Movie Review

Nathan Shin
8/27/10

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Movie overview

1. Movie Title and Date made, rating.

Title: Avatar
Release Date: 18 December 2009
Rating: PG-13

2 .Why did you select this movie?

Because this movie was the most fascinating and popular movie I have ever seen
in2009, and this movie is based the background on future and possibility to transport
human mind out of the body to an alien body.

3. Describe the type of movie: Fiction/ non-fiction/ sci fi/ documentary…….?

Science Fiction

4. Who wrote and directed the movie?

Author/ Director: James Cameron

5. What is the main storyline of the movie?

Jake Sully, ex-marine solider who disabled his legs in an accident, decides to go
on a mission to a distant planet, Pandora, in place of his twin brother who was killed.
While he is working for the greedy company that wants the special material under
the mother tree in the Pandora, he receives a Pandorian body that was made by the
company to infiltrate in the Pandorian society. His mission was collecting the
information about the material and making the natives corporative to the company.
Meanwhile, in his mission, he falls in love with one of the female Pandoran and the
planet. However, the company uses the marines to attack and extort after Jake fails
his mission. With some of his friends who wants to save the planet and the natives,
Jake goes to the natives and fight with them.

6. Describe the Scientific/Biological impact.

In the movie, all the creatures live in the Pandora create huge network not only
ecologically but also biologically within the mother tree that has nerves and brain like
mammals. Also, the creatures in the planet can share their thoughts or emotions
through the external organ that connects their nerves. Meanwhile, humans can
control DNAs and make a body that the mind is able to access and come out of the
body.

7. Opinion of interest

I enjoyed the movie and had lots of questions. In the movie, there is a scene that
the marines unplug the plugs that connect the Pandorian body and the human mind
which controls the body. I asked myself that the people who were unplugged should
have died or damaged their brains because the connection between the body and
mind would be too sensitive and complicated for sudden disconnection. In addition, I
was interested about the fact that all the creature of the Pandora can have strong
bond, connection, and network by their nerve systems. If we have those nerve
systems, I think there would be no fight or war against each other because we can
simply connect our nerves and understand how we feel.
X-Man Origin: Wolverine

Movie overview

1. Movie Title and Date made, rating.

TItlle: X-Man Origin: Wolverine

Date made: 1 May 2009
Rating: PG-13

2 .Why did you select this movie?

Because the DNA mutated powers in the movie was very interesting topic

3. Describe the type of movie: Fiction/ non-fiction/ sci fi/ documentary

Science Fiction

4. Who wrote and directed the movie?

Author: Stan Lee

Director: Gavin hood

5. What is the main storyline of the movie?

In middle 1800s, two mutant brothers lose their family and start to live in their own.
They had abilities of unlimited body regeneration. Their instincts are like the beasts.
They go to every war, Civil war, World War, World War II, but they never die. One
day, a scientist who works for the US government comes to them and offers to join
his special division of mutants. Therefore, they join the division, but younger one of
the two brothers, Logan, realizes how cruel the division was and he fights against his
beastly instinct, so he leaves it. After a while, the members of division were killed
one by one. When the scientist who leads the division warns him, he is aloof.
However, the killer destroyed the life Logan had and kills the girl he loves. Finally,
with his inextinguishable fury, he looks for who is behind all the trouble. At last, it was
his brother who killed his beloved one, and he and the scientist were practicing DNA
experiment on mutants. With Logan’s inextinguishable fury, he fights against them.

6. Describe the Scientific/Biological impact.

In the movie, older one of the two brothers follows his instinct and Logan the
younger one nurtures and controls his instinct, so there is a conflict of Nature Versus
Nurture. Moreover, DNA mutation caused painful isolation within the society and
abuse to mutants and science in the medical experiment.

7. Opinion of interest

Movie was fun. However, Inequality that occurred by the DNA mutation made
mutants as above the pyramid and do whatever they want or they can. Therefore,
the mutants who seek blood and war could kill whoever and whenever they want. In
my opinion, mutant powers are convenient, but if people can’t control, it is just
another useless weapon.
Iron Man

Movie overview

1. Movie Title and Date made, rating

Title: Iron Man

Date made: 2 May 2008
Rating: PG-13

2 .Why did you select this movie?

The armor of the high technology that protects people from disabilities and wars
lead another turning point of the world in this movie.

3. Describe the type of movie

Science Fiction

4. Who wrote and directed the movie?

Author: Stan Lee

Director: Jon Favreau

5. What is the main storyline of the movie?

Tony Stark is an engineering genius who runs Stark Industries, a company that
manufactures and sells weapons in the name of peace, with his second in command,
Obadiah Shane. During a missile demonstration in Afghanistan, he is captured, and
his abductors order him to build a missile. However, in order to escape, Stark makes
a high tech suit of armor and breaks free. Upon his return home, he announces that
Stark industries will no longer produce weapons. He spends his time improving his
armor until Shane betrays him and steals the data for the armor prototype. Shane
desired huge wealth with the armor, so he creates bigger and more dangerous
armor, and attacks Tony to kill him and make the technology his.

6. Describe the Scientific/Biological impact.

In the beginning of the movie, a part of the missile stabs into his chest, but by
technology, he makes his heart beats even though the accident would have made it
stopped. In addition, with the small energy generator, he creates powerful energy
force that makes people fly.

7. Opinion of interest

There is always conflict when people discover advanced technology. In this movie,
Tony represents the benefactor of the better world for everyone with his technology
while Shane is the egotistic person who misuses it for his own good.