Ant-Man

 Released Year: 2015

Directed by Peyton Reed

Casted by:

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man

Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne / Wasp

Corey Stoll as Darren Cross / Yellowjacket

Michael Douglas as Hank Pym

Bobby Cannavale as Paxton

 Story: 

In 1989, scientist Hank Pym resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D. after discovering that they attempted to replicate his Ant-Man shrinking technology. Pym believes the technology is dangerous and vows to suppress it.

In the present day, Pym’s estranged daughter, Hope van Dyne, and protégé, Darren Cross, have forced him out of his own company. Cross is close to perfecting a shrinking suit of his own, the Yellowjacket, which he shows off to a horrified Pym.

Several months after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, well-meaning thief Scott Lang is released from prison. He rejoins his old cellmate, Luis, who tries to recruit Lang into his gang for a burglary, but Lang wants to live an honest life. Lang's ex-wife is engaged to a policeman named Paxton and will not let Lang see his daughter unless Lang provides child support.

Unable to hold down a job due to his criminal record, Lang agrees to Luis' offer. Lang breaks into a house and cracks the safe in the basement, only to find nothing but an old "motorcycle suit" that he takes home. Trying it on and pressing a button on it, he inadvertently shrinks to the size of an insect. Terrified by the experience, he returns the suit, but is arrested on the way out. Pym, the homeowner, visits Lang in jail, posing as a lawyer, and smuggles the suit into Lang's cell to help him break out. Pym manipulated Lang through Luis into stealing the suit as a test, and wants Lang to become the new Ant-Man and steal the Yellowjacket from Cross. Van Dyne has been spying on Cross for Pym, though she still resents her father for not talking about her mother or allowing her to use the suit herself to stop Cross. Pym and van Dyne train Lang to fight and to control ants. They have him steal a device from the Avengers' headquarters, where Lang gets into a fight with Falcon.

Pym tells van Dyne the truth about the death of her mother: she was Pym's counterpart, the Wasp, and sacrificed herself to disable a Russian nuclear missile, in the process disappearing into a subatomic quantum realm. Pym warns Lang he could suffer a similar fate if he overrides his suit's safeguards.

Cross perfects the Yellowjacket suit and invites Pym to the unveiling. Lang, along with his gang and a swarm of flying ants, infiltrates the Pym Technologies building during Cross’ event, sabotages the servers, and plants explosives. When he attempts to steal the Yellowjacket suit, he is trapped by Cross, who had anticipated the theft. Cross, having both the Yellowjacket and Ant-Man suits, sells the technology to Hydra. Lang breaks free of the trap and takes out the Hydra agents. As Cross escapes, the explosives detonates on the chemicals that vaporizes Pym Technologies.

Cross dons the Yellowjacket suit and fights Lang. Lang traps Cross in a bug zapper, but before he can destroy the suit he is arrested by Paxton. Cross takes Lang's daughter hostage to bait Lang. Lang again fights Cross, and shrinks to subatomic size to penetrate Cross' suit and sabotage it. Both Cross and Lang uncontrollably shrink away into the nothingness of the subatomic realm, but Lang perseveres and finds a way to reverse the suit's mechanism, restoring himself to normal size.

In gratitude for Lang's heroism, Paxton covers for Lang to keep him out of prison. Seeing that Lang survived and returned from the quantum realm, Pym wonders if his wife is alive, too. Luis tells Scott that the Avengers are looking for him to join them through an intended tip from Falcon.

In a mid-credits scene, Pym shows van Dyne a prototype of a new Wasp costume, and offers it to her. In a post-credits scene, Wilson and Steve Rogers have Bucky Barnes in their custody. Unable to contact Tony Stark due to "the accords", Wilson states that he knows someone else to contact.

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

One of the Marvel's hero again~ So happy to watch this movie with a comic fans' friend who understand a lot of the original movie and pointed out some part which is a bit weird of this movie. Haha, for me i've no idea about ant-man, except i saw him appear before in the cartoon version. Overall i like the storyline and i m sure they will put ant-man into Avengers soon... 

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

 Released Year: 2010

Directed by Oliver Stone

Casted by:

Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko

Shia LaBeouf as Jacob "Jake" Moore

Josh Brolin as Bretton James

Carey Mulligan as Winnie Gekko

Eli Wallach as Julius Steinhardt

Susan Sarandon as Jake's Mother

 Story:

In 2001, Gordon Gekko is released from prison after serving eight years for insider trading and securities fraud. Seven years later, Gekko is promoting his new book Is Greed Good? - warning about the coming economic downturn. His estranged daughter, Winnie, runs a small news website and is dating Jacob Moore, a top proprietary trader at Keller Zabel Investments (KZI). Jacob is a protégé of managing director Louis Zabel, and is trying to raise money for a fusion research project which would create massive amounts of clean energy for the world.

After Keller Zabel's stock loses more than 50% of its value, Louis Zabel tries to arrange a bailout for KZI from other Wall Street banks but is blocked by Bretton James, head of rival firm Churchill Schwartz, which Louis Zabel had refused to bail out eight years earlier. The next morning Louis Zabel kills himself by jumping in front of a subway train because he cannot handle the stress and embarrassment of losing his company. Distraught, Jacob proposes marriage to Winnie, who accepts. Later, he approaches Gordon Gekko after a lecture. Gekko tells Jacob that Keller Zabel's collapse started when rumors of the company having toxic debt started to spread. Jacob and Gekko arrange a trade: Jacob will try to reconcile Winnie and Gekko's relationship, and Gekko will gather information to destroy Bretton's career to seek revenge for Louis Zabel's suicide.

Aided by Gekko, Moore learns that Bretton James profited from the Keller Zabel collapse. In revenge, he spreads rumors about the nationalization of an African oil field owned by Churchill Schwartz. The company loses $120 million, and Bretton offers Moore a job, which he accepts determined to avenge Zabel. At his new job, Moore convinces Chinese investors to fund the fusion research he has been supporting. Bretton is impressed by Jacob's initiative and is also glad for the new investment.

As the economy starts to crumble, Winnie announces to Moore she is pregnant with a boy, and Bretton reveals to Moore that the Chinese investment is going into solar panels and fossil fuels instead of fusion research, which upsets Moore. Gekko proposes a solution, using a $100 million trust fund account in Switzerland, which Gekko set up for Winnie in the 1980s, to fund the research and save the company. She signs the money over to Moore who then entrusts it to Gekko to legitimize the funds for investment in the fusion research company. However, the money never arrives, and Gekko betrays his daughter and Moore by leaving the country with Winnie's $100 million. Jacob realizes that Gordon Gekko has been using him to get the money in the account for his own gain. Distraught, Jacob confesses to Winnie that he had been secretly meeting with Gekko. Winnie then asks Jacob to leave as she neither trusts him nor feels safe around him. Jacob leaves and they remain apart for most of Winnie's pregnancy.

Moore tracks Gekko to London where he is running a hedgefund-like financial company with the $100 million. Jacob proposes one last trade: Winnie gets her money back, and Gekko can participate in his grandson's life, yet Gekko refuses. Moore pieces together everything from Keller Zabel's collapse to the economic bailout of Bretton's company and gives the information to Winnie, telling her that revealing it will bring her website publicity and credibility. Winnie runs the story, and Bretton James is exposed. The investors leave Bretton and go to Gekko on the back of his $1.1 billion return as Bretton finds himself under intense legal scrutiny by the government. As Jacob finds Winnie in New York, Gekko appears and tells them that he deposited $100 million into the fusion research's account anonymously. He apologizes to Jacob and Winnie, who then reconcile. One year later, Gekko is seen at his grandson Louis ('Louie') first birthday party along with Jacob's mother and Jacob and Winnie's friends.

L² Scored: 4/10

L² Comment: 

I have been wanting to watch this movie few years ago and finally i found it. As the movie goes on, i slowly doze off into sleep and finally i realize this is not the movie that i would like to watch even though my fav Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf is here... The storyline is a bit bored and i...i...i dont really understand a lot of the things inside lol~

Basic Instinct

Released Year: 1992
Directed by Paul Verhoeven

Casted by:
Michael Douglas as Detective Nick Curran
Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell
Jeanne Tripplehorn as Dr. Beth Garner
George Dzundza as Gus
Story:

When rock star Johnny Boz, is brutally stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex, homicide detective Nick Curran is sent to investigate. The only suspect is Catherine Tramell, a crime novelist who was the last person to be seen with Boz on the night he died. Nick and his partner, Gus Moran, visit her Pacific Heights mansion, but they find only Catherine's lesbian lover, Roxy, who sends them to Catherine's Stinson Beach house. When they ask Catherine about her relationship with Boz, she shows little emotion at hearing he is dead. Nick and Gus, along with their superiors, discover that Catherine has written a novel about a former rock star who was killed in the same way as Boz. During questioning at police headquarters, Catherine engages in provocative behavior, refusing to extinguish her cigarette and uncrossing her legs under her short skirt, revealing she isn't wearing underwear.

Nick, who accidentally shot two people while high on cocaine, attends counseling sessions with police psychologist Dr. Beth Garner , with whom he has had an affair. After the interrogation, Nick goes to a bar with co-workers and is taunted by Lt. Marty Nilsen, an internal affairs investigator bent on making life difficult for Nick. When Beth arrives, Nick leaves with her, and they have rough sex in her apartment. Nick learns that Catherine has a troubled history: Her parents were killed when she was an adolescent, leaving her a fortune; one of her college counselors was also murdered with an ice pick; and that her fiancé, a boxer, was killed in the ring. He also discovers that Catherine makes a habit of befriending murderers, including a woman who stabbed her husband and children for no apparent reason.

During a visit to her house, Catherine taunts Nick with information that should be confidential. As a police psychologist, Beth is the only person with access to that information. When Nick confronts Beth, she admits that she handed his file to Nilsen, who threatened to discharge Nick if he couldn't evaluate him directly. An enraged Nick storms into Nilsen's office, assaults him, and accuses him of having sold Nick's file to Catherine. Nilsen then suspends Nick, who goes home, spending the evening drinking. Beth visits him, but after a heated argument, he throws her out. Later that night, Nilsen is found in his car, dead from a single gunshot to the head. Because of their recent altercation, Nick is the prime suspect.

A torrid affair between Nick and Catherine begins with the air of a cat-and-mouse game. Catherine explains that she will base her next novel's character—a cop falling for the wrong woman only to be killed by her—on Nick, while at the same time he declares his love for her and his unchanged intention to nail her for Boz's murder.

A jealous Roxy tries to run Nick over with Catherine's car, but after a car chase she is killed in a crash. Her death reveals that she too had a murderous past. After Roxy's death, Catherine seems genuinely saddened, and Nick begins to doubt her guilt. Catherine later reveals that a previous lesbian encounter at college went awry when the girl became obsessed with her. Nick identifies the girl as Beth Garner, who acknowledges the encounter, but claims it was Catherine who became obsessed.

When he visits Catherine, she explains that she has finished her book, and coldly ends the affair. Upset, Nick meets Gus, who has arranged to meet with Catherine's college roommate at a hotel. As Nick waits in the car, Gus enters the hotel and is stabbed in the elevator by a hooded figure, in the way described in Catherine's new book. Nick figures out there is trouble brewing and runs into the building, but he arrives too late to save Gus. Hearing the floor creak, Nick grabs Gus' gun and turns to find Beth standing in the hallway, explaining she received a message to meet Gus there. However, Nick suspects that she murdered Gus, and as Beth moves her hand in her pocket, he shoots her. With her final breath, Beth tells Nick that she loved him. A dejected Nick checks her pocket, only to find her keys. The police arrive, and in a staircase discover a blond wig, a SFPD raincoat, and an ice pick, the weapon used to murder Gus, concluding that Beth ditched the items when she heard Nick coming up. A search of Beth's apartment turns up the evidence needed to brand her as the killer of Boz, Gus, Nilsen, and presumably her own husband—the matching revolver, Catherine's novels, and photos chronicling the writer's life.

Nick returns to his apartment, where he is met by Catherine. She explains her reluctance to commit to him, but then the two make love. Afterward, the conversation turns toward their possible future as a couple. While talking, Nick turns his back on Catherine as she slowly reaches for something underneath the bed. She stops when Nick senses her stillness; he looks around with distrust in his eyes, and she throws her arms around him and the two resume making love as the camera slowly pans down to show what she was reaching for under the bed: an ice pick.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

The legendary film which we should never miss in our life. Sharon Stone flawless face and juicy body make no man to resist her including the good looking Michael Douglas :) Stone's pussy has been the classic which make no one in this earth will ever forget~

But the best part will be the car chasing down the hill, kinda exciting and nice.