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Movie Review --- AWAKE (* * *)


Awake , written and directed by Joby Harold, tells the story of Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen), a young businessman involved in a secret love affair with his mother’s personal assistant, Sam Lockwood (Jessica Alba). Clay has a bad heart and is in need of a heart transplant, and he intends to have his friend Dr. Jack Harper (Terrance Howard) perform the surgery despite the four malpractice suits Harper is facing. Clay’s Mother played by Lena Olin wants the procedure done by a close friend of hers, who is one of the top doctors in the world. Clay and Sam reveal their engagement to his mother, a fight occurs, the couple rush to get married, and on that very same night, a donor is found. Clay is rushed to surgery, and on the operating table, he experiences anesthetic awareness.
While under anesthetic, but fully aware, he hears the doctors and nurses ploting his death, and can do nothing about it. There are few twists and turn that I won’t reveal, as it would ruin the movie
I’m not a big fan of Hayden Christensen, and this movie didn’t do much to sway me. He was just ok but didn’t come off as whiney as his roles in the star wars movies. Jessica Alba was also just ok in this movie, she wont be winning any awards for this role.
I give this movie a 3 out of 4 stars.
It a good rental.

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42   The Mist12$6.6M$14.8M
54   Enchanted 19$6.3M$21.8M
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109   The Kite Runner12$4.1M$9M


Amazon Blu-Ray Deals

Amazon has a buy 2 get one free deal going to blu-ray titles.

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Here is the list of the selected titles:

Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] (2007)
The Fifth Element (Remastered) [Blu-ray] (1997)
300 [Blu-ray] (2007)
Pan's Labyrinth [Blu-ray] (2006)
Troy - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray] (2004)
Black Hawk Down [Blu-ray] (2002)
The Departed [Blu-ray] (2006)
Run Lola Run [Blu-ray] (1999)
Unforgiven [Blu-ray] (1992)
Monty Python's Life Of Brian - The Immaculate Edition [Blu-ray] (1979)
Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary) [Blu-ray] (1992)
Big Fish [Blu-ray] (2004)
Blue Planet (IMAX) [Blu-ray] (1993)
House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray] (2005)
The Fugitive [Blu-ray] (1993)
Curse of the Golden Flower [Blu-ray] (2007)
A Knight's Tale [Blu-ray] (2001)
Lord of War [Blu-ray] (2005)
First Blood [Blu-ray] (1982)
Weeds - The Complete First Season [Blu-ray] (2005)
Crash [Blu-ray] (2005)
Weeds - The Complete Second Season [Blu-ray] (2005)
Seven Years in Tibet [Blu-ray] (1997)
Into the Blue [Blu-ray] (2005)
Wild Things (Unrated Edition) [Blu-ray] (1998)
War [Blu-ray] (2007)
Crank [Blu-ray] (2006)
Ocean's Thirteen [Blu-ray] (2007)
Hollow Man (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] (2000)
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn [Blu-ray] (1987)
50 First Dates [Blu-ray] (2004)
Hitch [Blu-ray] (2005)
Dawn of the Dead [Blu-ray] (1979)
Halloween [Blu-ray] (1978)
Closer [Blu-ray] (2004)
Revenge (Unrated Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] (1990)
Rent [Blu-ray] (2005)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse [Blu-ray] (2004)
Beowulf & Grendel [Blu-ray] (2005)
Viva Las Vegas [Blu-ray] (1964)
The Tailor of Panama [Blu-ray] (2001)
Day of the Dead [Blu-ray] (1985)
Masters of Horror: Season 1, Vol. 1 [Blu-ray] (2005)
To Kill A King [Blu-ray] (2003)
The Cowboys [Blu-ray] (1972)
The Condemned [Blu-ray] (2007)
Masters of Horror: Season 1, Vol. 3 [Blu-ray] (2005)
Masters of Horror: Season 1, Vol. 2 [Blu-ray] (2005)
Masters of Horror - Season 1, Vol. 4 [Blu-ray] (2005)
Flatliners [Blu-ray] (1990)
Out for Justice [Blu-ray] (1991)
Jailhouse Rock [Blu-ray] (1957)
Nature's Colors [Blu-ray]
A View from Space With Heavenly Music [Blu-ray]
New Orleans Concert - The Music of America's Soul [Blu-ray] (2006)
Muriel Anderson - Guitarscape Planet [Blu-ray] (2006)
Dispatch: Zimbabwe - Live at Madison Square Garden [Blu-ray] (2008)
ATL [Blu-ray] (2006)

Ive been interested in having my own home theater since I ran accross a link in an article I was reading about people having backyard theaters. After a few times of dropping $60 for our family of five to go to the movies, I knew there had to be a better way. I wanted a pretty big screen so I would feel like I was really at the movies. I started looking a 60-73 lcds, plasmas and dlps. With prices ranging from 3,000-4,000 dollar just for the tv I knew I need to go another way.

I remembered reading the artice on the backyard theaters, and decided to check to see if the price on projectors had come down at all from a few years ago. They had. I did a bunch of research online and bought my first projector and screen in janurary of this year. Im having so much fun with my home theater I thought I would start a blog and do movie reviews, product reviews, and how-to's pertaining to home theatre.

Stay tuned....
 
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