This by far is the best movie documentary that I took time to watch. Usually I'd prefer to watch movies I know never happened or will never happen in real life, bthis one was particularly interesting. It stars Leonardo Di Caprio as Howard Hughes, the Aviator, an eccentric overly obsessively-compulsive man who had the ability to foresee the future and have the boldness to make it happen. I must say he did a fantastic job in this film.

Howard Hughes was an industrialist billionaire who was particularly fond of movies and very obssesed with airplanes. He shot a film, "Hell's Angels", and that took him three years to make. Although he already had a fantastic film, he knew there was something he could still improve on, and he shot the film again, this time with more enhancements, and with sounds. They only had mime movies then. That was just half his staff. The other half were tasked to develop his airplanes, his second love. He was very much a perfectionist, and spending money was never a problem as long he got what he wanted [in terms of advancing/ upgrading his planes that is.] He was also a dare-devil, he was always the one who tests his airplanes especially if they're new, whatever the risk, he's gonna do it, pushing limits. Of course this resulted to numerous accidents. Howard Hughes ventured to areas nowhere would go, and he had the uncanny ability to forsee the future and how he can make it possible. We prolly owe our present airplanes to him.

There was only one aspect I didn't quite get in this movie. How he kept saying and spelling QUARANTINE. To those who know why, uhm, why? Please tell me.


This is Leonardo Di Caprio as Howard Hughes inspecting a plane in a private meeting with airplane makers.

I don't know what it is with my preferences for movies, but those that I get to watch are really, really good. Like the latest movies I've watched (ex. Series of Unfortunate Events), Shall We Dance was nothing short of perfect. It was wholesome, it had a simple yet very cute plot, and it's something I really recommend for you to watch.

Richard Gere plays John Clark, a workaholic lawyer who constantly finds himself longing for something he doesn't know. He then sees a mysterious lady looking out of the window of a dance school, Mitzi's Dance School in particular. He then finds himslef one day getting off the train station to check out the Dance School and hopefully meet the beautiful assistant teacher, Paulina [Jennifer Lopez]. During his stay, he finds out that dancing filled up the empty space inside and he joined the competition, and almost won. He lost focus becuse he didn't know his family was there. He went home and explained to his wife. When the day came for Paulina's farewell party, John went over to his wife's office and danced with her, telling her that she's everything he ever wanted. *This is an uber sweet part * Then they rushed over to the farewell party, this time, with his wife. Paulina and John dance. and they all had a happy ending.


This is Paulina and John rehearsing for the competition.

Hands down for this movie. It's a really great one. *audience clapping*

The Baudelaire parents have been killed in a fire in their mansion. Although investigators were still unsure, they said that the cause of the fire was a concentrated refraction of heat aimed at the Baudelaire mansion. And with this, the Baudelaire children became the Baudelaire orphans. [I sound like Lemony Snickett]

This is taken from the Startling Synopsis of the official site of the movie. www.unfortunateeventsmovie.com.

" The Baudelaire siblings are likable and clever....Violet, age 14, is one of the greatest young inventors the world has ever known. Her brother Kalus, age 12, is a reader and researcher of extraordinary knowledge and skill. And their baby sister Sunny, has sharper teeth than most beavers.

Unfortunately, none of this can alter the fact that after their parents perish in a terrible fire, the Baudelaires are placed in the care of Count Olaf, a man who is either a demented evil genius, an egomaniacal actor, Jim Carrey, or all three. Aided by a troupe of theatrical misfits, he hatches one outrageous plot after another to get his hands on the orphans' vast inheritance, like the one involving the train.

After not being run over a train, the Baudelaire children are removed from Count Olaf's care and go to live with their Uncle Monty, a renowned snake expert. Things end badly after the arrival of a suspicious lab assistant named Stephano, a phrase which here means 'Count Olfa in disguise'. The children are then shuffled off to their fearful Aunt Josephine's. Sadly, disaster ensues, due to the appearance of a mysterious peg-legged sailor, an expression which here means 'Would Jim Carrey in a peg-leg fool you?' Alamrmingly, Count Olaf then hatches his most dastardly plot of all - a play whose real-life conclusion will give him control of the Baudelaire fortune!"

And I'll continue from this part.

Olaf made Violet marry him. If she resented, he'd drop Sunny off the roof of a high tower. Marrying him would immediately entitle him to half the fortune [couples share property remember]. But Klaus conjures up an idea which saved all of them. He climbed up the tower, saved Sunny, and found "the eye", a delicate series of mirrors and a huge magnifying glass which uses the rays of the sun to burn up things from a distance. This, I inferred, was the same instrument which caused the Baudelaire fire. Although Violet said "I do" and signed the Marriage certificate, Klaus was able to concentrate the beam and burn the certificate. Olaf was arrested and before they set off with the Banker, Mr. Poe once again in search of other relatives, they visit their now-burnt-mansion and find a letter addressed to them from their parents which was dated several years ago. A very touching end to the movie.

Oh yeah. Olaf was jailed but he was able to escape. Now there's sure to be a part II.

Here's some pictures of the characters.

Around 7pm tonight my dad suddenly wanted to go out for a movie. On the way to Metroeast my brother and I were debating about whether we'd watch Elektra or Constantine, and well, my dad decided for us. Constantine it is.

I got this synopsis from www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/382967.

"John Constantine has been to hell and back. Born with a gift he didn’t want, the ability to clearly recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision. But he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way to salvation by sending the devil’s foot soldiers back to the depths. But Constantine is no saint. Disillusioned by the world around him and at odds with the one beyond, he’s a hard-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroism. Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn’t want your admiration or your thanks--and certainly not your sympathy. All he wants is a reprieve. When a desperate but skeptical police detective enlists his help in solving the mysterious death of her beloved twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost. "