[Movie] Abduction vs Friends With Benefits: Why Do They Need Hot Stars?

Abduction movie has Taylor Lautner and Lily Collins as the stars while Friend with Benefit movie has Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis as the stars.

To be honest, I did not really have time to catch any recent movies lately. Recent here means in the past 2 weeks. Pretty busy juggling of school and work at the same time. And as you can see, this blog has been never updated for quite some times, more than a month.

Back to title of this post, I always wonder, why do some movies need hot stars for their movie. First is Abduction, an action family movie. Girls will agree with me that Taylor Lautner is hot, as he showed of his topless body in Twilight Saga in some scenes. In another hand, Lily Collins is a cute girl, yet she also being portrayed as a hot sexy girl in the movie. Sometimes, I simply get bored with the scenes where they tried so hard to make it as hot scenes, yet they failed to make it hot. So I think, to make the hot scenes not so fail, it is better to use hot stars, so audiences can have their own imagination during the movie or maybe after the movie, no?

Second is Friends with Benefit, a comedy "sex" movie. It is not as literally sex what you can think of, but it is more to the frequency of the "sex" scenes a movie shall have in general. It is sometimes too much, yet entertaining for some people. This movie justified their selves why they chose "hot stars", because they need to show to audiences the sexiness of stars on the bed when they do "the action". Can you imagine if the stars are not hot, maybe we can categorize it as over-weight? Few people might find it nice, but not people in general though.

Okay, let's talk about other stuffs related with the cinemas I experienced. As you can see from the picture, I watched at 2 different cinemas, and among those 2, Golden Village or Cineleisure, Cineleisure won. Why? Let me drill it down later in another post.

Interesting facts about who you going with for watching movie is matters as well. I went with my psychology-major study friend for Abduction movie and my friend analyzed it in the term of psychology point of view I think. You might want to read the synopsis about the movie first as following:

Nathan, a teen, along with his friend, Karen finds a website that has photos of children who are missing or believed to have been abducted. They decide to age one of the photos and discover that is of Nathan as a child. He contacts the person who placed the photo to find out what's going on. The person on the other end only wants to know info about Nathan so Nathan hangs up. The person then contacts someone in Europe and shows him a photo of the one who called. He then heads for the U.S. Nathan then wonders is it true, was he abducted. He tells his "mom" who then tells him she and his "father" will tell him. But before they can, two men claiming to be cops show up wanting to talk to Nathan, and when he isn't found they pull guns and demand Nathan be given to them. His parents fight them but are killed. Nathan runs but remembers that he asked Karen to come over...

And guess what my friend told me after the movie? He said something along these statements:

Actually the movie represents our life. The adopted parents is our parent in the world, while the father is God. We, as the kids, only being "adopted" by our parents from God, while at some points of our life, we must walk away and stand by ourselves from our parents and God will watch over us for what we doing since then on.

Contrast to Abduction movie, I went with one of my female friends from high school from for Friends with Benefits movie. We were laughing and was not really discussing into deep about representation of subtle meaning of the movie. We talked more about the catchy words, statements, brands and so in the movie. Well, it might be due to her interest as well, where she major in marketing for her undergraduate study. For not discriminating Friends with Benefits, let me put the synopsis of the movie as well:

While trying to avoid the clichés of Hollywood romantic comedies, Dylan and Jamie soon discover however that adding the act of sex to their friendship does lead to complications.

So, have you guys watched those 2 movies? FYI, Friends with Benefits has higher rating than Abduction in IMDB.

Abduction Movie Trailer

Friends With Benefits Movie Trailer

[Movie] Captain America The First Avenger: Reveals About Masculinity

After I watched Captain America on Thurs night, my first reaction was "Does such liquid exist in real life?". For guys like me who are not tall and the body is naturally not fit according to the normal society judgement, is quite a relevant issue. Imagine if there is such liquid, although only change the body shape, but it will change a person life, no?

Well, back to the movie again. The movie was pretty amazed me. I am totally like the story plot. I wont be a spoiler here, but just a reminder for watching it from beginning of the movie, if not you will miss the whole point that I am talking about now.

Captain America as the Marvell Super Heroes, can be said as one of the weakest. His only ability (according to the movie) is he has 4 times faster of normal human metabolism, I assume here everything in his body become 4 times faster, including brain. But, the fact that he has brain long time before he become the super heroes defeats some of the Heroes that I know i.e. wolverine. By this kind of ability, let us do a calculation:

Assume that

• Normal human running speed: 20 km/hour, so he will have running speed of 80 km/hour, means the speed of card in the movie was less than 80 km/hour?
• Normal human can jump up to 4-5 metres long, so he can jump up to 16-20 metres long? Well, it might explain one scene in the movie.

But if thats the logic of faster metabolism, doesnt it mean he need 4 times of normal food consumption as well? But too bad the movie never showed us the scenes where he ate. Cant imagine if they show it, and he was having dinner date with a girl. LOL

Beside the Captain America itself, the villain is pretty ugly. When I saw it, My friend and I were laughing because it is uglier than voldemort (yup, we laughed about Voldemort also before). *sorry, but I neither watched cartoon nor read the comic before*

This movie also proves to audience how actually girl in general judge a guy. Indeed girl judges a guy superficially by looking at the physical body, job position, etc *name it as what you want that you think it is superficial*. But your true love is the one who judge you from your characters that you have, no? Well, at least thats what another message that I think the movie want to deliver to the audiences. *Captain America has the biggest heart among his cohort of army people*

You also might heard from your friend to stay at the cinema after the credits of the movie. Well, it is quite true there are extra scenes *cant reveal it here*, but if you are in hurry to somewhere else (maybe need to go back home earlier), f**k it, dun wait. You can watch the extra scenes at the youtube I think, although not anytime soon. Because the credits way much too long for you to wait, I was waiting for 5 minutes, and I was holding back my urine in my bladder due to this. :(

To end this, let me show you the synopsis of the movie (took from here) and the trailer video of it from youtube.

It is 1942, America has entered World War II, and sickly but determined Steve Rogers is frustrated at being rejected yet again for military service. Everything changes when Dr. Erksine recruits him for the secret Project Rebirth. Proving his extraordinary courage, wits and conscience, Rogers undergoes the experiment and his weak body is suddenly enhanced into the maximum human potential. When Dr. Erksine is then immediately assassinated by an agent of Nazi Germany's head of its secret HYDRA research department, Johann Schmidt aka the Red Skull, Rogers is left as a unique man who is initially misused as a propaganda mascot. However, when his comrades need him, Rogers goes on a successful adventure that truly makes him Captain America and his war against Schmidt begins.