WHIP IT

up and come actress Ellen page, hard candy, xmen: the last stand, and Juno has dominated the red carpet with various awards and has in the last 4 years risen to stardom. Her latest movie whip it, where an indie-rock loving girl from a small town in Texas with a pageant obsessed mum and working class father tries to find a new thrill in life when a roller derby in Austin comes to her attention. she immediately pics up the roller skates and makes the team where she meets new and exciting women that are fun, energetic and rebellious.

A directorial debut from co-star drew Barrymore more then sets the scene with quirky scenes and hilarious acting. Barrymore catches every detail of emotion in her actress' and actor's from joy to sorrow which makes the audience bond with Ellen page's character Bliss cavander, Alia shawkat's character Pash, and Marcia gay hardens character Brooke cavander.

roller derby is a full contact sport where pushing, punching, scratching, and tripping are all part of the strategy to win points for your team. team with the most points win.

well known music for this movie makes it feel more suitable for the rebellious 14-19 year old girl or boy.

personal opinion...i love Ellen page, she is one of the best young actors of today's day and age. whoever votes against that is obviously a fool! the movie is a winner in my books and i will definitely be buying it. drew Barrymore's first time as director was a great success and with her style and attitude the movie was fun to watch and most people would be hard put to say it was bad!

whip it rated: 4/5

"but you don't have the balls to go to Austin!"
"i can grow the balls!"

surrogates

watched this movie last night
starring a host of well known faces.
including bruce willis (die hard), ving rhames (pulp fiction), and radha mitchell (pitch black)

the movie. based on a world where people are hooked into surrogates (advanced robots, strong, fast, and beautiful).
most of america were now using th system created for protecting the human race from disease and crime!
the founder, a disabled scientist going on 60+ years created the surrogates to make people like him walk again, make blind people see what their human eyes did not!
it was succesful, until the son of the creator of surrogates was killed, even though he was connected to his surrogate. something vsi (largest manufacturer of surrogates) said was impossible.

fbi agent tom greer (bruce willis) was called in to investigate the case. him and his partner detective peters (radha mitchell) collected info on both victims of this deadly attack.

this hi-tech and advanced weapon was made by the u.s. army for combat situations, but when the OD (overload device) was discovered to kill even the surrogates host the project was scrapped! however it seems that one such weapon was leaked into the hands of the non-surrogate world. humans that hate robots and want them all destroyed, fearing that it was inhuman to live through a machine. literally fat old guys could own surrogates tht looked like 20 year old woman. this was viewed by the non-surrogate population as an abomination to mankind.

the movie is one awesome ride through a futuristic world rivaled only with the likes of minority report, i robot, and the matrix.

"how long has it been since you were out of your surrogate?"
"i cant remember!!!"

surrogates rated: 4/5

-night hawk