Friday, October 30, 2009

Gladiator














Betrayed Roman General who fight as a armed combatant in the Roman Republic to win his past.this Film, would be lifetime best movie. Gladiator earned $34.82 million on its opening weekend at 2,938 U.S. theaters. Within two weeks, the film's box office gross surpassed its $103,000,000 budget.The Battle of Germania was cited by CNN.com as one of their "favorite on-screen battle scenes"The film continued on to become one of the highest earning films of 2000 and made a worldwide box office gross of $457,640,427, with over $187 million in American theaters and more than $269 million overseas













AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains
50th best Hero character (General Maximus Decimus Meredius)

BAFTA Awards
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Film
Best Production Design

London Film Critics Circle
Actor of the Year (Russell Crowe)

2001 American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards
Best Edited Feature Film — Dramatic

5th Art Directors Guild Awards
Excellence in Production Design Award, Feature Film — Period or Fantasy Films

4th Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
Best Costume Design
Best DVD
Best Editing
Best Score
Best Visual Effects

73rd Academy Awards
Best Picture
Best Actor (Russell Crowe)
Best Visual Effects
Best Costume Design
Best Sound

4th Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
Best Costume Design
Best DVD
Best Editing
Best Score
Best Visual Effects

Monday, October 26, 2009

Blood Diamond


Action Film about a life of Care taking father in African War Zone.directed by Edward Zwick,starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. It has mixture of love, affection, struggle, Search, adventure,atrocities, war,action.fisherman Solomon
Vandy lives in a rebel zone and wants his Son to be doctor in future, but his dreams get hit when rebel attack their Village, and take Solomon Vandy as a Slave to work in their Diamond fields.At there he Finds a rare pink diamond.field gets invaded by
government troops and jails Vandy.In jail fellow mates came to know about Pink Diamond and Danny Archer(Leonardo DiCaprio) deals with Vandy in exchange of diamond with his missing family.with the heip of journalist Maddy Bowen(Jennifer Connelly)finds his family and shocked when he came to know his son Dia Vendy joined the rebel forces.Then he tries to pull his son from the rebel world, He tries to convince his son by ""Dia, What are you doing? Dia! Look at me, look at me. What are you doing? You are Dia Vendy, of the proud Mende tribe. You are a good boy who loves soccer and school. Your mother loves you so much. She waits by the fire making plantains, and red palm oil stew with your sister N'Yanda and the new baby. The cows wait for you. And Babu, the wild dog who minds no one but you. I know they made you do bad things, but you are not a bad boy. I am your father who loves you. And you will come home with me and be my son again."" after many Barricades he Succeeds finally, at last with the help pf Bowen Vandy exchanges pink Diamond for £2,000,000 and starts a new life in London. Later Bowen exposes the trade in her magazine.The review congregator site Rotten Tomatoes shows a 63% rating, with 127 favorable reviews out of 203, and an average rating of 6.4/10.Richard Roeper gave the film four stars, calling for it to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. Both Djimon Hounsou and Leonardo DiCaprio have been nominated and won many awards for their performances.Blood Diamond was nominated for five Academy Awards,with 5 wins & 14 nominations.Overall the film is extremely good performance of two actors.