Road to Oscar - 4 Jennifer Lawrence Movies as Oscar Nominees

As the alleged doom day in ancient predictions, 2012 has witnessed the evolution of Jennifer Lawrence from a little girl to a big star. Nowadays, Jennifer Lawrence is not only viewed as one of the most popular and promising movie star, but also the hottest and most desirable actress in Hollywood. The happiness comes in a speedy and subtle way that even Jennifer Lawrence may feel surprised at times. In just two years, Lawrence has made the switch from an unknown actress struggling for every audition to a popular star trying to pick up suitable roles from numerous scripts.

Dating back to 2008, few had paid attention Jennifer Lawrence movies like The Poker House and Garden Party. At present, people won't be surprised if Jennifer Lawrence movies are listed as Oscar nominees. Two years later when Catching Fire and Mockingjay gain great successes, people may even feel strange if Jennifer Lawrence movies are not listed as Oscar nominees. As Lawrence moves on, she will see a clear road to Oscar. In fact, Oscar 2013 won't even be the first time Jennifer Lawrence movies are nominated. Therefore, this post will introduce 4 Jennifer Lawrence movies working as Oscar nominees.

1. Winter's Bone

As the turning point of her movie career, Winter's Bone not only brought Lawrence first Oscar nomination but also helped Lawrence to attract attentions of famous directors. Without her excellent performance in this Oscar nominee, Jennifer Lawrence won't even get the auditions for Katniss Everdeen and Elissa. In this Jennifer Lawrence movie, Lawrence acts as a girl named Ree who needs to tries to keep her family intact. When her drug-dealing father disappears, Ree must find him out so that her family won't live in the streets during the winter. However, as she moves deeper, dangers comes closer.  This movie the first time Lawrence impresses the world as a family-protecting girl with strong will. As we all know, The Hunger Games is the second time.

2. X-man: First Class

Winter's Bone does not make Jennifer Lawrence widely recognized, X-man: First Class does. "She is the Raven in First Class", this is what first comes to the mind of most audiences when seeing Katniss in The Hunger Games. As a movie that makes Jennifer Lawrence recognizable, X-man: First Class is among the list of top 10 Oscar nominees for "Achievement in Visual Effects". As a prelude of X-man series, this Jennifer Lawrence movie mainly focuses on the historical past between Professor X and Magneto about their fighting against Sebastian Shaw and how their union breaks up.  As for Lawrence, she acts as a transformative mutant who is naughty, confused and dissatisfied with the current society.  

3. The Hunger Games

There is no need to introduce more about this Jennifer Lawrence movie. As a milestone movie in Lawrence's acting career, The Hunger Games is viewed as one of the best 2012 movies so far. As a novel based movie, The Hunger Games makes Jennifer Lawrence a real super star in movie field. Of course, for movies like The Hunger Games, it is an Oscar award instead of an Oscar nomination that worth praising. Acting as Katniss, a character similar to Ree, in the movie, Lawrence tells the world what a strong and brave girl shall be like. When winters come, Panem will choose twenty-four tributes from 12 districts for a fighting game. When Katniss volunteers for her sister, she needs to overcome all difficulties to survive.

4. Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook is a special novel based movie for both audiences and Lawrence.  It is the first time Lawrence tries to act as someone not identified as a teenager. Many people believe that a young girl like her is not a suitable choice for being Tiffany. However, Lawrence takes the role and does quite well. The surprises Lawrence has brought to audiences in the movie have brought her a nomination in Oscar 2013. Just as every cloud has silver linings, every life has their attracting points. In this Oscar nominee, when the life of Pat has fallen into a total mess, he decides to rebuild his life with the help of a widow named Tiffany. During the process, an unexpected bond begins which helps them to regain faith towards their own lives.

Top 5 Most Profitable Novel Based Movies

Even the mighty James Bond doesn't know what to do with the vampire couples. With ideal Cyber Monday deals, Thanksgiving 2012 holiday is a paradise for all consumers; with anticipated fall movies, Thanksgiving 2012 holiday is the Garden of Eden for movie fans. As one of the most well-known novel based movies, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 remains to be the leader in box office ranking list, lagging Skyfall far behind. Even though some loftily expected movies have been released this week, they all failed to waver the dominance of  Breaking Dawn, Part 2.

Compared to Breaking Dawn, Part 2, another novel based movie named Life of Pi is not that lucky. Even with 22 million dollars box office income in the opening weekend, Life of Pi still failed to live up to audiences' expectations.  Since plenty of novel based movies tend to be made each year, it is not an uncommon story to witness a famous novel based movie suffers waterloo in movie market. For example, besides Life of Pi, another novel based movie named Cloud Atlas also disappointing the world. After all, only a few novel based movies can both earn good names in reputation and profits in box office. Therefore, this post will introduce you top five most profitable novel based movies of all time.

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

As the most profitable novel-based movie of all time, Harry Potter and the Death Hallows: Part II gained over 1.32 billion dollars in box office, created new record for single-day box office performance and even become the best July movie of all time. Of course, the great success of this Harry Potter movie is partly due to the great success of Harry Potter novels. As one of the best-selling book in Amazon, Harry Potter novels are always favored by readers of all ages. In this novel based movie, Harry Potter needs to search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes to kill the dark lord. However, after Harry knows he is one of those Horcruxes, he decides to sacrifice for his career.

2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Few fantasy movies can attract the attention of Oscar and even less can be the final winner. The Return of the King is just one of those winners. As a low-budget movie, The Return of the King manages to become one of the best movies of all time, marking a perfect end to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. With over 1.11 billion dollars, this novel based movie ranks fourth as the most profitable movie of all time. The Return of the King is produced according to a famous novel written by J.R.R. Tolkien in mid 1990s. In fact, three movies of The Lord of The Ring are all made basing on the same novel.  Till now, the novel The Lord of the Rings is still one of the best-selling books in the market. This novel based movie mainly deals with the final fight between human beings and Sauron's army. Frodo needs to destroy the ring while Aragorn fights the army.

3. Alice in Wonderland

As one of the well-known novels in history, Alice in Wonderland enjoys great reputations for centuries around the world. Therefore, there are various movies made on the basis of this novel. Among them, Alice in Wonderland, the 2010 movie, is probably the most successful one. Also Alice is one of the most successful 3D movies in history. With over 1.02 billion dollars in box office, this novel based movie is on the list of top 10 most profitable movies of all time. In this novel based movie, Alice travels to a wonderland after getting through a rabbit hole. When she finds the world is under the shadow of the evil Red Queen, she needs to fulfill her destiny by beating the queen with her friends.

4. The Hunger Games

As the best-selling books in Amazon, The Hunger Game trilogy beats seven Harry Potter books in a rather short time. Moreover, two sequels of The Huger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay are promising to beat Harry Potter movies in box office in the next two years. As the first movie of The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games not only becomes the best movie released in Mar, but also stirs the topic of The Hunger Games vs The Avengers. With 408 million dollars, The Hunger Games turns out to be one of the most profitable movies in 2012. As a profitable novel based movie, The Hunger Games goes along with the plot in Suzanne Collins's novel. In this movie, Katniss is one of the 24 tributes who need to fight each other to death in a fighting show of Capitol. She finally gets her survive with the help of her fellow tribute named Peeta. However, when she wins the match, she realizes it is just a start.

5. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2

Since its release, the novel based movie has dominated the movie market during Thanksgiving 2012 holiday. As the final movie of Twilight sage, Breaking Down, Part 2 mainly deals with the final fate of the vampire lovers. When Bella and Edward have given birth to Renesmee, the whole family needs to find a way to protect the baby from being hunted by Volturi. So far, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 has gained over 141 million dollars in domestic market in box office. Therefore, it will be just a matter of time for it to become the best and most profitable Twilight movie. However, contrary to other novel based movies mentioned above, the movie does much better than the novel in terms of influence.  To some extent, the success of Twilight, the novel, can be contributed to the popularization of Twilight movies.

The Avengers vs The Hunger Games - A General Review in 4 Aspects

As the most successful 2012 summer movies, both The Avengers and The Hunger Games brought audiences one surprise after another. As a consequence, the debate over the topic of The Avengers vs The Hunger Games had never ceased. Superhero movie fans argued that The Avengers did much better in box office performance than The Hunger Games while novel lovers fought back by listing the fact that the DVD sale of The Hunger Games went beyond the reach of The Avengers. The debate over the winner of The Avengers vs The Hunger Games is one without ends.

Only when one has watched them all, can they make their own judgments. Since I hadn't watched them in the cinema, I have to wait for the DVD versions. Finally, both the DVD version of The Avengers and The Hunger Games are available now. I have watched the DVD versions of them both in recent days (Since I want to watch the DVDs with iPad 2, I choose to convert the DVDs for iPad 2). Therefore, I want to give a general review on both movies and express my opinions on the winner of The Avengers vs The Hunger Games. Therefore, this post will review those two movies in five aspects.

1. The Avengers vs The Hunger Games: Plot

If I would like to conclude the plot of The Avengers like this: Loki has attacked an army base to rob a magic box for invasion and then Nick Fury collected five superheroes to fight against the invasion. The plot follows typical Hollywood blockbuster mode. I knew it before I had watched it. However, I was expecting the cooperation and fighting scenes of those superheroes. However, I didn't get much in the movie. The movie just focused on too much on those trivial like the arguing of superheroes.

Before watching The Hunger Games, I thought it would be a bloody and violent movie. Of course, it wasn't but that surprised me a lot. The Hunger Games is about how a girl named Katniss suffered in a killing match. Who will want to see a movie about fighting match but without too many fighting scene. Before I have seen The Hunger Games, I didn't believe anyone would do that. However, I must say The Hunger Games really attracted me with its plot. Fasten me to the belt from the first minute to the last. Therefore, the plots of those two movies are all surprising, one in a disappointing way and the other in a joying way.

2. The Avengers vs The Hunger Games: Background Music

To be honest, the background music of The Avengers didn't impress me too much. I don't know why. Maybe I wasn't focused enough or maybe the plot was more attractive. I have impressed by the music of famous movies like Avatar and Titanic but not by The Avengers. Contrary to that, The Hunger Games did much better in this field.

I was impressed by at least three parts of background music of the movie. The exciting music when Katniss first appeared before audiences, the amusing music of interviewing program and the sad songs in the ending of the movie. To be honest, I love the ending song most because it can easily stir the sad emotion in your heart. At least with the background music of The Hunger Games, I feel like I can feel what those characters feel.

3. The Avengers vs The Hunger Games: Expectation

I know sequels of The Avengers and The Hunger Games are being directed. If I have a ticket to see one of them, I will love to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The movie just arouses your curiosity towards plots of the sequels. When I have finished watching The Hunger Games, I even have a desire to read the original novels and tried to search as much information about its sequels as possible. I know what will happen in Catching Fire and Mockingiay, but I still want to see the movies. Though I know nothing about the sequel of The Avengers, I do know it will be a story of how superheroes manage to rescue the Earth after going through difficulties.

4. The Avengers vs The Hunger Games: Heroes

Before watching The Hunger Games, I knew little about it. However, after viewing it, I could tell something about the main characters. What about the characters in The Avengers? I still had no idea on how to introduce Black Widow and Hawkeye even though I had seen them in Iron Man 2 and Thor respectively. For those who hadn't seen those movies to know about heroes in The Avengers, they might even have difficulty telling something about Iron Man and Thor. Moreover, the Hulk I saw in the movie seemed to be quite different from what I had known in The Incredible Hulk in personality.

Best 3 Profitable Movie Series of Lion Gate Film

How popular can The Hunger Games be? According to Amazon, the book sale of The Hunger Games trilogy had surpassed Harry Potter series. Moreover, the DVD sale of The Hunger Games is promising to exceed that of The Avengers. As a movie produced by Lion Gate Film, The Hunger Games turns out to be the biggest surprise in the movie market this year.

When it was released, The Hunger Games successfully attracted the world's attention. Several months later, The Hunger Games DVD was still eye-catching. Due to the great success of The Hunger Games, Lion Gate Film intends to produce another three sequels in three years. Consequently, The Hunger Games turns out to be another profitable series movie of Lion Gate Film and probably the most profitable one.

Therefore, this post will introduce you top three movie series produced by Lion Gate Film, which are quite influential in the market. Since the DVD versions of those movie series are mostly available, one may just as well watch those DVDs on Samsung Note 10.1 by converting the DVDs to MP4 videos.

1. Profitable movie series of Lion Gate Film: Saw series

As a profitable movie series, Saw series was the primary movie series of Lion Gate Film before The Hunger Games series. Since the success of Saw in 2004, Lion Gate Film had produced a new Saw movie each year till 2011. Therefore there are seven movies in Saw series so far. All the seven movies are about the stories of how a talented killer tried to help victims to execute soul redemption after going through various tortures.

Though the plot of each Saw movie differ, they will turn out to be an integrated story when connecting them together. For example, the first movie may lay a good foundation for the seventh movie and the seventh movie may explain those untold things in the third movie. However, though each Saw movie can present you surprises, seven movies in seven years is still far from tolerable.

2. Profitable movie series of Lion Gate Film: Cube series

When it was release in 1997, Cube earned good reputations with its excellent plot and wonderful atmosphere. Consequently, two more movies were released, making Cube trilogy profitable movie series of Lion Gate Film. In the three Cube movies, the heroes were trapped in a weird structure. As they try to escape they need to fight against the traps and their evil minds. Cube trilogy includes movies that will bring you into deep thoughts about human weakness after your watching.

3. Profitable movie series of Lion Gate Film: The Hunger Games

It is said four The Hunger Games movies instead of three movies will be produced in the future. Catching Fire will be released in 2013 while Mockingjay will be divided into two movies released in 2014 and 2015 respectively. With over 600 million dollars in box office, The Hunger Games created various records as the first movie of a movie series. Consequently, the sequels of The Hunger Games bear much more pressure at present.

After three books of The Hunger Games beat seven books of Harry Potter, people are expecting The Hunger Games trilogy will beat Harry Potter series in the future. However, it is not an easy task providing the director of The Hunger Games has refused to direct its sequels. Amony the three movies of The Hunger Games, only the DVD version of The Hunger Games is available.

Those are the three profitable movie series of Lion Gate Film. If you are careful enough, you can find the common points of all those movies series. For one thing, they are all about killing and competition; for another, they have revealed us the human defects in various ways.