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Perfume: A Story of a Murderer - 9/10

I loved this movie.

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300 - 8/10

Watched this for the second time. I didn't like it as much as I did the first time I saw it but I still really enjoyed it. Just something about a movie where people get there shit chopped with swords makes for a good time. I also loved the fact that the "HUGE ASS GUY"s sword looked like a Katana.

stevie667

The 13th Warrior

6/10

I would like to know what was going through the writers head when they made this film. However, it is a good romp, keeps you entertained. Somewhat a slashfest, there is gore, but enough humor to counter balance it.

Plus it has the dude who played Vigo in ghost busters 2!

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Beowulf - as a movie 6/10, as a 3D imax experience 8.5/10

As a whole the movie was really not very good, the "actors" eyes looked so lifeless and bland, some really boring parts thrown in with the wife or the mistress. As a 3d movie is was awesome, the action was really fun to watch and had me enjoying myself immensely. However, I don't plan on ever watching this one again and would only recommend it to anyone who would go see it in the Imax.

I Know Who Killed Me - 0.05/10

The only reason that it gets that fraction of a point is due to the fact that people spent money trying to make this crap. Literally the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. The only consolation I have is that I fell asleep for about 30 minutes and missed the bit before the ending. I still don't even know what this movie is about, some guy putting sheets of dry ice on peoples hands and a case of mistaken identity... and also the worst stripper/pole dancing scene I have ever witnessed.

jewels

Got bored with TV last night and pulled out 11:14

I've already seen it two or three times, but it still pulls me in. Great writing and acting, full of irony, dark comedy and subtle horror; it's a great film when you're in that kind of mood on a lonely Saturday night.

Titan_Uranus

American gangster 9-10.
3-10 to Yuma 8-10
The Crow wicked prayer I'll rate this one PG (Pure Garbage).

ShaniFaye

Well I finally got to see American History X....and I was as blown away as everyone told me I would be (which is surprising as I usually dont like movies people recommend so strongly lol) I give it a 10/10

I also rewatched Sleepy Hollow....hadnt seen it since it first came out and I had forgotten just how much I loved it, Johnny Depp's acting continually amazes me, I give it an 8/10

Spiderman 3....I really was not impressed at all with this movie, but with "comic" movies I never am. I think my favorite part was when Peter was walking about in the "black suit" being a real shit lol I give it a 4/10

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I saw No Country For Old Men twice in the theatre and I give it 11/10. It was one of the most perfectly executed movies I have ever seen and I recommend it to anyone who truly loves movies. It goes against all Hollywood formula to give you an amazing and unpredictable experience. It achieves perfection in all of the necessary areas such as acting, directing, dialogue, cinematography, etc. What really makes it special though is all of the small details that work together to elevate it to a level inhabited by very few films. See it and spread the word.

aKula

Lions for Lambs 8/10
I really enjoyed this movie. Though the cuts to the three different stories makes the movie a little disjoint, they are all interesting in their own right which keeps the whole engaging. The dialogue really drew me into this.

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No Country for Old Men - 10/10 - Amazing. Simply amazing. Everything was perfect in this movie.

Wristcutters:A True Love Story - 9/10 - My kind of movie with its quirky odd humor and its Tom Waits. Good fun movie if you can find it playing anywhere. Plus it has Gogol Bordello music in it!

Juno - 9/10 - Just got this one in the mail randomly as a screener copy and it was great too! I love Michael Cera and Jason Bateman and Rainn Wilson though, so I might be a tad biased. Was still a very good movie though. Go see it... if it's out yet.

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Mr. Brooks - 7/10

Chilling and twisted, but not thrilling... all the foreshadowing was much too obvious and so the entire second half of the movie was fairly predictable. The ending didn't really wrap everything up enough for my tastes, either. There were too many questions left unanswered, and not in a way like they were alluding to a sequel... just poor writing.

Shrek: The Third - 4/10

Nothing terribly funny or clever about it... it was an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the other two.

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Im hiring you as my personal movie suggester lol

I watched this tonite, per our conversation and I LOVED it (and not just cause of Alan Rickman either lol)

Im going to have to go read the book now, but this movie....wow, not only was it beautifully shot, the way it was shot made you feel like you were actually there.

I know most people wont agree with me but the movie made me feel like I do when I watch Eyes Wide Shut....hard to put into words, but its like Im decadently enjoying something I really shouldnt.

whew....I think I need to watch it again

I give it a 9/10 only because it started kind of slow for me

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No Country For Old Men - 9/10 the ending confused me a bit but it was a fantastic movie otherwise.

Hairspray - 3/10 saw the play in Vegas with Harvey Firestine in the Edna role. movie couldnt match the stage production.

roachboy

two dumb movies in a row.

borat

i know i know, a year after everyone else...

i actually had high hopes for this because i thought the borat segments on ali g were hilarious.

but i dunno...i think hanging a road trip plotline around the sequences during which regular americans humiliated themselves by doing and saying unbelievably stupid things was a problem. like borat works better if you know less about him, because he's not the point---he's a situation.

it was just----ech.
i didnt hate it, i thought parts of it were funny, one or two were really funny.
so i dont mind the period of my life that i spent watching it.

seeing other people

if you're going to make a bad film, the commit to it and make a REALLY bad film, god damn it.

i couldnt even make myself hate this movie.
each passing vanilla minute of it. i wanted to hate it.
but it just wasn't worth it, and so it didnt even give me a period of really hating something.

it was the dialogue....it wasn't bad--it wasn't great or insightful or anything else--but it wasn't bad.
it seems that the dialogue got all the attention, tho--not the characters who say the dialogue, not the quality of the acting that animated the characters, not the film-making, not the film.

this film sucks but its too boring to loathe---too vanilla----not worth the effort.

it just kinda sits there.
so did i.
and so would you.

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I agree with this review 100% and I couldn't have said it better myself...weird, 'cause it feels almost like I really did say it myself, lol.

Quintessentially supreme filmmaking all around.

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Skutch

I saw No Country For Old Men twice, the first time it was exhilarating the second time depressing. I think its a nasty, mean-spirited movie with a bleak hopeless message.

Jove

Cashback

Story (copied from amazon.com): When art student Ben Willis is dumped by his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colorful cast of characters, all of whom have their own 'art' in dealing with the boredom of an eight-hour-shift. Ben's art is that he imagines himself stopping time. This way, he can appreciate the artistic beauty of the frozen world and the people inside it - especially Sharon, the quiet checkout girl, who perhaps holds the answer to solving the problem of Ben's insomnia.

My thoughts: This film is really stylish, the characters are intriguing and the music is great. And you get to see a lot of boobs throughout this film and what is not to like about that, right?

Rating: 8/10


The Dreamers

Story (summary by amazon.com): A love letter to movies (and the French new wave of the 1960s in particular), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers starts with a 1968 riot outside of a Parisian movie palace then burrows into an insular love triangle. Matthew (Michael Pitt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), an expatriate American student, bonds with a twin brother and sister, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), over their mutual love of film--they not only quote lines of dialogue, they act out small bits and challenge each other to name the cinematic source. Matthew suspects the twins of incest, but that doesn't stop him from falling into his own intimacies with Isabelle. As the threesome becomes threatened, Paris succumbs to student riots. The Dreamers aspires to be kinky, but the results are more decorative than decadent; nonetheless, the movie's lively energy recalls the careless and vital exuberance of Godard and Truffaut.

Thoughts: The first part of the film starts out with the three main characters talking in depth about old films, which is fantastic, but in the middle of the film, the characters and story get a little darker and more sexual. The twins have a little thing for each other and play some strange sex games and Matthew gets pulled into it, which leads to full frontal nudity of both genders. If you want to see Eva Green naked (you see everything and I mean everything) or you want to find out how she does in her first motion picture, then see this film.

Rating: 8.5/10

roachboy

we jam econo

a very good--if very straight formally speaking--documentary about the minutemen. the dvd comes with footage of 3 minutemen shows, so is better than seeing the theatrical version, which interperses interviews with the band, folk who knew them in various stages of post-punk sitting around in front of things modes and live footage.

if you liked them, its a great thing.

if you don't know this band, it's still a great thing--kinda gives you an idea of just how tepid and nice music that is talks about itself as rebellious has gotten.

but if you are thinking you're getting to sleep at a reasonable hour when you start the film at 11 pm and then later find out that there are 3 shows on the second disc, then you are kidding yourself.
just saying.

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I agree with you and MixedMedia.

This was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.

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13 Conversations About One Thing.

Just watched it for the second time.

Perfect, perfect, perfect.

One of the best character studies I've ever seen.

Tonight: The Conversation.

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I saw on USA network on Wednesday and I started watching it and it was strange but a pretty good movie. I need to watch the unedited version and give another viewing and see what I missed the first time around.

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Esoteric

American Gangster: 9/10

Excellent movie, Denzel Washington is a superb actor. The only thing that kind of killed the realism of the time was that Rza's Wu-Tang tattoo wasn't covered up. Other than that I thought the movie was extremely well done.

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8/10 The Bucket List

saw a screening of this last week. It was a fun movie and made me laugh. It was a bit depressing since the main characters are cancer stricken and make a list of things they want to do before they kick the bucket. It was an interesting pairing of Nicolson and Freeman and it worked very well.

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Some Like It Hot 10/10

Hain

Der Untergang - This is the final days of Adolf Hitler in his underground bunker, following various people.

... Wow. The movie is portrayed quite well (realistically), yet it still borders on surreal to watch the rapidly changing attitudes of all the people.

9/10

Agreeing here with Crow Wicked Prayer... they never could recapture whatever it was in that 1st movie. Over looking Brandon Lee dying, and some of his dialog (whatever he said while not trying to be scary) felt forced, that movie still makes me fall back.

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Like many others, I also saw No Country For Old Men.

i must say that this is one great movie! fucked up and just the way i expected it to be. Unpredictable!
awesome acting from everyone. and the lack of music really threw me off.
not much else to say at the moment.

I rate this movie: 9/10

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our hitler or hitler: a film from germany

a 7 hour fever dream about fascism.
while there are segments that you might experience as long of pretentious, depending as it always does on your mood at the time, this is still an amazing, unsettling experience. visually staggering, sonically most inventive.
excellent.
not for the weak, though.
7 hours is a committment, even if it is broken into 4 episodes.
it requires some stamina to sit on your couch and do this particular thing.

the case of howard philips lovecraft

apparently at documentary about lovecraft, but really a very cool film about a silhouette that sort of resembled lovecraft, but not really. something about the silohouette messes with you as a viewer--i had to watch this twice of figure out what was going on--the first time, i wasn't really sure somehow.

it's short--45 minutes--and lovely and disturbing and all other things good and lovely.

hypothesis of the stolen painting.

i love raul ruiz.
this is a most excellent raul ruiz film.
closest thing i know of to this is renais' "last year at marienbad" but that's probably because of the look of each: both were shot by sacha vierny.
you get to hang our with this curious collector who tours wants to explain to you the occult significance of a series of paintings my a guy named tonnère and to do that, you get to wander around in tableaux vivants for a while and there is no down side to that, none at all.

you cant figure out what the film "is about" for yourself.

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Dreamgirls - 9/10

I love musicals, the old, good ones like The Sound of Music, Singing in the Rain, etc. The ones where they burst into song to express their feelings. This movie really had that in it. I'm really amazed that it did so well critically for this very reason. I thought it was really good and here's to hoping they make more like this.

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"The Game" is WELL worth watching another time in its unedited state. I think it's a largely unappreciated movie that has a pretty decent cult following. You'll particularly enjoy it if you've gone through any fraternity-type initiation process, as it's strikingly (depending on your house maybe disturbingly) similar to some of the stuff you encounter in that area. Not the kind of movie that can really be appreciated in pieces or with segments missing, though.

mixedmedia

Last night I watched The Door in the Floor and, while I thought it was a pretty good film, it really didn't do much for me, either. And it was yet another failed attempt to put John Irving on the screen, for I don't think it adapted very successfully. Which has pretty much been the case since Garp. The most redeeming quality of the film was the performance by Jeff Bridges.

I'll give it a 7.5/10 for good performances and not making me roll my eyes even once.

Other movies I've seen recently...sorry if I've already reviewed some of these, I'm just going down my Netflix rental history.

The US vs. John Lennon - meh, wasn't particularly illuminating, but I did learn that Tommy Smothers was there for the recording of Give Peace a Chance. Love trivia like that. 7/10

A Mighty Wind - Not as good as Guffman (really though, what is?), but that's still better than most of the crap being passed along as movies these days. 8/10

Time Code - I made it through about 10 minutes and said to myself 'I don't give a fuck about these people, I'd rather do crosswords.' So I did. I won't rate a movie I didn't finish, though.

Everything Is Illuminated - I enjoyed this film very much. It gave me one of those fleeting moments of pride rarely associated with being a human. I have not read the book, yet, but I own it and have moved it up in the limitless queue of 'books I want to read.' It was written and directed by the actor, Liev Schreiber (The Manchurian Candidate). It was his first film, I believe, and an excellent one to boot. 9/10

Broken Flowers - Very enjoyable and I so, so love Bill Murray. Fun and poignant film by perennial favorite, Jim Jarmusch. 9/10

Well, the next one on the list is the Da Vinci Code and I think I reviewed that one already...it's been a slow movie period because I got sucked into watching the first two seasons of Lost. Kind of glad that's over. It was an uncomfortable addiction...kind of like watching soap operas on the sly.

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I am legend - 8/10 - Weak ending. Awesome on IMax! Now the Dark Knight 6min preview was a 10/10!!

blahblah454

I am Legend - 6/10
It was alright. Not exactly what I was expecting. However I do want to pick up the book and give it a read now.

The Last Legion - 3/10
Terrible, terrible movie. About the origin of the legend of Aurthur. It was so terrible, bad acting, bad dialog, terrible plot. Ugh. As soon as every character was introduced it was easy to see which "round table character" they were, but just in case you couldn't tell they tell you in some cheesy dialog at the end.

Mr. Brooks - 4/10
Not very exciting or entertaining. It just follows some guy around with a voice in his head who kills people. Thats all it is. Pretty bland in every aspect.

shesus

Sweeney Todd 10/10

Tim Burton. Johnny Depp. Helena Bonham Carter. Recipe for excellence.

I loved it. I must say I was a bit squirmish with the blade scenes. Even my step-daughter, who is the gore queen, was a bit grossed out because of the way it was filmed. It was dark and gritty and, until a better adjective can be found, quite beautiful even when it was repulsive. The opening sequence drew you into the story and kept hold of you even after the screen went black after the last scene. One of my favorites for sure.

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Walk Hard - 7/10

Decent laughs, but nothing really worth matinee prices. The stuff where they try to inject Dewey Cox into reality just seemed really forced, and it just didn't flow very well. The parts where it didn't take itself too seriously were definite highlights for me. "Wow this is a really dark period!!"

I think the problem was they set the humor and pace at the beginning, but it never surpassed it. The cameos from the normal Apatow regulars were great, though, as well as Jack White's Elvis.

jewels

I Am Legend - 7/10

Great story, very well acted by Will Smith, but the dog was not always convincing. The story pulls you in and doesn't let you go.

Although I tried to justify the ending, I simply can't. For once, I'm in total agreement with others who didn't like it.

Grasshopper Green

No Country For Old Men:

Everyone I know who has seen this loved it. Critics loved it. Various people here loved it.

I hated it and hubby hated it. There is nothing for me to pinpoint to say "This is the reason I didn't like it"...I just hated it and can't comprehend what all the fuss is about. The guy sitting behind us who said "For hell's sake, that's it?" at the ending, then bitched about wanting his money back pretty much sums it up for me.

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Sweeney Todd - 10/10
My favorite Tim Burton movie now. It was wholly satisfying. "Try the priest."

No Country For Old Men - 9.5/10
Excellent storytelling. The only bad mark comes with the pace faltering near the end. It is a movie that you only see once though.

(I'm glad to see roachboy finally seeing movies he is enjoying )

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a collection called the urgent cinema of salvador alvarez.

you have to find this.
right now.
dont just sit there.
go.

no. we'd just waste time if i told you about this.

go.

go now.

because you'll forget.

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I think you probably mean Santiago Alvarez.

roachboy

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0959588/

that would be correct.
in my enthusiasm, a mistake.

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