For those who have read the Twilight books, the storyline is familiar. But here is a brief about it for the first timers reading the Twilight Movie Review. This movie is about love between two teenagers but with a definite twist. Bella Swan decides to move in with her father after her mother remarries to a small dreary town of Forks, Washington. Here Bella falls for a mysterious Edward Cullen before she realizes that he is a, yes, Vampire. The entire movie is based on how he tries to resist her and to keep her safe from a bunch of nomadic vampires.

Melissa Rosenberg, the scriptwriter for Twilight, has done a good job of bringing the original story to life with a near perfect script and the right amount of humor. The director Catherine Hardwicke was a good choice as she captures the grand passions of the youth and their rebellious nature with aplomb.

She has captured the brooding atmosphere of raging teen hormones and stormy skies of the book right onto the screen with understated visual effects. Well the final effect on screen is not up to the mark as it is very difficult to get past the jaded and uninspiring plot, but Hardwicke has done just enough to keep the teen fans content and simmering in their seats.

The Twilight story is one more in line of the unending remix of ’The Beauty and the Beast’. When you cast a beast in the role of a hero you have to make some drastic adjustments. Here the hero Vampire says that he is a ’vegetarian’, meaning that he only drinks animal blood instead of human. Of course the thirst for human blood is always there, but he makes heroic efforts to resist the temptation.

The best part of the movie is the cast of the lead roles. Kristin as Bella plays the role of a damsel in distress to the T with a strong performance. While the British heartthrob Robert, has perfected the act of a brooding, pale and mysterious bloodsucker who is actually the knight in shining armor. In the movie Bella trusts Edward with her life and believes with unwavering faith that he will resist the pull of her scent. She loves him enough to become a vampire herself if that was the only option to stay with him forever.

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The storyline pulses with a strong sexual theme that reflects teenage lust throughout the movie. But the pair refuses to give in to their lust. This is a movie that has to be watched with caution but doesn’t fail to entertain you.

Everybody knows that every year has its share of mediocre-to-crappy renderings from Hollywood and 2008 was no different. Trying to pare the number of horrid films churned out down to five films was a task, but I have managed to choose the 5 Worst Movies of 2008 which I found especially lacking in quality.

Major Movie Star

Apparently her singing gigs and Tony Romo were not enough to keep Jessica Simpson sufficiently occupied to keep away from a movie camera. It’s getting so that the moment you see her name attached to a film, you know that the words “straight to DVD” are bound to follow.

In Major Movie Star, she plays a bubblegum movie actress who joins the Army to bolster her self-esteem. If the plot sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because it has basically already been done in the 1980 film comedy Private Benjamin, which featured the far more gifted Goldie Hahn and considerably outclasses this pitiful imitation.

Though Simpson may be pin-up beautiful, that does not make up for the fact that she possesses limited acting skills, at least as she is presented in embarrassingly awful films like this.

Whoever picks her roles for her doesn’t seem to comprehend that people other than oversexed teen boys go to the movies and the bimbo roles Simpson is put in diminish any possibility she has of ever getting a serious part in a film.

She is a very good singer and she would be much better off focusing on her music, since that’s where her real talent is.

College Road Trip

Yes, bunches of people did go to see this, likely due to the fact that it starred the popular Disney star Raven Symone.

In College Road Trip, comedian Martin Lawrence plays Police Chief James Porter: the loving, but very overprotective dad of daughter Melanie (Symone), who is about to make the decision about what college she wants to attend.

Much to her chagrin and, just as unfortunate for us, Dad decides to take Melanie to an interview at a prestigious college. This results in what is supposed to be a series of “madcap” comic adventures during the trip, as he attempts to spoil her chances of success.

Perhaps adolescents found entertainment value in this movie, but it largely fell flat. Apparently, some folks think that merely labeling a movie as “family-friendly” means that you don’t need to work up a sweat creating something that has a lucid plot and a decent script, which this flick lacks.

Martin Lawrence’s last few films remind me so much of the last films the late Richard Pryor made, where they watered down the very edginess that made him watchable in the past, in order to market him to a more mainstream audience. Turning Lawrence into nothing more than a bumbling buffoon, complete with pratfalls, lame gags and blatant mugging for the camera, is like pulling out all the teeth of a lion. It renders him totally ineffective.

Things could have been worse, though. Lawrence could have decided to make Big Momma’s House III.

The Love Guru

Mike Myers is a funny guy, but this is not a funny movie, although it tries desperately hard to be. The script seems like it was written by a group of frat house members, with sophomoric references to body parts and Myers acting as though he were in a SNL skit that went wrong.

He plays the role of Pitka, an ambitious self-help guru, who aims to become successful in America by taking on clueless clients who ask for his help. He gets a chance to prove himself when he is hired to help reconcile a pro hockey player and his wife. The cast includes Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Meagan Good, Romany Malco and Sir Ben Kingsley.

Sir Ben Kingsley? Yep, I am not kidding you. Just why this distinguished Oscar-winning actor decided to take a brief role as an Indian guru in this debacle is puzzling, unless, of course, Sir Ben just needed a few extra bucks to purchase another Bentley.

Let’s hope that Mike Myers doesn’t go the Jim Carey route, by continuing to pick so many roles that are way below his talents that his career loses momentum.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

If you liked the first two Mummy films, you will be extremely disappointed in this third one in the series.

Brendon Fraser reprises his role as adventurer Rick O’Connell. Actress Maria Bello replaces Rachel Weiz in the role of his archaeologist wife-Evelyn O’Connell- and fails to duplicate Weiz’s charming, effervescent kookiness. The weak premise of this movie involves the couple’s son (Luke Ford) stirring up an evil Asian emperor’s mummy (Jet Li), who wants to wreak some major havoc. Li’s few moments on the screen are the only redeemable thing about The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and his time is so brief that it hardly puts a dent in the dreariness of this flick.

The biggest weakness, besides the anemic plot, is that Bello and Fraser just do not make an interesting pair. Without the chemistry that occurred between Fraser and Weiz in the two preceding Mummy films to fuel the action, this movie was dead in the water.

An American Carol

The purpose of this film was to spoof liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. Kevin Farley, brother of the late Chris Farley, plays the part of Michael Malone, the obvious take-off on Moore.

Like the Scrooge character in the classic A Christmas Carol, Malone is visited by a lineup of spirits- JFK (Chriss Anglin). General George S. Patton(Kelsey Grammar), George Washington (Jon Voight) and the Angel of Death (Trace Adkins), as they attempt to reform him of his evil, left-wing ways. There is even a cameo appearance from real life right-wing pundit Bill O’Reilly.

Produced by Airplane creator David Zucker, who suddenly found his “inner conservative”, this satire supposedly lampoons liberals and proves what most of us have always assumed… Republicans are not funny. At least, not in An American Carol.

These are the list of the 5 Worst Movies of 2008, a pity that these films were screened to millions of people.

The sequel to Batman Begin is titled “The Dark Knight”, does it live up to the hype surrounding it? Wuh, whuh, wow. Here’s the The Dark Knight Movie Review. The bottomline is that this movie is… wow. It’s good. It’s great. It may be the best Batman movie ever. The movie is directed by Christopher Nolan who twists this typical superhero movie into an extravaganza that cannot be described easily. The Dark Knight is dark, creepy, scary, and… it’s good!

First off, the performances of the cast are great. Christian Bale does a great job and the relationship between Batman and the Joker is exactly what it should be. Yes, Heath Ledger deserves an award for his work. He did an amazing job, he was crazy, creepy, scary, demented, nuts. Who’s the best Joker? Nicholson and Ledger are two very different Jokers, one crazy, one just plain sadistic. You can’t fairly compare them. In my opinion, I like the Dark Knight version of the Joker more, but like I said, they’re totally different.

The Dark Knight spends a nearly equal amount of time with Batman and the Joker, so neither one is favored; though I have to admit, Ledger steals the show with his performance and took some of the spotlight away from the Batman. The confrontation between the two main characters are always intense and gripping.

Also, the Joker lives up to his name. In the movie, he sets up traps, but always ends them with an unexpected surprise. It’s great to watch the schemes of the Joker unfolding in the Dark Knight as Batman tries to counter them. Speaking of the Caped Crusader, The Batman as always has a lot of new gadgets including a Bat motorcycle that comes out of the Batmobile. Pretty cool huh?

The Dark Knight stays true to Batman origins in the fact that it’s trying to do the Star Wars thing, work your way up to where the first story began. Most of it matches up, but Harvey Dent, who’s supposed to become Two Face when dropped in a pool of acid, burns his face with fire instead.

The Dark Knight movie is very long, over two and a half hours. Some of the scenes seem like they could’ve been shortened, but the movie is interesting throughout, and doesn’t get boring at any moment. The ending doesn’t make too much sense, but that’s up to you to decide. (I honestly think one last scene was supposed to be filmed, but Ledger was unable to film it before he passed. Then again, it could just be that I only saw this movie once, and maybe was too caught up in the movie.)

In conclusion, I loved watching this movie. In my opinion, it’s the best Batman in decades, maybe ever. It’s a memorable sequel of the rebooted Batman movie series. The Dark Knight is that type of movie that will be either loved or hated by critics.

Personally I go for the first opinion and I’ll give The Dark Knight Movie Review score a 9 out of 10 if you are watching it in the cinema. It’s that type of movie which you have to enjoy at the big screen. The movie really bring back the larger than life feel that movies used to bring to audiences. The Dark Knight is highly recommended for comic books fans and non fans alike.