I am a movie-follower. Most of my money i spent it in buying dvd's and movies tickets at the cinema. Actually, it was my dad that taught me in watching all these movies. So, i kind a into english movies than malay's or indians and all. Well, it improves my english though. :) So, its not all about the entertainment but we can learn english. These are the movies that used to be my favourite back when i was a kid. >.< EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
A lonely inventor (Vincent Price) who just wanted a friend that he could impart his wisdom to, Edward watched his creator pass on right in front of him and right before he had a chance to give Edward a pair of human hands. Edward spends his long, lonely days sculpting hedges and nicking his face…until the Avon lady Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest) came to the late Inventor’s mansion, hoping to peddle a lipliner or two. Peg doesn’t make a sale, but when she meets poor Edward, her fix-everything.. The boy is coming home with her.
Richard Rich runs the fantabulously wealthy Rich Industries, a huge corporation as famous for its charitable efforts as it is for its profits. Richie, heir to the empire, is worth an approximate $70,000,000,000, but even a balance like that can’t buy happiness.
Enter Cadbury, the Rich family butler, who engineers a play date with a multi-ethnic crew of inner-city ragamuffins. The kids love Richie’s assortment of toys and gadgets—indoor rollercoaster, private McDonald’s, the Kid-a-Pult,but barbarians are at the gate in the form of Laurence Van Dough, a Rich Industries executive with eyes on the C.E.O. seat.
Van Dough engineers a plane crash that takes down Richard and his wife Regina in the middle of the ocean. When Van Dough cooks up a new plot to frame Cadbury and hold Richie under lock and key, the wealthy lad recruits his new friends, the butler, and wacky inventor Professor Keenbean to find his parents and save Rich Industries.
The vast Rich fortunes gave ample opportunities for sight gags, including a robotic bee, Reggie Jackson as a personal baseball coach, and supermodel Claudia Schiffer as Richie’s fitness trainer.
Jones plays Agent Kay, a member of the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s “Division 6.” Better known as the Men in Black, Division 6 is charged with keeping tabs on the 1,500 or so interplanetary visitors who have made Earth their vacation or employment destination. These tentacled, flippered, multi-legged E.T.’s keep themselves disguised as ordinary humans but not every creature behaves itself according to intergalactic law. NYPD officer James Edwards gets a taste of this firsthand when a rogue alien flees arrest and the MiB show up to take a report. Kay zaps the streetwise officer with a memory-wiping “Neuralyzer,” but the grizzled agent thinks James just might have the right stuff for the MiB corps.
Meanwhile, a band of cockroach-like nasties has crash-landed on Earth and taken over the body of gruff farmer Edgar. Disguised in this “Edgar suit,” the roaches head for New York City to assassinate an Arquillan Ambassador, sparking a war that could destroy the Earth. James passes his MiB test and joins up, leaving behind his former life and identity and taking the new code name Agent Jay.
In 1869 New Hampshire, a pair of terrified boys bury a locked box in the earth, praying for the soul of whomever digs it up. That unlucky soul is Alan Parrish, a twelve-year-old boy in 1969. Lonely, shy Alan unearths the box at a construction site near his father’s shoe factory, and when he opens it, he finds inside an elaborately-carved board game. Alan invites schoolmate Sarah Whittle over to play, but one roll of the dice is all it takes to prove this is no ordinary game. Cryptic messages appear on the cloudy green centerpiece, Alan gets sucked into the board.
Twenty-six years later, orphaned kids Judy and Peter Shepherd move in with their Aunt Nora, who lives in the old Parrish place. The beating of drums draws Judy and Peter up to the attic, where they discover the dusty Jumanji board. Judy and Peter start their own game, unleashing wild jungle creatures into the old house. On Peter’s turn, Alan is released from his imprisonment, now grown into a shaggy survivor (Robin Williams). Together, the three realize the only way to undo the damage done is to finish the game.
HONEY, I BLEW UP THE KID
Wayne sold his invention to a large conglomerate owned by greedy businessman Charles Hendrickson. Wayne now works for Hendrickson, “perfecting” the device at a lab near the family’s new suburban Las Vegas home. Son Nick, now a teenager, is still a budding genius like his father, and Wayne takes Nick and toddler Adam to the lab to see his work. The ray is being re-engineered to grow rather than shrink, and Wayne unwisely decides to test the device on Adam’s stuffed bunny. Naturally, little Adam wants his toy back, and he ends up in the path of the ray. At first, it looks like the tot may be okay, but the ray has a curious side effect: every time Adam comes near an electromagnetic field, he grows. Tiny Adam turns into seven-foot Adam turns into fourteen foot Adam. Hendrickson kidnaps the boy to take him back to the lab, but the route takes them under high-tension electrical lines, and soon Adam is a Godzilla-sized terror, with Nick and babysitter/girlfriend Mandy stuck in the kid’s oversized overalls pocket. Wayne can zap Adam back to baby size, but the boy has to sit still for the ray to work, and that ain’t gonna happen.
Culkin plays Kevin, the picked-on runt of the McCallister clan. It’s Christmas time, and the extended family (fifteen members in all) is planning a jaunt to Paris. When Kevin gets blamed for a little sibling rivalry, his punishment is a night upstairs in the attic. After a series of delays and mix-ups, the youngster accidentally gets left (you guessed it) home alone while his family makes the frantic trip to the airport. Not until the plane is in the air does Mrs. McCallister realize her boy got left behind, sending her off on a frantic and problem-filled journey home. Meanwhile, thinking he’s made his family disappear, Kevin uses his newfound freedom to do everything he shouldn’t watch trashy movies, eat junk food, sled down the staircase, etc. When the novelty wears off, Kevin realizes he’s now the young man of the house and dutifully tends to the cooking, cleaning and shopping. This new sense of responsibility is put to the ultimate test when a pair of bumbling crooks make an assault on the McCallister home, with only Kevin’s ingenuity and an arsenal of booby traps as a defense.
George crash-landed in the fictional African nation of Buvuku as a toddler, where he was adopted by an ape named Ape. Now grown (but not any brighter), George and the well-bred Ape spend their carefree days with the rest of their jungle crew. Into this jungle paradise comes Ursula Stanhope, a San Francisco socialite who’s unhappily engaged to Lyle Van de Groot. Ursula is on an expedition into Bukuvu to get away from Lyle, and when George rescues her.Having grown up around monkeys and such, George has no idea how to win Ursula’s heart (Ape suggests beating his chest, showing his fangs and throwing grass), but he’s sweet and dreamy enough to get by. Meanwhile, Lyle has mounted an expedition of his own, planning to get Ursula back while his poaching henchmen go after Bukuvu’s legendary “white ape.” George and company manage to outwit Lyle’s camp, but George faces an even greater task when Ursula takes him back to San Francisco to meet the family.
Slate Gravel Company executive Cliff Vandercave plotting with his comely assistant Rosetta Stone to embezzle company funds. Meanwhile, good-hearted lug Fred Flintstone loans money to his best buddy, Barney Rubble, so that Barney and wife Betty can adopt a child. Fred’s wife, Wilma, approves of Fred’s actions, but his bossy mother-in-law, Pearl Slaghoople, thinks he’s a good-for-nothing bum. Barney pays Fred back with a favor. Both men work for the Slate Gravel Company, and both are forced to take an executive competence exam. Fred isn’t the sharpest stone in the quarry, so Barney switches the two tests. The trick gets Fred promoted, but his first job is to fire Barney, who ended up with Fred’s low score. Cliff and Rosetta use Fred as their executive patsy, getting him to fire all the Slate employees in order to fill their greedy pockets. At first, Fred is too power-happy to notice, but when Barney, Betty and new baby Bamm Bamm get tossed out on the street, the big fella knows its time to take on the crooks.
That’s the story (as penned by more than 30 writers), but that wasn’t what drew most Flintstones fans into the multiplexes. Audiences both young and old came to see a live-action cartoon, and they weren’t disappointed. Every aspect of the famous Flintstones lifestyle—stone and wood cars powered by feet, pigs as garbage disposals, purple dinosaur pet Dino, a wisecracking “Dictabird,” etc.—was remarkably recreated on the screen.
Carrigan Crittenden (Moriarty) inherits decrepit Whipstaff Manor from a deceased relative. Disappointed, she’s ready to have the place burned down, but her flunky Dibs discovers a map to the manor’s hidden treasure. One catch: the house is haunted. Carrigan brings in “ghost therapist” Dr. James Harvey (Pullman) to talk the spooks into playing nice. The doctor’s teenage daughter, Kat (Ricci), isn’t too keen on the place until she meets one of its ghostly inhabitants: Casper, the friendly spirit of a deceased young boy. Casper just wants to make nice, but his “Ghostly Trio” of uncles;Stretch, Fatso, and Stinkie. They won’t tolerate having “fleshies” in the house. The ghostly shenanigans and Carrigan’s underhanded plots lead to a literal rollercoaster climax in which Kat is forced to choose between saving her new friend or her father.
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