Hollywood top star Dakota Fanning and her sister,  also an actress, Elle Fanning have arrived at Incheon International Airport, Korea on January 5 (local time). They are planning to film a commercial and participate in several interviews and ceremonies during their stay in Korea. Their visit was made by accessory brand, J.ESTINA.

Arriving Incheon International Airport around five A.M. in the morning, the Fanning sisters showed up without any makeup, and they looked little bit tired because of a long-hour flight.

The two starlets were welcomed by many fans who were already waiting for them and the Fanning sisters showed a bright smile to their fans while receiving a bunch of flowers.

The Fanning sisters are scheduled to participate in several events held by J.ESTINA, including filming a TV commercial, and this will be the first time Dakota and Elle will be working together as models. They have appeared in the same movie before.

On January 7, the Fanning sisters will be on the Korean talk show called “Baek Ji-yeon’s People INSIDE,” which is one of the famous talk shows in Korea. This show has a reputation for inviting famous western figures on its stage. So far Hugh Jackman, Anderson Cooper, Jessica Alba, Jason Mraz and the head of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, have been on this show. It has been reported that the Fanning sisters will talk about their personal life story and their recent interests.

Meanwhile, the Fanning sisters were spotted at the Korea’s Hongdae area, which is known for its urban arts and indie music culture, on the day they arrived. It has been reported that the two starlets tried various outfits and accessories on as they were walking around.

Dakota Fanning, who was born February 23, 1994, is a well-known movie star among Korean people for her movie ‘I Am Sam’ which she worked on with Sean Penn. Her performance in this movie earned her a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award at age eight in 2002, making her the youngest nominee in history. There are many high-profile films she was in such as ‘Man on Fire’ (2004), ‘War of the Worlds’ (2005) and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ (2006). She played a girl with a time-limited life in the movie ‘Now Is Good’ last year, impressing many people with her outstanding acting.

Elle Fanning, who was born April 9, 1998, is one of the rookie fashion models in the New York fashion industry with hear unique look. She is mainly known for her starring roles in ‘Phoebe in Wonderland’, ‘Somewhere’ and ‘We Bought a Zoo’.

Image Courtesy : Anthony Citrano

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Looking at Real Steel’s trailer is kind of like watching snip-its of the old show Battle Bots, if the robots were a 100 feet high and could box.  You could say it’s an expensive movie about Rock’em Sock’em Robots.

Richard Matheson, writer of the book I Am Legend had inspired the movie with his book named Steel.  The most recent trailer summarizes a story of a down on his luck, ex-boxer and father who tries to do right by his son.  The goal is to find a robot to fight in the ring.  The father and son find a small beat up one in a junkyard late at night. Of course, the robot can understand the kid and they both form a bond.

If I wanted to see a movie about a kid befriend a giant robot , I would watch Iron Giant.  It basically has the same story, a single minimum wage mother who tries to make ends meet for her son.  Her son finds a giant robot and makes friends with it.  So far, there is not a lot going for the movie except giant fighting robots.

There are a lot of reasons why this movie puts me off.  One: I already mentioned, is that it is the same as Iron Giant but it does not seem as heart- wrenching nor as sophisticated.  Two: the robots are remote controlled. So high stakes will be hard to create.  The only high stake in this movie is the father needing money to raise his son.

So why would an audience care about a 100-foot-tall robot who can understand a kid, without making it like Iron Giant, or even Bicentennial Man?   Of course, they will really have to develop the robot’s character in order for that to happen.  But looking at the first trailer, it just seems to only focus on robots fighting.  The only way for this movie to actually make us care, is to develop the characters in a way that we sympathize with them.

Another movie this is going to be like is Cinderella Man with Russell Crowe but with robots.  Cinderella Man is about a down on his luck boxer/father and puts himself back in the ring for his family.  Essentially, what Real Steel is going for.

I know I might be unfair to this movie.  I did not really give it a chance.  It fustrating when a $85 million budget is used to create this movie.  I mean it’s not the pinnacle of originality here.  Give that $80 million to a good cause or a better movie, because I do not see this movie making a profit.  Even if it does make a profit, the movie has been done long before this comes out in October.

One poitive thing about the production is that they have boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson as an adviser for the fight scenes.  Sugar Ray is an amazing boxer, even proclaimed as the best boxer whom ever fought.  I have no doubt that he will do a good job helping the crew choreograph bold fight scenes.

An interesting fact about the production is that Danny Elfman composes the score.  With him behind the music, I think the score will be great for the film and be one of the better parts of the movie.  Danny Elfman, has scored films like: Good Will Hunting, Mars Attacks!, and Spider-Man.

Hugh Jackman takes the star role of the father in the film. His supporting cast is made up of many actors from the show Lost, such as Evangeline Lilly and Kevin Durand.  These are all pretty seasoned actors but I am more excited to see eleven-year-old Dakota Goyo act.  Goyo has such a natural talent for acting that it will be fun to see what he does in this movie as Hugh Jackman’s son.

Overall, this movie is not the most original film out there.  We will have to wait and see if the movie will turn out well.  It’s really up in the air.  With Sugar Ray behind the scenes putting some flare into the fighting, with Danny Elfman creating the score, and with Goyo acting I think it will be fun to watch but it does not really make me feel like I’m going spend my $10 on it when I could spend it on other better and more original movie.

I mean Transformers 3 just came out, how many fighting robot movies is Hollywood going to make?

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