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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Cast Away


In 1995, Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a time-obsessed systems analyst, who travels worldwide resolving productivity problems at FedEx depots. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt), with whom he lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Although the couple wants to get married, Chuck's busy schedule interferes with their relationship. A Christmas with relatives is interrupted by Chuck being summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia. Chuck was actually going to propose to Kelly on New Year's Eve, having given her the ring box as a Christmas present with instructions to not open it until he returned home from his trip.
Flying through a violent storm, his plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Chuck is able to escape the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable raft, but in the process, the raft's emergency locator transmitter breaks off. He clings to the raft, loses consciousness and floats all night before being washed up on an island.
Chuck then travels out into the country to return the unopened FedEx package to its sender. A new Wilson volleyball sits in the front seat next to him. The house at the address is empty, so he leaves the package at the door with a note saying; "This package saved my life. Thank you, Chuck Noland." He then departs and stops at a remote crossroads. A woman passing by in a pickup truck stops to explain where each road leads. As she drives away, Chuck notices an illustration on the back of her pickup truck that is similar to the one on the parcel, revealing that she is the owner of the package. Chuck is left looking down each road, but then he smiles while looking after the departing woman in the truck.

The Last Song

At sixteen, Veronica "Ronnie" Miller (Miley Cyrus) remains as rebellious just like she was the day her parents divorced and when her father evidently moved to Georgia three years ago. Once a classical piano child prodigy under the tutelage of her father, Steve Miller (Greg Kinnear), Ronnie now ignores the instrument and has not spoken with her father ever since he had left. While Juilliard School has been interested in her since she was young, Ronnie had refused to attend.
Now, Steve has the chance to reconnect with his estranged daughter when her mother, Kim Miller (Kelly Preston) sends the rebellious teen and her younger brother, Jonah (Bobby Coleman), to spend the summer with him. Steve, a former Juilliard School professor and concert pianist, now lives a quiet life in Tybee Island, the small beach town in Georgia where he grew up, working on a stained glass window for the local church to replace the one the church lost in a fire. According to the locals, Steve had actually set fire to the church one night.
At his funeral she stands to make a speech but declares that none of the speeches she wrote would ever be able to show how wonderful her father really was. Instead, she plays the piece of music that her father had been writing but had never finished.
At the funeral, while Ronnie is talking to the attendants, she runs into Will. The two begin to reconcile, but are not officially back together again. At the end of the movie Ronnie tells Will that she will be attending Juilliard for the second semester. Will surprises Ronnie by revealing that he will be transferring to Columbia in order to be with her and they share a kiss. The last scene shows her packing up some of her dad's stuff and driving away.

Piranha 3D

Fisherman Matthew Boyd (Richard Dreyfuss) is fishing in Lake Victoria, Arizona when a small earthquake hits, splitting the lake floor and causing a whirlpool. Boyd falls in and is ripped apart by a school of piranhas that emerge from the chasm and ascend the vortex.
Jake Foster (Steven R. McQueen) is admiring attractive tourists as spring break begins. He reunites with his old crush, Kelly (Jessica Szohr) and meets Derrick Jones (Jerry O'Connell), an eccentric pornographer, as well as Danni (Kelly Brook), one of his actresses. Derrick convinces Jake to show him good spots on the lake (Lake Victoria) for filming a pornographic movie.
Julie takes a team of seismologist divers — Novak (Adam Scott), Sam (Ricardo Chavira), and Paula (Dina Meyer) — to the fissure. Both are killed by the piranhas before they can alert the others to the discovery.They take the fish to Carl Goodman (Christopher Lloyd), a marine biologist who works as a pet store owner. He explains that the piranha that they caught is a prehistoric species, long believed to be extinct, which must have been trapped underground for over two million years where they have grown super-aggressive.
Meanwhile, Jake spots Laura and Zane on the island, and forces Derrick to rescue them. Derrick crashes the boat into some rocks, flooding the rooms below deck. Kelly is trapped in the kitchen while Derrick, Crystal, and Drew are thrown from the boat. Crystal is devoured and Drew disappears and is presumed dead. Meanwhile, Danni manages to get a partially eaten Derrick back on board.
Mr. Goodman calls Julie on the radio, and Julie tells him that they seem to have killed the majority of the piranhas. Terrified, Goodman tells her that the reproductive glands on the piranha they obtained were not mature, which mean that the fish they were fighting were only the adolescence. As Novak wonders aloud where the parents are, a huge piranha leaps out of the water and drags him into the water. Then the screen turns black.

Cursed


The film begins when two friends, Jenny Tate (Mýa) and Becky Morton (Shannon Elizabeth), are at a pier and decide to get their fortune told by Zela (Portia de Rossi). She foretells that they will suffer a horrible fate, but they don't believe her and walk away laughing. A little while later, Becky realizes Jenny has disappeared and can't find her on the pier; Becky was driving. One night, while in a car together, Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) and his sister Ellie (Christina Ricci) hit an animal and another car. They attempt to rescue the other driver, Becky Morton, but she is suddenly dragged and eaten by an unknown creature. Jimmy and Ellie are both slashed by the creature's claws. Jimmy starts to believe that the creature was a werewolf, but no one will believe him. He and his sister start to exhibit wolfish tendencies (such as both of them eating raw bacon, Ellie catching a fly in her bare hand, and being attracted to the smell of blood) but Ellie denies it, apparently proving her point by touching a silver picture frame and not getting burned. Jimmy becomes much stronger, as exampled when a bully named Bo (Milo Ventimiglia) forces him to join the wrestling team. He easily defeats three wrestlers, including Bo.
She refuses, and the two fight it out, but her werewolf side only emerges and disappears at small intervals, while he has complete control over his werewolf side and dominates the fight. Jimmy joins in, climbing across the ceiling and biting Jake, distracting him long enough for Ellie to stab him with the silver cake server, badly injuring him. Ellie decapitates Jake with a shovel and breaking the curse on her, Jimmy and their dog. A girl Jimmy likes named Brooke (Kristina Anapau) shows up with their dog, having learned where they live from Bo, who also shows up. Bo and Jimmy are now friends; Jimmy kisses Brooke and walks her home along with Bo. Ellie goes to clean up the mess that is their house.

I Spit on Your Grave Unrated


The film opens with young novelist Jennifer Hills (Sarah Butler) driving to a shop to pick up the keys to a cabin she has rented for a few months and to get directions. She is going to the cabin in the woods down south to write her second novel. On her way to the cabin, she gets lost and pulls into a gas station where she encounters a group of grease heads. She accidentally spills some fluid on the head of the group, Johnny (Jeff Branson), and hits the panic button on her car, scaring him and causing him to spill gasoline all over himself. The other guys make fun of him for getting scared. Jennifer drives off into the gravelly road to the cabin. A few days pass and something strange happens. One night, she begins to hear noises every so often that make her uneasy. Her first visitor is Matthew (Chad Lindberg), who is sent to the cabin to fix the broken toilet.
A month passes before Jennifer returns. She has survived in the woods for a month eating, as she explains later, bugs and other things and has been staying in a run-down house in the woods. She starts playing games with the group who all think Matthew has lost it. Jennifer uses fish hooks to keep Stanley's eyes open while she pulls out a fish and guts it, and spreads the guts in his eyes and face. This is all being recorded on his camera; the same camera he used to film her being raped. The fish guts attract crows, who’s begin to peck on his face and eventually his eyeballs. Andy is tied up lying on a few boards over a bath tub being filled with water.
Jennifer throws in some lye and removes one of the boards, forcing him to use his strength to stay out of the base. Eventually his face hits the base-filled bath tub. Each time he pulls himself up we see his base-burned face, with his tongue dissolved. Johnny is later strung up naked with a bridle in his mouth. Jennifer begins to pull out his teeth one by one with pliers, then takes out his own pistol and forces him to perform fellatio on it, the same as he did to her, and then finally she pulls out hedge clippers and cuts off his penis and sticks it in his mouth, leaving him to bleed to death.