heccubusiv

Sideways 7.5-8.5 out of 10. Great filmatography great everything else but the movie was really long and had a few uneeded scenes added to make it just a comedy. I did like the ending a lot tho

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larny

i watched "meet the fockers" sequal to meet the parents.i didnt like meet the parents much so i wasn't looking forward to watching this one. Although better than meet the parents and did have a few funny scenes, it still wasnt that great.

degrawj

i just saw Million Dollar Baby yesterday. it was a pretty darn good movie. but if that movie is movie of the year, then this must be a pretty sad year for movies. i mean, it was ground breaking or anything, just a good movie.

blitz.fenix

I saw Ong-Bak Thai Warrior and it was a great action flik. 10 out of 10 on the action scale, 5 out of 10 on the story scale to make an average of 8.5 out of 10.

FngKestrel

Friday Night Lights - good film. I don't normally get too hung up on sports films, but this was so compelling that by the end I was praying for the Panthers to win. 9/10

incidentally, I was on a plane, and the second movie that was shown was
Vanity Fair - not bad initially. Liked the cleverness of Reese's character. But damn, that film dragged oooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...... 8/10 at the beginning, decrementing to 5/10 by the end of the movie.

Kostya

Scenes from a Marriage - Ingmar Bergman.

I am humbled and terrified.

roachboy

blood simple

great film. the first coen brothers.

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roachboy

the killing fields

crap crap crap. the music is so so so bad. the hollywood writing too. the cinematography is really quite pretty, however. best with the sound off.

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omega2K4

The Manchurian Candidate (2004 remake), 8/10. Very well (re)done, good acting, very creepy.

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d*d

Closer, a much better re-working of in the company of men, didn't feel great as I left the cinema but have feelingit'll be one of those films that stays with me

Grancey

Are We There Yet....
I didn't want to see this but was dragged in.....sort of....
Out of 10, I would give it a -8. It was really, really bad.

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Troy -- it was really long, brad pitt was a badass, killing everyone in sight. i enjoyed the flick and would watch it again if it wasn't so long.

itch vaccine

Constantine.

8.2/10

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Saw. 7/10, Good storyline, mediocre directing and acting, but very enjoyable.

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"Saw" Watched it last night for the first time...even though I was working on computer, it kept my attention.
Kept me in suspense, excellent story idea. 8/10 - love the ending and the fact that I couldn't pick out who really was the bad guy throught it (for certain).
Right now, I'm in the middle of watching "The Stepford Wives"...I'll update when I finish...

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spongy

Million Dollar Baby ...

See it! It was an amazing film .. not to be missed.

Swank gets her second oscar, that's my bet anyway.

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Maleigh99

Constantine

8.5/10

hambone

Ray. 9/10

I love a good true story. I didn't really like that they make such light of his extramarital affairs, but I guess thats the way it goes. I would recommend this one though.

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Constantine

7/10

I thought it was good. It was nothing entirely too special, but entertaining nonetheless.

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Janey

Hero:

8/10 - liked it for its stylized presentation of the classic chinese martial arts film. Plus it had amazing cinematography.

Zotz

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy

1.5/10

A poor excuse for a film. Wil Ferrel is either loosing his touch or his picking awful scripts. It was hard for me not to fall asleep during this flick.

Amnesia620

The Stepford Wives...7/10...there could have been more to it...

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Kostya

Scarface: Shame of a Nation (1931)

Sweet movie. I totally love the 30's gangster films and this one especially, though Little Caesar and Public Enemy No. 1 are also consumate examples. Paul Muni is just perfect in his role for the film, ambitious, violent, charismatic and ultimately destestable. The film essentially wrote the schema for gangster films and remains the touchstone of almost every subsequent film in the genre, only the Godfather could be argued to be more important.
Great great entertainment too!

trache

I saw Constantine on opening night.

It was very well done, although I wish it would have been more like "Seven" with some very graphic imagery. I mean, you could go far out with that type of thing.

It's your classic good vs evil story brought to life from the Hellblazer comic book, but from a religious perspective.

For those of you who do watch it in theatres, pay special attention to the dialogue. I had a tough time trying to hear what was said due to the average volume of the cast's voices -- at times the most I could hear was a whisper. Let's not forget different languages, eg. Latin.

There were often a few names that didn't quite enter my conciousness at the right moments so I was often lost for a moment or two. Also the story goes quite quickly so don't lose anything.

The computer effects were pretty awesome. Overall I think they did a good job.

2.75/4 stars.

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Janey

I put this at 8/10 very funny, but hard to find....

Booray

Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive" - 7.5/10

"Lionel, a Mama's boy has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother. He ends up falling in love with a local woman who believes that they're destined together. In a moment of intentional sabotage of one of their dates, his mother is bitten by a mysterious creature that ends up zombifying her. It's only a matter of time before she rises from the dead a powerful, bloodthirsty zombie. It's only a matter of time before she starts infecting residents of the town and Lionel has to stop her...and them."

Started out kind of slow, but as the zombie infestation grows, so do the laughs and the hilarious (and inventive) special effects.

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sgn43

Will actually co-wrote the script with friend and fellow SNL alum, Adam McKay (head writer for much of Will's stint on the show and personally wrote a lot of Will's sketches). This movie has comedy that's definitely an aqcuired taste, and by that, I mean you have to be at least slightly demented. But, Will Ferrell has said that this movie is the first time he's actually gotten to do his brand of humor and comedy and not be held back by censors (SNL) or the scripts/direction of others. Personally, I loved Anchorman as it possesses exactly the same silly, absurd, irreverent, almost insane humor that I like to think I also have.




As for my latest movie, I finally got around to seeing Big Fish. I absolutely loved the movie and thought Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney gave incredibly charming performances. And with all the surreal elements of the movie, I understood the descriptions of it being a modern-day Wizard of Oz. It was just visually engaging, and I loved how the story unfolded. The ending was a bit cheesy, but since the entire movie made me feel like a little kid again, I didn't mind at all.


All in all, I thought it was a wonderful movie that I'm very glad I bought despite not having seen it before. After watching it, I'm completely perplexed as to how this movie didn't get more recognition in the awards circuit, and was only nominated for Best Score--which was fantastic, by the way--by the Academy Awards. Then again, this is the same Academy that completely snubbed Eternal Sunshine this year, so there should be no surprise.


Lastly, Tim Burton is awesome.


9/10 (minor points docked for subjecting me to the sight of Danny DeVito's naked ass)

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G5_Todd

just watched i robot and i give it 9/10.....

good movie if you like scifi/action....

i knew very little about this movie going into it and loved it

Kadath

SuperSize Me - 8/10

Finally got around to seeing it, and it was good and funny. Important to take it with a grain of salt, and I was both horrified and highly amused by the gastric bypass footage, but it definitely made me want to eat better and exercise more, and any film that does that must be pretty good.

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Sideways - 4/10
I, Robot - 3/10
The Three Amigos - 7/10 (hadn't seen it in years)


I Heart Huckabee's - 8/10 clever.

degrawj

just saw Wimbeldon this weekend. it sucked. if there ever was a movie to give examples of what cliche's are, this movie is it. nothing new in it at all. 2/5 stars.

i also saw Hitch, which i was kind of forced into seeing. and it actually was really good. it's kind of funny, because i saw Wimbeldon earlier in the day, and then i saw Hitch. both are romantic movies, and while the first one was a cliche in a box, the second one was completely new and refreshing. 4/5 stars.

Booray

The Boys From Brazil (1978) - 7.5/10
Starring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, & Steve Guttenberg

"Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led my Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler's findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eager to find out more. Lieberman visits several homes around Europe in order to uncover the Nazi plot. It is at one of these houses he notices something strange, which turns out to be a horrible discovery."

Pretty good. Although very dated visually, the plot is a bit ahead of its time.

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CandyLover

Labrynth- A movie with a bunch of puppets and david bowie. good stuff.. haha

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omega2K4

The Motorcycle Diaries, 9.5/10. It follows Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna (a student who was 1 semester away from becoming a doctor, mainly focused on Leprosy, played by Gael García Bernal) and his friend Alberto Granado (a biochemist, played by Rodrigo de la Serna) throughout their travels through South America, but during their travels Ernesto starts to notice all of the atrocities done onto the South American people by the corrupt governments and the wealthy, and then you start to notice how he becomes 'Che', the revolutionary.

The movie is in Spanish with English subtitles, so if you don't like to read, you probably won't enjoy the movie.

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Hain

Constantine - 9.5/10

"I've seen things most people haven't even dreamed of. And I'm going to get done in by this :holds out cigarette:."

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degrawj

Napoleon Dynamite

this movie fucking ruled. 5/5 stars one of my all time favs now.

Gilda

The Return **** (out of four)

This is a great movie. It begins on a tower at the end of a causeway, where a group of boys are challenging each other to jump off into the water. One boy, the youngest, is too afraid to jump. He returns with his mother that night and is comforted. The next day, his father returns, after a 12 year absense, and they go on a road trip together, along with his older brother. The father has some business to conduct, and may be a criminal. The father is determined to teach his boys how to be men, but his long absense has left them untrustful of him, and his attempts to toughen them up come off not so much as learning experiences as borderline abuse.

He has a meeting with some men, and they may be covering up evidence of a crime; it's hard to tell. The meat of the movie occurs in the last part. The two boys and the ir father row to an island far from shore, where they camp out for several days. The father needs to retrieve something, and seems to want to spend time with his sons. There will be another test involving a tower, and scenes of amazing power.

This is a beautifully photographed movie. The landscapes are all bare and austere, the colors washed out to give everything an old, worn out look. Everything seems sad, as if it's the natural condition of the setting, which infects all of the people who live there.

It's a sneaky movie. It seems to be rambling and going nowhere until near the end, when a few seens of amazing power draw everything together. It's a character driven movie, so those who are into action, complex plotting, or broad humor best stay away.

Janey

alien vs Predator. 6 out of 10

B Movie. I enjoyed the backstory, and the effects, but man was it predictable. we knew which characters had the red-shirts (a la Start Trek) and were going to die.

And By the Way: if you were in Antartica, wouldn't you be able to see your breath when you breathed or spoke???

avernus

Hero with Jet Li

Lovely cinematography and clever use of colours. Amazing fantastical fight scenes, if you find them absurd then I completly understand. 9/10

Some reasonable acting, Jet Li of course not counted here as he can't act. 7/10

Plot - I don't want to give the game away but I felt that it substantially undermined the rest of the film. SPOILER-> At periods it was revealed that the past was being incorrectly recounted and it was then retold differently. This happened several times and I found myself, in the end, not believing anything I was seeing or waiting to have the rug ripped out from under me again. In a film where they also ask you to accept totally unphysical stunts I felt that the bedrock of acceptance was being undermined. 2/10

Conclusion: great visuals, boring music, mediocre acting and bad plot. Unsatisfying unless high kicks are all you need for amusement.

Chingal0

Viva la Hollywood Video MVP pass.

Garden State - 8/10 .. good movie, would reccomend.

Dawn of the Dead (remake) 7/10 good movie, extremely violent and awesome.

Monty Python's Holy Grail - 7/10 classic shit, good times.

Monty Python's Meaning of Life - 7/10 another classic, alth really fucking weird.

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