The Tuxedo is a comedy movie released on September 27, 2002 in the United States, Starring Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt and Directed by Kevin Donovan. The Tuxedo was released on February 25, 2003 in the United States on DVD. The disc features interactive menus, direct access to scenes, audio and subtitles in multiple languages, outtakes, deleted scenes and documentaries. The disc features interactive menus, direct access to scenes, subtitles and multiple audio languages, deleted scenes, extended sequences, outtakes, making of and movie trailer

Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) is a taxi driver who has gone from the profession to be the driver. He must learn very quickly that the time to work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs) there is only one important rule: Never touch the tuxedo, formal dress that both appreciate Devlin. However, when it is temporarily out of action after suffering a head injury after an explosion, Jimmy puts on the tuxedo and finds that it is a special suit that turns that puts you in a martial arts expert, as if a black belt. Jimmy is surprisingly plunged into the dangerous world of espionage along with fellow rookie and inexperienced call Del Blaine (Jennifer Love Hewitt). Jimmy will become an elegant and dangerous secret agent in tidy suits.

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Cast
- Jackie Chan (Jimmy Tong)
- Jennifer Love Hewitt (Del Blaine)
- Jason Isaacs (Clark Devlin)
- Peter Stormare (Dr. Simms)
- Debi Mazar (Steena)
- Romany Malco (Mitch)

According to the Rotten Tomatoes Web site obtained a 22% positive feedback, leading to the following conclusion: “Chan is as charismatic as ever, but its charms are wasted on special effects and a bad script. According to the website Metacritic received negative reviews, with 30% based on 27 reviews of which 2 are positive.  Grossed $ 50 million in the U.S. Adding international revenues, the figure rose to 104 million. The budget invested in production was 60 million. The Tuxedo was filmed between 10 September 2001 and January 2002 in various locations in Canada.

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Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is a sequel of Transformers movie which will be released in UK and USA in the month of June, 2009. The first movie, transformers was released in 2007 and remained at the top on UK and US movie charts for several months. The movie was a great success, and in America only it earned approximately $320 million.

Transformers 2 is a science fiction movie directed by renowned director Michael Bay and executively produced by splendid producer Steven Spielberg. These two names do not need any introduction in the Hollywood. It is a $200 million budget movie where we have four other producers, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Ian Bryce, Tom DeSanto and Don Murphy, along with Steven. The movie is written by three great authors, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Ehren Kruger, whereas Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and John Turturro were the main characters in the film. The length of this sequel movie is about 2 hours and it will be an ultimate thriller.

The movie shows the war between Autobots and Decepticons, both of which have their own characteristics and abilities. The apparent difference between the two can be judged from their eyes with Autobots having blue eyes and Decepticons having red eyes.

Devastator is collective form of Constructicons that are a group of fictional characters from the Transformers universe. Devastator is made up from seven construction vehicles and it has great upper body strength like that of gorilla.
Devastator is a massive robot, 46 feet tall, and walks in a four-legged fashion. His gait also resembles to gorilla. He can’t stand upright, but if he could, he can attain a height of 100 to 120 feet. His jaws can create suction vortex and he has wrestling hooks which enables him to climb easily on a pyramid.

Devastator in Transformers 2 is not what you had seen in the first movie. The name was mistakenly attributed to Brawl which was a tank. The movie trailers suggests that Long Haul, Mixmaster, and two unidentified Constructicons will head down to the bottom of the ocean to hunt Megatron’s corpse, and will finally reactive their fallen leader.

Devastator and other members of its team are formed to show the brutality in its purest form as they don’t have any purpose but to destroy anything and everything that gets in their way. It is sarcastic that the rightfully smart Constructicons should forfeit their thinking capability in their collective form, but simple-mindedness is an ordinary curb of the various other first-generation combining Transformers, because Devastator’s judgment and actions are restricted to what his six components can concur upon at any given time. As a result, Devastator looks like a being of intuition, pouring out at everything around him before considering the penalty, but he is also sluggish and bumbling and very easy to trip up.
All we have are just few glimpses of the Devastator which we have seen in the movie trailer. We can’t say anything for sure until we see devastator in the movie. The clock is ticking and I just can’t wait to see the movie premiere.

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Born in May of 1944, in Modesto, California, George Lucas lived a world away from the horrors of Fascist Germany. Yet its imprint is more than evident in Lucas’ life’s work and creative brainchild, the Star Wars Saga. Admitting that the Galactic Empire was based on Germany’s Third Reich, Lucas drew from history the characters and imagery needed to paint his evil regime. While some parallels are obvious-such as the robotic white soldiers Lucas named “storm troopers,” the same name Hitler gave his personal bodyguards during World War II, other comparisons require a little digging. These comparisons make for a fascinating study.

Senator Palpatine and Adolf Hitler: The story of Senator Palpatine as fleshed out in Episodes I, II, and III bears remarkable resemblance to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. Both men rose from obscurity to power, outwardly embracing democracy and the republic, while behind the scenes they worked for its ruin. In Episode II Senator Palpatine faces the dissolution of the senate with, “I love democracy…I love the republic,” while reluctantly accepting supreme power. It is unknown that he is also the Sith Lord, orchestrating the downfall of democracy. This echoes the history of Hitler, who also outwardly supported democracy, promising to play by its rules, all along forming a shadow government and an army among the ranks of his Nazi party. The similarity is most striking in the burning of the Jedi temple and the 1933 burning of the Reichstag which effectively dissolved the German senate. These spectacles were both masterminded to bring Palpatine and Hitler into power. Afterwards, Palpatine installs himself as Emperor, while Hitler declared himself “Fuhrer,” or supreme leader.

The leadership style of Palpatine continues to be modeled after Hitler, who then withdrew from the public eye and surrounded himself with only those whom he knew to be his loyal followers. While Hitler formed the SS-a black-coated protection squad which protected him day and night and publicly carried out his orders, Palpatine as emperor created Darth Vader-his black robed crony whose obedience to the Emperor extended to destroying whole planets. Hitler is remembered as evil embodied, and as such, Lucas could not have chosen a better figure to model Palpatine after.

Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker Parallels: In German, vater means “father.” Thus, Vader is a most interesting and deliberate choice for a character who is the father of the spiritual Star Wars hero. This father-son relationship finds its parallel in the relationship between the German poet and political rebel Albrecht Haushofer and his father, Karl. Karl’s frequent travels to Japan greatly influenced his life and thinking. He was particularly entranced by the samurai–the Japanese military aristocracy which Lucas drew on heavily for inspiration for the Jedi. In the 1920s Karl became involved with Hitler through his close student, Rudolf Hess (who later was considered Hitler’s #3 man after Goring). Karl became instrumental in forming the alliance between Germany and Japan. An additional interesting side note is that a geopolitical contemporary named Maull existed at this time. Maul was a contemporary sith of Anakin Skywalker.

Why Superheroes?

They’re in our movies. Every few years there’s a rush of superhero films (and apparently a big rush as of this writing).

They’re on television. We’ve been having superhero stories for quite a few years now. We’ve also had “superheroesque” shows like Buffy and Supernatural, which are superhero stories with other trappings.

They’re in games, despite the fact that superhero games have a dismal history with a few shining gems.

They are, of course, in comics. Comics may expand their themes in North America, but it keeps coming back to superheroes.

So, why superheroes? Why are they everywhere, and even when they fade, why do they come back?

I could talk Joseph Campbell and nostalgia and the like – and there are indeed many reasons. But I think one reason that is oft ignored is that the superhero genre is not a genre – it’s a mishmash of all genres. That gives it a freedom and a power that people operating in the media spheres of the economy need to understand.

If we take a look at the origin of superheroes, they themselves are a mishmash. Batman starts as a pulp detective in a costume. Superman and Spider man have their origins in science fiction. Wonder Woman’s background is myth and magic, as is Doctor Strange. Superheroes themselves come from many types of stories and backgrounds.

The creative cocktail of superherodom becomes richer when these characters began crossing over and sharing continuities many decades ago. Batman’s dark world was also the world of god-like Superman. Spider man coped with his science-given powers in the same universe where dread Dormammu challenged Tibetan-trained Doctor Strange. Though “fused genres” were known before in the pulps, and in the weird fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and others (which often fused science fiction and the occult), superheroes did it bigger, broader, and more prominently.

The result of this is, I believe, a kind of “metagrenre” that accepts a kitbash of story types, character types, and backgrounds. This acceptance of crossover means that stories with a superheroic element to them can do most anything and find a public that accepts it. If it’s got a bit of the comic book in it, people will accept alien detectives from Mars, magic-wielding aliens from a world of wizards, and a romantic comedy triangle between a superhero, his secret identity, and a tough-as-nails female reporter.

If it’s got a superheroic streak to it, you can have fun and get away with things you couldn’t in any other genre. Buffy the Vampire slayer can toss in vampires, cyborgs, and government conspiracies into one story. Alien bounty hunter Lobo can fight demons. You can do anything.

If you want to do everything at once, the superhero genre or a variant is the way to go for your story, book, comic, or other media property.

The flaw of course is that people are less likely to buy a mash-up without the superheroic streak to it – though I think that’s beginning to change. However it’s still rare to see the kind of crazy genre combinations that you see in superhero and superhero-like stories.

But if that gateway has been opened, as we’ve seen, it may change in the years to come. Batman and Doctor Strange and the rest have blazed the trail for us to slam together accepted genres. At the rate we’re seeing superheroic themes in media, it may become accepted.

If you work in media? You’ll want to be there.

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