Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 September 2011

TV Series : MODERN FAMILY (2009) 5/5 Stars


TAGLINE: One Big (straight, gay, multi-cultural, traditional) Happy Family.


Starting its Season 3 this year, Modern Family is an award winning comedy TV series from the US.

The series is revolving around the daily life of Jay’s big family which is somehow very unique.

Jay (Ed O’Neill) himself is married to his new wife Gloria (Sofia Vergara) a hot Colombian woman with her son Manny (Rico Rodriguez).

On his previous marriage Jay’s already had 2 kids who’s now a married adult.

His son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) is married to Cameron (Eric Stonestreet). They are gay couple who adopted Lily, a Vietnamese baby.

His daughter Claire (Julie Bowen) is married to the dense Phil (Ty Burrell) and they are raising a traditional family. They have 3 kids: Haley (Sarah Hyland), Alex (Ariel Winter), and Luke (Nolan Gould).

The casting of this series is done nicely. The actors and actresses seem to bond very well and close which is good because the audience can be brought to believe that this is really a new kind of family living their daily life normally alas the differences of culture and lifestyle.

Modern Family is a hilarious combination of scenes and interviews, which is a little bit like “The Office”. They also included some sort of moral lessons and everyday issues with a nicely written script.

Every character in the series has their own personality and problems where in the end the importance of being a family is prioritized.

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Tuesday, 28 June 2011

500 Days Of Summer (2009) 4/5 Stars

SPOILER ALERTS starts from here.
Do not continue reading if you do not want to get any spoilers.

Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel this movie shows upon reality in about that delusional relationship most people have even experienced before.

It is a story that shows us in some relationships they do not always have a good ending. That in some baseless love stories, one person always love more than the other.

Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a guy who worked as a greeting card writer. He has actually always fancied the matter of architecture but never really pursue it. His whole life, he always have a perception that love is beautiful, love is grand, he watched “The Graduate” when he was a kid and therefore he has a strong believe in love and the idea of a soul mate.

When Summer (Zooey Deschanel) the new staff walked in the office where he worked, Tom felt instantly (love at the first sight) that Summer is the girl that he has always dream of meeting aside from her average looking posture.

This movie get a top-notch grasp of some love stories that do not told a lot in movies. We always believed in this fantasy that when we meet our “the one” it will all be like the Cinderella story or at least like Titanic. But no, sometimes we want to believe so much in love that we become delusional and biased, and that is where reality of love is laid down in front of us.

Unless you are a sucker over a total happy ending story, this movie is highly recommended. It has a good script, good actors, nice directing.

It is easily one of the best movies of 2009.

4 out of 5 Stars

Formal article : HERE