OUR POLL WINNER: THE GODFATHER

Our poll which lasted about a month and a half finally resulted and I'm not very surprised that the result is the legendary Godfather series.

Since you have picked this series as the winner, I assume that you already know about the plot . That's why I'll write about some interesting points of the series which you may not know about.

-The Godfather I received 3 Oscars and 5 Golden Globe Awards. The movie is the first in Empire's Greatest 500 Movies list and the second in IMDB's Top 250 Movies list.

-The Godfather II was the first film in which both Al Pacino and Robert De Niro played, though they never played in the same scene during the movie.

-Paramount wanted Robert Redford or Ryan O'Neal to be Michael Corleone but Coppola wanted a ratherly unknown guy, so he found Al Pacino, having appeared in only two minor films. The studio didn't consider him right for the role because of his height. Al Pacino got the role only after Coppola threatened to quit the production.

-Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Sheen and Warren Beatty also auditioned for being Michael Corleone.

-The well-known music of the series by Nino Rota was removed from the Academy Award nominees list after it turned out that the theme was used before in a 1958 comedy movie named Fortunella.

I'm officially ending our first poll by placing this very well-known scene from The Godfather I:

ACTION AND COMEDY COMBINED TOGETHER: TROPIC THUNDER

Hello everybody!! After a brief while, I'm here again to talk to you about a recent movie (US:Released in August, Turkey: Released in October) named "Tropic Thunder". The movie grabs attention at first with its cast including Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. Besides them, Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Nolte also have fairly important roles. The movie is directed by Ben Stiller, the main star of the movie.

The movie is about a bunch of actors who try to make a movie of a memoir about the war in Vietnam. After some trials to make some scenes, it appears that the actors are lacking the spirit that is needed to make a war movie. Then, the writer of the memoir which the movie is based on, a veteran of the US army (Nick Nolte), convinces the director that the atmosphere should be just like the war time to make a great war movie. Followingly, the actors are dropped off next to a forest; but of course, the actors don't know that they are in the Golden Triangle: the home of an Asian heroin producing gang. After that, the actors become obliged to use the fighting skills that they've learnt during making movies. While they try to survive, their story comes out to be very amusing.

If you are defining yourselves as both an action and a comedy fan, try "Tropic Thunder"; i'm sure that it'll meet your expectations!

Here is the trailer of the movie:

A BRILLIANT BOOK ADAPTATION: REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

Hello dear readers!! Today, we're going to talk about a movie named "Requiem For A Dream", a 2000 movie adapted from the 1978 novel of the same name. The movie was directed by Darren Aranofsky, an American director aged 39.

If we had to say one word on which the movie was based, it would definitely be DRUGS and the their harms on people. There are four main characters in the movie. First one, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a fairly aged woman whose best desire is to appear on her favourite quiz show. One day, someone telephones Sara and tells her that she is chosen to appear on the quiz show. After that, she gets overly excited and gets obsessed with her look and how fat she is. For that reason, she goes to a doctor who is well-known for making the patients slim in a very brief period. The doctor gives her amphetamines( without letting Sara know) and Sara starts to use them regularly. Finally, she ends up a vicim of the look obsession and finds herself in the hospital. The other main character, Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) is Sara's son and an unemployed young man whose desire is to make some money and he starts dealing drugs to reach this goal of his, in cooperation with his girlfriend, Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly) and his friend Tyrone C. Love (Marlon Wayans). After making a big amount of money dealing drugs, the police seize most of the money they've won and the group turns broke. Once, Marion even sleeps with her therapist for money. In the end, Tyrone gets caught by the police and ends up in prison and Marion visits Big Tim, a drug dealer, who guarantees that he'll give her heroin if she does some sexual favors for her. Then, Marion calls Harry to tell him to come back since she doesn't want to go to Big Tim's, and Harry says he will but both know that it won't happen. In prison, noticing the gruesome look of his arm because of heroin use, the officers send Harry to the prison infirmary and after a big operation, he ends up with one arm.

Therefore, in conclusion, no one can reach their dreams by using drugs and everybody ends up a loser.

The soundtrack of the movie is "Lux Aeterna", a song that holds a melancholic and tragic melody. The same song is used by many different movies, commercials and trailers, too.

Ellen Burstyn was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar with her performance. Also, the movie is the 61th in the IMDB list of the best movies ever.

In conclusion, if you think you're capable of enduring a really sharp and highly dramatic movie, this is the one for you.

Here is the trailer of the movie for you guys to make an idea of what the film's like: