Romeo and Juliet: 1996 IMDB: 6.8 Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (as Romeo), Claire Danes (as Juliet) It's the film version of the Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet". I'm sure everyone pretty much knows the story so I'm going to keep it short. It's about the unapproachable love of Romeo and Juliet. The movie has similar lines to the play. Old English is used just like it is in Shakespeare's plays. Personal Thoughts: I don't know if it was because the language or because the movie is so old but it didn't effected me as much as new movies. There were lots of romantic lines but I didn't feel like it was romantic. Maybe it's because I believe it sounded cheesy and fake. I don't know. I've learned some things about the usage of language from this movie since my first language is not English. T he only thing made this movie good was Leonardo DiCaprio. (seriously, he makes everything better) I didn't really like that they loved each other at the first sight. It seems like they only liked each other's looks. They didn't really know each other and died for each other anyway. I first thought it was a comedy version or something because the first scenes are just ridiculous to me. I don't know. Maybe someone who likes romance more than me would've liked it but I just watched it for the Leonardo scenes. (hehe) fun fact: Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes hated each other in real life. quotes (warning: extreme level of cheesiness)
Catch Me if You Can: 2002 IMDB: 8 Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio (as Frank William Abagnale Jr.), Tom Hanks (as Carl Hanratty) It's the true story of a professional liar. Frank, earns his life by faking his profession whenever and whatever he wants. It's the biographical movie of him. The FBI agent that tracks Frank is Carl Hanratty. This whole lying game of Frank is to prove Carl that he cannot be caught. The whole situation turns into a cat and mouse thing. Personal Thoughts: I had a really great time watching the movie just like other movies I've written about. As I said before, Leonardo Di Caprio is one of my favourite actors and in this movie he's as awesome as he always was. Only the childhood scenes aren't that realistic because of Leonardo's age I guess. I enjoyed watching the games that they played to each other. I was surprised by how Frank always got away with everything. I think he's a true genius in real life and that makes the character even more charismatic. Ok, enough with the character. The whole pattern of events were surprising and funny sometimes. I recommend this movie to everyone who wants to enjoy their time. quotes
IMDB: 8.1 Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio (as Teddy Daniels), Mark Ruffalo (as Chuck Aule) The atmosphere of the movie was the same right from the beginning. It was all moody, dark and strange like something bad was gonna happen any second. It started as two US marshals (Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule) investigating a place called "ash cliff" because of the strange absence of a patient there. Ash cliff is a place where they keep mentally ill criminals. Rachel Solando, the patient who went missing, suddenly appeared without any sign of running away. Teddy suspected strange things such as Rachel having no shoes while she ran away and no mark on her feet. Since the weather was bad the Marshals decided to stay there for a while. Teddy explained his partner how he had been searching for Ash cliff and found out they've been doing lobotomy to the patients. That was the reason he took this case in the first place. His partner thought it was too easy. once he started to find out about ash cliff, all of a sudden there was a strange case. what if all of these were an act just to prevent Teddy spreading the information about ash cliff to the world? They try to make Teddy go insane by acting as if he was insane. This way, they can apply lobotomy on him and prevent the secret informations to be known. I'm not gonna tell the most important part of the movie just to not spoil it :) Personal Thoughts: I first saw this movie when I was 10 but couldn't watch it because I used to get scared so easily. I was in 8th grade when I first got the courage to actually watch it and I loved it because of the whole atmosphere and the ending. I personally love when it rains and the island were ash cliff was (shutter island) was so cool like there was just one building on the whole island (actually it looked more like a castle. It was the asylum) and the rest of it was all forest. The Rachel Solando case was mysterious also she was a scary character herself. Still I liked that she was scary haha:) Leonardo Di Caprio was a perfect fit to the character. The ending just mixes everything up and you find out nothing you've seen in the movie was true. shutter island quotes
