Friday, January 9, 2009

Best Movies of 2008

Awle, movie en hi tunlai mihring hobby lian ber pakhat a ni. He thu hi thudik, a nei deuh leh chhuah peih deuh ten theatre ah te an en a, nei ve lem lo ten, pen drive leh internet lam atang te an download a. Chhuak peih vak lo tan phei chuan a awlsam phian. Helam chu sawi vak lo ang, kum 2008 a movies chhuak ho a, hmuhnawm ka tih deuh deuh ka rawn tarchhuak ange. A summary hi IMDB atanga lak an ni.

1. THE KITE RUNNER - In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kitting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassam to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kitting, Hassam runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption.

2. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.

3. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - After stumbling across a case of money among dead bodies, Llewelyn Moss thinks he can keep it quiet, but when silent killer Anton Chigurh locates Moss and his money, Vietnam veteran Moss makes a run for it. With bodies falling everywhere Anton goes, it's only a matter of time before he catches up with Llewelyn. Whilst all this is going on, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is overseeing the investigation and begins to see the country in a different light than it once was.

4. 10000 BC - A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D'Leh's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart's desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant.

5. MAMMA MIA! - Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of great ABBA songs which are used in remarkably appropriate ways. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya.

6. OUTPOST - Outpost follows a crack team of battle-hardened mercenaries on a routine mission to protect a mysterious businessman through the no-man's land of war-torn Eastern Europe. However, after he leads them to a long forgotten, underground outpost, they unwittingly reawaken a lurking terror that soon changes their mission from one of safe-guarding, to one of survival, as they desperately battle an enemy even they've never faced before.

7. APPALOOSA - Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

8. VANTAGE POINT - President Ashton (William Hurt) is attending a global war on terror summit in Spain. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two of the Secret Service agents assigned to protect him. This is the first action that Agent Barnes has been in since he took a bullet for President Ashton six-month earlier. We really dont know if Agent Barnes is up to the challenge of protecting the President. Shortly after President Ashton is escorted to the stage in the plaza by the Secret Service, he is shot twice by a rifle from a window and falls to the floor. The crowd is in shock and chaos breaks out all over, especially when bombs begin to explode. Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) is an American video-taping the event to show to his children that he was actually there at this historic event. He believes that he has the picture of the man who shot the President. Agent Barnes sees the tape and has a clue to that person. Several different people witness the event, and only through their eyes do we see the truth behind the assassination attempt.

9. STREET KINGS - Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

10. EAGLE EYE - Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.

8 comments:

DayDreamBeliever said...

The Kite Runner khika en chak lutukkkk! Movie awm tih pawh ka lo hre hlei nem!
Kei chu movie en na hun hi ka nei tlem tuks a, ka hrelo khop mai, I list ah khian Mamma Mia chiah ka la en. Mi zz en hnuah PS: I Love You ka en ve hnuhnawh a, hahip in ka soi ve a, lolzzz.

Lal Jo-a said...

The Kite Runner chu ka movie en tawhah hmuhnawm ka la tih ber pawl a ni. :D Nia, thil dang ngaihtuah tur in ngah em a ni... PS I love you pawh hmuhnawm ltk.. hehehe

thinchhia said...

VANTAGE POINT hi hmuhnawm ka ti uchuakkkkkkkkkk.....
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN hi hmuhnawm dan a dang, sam buk pa kha a thing reuh ltk a
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Lal Jo-a said...

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Mizohican said...

Being a movie freak, it would not be easy for me to state my top 10 just like that. But I think I will disagree with 10000BC though, which I did not enjoy that much. Other than that, I love the rest of your list... errrr.. Slum Dog hi chu 2009 a release a ni lawmni? :-D

Anonymous said...

'No country for old men' ka duh bawn...hmuh nawm tawp. The kite runner chu ka chhiar ringawt..ka cry nasa over! keichu ka trap hma hrim hrim..'the bold and the beautiful' pawh trahpui mai thei kha ka nia :-)

tunlai ka en chak deuh
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2269184025/

pi blacki

Anonymous said...

@ thinchhia - wordpress te chu ka lawm zawng tak alawm. a hma chuan wordpress ah hlir blog ka siam thin, han khawih kual vel hi nuam ka ti ve a. haha, wordpress leh blogspot chungchang chu sandy mandy nen pawh hian hmanah kan sawi vak tawh.

@ illusionaire - 10000BC kha maw? tinge hmuhnawm te i tih loh mai mai. a changtunu kha i star lo aniang? :D 2009 release te chu nia, a mak thin khawp mai.

@ pi blacki - i rawn lut ve teh hlawl a. haha. i trahbelh hmel hle mai. :D a tha. I thil en chak i sawi ve hi, helamah chuan a en theih miah loh. PS : e-mail check.