Kinda late... but I just saw Eagle Eye the movie

Do you wake-up every morning and immediately look for your laptop to either check-out mails or read the day’s news? To tell you honestly, I do. Let me also divulge to you the fact that I seldom walk the street instead use my wheels to go just to the next street to pick-up some stuff for my new phone. Well, definitely, I depend too much on the technology that we enjoy today. I somehow see myself on the society, on some of the characters actually, from the movie Eagle Eye. These people depend on technology too much, like they develop a very natural way of living in the community with technologies on their hands. Initially, I got interested to sit down and watch the whole film because I knew that it wasn’t a classic, traditional movie that makes me sleep all the way on the couch. Newly invented and astonishing gadgets really caught my attention. But as I started seeing the movie, I was a bit curious what the heck is the relationship of modern technology to the title. I became more excited to finally discover the answer to this one. Can you guess? I bet not. Because even I, myself didn’t get it right for the first few minutes of watching that silver screen.

What fascinated me more is the significant role of Shia LaBeouf in the movie as a very mysterious man who belongs to the society but as I did mention, mysterious… enigmatic in a sense. As series of events went on, I was dazed by La Beouf’s capacity of being a one day advanced person. What am I trying to say? Well, can you imagine a person who knows everything and has contacts anywhere? This man can always be heard over the phone. But eventhough he can’t always be seen physically by the community, even I dread him for that matter. When we take a closer look at LaBeouf and on what he can possibly do, we definitely know the answer now to our previous curiosity. Metaphorically, he’s the eagle eye. Would anyone want an eagle? I bet nobody would. Even in my own room, I don’t like to have any of these eyes, no matter how good they are.

If you think that LaBeouf’s unique ability is the highlight of the story, well, there’s more. Ironically, this perfectly invented machine took an advantage on the people who made him, instead of the fact that people should have been the ones who took advantage on him. It’s like being stabbed at your back by your own hands, right? The movie reaches its peak and I could hardly take my eyes and entire concentration on the screen. I was too excited on what will happen next. This movie really made my day. And in fact, telling these things to you about the film even makes me feel good. It’s as if I want to go and see the movie again and check if I missed some important and exciting details that I should have told you. To continue, LaBeouf made his way and dismantled the whole community. How strange it is to finally realize that ironically, people make things in the intention of being protected by those but instead, their lives are being destroyed by their inventions. Perhaps, like any other good movies, this film tells us something essential to our actions and even attitude toward depending on modern culture that we have now.
Eagle Eye is indeed a big success. It makes sense.. not only for my eyes, but I’m pretty sure, for yours too.

Tropic Thunder Movie Review

I didn’t expect Tropic Thunder would offer one hell of a trip. I expected it to be funny, but not so hilarious like I want to jump up and down in my seat, which I almost did by the way. Unlike other war movies, Tropic Thunder put me on the verge of tears not because my favorite character got his head blown off, but because my head almost got blown off because of laughing so hard. And if Jack Black and Ben Stiller—together in the same movie—are not enough reasons for you to see this movie, take in Robert Downey Jr. And not just the Regular Downey Jr., but Downey Jr. playing black man. And a black soldier at that.

At first the plot sounded simple enough, and I thought I would be subjecting myself to the typical Jack Black character, you know, the doobie-smoking, hight-pitched-dialogue singing, rock music-nut blabbermouth. But he, as well as the other characters, seriously offered more than I expected or hoped for. And the movie got me hooked the moment I sat in my seat and throughout the end.

The plot of the movie is actually about three actors wanting to make, and star in, their own war movie to revive their acting careers. On that premise alone, you know something is bound to go crazy along the way. And what happens to these three friends trumps the kind of crazy in your mind. In the course of their production, they suddenly find themselves caught up in an actual war which makes them go nuts. Their pursuit for survival now not only pertains to their acting careers, but their own lives as their decisions only aggravate their already sorry situation.

The twists and turns of the movie, and its structure of being a frame story kind of reminds you of a Shakespearean comedy with a lot of confused characters running around and making unbelievably stupid decisions. And come on, Robert Downey Jr. as a black soldier, you got to love to see that.

But what makes it better than an actual Shakespearean comedy is the use of absurdly witty dialogue. Shakespeare’s great and all that, but all those old English exchange of lines are a bore sometimes. But imagine the always hyper Jack Black arguing with the ever stupid-looking Ben Stiller about saving their necks. I’ve never seen three actors click together so naturally, until I saw this movie. Everything is so unbelievable, yet believable because of those three. I mean, there came a point in the movie where I actually thought it actually happened to them. Just because they act naturally silly.

And as if the side-splitting exploits of those three weren’t enough, the movie threw in couple more eye candies that are Tom Cruise and Matthew McConaughey. With an all-star cast, a crazily funny plot, and clever dialogue well-blended out in a two-hour flick, I’m sure you’ll be a happier man when you go out of the theater for seeing this movie.