Jumat, 24 April 2009
2. Da Vinci Code
Sinopsis
Profesor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) seorang ahli simbologi Harvard suatu malam dipanggil oleh Kapten Polisi Bezu Fache (Jean Reno) ke Louvre Musium dimana di tempat tersebut telah terjadi pembunuhan terhadap kurator terkenal Jacques Sauniere yang meninggalkan misteri dari sebuah simbol serta jejak teka-teki dari sejumlah kode pada lukisan karya Leonardo Da Vinci.
Sadar ternyata sebenarnya ia telah dituduh melakukan pembunuhan tersebut dan terlibat dalam suatu bahaya, kemudian dengan bantuan Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) yang merupakan cucu dari Sauniere ia berusaha memecahkam misteri di balik pembunuhan kakeknya. Di dalam pelariannya, Robert Langdon dan Sophie Neveu menemui kenalan
Langdon, Sir Leigh Teabing, ilmuwan yang mendalami rahasia Cawan Suci.
Teabing memaparkan berbagai "rahasia gereja", di antaranya: Yesus
hanyalah manusia biasa yang menikah dengan Maria Magdalena. Sehingga
demi kepentingan politiknya Kaisar Romawi Konstantin menetapkan Yesus
sebagai Tuhan.
Lebih jauh Teabing menjelaskan Leonardo Da Vinci, yang adalah anggota
serikat rahasia Priory of Sion, mengetahui rahasia pernikahan Yesus
dengan Maria Magdalena, sehingga tugas serikat ini menjaga rahasia itu.
Misteri ini ternyata membawa mereka kepada sebuah rahasia kuno yang telah tersimpan selama 2000 tahun. Penyelidikan berbahaya ini membawa mereka ke Paris, London dan Scotland untuk mengumpulkan semua petunjuk agar mereka dapat memecahkan kode dan membuka rahasia terbesar tersebut.
3. American Gangster
Sinopsis :
Selamat datang di sekuel James Bond yang terbaru dengan judul Quantum of Solace. Kali ini film lebih galak, ramping dan tegang maka tidak salah bila durasi ini lebih pendek dari film James Bond sebelumnya. Awal cerita di Quantum of Solace dimulai dari akhir Casino Royale saat Bond bertemu dengan White. James Bond berusaha mencari keterangan kelompok yang dianggapnya bertanggung jawab atas kematian Vesper yang waktu itu di sekuel Casino Royale, wanita yang dicintainya tewas di bunuh.
Akhirnya, setelah melewati berbagai rintangan, Bond mendapatkan informasi dan bertemu dengan seorang kriminal yang bernama Dominic Greene ( diperankan oleh Mathieu Amalric ).
Di Film ini, karakter James Bond dengan alur plot-nya sudah kita kenal, namun sesungguhnya, terfokus pada James Bond yang terpukul melalui misi dan motivatornya. Ini terbukti dengan beberapa adegan yang membingungkan ketika penggabungan cerita masalah pribadi Bond dengan rencana ambisius yang di ingin digapai oleh Greene. Akan tetapi, alur cerita dari penjahat tidak difokuskan dan lebih cenderung penjahat menjadi alur plot di belakang journey James Bond.
Misi utama Agen 007 menjadi ujung tombak, tetapi tujuan utamanya adalah cara James Bond mengatasi secara individu atau kondisi yang ditemuinya. Tetapi bukan berarti film ini meninggalkan ciri khas Agen 007 sebelumnya. Tapi jangan berharap para penonton di suguhkan teknologi yang canggih.
Film James Bond tidak lepas dari peran wanita yang cantik, yakni Olga Kurylenko. Yang memerankan teman wanita Bond. Ada yang berbeda, bila saya lihat dari sekuel film sebelumnya. Cewek ini berperan lebih matang di banding cewek Bond lainnya.
Ada pula Agen yang di temui Bond di Bolivia, yang bernama Emma Arterton. Dia merupakan salah satu bintang film berbakat. Ending terakhir pasti akan mengisahkan sekuel James Bond akan kembali dan Quantum of Solace ini membuat penonton penasaran. Semoga dengan sekuel James Bond : Quantum of Solace kali ini, karakter Bond yang diperankan oleh Daniel Craig lebih matang.
Jumat, 10 April 2009
Synopsis "BLADE TRINITY"
Prologue: Four fully-covered vampires walk into a stone ziggurat in the Syrian Desert of Iraq. They are looking to re-awaken Dracula. They find him. Only three vampires walk out.
Six months later. Blade [Wesley Snipes] has slipped up. After killing 1,182 familiars and countless vampires, he's killed a human. Shot him through the heart with a silver stake, but he didn't ash. What gives? It was a set up, staged just to get Blade caught and out of the vampire hunting business. FBI agents Ray Cumberland [James Remar] and Wilson Hale [Michael Rawlins] have positively identified Blade, thanks to a video by an anonymous citizen. That "anonymous citizen" is actually Danica Talos [Parker Posey], one of the four vampires who freed Dracula [Dominic Purcell], or "Drake" as he now calls himself.
The FBI has cornered Blade and Whistler [Kris Kristofferson] in their warehouse laboratory, but Whistler is not about to let their operation fall into the hands of the FBI. After yelling at Blade to get out of the building, Whistler blows it up, destroying everything--computers, weaponry, and himself. Blade is devastated by Whistler's death and easily captured. He is taken to the police department where he is being poked and proded by the FBI, who consider him public enemy number one, and by forensic psychiatrist, Doctor Edgar Vance [John Michael Higgins], who has pronounced Blade psychotic and wants to transfer him to County Psychiatric. Police chief Martin Vreede [Mark Berry] pulls jurisdiction and refuses to release Blade to either of them. While they argue over who should have custody of Blade, Vance shoots him full of tranquilizers. Even in his weakened state, Blade has already figured out that Vance is working for the vampires. Then, Danica Talos and several other vampires, including her brother Asher [Callum Keith Rennie] and strongman Jarko Grimwood [Paul Levesque], posing as a transfer team, arrive to move Blade, but Danica can't hide her vampirism from Blade. Unfortunately, Blade is too knocked out to resist. You're all alone, Blade, Danica taunts. No one's going to help you now.
But Danica is wrong. There are some new vampire hunters in town, among them none other than Whistler's illegitimate daughter Abigail [Jessica Biel] and the wise-cracking ex-vampire Hannibal King [Ryan Reynolds], Danica's ex-pet. They come to Blade's rescue, overpowering Danica and her henchmen while Blade doses himself with serum through a new effervescent inhaler (no needles needed). When Blade's strength has returned, he, King, and Abby break out of the police station, taking out a bunch of vampires along the way. But they're not clear yet. As they exit the building, a dozen police cars drive up, surrounding them.
Suddenly, an old van speeds up. King and Abby jump in, with Blade right behind them, and the van speeds away. They drive to Abby and King's "Honeycomb Hideout" where Blade meets the rest of the Nightstalkers, as they refer to themselves. Besides King and Abby, there is vandriver Dex [Ron Selmour], weaponry designer Hedges [Patton Oswalt], blind scientist Sommerfield [Natasha Lyonne], and Sommerfield's young daughter Zoe [Haili Page]. Although he is informed that it was Sommerfield who fashioned his new serum inhaler and that Whistler wanted Blade to work with the Nightstalkers, Blade is not impressed by them. In his eyes, they are kids...rookies, not to mention that Abby Whistler fights with her MP3 earplugs stuck in her ears.
The Nightstalkers inform Blade that Dracula has been reawakened by the vampires in order to help with the vampire final solution, but they don't know what the final solution is. They do know, however, that they're going to need a new weapon, something bigger than silver nitrate bullets and garlic spray. Sommerfield is working on a biological weapon that she calls "DayStar," a virus that specifically targets vampires. Unfortunately, the virus' lethality is spotty. They need better DNA to work with. They need Dracula's blood because it's still pure, unaffected by generations of mutation. How to get to Drake?
Blade's idea is to go for the weakest link...the familiars. Bleed the wannabees and they'll take us to the real, he says. So they take out a bunch of familiars. One of them gets a call on his cell phone as Blade is dangling him off the side of a bridge. Turns out to be Dr Vance, so they break into Vance's office to interrogate him. As they round the desk to directly approach Vance, they see the real Vance lying dead on the floor and realize that the "Vance" standing before them is actually Drake. Drake grabs King, stabs him, then jumps out the window, falling maybe 15 stories to the pavement below, landing feet first on a car roof, then running off parkour-style. Blade follows. They meet up again on the rooftops. Drake has carried a human infant he grabbed along the way and threatens to drop it some dozen or more stories to the pavement below. After slinging a few insults and threats back and forth, Drake tosses the baby over the gap between the buildings. Blade catches the baby, but Drake gets away.
While Abby stops the hemorrhaging in King's wound with an elastic protein, Sommerfield reveals that she has located the vampire's laboratory at Biomedical Enterprises. She also downloaded a copy of their recent purchases, like polymerase, bone marrow growth supplement, and genetic sequencing enzymes, so Blade and Abby decide to go snooping. While lurking outside, they see Chief Vreede drive up. A vampire comes out to meet him, and Blade and Abby pounce. After destroying the vampire, they force Vreede to take them inside the building. The first thing they see after turning on the lights is a huge warehouse filled with humans in stasis, all wired up as continuous blood donors. It's the vampire's final solution, Vreede explains. Instead of hunting blood on a piecemeal basis, the vampires have created a blood-farming facility. Blade shoots Vreede and forces the computer technician to shut down the facility.
Back at Honeycomb Hideout, Dex and Hedges are playing basketball, Sommerfield is reading a bedtime story to Zoe, and King is napping in the infirmary. Suddenly, Abraham Whistler appears to King. Dude, you're dead, says King. It's not Whistler...it's Drake. When Blade and Abby return, they find Hedges, Dex, and Sommerfield dead. King and Zoe are missing. Drake has taken them back to the vampire's lair where King is now chained to the floor. He regains consciousness to stare eye-to-eye with a pomeranian. Suddenly the dog's lower jaw opens reaper-style. King manages to roll away just in time. Danica, Jarko, and Asher enter and take a few swipes at King. Then Danica asks King about the weapon that Blade is planning, but King refuses to talk so Danica threatens to turn him into a vampire again and wait until the thirst builds. Then... (door opens and in walk Drake and Zoe) ...I'm going to bring the little girl in here for you to feed on, Danica whispers into King's ear.
Fortunately, Sommerfield managed to get off a message to another Nightstalker named Caulder [Christopher Heyerdahl]. Just before she was killed, Caulder tells them, Sommerfield developed a workable strain of the DayStar virus, and she transmitted the genetic sequence to him. It will need to be injected into Drake. If it is, it will mix with his blood and should kill every vampire in the area. However, Caulder adds, Sommerfield doesn't know whether it will kill Blade, too. Caulder has fashioned a projectile containing the DayStar virus. Abby loads it on one of the arrows to her compound bow. Now it's nightstalking time.
They have traced King's whereabouts by the tracking node implanted in his body. First, they pump atomized colloidal silver into the vampires' air conditioning system, which makes it difficult for the vampires to breathe. Then, Blade drops down through the skylight. While Blade takes on the vampires, Abby drops in and releases King. Then Abby pops in her MP3 earphones, and she and Blade take out a few dozen more vampires. King is chased by the vampire pomeranian and two vampire rottweilers, but he tricks them into leaping out a window. Abby rescues Zoe.
While King and Jarko go at each other with fists, Blade and Drake use swords. Abby takes out more vampires with her bow. King takes out Jarko, but Danica takes Jarko's place. Drake has had enough of Blade and transforms into his monster self, complete with Reaper maw. Just when Drake is about to cream Blade, Abby shows up, loads the DayStar serum into her bow, and shoots it into the back of Drake's head. Drake pulls it out and tosses it on the floor, but Blade retrieves it and shoves the needle into Drake's chest. DayStar is released, dispersing the virus through the air, and the rest of the vampires start falling. When it's all over, Drake has become human again. Just before he dies, he compliments Blade on beginning a new race of vampires and reminds him that the thirst always wins.
Suddenly, dozens of FBI agents swarm into the building, only to find everything smashed to smithereens but no bodies other than Blade's. They transport him to the hospital and prepare to perform an autopsy. Just as they're about to make the first cut, Blade's body transforms into that of Drake. It was Drake's gift to Blade, knowing that Blade is the best hope for the vampire race of the future. Blade is still out there.
SIMILAR MOVIES | ||
Tourist Trap (1979) Scream (1996) Jeepers Creepers (2001) Joy Ride (2001) Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) Cabin Fever (2003) | ||
Synopsis | ||
A bunch of college students are stranded in a small town where suffering for art takes on a whole new meaning in this tale of terror. Carly (Elisha Cuthbert) and her boyfriend, Wade (Jared Padalecki), have hit the road with a handful of their friends to attend a championship college football game; tagging along with them are Carly's bratty friend Paige (Paris Hilton, Carly's trouble-making twin brother Nick (Chad Michael Murray), and Blake (Robert Ri'chard), Paige's latest boy toy. While camping out for the night, the gang makes the mistake of getting on the wrong side of a mysterious local redneck, and the next morning they discover that Wade's car no longer works. As the others continue on to the big game, Carly and Wade make their way into the closest town, Ambrose, and discover it's all but deserted, except for a local tourist attraction, the House of Wax. However, it isn't long before they find out why the wax sculptures at the museum look so freakishly real, and discover a pair of murderous brothers are keen on making them part of the next exhibit. House of Wax is an in-name-only remake of the well-remembered 1953 3-D horror outing starring Vincent Price, which was in turn based on the 1933 picture Mystery of the Wax Museum. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide |
van helsing
VAN HELSING STORY
Van Helsing is an assassin, hired by a secret organization, to rid the earth of unholy monsters. He keeps the world safe from destruction, in a hopeless attempt to keep the monsters of the world under wraps and out of the limelight. The only problem with this is that he is the most wanted man in Europe because of the destruction that he has caused; some calling him a murderer and some calling him a hero. Although this is a big burden, it doesn’t really bother him, because he tries to keep a low profile, but his work is not perfect. What his superiors dislike is his style of fighting the monsters; he’s always into killing them instead of bringing them in alive, which is something that really pisses off his superiors.
Things change from the everyday boring assignment when he is asked to go to Transylvania, to kill Count Dracula. Dracula, his three wives, and his assistants are all living in a castle somewhere in Transylvania, elusive to the villagers residing in the town. There is also another part of the assignment; Van Helsing’s real reason for going to kill Dracula is that there is a family of Transylvanians that has bowed to kill Dracula before they are allowed into Heaven. The family members who keep taking on Dracula are dying so rapidly in fact, that there are only two of them remaining. Anna and her brother are in the fight until death, and Anna decides that she will help Van Helsing until the end. A wrench is thrown into Van Helsing’s plans, when he learns Dracula is trying to bring his children to life using immense body energy, like that found in Frankenstein’s monster. Somehow, Dracula must be stopped, and it must be made sure of that his offspring never come to life. If this was to happen, not only Transylvania could be in trouble.
This was a movie that I had medium expectations for, but I never expected it to really be a great movie. What I expected from this movie was just a fun, unrealistic, summer blockbuster that I could sit down and enjoy. That is exactly what I got from this film, as right from the start, it grabs you and never lets you go. This movie is one action-packed ride, filled with witty dialogue and some overacting, which both seemed meant to be. This is not a movie that most critics would love, that’s for sure. It’s far from being a great, amazing, intelligent movie. In fact, this movie hardly has any character development or story development in it, except for a few short scenes. This movie was made solely for action, and that’s what it delivers, actually adding a few jumpy scenes, as well as quite a bit of suspense.
The previews showed this movie as a computer animator’s dream; chocked full of CGI effects, costing millions of dollars. Well, that’s pretty much what it is, but it didn’t detract from the movie-going experience too much. I share the same opinion as most people, which is that the monsters were portrayed more effectively when they were portrayed by real people, but this is a new age. CGI Computer animation is movies is in full force, and although I’m not a big fan of it, I’m not going to complain of the over-use in this movie, because it was just meant to be fun. It wasn’t meant to be anything amazing, it was just meant to allow people to enjoy themselves for a couple of hours. This movie is a good homage to the old monster movies of the thirties and forties, just with things done a lot differently. Give this movie a chance, it’s really not as bad as people are saying it is, as long as you know what you’re in for; fun. 7 out of 10.
Jumat, 13 Maret 2009
sinopsis harry potter and the philosopher stone
A rare first-edition copy of the first Harry Potter novel sold for more than £7,000 at auction today.
The copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was snapped up by a specialist book collector for £7,200 following a bidding war this afternoon.
The hardback copy, with an original price tag of £10.99, is one of only 500 produced in the first print run of the book in 1997.
A rare first-edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was sold for more than £7,000
The Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling was the first instalment of the Harry Potter series that went on to become a publishing phenomenon.
The book was owned by Toby Rundle, 19, from Williton, Somerset, who was sent the book by his mother as a gift while he was at boarding school.
But the teenager wanted to cash in on the book and put the funds raised towards a classics and English degree at Oxford University.
The book was auctioned at Dominic Winter auctioneers in South Cerney, Gloucestershire. Including the buyer's premium the book fetched a total of £8,460.
Book specialist Chris Albury from the auctioneers said Toby's copy was a genuine rarity.
He said: "Usually popular books are not that rare.
"But a first edition copy of The Philosopher's Stone is a genuinely rare book.
"This is because that for some reason there was only a small print run of around 500 books.
"The majority went to public libraries and the amount that have ended up for sale is only around 100 copies - and that is a tiny amount.
"So few of these come up on the market that it is really nice to see a fresh copy."
The Harry Potter series has gone on to become a publishing sensation, with each new book resulting in children and adults alike queuing outside bookshops across the world.
Later this summer the seventh and final book in the series - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be released.
The book was bought by modern first edition collector David Beswick from Hull. Mr Albury said: "The sale went well, the bidding was not as fierce as we had hoped - it didn't get out of hand.
"The seller is very happy with the price. The Harry Potter memorabilia market has slowed down following a bit of a peak a few years ago."
He said that first edition copies of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit could be worth even more than Toby's Harry Potter first edition.