Review: The Expendables 2 (2012)

In Movie Theaters: 17 August 2012

Review:

As in the previous Expendables, this time the movie is also filled with the faces of popular actors. Viewers will be spoiled by live action of Hollywood actors like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, and many more.

Trailer

The Expendables has been returned. Barney Ross, Lee Christmas, Yin Yang, Gunnar Jensen, Toll Road, and Hale Caesar, plus two new members Billy the Kid and Maggie - met again when Mr Church enlisted the Expendables for a seemingly simple job. They thought that this would be easy, but it all fallen apart when one of them was cruelly murdered by Valain, their mercenary rival, the Expendables were forced to seek a revenge. Vilain, make it more interesting, had a terrible plan to collect the amount of plutonium which was enough to change the balance of the power in the world. In addition to their mission of revenge as well to stop the mad plans of Vilain.

Directed by: Simon West

Starring:

Sylvester Stallone: Barney Ross

Jason Statham: Lee Christmas

Jet Li: Yin Yang

Dolph Lundgren: Gunnar Jensen

Chuck Norris: Booker

Terry Crews: Hale Caesar

Randy Couture: Toll Road

Liam Hemsworth: Bill 'the Kid' Timmons

Bruce Willis: Mr. Church

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Trent Mauser

Scott Adkins: Hector

Yu Nan: Maggie

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Review: Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

In Movie Theaters: 08 June 2012

Review:

Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo, and Melman the Giraffe are still struggling to find their way home, Africa. This time they were through Europe where they found the perfect cover: a traveling circus, where they found the style of Madagascar!

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dependent on chimpanzee and the penguin , their plans were missed and they were stranded in Monte Carlo, where they tried to escape from European animal watch command, Captain Chantel DuBois and eventually they joined a traveling circus. Led by a Siberian tiger, Vitaly, circus animals have been through a series of tour cities in Europe which ended in the heart City of London. Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria helped Vitaly the Tiger, Gia, and Stefano rediscover their passion and designing their new shows.

Directed by: Eric Darnell

Starring:

Ben Stiller: Alex (voice) 

Chris Rock: Marty (voice) 

David Schwimmer: Melman (voice) 

Jada Pinkett-Smith: Gloria (voice) 

Sacha Baron Cohen:  King Julien XIII (voice)

Frances McDormand: Captain Chantel DuBois (voice)

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Review: Ice Age 4 Continental Drift (2012)

In Movie Theaters: 13 July 2012

Review:

"Manny, Diego, and Sid begin another adventure after their continent was divided. Using a chunk of ice as a ship, they sail the seas, meet fascinating sea creatures and fight with pirates, they explore the new world."

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Ice Age: Continental Drift tells the story of a trio of "Manny, Diego, and Sid" who will begin their greatest adventure after a disaster that makes all the lands on earth to be separated into five continents. Separated from another band, they make use of crushed ice as a 'ship' to sail the seas to a new adventure. In the sea they found a unique and exotic sea creatures, new islands, and even a group of pirates who try to capture them. And they will meet with the crazy squirrel 'Scrat' which is still obsessed with chasing 'curse'canary that brought him to his new adventure he had never experienced before.

Directed by:

Steve Martino

Michael Thurmeier

Starring:

Ray Romano: Manny (voice)

Queen Latifah:  Ellie (voice)

Denis Leary: Diego (voice)

John Leguizamo: Sid (voice)

Sean William Scott: Crash

Jeremy Renner: Gutt (voice)

Jennifer Lopez: Shira (voice)

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Review: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

In Movie Theaters: 20 July 2012 

Review:

This is the last series of the trilogy of The Dark Knight, Batman faces a challenge from the brutal Bane and mysterious Catwoman.

Trailer

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotilard here shown as the descriptions of their character, as a good cop and Bruce's girlfriend. But it seems that John Blake will know who the person behind the mask. Anne Hathway looks pretty in her Catwoman costume. Many people doubted the decision of Nolan when he chose Anne Hathaway to portray Catwoman, but we'll see in July if the allegations will be proved or not.

The voice of (Tom Hardy) Bane might have been cleaned up and clarified so that once sounded hoarse no more.

Moreover, the plot of this movie seems to be a combination of comic book Batman "Knightfall", "Knightquest", and "No Man's Land".

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Starring:

Christian Bale: Bruce Wayne / Batman

Michael Caine: Alfred 

Gary Oldman: Jim Gordon 

Tom Hardy: Bane

Anne Hathaway: Selina Kyle / Catwoman

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: John Blake
Marion Cotilard: Bruce's girlfriend

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Review: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

In Movie Theaters: 3 July 2012 

Review:

The Amazing Spider-Man is the story of Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), a student who had been abandoned by his parents since childhood, since he was raised by Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field). Like most teenagers, Peter tries to find his true identity.

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Peter finds his first love in college where he studied, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), and together, they fight for love, build commitments, and share secrets.

Peter finds a mysterious suitcase belonged to his father, to treat the curious in his mind, he began an investigation concerning the death of his parents, it took him straight to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), a former partner of his father. Spider-Man in the story this time is set for dealing with Connors, The Lizard, which will force him to make decision determining the way Peter uses his powers and his life to go the way of his destiny to become a hero.

Directed by : Marc Webb
Starring:
Andrew Garfield:  Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Emma Stone:  Gwen Stacy
Rhys Ifans:  Dr. Curt Connors / The Lizard
Martin Sheen: Uncle Ben
Sally Field:  Aunt May
Denis Leary: George Stacy

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What is Semantic: Brief Explanation

Semantics is the study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences. It focuses on the conventional meaning conveyed by the use of words and sentences in language, not on what a spaeker might want the words to mean in a particular occasion. It means that semantics only deals with objective and general meaning rather than subjective and local meaning.

Linguists and Philosophers invent three ways in defining meaning. First, by defining the essence of words or lexicon meaning, second, by defining the essence of the meaning of sentence, and third, by explaining communication process. Therefore based on the above ways of defining meaning,  the study of semantics is broken down into are three levels, in which they have different and varied theories to analyze each levels, those are:

• Lexical semantic 
• Sentential semantic, and
• Speech act semantic

Lexical semantic is semantic which tries to explain the meaning of words or lexicon, it means that the focus of this level is only in word and lexicon. Before I go to the kinds of theories in analyzing this level. I want to ask you something. What is the different between word and lexicon anyway? To differentiate those two terms have a look these illustration.

1.  What is the meaning of "kill"?

2. You kill the deer with a gun.

Take a close attention to the word "kill" on those two sentences, the first "kill" refers to word and the second "kill" refers to lexicon. So can you guess what is word and lexicon? Yes you're right, word refers to phonological construct which carries meaning in which it doesn't have any context. Meanwhile, lexicon refers to word which is context sensitive, or word that have context is called lexicon. Therefore you can safely say that every lexicon is word but word is not necessarily lexicon.

There are generally four kinds of theories in this level, those are:

• Referential Theory;
• Image Theory;
• Conceptual Theory; and
• Componential Analysis Theory.

Sentential semantic, the higher level of lexical semantic, is semantic which tries to explain the meaning of sentence. Sentence refers to a group of words which contain a topic and a comment. e.g. "John killed a deer" means that John caused a deer to die. There are three kinds of theories used to analyze this level, those are:

• Truth Condition Theory;
• Theory of Deep Structure; and
• Theory of Predicate Calculus 

Speech act semantic is semantic which tries to explain the meaning of utterances in language used. There are eight features of language in use, those are:

• Appropriacy
• Non-literal or indirect
• Inference
• Indeterminacy
• Context
• Relevance
• Reflexivity
• Misfire

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