Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing: 1987

Cast: Patrick Swayze (as Johnny Castle), Jennifer Gray (as Baby)

IMDB: 6.9

Dirty Dancing starts off by presenting the whole scene of a summer vacation place for mostly families. Baby, (that's strangely what they call Frances) comes to the vacation centre with her family and coincidentally gets to see the "behind the scenes" part of the organisation and how the workers are treated there. They are obligated to entertain no matter what and money surely is an important factor on that. Other than entertaining for money, they dance in a place secretly. This kind of dance is called dirty dancing which is not the kind of dance they would want their guests to see. One day when one for the workers gets pregnant and can't dance or pay the money for the abortion, Baby helps her with both. She pays the money and she learns how to dance for her shows by the help of Johnny Castle. Even if they're from completely different social groups, they fall in love. It's about breaking the labels that the society put on us.

Personal Thoughts: I liked the whole thing but to be honest, I liked the dances more. They were absolutely awesome and it was hard not to get jealous of their skills. Even if you don't like the movie which I'm pretty sure you will, the dances are so good that it'll make up for it. Plus it's a classic and who doesn't love classics? (cough me cough) I don't actually enjoy a lot of classics for example the horrible Anna Karenina. I liked the cast and I thought I'd like it because it was a classic and all but I sometimes, well, most of the times, have a hard time liking the classics. Any way I liked this one so I think even for spending your free time it's a good choice to just go for it and watch it.

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Edge of Seventeen

Edge of Seventeen: 2016

Cast: Hailee Steinfield (As Nadine), Woody Harrelson (As the teacher), Blake Jenner (as Darian), 

IMDB: 7.5

Nadine goes through all those teenager stuff. She makes wrong decisions and ends up with no one by her side. It's a comedy about how she picks herself up. It's not only a comedy, it's also about seeing the opportunities and separating the right and wrong. Sometimes we can't completely see our options and this movie was educational in that sense.

Personal thoughts: It is good for spending your free time. It's a bit cliché but every movie shows the clichés from different perspectives. Since I'm still a teenager, the same age as Nadine, I can relate to her. For example, when she tries to contact the badass looking guy (I don't even remember his name. Nick?), she's actually just looking for someone to love and someone to love her back. Separating the truth from reality is a bit hard at that stage. When you expect someone to be in a certain way, it's almost unacceptable to find out that they're actually hormonal assholes. I think everyone does that in a way. We always have expectations. The movie was realistic so that's what I liked about it. Also Erwin was great I loved him. He's totally the best friend I would want. I don't get people's obsessions about bad boys, I personally love nerdy, funny, shy characters. Erwin's scenes were the best. I also loved his animations. I'm planning to study graphic design next year and hopefully do animations like that. As I was trying to find a movie to watch, I was in-between this one and Stanford Prison Experiment because I thought both were cool. I chose this one because it was kind of a comedy and I like Hailee Steinfield but now I feel obligated to watch the other one. I feel like I haven't been watching much this year because of the heavy burden of... life? Hopefully I'll have time to watch the other one too. I still don't know why I'm keeping this blog but I feel like my thoughts about movies are something to keep since I'll forget all of these some day.

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Zootopia

Zootopia: 2016

IMDB: 8.1

Voice cast: Shakira (as Gazelle), Ginnifer Goodwin (as Juddy Hopps)

It's a comedy animation movie. The story is about a bunny wanting to be a cop in the future but the society she lives in stereotypes her and expect her to be a farmer like all the other bunnies. The place called Zootopia is known to be the city of freedom where everyone can be anything so she becomes a cop unlike what everyone else thought. When she starts working in Zootopia, still nobody believes in her so they give her easy jobs. While she's on duty, trying to solve a missing animal case to prove herself to everyone, she meets Nick, a fox, and threatens him to cooperate with her to solve the case. While they're investigating, they start to become good friends unlike what society expects.

Personal Thoughts: It was one of the best animations I've watched lately. I used to like Bolt and Little Red Riding Hood a lot but now I like Zootopia too. It was really sweet and funny. I watched it with my friends so we laughed every few seconds. (the sloth scene was the best). Nick's the coolest fox ever. It was genuinely really cute and funny. Also, the ending is totally shocking, I think it's definitely a movie you should watch if you're looking for a cute, funny animation.


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Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane: 2007

IMDB: 7.1

Cast: Anne Hathaway (as Jane Austen), James McAvoy (as Tom Lefroy)

It's a biographical movie about the writer Jane Austen's life. Many of the people didn't believe she could be a writer because of the society's structure in those times and the strict moral rules which were even more clear in the countryside. Jane is stubborn, passionate, scenical and confident. She is confident and brave. She doesn't care about money or men around her unlike the other women. She meets Tom Lerfroy who also happens to be as stubborn and as passionate as her. Their interests differ but they're both strong characters which causes for them to hate each other even before they meet each other. One thing they're strictly different about is morality. Tom, is considered immoral compared to the other people around him. He's careless, wild and as Jane Austen says once, dangerous. But he has an advantage: experience which is something Jane lacks of. They complete each other in a way that no other can understand. No money or status can change. They fall in love not in an easy way. Neither of them has money to live. They have belief in their love but it doesn't last long. The reality hits them and that's how their love dies. It practically never dies (Tom gets married to someone else and calls her first daughter Jane and Jane never gets married.)

Personal Thoughts: It is one of my favourite movies. Anne Hathaway and Tom Leroy was absolutely great. I was in love with them. I was basically fan-girly through the whole movie. It was just perfect. The first scene Tom Leroy was in was really cool I think. They really introduced his character well. I'm glad they chose James McAvoy for the character because he's really cool and handsome and I kinda have a crush on him since X Men. He was the arrogant bad boy of the old times. Their love slowly forms and at first it's kind of invisible but they surely have an attraction. Jane looks for him in everywhere which was one of the best scenes. (after the cricket scene where she kicks Tom's ass) I loved it when Tom suddenly appeared in the dance. I can't really say more than I love the movie. I also watched Pride and Prejudice (which is one of Jane Austen's books) but I liked Becoming Jane more. Maybe it's because of the characters or the events. In Pride and Prejudice, they didn't like each other at first too but in Becoming Jane every emotion was clearly visible. Also I found it really amusing Tom appearing when Jane was gossiping about him. It actually shows how much she cares about him. Like I said, it's one of the movies that really gives the feeling. I made literally everyone around me watch it and no one ever disliked it so I suggest you to watch it too (if you enjoy romance)

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August Rush

August Rush: 2007

IMDB: 7.5

Cast: Freddie Highmore (as Evan Taylor), Robin Williams (as Maxwell Wallace), Keri Russel (as Lyla Novacek), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Louis Connelly)

Evan doesn't have any family. At least he doesn't know them. But he is eager to find them. He runs away from the orphanage to find his family in the city. He follows the sounds and the musici inside his soul. He first finds himself at a church. Then, he finds himself with a thief. The thief literally captures him. He gives him the name August. His last stop happens to be a music academy. He's naturally talented so he doesn't have a hard time to fit in. Maxwell, the thief, tries to sabotage his future in the academy. Still, he doesn't give up from music and wites a song including the whole orchestra. His mom and dad hears the music and in the end, they all see each other like he imagined.

Personal Thoughts: I love Freddie Highmore since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He looks really sensitive in a way and I get really emotional when he acts. The Art of Getting by is a really great movie too. Also, now he's on Bates Motel which is a TV series inspired by the movie Psycho. I think he's really great there. you can clearly see his psychopath self :p Enough about other movies. The reason why I liked this movie was because it is really emotional. I first cried in the beginning when he was in the orphanage. I was twelve years old when I watched it maybe that's the reason I cried, I don't know. If you like music, this movie's theme is all about music. There were sad parts when he was living with Maxwell, those parts reminded me of Oliver Twist for some reason. It's also about the confusing, complicated and most of the time, evil city life. I feel myself drifting most of the time since I live in a big city. In this movie, I can clearly relate to that. The ending seemed a bit fictional but that's okay because it was a good movie.

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Cherrybomb

Cherry bomb: 2009

IMDB: 6

Cast: Kimberley Nixon (as Michelle), Robert Sheehan (as Luke), Rupert Grint (as Malachy)

The movie is about the life of a group of teenagers. The flow of the movie is a bit slow. There are a lot of party scenes. These three teenagers, Malachy, Luke and Michelle, don't really know what to do with their lives. They're all living lives they don't want. All of them have different problems. When Luke and Malachy met Michelle they both liked her and this became a bigger problem at the end of the movie. It affected their friendship. In the end, they understood in a hard way that their friendship was more important than all the other things.

Personal Thoughts: The movie kind of reminded me of "Palo Alto" These movies are not so much entertaining but you still like to watch them. At least I do. After all, I still liked it. The soundtracks and the scenes were good. I liked the random party scenes. Also, Robert Sheehan was great as always. He suits the free, crazy teenager characters. I thought his character Luke was so much like his character Nathan in "Misfits". I was a bit excited to see Rupert Grint but I didn't really like his character Malachy. I don't think Kimberley Nixon was the best choice for the bad girl. She looks and dresses like a good girl. Being bad doesn't look good on her. I wish it was someone like Kaya Scodelario. (Can you tell I like Skins?) In the end, the message was good but I wish they had focused on the friendship more than their relationship with Michelle. They practically drifted apart the moment they saw her. In some scenes, Luke said Michelle was separating them but Malachy was ready to leave Luke alone to go after a girl he doesn't even know. In the last scene, Luke said Malachy would do the same for him but I didn't really believe it. That's the main reason I didn't like Malachy I guess. I also didn't like that two cool guys were trying to prove themselves to a girl that isn't even worth it. But I guess that's close to reality in some cases, although I never had two guys fighting over me. The accents were a bit hard to understand since my first language is not English and I like to watch movies without subtitles. Unlike what everyone says, I'm glad I watched it. I don't show it much but I liked it. It's the kind of movie to watch when it's raining outside. I think it's because the UK always reminds me of rainy weather and the scenes were dark since the kids were partying all night.

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Romeo and Juliet

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.


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