~ David & Fatima ~

I was checking out new movie posters at impawards.com
and came accross an interesting new title.
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Plot Summary from IMDB:

David & Fatima

A Forbidden Love Will Change The World

Jerusalem: A city of contrasts and conflicts, where Arabs, Jews, Christians and Muslims all mix but seldom mingle. This is where David, a young Israeli Jew, and Fatima, a beautiful Palestinian Muslim girl, meet and fall in love. But in a volatile land that is steeped in tradition and soaked in blood, their love is forbidden. Despite their best efforts to keep their romance a secret, their friends and families find out the truth, and their reactions are swift and violent. David and Fatima must act quickly to avoid losing each other forever. Willing to risk all for the sake of love, they elope in a land where marriage between them is impossible and the consequences of being together - deadly. In this dramatic story of love, destiny, and the search for peace in the Holy Land, David and Fatima struggle to beat the odds and in doing so challenge not only their families but Fate itself. Summary by - Anonymous.

Loving the poster. Can't wait till this movie is released.

What say you, Sou? :p~

Oh, and there's another movie, a 2005 romantic comedy with more or less the same plotline as David & Fatima, titled "David & Layla" with the tagline Kosher Meets Halal! :D

Take care & stay safe all :)
The Archer '08

Mirrors [2008]

Mirrors [2008]

It's Friday the 13th! and I'm on a search to find that next big horror movie. After being disappointed by The Happening, I started surfing the net for a while and came across the long awaited teaser trailer of the Korean horror remake titled Mirrors.

[Release Date : August 15th]

Directed by Alexandre Aja [The Hills Have Eyes '06 Remake - High Tension], Mirrors is centered around the character of Ben Carson [Keifer Sutherland], an ex-New York police detective, who has been relieved from duty due to the fatal shooting of another officer. A recovering alcoholic, recently separated from his wife, Ben takes a job as head of security at a burnt down department store plagued by unexplained deaths.

The store is also the target of demonstrators wanting compensation for an earlier staff fire tragedy. The man becomes intrigued by a disturbed woman. She claims her sister, who died in the fire, is exacting revenge, using mirrors as a gateway back into the living world.

~Teaser Trailer~

If you ask me, it looks like a remake of the three Poltergeist movies. Anyway.. having something to watch is better than nothing. :/

Horror Movie Marathon tonight. Me and a couple of friends are skipping the game and going to watch 13 horror movies continuously tonight. Four tubs of Ben & Jerry's are chillin' in the freezer, and two boxes of popcorn are just waiting to be popped :p~

Take care, stay safe, and be careful :[ <>

The Archer '08

Movie Review: The Happening 75% [being kind]

Zoozameter: 75%

Movie Synopsis:

M. Night Shyamalan directs this thriller about a father (Mark Walhberg) who tries to escape with his family after an apocalyptic event. THE HAPPENING costars Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo.

Cinescape Experience:

I cannot believe that they are actually editing out graphic death scenes now. As a horror/gore fan, I am appalled by this. The Ministery of Mass Comm/ Cinescape should be buried alive and have their grave spat on.

Movie Experience and Review:

The lighting was enthralling. The direction was superb. The effects were captivating. But the acting... uhh the acting was mainly ok, but just downright stupid at times. Mr. Shyamalan should have spent more time working on the script, just as much time as he spent tryign to make it strange and otherworldly.

The mic did appear at the top of the screen in some shot, which really bothered me at times.

M. Night Shyamalan writes, directs, and produces another thriller, in which he portrays moments of urgency and drama through aiming but missing on the Hitchcockian style.

The Happening starts out with an eerie couple of scenes that would send chills down anyone's spine, but takes a wrong turn after 30 to 40 minutes into the movie.

*Spoilers Start*

There are some interesting sequences, where that viral video on Youtube [a large group of people stand still at the exact same time] was adapted on screen. Another creepy sequence is were a man actually turns on a huge lawnmower and lays down on the grass and gets "mower-ed".

The scene that was edited out is where a zoo keeper provokes a lion and gets eaten alive. Thanks to Jerrod, I got my hands on the final script four weeks ago, and some preproduction daily footage.

*Spoilers End*

There were some fun jumps here and there, but other than that zilch. It was as if the movie went from filming to cinemas before entering preproduction. Okay, maybe I'm being brutal, or maybe I've just built it up way too much in my mind, but the movie was just ok for me.
Zooey Deschanel was really good considering what she had to work with. I loved every scene she was in, and Shyamalan was Mark Walhberg was not very good. He was clearly not the best choice to play the lead role. The kid was good, but annoying at times.

Advice:

Go and see it if you REALLY want to, but otherwise skip this one and wait for a decent screener or DvdRip to appear online, or rent it from iTunes in a few months.

Take care & Stay safe
The Archer '08