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Movie Summary - Maleficent

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Have you ever been forced to go to the movie theatre to see a movie that you really don’t have any interest in watching, expecting that the movie will be just “okay”? It happens to me quite frequently, and more than it probably should. I am not much of a go to the theatre to watch a movie type of person. When I went to theatres to go see Maleficent, I thought it would be boring and all about how evil she was. It turns out I was very wrong. Maleficent was one of the best movies I have ever seen in my entire life. The timing of the movie release date and how long the playing time was, was perfect. Its release date was May 28th, 2014, making it come out right around the time that summer begins for school aged children who may have been interested in watching the movie. The movie itself was a whopping 97 minutes. Which transfers over to an hour and thirty-seven minutes long. It really didn’t seem like I was in the theatre for that long, and keep in mind I am not the theatre type of person. The movie was very captivation of my attention and I was interested the entire time the movie was running. If I were to rate how long the movie was in correlation to how good it was, I would give it a 10 out of 10; considering that the average movie length in the year 2014 is around 130 minutes long, which is two hours and ten minutes long. The acting in Maleficent was phenomenal and very believable. Angelina Jolie played the main character, Maleficent, who was the good fairy that turned into a very bad fairy. The character she played had giant horns coming out of her head, the biggest wings anyone in the entire fairy land had ever seen before and, cheek bones that could cut through steel. With all of that, you couldn’t see any struggle. She was aware of her horns and massive wings, but not to the point that we could tell that she was aware of them. She plays the role very well and you can tell that she really is in tune with the character that she had to become in order to be in the movie. In my opinion, Angelina’s acting skills were at the point where they were better than some of the special effects. Angelina really has that heroic presence. Throughout the entire movie, even if she was in the background o

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