Movie review thread...
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[quote name='Tim']Aha, actually it was it his 2nd proper hollywood movie. /pedant<br />
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Horrible schmaltzy schmaltz. I should give Unbroken a fair shake some day, though I suspect it'll much the same to me.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Unbreakable is a great riff on the super hero genre, so if you like comics you'll love the themes and the different/realistic way they are handled. <br />
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Now the thing with that movie and the Six Sense, is Bruce Willis delivers two really good performances. Once that are a stretch for his abilities, and that really holds the movies together. I really liked the Six Sense, but I saw it at a difficult period in my life and schmaltz really connected with me. To me, the best part of the film is not the flashy reveal but the mother getting some healing from her son, that scene nails me every time.<br />
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So I went into his other movies hoping for big things, but they had the same production values and some of the good acting, but the stories were fucking ridiculous. Especially The Village, what a pile of crap.<br />
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He got locked into thinking he had to have a twist. Twists don't work if you go into the film expecting to see one.<br />
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As for the other Avatar film (nice symmetry that this one sounds terrible and the other one is most successful film of all time...), the only review I've read of it refers to it as the best parody of epic films every made. Ouch. -
Pandorum - Dennis Quaid.<br />
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[quote name='Tim']Doing a Death Wish marathon. Part 2 is so awesomely bad. Christ, one of the (intended to be) super evil hoods looks like John C. Reilly.[/QUOTE]<br />
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I watched the first one a few months ago, loved the ending with the hilariously stereotypical hippies in the train station.<br />
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[quote name='Kirwan']I watched the first one a few months ago, loved the ending with the hilariously stereotypical hippies in the train station.<br />
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Made me appreciate the ending of Gran Torino a bit more too.[/QUOTE]<br />
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What cracks me up about the 1st one is that he just slaughters arbitrary scumbags that have no connection to his wife's murder. -
Can't wait till I get to this one!<br />
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[QUOTE] [SIZE=+1][COLOR=#666666][B] ‘Death Wish IV: The Crackdown’ [/B][/COLOR][/SIZE]<br />
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[SIZE=-1] [I] By Richard Harrington [/I]<br />
Washington Post Staff Writer <br />
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C[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE]harles Bronson, law and order's Orkin Man, is back in "Death Wish IV: The Crackdown" and the bodies start piling up before the popcorn cools. This time around, there's barely any plot, just excuses for Bronson to blow people away.Gail Morgan Hickman's script is right out of the "Jack and Jill went up the hill" school, where everything is spelled out and lines like "Who are you?" "Death!" pass for snappy dialogue.<br />
Bronson returns as po'-faced architect Paul Kersey, whose female companions continue to have bad luck streaks, dying in either the first or the last 15 minutes of the film (this all started with the brutal murders of his wife and daughter in "Death Wish" and "DW2," in New York and Los Angeles, respectively).<br />
This time around, still in L.A., Kersey's dating a reporter (Kay Lenz) whose daughter is about to overdose on crack street. Fade to black for that drug dealer and about three or four dozen others who get caught up in the vigilante vengeance.<br />
Kersey is hired by a crusading publisher whose own daughter has overdosed to surreptitiously wipe out the city's two major drug dealers and their uncommonly inept gangs. He does this by methodically eliminating members from alternate sides until their own paranoia leads to a major blowout. Along the way, Bronson wipes out a cocaine lab, gunning down a dozen "chemists"; gives a new meaning to the term "wine cooler"; deals with corrupt cops and a dozen assassins; and never breaks a sweat.<br />
Neither did anybody else, apparently, from the writers and actors to executive producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two gentlemen who make Aaron Spelling look like Franc ois Truffaut.<br />
The original "Death Wish" was a relatively taut affair and spoke to its audience's frustrations with urban crime, but with each succeeding film, justice has been replaced by body counts.<br />
Bronson, a chip off old Mount Rushmore, sleepwalks through the film as though someone's dangling a paycheck just out of camera range. It's gotten to the point where the vigilante isn't really motivated anymore, he's just set off, like a bomb.<br />
Which this is.<br />
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Toy Story 3. Not a bad word to say. Brilliant movie. Laugh out loud funny and tear jerking sad. My kids loved it my wife and I loved it and you will likely love it.<br />
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I only saw 2D but can't imagine 3D making it any better and have heard it doesn't.<br />
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[quote name='Virgil']Watched A- Team earlier today (legit, not illegal download for once:))<br />
Very enjoyable, great homage to the classic tv series.<br />
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Highlight would be the guy from District 9 as Murdoch<br />
Maybe an 8 out of 10....[/QUOTE]<br />
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yeah have to agree there, dleivered on what I expected form it.<br />
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Also watched Clash of the Titans, hugely disappointed (more so because I so wanted it to be awesome, when it was just 'ok') -
[quote name='taniwharugby']yeah have to agree there, dleivered on what I expected form it.<br />
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Also watched Clash of the Titans, hugely disappointed (more so because I so wanted it to be awesome, when it was just 'ok')[/QUOTE]<br />
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Same,just felt flat and unimpressive. Not a movie you are left thinking about after watching.<br />
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Repo Men; Jude Law, Forrest Whittaker, Liev Schreiber<br />
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Was alot to like about this, while at the same time, equally blah...set a few years in the future where transplanted everything is the norm, and like a bank repo's your house if you default on your mortgage, Law & Whittaker repo your liver/heart etc if you default on the payments too... -
Watched Inception last night. I went in thinking the premise about a guy who could manipulate dreams sounded a little stupid but came away thoroughly satisfied. I guess it is a bit like the Matrix in that it's based in a sort of a dreamscape, but Christopher Nolan did a good job of making this far fetched story seem almost real. He obviously put a lot of time into thinking about all the complexities involved and making the story make sense. Decaprio and Ellen Page were ok as the leads. Special effects were pretty cool, especially the rotating fight scene. Definitely worth seeing and I give it a 9 out of 10.
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I see the movie adapation of John Marsden's [I]Tomorrow When the War Began[/I] will be out soon. I loved those books, so hopefully it keeps pretty close to the story line. <br />
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Saw [I]Date Night [/I]on the plane recently. That movie is dire, I'm glad I didn't pay (for the movie anyhow) to watch that shit. Saw a couple of other films too: [I]Invictus [/I]- was OK, better than I thought it would, except unrealistic rugby scenes, [I]This Is It - [/I]I enjoyed this surpisingly, an interesting insight into Michael Jackson's musical side. [I]Zombieland[/I] - I thought this movie was hilarious, and quite well done. Not taking itself seriously at all. -
Haha, Allstar I watched Zombieland tonight too. Awesome!<br />
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"That'll do, pig."<br />
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[quote name='Scorz']Haha, Allstar I watched Zombieland tonight too. Awesome!<br />
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"That'll do, pig."<br />
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Cardio, Cardio, Cardio!! <br />
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[quote name='Allstar']Saw [I]Date Night [/I]on the plane recently. That movie is dire, I'm glad I didn't pay (for the movie anyhow) to watch that shit. [/QUOTE]<br />
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I just saw Inception and thought it was awesome, even better for the fact I had no idea what it was about (before going to the cinema). Was very trippy and had a bloody good cast all the way down.<br />
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Finally got around to watch Paranormal Activity.<br />
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Better than i thought (wasnt expecting much after the Blair Witch hype), certainly has a few creepy wtf moments.<br />
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I have since read there are 3 endings..<br />
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SPOILER<br />
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I watched the one where after alot of screaming and the couple not being seen after they leave the bedroom, the boyfriend is thrown directly at the camera and the girl friend walks in all bloody and sniffs the body.<br />
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Went to You tube and found the other version, she cuts her own throat.<br />
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[quote name='Virgil']Finally got around to watch Paranormal Activity.<br />
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Better than i thought (wasnt expecting much after the Blair Witch hype), certainly has a few creepy wtf moments.<br />
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I have since read there are 3 endings..<br />
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SPOILER<br />
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I watched the one where after alot of screaming and the couple not being seen after they leave the bedroom, the boyfriend is thrown directly at the camera and the girl friend walks in all bloody and sniffs the body.<br />
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Went to You tube and found the other version, she cuts her own throat.<br />
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Dunno, ive read about it since.<br />
Its bloody confusing really, but from what i can gather the Theatrical version is the one i saw (throwing her BF at the camera at the end), the alternate ending is the throat slit.<br />
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And now i see theres a sequel on the way.
