Exodus, Five Star Life (rewrite)

Today, we watched two movie trailers. The second one was Exodus: Gods and Kings. This is a Ridley Scott (who directed Alien and Gladiator) film, starring Christian Bale and Sigourney Weaver. As one might expect from the title, it's about Moses and the Exodus from Ancient Egypt. Christian Bale plays Moses.

A Five Star Life was the other trailer we saw. It's an Italian movie starring Margherita Buy as a hotel critic. She spends her whole life traveling around the world staying in five-star hotels and writing about their service. She enjoys her life at first but becomes unsatisfied when her family starts having problems.

It's interesting to speculate what it would be like to have a job like that. I imagine that I would also enjoy it at first, but would only want to do it for a year or two. The ideal thing would be to review one or two hotels a year and then go back to my regular life. In that way, it would feel like a holiday.

Goals of the World Cup (rewrite)

Today we watched six of the best goals of the World Cup: David Villa against Australia; Messi against Bosnia and Herzegovina; Xhaka against France; Higuain against Belgium; Van Persie against Spain; and Tim Cahill against Holland. They were all good goals. The ones that stood out for me were Van Persie's, because it was a headed goal that lobbed the goalkeeper; Cahill's, because it was a great volley; Villa's, because it was a tricky shot and because the vertical pass that set up the cross for him was very nice; and Messi's, because it was created as well as scored by him. I guess my favorite was Villa's because it looked so cool.

21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street

Today we watched two move trailers, 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street. 21 Jump Street is a remake of the old TV series starring Johnny Depp, although it is remade as a comedy. We also saw a few clips from that series.

One of the actors in the new 21 and 22 Jump Street is Jonah Hill. He became famous with Moneyball, the movie starring Brad Pitt that was based on a true story of a baseball team.

Channing Tatum is now quite a big star, known for his work in Side Effects, White House Down, and Haywire. The critics say that he and Jonah Hill combine well for good comic effect.

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The Hundred-Foot Journey and Chocolat (Lasse Hallstrom movies)

Today we watched two movie trailers: Chocolat and The Hundred-Foot Journey. Chocolat is a 2000 movie featuring Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, and Johnny Depp. The Hundred-Foot Journey is coming out soon. Like Chocolat, it is about food! Chocolat was about the power of food to make a town more vibrant. Similarly, The Hundred-Foot Journey livens up a place with only one, rather traditional restaurant that feels a bit too secure. From the trailer, it appears that the traditional restaurant views the Indian restaurant with enmity at first, but they gradually become friends.

The movie stars Helen Mirren as the French proprietor of the restaurant. It looks like it's well worth seeing! I'm not sure when it is coming to Japan.

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Edge of Tomorrow revisited

Today we watched a trailer for Edge of Tomorrow, a science fiction fiction movie starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. It's directed by Doug Liman, one of my favorite action directors, who also directed Mr and Mrs Smith and The Bourne Identity. The Bourne Identity was much better than its two sequels, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, which were directed by Paul Greengrass. Judging by the trailer, it's going to be pretty interesting. It's scheduled to open in Japan at the beginning of July. I think it has already opened in the U.S.

Tom Cruise plays heroes fighting to save humanity too often these days! (His previous film was Oblivion, I believe.) But I certainly want to see this one. Emily Blunt was great in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a movie in which she costarred with Ewan McGregor, so I'm looking forward to seeing her again, too. Some of her other movies are The Devil Wears Prada, Looper, and My Summer of Love.

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Edge of Tomorrow & Begin Again

Today we watched two movie trailers: Edge of Tomorrow and Begin Again.

Edge of Tomorrow stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Everyone knows Tom Cruise, but Emily Blunt seems to be unknown to a surprising number of people. Most recently, I remember seeing her in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, with Ewan McGregor, in which she was very charming. She has also appeared in Looper, The Adjustment Bureau, and many other movies. Like many recent Tom Cruise movies, this one is science fiction, and it seems to feature people going through some kind of time loop in order to fight against alien invaders. Doug Liman, a director that I like very much, is the director, so I am looking forward to watching it. (He directed The Bourne Identity, and Mr and Mrs Smith.) It opens in Japan at the beginning of July.

Begin Again features Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley. The key phrase is: "You're only as good as your next move."  At the beginning of the trailer, Keira Knightley appears to have been betrayed by her boyfriend. Later, she meets Mark Ruffalo and they perform music together, and presumably a new romance begins.

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The Double and Blue Jasmine (rewrite)

Today we watched two movie trailers, Blue Jasmine and The Double. Blue Jasmine is the most recent Woody Allen film to reach Japan, and it's playing now at Denkikan. It's about a woman called Jeanette, who changes her name to Jasmine and marries a rich man. Unfortunately for her, he becomes poor after being arrested, and she has to move away and live a more modest life. The movie examines the breakdown of her personality and life.

The Double is not in Japan yet, but it stars Jesse Eisenberg playing a man whose face is copied. Mistaken identity appears to lead to him being arrested. It looks like a very interesting movie, but I don't know when it's coming to Japan.

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Before Golden Week, I thought perhaps that we wouldn't do anything special, because my daughter usually studies very hard and doesn't have much free time. But to my surprise just after Golden Week had begun she said she wanted to go camping. It is rather difficult to find a camping spot at short notice in Golden Week, but luckily we were able to find a camping site in Ushibuka that was free, so we went there. We had a good time but it rained on the second day so we came home early.


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The Amazing Spider-man 2 (rewrite)

Today we watched the trailer for The Amazing Spider-man 2. The movie stars Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield. I think they suit the roles very well. The trailer we watched was trailer 3, which was very exciting but didn't tell us too much about the story. From what I could tell, Spider-Man

has to fight Electro, played by Jamie Foxx.

This movie is one of the Sony movies, made under licence. The Sony movies are rather different from the Marvel ones, such as Captain America. Incidentally, I saw Captain America: Winter Soldier recently. It was very exciting.

Check out the official movie site!

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Blended again!

Today we watched a trailer for Blended, a movie starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. At the beginning of the movie, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore go on their first date.

Unfortunately, the date is humiliating for Drew Barrymore, because they eat shrimps with very hot sauce and she spits them out. She wants to drink beer to cool down, but Adam Sandler has drunk her beer! She drinks soup instead, but gets her dress messy.

They decide they never want to meet each other again. But they mixed up their credit cards so Adam goes to see her. And, through some strange circumstances, they go on holiday together to Africa. They have many strange and funny experiences there.

I enjoyed the part where Adam Sandler was bored and got a phone call from his family:

An avalanche? In our back yard?

Later, when he visits Drew's family, her children say: "She doesn't like you." But he says:

Believe me, bro, I don't like her either.

I checked out the movie on allcinema.net but it appears that the movie's release in Japan has not yet been decided. I hope it comes soon. The movie was directed by Frank Coraci, who also directed The Wedding Singer. Check out the official site!

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Blended (rewrite)

Today, we watched the trailer for a movie with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. I think it was called Memorial Day Weekend. It starts with a date between Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. The date is humiliating for Drew Barrymore, because she eats some food that is too hot. She wants to drink some beer to soothe her mouth, but Adam Sandler has drunk her beer. They decide not to meet each other again.

However, they get their credit cards mixed up, and Adam Sandler has to go and see Drew Barrymore. Through some strange set of circumstances, they both go to Africa with their families, and have some interesting and funny experiences together.

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