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The Spirit is nowhere near as good as Sin City I'm afraid. It's one of those movies where you watch and when it finishes you're like "Why the hell did I just watch that? What was the point?"
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Ninja Assassin was one of the bloodiest movies I've seen in a while! Think I mentioned that in my review as well...Wasn't that the tag line for Solaris?!
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yeah sin city is difficult to top. watched the DC weeks ago, and it's a lot of difference between the normal version.
miss johannson will be worth watching... lol
"Ninja Assassin was one of the bloodiest movies I've seen in a while! Think I mentioned that in my review as well... "
Yes i tought too, i wonder how many people got up in the cinema during the flick. (Kill Bill half of the room left
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"Have you seen Braindead?"
Long long time ago, true but that was a splatter film(guess N.A. could also been seen as that). just surprised me now that peter jackson was director. learning every day...
miss johannson will be worth watching... lol
"Ninja Assassin was one of the bloodiest movies I've seen in a while! Think I mentioned that in my review as well... "
Yes i tought too, i wonder how many people got up in the cinema during the flick. (Kill Bill half of the room left
)"Have you seen Braindead?"
Long long time ago, true but that was a splatter film(guess N.A. could also been seen as that). just surprised me now that peter jackson was director. learning every day...
I usually like space based sci-fi (Sunshine, Sphere...Red Dwarf) but Solaris just didn't do it for me. I did try to get into it and was going to watch it again to see if a second viewing helped but could bring myself to do it. I think I prefer Clooney when he's directed by the Coen's although I can't blame Soderbergh as I thought A Scanner Darkly was pretty good.
Can I get changed out of my shell suit before you burn me?? (google scouser shell suit)
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Solaris is a remake of a Russian film by Andrei Tarkovsky, which definitely doens't dwell into the sci-fi, but more into the philosophical/psychological aspects of human nature. It just takes place in space because it's probably the best way to represent someone who can be completely alone and away from anyone else.
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Saw Shutter Island yesterday. I honestly dont know if I like of dislike this movie. From watching the trailer i thought it was going to be a fantastic movie but instead it felt a bit bloated, wayyy too long and a bit far fetched. It could have been soo much better if the story was reigned in a bit and if the flashbacks were cut shorter and got to a valid and real point quicker... Without giving too much away as the movie progressed you thought you understood one truth but then it switched. Not bad now and again but it was thoughout the movie, this long ass movie, I was happy to see the credits.
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Pandorum (Christian Alvart, 2009) -- Didn't really know what to expect from this one, since I usually avoid watching trailers and the only other person I know who's seen it thankfuly didn't give me much info on it, other than that he thought he was good. The movie starts out quite erratic and the characters don't know where they are, which adds a lot to the viewing experience because bnoth the viewer and the characetrs discover things as they come, which worked nicely. I've also always been a fan of sci-fi and when the sci-fi has horror/suspense added to the mix, much better. This movie has all the main ingredients to be a great movie, though at first it seems like a sequel to Event Horizon or a remake of Dead Space, but it's nothing of the sort. It's very original and well done and despite having a 'dead-beat' actor like Dennis Quaid might be considered by some, him and Ben Foster do a good job of holding the movie up, but the story is quite intriguing as well, so it's well worth it. I've just read it's supposed to be the first part of a trilogy, but it's doubtful the sequels will ever see the light of day due to the first film's low box-office performance. A real shame. 8.5/10
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Auf der anderen Seite (a.k.a. The Edge of Heaven) (Faith Akin, 2007) -- Oddly enough, Germany's submission for the 2008 Oscars in the foreign film category (this one) is more Turk than German, or at least it's filmed more in Turkey and spoken in Turkish than in German. It's a rather complicated story, where three stories interwine in one, and while I'm not going to go much into detail about it (you'll have to watch it) it's a very nice and different story about how we are all connnected by invisible threads. Acting is pretty good, cinematography is excellent and the movie gets an even higher score because much of the plot circumstances are taken and seen from a rather expert side, since the director is German of Turkish parents. The movie was a bit empathic since it's quite easy to distance oneself from the circumstances, but it's nonetheless good. 7.5/10
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Hudson Hawk
I first saw this movie my Junior year of high school and for the last year or so I've, unexplainably, wanted to see it again. With my wife at work and the kids at the circus, I finally did. What a waste. I remember bits and pieces here and there, but the one thing I thought I remembered was more humor. It is classified as, partly, a comedy, but I scarcely cracked a smile let alone laughed. Fine. It didn't really work on the comedy front. Sadly, it doesn't really work as an action flick, either. I've come to acknowledge that there are things that must typically be overlooked in movies (I credit Mythbusters for this) but there are just too many glaring problems with HH.
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Gone in 60 Seconds(1974)
I enjoyed the 2000 version so I figured I would give this a shot. It was ok at best, it was mostly about stealing one car(Eleanor) and the acting was well 70's quality. The chase scene(which lasts 40 minutes) was pretty good but felt like they couldn't come up with 1.5 hours of story line so they filled the rest with a chase scene that lasted too long.-6/10
I enjoyed the 2000 version so I figured I would give this a shot. It was ok at best, it was mostly about stealing one car(Eleanor) and the acting was well 70's quality. The chase scene(which lasts 40 minutes) was pretty good but felt like they couldn't come up with 1.5 hours of story line so they filled the rest with a chase scene that lasted too long.-6/10
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
I don't need to tell most of you that a movie can be so bad that it then turns the corner and heads straight for awesome. For me, this movie just didn't get there. Yes, the acting sucks. Yes, the CG is even worse. But even that just couldn't make me like it, despite deep down kind of wanting to.
Oh, and are emergency turbo props on a sub like VTEC in my Civic?
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!! Reminds me how old im getting 
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Took the kids to see Alice in Wonderland tonight. It was really well done visually, we saw the 3D version and I'm glad because it was the best done 3D movie I have ever seen. The CGI was superb also, it started a little slow but all in all I give it a 9 out of 10.
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Rented out Hachiko: A Dog's Story (also known as) Hachi: A dog's Tale. Very moving story. Loved it and it was also based on a true story.
Also saw Surrogates last week. Awesome!
Also saw Surrogates last week. Awesome!
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Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010) -- So, finally got around to watching a new(er) movie. I've always been a fan of Burton's movies and this one disappointed a bit, though it's not as goth as many of his movies are. Still, the movie is okay, not great, not a disaster, just okay. The visuals are absolutely stunning, the SFX crew really worked hard and well, but the writing/screenplay was a tad clumsy; they seem to have worked on the main themes, but left out the little details that made this movie so good when Disney made it, yet I was looking forward to Burton's version because he's so un-Disney-ish. Too many liberties were taken with the originals here, and in no way improve upon them, and I'm talking about things like the Merry Unbirthday song. I'd like to think some props were used, though they seemed to have used CGI like it's tapwater. Still, the dialogues and writing cannot save this movie from being too bland; the only funny bits were the ones taken from the original. 6.5/10
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Blame it on Rio - 1983 Comedy/Drama Starring: Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore
A man (Michael Caine) faces possible separation and divorce from his wife (Valerie Harper) of over 20 years right before their vacation to Rio. He leaves her to Club Med, while he takes their daughter (Michelle Johnson), accompanied by her friend (Demi Moore) and her father (Joseph Bologna), to Rio.
The rest of the movie is one stupid, bad romantic decision and all of them dealing with it until the end. Tons of nudity, and yes both Michelle and Demi appear topless, but that doesn't mean as much to me as when I was 13-14 years old when I first watched this movie. Michelle is still super-hot and thankfully she's topless a lot in this one.
The acting isn't good. Neither is the story. The music is the worse I've ever listened to in any movie. Michael acts like his charming usual self, but it can't hold the rest. But, since it was a movie of my teenage years, and I remember this movie for when and where I was (at a girlfriend's house getting drunk and laid), I still 'like' this movie. Brings back some great memories for me.
I give it 9/10 for what it means to me, but as just a movie, it gets... 5/10
A man (Michael Caine) faces possible separation and divorce from his wife (Valerie Harper) of over 20 years right before their vacation to Rio. He leaves her to Club Med, while he takes their daughter (Michelle Johnson), accompanied by her friend (Demi Moore) and her father (Joseph Bologna), to Rio.
The rest of the movie is one stupid, bad romantic decision and all of them dealing with it until the end. Tons of nudity, and yes both Michelle and Demi appear topless, but that doesn't mean as much to me as when I was 13-14 years old when I first watched this movie. Michelle is still super-hot and thankfully she's topless a lot in this one.
The acting isn't good. Neither is the story. The music is the worse I've ever listened to in any movie. Michael acts like his charming usual self, but it can't hold the rest. But, since it was a movie of my teenage years, and I remember this movie for when and where I was (at a girlfriend's house getting drunk and laid), I still 'like' this movie. Brings back some great memories for me.
I give it 9/10 for what it means to me, but as just a movie, it gets... 5/10
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Wow, now that's a movie I haven't heard about in ages. I remember when I was about 12 there was this cable channel that didn't have many movies, and Blame it on Rio was on every other saturday night. I saw that movie easily about 8 times.
Indeed I have... and I have to agree that one was pretty bloody too... I laughed so hard at that bit when he's in the forest and a piece of his brain falls out (Can't remember why?) which he promptly picks up and puts back in his head...
But the part of putting the brain back in is from Bad Taste.
Naissance des pieuvres (a.k.a. Water Lilies) (Céline Sciamma, 2007) -- Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and desire make a sudden, dramatic appearance. Despite the subjects in the movie being teenage girls around the age of 14-15, this movie is for much more mature audiences, since it's about those wonder years where girls are wondering about their sexual identities, what it's like being with a guy and trying it out, though in a very European wham bam, thank you ma'am way, falling in love for the first time for all the wrong reasons and with the wrong person. Despite some idealistic dumb notions, the movie doesn't dwell on them too long, so if you're hoping to see not-even-barely-legal birds having sex, look elsewhere; this is a movie about sensual exploration and sexual identities, though it's not what you'd call a gay-directed movie either. In the end it's also a movie about friendship and the slow voyage to adulthood. It could've been better had it been a bit more explanatory, since interpreting mute emotions isn't exactly easy, but I guess it was adapting to the uncertainty of those wonder years. 6/10
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Oh yeah, I'm getting them mixed up... Braindead is the one with the crazy mother and that huge monster at the end.... Yes THAT was a bloody one...
I always get those two movies confused, I think it's because I saw both movies right after each other when I did watch them... First Braindead and then Bad Taste...
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After not seing the film for what must be 20 years, i caught a bit of it on TV just a couple of days ago. Weird coincidence.
It brings back some great
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Grumpy Old Men - 1993
Still feeling a bit nostalgic this weekend, it appears, I fired up this classic. For those that don't know, it's an hour and a half of John (Jack Lemmon) and Max (Walter Matthau) ice fishing, calling each other moron, idiot and putz while trying to schmooze Ariel (Ann-Margret). There are a few reasons I like this movie as much as I do. First, all the shots of the city look very similar to my old neighborhoods, due, very likely, to the fact that they were likely built around the same time and in the same part of the country, which has a way of drawing me into the story a bit more. The other reason is that some friends and I act just like John and Max - constantly calling each other names that would make a sailor cringe, etc. But at the end of the day, like John and Max, we'd go through hell to help each other out.
One other thing - this is significantly more accurate of upper Mid-Westerners than Fargo. More ice fishing and less wood chippering.
8/10
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One other thing - this is significantly more accurate of upper Mid-Westerners than Fargo. More ice fishing and less wood chippering.
I learned from Fargo that it's tourists and non-locals who engage in wood chippering
The Grand (Zak Penn, 2007) -- An improvisational comedy using a handful of actors playing characters competing in an actual poker tournament. Though it's filmed as a mockumentary, it rarely made me laugh and the improv parts seemed too scripted, if that's even possible. The movie has a score of cameos and some are really good (like Werner Herzog, okay technically not a cameo, but still), like Judy Greer, Michael McKean, Ray Romano, Jason Alexander, Hank Azaria, and Shannon Elizabeth, but in the end it seemed like a movie that was fun to make but not really fun to watch. 5.5/10
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