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Invictus

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An amazing story on racism by depicting the South African rugby during the initial year of Nelson Mandela's rule directed by Clint Eastwood. Invictus Poster The main characters are the rugby team captain portrayed by Matt Damon and Nelson Mandela portrayed by Morgan Freeman. After Mandela being elected to presidency after 30 years of imprisonment. He chooses to continue the South African Rugby team which consists of white people and has lost very badly in recent matches eventhough his officials ask him to cancel it. But he doesn't stop with it, he believes that the team will win the world cup that is held in South Africa that year. He makes the team to do training camps in all parts of the country, visits them and supports them. And finally the team wins the world cup. The film is very heart warming. Morgan Freeman is best in his acting in this film. It's a good film for racists to change their attitude or point of view. With Sri Lanka,  my homeland playing in the t...

Series Finale of Eureka

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Just watched the series finale of Eureka. Five seasons of science and imagination with a new adventure in every episodes while continuing a main story arc. It tells the adventures of a sheriff in a town filled with scientists and nerds. Through this TV show, I was introduced to the world of gravitons, worm holes, FTL drive, virtual reality, organic computing, body printing, time travel, teleportation and artificial intelligence. What I found in separate movies, TV shows, I saw all of them in this TV show. I was fascinated to see, that an entire episode included a setup similar to what was done in Biosphere 2 project, a real research done in Arizona. Biosphere 2 site The other thing that fascinates me is the smart home, in which the lead character lives. The smart home is run by an artificial intelligence called SARAH. I really hope to live in smart home like that in the very near future. It is a really good sci-fi because, some of the concepts used in the show are r...

The Amazing Spiderman

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After waiting in the line as the first person in the queue, got the tickets for the movie at Liberty Lite.  Although the space in the theater was very cozy, the film distracted the discomfort. Amazing Spiderman Poster Marvel is doing a great job in taking superhero movies, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man and Avengers. The cast of the movie was good. Andrew Garfield portraying Peter Parker, looks like a grown up version of Freddie Highmore. And both of them are British. He is very much different from the Tobey Maguire, who portrayed the character in previous trilogy. Emma Stone was just awesome, as she did in Easy A and The Help. She portrays the character of Gwen Stacey. It's kind of interesting that the girlfriend is revealed the double identity of the hero early in the story, unlike the other superhero movies and the previous trilogy. Director Marc Webb does a good job, in creating a good romantic storyline while including a lot of action sequences. The dial...