Friday, February 27, 2009

2008 Box Office Hits

By pontryagin hirzo

This is a short list of the movies released this year (2008). This list consists of the movies I enjoyed watching this year. I hope you find a couple of movies that are good viewing.

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: Searching for his lost brother, professor Trevor Anderson travels to Iceland, and that sends him into the depths of our planet. This is another version of the 1959 film, which was about the science fiction book by celbrated writer Jules Verne. Starring Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutchinson.

STEP BROTHERS: When two child like older men, who both live at home with one parent, are now going to share a room because their parents marry, big problems loom. Put Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as the key players, and the table is set for lots of laughs. This seems like a must see for a good time this year.

HAMLET 2: Unsucessful actor Dana Marshz has moved on to teaching the high school theater classes to bored and unmotivated kids. When the high school loses a major building, the school administation feels that the theater curriculum must be eliminated. Wanting to fight, he is on a mission to keep the school from dropping his classes by producing Hamlet 2, a sequel to the original work, which is his own work.

TROPIC THUNDER: Overloded with good actors the genre of the film is a parody of recent war movies. To get a realistic performance from his spoiled actors to make a true epic masterpiece, the seemingly bold director into the wild jungle, and leaves them there by themselves. He hopes to frightnen them into the realism needed for a graet war film, which hidden cameras will capture. Unbelievabley, as the director blows up on an old French land mine, the crew is left on its own, and they think there acting, but the bullets flying are actually real. Stars include Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., and Tom Cruise.

BOLT: Bolt: This movie is a movie for the whole family. Bolt is a dog actor, who in his role on television, is a super hero dog. The thing about Bolt is that he is convinced he has these powers. After he is unexpectedly put into a real life situation, he realizes that he is only a normal dog. On a journey to get back home, he is aided by Mittens, the cat, and Rhino, the hampster.

Jumper: During a near death experience, David Rice discovers an amazing thing. He now knows he can transport himself anywhere, anytime. Eventually, he discovers that there are others with this skill. After he becomes used to jumping around the world, he learns that there are people that are trying to rid the world of jumpers. He now must battle for his life, as the hunters want him dead.

THE CHRONICALS OF NARNIA, PRINCE CASPIAN: It is one year later, in there "regular" lives, when Edmund, Peter, Susan, and Lucymagically reappear in Narnia. Fearing for his life Prince Caspian has blownn the magic horn, hoping to be saved. 100's of years have passed since they left Narnia, but the four legendary characters have be summoned back to rescue Narnia from an evil fate. With the aid of the the bravest in the forrest, including, a dwarf, the centaurs, and a very skilled mouse, they battle to free Narnia.

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS: Full time stoner Dale Denton unfortunately has just viewed a crooked cop, and a powerful drug dealer, kill someone. He was spotted witnessing what's gone down. Realizing this, he drops his joint of pineapple express, and takes off. This joint is such a unique type of weed, that the bad guys can trace it. The chase is on, Dale and his pot dealer friend Saul are deparately hidding from the bad guys.

ROLE MODELS: Danny and Wheeler, a couple of energy drink sales people, might be seeing some hard jail time after trashing the company truck. The only way to avoid serving jail time is to perform 150 hours of community service. Their task will be to work as mentors with difficult children as sort of a big brother. Let the fun begin.

Many people will buy these movies, and views them on their home entertainment system. An increasingly popular way to get movies is by downloading them directly from online sources. There are websites that offer downloading of almost any film you can think of. - 15615

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