oktjabr

Just saw Der Untergang (or Downfall).

A very powerful, well made movie with excellent acting. I can't imagine why this movie has been criticized because it portrays Hitler as a human being not as a demonized monster.

9/10

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Gilda

Cube Zero ** (out of four)

A tired retread of the same ideas used up in the first two movies. We learn a bit more about why the cube exists, but it does nothing to enhance the story. The first one worked as an existential nightmare, a puzzle, and a single set exercise. None of that is true of this tired excuse to milk the franshise one last time.

Kadath

Hostage

Oh boy, was that crap. I got drunk to try and enjoy it a little bit, but I guess I sobered up at some point, because the train went right off the rails with about 45 minutes left. Up until that point it was just trite and uninteresting.

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jhkayakr

Godfather part 3...it sucked, very boring..

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"Be Cool"

Eh, it was ok. I mean, it seemed like they took everyone in Hollywood that wasn't doing anything good at the time and said "hey, y'all wanna do a stupid movie together?" I mean, Joe Perry acting? Granted, he only has about two lines, but he delivers them in the same monotone he did way, way back on SNL when he did Wayne's World. And Steven Tyler? I mean, GOD, can Aerosmith sell out any more? Anyway, enough with the hair bands... It was an OK movie. Some funny moments, some trite ones, but it was good.

I must say, however, that the hilight was The Rock as a flaming gay bodyguard. He was mega fuckin funny, and actually acted pretty good to boot- he plays a bodyguard trying to "break into" acting- so he's supposed to come across as a two-bit actor. Pretty funny... no, make that REALLY FUNNY.

But it's not worth the $5 matinee price. Wait for it to come out on DVD.

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Just rented "Big Fish". 8 out of 10. I enjoyed it very much. One of Tim Burton's best movies. Very imaginative and with the intense imagery, it fits right up his alley. Looking forward to his next film..."Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Should be very cool.

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I saw "Hostage" this weekend, and I was very disappointed. There were many scenes in which the situations were not believable. The audience is expected to accept all without question. Not a good film.

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Supersized

This was that film about the scientist/doctor who decided to eat McDonalds for a month straight. I guess it was fairly entertaining but was more or less just an attempt from some health gurus to shit on the fast food industry. If you enjoy your fast food from time to time, much like i do, dont bother to see this.

radioguy

The Jacket -- it started out slow and took me a while to figure out what was going on, but in the end, I liked it.

dirtyrascal7

collateral - 10/10. awesome the first time i saw it, and i'm sure it's one of those movies that gets better with each viewing.

GMontag

The Royal Tenenbaums (again). 9/10. A true classic. This movie just gets better and better each time I watch it. It's just such an amazing, well-balanced mix of dry, subtle comedy and melancholy.

Last movie I watched that I had never seen before:

Sideways. 7/10. I thought the performances by the two leads were quite good, and the comedic moments were touching and original. The plot, while not really leaving anything to be desired, was still unsubstantial. The movie was good, but not amazing.

Seanland

The Ring 2 - 7.5/10

Just Came Out Just saw it.
Donno, it just seemed to be missing something, cant describe it, just seems ehh. Not Bad, Id say if you liked the first one go see the second one, but if you have not seen the first DONT go see the second, youll be lost

billege

I saw the Ring 2 yesterday w/my wife and sister. We are all in complete agreement it sucked ass so bad the makers should be bitchslapped for even using the Ring name. It was really, really shitty.
Bad shitty.
Predictable, going in random dumbass directions, no plot, it made no SENSE, etc. Just a big pile of horror shit using the Ring ingredients to try and have some sense of legitimacy. It was really bad. Complete and utter tripe.

Also, they turned the lead chick into a complete and total fucking moron. Then we threw in a "the authorities think mommie's abusing the child even though it's really the ghost" subplot that was such a lame, desperate, attempt at tension, I was actually offended. Predictably, the only way to "save" her child was to do things that would appear as abuse. OMG I never saw that coming!

Spoiler: The whole "she wants a mommy" bit as a reason for the whole movie seemed to have nothign to do with the Ring mythology at all. Just a simple excuse to HAVE a part 2. She doen't want to kill mommy either, just watch cartoons. Could we have ordered up a lamer idea? I think not.


The movie really licked nuts.
That first one was good.
This was shit. Cheap horror shit.

The main character even screemed and stood still in shock suprise at something the whole theater saw coming 5 mintues earlier. "OMG I somehow didn't see this coming! SO NOW I'll STAND HERE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Such utter trash.

They even did some stupid bullshit bit where el kiddo suddenley has magic powers of prediction, and tells numb cunt not to stop. Guess what she does? TWICE!
You'll become offended. But first you'll sit there annoyed. Wondering, why am I wasting 2 hours in here?

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Saw Million Dollar Baby. Loved it. Great writing, great directing, great acting. I really loved the writing--snappy, comic and dramatic without being maudlin. All in all, a fantastic movie. Highly recommended.

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EbolaVirus

21 Grams

I recommend it, but you need to pay very close attention. It skips all over. Eventually, it all comes together.

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heccubusiv

Ring 2 probably the worst movie i have ever seen. I predicted all of the scary parts(but still for some reason jumped). I left the movie thinking that i missed something. The ending was awful the entire movie was awful, its hard to create a climax and have it last for 2 straight hours. Normally after horror movies i leave scared and I left disapointed. My sister feel asleep during a movie. The 6.02E23 high school people there were not even scared. People were sitting on the floor and they were laughing at the movie. The movie was between Fear.com and GhostShip as being awful horror movies, it should be renamed to Crap 2 and that good director should get his name off the movie

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Amnesia620

Saw. I watched it a second time. 8.5/10 is my rating. Sick and twisted...could of been scarier though.

Now for the reason I'm posting...

M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" was f*cking LAME!!! I have been waiting anxiously to see this movie for over a year now...last night the reality hit as that movie ended that I spent 1 hour and 45 minutes of my life watching a LAME ASS stupid piece of CRAP that someone had the audacity to call a FILM!!!! .01/100 <--In the beginning of the movie, I was actually interested in the "what, why and how" of the movie...by the last 3rd of the movie, I knew I had joined the society of morons who saw it...difference between me and them? I'm WARNING EVERYONE that hasn't seen this movie -- RUN FAR AWAY from it. IT SUCKED. Again I rate it: .01/100

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former newt

SE7EN: 7/10

good plot, average acting, good unity, but kinda boring for more than half the movie.



The Butterfly Effect: 8/10

plot, while creative and fairly good, is riddled with holes. acting, i thought, was actually pretty good on ashton's part. the kid actors were a bit far-fetched, but whatever. very entertaining.

Fourtyrulz

Made the mistake of seeing The Ring 2 yesterday (thank god it was a matinee!) and it gets a -27/10.

Just like an earlier poster said, THE MOVIE JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY DAMN SENSE! It didn't seem like there was a point to the movie, it just kind of wandered along without a goal in mind. There were a couple scenes I would call "cool" just because the CGI effects were incredible, but other than that it failed to be scary or intense. I absolutely hated the first movie anyway, but my girlfriend liked it and wanted to see the second one.

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leo_cote

Saw Ring 2 last night, i liked the first one but the second wasn't all that great.Not a lot of scary parts as in the first.

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kenshee

Saw Windstruck last night. Wasn't good as it could be but still good nonetheless.

Gilda

Whispering Corridors *** (out of 4)

Set in a Korean girls' prep school, it begins with a strict middle aged teacher investigating some phenomenon that has apparently been repeating itself every few years at the school. She finds some evidence in some yearbooks, but kills herself, or apparently does, before she can reveal it.

Meanwhile, two girls have become close friends. One believes she can call spirits, and is a talented painter, while the other is the school brain, and supports her friend even after the friend is kicked out of art class.

A new teacher to the school, a former graduate herself in one of the mysterious years, befriends both students, and tries to act as their mentor.

There is an old abandoned wing at the school that used to house the art classes. Some years before, a girl was imprisoned there by the others and committed suicide. It's rumored that her ghost now haunts the school, in particular the wing where she died, where workers continually meet with strange accidents.

There's lots of creepy stuff going on, and the big revelation at the end is genuinely surprising, but it fails to maintain it's creepy tone consistently, and it takes a couple of viewings to clearly identify exactly what happens at the end.

Still, for originality and the effective tone, it's worth a look.

degrawj

i saw Ray this weekend. it was a pretty good movie, although it was a bit too long. Jamie Foxx did an AWESOME job in it, and the costume designer was freaking incredible with the outfits. it almost looked like it was filmed back in the day. so, like i said, the length was a minus, and also there were a couple scenes that were WAY dramatic. the actors over-acted their part. i just rolled my eyes during these scenes because they were so bad. i'd give it 3 out of 5 stars. however, if i was able to find out how truthful the movie was, and if all the relationships in it were portrayed realistically, then i would probably give it 4 stars out of 5.

former newt

Sin City: 10/10

amazing style, wonderful use of black and white, gore out the ying yang, and awesome characters.

Grancey

The Ring Two....
I saw this film simply to see Simon. I hope this leads to larger roles for him. Though the film was not good, you have to agree that the cast was great. Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole and Sissy Spacek were brilliant choices for the roles that they portrayed. The scenes with Cole and Spacek made the film for me. Brilliant actors in bit parts. Classic.

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Sin City was amazing. This movie is cinema art.

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Amnesia620

Stephen King's "Misery" That movie is classically awesome 9/10

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Shady

Sin City

It was so damn awesome I had to see it twice this weekend. I'll add it to my top ten favorites off all time.

10/10

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Lol, I saw it twice during the weekend and had exactly the same sentiments.

Kostya

Lone Wolf and Cub Volume I: Sword of Vengeance - Great... violent.
Lone Wolf and Cub Volume II: Baby Cart at the River Styx - Greater... more violent.
Lone Wolf and Cub Volume III: Baby Cart at the Crossroads of Hades - Great... most violent.

Violent Cop - Ah Takeshi Kitano, will you ever stop being cool?

The Treasure of Sierra Madre - John Huston at the top of his form, Bogart is incomparable.

The Leopard - Luchino Visconti made the most Sicilian movie ever, with Burt Lancaster. Holy crap.

Fremen

"The Incredibles" 10/10
Best dvd I've bought in a good while.
Great story (not your prototypical superhero story), nice humorous scenes, fantastic animation, lots of moments that made me go "Wow!".

I hope Disney doesn't fuck-up the sequel now that Pixar is out of the picture.

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Ladder 49 - i did not like it. its just a movie about what fire fighters do before and after fires.

super troopers - still wondering why i don't own this.

guthmund

I usually avoid going to see movies in the theater.

That being said....

Mystic River - Why oh why did I watch this. Pretty intense story that should have ended 15 minutes before it did. Sean Penn = over rated. If being the "greatest actor of his generation" simply requires grunting and looks of constipation then sign me up.

The Incredibles - Fantastic movie. Fun to watch the entire way through. The DVD has a lot of extras including a fantastic little ditty called "Boundin" about a self-conscious sheep and a bouncing jackalope

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sgn43

Totally agree with you. This was a really pleasant surprise, as I hadn't seen it in theaters like everyone else in the world. The movie itself was fantastic and I could definitely see why it generated so much buzz as an Oscar contender, but the DVD's special features were among the best I've ever seen. I was a bit disappointed that they didn't include the actors in the behind-the-scenes featurettes, but it was great nonetheless.


A definite 10/10.



I also finally got around to watching The Girl Next Door. I was expecting just another typical "teen comedy" with its fair share of laughs, but again I was very pleasantly surprised. The movie had a sweetness about it that I don't typically see in most teen-oriented comedies. Also, all the principals in the movie gave very underrated performances and put together a film that I enjoyed very much in its own right and not just compared to other teensploitation films. And maybe it was just the fact that I was completely hypnotized by her, but I think Elisha Cuthbert did a wonderful job in her role despite being very underutilized despite having the film seemingly revolving around her.

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Ella

'The Life Aquatic'

A lot of fun, but spent too much time trying to be clever. Liked Bill Murray very much.

7/10

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bendsley

The Ring 2. Hated it. I never saw the first one, but if it's anything like the sequel, no thanks.

4/10

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Jesus Pimp

Sin City: 8.5/10 - Amusing violence, ok story, naked chicks, and Jessica Alba yum!
Sahara: 8/10 - Surprisingly good summer popcorn flick. Penelope Cruz is yum.

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degrawj

hey, i just saw Sahara too!! and i think i agree with Jesus Pimp. i'm not really that into "popular" summer time big movies, so i really didn't have very high expectations for the movie. but i was pleasantly surprised. so i give it 4/5 stars.
i also saw Finding Neverland, which was a very good movie. also 4/5 stars.

Grasshopper Green

I just got back from Sahara. Being a huge fan of the author on which the story is based, I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was two hours of entertainment. 3/5 stars.

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radioguy

sideways -- i enjoyed the heck out of it. i'm a cork dork so the movie was more interesting to me. the wines that were drank in the movie have me curious as to trying them out myself. not a bad flick 3.4324565/5