What do you do when you have nothing to do, have a night of babysitting, and youtube? Well, you watch movies for free! The past few months that I've seen many a movie, and these are my top Three out of all of them.
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Coraline- Coraline is probably one of my favorite animated movies (claymation) , following after Nightmare Before Christmas, and Anastasia. Like many of Tim Burton's movies, it has very strange, staccato like music that is pleasing to hear, coinciding with amazing animation and a creepy esque plot. Coraline, basically in a nut shell, is about a girl who dreams of a better life after moving to a new home, and as such, finds a secret passage in her new home. After entering the passage, she enters an alternate universe, which her parents, her life, and everything is perfect. The only problem is, everyone there, has buttons for eyes. Every time she visits this world, she has fun, then sleeps, waking up the next morning to her original life. During the movie, you find that a girl, a century before, also lived there, but unfortunately, tragically dissapeared. Coraline, ignoring the danger of this doorway, continues to visit, wishing she could stay there forever. On a certain visit, Coraline's alternate other presents her with a box, in which, contained two buttons. She said that if Coraline sewed these into her own eyes, she'd be able to stay....I don't want to spoil the ending, but, if you like a nice, suspenseful movie that's clean, Coraline is an excellent choice.
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Battle Royale-Unlike most movies I watch, Battle Royale is one of the few that is very, very gory. It's so much so, that I had to get the edited version from a friend to cut out the vulgarity and the explicit battle scenes that were just too much. But, even so, this movie was quite interesting. I enjoyed every minute! If you have read the new novel, "The Hunger Games," You'll have an idea of what the movie might be like. Battle Royale sets iteself in modern, to futuristic Japan, in which every year, the government randomly chooses one 9th Grade class to participate in the BR movement. They are drugged, and set on an island, in which, they are forced to kill each other to survive. In the end only one can win, and after the three day time limit, if more than one is alive, the explosive collars around their necks detonate, killing them all. I wouldn't watch this film if you aren't into martial art's movies. This one, especially gruesome, might be too much. But if you are lucky enough to find an edited version of the movie, I'd recommend it just because it's an amazing movie.
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Treeless Mountain-I'm not much for drama, or any of that nonsense, but I will say, this movie was one of the best films I've ever seen in my life. Treeless Mountain, much like the animated movie Grave of the Fireflies, sets itself in China, where two girls must fight their way through a new, and untame world, saving every coin to put in their piggy bank.
Jin, a 6 year old with the mind of a young adult, is unfairly thrown into the turmoil of the world, when her mother leaves to find her father, giving them to their Alcoholic Aunt, who has the same capacity to take care of children as a Monkey. Jin, unknowing of the future, has two tasks to appease. One, take care of her naive even younger sister Bin, and two, fill up a piggy bank her mother has given them; and once the bank is filled, her mother stated that she would return.
In this amazing film, Jin and Bin struggle through hardships, including having to eat grasshoppers for food as their aunt is too drunk to provide it herself. Through the movie, Jin and Bin meet several people, only few ever being kind to them. At the very beginning of their move, the two sisters meet a middle aged woman living down the road from them, taking care of her son who has Down syndrome. The two girls quickly become fond of the family, often visiting them to have fun, and to eat sweets.
After several days of realization that maybe they'd never see their mother again, Jin and Bin look to their piggy bank for hope, collecting Grass Hoppers and selling them to make change to fill the plastic container with. After many weeks of hard collecting, they fill the bank, and run to the bus stop, awaiting the arrival of their mother. But, as you may predict, they wait only to see bus after bus arrival, their mother not emerging from any of the. Even less hopeful than the beginning, the two girls must find hope and happiness in life, even when the world around them, just seems to keep crashing it into the ground.
BTW, Bucky, I really want you to see this film because the two girls remind me so much of S, L, and X! Primarily because Bin seems to constantly wear her princess gown the whole movie, refusing to take it off! xD
