The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

A Christmas Musical Animated Movie

Stars   :  Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
Score  :  7.0 / 10

 

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a second movie Christmas-themed, which I chose to fill Christmas in 2013. Unlike Christmas movie in general, The Nightmare Before Christmas is very far from the beautiful things that we usually find when Christmas come. This movie featuring the main setting in a place that is 180 degrees opposite from Christmas, a dark town called Halloween Town. According the name, Halloween Town is a town that is filled with shades of Halloween. The atmosphere is very dark. The buildings are far away from a beautiful word, old-fashioned and not maintained well.

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Rush (2013)

When The Big Lessons Appeared in Competition, There were Only an Impress, a Friendship and Support 

Stars   :  Daniel Bruhl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde
Score  :  8.0 / 10

 

RUSH is my third favorite movie in January 2014. There will be a lot of films included in my favorite list in early 2014. The next three films that will follow soon in my favorite list are Back to the Future III, Hannibal and Captain Phillip. Last year, my friend who has a hobby on food photography advised me to watch RUSH. But because of the airing time of RUSH in theaters is almost over, I do not have time to watch it. I watched RUSH in 2014, it is a bit late, but no problem than not watching it ^.^ And after watching it, I agree when he told me that I should not miss RUSH. A good story and contains good moral message.

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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

5 Oscar at The Academy Awards 1992 

Stars   :  Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins 
Score  :  7.8 / 10

 

This review has a connection with the previous (Red Dragon), because The Silence of the Lambs is a sequel of Red Dragon. As I mentioned before, those are part of trilogy based on a book by Thomas Harris. In this sequel, there are two striking differences from the previous, protagonist character and the story focus. This time, the story involved a beautiful protagonist character, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a woman who was an apprentice in FBI. If Red Dragon story focused on murder cases, the Silence of the Lambs focused on Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). Why? A simple reasonable answer is The Silence of the Lambs is a bridge to get to third sequel, Hannibal, which told a lot about Lecter.

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Red Dragon (2002)

The Best Psycho-Themed Movie Ever

Stars   :  Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Score  :  7.5 / 10

 

The most of movie fans must have been heard the title of this movie and I'm sure a lot of them have watched it. Yes, this film is part of the trilogy adaptation from the novel by Thomas Harris. Those movies are The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon (2002). But if sorted by the story, the first is Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs and the last is Hannibal. Because I've never watched them, so I chose to watch Red Dragon first. Will Graham (Edward Norton) is an FBI special agent who was investigating a series of murders. The murder was very cruel because the victims were found dead with some of body parts was lost. Will has a pretty good imagination skill. He suspected that the killer had eaten the victim's body parts.

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A Christmas Carol (2009)

Less Suited for Kids, Not Bad for Adults. A Very Good 3D Animation

Stars   :  Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
Score  :  6.8 / 10

 

Ho...Ho..Ho...Merry Christmas!!! May peace and love of Christmas always in our midst. Yeah, we passed Christmas day a few days ago, a day full of blessing for all Christians. This time, I will give review a movie that is still related with Christmas, A Christmas Carol. The film which is based on a novel by Charles Dickens, told about the story of an old man named Scrooge or Ebenezer (Jim Carrey). He is very rich but stingy. When his best friend and co-workers, Jacob Marley (Gary Oldman) died, Scrooge took back the coin which is used to cover Marley's eyes. Scrooge never celebrated Christmas. He hated all the things related to Christmas. All the people around him already knew the character of Scrooge.

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