hagatha

Absolutely classic moments in comedy.

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Evan Almighty
9/10

A wonderfully funny movie that has you leaving the theater with a nice warm feeling and big smile. This is one I will be buying when it is released on DVD.

hambone

Curse of the Zodiac - 0/10

About the Zodiac killer in the Bay Area in the 60s/70s...I guess.

This was so horribly made and pointless. I did not enjoy it one bit.

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Just saw Babel. I won't give it a grade, because I don't like giving grades.
All in all, pretty odd movie. I mean, Inarritu has done the "different people's lives intersect in unexpected ways" thing before, but in Amores Perros it was better achieved, IMO.
The acting was good, overall. I have nothing against Brad Pitt. I think the part that interested me the most during the movie was the "Japan" part, for some reason.
I guess my review is pointless, because I don't even know what I thought of the movie, myself. If you like most of Inarritu's work, you should be fine with this film.

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M by Fritz Lang 12/10

This is the first sound movie made in Germany, but Fritz Lang treats this new dimension of filmmaking like a seasoned pro. A lot of tension is made by sounds or lack of sounds. Shooting, narrative, acting, everything is top notch.

Lady Sage

Dead Silence 6/10

Sadly enough, Donnie Walberg was the comic relief in this movie. There are some thigns you should obviously NOT do in a horror situation, but our young hero seemed to like to do them all. This left me to do much eye rolling and think to myself... no dumbass. I felt it was quite predictable, but the end... I liked the end.

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I just watch Shooter and suprising it was alot better than I expected. I'll give it an 8/10 because it was a fun action movie.

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a beached whale movie marathon yesterday.

factotum:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417658/

i do not care about bukowski but found myself enjoying this film based on one of his novels. except for the editorial asides about writing. matt dillon is a good bukwoski-but-not-quite. the entire film is suffused with hangover. since one of our number was deeply hung over (not me) it seemed an almost cruel choice.

viva cuba: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477916/

i don know about this film. equal portions of the interesting and the cheesy in terms of writing--kinda cool refusal to maintain an adult viewpoint which means that the film shifts into and out of the subjective space of the 12-year-old main characters--interesting as a road film that takes you across northern cuba. but in the end, i found it very easy to wander away and cook dinner.

fantastic planet.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/

but this. o my. go thee hence and get the dvd. this is an amazing animated sci-fi film from the early 1970s. the plot is straightforward but the animation/design and sound are fabulous and make for a deeply hallucinogenic hour and a half. the dvd also includes some of laloux's short films, of which "the monkey's teeth" is the best--just incredible---must see--you, that's right you, must see this.

darwin's nightmare
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424024/

hubert sauper directed this documentary and says in the interview attached to the dvd that he was interested in shooting something on the fishing industry on the shores of lake victoria in tanzania as an index of the "madness of our times"--and he catches that i think--so the film is complex and grim and kinda overwhelming---lake victoria is overrun with this huge predator fish released into the lake by someone about 30 years ago--the fish have eaten everything else in the lake and are not eating themselves--but europeans like them for dinner--so there is a huge industry that has arisen around the fish who are destroying lake victoria. the film is mostly about some of the towns that have grown up in the context of this economy. you watch a detailed and well-crafted portrayal of the sprung rationality of neo-colonial africa. you find that the huge cargo planes that arrive seemingly continuously to pick up loads of fish arrived in tanzania sometimes full of weapons that filter their way to the congo or angola...you watch planeloads of fish taking off for the eu as a famine breaks out in the same region--cargoplanes on fish taking off, un planes of food aid arriving on television. it is crazy, it is depressing, it is, like the director said, the madnes of our times. it is not fun to watch, but it is an important film.

there is a short about the war in eastern congo as well but i was afraid to watch it. it was late and i was sleepy and did not want to dream of massacre with my head already full of the surreal and brutal logic of globalizing capitalism...again...

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I'm surprised you're just now seeing this film, roachboy. It's been a favorite around our house for years. It's quite a trip.

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Ratatouille - I liked it

I really liked it. Technically, the raging water graphics were superb. The story was good and held my attention. No complaints except for the multitudes of miserable and I'm too-young to be here that were present.

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We watched Ghost Rider last nite, and while I absolutely cannot stand Nicholas Cage, I rather enjoyed it. Probably because Im such a Sam Elliot fan hehehe

I knew nothing of the story as I'm not a "comic book" person but I still liked it. The only real problem I had with it was when he did the "stare" on blackheart we saw the evil deeds he'd done during the movie, I was under the impression we should have seen deeds the other souls had done since Blackheart had no soul, thus the explanation he gave JB when he tried it on him the first time. I fail to see how other souls inhabiting him would make his evil deeds the ones we saw. To me it would have been much more compelling if he was paying for the souls he'd been trying to get thru out the entire movie

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Sicko - 6/10

Moore leaves out a lot of details and paints a pretty optimistic picture of the non-American health care systems. The basic message is a good one but the point he is trying to make would be much stronger if he gave a more complete and thorough look at the health care systems of England, France, Canada and Cuba. He should not have delved into the more extravagant socialist programs of France because, whether or not they should, many Americans (at least the ones I know) still fear anything that immediately brings socialism to mind. Including these bits will only serve to distance Americans who would have otherwise been on the fence about the issues discussed in Sicko. Moore offers no real solutions to the problems outlined in the movie, offering instead some vague garbage about thinking as "we" instead of "I."

Bear Cub

Shooter - 8/10


Usually on the border with whether or not I like Mark Wahlberg, but this was a pretty darn good movie, and it was nice to see Danny Glover out of his usual nice guy role.

Cynthetiq

but aren't you now afraid of all those things that can be purchased at the local hardware store and used to blow stuff up???? that was the only thing I had issue with, but I'd give it the same rating. It was fun and a good time.

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I finally watched "The Departed." It was great! I can't even quantify as to why. I'm not a huge fan of hardcore mobster movies.

This movie is chock full of the f-bomb, and so much blood. Oh, and I never get those complicated "Pulp Fiction-like" lines in movies. My sense of humor is more juvenile.

Still, I like the movie so much that I've watched it three times. I believe I've crossed over genres lately.

mandy

last night healer and I watched Next... definately a movie to be seen...

really awesome...i'd give it a 10. nicholas cage was just the shizz nizzle!

sags a bit for story line, i'd go for a 7...but events leading up to the end takes it up to 10 for me.

the movie before that was fracture with anthony hopkins

i'd say it was more of an 8 because it was not really anthony hopkins worthy but he did a good job.

10 for story line...GAAASH! sneaky, cunning, i know what the fuck i'm doing...

it sags a whole lot or the ending though...i'd go for 7.

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 7/10

It's not the greatest movie ever. It's in the same vein as the first one as far as quality. It is what it is. It's a fun comic movie that entertains and has absolutely no redeeming value.

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Jackie Brown - 10/10

Yeah I am late on this

I finally got around to watching it. I love Quentin Tarantino. Serious man crush going on over here. That guy is such a brilliant filmmaker. Least I think so.

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By far the best cameo of the century now belongs to The Band's Levon Helm as the Tennessee firearms expert.

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Ratatouille : i dont really know what to classify this as, be it comedy or something else, but in general i thought it was an alright movie, and just that... nothing brand new, nothing exciting... i suppose its because all of the dreamworks and pixar studio's cranking out high quality animation movies that the standard's been set too high. its a nice movie if you've got an afternoon to kill with the kids or something. 3.5/5

Bio-Dome : this is definently in my favourite top 5 movies... pauly shore does a great job of acting exactly like a retarded teenage guy... its amazing how well this movie actually captures exactly how a retarded 16 year old guy would act... definently recommend this to the guys who've got an afternoon or at least a few hours to kill. me and the guys rave about this movie :P
5/5 for me, however others seem to think its crap... after all, pauly shore did win worst actor award for it

Church

Transformers - 10 out of fucking 10!!!

Sorry for the profanity but wow was it awesome!

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Agree with Church. Transformers was pretty sweet. Corny in parts, but funny and the effects were good.

Now if I didn't have to deal with the annoying kids behind me saying "Niiiicce" every single time a car is shown on the screen (and this is often ) it would have been perfect

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Sicko - 10/10
This was a good experience. It probably wasn't a movie that was meant for the theater, but it was just a real good experience. Very effective, though-provoking and heart-felt.

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Live Free or Die Hard 9.1/10

I usually dislike action movies because I don't like violence but this movie had enough funny lines and funny parts that it was really good. The plot moved along at a decent pace. Justin Long is adorable and Bruce Willis isn't too old to have played this part again.

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Ratatouille - 9.5/10 - Great movie, great story, great characters, yay Pixar.

Transformers - 9/10 - A little slow and cheesy in some parts, but wow on the action.

noodle

Live Free or Die Hard. I've never seen the others. But this movie kicked serious ass. I'll just leave it at that and call it a 9.8/10.

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Transformers : 9 / 10. This was an amazing movie. Much better than what I was expecting. It was extremely well done.

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Transformers - 9/10

The flick actually ROCKED! Loads of action and they even make you care a little about the tinheads.

pan6467

Lady Sage and I watched the old Logan's Run movie. I hadn't truly watched it since I was a kid (and I loved it) and LS had never seen it.

The movie was what I remembered, fast paced, a good way to enjoy 2 hours without having to think too hard. Michael York and the cast were pretty believeable and seemed to have good chemistry. This was also Farrah Fawcett's first movie...... and trust me it shows she was a horrid actress. While this was supposedly a special effects movie, the acting and most definately the storyline were fantastic. (Although if people are supposed to get killed when they turn 30, it would stand to reason, the actors should all be under 30.)

I was amazed at what passed for "state of the art" special effects in 1974. Pre-Star Wars Logan's Run was supposedly the greatest special effects movie ever. I can also see why the big movie studios left sci-fi to cheap low rate B movies. Think Buck Rodgers, original Battlestar Gallactica, etc. type special effects.

I mention the special effects because to enjoy the movie you have to free your mind of todays special effects and accept these. Which in this case is not that hard as you can easily immerse yourself into the story and the character development.

I always see this movie as I did when I first saw it, in awe and with the wide open eyes of a little kid, same as with Buck Rodgers and the original Star Wars trilogy.

Overall, I'd strongly recommend giving it a shot, if for no other reason than to see how far special effects have come in the last 30+ years.

For me the movie reminds me of a distant past, a past that in and of itself plays like a badly acted B movie in my head. Yet, it reminds me of Saturday Mornings when our elementary school had movies for the kids that cost 50 cents (and included the popcorn). A past where being wide eyed and looking at the world as something wonderous and beautiful existed. And a past where on Friday and Saturday evenings you would spend the night at a friends to watch the cheapest lowest rated sci-fi/horror movies on the GHOUL, Houlihan and Big Chuck, and so on.

I miss those days, that innocence and wonderment.... this movie brings it back for awhile....

10/10

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the squid and the whale
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367089/

o i dunno.
well first thing is that jeff daniels is great in this film, and his performance (and the writing) managed to creep me out in a rather deep way (must've been the beard and the academic-speak). the cast and writing are excellent, the film kind of icky in its close-up view of divorce and its impact on the two sons. (there's a family. i hate plot summaries.) the music became irritating after a while, particularly the insistence on running the tangerine dream music from "risky business" over and over and over.

we get it, noah.

definitely worth an hour and a half of squirming...

beware, however, of the crap ending, the sort of thing that makes you want to throw things at the screen and say bad words loudly.
fucking cheesedog, for example.
even at 2 am.

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Transformers: 8/10

The action was fantastic, the acting was great, the witty dialog was an added bonus and Megan Fox is fucking, unbelievably, out of this world hot, in this movie.

I was checking out her pictures last night and was a little annoyed at the same pose she gives out and has some strange tattoos, and is dating 90210 douche bag (Brian Austin Green), but other than that, still hot.

Green Street Hooligans: 8/10
If you want to see a bunch of futbol fans fighting other futbol fans, you have to see this film. And Elijah Wood can fight!

hambone

Black Snake Moan - 8/10

Nice odd movie. Miss Ricci was too stinking skinny, though I suppose it fits the part.

Fun seeing samuel l. jackson looking all scraggly.

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saw 3 movies in 3 days

Die Hard 4 - 8 of 10
Transformers 8.8 of 10
Godfather III 8 of 10

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The Lady in the Water

I liked it but Grancey pronounced it "too weird" and fell asleep on it. Certain topics resonate in the primitive side of me, and the notion of ancient bedtime stories being rooted in fact is high up there.

8/10

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The Believer 9/10
Too incredibly intense to have watched at 8 am in the morning when we couldn't go back to sleep. But, unlike the other moives with similar foci (American History X, Romper Stomper and another I can't remember the name of at the moment), the focus was less on the intense violence and more on the internal struggle. As hard as it was to stomach Ryan Gosling spouting anti-Semetic "wisdom" and sounding intelligent, I appreciate the story and how they were able to humanize and delve deeper into the psyche of a kid who challenged the Torah and became violently opposed on the outside. The dialogue was amazingly intelligent and it freaked me out a bit to see him make a teeny bit of sense at one point...

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I like Paul Giamatti but I thought his performance was dull, and Bryce is clearly riding daddy's coat tails. Her scenes consisted of posing on the floor of the tub and elsewhere with a "what next" look on her face. My guess is that Red liked this film as it relates to his abnormal fear of bears.

2....maybe

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Idiocracy - 6/10

I really wanted to like this movie, but it just fell pretty flat. The idea is clever and there's some funny stuff (the collapsing buildings tied together, the Costco so huge it's not convenient anymore), but it was often the same joke over and over again (violence and profanity indicate stupidity). Still, it deserved more marketing than it got.

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^ Ugh, I hated that movie, Kadath.


Transformers kicked ass. I love the CG. My SO and I were walking out trying to remember the first movie that we'd each seen as kids where the effects were pretty important and how far they've come.... mine was The Terminator, so you can guess how that coversation went. There was so much I enjoyed about this movie, I'm not even going to get into it. It was a blast and I was so entertained that I didn't slap the guy with his kid who kept pulling down on the empty seat in between us and letting it thwang!!! back into the upright position. But, I almost did. 9.5/10

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Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire
Oh no! another over-hyped movie! I was expecting something so great from this movie but i got almost no character developpement and no sense of time in this story.
Without ruining the movie, i'll explain what I mean: like every other HP movies, it starts off in the real world just before the school year and ends after the school year is over. It never seems like the movie is aging. Characters never talk about the time of year or anything like that. they never go to classes apart from 1 day. so overall, it's pretty bad for that. Also, they introduce 2 other schools and we barely see any character developpement from any of these new characters.

The story also drags a bit. there are some cool special fx but i feel like it was all done in the previous movies. this is getting to be an old serie that needs a spark to bring it back.

My overall rating is:6.9/10

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