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Up in the Air is a story of Ryan Bingham, whose job is to fire people.  He flies 320 days a year, he’s living out of a suitcase and his main goal is to rack up frequent flyer miles until he reaches 10 million miles.  His secondary job he has is to give motivational speeches on relieving one’s life of excess physical and emotional baggage.  He’s not close to any of his siblings nor does he ever want to have a family.  When his boss hires a 20-something year-old overachieving woman named Natalie Keener, she develops a new method to fire someone by doing it via remote computer access.  Obviously this has threatened the existence Ryan has so cherished, taking him out of his comfort zone – which is flying around the country while accumulating frequent flyer miles.  He believes that Natalie doesn’t understand the nature of the business, so their boss (who is played by Justin Bateman – whom I think is perfect for the character) suggests that she accompany Ryan on a business trip.  That’s when the adventure begins.

Such a cute movie.  I heard so many good reviews about the movie prior to watching it.  I’d definitely recommend this to you guys (and girls)…  Highly recommend it, I might add.  The movie was very entertaining, cute and even the chemistry between all the three stars – George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick – was great.  Jason Bateman was awesome in the movie, even though he only showed up for a few minutes.  I honestly think Anna Kendrick gave the best performance in the movie – she was smart, witty and definitely stole the spotlight from both George Clooney and Vera Farmiga.  I was really impressed with her acting, considering she was the youngest amongst the other actors in the movie.  After watching this movie, I kinda felt sorry to the character that George Clooney was playing (Ryan Bingham).  He was lonely, never made himself attached to anyone for a while – by the time he felt he was ready to change and make a connection with the woman he was falling for, turns out she’s already married (SPOIL ALERT!).  That’s just really messed up.  Ryan Bingham was the epitome of “success”, with money, prestige and a great career.  He felt he was at the top of his game and didn’t need anyone.  All of sudden the tables suddenly turned.

I guess the point of the movie is no matter how successful you are, how much money you have or how great your career is, if you don’t have anyone to share with..  Then what’s the point?  If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life…  Were you alone?  Life is better with company.  Much much better.

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Ahh another vampire movie..  What else would you expect when Twilight became box office and made a lot of money for Hollywood studios.  All of sudden everyone is into vampires.  There’s a new TV show about teenage vampires coming out (or maybe it already did?), the New Moon came out, another HBO mini series about vampires also came out and became an instant hit, and now… Daybreakers.  Another movie about vampires again?  Geeez..  What’s next?  The Count from Sesame Street gets his own movie deal?

Daybreakers took place in the year of 2019, when a plague has turned half of world’s population into vampires.  Humans still exist in some part of the world; however, majority of them are being farmed for their blood.  Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the vampires were forced to find a blood substitute.  Unfortunately, their effort to find this blood substitute wasn’t as easy as they had thought it would be.

I found Daybreakers a really interesting movie because it was very original, had a good concept and I constantly found myself on the edge of my seat wondering what was gonna happen in the next scene.  Ethan Hawke was awesome; he was really able to portray a vampire character who felt that he had a moral obligation to save the human race despite of his current condition as a vampire (which obviously depends so much on human blood as part of his daily meal) and his job as the Chief of Hematologist (blood expert).  Willem Dafoe was also great in the movie, playing as a recovered vampire (hahaha “recovered”)..  The guy is already skinnier than the rest of the casts and whiter than the toilet paper so he really looked believable playing as a recovered vampire.  I loved the scene where it was showing the “human farm” (see the movie poster), and it kinda reminded me of one of the scenes in the Matrix where Keanu Reeves suddenly woke up after he took the blue pill (or maybe red?) only to find himself in a human farm operated by the “machines.”

Oh there was one particular scene in the movie which I also liked, and it almost made me scream in the theater hahahahaa..  It was when these group of vampire scientists were testing the blood substitute by injecting it into one of the test subjects (in this case, another vampire).  Within seconds, he was screaming in pain and rashes showing up all over his body.  One of the scientists finally injected the antibody into him which immediately made the rashes disappear.  But 3 seconds later, the moment after he said thank you to the scientists, his body blew up!  I almost jumped off my seat when it blew up because I didn’t even see it coming.  I was like CRAP!  Thank God I cursed, not screamed like a little b*tch..  Hahahahahaaaa..

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Whut..?  Whuuuutt?  Yep that’s exactly what I’d say every time Robert Downey said something.  It’s not like he’s a bad actor or anything..  Oh no, he’s a really great and gifted actor.  It’s just that somehow I couldn’t really comprehend his British accent.  I think he was just mumbling throughout the entire movie.  Mumbling in British accent, to be exact.  On the other hand, I found that I could understand Jude Law much better – and this guy is a real Brit!  I guess Robert Downey should’ve practiced his British accent more before filming.  I only hope he didn’t practice it by watching Mr. Bean re-runs.

So the premise of this movie is that Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, are trying to catch this serial killer/sorcerer who supposedly returns from his grave.  Lots of action, explosion and shooting, Holmes and Watson running around and beating up all the bad guys, etc.  I just loved all the action scenes – definitely give the actions scenes an A+ (although sometimes I felt Holmes was talking a bit too much).  I loved all the scenes that show Holmes’ brilliant deduction techniques as well.  I think Guy Ritchie did a great job at portraying Holmes as the master of deduction.  The mini flashback scenes were also great in the movie, and really helped us understand more about Holmes’ investigation techniques as well as his way of making deductions and arriving at conclusions.

To be honest with you, I don’t think Robert Downey is the right person to play Sherlock Holmes.  He is way too damn short and he doesn’t look quirky enough.  I’m a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes; I’ve read all his books many many times before and honestly, Jude Law should’ve been the one who played Sherlock Holmes.  Robert Downey should’ve just stayed doing Ironman because every time I saw his face in the movie, it’d make me wonder when he was gonna turn into the Ironman and start shooting the crap out of bad guys.

Oh one more thing, Rachel McAdams was just too adorable in the movie.  She definitely was the perfect eye candy amongst the madness.

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Before I start writing my review, I’d like to say one thing: I’m not into the Twilight Saga.  I saw the 1st movie, and really hated it.  I thought it was extremely cheesy and was definitely a perfect movie for pimpled teenage girls.  I felt like I was in pain hearing some of the dialogues in the movie.  I’ve seen a lot of cheesy movies before, but that one was literally at the top of the list.

So now you’re probably wondering, if I hated the 1st one so much, then why did I even bother to see the 2nd one and basically let myself endure the same pain and suffering for nearly 2 hours?  Well the answer is, I have no idea.  I kept asking myself that question over and over, from the moment I bought the ticket until the time the movie began..  I kept wondering what the hell I am doing here and still had no clue why I was there.

A few seconds after the lights turned down the girls started screaming.  I looked up only to find the movie was still showing the opening credit.  I was like, you’ve got to be kidding me.  Neither Edward or Jacob was in sight and they already started screaming?!  Some were clapping their hands.  I was sitting there, torn between whether I should scream my lungs out like the girls in the theater, or start clapping my hands like a crazy person.

I honestly don’t understand what’s so hot about this Edward guy.  He’s too skinny, too pale and not so good-looking.  Heck if I were a girl, I don’t think I’d be into Edward.  Even for a vampire, he’s too damn sensitive.  Too goddamn soft.  I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a vegetarian and drove a station wagon before he became a vampire.

The girls started screaming again at the sight of Edward coming out of his car..  Oh god.  But this time, they would also scream at the sight of Jacob’s sick puppies (a.k.a. Jacob’s six pack).  I could honestly tell that the director intentionally had his screenwriters write a lot of scenes where Jacob would show up with his shirt off, flaunting his rock hard abs.  Either they’d scream or I’d hear occasional gasps with eyes staring intently at the screen hahahhaaaa…  Ahh teenage girls, they’re so easy to please.

I honestly thought this movie was so much better than the 1st one.  There were a few action scenes – my favorite one was the one where this pack of wolves running after this black vampire and finally ripped him apart.  That was pretty cool.  I kinda wish the director would have done it Tarantino style though.  More blood and gory.  Oh my other favorite scene was the one where Edward fighting against this club bouncer-lookin vampire in Italy..  He basically grabbed Edward and tossed him around like a rag doll.  That was pretty fun seeing Edward being tossed around left and right and wasn’t able to do anything about it.

Overall, I think this movie was made only for teenage girls.  It’s definitely not a date movie – believe me, I don’t think you can get any action after seeing this movie.  The Edward guy – totally not hot.  That Jacob guy on the other hand, he was alright.  I could see why girls would drool over him.  Edward’s dad needed to have more lines, and possibly his own action scenes.  It would’ve been awesome if Blade had all of sudden come out of nowhere and started slaying the vampires hahahaaa..  Oh one more thing, if I get the question again (that’s been going around on Facebook): “Whose team am I on – team Edward or team Jacob”?  I’d say I’ll be on team shut-the-hell-up-I’ve-had-enough-of-Twilight.

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