Movie Reviwe 2-4

"Mrs.Doubtfire"(1993)

Daniel Hillard is an unsuccessful actor. Daniel has no job and no money, but he treats his small children very kindly because they mean so much to him. His wife, Miranda, who has been disquieted him since long time ago.
One day, Daniel and Miranda held a party on their son's birthday. The party should be a very delightful one, however, Daniel caused a big trouble that is bad enough to break his own son's spirit. At same night, Miranda bids good-bye to her marriage, which means Daniel and Miranda won't be live together anymore. The children were handed over to their Miranda because the mother makes money more than the father does. In addition, court decided that Daniel was not allowed to see his children more than once a week. Needless to say, he felt it is the end of world because the kids are very important to him.
Several days later, Daniel found a ad during he's reading the news paper. The ad says, Miranda needs a babysitter to take care her kids and it has to be a woman. As soon as Daniel read the ad, he got a plan. He asked his older brother to make him up as an old England lady so he can become a babysitter to see his children again. Finally, Daniel was employed and Miranda doesn't know who she really is. Daniel called himself Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire because he found article in new paper which says "Doubt Fire".
I remember very clearly that I have watched this movie when I was young as Daniel's children. I knew nothing about Robin Williams at that time, but I really enjoyed his funny acting. Robin Williams also appeared in a great comedy movie called "The Fathers Day" with Billy Crystal. Both of them are my favorite actors.
Another famous actor who acted in this movie is Pierce Brosnan. He is known as James Bond among movie fans, but he appeared in this "Mrs. Doubtfire" before he got his fame by playing in 007 movies. I believe that many people in Japan don't know that Mr. Brosnan played the main character in a famous drama series named "Remington Steele".

Book Review 2-3

"Jurassic Park III"

The other day, I read a book called “Jurassic Park III”. This book is based on a movie which was directed by Steven Spielberg in 2001. Story is almost same as the movie, but I have found some differences and I prefer the movie.
The story is about two researchers and one family who got lost in an eerie island. They try to find a missing boy, but they were attacked by many kinds of dinosaurs instead. The two researchers, who named Alan and Billy, finally found that the island was a secret base which was used by someone to raise dinosaurs.
Sam Neil played the main character, Dr. Alan Grant. It has been almost ten years since he last acted as the same character in “Jurassic Park” in 1991. The missing boy’s father was played by William H. Macy. He is also a very talented actor. I liked him in a suspense movie called “The Fargo”.
I believe that the most impressive scene in “Jurassic Park III” is a fight between tyrannosaurus and spinosaurus. Computer graphics were very amazing, but it is the accepted view that tyrannosaurus was a fish-eating dinosaurs, so the scene was a wrong idea.

Book Review 2-7

Rain Man
Barry Morrow

Charlie is an automobile dealer who stormed out of his home when he was a young guy. He has been stressful because his business is not going well as he expected in these days. His girlfriend, Susanne, worries about him but she does not know how to help him. One day, Charlie got a mail which says his father was dead few days ago. As soon as he got the mail, Charlie decided to back home because he thought his father left some slices of the inheritance. Soon Charlie found that the all of inheritance will be hundred to his older brother, Raymond. He was very surprised because he even did not know that he has an older brother. Charlie also disappointed by knowing that Raymond is an autistic man. Few days later, Charlie headed to facility to bring his brother out and accept the inheritance instead of him.
I saw this movie a couple years ago and I was impressed. I want to get DVD someday.

Movie Reviwe 2-3

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

In a big city named Verona, two konzerns called Montague and Capulet are opposed to each other since long time ago. The young people in the streets are also always fighting because Montague and Caplet. However, Romeo, the son of Montague is not interested in his family’s business because he is falling in love with a beautiful woman when first sees. One night, Romeo and his best friend named Mercutio attended to a costume party to see the woman, but he found a pretty girl who is wearing a pair of angel wings instead. Soon Romeo was attracted to the girl, but he did not realize that the girl’s name is Juliet at that time. Juliet, the daughter of Capulet, also felt same because she really thinks that Romeo is a very special young man and wants to see him again. Later in the day, the two vowed eternal love soulfully. Next day, Juliet headed for a church to tear herself away from her parents to get marry Romeo. Finally they got married and nobody knows that secret wedding but father Laurence and choir. Following day, cousin of Juliet named Tybalt slapped Romeo’s face and defame him viciously. Romeo was bearing Tybalt’s behavior because of Juliet, but Mercutio could not take it anymore. Then Tybalt and Mercutio had fight and Tybalt’s knife cut deep into Mercutio’s flesh. After Mercutio’s death, Romeo went to street and killed Tybalt by a gun as revenge. Because of the bunch of affairs, Romeo had to be displaced from the town. Needless to say, Juliet feels very distress at the displacing. A few days later, father Laurence came up with an idea to make Romeo and Juliet live happily. Here is the idea. First of all, Juliet poisons herself to make his family believe that she is dead, but the poison is not a real one. Second of all, let Romeo knows that Juliet is not really dead and make their elopement after Juliet’s funeral. Father Laurence believed the idea will be going well and Juliet hoped so too. However, Romeo found that Juliet is dead accidentally before father Laurence tell him the truth. The next day, Romeo backed to the town and lay down beside Juliet’s body. He also poisoned himself without knowing that she is still alive. As soon as Romeo drunk all of poison, Juliet woke up and found his husband’s dead body beside her. Soon Juliet killed herself in despair and hopelessness. Following day, city of Verona welcomed a cold morning as usual.
This movie was made in 1996. Leonardo DiCaprio, who played Romeo Montague, was very popular among young girls because of his good looks. However, Claire Danes, who played Juliet Capulet, was not very famous at that time. After she got her fame by appearing in this movie, she became a well-known idol actress. I liked her more in a movie called “U-Turn” which was made in 1997.
By watching this movie, I found that classic English sounds very difficult for me. Sometimes I could not get word from lines. I need study, yes.

Book Review 2-5

"Chamber"

In Mississippi, 1967, an African-American civil-righter and his two sons were killed by a bombing incident. The incident was caused by a man named Sam Cayhalll, who is a member of Ku Klux Klan. Police arrested Cayhall and court gave him a death punishment after two acquittals. Thirty years later, as the date of execution was decided, a young lawyer came forward to plead for Cayhall. The lawyer is Adam Hall, the grandson of Sam Cayhall. Hall asserted stalwartly that a commission made Cayhall to kill the civil-righter and there is another man who helped Cayhall’s crime. However, Cayhall didn’t sigh the conference minutes because he wanted to screen his old friend’s charge.
Hall’s aunt, Raleigh Wedge, is a star at social intercourse. She was hiding that she is blood daughter of Sam Cayhall for her success, but a press person unmasked her real identity. Then Wedge became an alcohol addict because she lost her fame because of her father. Few weeks later, Hall asked Wedge for help to save Cayhall from execution. She didn’t accept that offer at first, but finally she and her father were reconciled.
At the day of execution, Cayhall finally signed the conference minutes and Hall tried to appeal a case, however, governor of Tennessee State didn’t try to accept the minutes. Then, the execution was punished offenders bloodily.
This novel was written based on a movie. In the movie, Gene Hackman played Sam Cayhall. Hackman also acted in a film which has almost same theme named “Mississippi Burning”. Both of them have a serious story about racism in America. I hope you would what those movies and think about color discrimination in this world.

Movie Reviwe 2-2

Well, to tell you the truth, I do not like this movie so much. First of all, I think this movie has too many meaningless violence scenes. I know that all most of Quentin Tarantino’s works are totally very violently, but the violent scenes in this movie are especially beastly for me. Second of all, the story sucks. I don’t believe that anyone would like it. The screenplay was written by creator of “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction” and I like those, but “KILL BILL” isn’t interesting at all to me. At least that is my opinion.
Speaking of the actors in this movie, I am so glad to mention about Uma Thurman because she is one of my favorite actress. The character she played named Black Mambo. She was one of assassins and trying to wash her hands, but her boss doesn’t like it. That is why the boss attacked her and Black Mambo lost her first baby and husband. In the movie, Black Mambo is trying to have her revenge so the title is “KILL BILL”. Uma Thurman is well-known as an actress who played in a lot of movies. She often appears in a movie as a poor woman such like Fantine in “Les Misérables” or Glory in “Mad Dog and Glory”. Basically, she is very talented.

Book Review 2-4

"Men in Black"(1997)

James is a New York City's finest who believes that there are no aliens on earth. One night, James was chasing a suspicious-looking man on the side of the road and found that the man was not a human. After that, a middle-aged man who wearing black suits and black glasses visited police station and introduce himself as a secret agent named "agent K". The middle-aged man's goal was scouting James to their organization. James refused that offer at first, but finally he became a member of M.I.B as "agent J". After J joined to the organization, K and J ran into an alien who claims help. The alien said that a war will be broke out if they don't keep hiding a special treasure in earth. Soon, the two agents started to find the treasure and save the earth from bad aliens.
This movie and novel book was released in 1995. I wasn’t really excited about the story because I don’t like science fiction so much, but movie was totally funny. It is kind of comedy, but you would be moved when you watched the last part of movie.
Will Smith played agent J. He had also appeared in a alien movie named “Independence Day” ten years ago. That movie seems horrible to me, but Randy Quaid had done an excellent job as an air force pilot. He is very talented actor, I guess.

Tony Shalhoub played a strange weapon trader.
Recently he is known as "Monk".