Top 250 Movies http://top250movies.net The Best Movies Around the World Sun, 30 May 2010 12:12:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Up (2009) http://top250movies.net/up-2009/ http://top250movies.net/up-2009/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 11:16:52 +0000 admin http://top250movies.net/?p=719 Director : Pete Docter, Bob Peterson (co-director)

Writer(s) : Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

Genre : Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family

Cast : Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft, John Ratzenberger, David Kaye, Elie Docter, Jeremy Leary, Mickie McGowan, Danny Mann, Donald Fullilove, Jess Harnell, Josh Cooley

Summary : A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South Africa. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocked his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn’t alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world’s second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Runtime : 96 min

Awards : Won 2 Oscars. Another 40 wins & 29 nominations

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Director : Quentin Tarantino

Writer(s) : Quentin Tarantino

Genre : Drama, Thriller, War

Cast : Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Jacky Ido, B.J. Novak, Omar Doom, August Diehl, Denis Menochet, Sylvester Groth


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“Quentin Tarantino’s Masterpiece”

“Inglorious Basterds” just might be Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece. It’s a delirious re-imagining of World War II. A hypothetical “what if” story. Where last year’s “Valkyrie” was based in fact, Tarantino’s film is based in fantasy. It’s a visualization of a conversation most kids have when they first learn about Hitler and the Holocaust. If we were there and given the opportunity to kill Hitler ourselves, how would we do it? I’ve never heard anybody answer that question with as much detail and rich characterizations as Tarantino has done here.

In Tarantino’s version, all his characters are cinema-obsessed fans (like him) who contsantly discuss movies. There’s even a scene where a French cinema owner is polishing the letters on the theatre’s marquee. Tarantino’s mad love of cinema is evident in every frame. So it’s no surprise that Tarantino’s “kill Hitler” scenario involves having Hitler attend the premiere of a new German movie called “Nation’s Pride” in which the theatre is booby-trapped to explode and burn, killing all the highest-ranking officials of the Nazi party at once, effectively ending the war.

Among the conspirators trying to make this happen are a team of Nazi-killing Jews know as The Basterds headed by Brad Pitt in a weird but brilliant performance in which Pitt seems to be channeling Warren Oates. Also part of this team is a character known as “the bear Jew” who kills Nazis with a baseball bat! He is played by Eli Roth, the director of the torture-porn movie “Hostel”, and apparently the director of the movie within this movie, “Nation’s Pride,” the one having the premiere.

Diane Kruger turns in one of her best performances as a German movie star who is acting as a double-agent and is in on the theatre explosion plot. But in the film’s greatest performance is little-known Austrian actor Christoph Waltz as Nazi colonel Hans Landa, a detective for the SS known as “the Jew hunter” with a cold-as-ice interrogation technique. I can’t imagine Waltz not getting an Oscar for this performance. For that matter, the time may finally have arrived for Brad Pitt to win his Oscar. Pitt’s performance here is more than deserving.

Tarantino’s film is like “revenge therapy” for anyone who has ever fantasized about seeing the Nazi party brought to vigilante justice. It’s also a loving homage to cinema and some of the legendary filmmakers of its past. After previous Tarantino brilliance such as “Pulp Fiction” and “Kill Bill”, “Inglourious Basterds” is his crowning achievment.

With the August release of “Inglourious Basterds” we finally have a movie that 2009 can be remembered for.

DVD Double-Feature: To see the movie that influences the cinematic style of ‘Basterds’, check out Sergio Leone’s uncut 165-minute spaghetti-western epic “Once Upon A Time In The West.” Henry Fonda, as a cold-blooded killer, heads an all-star cast that includes Jason Robards, Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale. The film also contains a now-classic score by Ennio Morricone who also contributes music to ‘Basterds’.


Runtime : 153 min

Awards : Won Oscar. Another 56 wins & 54 nominations

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]]> http://top250movies.net/the-twilight-saga-eclipse-official-trailer/feed/ 1 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) http://top250movies.net/the-twilight-saga-eclipse-2010/ http://top250movies.net/the-twilight-saga-eclipse-2010/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:09:04 +0000 admin http://top250movies.net/?p=699 Director : David Slade

Writer(s) : Stephenie Meyer (novel), Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay)

Genre : Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller

Cast : Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Elizabeth Reaser, Peter Facinelli, Gil Birmingham, Christian Serratos, Anna Kendrick, Dakota Fanning, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jodelle Ferland, Julia Jones, Michael Welch, Kirsten Prout, Cameron Bright, Sarah Clarke, BooBoo Stewart, Monique Ganderton, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Jack Huston, Justin Chon, Alex Meraz, Chaske Spencer, Daniel Cudmore, Kiowa Gordon, Leah Gibson, Tinsel Korey, Xavier Samuel, Charlie Bewley, Bronson Pelletier, Tyson Houseman, Ben Geldreich, Justin Rain

Summary : Bella Swan is reunited with the love of her life (and vampire), Edward Cullen. Her life is back to the way it was before the Cullens’ left, except for one major thing. Before Edward left, Bella had not considered Jacob Black (werewolf) her best friend, and she is in vain trying to make Edward and Jacob to make peace and be friends. She is torn between the love she feels for Edward, and the strong friendship between her and Jacob. Can she make them see sense, and can they be good too each other to keep from hurting Bella?And there’s new dangers lurking around in the corners, Seattle is stalked by massmurders beyond humanity. Who’s behond this, and what connection does it have with Bella?

Release Date : 30 June 2010

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