Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Whisper of the Heart [1995]

Another Ghibli studio/Hayao Miyazaki masterpiece. A love story of a young girl writer and a violin-maker who needs to prove themselves they are both worthy for each other.

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [2007]

The dark story of a barber named Mr. Benjamin Barker, who, after his beautiful wife and pretty daughter was taken away from him, went back to London as Sweeney Todd with unabated revenge and rage and a promise of destruction for the greedy judge who stripped his happy life away. Here, one will see how 15 years of longingness and sadness transform an exiled man into a monster he never dreamed he would become.

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The A-Team [2010]

Action-packed and hilarious. The A-Team only has Plan A, no other options, and you better not dare mess with them. They will beat all odds and go further as breaking jail to clear their name, because the honor of a name is far more important than anything else.

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The Last Airbender [2010]

Adapted from the Manga/Anime of Avatar: The Last Airbender, this movie is the story of Aang, the present reincarnation of the long line of Avatars whose existence brought balance amongst the four nations - Air, Water, Fire, Earth. The young Aang was overwhelmed with the idea of his responsibility as the Avatar, yet his years of hiding brought disastrous ramifications which resulted to the rise of the greedy and power-hungry Fire Nation.

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The Fountain [2006]

The Fountain is a story about everlasting love, death and the quest for eternal life. It spans over one thousand years and depicts the story of a man and woman from their past, present and future. This isn't any typical movie, rather it digs deeper to finding the meaning of our own existence.

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