Review on Thor: Halloween principle - Choose not the expensive actors, but the suitable ones

Thor has got great success since its theatrical release. It has received nearly 80% of positive critic response after its release. This superhero film based on comic book character of the same name published by Marvel Comics and is the fourth film released in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, and Stellan Skarsgård with Kenneth Branagh directing a script by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, and Don Payne.

The characters in this movie reflect the Halloween industry principle: select the most suitable actors, rather than expensive ones. The director Kenneth Branagh is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays. He handles all the effects work with aplomb, and treats the property with respect, even though the movie's tongue is consistently planted firmly in its cheek. Nothing is ever taken too seriously.

Chris Hemsworth has a nice, easygoing presence, and is hugely likeable in the lead role. But before Thor, he was in fact complete unknown to public, even not as well known as Tobey Maguire. Tom Hiddleston was also nobody even though he graduated from Eaton and Cambridge. But in this movie, the two handsome freshmen both get excellent performance and have been greatly popular.

And also, when Thor was about to start shooting, the Black Swan had not been finished. Natalie Portman arrived in New Mexico desert once she took off the dance shoes and turned to be a completely fresh and pure beauty from an evil black swan. And if Anthony Hopkins was ten years younger, he might have transferred the crabbed murderous characteristic to be the invisible mighty of Odin, but for sure he would not be able to reflect the aging and tiredness under the invisible mighty. Now, to the 74 years old Anthony Hopkins, everything happens without extra effort.

All the cast and the directors of this movie make it quite clear that Halloween is choosing the right actors, but not those expensive famous people.

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Love and Other Drugs Movie Review: Is It Really Love or Just A Sense of Responsibility or Even Sympathy

A few days ago, I visited a friend and when I arrived, he was watching the Love and Other Drugs DVD on his iPad. I had also heard about this movie a long time but never had the chance to watch it. So I joint with him and we spent two hours in watching this affectional drama Love and Other Drugs. And as soon as it ended, I asked my friend on why Jamie finallly wants to be with Maggie, because of love, or just a sense of responsibility, or even just for sympathy?

If he is really back for love, so why did he leave Maggie in the snow when Maggie insisted on Jamie leaving for Maggie's strong self-esteem, as she does not want to get Jamie in trouble to take care of her. However, Jamie just put all his luggage into the trunk, left words "That's really stupid" and then went away.

I truly believe that no matter how much the love is, when facing with the grave responsibility to take care of him/her life long, anybody would become to hover. That is why Jamie was desperate to visit every famous doctor he knows. Maggie has revealed the truth by directly saying: your intense longing to cure me is just because you can't accept the truth to take care of me for a life. What kind of courage has made a lady to sharply point out the reality?

So they just broke up. And Jamie makes big success in his business and wins enormous favors from various beautiful ladies. But Jamie still feels that he lacks something in his life, a woman to share his success with him. So at last when flying to Chicago, he finally realized what he wanted and went back to Maggie. I was just surprised by the changes of Jamie and thought it might be too sudden. And so I wondered why Jamie could return to find Maggie after so long a time, really because of love, responsibility or just sympathy?

My friend said that love itself is in fact not simply love, but mixed with responsibility and sympathy. But these things could not change the nature of love. I guess so.

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Review of Hereafter Movie: What Happens When You Die

Due to some reasons, I haven't even watched the complete movie of Hereafter since it's in theatre. Yesterday, one of my friends gifted me the newly released Hereafter DVD disc to fulfill my expectation of this movie, so I have got something to say in this review.

As I was going to New York on business so I ripped Hereafter DVD to iPhone with a professional DVD to iPhone converter and then I finally had the chance to fully watch this movie on my way train.

What to start for the review? Actually, my head became blank after I finished the 126 minutes watching. The only thing in my head is about what happens when you die, the question inputted to Google search by Marcus, a 12-year-old London twin boy who has lost his brother, who he idolizes and says "Good night" to every night. There are many different answers to this question on Google. But in this movie, it provides some material explanation with no scientific sense.

In Paris, the French television journalist Marie Lelay starts to write a book "Hereafter: A Conspiracy of Silence" after her near-death experience in which she sees a vision of human figures inhabiting a realm of light, among them the silhouettes of the mother and daughter holding hands. In San Francisco, former professional psychic George Lonegan would abandon his old wealthy career and look forward an average life, rather than becoming a genuine medium with a gift for communicating with the dead. He repeats saying "It's not a gift, it's a curse." But the most impressive figure to me in this movie is the little twin boy, Marcus, a clean and lovely boy with limpid eyes. Even though they have an alcoholic and heroin-addicted mother, and have to struggle for living in a despairing circumstance, the angel twins still fell happy and Marcus would always say "Good night" sweetly to his idolized brother. However, the cruel reality envies such simple happiness of the twins; Jasson is hit by a van and killed. And from that day on, the younger Marcus wears his brother's cap, becomes desperate to retrieve his brother and still says "Good night Jasson" to his non-existed brother before sleeping, like nothing has been changed. When Marcus finally talked to his brother with the help of George "don’t go Jason, please, I need you." I can't control my tears any more. What kind of love would be contained in such calling from this little boy?

At last, little Marcus takes off his brother's cap, though still hold it tightly. And George and Marine also get a desired ending in this movie.

If you ask people whether they believe there is an afterlife world, they may be not sure about this. But most people would be sure that their loved ones would not leave them even after death, as they are in the memory of people alive. Maybe that is what this film tries to reveal.


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