Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

This movie is based on a best-selling fantasy-adventure children series, which is Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Olympians". To be more precise, the movie is based on the first book of the series titled The Lightning Thief. The movie is directed by Chris Colombus, director of Home Alone, Harry Potter and the sorcerer stone, and Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets. The screenplay based on the novel is made by Craig Titley, and the soundtrack of the movie is made by Christophe Beck aka Chris Beck, who also worked on famous movies such as bring it on (2000), American wedding (2003), waiting for Superman (2010), and the TV series Buffy the vampire slayer for which he won an Emmy Award.

In the 21st century, there is a major crisis between the gods of Mount Olympus also known as the Olympians. They're unhappy because Zeus(Sean Bean)' lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman), a high school student who will later discover that he is the son of Poseidon, is their main suspect. Because of this whole missunderstanding, the newly discovered demigod (Percy Jackson) will have to search for the missing thunderbolt and give it back to its owner in order to prove his innocence. He will have to face many great dangers, and he will even be attacked by monsters such as Medusa (Uma Thurman). The gods appearing in the movie include: Aphrodite (Serinda Swan), Apollo (Dimitri Lekkos), Ares, Artemis (Ona Grauer), Athena (Melina Kanakaredes), Demeter (Stefanie Von Pfetten), Hades (Steve Coogan), Hephaestus (Conrad Coates), Hera (Erica Cerra), Hermes (Dylan Neal), Hestia, Persephone (Rosario Dawson), Poseidon (Kevin McKidd), Zeus (Sean Bean).

Also, Percy's mother, Sally Jackson (Catherine Keener), disappears mysteriously. Having to face multiple problems at once, he will engage himself in a thrilling adventure with his friends, looking for his missing mother, and trying to find the true lightning thief and give the lightning bolt back to Zeus in order to take all accusations off him and most-importantly in order to prevent an upcoming war between the Olympians.

The Book Of Eli

In a close future, America is totally destroyed by the final war. Highways, buildings, cities are torn apart. Only a few people survived this apocalyptic disaster, and the streets are taken over by bandits that won't hesitate to kill anyone they find for a simple shoe or a watch, food, or even for no reason at all.

Eli (Denzel Washington) is a traveler that only seeks peace, but will cut in peaces anyone who dares to attack him. He doesn't have this fierce attitude to protect his own life but to protect the last remaining copy of the Bible that he has been carrying for thirty years. He believes this Bible is the only hope for humanity, and engages himself in a journey to find a place where the Bible can be safe and where it can be multiplied again.

In the meantime, in every corner, there are gunmen and thieves that walk around the streets robbing people they find on their way, with the main purpose of finding the precious Book of Eli. They work for a man named Carnegie (Gary Oldman), that has a whole community of bandits at his service. In this ruined and corrupted world where there are no more schools or other sources of education, only Carnegie understands the power that Eli holds in his hands, and he is willing to do whatever it takes to take it from him. But it won't be easy to find the traveler that won't let anything stop him from reaching his goal.

Solara (Mila Kunis) is the adoptive daughter of Carnegie. She has a certain interest in Eli just like her father, but with another purpose: she wants to leave her father's territory and go with Eli to be able to live the experience of the outside world, although it is full of dangers.

Also starring Ray Stevenson as Redridge, Jennifer Beals as Claudia

Avatar

Jake Sully is a former marine who lost his ability to walk. Despite his physical disabilities, he is recruited for a mission on Pandora, which contains a mineral that could solve the energy problems of the Earth. However, the atmosphere of Pandora is highly toxic for the human body. That is why they created the avatars, which are a combination of human DNA and DNA form the Na'vi, inhabitants of Pandora. By transferring the consciousness of the humans to the avatars, they're able to survive under the atmosphere of Pandora.

When Jake Sully gets in his avatar form, he can walk again and is able to restart all his activities as a soldier. He is sent on a mission on Pandora to infiltrate the Na'vi population in order to take the rare mineral, because the Na'vi has become a big obstacle to the project. While Jake is on Pandora, a female Na'vi named Neytiri saves his life. After that, Jake is taken to Neytiri's clan and gets to know the Na'vi customs better, then finally takes place among them. He will later lead his new family to a combat in order to save their civilization. Here is the trailer below:



The movie is directed by James Cameron, whose writing and directing work include Terminator (1984), Terminator 2 (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997). Cameron already had the idea of the movie in the areas of 1994, but couldn't put it out because of the lack of technological material at the time.