The Dark Knight movie poster The Dark Knight (2008) Movie Information Genre: Action | Adventure Main Cast: Christian Bale Michael Caine Heath Ledge

The Dark Knight (2008) Movie Information Genre: Action | Adventure Main Cast: Christian Bale Michael Caine Heath Ledger Aaron Eckhart Gary Oldman Maggie Gyllenhaal Morgan Freeman Director: Christopher Nolan About the movie: The Dark Knight, which is part of Christopher Nolan's Batman film series is follow-up to the action-hit Batman Begins (2005). Christian Bale reprises the role of the caped crusader - Batman. The film focuses on Batman's fight against a new villain, a psychopathic criminal named Joker (Heath Ledger), who is the mastermind of numerous organized crimes in Gotham City. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman sets out to eliminate and dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. Their partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker. Movie Trivia: The Dark Knight is the first Batman movie without "Batman" in the title. Matt Damon was the first choice of Christopher Nolan to play the role of Harvey Dent but he turned it down. Other actors that were considered to have a part in the film are Jake Gyllenhaal, hugh Jackman, John Lucas and Ryan Phillippe.

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Iron Man Saturday Iron Man (2008) Movie Information Genre: Action Adventure Main Cast: Robert Downey Jr. Gwyneth Paltrow Jeff Bridges Terrence Howard Director: Jon Favreau About the movie: Iron Man is an action-adventure movie based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Robert Downey Jr. played the lead role as Tony Stark - a billionaire industrialist who designs and manufactures weapons and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron Man. Tony Stark lived a good life having the everything man has dreamt of - money, fortune and gorgeous women. But during a business trip to Afganistan to demonstrate Stark Industries' new weapon, his convoy was attacked and captured by a terrorist group. As he awakened, Stark discovers an electromagnet attached to his chest, powered by a car battery and designed to keep the shrapnel from piercing his heart and killing him. He was tortured by the group and forced to build a Jericho missile for them - which is his most powerful weapon. With the help of a captor named Yinsen (Shaun Toub), they created a special iron suit instead that can withstand almost anything shot at it and it is loaded with an arsenal of weapons to destroy the terrorist camp and its inhabitants. With this amazing weapon he had built, suddenly his destiny shifts into something he didn't expected it to be. Movie Trivia: Nicolas Cage and Tom Cruise were interested in playing Iron Man. Quentin Tarantino, Joss Whedon, and Nick Cassavetes were approached to direct the film. Robert Downey Jr. spent five days a week in weight and martial arts training to get into shape as a preparation for his role as Iron Man. It's the first film released in 2008 to pass the $300 million mark at the domestic box office. posted by Aira @ 1:12 AM 5 comments

Rambo (2008)

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Rambo (2008) Movie Information Genre: Action | War Main Cast: Sylvester Stallone Julie Benz Matthew Marsden Director: Sylvester Stallone About the movie: Rambo (2008) is the fourth installment of the popular franchise of the same title starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. After twenty years since the last film of the famous action movie series, Vietnam war veteran John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand, and become a boatman at Salween River in Myanmar. He accompanied a group of mercenaries for a resue mission to help the people of a damaged village. The mission goes well until the Burmese army attacks the village, killing innocent villagers and some members of missionaries. When the missionaries fail to come back after ten days, their pastor comes to Rambo, tells him what has transpired, and asks for his assistance in guiding hired mercenaries to the village to rescue other survivors who had been kidnapped by the Burmese. Despite the fact that he already sworn off all forms of violence, he had no choice but to help the kidnapped mercenaries from the enemies...he knows what he must do and this is his most dangerous mission to date. Rambo is the king of mindless action movies and its viciousness has set a new high point for action movies. All the action films that have come before it are an embarrassment in comparison to Rambo’s excess. -www.moviecynics.com