Week 5- Grace's Favourite Films

Top 10 favorite movies


1. Legally Blonde

This movie is a comedy dramas movie which tell the story about one young and pretty blonde women, Elle Woods, who struggle to get into Harvard university to prove to her boyfriend that she is no just a stupid blonde girl like he thought.

2. Mission Impossible

This movie action movies starring by Tom Cruise. This movie has wonderful special effects and the characters in this movie makes this movie stands out than any other movies.

3. Avatar

This is the latest movies in the cinema, however this movie has attract nearly 10 million audiences in australia to watch it. It is release that avatar has broke the record of titanic with the amount of audiences watching this movie. The special effect and great animation in this movie makes this movie becomes the most popular movies in this year.

4. Titanic

This truly love story has inspiring many people . It tell the story about two couples who just met in the titanic ship and then fell in love each other until the tragedy happened

5. Harry Potter

This is the best and the most fenomenal fantasy movies in the history. This movie is different with any other fantasy movies because of its special effexts and the strong characters in this movies .

6. Memoirs of a geisha

I love the unique story of this movie. This movie tells the fictional story of a geisha working in Kyoto, Japan, before and after world war 2. This movie is really touch me so deep with the sufferings of Japanese women in 17th century.

7. Pretty women

Pretty Woman was initially intended to be a dark drama about prostitution in New York but was reconceptualized into a romantic comedy. The film was a critical success and became one of 1990's highest grossing films, and today is one of the most financially successful entries in the romantic comedy genre, with an estimated gross of $464 million USD.

8. High school musical

This movie has become the most successfull movie that Disney Channel ever produced. It is broadcasted in more than 30 countries and attract more than 7 million viewers in the premiere.

9. Astro boy

The film is about a scientist invents the Astro Boy after he looses his son. They fight for save human. The film is cartoon. The themes which are content in the film are sacrifice, love and braveness.

10. Brokeback Mountain

This is the fenomenal movie which discuss about the homosexual issue between two men in American west. This movie invited many critiques from film experts however this movie has been the most successfull movie in 2005.

Week 4 -Petrelli's Top 10 list of favourite films

Number One: Crash (2004)

Crash is a 2004 American drama film, the reason that i like it is the story is so touch inside of your heart. and the story about the race in the American society which giving us a understanding of the situation.






Number Two: Forrest Gump (1994)


i like Forrest Gump not just because i'm a big fan of Tom Hanks but also because the way which this movie chosen to present for the audience. during this movie, we defined a long way which is a meaningful process for his whole life. Family, Friends, Love, career and all those points can make a phenomenon story for us.






Number Three: The fifth element (1997)


Science fiction movies always be the best choose for me, i'm such a big fan of it. imagine that you have a spaceship and a Alien friend can give everything you want and travel around the world. i believe it can be every young boy's dream.






Number Four: Leon (1994)


A hitman whithout cold blood, how he could be. Talking about the director Luc Besson, who is a fantastic director in the world. He directed so many movies such as The Fifth Element, Taken and so on.






Number Five: Taken (2008)


it is a 2008 action thriller film starring Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace based on a script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. in this movie, every movement that they take was so exciting for me and let me try to think about what gonna happen next.






Number Six: Titanic (1997)


it is a disaster romantic drama film which presented in 1997. i like this movie because the love between rose and jack was so touching and especially the ending was such a tragedy.






Number Seven: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)


From a old man grow up to a baby, Benjamin Button learned his life in a perticular way. it is so amazing that you can following him and see what happened in his life.






Number Eight: Man of the year (2006)


he is a host of a comedian and satirical talk show, but accidently he started to stand as a candidate. it id such a great comedy movie. and during this movie, you can learn a litter bit about the process of running a candidate.






Number Nine: Perfume: the story of Murderer( 2006)

The film was a financial success, especially in Europe, earning $135 million worldwide. It was deemed unmarketable for American audiences and released in a very limited number of theaters in North America, taking in a modest $2,223,293.

Number Ten: Fight Club(1999)

Studio executives did not like the film, and they restructured Fincher's intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. Fight Club failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office, and received polarized reactions from critics. It was cited as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999. The Guardian saw it as an omen for change in American political life, and described its visual style as ground-breaking. The film later found commercial success with its DVD release, which established Fight Club as a cult film.

Week 5- My Top 10 Favorite Films List

1. UP

 The cartoon which is produced by PIXAR, is about an adventure journey of a boy and an     American old man in South Africa. The film shows friendship and responsibility between the two characters. Themes such as love and kindness are content in, which is really impressive.  

2. ASTRO BOY

The film is about a scientist invents the Astro Boy after he looses his son. They fight for save human. The film is cartoon. The themes which are content in the film are sacrifice, love and braveness.

3. GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES

The product is directed based on Miyazaki Hayao's cartoon. It is about a Japanese boy seeks survival for his younger sister and himself after the WW2. The film presents the crule environment of Japan after the war. The boy's experience is sad. The themes which are contented in the production are love between brother and sister, braveness, fate and crule truth.

 

4. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

The film is about a married man fall in love with a married woman in the 1960s' HongKong. The production shows the stuggling of the two characters in this relationship, which could not be accept by the comtemporary society. The themes which are contented in this film are love, romance, ethic of marriage, fate, decission and sacrifice.

5. ASHES OF TIME

The film is about stories of five killers who are employed by the owner of a cottage in the desert. The themes which are contented in the film is love, braveness, ecthic of knight-errant, fate, decissions in life, goals and value of life.

6. MAO'S LAST DANCER

The film is about a Ballet dancer's journey in America. He goes to study dancing in America and face a culture and ideology which is completely different with his growing environment. He has to fight for his future,freedom and people who he loves. The themes in the film are romantic love, love between a son and parents, fate, sacrifice and struggles.

7. THE EIGHTH DAY

The film is about a relationship between a successful business man and a young man who is slow in his wits. They learn from each other. The business learns love from the young man. The themes are relationship, marriage, great love, responsibility and family.

8. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

The film is about a man who is engaged but he falls in love with a devoiced woman in America in 19th century. The relationship would never be accepted by the superstructure. The love is painful for both of the man, the devoiced woman and the man's wife. As time goes by, all of them start to understand about the fate and restrain themselves. Theme issues such as family, ethic, love and patient are shown in this film. At the late year of the man, he finally understand that his wife knows all of the story but she keeps quiet about this until she passed away. The film is a lesson for love and an annotation of life.

9. WALL-E

The cartoon is produced by PIXAR. It is about an advanture journey in the space of robort Wall-e and Eva. Wall-e is the only robort on earth. He meets Eva and falls in love. Wall-e fallows Eva to the universe space to save her, and he also saves the human and bring them back to earth. The film is about love, romance, and braveness. The cute images of the characters are impressive.

10. IF YOU ARE THE ONE

The Chinese film is directed by FENG Xiao Gang. The film is about relationship between a man who's back from America and a woman who works at the airline. The man loves her, but the woman is in love with another man who has married. She wants to suiside during the journey with the man whos back from America, the man saves her. The film is about identify true love, kindness, loyalty and responsibility

Week 5-Anita's Top 10 Favourite Films of All Time

So this week we'll be sharing lists of our top ten favourite films of all time, along with a few lines on what exactly makes them so awesome.

1. Love Actually- Quite possibly my favourite movie ever. Ironically, I think all my favourite romantic comedies are British- they're cute, but not throw-up-in-your-mouth cute like American ones. Also, I just love British humour, all quirky and deadpan. Stops things from becoming too nauseating. I like how the movie's not just about romantic love between attractive young people though. There are stories about fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, rock stars and managers...even this one guy who goes to America with the sole purpose of hooking up with random American chicks because English girls don't 'get' him. This is my favourite scene, involving Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister.

2.Shortbus-I'm not really quite sure how to explain this movie...it's similar to Love Actually, but set in New York and considerably more sexual. It's not the slightest bit pornographic or gratuitous though, it's fascinating because of the way it shows dysfunctional relationships. The trailer is here if you're interested.

3.Amelie- I love random quirky French movies, I guess. This one in particular because Amelie reminds me a lot of me, and just the way the movie portrayed the world, with everything being slightly surreal, like the pictures talking to each other and the gnome travelling all around the world...it's sort of childlike but in a good way. Not sure if this is the official trailer or not, but it's still quite good.

4.Little Miss Sunshine- Okay, when I get old I seriously want to be the grandpa in this movie- giving kids inappropriate- yet-useful advice that they'd never hear from their parents, and just being awesome in general. It's so dysfunctional, but they all help each other out and really, they probably work a lot better as a family than ones that pretend they're normal. The dance scene at the end is just priceless, though.

5. Moulin Rouge- " The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." I've always been fascinated by the whole bohemian-writer-in-Paris in the early 20th century thing. This movie is also what inspired me to try absinthe...with somewhat disastrous results. Visually, it's just incredible, and it's all so over-the-top and tragic and romantic and funny at the same time. The remix of 'Come What May' and the video for it is so pretty, so that shall be my link for this movie.

6. The Nightmare Before Christmas- I love anything by Tim Burton, really, but decided to restrict myself to two of his movies for the purpose of this Top 10 list. This movie is just too cute, in the most awesome possible way.The animation is amazing, too- especially in the opening song. I wish David Jones would put a Nightmare Before Christmas nativity scene in one of its windows, just for one year...even if it would traumatise many little kids. 

7. Lolita- The 1997 version directed by Adrian Lyne, with Jeremy Irons as Humbert, who is absolutely perfect for the role, in my opinion. Although the Kubrick version made in the sixties captured the spirit of the book a lot better (twisted, black humour that tends to go over your head the first time you watch it), this movie had actors that were closer to how I pictured the characters in my head and didn't have to worry about the censorship laws like Kubrick did in the 60s.

8. Edward Scissorhands-  Johnny Depp is completely genius in this movie. Even if Winona Ryder as a bubbly cheerleader took some getting used to, they really are adorable together, especially in this scene. It's like a fairytale, but more like the original versions of Cinderella and Snow White with all the attempted murder and chopping off of body parts, as opposed to the super-cute sanitised versions we get told as kids.

9.Robin Hood: Men in Tights- This movie is absolutely hilarious. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard during one movie. Especially love quoting random lines from the movie and getting strange looks from people. Some of my favourites are...' A toll is a toll, and a roll is a roll, and if we don't get no tolls, then we don't eat no rolls' and ' A chastity belt? That's going to chafe my willy!'... just a few of many classic lines. Not to mention the song! Feel free to watch this link then burst out into song in a public place and get weird looks from people.

10. The Lion King-  Really,Disney movies deserve their own separate list on here, because I have so many that I love. This is probably my favourite, though. I've seen the musical twice and I've been able to quote the movie word for word since I was about six. The characters and the people doing their voices are brilliant (particularly Rowan Atkinson as Zazu and Jeremy Irons as Scar...British people rock!) and the scene when Mufasa dies still makes me a bit teary sometimes. However, so as not to be depressing, I decided to link you to the tremendously funny hula scene.