X-Men Origins: Wolverine

 Released Year: 2009

Directed by Gavin Hood

Casted by:

Hugh Jackman as James Howlett / Logan / Wolverine
Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed
Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox
Taylor Kitsch as Remy LeBeau / Gambit
Daniel Henney as Agent Zero
Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson
    Scott Adkins as Weapon XI / Deadpool

 Story:

In 1845, James Howlett, a young boy living in northern Canada, sees his father killed by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. The trauma activates the boy's mutation: bone claws protrude from James' hands, and he kills Thomas, who reveals with his dying breath that he is James' real father. James flees into the forest along with Thomas's son Victor Creed, who is thus James' half-brother. They spend the next century as soldiers, fighting in the Civil War, both World Wars, and the Vietnam War. In 1973, Victor attempts to rape a local village woman, but is stopped after killing a senior officer. James defends his brother, and the two are sentenced to execution by firing squad, which they survive. Major William Stryker approaches them, now in military custody, and offers them membership in Team X, a group of mutants including marksman Agent Zero, swordsman Wade Wilson, teleporter John Wraith, invulnerable Fred Dukes and electropathic Chris Bradley. They join the team, but the group's questionable actions and disregard for human life cause James to leave.

Six years later, James, now going by the name Logan, lives in Canada with his girlfriend, Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). Colonel Stryker locates Logan and warns him that someone is killing members of the team; both Wilson and Bradley are dead. Shortly afterward, Victor murders Kayla and attacks Logan. Stryker offers Logan a way to beat Victor; Logan undergoes an operation to reinforce his skeleton with adamantium, a virtually indestructible metal. Before the procedure, Logan asks for new dog tags inscribed with "Wolverine", based on a story that Kayla told him. Once the procedure is complete, Stryker orders Logan's memory erased, but Logan overhears and fights his way out. As Logan runs, Zero tracks him down, but is killed.

Logan locates Wraith and Dukes and asks them about the location of Stryker's new laboratory, referred to as "The Island". They tell him to find Remy "Gambit" LeBeau, who escaped and knows the location of The Island. Logan and Wraith locate Gambit in New Orleans, but when Logan asks for the Island's location, Gambit suspects he was sent to recapture him and attacks. Outside, Logan finds Victor, who had just killed Wraith and the two fight. When Logan is about to kill Victor, Gambit interrupts, and Victor escapes. Logan and Gambit fight before Logan convinces him he is not working for Stryker. Gambit takes him to Stryker's facility on Three Mile Island. After learning of Stryker's mutant son and believing that he is too emotionally close to the situation, General Munson tries to shut Weapon XI down, but Stryker kills him.

There, Logan learns that Kayla is alive and conspired with Stryker in exchange for her sister's safety. Enraged, Logan leaves. Victor then arrives, demanding the adamantium bonding promised for his service, but Stryker refuses on the basis that Victor would not survive the procedure. Victor attempts to kill Kayla, but Logan hears her screams and returns. Logan defeats and nearly kills Victor. Meanwhile, Stryker activates Weapon XI, a "mutant killer" with the abilities of other mutants bonded to Wade Wilson's body, which Stryker refers to as "the Deadpool".

Kayla and Logan free the imprisoned mutants, and on their escape they are found by Deadpool. Logan holds Deadpool off while the mutants flee. During the escape, Kayla, mortally wounded, decides to stay behind while the party led by Scott Summers is greeted by Professor Charles Xavier, who offers them shelter at his school.

Logan lures Deadpool to the top of one of the plant's cooling towers. Logan is almost killed until Victor intervenes. After a lengthy battle, Logan manages to decapitate Deadpool and kick him into the base of the cooling tower. As he falls, the head fires optic blasts that cause the tower to start falling apart. Victor departs and Logan is saved from the collapsing tower by Gambit. After Logan finds Kayla, Stryker shoots him in the forehead with adamantium bullets, rendering him unconscious. Kayla uses her persuasion powers to make Stryker drop the gun and commands him to "walk until [his] feet bleed" before dying from her wounds. Gambit returns as Logan regains consciousness, but the brain damage caused by the bullets has triggered amnesia. Gambit tries convincing Logan to come with him, but he declines, wanting to go his own way.

  L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

This should be my most favorite X-men movie up to date. This talks about how Wolverine came from and of course some other minors characters including Cyclops and Gambit. Liev Schreiber totally stole my breath away by acting in Victor. Hugh Jackman's nice ass is an attractive point but the character wise is not as attractive as Liev. Overall its a movie which you should never miss if you are a big fans of X-men.

John Carter

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by Andrew Stanton

Casted by:
Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
Lynn Collins as Dejah Thoris
Samantha Morton as Sola
Willem Dafoe as Tars Tarkas
Mark Strong as Matai Shang
Ciarán Hinds as Tardos Mors
Dominic West as Sab Than

Story:

After a brief introduction establishing that Mars is not a "dead planet", but rather a dying one inhabited by warring civilizations with great airships, the film begins in 1881 with news of the sudden death in Richmond, Virginia, of John Carter, a former Confederate Army cavalry officer, who has become an eccentric and wealthy scholar-adventurer. The arrival of his nephew Edgar "Ned" Rice Burroughs at his "Uncle Jack's" funeral reveals that, in accordance with his own instructions, Carter's body has been put in a mausoleum, which can only be unlocked from the inside. The estate's attorney hands over Carter's personal journal for Ned to read, in the hope that he may discover the reason for Carter's strange behavior and death.

The film flashes back to 1868 and to the Arizona Territory, where Carter is prospecting for gold and having violent encounters with both the 7th Cavalry and the local Apache Indians. After fleeing from both, he shelters in a cave with Colonel Powell, one of his pursuers, and discovers a large quantity of gold. A strange figure (later revealed to be a White Martian Thern) suddenly materializes in the cave; Carter kills him and, due to the stranger's medallion, is inadvertently teleported to Barsoom (Mars). There, due to his high bone density and the planet's low gravity, Carter is able to jump fantastically high and throw killer punches. He is soon captured, however, by the giant, four-armed Green Martian Tharks under the rule of Jeddak (King) Tars Tarkas.

Elsewhere on Barsoom, the Red Martian cities of Helium and Zodanga have been at war for a thousand years. Sab Than, Jeddak of Zodanga, is now armed with a special weapon (the "Ninth Ray") given to him by the Therns, and proposes a cease-fire and an end to the war by marrying the Princess of Helium Dejah Thoris. The defiant Princess escapes and is rescued by Carter. Carter, Dejah and Tarkas's secret daughter Sola embark on a quest descending the sacred River Iss to find a way for Carter to return home. There they find information about the Ninth Ray, the medallion, and the process by which the Therns teleport ("telegraph") from planet to planet, but they are attacked by the Thern leader Matai Shang and his minions, the Green Martians of Warhoon. After the attack, Carter is captured and taken back with Dejah, while Sola is able to escape. Dejah grudgingly agrees to marry Sab Than, then gives Carter his medallion and tells him to go back to "Jarsoom" (Earth). Carter decides to stay back and is now captured by the shape-shifting Shang, who tells him about the secret purposes of the god-like Therns and their age-old manipulations of the histories of civilizations on different planets. Carter is able to make yet another escape, and he and Sola go back to the Tharks and ask for their help. There they come to know that Tarkas has been overthrown as Jeddak by the vicious Tal Hajus. Tarkas, Carter, and Sola are subjected to a gladiatorial contest with two gigantic white Martian apes. After defeating them and killing Hajus, Carter is acclaimed leader of the Tharks. A vast Thark army, with Carter at its head, advances on Zodanga, then on Helium, and defeats the Zodangian army, killing Sab Than. Carter then marries Dejah himself and becomes Jeddak of Helium. That night, Carter decides to stay forever on Mars and throws away his medallion. Seizing this opportunity, Shang re-emerges from hiding and banishes him to Earth.

Resuming the original framing story, it is revealed that Carter has undertaken a ten year long quest, looking for clues of the Therns' presence on Earth and hoping to find another medallion. His sudden "death" and unusual funeral arrangements would seem to indicate that he has succeeded and returned to Barsoom, leaving his "Earth body" in a coma-like state. His presence on Mars was via a sort of virtual body, and the death of his Earth body would end his life on both planets. He has made Ned his protector, giving him clues about how to open the mausoleum. Ned now hastens to the mausoleum, opens it, but finds no body. He has been covertly stalked by a Thern. As the would-be assassin prepares to strike, Carter suddenly reappears and kills him. Carter discloses to Ned that he never found any medallion, but instead laid a clever trap for a Thern. Carter now takes the Thern's medallion, invokes the necessary code words, and is instantly teleported to Mars, to resume his Barsoomian life with Dejah.

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

Well, the trailer is definitely better than the movie. John Carter is a series of novel from Edgar Rice Burroughs in between 1912-1943. A very very old novel which i never read before, but i believe it should be good during that time. But i wonder why nobody ever film this great novel until now. 

The thing that i not really like is the pace of the movie, it has been dragy and slow. I think it would be better if the production spice up the story and create the climate more than this. Other than this, Lynn Collins is very hot, i'm going to search for her other series/movies :)

John Tucker Must Die

Released Year: 2006
Directed by Betty Thomas

Casted by:
Jesse Metcalfe as John Tucker
Brittany Snow as Kate Spencer
Arielle Kebbel as Carrie Schaffer
Ashanti as Heather
Sophia Bush as Beth
Penn Badgley as Scott Tucker
Story:

John Tucker is the hottest guy in high school with a good looking face, hot body and a talent in basketball. But John is a playboy and he has a lot of girlfriends whom are Carrie, a chronic overachiever who spends her life in extracurricular clubs and working on her college application; Heather, the pretty head cheerleader of the school; Beth a vegan activist who is a slut. John tells these 3 girls that his dad does not allow him to has a girlfriend during highschool, so he wants them to keep the relationship in a secret.

On one volleyball session, the girls discover about it and fight, this has cause Kate involved in the detention class as well. Kate got the chance to meet Scott, John's younger brother who is cute but not as attractive as John. The three girls were still arguing who should be with John then Kate voice up her thoughts and ideas. She told the girls not to be fooled by John anymore but to live in their own life. The three girls decided and decide to take revenge on John.

First, Beth brought John for being a part time model and put him in the advertisement of genital herpes. But this has not ruined his reputation, but his modeling adv has make him more popular instead. Heather then put in some estrogen in John's protein powder and cause him to act a bit sissy. John broke into tears during a match and Carrie shot it down with video. Just when the 3 girls thought John will scare all the girls away, they are wrong. All the girls think that John is sentimental and willing to sleep with him.

Out of idea, they asked Kate to hurt John's heart instead. Three of them use all they have to train Kate into a hot babe and taught her how to tackle John. John immediately got hooked up. He was so crazy for Kate till he promised to wear only a girl panties and climb into Kate's room. But Kate purposely give the wrong direction and John ended up in the teacher's room. Everyone in the hostel know John wear girl's thong. Surprisingly, all the guys admire John and think he's a real dude for being brave enough to wear a girl's thong. After that, all the guy wear woman's thong.

Scott and Kate's mother found out that Kate is playing a fool at John, try to talk her out from this but rejected by Kate. John invited Kate out in a cruise for a drink and gave her a watch and ask her to become his girlfriend. Kate fell in love with John. To stop this, Carrie record John's real purpose by camera of him giving the watch is to sleep with Kate. Kate is furious and decided to tell everyone during John's birthday that he has been in a fool. The crowd get angry and throw stuff at Kate. The three girls came up and protect Kate but was throw by thrash too.

In the end, John told everyone that he realized that he should not lie to get girls. Everyone accepted and happily throwing cake at each other. Everything gone back into normal and Scott finally brave enough to date Kate's out.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Whoever say Jesse Metcalfe is not hot, please put your hands up!!! Haha, i think no one will say "no" right? Beside that, i kinda like Penn Badgley too, think he's quite cute though he doesn't have much scene in the movie.

Love the film, easy, laughable, cool~ Highschool kinda film is always nice and u can see all the actors and actresses are energetic, love it. How i wish i can go back to school now~