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Ivan's Favourite movies

MY FAVORITE MOVIES
I love style, when something has that flavor and i happen to like it i just never get tired of it or completely get it off my mind. Next is re-playability, most or all of these movies i can just re-watch (and have) over and over again.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Juno (Jason)
5. Inception
6. Spirited Away
7. Synecdoche, New York 
8. Almost Famous (feel good movie)
9. Thank you for for smoking (Reitman)
10. Up in the Air (Is the )
11. Good will hunting
12.  Young Adult ( best)
13. Being John Malkovic
14. Sin City
15. Scary Movie 2 and 3
16. Anchor Man
17. There's something about Mary
18. The Godfather 1 and 2
19. No Country for old men
20. Mulholland Drive
21. Little Nicky
22. Water Boy
23. The Wrestler
24. Howl's moving castle
25. Ghost World

-- Ivan

Fruitvale Station by the consensus

Fruitvale Station
"A movie making all the right noise" - IMT

RATINGS AND COMMENTS
"I am speechless in a way that no film has made me. Please please please go see Fruitvale Station @fruitvalemovie #FruitvaleStation" - @EllenPage, Twitter, https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/355837089666973696

"assionate and powerfully acted, Fruitvale Station serves as a celebration of life, a condemnation of death, and a triumph for star Michael B. Jordan." 94% - Rotten Tomato General Consensus

"Fruitvale Station sums up Oscar's life, but the act of summing up can tell us only so much, since a young life is still a maze of promise and indecision." Fresh Tomato - David Denby, New Yorker,

"In naturalistic and unforced strokes, he allows Grant to exist as a complex, even contradictory human, inviting the audience simply to sit with his life, his loss and what they both meant." Fresh Tomato  - Anna Horanaday, Washington Post

"Fruitvale Station is a gut punch of a movie. By standing in solidarity with Oscar, it becomes an unstoppable cinematic force." Fresh Tomato, 3.5/4 - Peter Traverse, Rolling Stone

"A sad, touching and subtle film." Fresh Tomato, 4/5, 80META - A.O Scott,  New York Times,

"Made with assurance and deep emotion, "Fruitvale Station" is more than a remarkable directing debut for 26-year-old Ryan Coogler. It's an outstanding film by any standard." Fresh Tomato, 5/5 - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

"The movie is the model of decency and respect, and does honor to a life unjustly ended; it offers few surprises but is nonetheless shocking." Fresh Tomato - Richard Brody, New Yorker

Meta Critic

• 100, Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern
•  100, Philadelphia Inquirer, Steven Rea - "t shows us the everyday pressures and problems, the joys and pleasures, experienced by someone moving through life. And then that BART train pulls into Fruitvale, and the rest is history."
• 100, Roger Ebert website, Steven Boon 4/4

INFORMATION

• Directed by Ryan Coogler
• Opened at the prestigious Sundance Film Festivale January 19, 2013 where it garnered critical acclaimed claiming the coveted Grand Jury Price and the Audience Award for U.S dramatic film
• Wait there's more, it was screened out of the equally prestigious Cannes Film Festival and won Best First Film
• Opened to US theaters domestically July 12, 2013 
• Produced by Forest Whitaker
• Stars: Michael B. Jordan (The Wire, Chronicle),  Octavia Spencer (Oscar winner from The Help)
• Based on the story of the 2008 shooting of an unnamed youth
• 90mins run time
• Urban drama genre

COLLATED RATINGS

• Rotten Tomatoes 94%
• Meta critic 85%

 BY THE NUMBERS

• Currently made $15,987,338 domestically low-average (decent for an independent film)

 LINKS
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/fruitvale-station
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fruitvale_station/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334649/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fruitvale.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitvale_Station#cite_note-BOM-1

Key reviews
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fruitvale-station-2013, 4/4 Steven Boon,

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MOVIE REVIEWS
Fruitvale Station TWITTER REVIEW TV SpoT
Fruitvale Station (2013) Movie Review

- - Ivan

DANCES WITH WOLVES by the cosensus

Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves was critically acclaimed and garnered a revitalization of the western genre. It won:

• 7 Academy awards (best: picture, director, adapted screenplay, film editing, cinematography, sound score) nominated for 12
• #75 and then #59 of two different AFI's top 100 list
• 3 Golden Globes (best: motion picture drama, screenplay, director)

INFORMATION

•  Based on Dances with Wolves (1988) Michael Blake
• Distributed at 1990
• Directed by Kevin Costner
• Adapted to screen by Michael Blake
• Cinematography by Dean Semler 
• Music by John Barry
• Distributed by Orion Pictures
• Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

COLLATED RATINGS
Rotten Tomatoes 80%
Metacritic 72%


FEATURED CRITICS
Roger Ebert 4/4 Stars, Sun Times - "A simple story magnificently told."
George Andrew , Time out  - "Once you're sucked into the leisurely narrative, it's hard to resist."
Richard Schickel Time Magazine - "As a director, Costner is alive to the sweep of the country and the expansive spirit of the western-movie tradition."
Peter Traverse, Rolling Stone - "Costner tells a personal story that never loses touch with the vast Western spaces encompassing and defining it. Dances With Wolves is an epic that breathes. And it's a beauty."
Sheila Benson 4/5 Stars, LA Times - "Dances With Wolves is a clear-eyed vision. Authentic as an Edward Curtis photograph, lyrical as a George Catlin oil or a Karl Bodmer landscape, this is a film with a pure ring to it."

BY THE NUMBERS

Budget = $22'000'000

Box Office = $424,208,848

Profit: Made 19.28 times its budget or 1928%, it was very succesful

SISKEL AND EBERT REVIEW

-- Ivan

REVIEW: Dances with Wolves

DANCES WITH WOLVES 
I have never always been  too fond of western movies because the vast majority of the popular western movies for me are either  old, really old or it's so buried in American culture in a way that you'd really have to be in on the joke in order to understand it. In short i just couldn't understand western movies at all (except maybe the odd one or two that i couldn't name without looking it up). Dances with wolves on the other hand is the movie that made me learn how to love western movies and see what all the fuss was all about.  Being released in 1990 at a time when the western genre had long declined, Dances with Wolves in its manifestations of the western genre's best qualities made it critically acclaimed as an innovator, winning  seven academy awards (including best picture, screenplay, cinematography) re-vitalizing the western genre again for contemporary cinema.

 Directed by and starring Kevin Costner, the adaptation of Michael Blake's same (published 1988) was an epic-western film released in  1990. The story is simple enough think of Pocahontas meets the Civil War, chronicling the story of a ridiculously lucky solider stationed in isolation in the middle of nowhere with only the vast plains to keep him company. The lucky soldier, John J. Dunbar, must confront his values as a soldier, a confederate American and a "civilized human being" as he befriends the local Sioux tribe struggling with the absence of their most vital resources: the "buffalo".

Looking back this is a very simple story that i very easily summarized in a couple of sentences and at the 236 minute (3.93 hours) directors cut that i watched it very well took its time. This is what forced me to realize  what western movies are all about because i didn't feel like the movie was too long at all it was a lot like chocolate in a way and like eating chocolate which is very sweet Dances With Wolves in the way it goes about things is very charming. It forced me to see that western movies try its best to characterize the land with it's extremely wide establishment shots, it's use of distinct locations to really capture that beauty by engaging with the viewer with these vast expanses. Furthermore, westerns characterize the land with mystery and with mystic, Dances with Wolves did this perfectly with its impeccable use of pacing and timing at times even just flat out silence at times. Then there are the charming yet mystical characters like the Dunbar's noble steed or his loyal companion a Wolf which he spends a majority of the film  with and of course the whimsical yet still mystical members of the Sioux clan that Dunbar befriended specifically the witch doctor Kicking Bird (Played by Graham Greene).

Lastly what to me was one of the most important aspects of the western genre are  the legend-like-adventures and Dances with Wolves (the film and the character himself, Dunbar) had plenty of compellingly legend like adventures by that i mean that if i were to hear about these adventures as stories  happened in real life i would had assumed they were actual legends. These adventures are what the western genre does time and time again or at least aim to do, when they succeed like in Dances with Wolves it achieves pitch-perfect, nail-biting, jaw dropping-Ly thrilling, textbook  pacing. It told me to notice the beauty of the dessert, the mystery of the mystical vast expanse, the joy of the charming characters and the jaw dropping satisfaction of the adventures this is what made Dances with Wolves so utterly satisfying like chocolate in film form and worthy of the more or less 4 hours epic that i sat through.

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I give it 5 Stars out of 5.

-- Ivan

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We are ISYS Movie Team and our mission is to provide an up to date burst of inform about everything to do with movies currently and retrospectively.

Our Team consists of

• Ivan Reyes 43307787
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 Our general format is we provide posts that summarize multiple sources of key news in the movie world and rationalize this information and sieve out the cesspool of inadequate information that plaques  entertainment media, so that you are exposed to quick and easy information that the movie going public will want and not have to deal with those that you do not.

From this we will also provide current and retrospective reviews that take into the general consensus of the film, providing information about what the writer (one of our team members) felt about the film and tying this up with the general consensus gathered from known reviews and rating engines like rotten tomatoes and meta critic. We aim to power this concept up by also posting quick top ten lists.

We hope that we could also fill this blog about articles that reflect our individuals passions through articles on cinema and express our own interest. Watch out for theme weeks as we post about specific movie genres.

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-- Ivan