Morning Glory

Morning Glory is a lighthearted comedy about a producer who finds herself in a difficult position as a producer of a failing Breakfast TV news show.  I would not usually be suckered into watching this kind of movie but I thought Rachel McAdams was cute so I didn't mind.  The movie has the predictable overcoming all odds sort of story line and a few good laughs sprinkled throughout the movie.  It made for a pretty enjoyable experience.  Harrison Ford is getting old though haha, he looked a lot better a few years ago in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

World Invasion (Battle: Los Angeles)

I always find a movie more enjoyable when I stay away from any hype surrounding it.  Also, watching trailers can often ruin a movie for me.  I had neither any hype nor any idea of what this movie would be like.  I guess it helped to know that it got bad reviews.  I didn't think this movie warranted the bad reviews it got.  The basic story is that aliens invade earth and come to take our water as it is a resource that they want.  They come violently, taking offensive action against the world's major coastal cities.  It was a basic war movie when it came down to it.  I guess my only complaint would be that the aliens didn't really have any special powers, they might as well have been humans fighting humans.  The movie was action packed and although it was predictable at times it always kept you on edge, not really knowing what's up next.  Also if you thought Transformers was a movie that was a major military propaganda tool then you'd be in for a surprise because this movie bleeds pro-marine agenda all over it.  This movie was fun for the action and CG these days is so incredibly believable.  I don't think at any point in the movie did my brain decide that the aliens were computer generated.

The Edge (Край)

First off I guess I skipped out on watching Black Swan, I'm not so great with watching that kind of movie these days.  My friend Mark is a big movie guy and since it's his last week of freedom before he starts work next week we decided to meet up to watch a movie from the Hong Kong International Film Festival.  There were too many choices so we ended up choosing a random movie that would be convenient to go to both in terms of location and time.  We didn't really look too much into this movie, but a quick look at it's wiki shows that it won a nomination for best foreign language film at the Golden Globe awards.

Knowing little about the movie we wondering why it got the category III rating (equivalent to being R-rated).  Thankfully there wasn't any sort of uber-violence though, just a few nude ladies.  The story looks at the main character after WWII.  After finishing his duties at the frontline of war Ignat is hired to work as a train mechanic at a Gulag.  From here on the story is rather complicated to describe though.  However it is pretty interesting.  With nothing much to do at the Gulag most of the story focusses on Ignat's obsession with trains.  It also focuses on the Russian's hatred of a German girl who Ignat finds while trying to recover an old train and Ignat's efforts to protect her.  High production values make for a very believable movie. The story of a protagonist protecting someone from discrimination is uplifting as she finds a way to live without hatred in her life in the end.

The King's Speech

I must say I was a little disappointed about this one, I guess that's what hype does to any movie.  It's not a bad movie but I guess it didn't really move me that much.  The story is about King George VI who had a speech impediment and his struggle to overcome it so that he could make speeches, made necessary by his role.  Not to say that it isn't an inspiring story, it's always great to see someone come through after their struggles.  The acting was also good, I don't know, I guess I was looking for that extra bit of sparkle.