out the madness started by the overhyping crowd, the opposing party let themselves heard by blatant underrating. Oh the irony... Why make it such a big deal? It's just the movie!

For any of you who were waiting for an updated, big budget, serious Hollywood alien invasion flick to come along, especially after being immensely disappointed with the sludge that was "Independence Day", you'll be gratified with "War of the Worlds", the retelling of the HG Wells classic. Director Steven Spielberg, notable for giving us more warm and fuzzy aliens in his films decides to go in the opposite direction, not just for himself, but with the aforementioned "Independence Day" by doing almost the exact opposite of what that film accomplished (or destroyed, depending on your point of view). The aliens are menacing, the scenes of destruction are actually terrifying, the characters are more deeply grounded in reality, and despite the storybook quality to the opening and closing scenes, this film delivers a solid story with compelling, realistic sequences that will amaze and terrify you.

The opening sequence where the tripods literally explode out of the ground and then start zapping everyone is one of the most terrifying sequences put to screen. Perhaps the idea that they were in the ground for a million years and none of us noticed stretches credibility a little but it doesn't really matter as it's so magnificently staged that you'll forget that point. Spielberg deliberately draws on the post 9/11 experience, showing a scene of destruction not too dissimiliar from the scenes of people fleeing from the rubble of the twin towers collapsing in New York after the terrorist attack. Another sequence later in the film where an alien tripod comes up out of the water destroying a ferry is quite thrilling and pounds home the constant threat that humans are out to be exterminated and there's no escape. And in perhaps one of the darkest scenes in a Spielberg film, we see someone get pinned to the ground by one of the tripods and have the blood sucked out of him.

One of the interesting themes running through this film is the idea that humans will actually turn on themselves in order to survive. It's decidedly pessimistic for a film like this, but also very realistic. A sequence where people are fighting over a car, with Tom Cruise and his family almost getting shot to keep the car, is disturbing. After they escape, we see the man who took the car get shot himself by the mob swamping the car. It's this kind of selfish craziness that can define the worst characteristics in humans.

The film is also concerned with the idea of a refugee situation occurring in a big Western society like America. There is definite attempt by Spielberg to showcase this, specifically in many scenes where we see homeless and disparate people walking across the landscape to flee the terror brought upon them.

It was a bold move of Spielberg to set a third of the film inside a man's basement but it actually provides a study in human reactions to a crisis of survival. Enter Tim Robbins who gives a harrowing performance as a man who is biding his time before he fights back against the invaders. There is an insane implausibility behind his thinking which comes to a head in a scene where Cruise has to deal with him in a morally questionable manner, but which leads to the survival of him and his family.

Tom Cruise and co. do an amicable job as the film's leads but overall, this isn't really a film where you're concentrating on the actors. They just have to convey fear and their reactions to the extraordinary things that are happening to them.

The only negative on this film is the opening and closing scenes. Although they are meant to tie in with the earlier George Pal film and are amply narrated by Morgan Freeman, they give the impression of a storybook which seems completely out of whack with the rest of the film. It also adds that Spielberg-touch of sentimentality which despite its very small dose just seems inappropriate.

Some may be put off by the anti-climactic ending but it's an ending it shares with the original novel and the original George Pal version of the film. It actually makes a whole lot of sense that nature would end up killing the aliens because we really wouldn't have the resources to do it ourselves.

Most movie download sites are fake and will not give you any good movies to watch online. Search the phrases "unlimited movie download" or "full movie downloads"on any search engine and you are greeted immediately with millions of websites and it's a reality for you to download movie online now because of the amazing advancement of internet technology with one click of your mouse.The truth is not every one of these sites is worth checking out when it comes to downloading movies online.

Here are 7 tips to help you to choose the best movie download sites;

1. Free or Paid;
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Some other websites offered downloading full length movie for $.99 and up. You might not mind if only for a few movies.If You want to download unlimited movies then it is going to be very expensive in a long run.

There are services that offer a life time membership for a flat fee of lower than $49.99 to access unlimited movie downloads. These are the best sites.

2. Size of Media Library;
Most movie download free sites can only provide the outdated and out of production classics. It is hard to find any newest movies on these sites. I suggest that you go with those with over millions of movie data bases and constantly update with newly release movies. Go with the services that offer multiple genres and offer over 100 million media files.

3. Membership numbers;
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Vampires haven't been this sexy since Brad Pitt heated up the screen in Interview with the Vampire in the '90s, and they've certainly never been this smitten.

Vampire love is hot on both screen and shelf this year. If you have yet to hear about the Stephenie Meyers' Twilight books, you have four months to catch up on the uber-popular young adult series about inter-species lovers Edward and Bella before the movie version of Twilight comes out in December. Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final book of the series was released last Saturday to a Harry Potter-like fan frenzy and record-breaking sales for its publishing house.

HBO's much-anticipated (and advertised) True Blood series about vampires cohabiting with humans both-we're hoping-amorously and not so amicably debuts in September. The network went so far as to create lovebitten.net, a fake online dating site (we think it's fake, anyway, as we tried to register but couldn't) for mortals and immortals looking for activity partners, relationships or merely a "fangbang," on top of guerrilla marketing for a synthetic blood beverage and faux campaigns for and against vampire rights.

And then there's this Necking novel written by a book publicist about a book publicist evading one angry vampire while crushing on another and juggling a roster full of needy "underworld" clients.

So what's with all the vampire love fangfare (sorry, couldn't resist), anyway? Well, for entertainment bigwigs, what better characters to invest in than those that never age? All My Children producers were ahead of the curve on this one when they hired Susan Lucci. As for the audience, we get love stories that involve temptation, restraint, eternal love and blood-sucking danger. It's almost like watching Survivor-except better.

BOTTOM LINE: It's the Blair-Witch version of Godzilla - ridiculous in many parts but very cool and unlike 'Blair Witch', this film actually pays off on its premise.

THE GOOD: Hollywood finally gets to do their own 'Blair Witch' and surprisingly, 'Cloverfield' is superior to the film it draws so heavily from, at least in style. 'Blair Witch' didn't really have a pay-off (ie the threat was always suggested, never revealed). 'Cloverfield' doesn't show the monsters much but at the right moments, it shows the monsters in dramatic style. The main monster itself is ridiculous but because the camera work is so shaky you don't really notice and is actually quite nasty and scary in some moments. The story is by and large irrelevant - this film is all about mayhem and destruction and the film doesn't disappoint. After getting an introduction to the characters, the first attack scene comes out of nowhere and is one of the coolest you're likely to see, with the head of the Statue of Liberty smashing through buildings before rolling down the street and coming to a stop at the base of the apartment building the characters inhabit. At this point, you hardly see the monster at all.

This is especially borne out in the next attack sequence where in a flash of a second, the monster's tail comes crashing down on the Brooklyn Bridge, killing lots of people and making a terrifying sequence as people scramble to safety. The filmmakers very cleverly defy conventions by keeping you guessing about who will survive. Characters are built up to seem important but then end up as monster-fodder. Some that don't appear important at all become the central characters. But the smartest move of all was to explain nothing about the monster, how it attacks or why it seems to have nasty offspring that roll off its back. One very creepy scene revolves around one of the girls who was bitten by one of the smaller monsters (in another separate, clever scene in a dark subway), she starts to become dizzy and begins bleeding through her eyes. The army soldiers grab her and take her away from everyone else where she proceeds to spontaneously combust, with blood exploding in every direction. It's not over the top in execution but it is surprising and nasty. I think what I enjoyed the most is that the monster was used in just the right way and provided some genuinely thrilling sequences. 'Cloverfield' is a lot of fun.

THE BAD: This film is a gimmick. Part of the gimmick is that this cleverly edited film 'appears' to be random footage shot of the events that occur. That's not the bad part - the problem lies in seeing really shaky camera footage on a giant screen. If you get motion sickness or migraines easily, don't watch this film in the cinema. Also, I'd love to have the brand of camera that was used to get the 'footage'. It gets bashed around so much, and at one point, ends up in the monster's mouth before falling out and magically landing on the ground next to the dead victim, perfectly framing his dead face... and it still works! One hell of a camera. The end credits have some bizarrely inappropriate music. The only other problem is that the opening scenes which establish the characters went on for far too long. There's only one reason you're watching a film like this and that's not to see the melodramas of the main characters.