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I'd give it 3.5/5

The only thing that pissed me off was when it decided to switch view points. Made me feel like I was watching a soap opera. But I figure it was good enough to suck me in and make me angry when it switched before I thought that part should have finished.

And, yes, the car chase scenes were nice.

I completely agree. But it was a great movie, I'm waiting for it to hit the dollar show so I can watch it again while I wait for the DVD.

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Mamma Mia I would rate a 8/10 but I only enjoyed it that much because of the cast. Musicals aren't normally my thing, and my mom didn't tell me that's what we were going to watch. Watching Pierce Brosnan sing Abba songs with Meryl Streep was funny, though. Pretty much a chick flick, and I think ladies ages 40+ (maybe 35+) would probably enjoy it more.

*note, sit through the credits to watch them sing more Abba songs.

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The Bucket List

Okay, we all know how this goes. Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman find out they're dying and they go and do all the crap they wanted to do but never got around to while they still have a chance. It's sappy and stupid and seems almost calculated to get all the middle-aged housewives misty-eyed.

The characters are bone stock. Morgan Freeman plays the self-educated mechanic who knows everything about everything, and Jack has the role of the egocentric billionaire mogul playboy. Sean Hayes supports them as Jack's long-suffering assistant.

Clearly, I didn't expect much out of this film. It's all so very formulaic, you see.

Yet somehow it does manage to be more than the sum of it's parts. The Bucket List features some truly breathtaking set pieces, and I'm sure that helps it along, and it also includes some interesting philosophical nuggets to ponder over. It is a bit sappy, but in the telling it doesn't feel so calculated. Surprisingly, this seems to be largely Nicholson's doing; I've always considered Freeman the better actor and this role is pretty much custom-built for him, but old Johnny manages to give his character just that right little tinge of regret in order to really bring him to life.

The Bucket List isn't likely to change anyone's life, but it's certainly a much better film than I expected and worth watching.

7.5/10

Star Wars : The Clone Wars

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is, according to George Lucas, intended to be a lead-in to the new television series of the same name. If the film is any indication, the television series will last one season and we'll all bid it good riddance when it's gone.

Ironically, I think the film might've worked on the small screen. The plot, although rather lackluster, might've filled out a miniseries, and the equally shoddy animation would likely have held up a bit better. As a major film release, however, it ends up feeling just a bit lacking. The new characters feel like they've been forced into a narrative where they're not necessary, the plot lacks any real dramatic tension, the animation is slipshod. I made a bit of game out of counting the continuity errors, but quickly bored of it because they are many and obvious.

I want what the editors were on.

The entire film feels like a Saturday morning cartoon. I don't mean the good kind either; I'm talking about the Rocket Robin Hood timeslot-fillers that even the kids don't really enjoy.

The one place where the film holds it's own is in the action sequences. Particularly, the lightsaber duels are strangely quite fluid and well done, and the stylistic animation seems to complement them quite well. They still end up feeling out of place, though, because the film they're surrounded by is so terrible in comparison. It feels a bit like encountering a Rembrandt in a frame made out of scrap lumber and bits of trash.

Readers of my blog will know there's a new lady in my life. This lady was gracious enough to decide that since I chose to take her to see this film, I should have the benefit of being allowed a make-up date. Honestly, I'm surprised she didn't just decide to stop speaking with me entirely.

3.5/10

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Taking Lives - and i htink rottontomatoes 23% is being really really kind . . .

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Tropic Thunder - 7.5/10

A good Ben Stiller style comedy/action movie. The Les Grossman scenes were phenomenal, the actors making fun of actors was very well done, and the little asian kid playing the Poppy King character was awesome. As always, some of the humor fell flat for me, but when you're trying to make everyone laugh, that happens. The jokes that feel flat for me make someone out there laugh their ass off, and they hate the jokes I loved.

Hancock - 5.5/10

A fun action romp superhero movie, until they started not explaining a damn thing that was going on, for no real good reason. It's as if you were watching a Robin Hood movie, and suddenly Friar Tuck is a kick ass kung fu artist, and it's never explained why. It goes outside what you expected (which is great!) but never gives any context as to how or why. Still, a passable film.

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No Country For Old Men - 7/10

Oldboy - 8.7/10

Equilibrium (again) - 8/10

Iron Man - 6/10

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 8.5/10

Sweeney Todd - 9/10

Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay - 9/10

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The Tracey Fragments:

Summary: Tracey Berkowitz is a 15 year old high school student who doesn’t get along with anyone except for her 9 year old brother and narrates this film while describing the events leading up to her brother’s disappearance.

Comments: I was interested in Ellen Page’s acting abilities before Juno hit the big screen and was not disappointed in her performance in this film. The film has style and a decent story, but the fragmented clips are confusing at times while trying to put all the pieces together of how or why her brother vanished. Unfortunately, the viewer is left hanging at the end because the last clip is of Tracey casually walking in the park still searching for her brother.

Rating: 7/10

Smart People
Summary (from imdb): Lawrence Wetherhold is incredibly intelligent yet miserable professor at Carnegie Mellow, an indifferent father to a college student and a high-school senior, and the reluctant brother of a ne'er-do-well who's come to town. A seizure and a fall send Lawrence to the emergency room where the physician, a former student of his, ends up going on a date with him.

Comment:. The film attempted to send a message to the viewer that everyone has flaws and we should accept the person for who they are. Another film with Ellen Page, but in this story she portrays an annoying conservative intelligent high school student that does not get along with anyone. One of her weakest roles to date, but I still have a few of her films to watch before I can officially say that.

Rating: 6/10

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Tropic Thunder - 7/10

A little disappointing overall, but between Downey Jr and Cruise, it really made up for an otherwise boring story. "A nutless monkey could do your job." He was like a fat, bald, slightly more evil producer version of Ari Gold.

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The Quiet Earth - 8.0/10.0

It was an interesting movie that I think could have been taken in a different direction, but I wasn't the one directing it. But for an 80s sci-fi movie, it would have been a 9.5 back then,



Into The Wild - 9.0/10.0

As someone who is torn between the working for the man to live some type of life in society. Or doing something totally different and 'risky' by living your own life controlled by you in the wild. It was well done.



Lars and The Real Girl - 9.5/10.0

I didn't expect it to be anywhere near as good as it was. The acting in it was some of the best I've seen (although it isn't saying much). The story was different from what I had guessed it to be, and I enjoyed watching it.

Church

Now let me ask you something about this movie. Don't get me wrong, I loved it, but didn't it kind of piss you off? All the guy was doing was running away from his problems, not learning anything about what he was going to do, terrain, etc., and just went out with no direction or help save a little book about common plants. I don't know, just seemed to me like he was essentially committing suicide.

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I didn't look at it as a guy running away from his problems , i looked at it as a guy making a drastic change in his life to get away from what society expects you to do. The Motorcycle Diaries is a movie that I think you wanted this one to be. In that movie, they set out for an adventure, but had a good purpose. In this movie, the purpose was to live life not knowing what will happen tomorrow. I think he looked at where his life was going and knowing that he was going to live in a cubicle for the next 30-40 years and it scared him.

Yeah you might say he was selfish or had problems fitting in. If things had gone differently in some parts of his life, he probably wouldn't have taken it that far or felt the need to get away and live a non-materialistic carefree life.

But, they had to tell the story of what happened, I wish he would have stayed a little more mobile and not to have it end they way it did. And the movie isn't for everyone, but I know I could have done that 5 years ago.

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Wall-E - 9.0/10

Cute, beautiful to watch, had a good message, but not laid on too thick. I really enjoyed it. And the scenes in space with Wall-E and Eve were freaking gorgeous.

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The Page Turner - 8.5/10

Great little tale of revenge as only the French can do it. Tres tres bien.

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Perfume: A Story of a Murderer - 7/10

Watched it based on the reviews here. I found it interesting and yet not what I expected it to be at all. Odd to because at this point in time in my life, I've not been able to smell anything for the past couple of years at least. Dustin Hoffman's role was well done.

We Own the Night 8/10
Interestingly the same story as The Godfather, but set in the 80's as a period piece, and also from a police officer's perspective.

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The Purifiers

This film was painful to watch.

Summary: The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives.

Comments: What could have been an excellent martial arts film fell flat on its face. The directing, editing, story, dialogue, acting, music, and script were awful. The slow motion karate moves could have been skipped to make the movie intense, but instead it made it appear like the actors were memorizing a bunch of moves they had no idea how to use.

Rating: 1/10

Church

Which film is that? I think you forgot the name of the movie. lol

I'm guess District B-13 maybe?

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Death at a Funeral

Great acting ensemble. It had a play feel to it. I found it quite funny and I actually cared about the people.

This cements Frank Oz as a wonderful and superb director.

From the very beginning to the very end it kept a strong onstage pace. There were some very strong performances such as Alan Tudyk playing a drugged Simon, Peter Dinklage as Peter the "mistress" and Matthew Macfadyen as Daniel who holds it all together as the straight man.

It was very reminiscent of Arsenic and Old Lace.

I have to give it a perfect 10.

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I'm going to take a stab and say the movie is The Purifiers

The synopsis didn't really sound like B-13. And that movie more than made up for any lacking acting, script, etc with the parkour scenes alone.

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You are correct, it is The Purifiers. I just edited my message and add the movie title.

Church

To be entirely honest, I've never seen B-13 and was just taking a wild stab at it haha

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10,000 BC - 1/10

The presence of Camilla Belle didn't save this shitfest from stinking. Dumb among dumb--and in so many ways. I want my two hours back. FUCK!!!

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The Bank Job - 6.5/10

I was pleasantly surprised. Although not great, this had some good tension and some decent performances. I had expected a crappy crime/action movie, and instead had a good time watching this. A decent evening's entertainment, and that's more than I was looking for from it.

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Equilibrium - 8.5/10

I can't get enough of this one. I believe that this was one of the first Bale movies I ever watched, and still one of my favorites.

The Machinist - 7.5/10

Strange one for sure, another Bale film. The dude weighed like 110 lbs in this film, very frightening.


X-Files: I want to Believe - 6/10

Just got back from seeing this one in the cheapies. It was okay, more like a really long episode than a movie. If you enjoyed the TV series you will probably enjoy this, if not then stay away.

Employee of the Month - 3/10

Wow, what a bad movie this was. Just terrible. And does anyone else think that Jessica Simpson looks inbred? She has a rocking body but her face looks like mush.

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American Gangster: 8.1/10 This movie had a decent plot but pacing was slow. There were five scenes I could have seen cut out and been fine.

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Bangkok Dangerous

Rating: 2/10

If you want to watch a stylish over the top assassin movie, watch Wanted.

This movie was terrible and they should have chosen a different actor for the main character. Nicolas Cage cannot narrate a movie nor can act in this film. What should have been a stylized movie, turned out to a film wasted on an attempt to be unique.

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I watched.. well tried to watch 2 movies last night...

The Fall 3/10 (My rating is sure to be lower than other people's..)
I couldn't finish this one.. It had a few cool visuals that were dreamlike but it was so damn slow and the story sucked.. The front of the DVD said "David Fincher and Spike Jonze Present:" and I mistakenly read "a film by Fincher and Jonze.." Well.. yeah.. People shouldn't be able to put their name on shit they had nothing to do with! My fault though.. I've seen the tactic done all too often and I shouldn't have fell for it.

Forbidden Kingdom 6/10
It gets 4 points just for Jackie Chan doing Drunken style against Jet li. To me, this movie felt almost like The Never Ending Story where the modern day protagonist is bullied then sucked into a magical story.. It just wasn't as good.. I gotta give it 2 more points because Yifei Liu is hot! The rest is forgettable...

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Fierce People - 8/10

A charming, quirky, satirical, romantic and dark-edged little gem. It manages to miss the mark of great but still quite worth watching.

Diane Lane plays the mother of a teen boy who spend the summer at wealthy Donald Sutherland's 10-mile square town/estate, but this ain't no summer camp movie.

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21 - 7/10

Far better than I thought it would be. A little slow, but enjoyable all the same.


What happens in Las Vegas (or something like that) - 4.5/10

What a terrible movie. My roommates boyfriend rented this and so I watched it with them, talk about a dumb movie. The only thing that it gets points for is miss D's amazing smile.


The Punisher - 8/10

Thomas Jane is unstoppable! Great movie. Its a shame he is not the Punisher in the new one coming out.

The Pick of Destiny - 7.5/10

Meat Loaf! Dio! and all that in the first five minutes! Whats not to love? Okay the whole movie isn't that good, but its still an enjoyable movie. Ultra-cheesy movie with lots of original music by Jack Black and company. If you like JB then I highly recommend it. Master Exploder is one of the best songs out there.

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Elephant 6/10

This was an odd movie by Gus Van Sant (Director of Gerry, Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting.) It's a very quiet and uniquely filmed movie, By unique, I mean it's filmed almost exactly like Gerry and Last Days in that there wasn't any dialog that really progressed the film. The film observes average high school students on a day that ends with a school shooting.(spoilers ahead, but movie isn't really a surprise as much as witnessing of events) What I liked about the film is that it's kind of how I remember school. The friends with so little in common they have nothing to do except bicker about how much time they spend with each other, Some kids getting mocked and bullied, other completely normal people going though their normal day. I really liked John's reaction to seeing the shooters. It was very child-like reaction. He saw a problem but didn't know how to react. The heroes of the movie, if there were any, weren't your typical rescue the people, stop the badguys, get the girl type. They were just scared kids that couldn't do anything against people with guns.

I think the movie could have been better. I think a little more dialog, a better ending, and.. I don't know what else.. Maybe a little more time spent on the shooters. Their relationship was interesting.

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Shine a Light- 8/10

If you're a Rolling Stones fan you'll likely love this flick. It's a concert/documentary film. Directed by Martin Scorsese and filmed during two performances at the Beacon Theater in NY. Yes the Stones are old. At the time of the filming I think Mick was 64 and Watts was 67, I hope if I get there I'm half alive as these guys appear. And while Kieth looks near dead, probably should be dead, he isn't. It's been said conventional weapons can't kill Richards, I starting to think that not just a joke. I'm a fan. I've seen them 14 times (a number I thought was a lot until I met a couple in Hawaii in the second row on the second night seeing them for the 63rd time.) Anyway I liked it. I would have preferred a few changes to the set list. Factory Girl was discussed and I would have liked to of heard Sweet Virginia live again. Also I think this is the first time I've ever seen a Stones performance that didn't include Gimme Shelter. Then again can't remember the last concert I went to and didn't leave thinking "why didn't he/she/they play______"

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Hot Fuzz 7.5/10
It's a spoof of police buddy films. I really like Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, but I didn't love the film.

Nim's Island 6.5/10
I'm always on the lookout for children's movies with female protagonists. (I watch them with my daughter). So, I thought with Abigail Breslin (the girl from Little Miss Sunshine) and Jodie Foster, it should be decent. It wasn't. The girl was not particulary convincing. Gerard Butler was bad. Jodie Foster was great, but not in the movie enough.

Lassie (2005) 8.0/10
Starring among others, Lawrence of Arabia (Peter O'Toole), it was decent. Excellent acting, just a bit slow at times. There are better movies that focus on the home front in England during WWII.

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Doomsday 2/10

I'm sure someone out there somewhere will like this flick. My guess is it's a video game or comic book made into to film. For me this film SUCKED. The only redeeming quality, in my opinion, was Rhona Mitra and who ever designed her costumes. The plot seems like a complete rip off of Mad Max and Escape from New York. The FX's are a joke, often you can clearly see the use of dummies etc... Several actions shots are so poorly done it made me think of the Sci-Fi films of the 50-60's- minus the campy fun.

IMHO, Bad, just simply fucking awful.

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Since my last review in this thread, I have seen a bunch of movies. I just didn't have much time to post.
Here they are in mixed order.


Hancock
I liked this movie till about 3/4 when the feel of the movie turned for the worst. It was still good but the story was never that good in the end. good acting overall.
rating of 6.9 out of 10


Tropic Thunder
This is now my favourite comedy! man this was good. The only actor I hated in this was jack black. Bad acting and really not needed. Plus having tom cruise in that role was awesome!! really recommended as a comedy.
I rate this a high 8.5 out of 10 possibly less as a 2nd viewing but I think it will hold strong.


RedBelt
This was weak. Good start but very predictable. and it never explains a few key part. I was dissapointed in this movie.
rating of: 6 out of 10



damn. I thought I could remember more... I'll post more if I remember the ones I've seen since then.

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Burn After Reading 7.5/10

I'm not gonna lie. I laughed a lot at this movie. A LOT. It has some superb, pure Coen brothers moments. But at the end of the day, as a movie, it doesn't hold together in a very meaningful way and I left the theater feeling fairly unsatisfied. Also, while it's marketed as a comedy, this is definitely more of a Blood Simple or Barton Fink affair than it is a Hudsucker Proxy or Big Lebowski.

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The Holiday - 7.5/10

Ok so I'm a sucker for a good chickflick. I thought the film a good flow and chemistry between the characters. It just leaves you with that aww feeling at the end.

ColonelSpecial

Death Race: 1/10
It got one point because it was short, 1.5 hours. It didn't work for me. The plot was disjoined and you didn't real care about anything: not the characters, not the races, not the death, nothing.

The Island: 9/10
Watched this again after 2 years. Crazy amount of explosions but not graphically done. Ewan McGregor is hot!

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Taken 7-10

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Burn After Reading - 8/10
Its hard to go wrong with the Coen brothers. Its a funny movie with great acting from a list of recognizable names and faces. It starts off slow and disjointed, but once the storylines start to merge, the pace picks up considerably. I enjoyed it.

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Good Luck Chuck - 5/10
Mediocrely funny....and it's only because I watched it with some friends. Movies tend to be more enjoyable when watched in groups.

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I actually really enjoyed it because it was campy fun. Then again I also enjoyed Dog Soldiers (same director in Neil Marshall) for the exact same reasons. Doomsday wasn't great but I'd rate it way higher than 2, more in the 6 range. Fun but ultimately forgettable.

Doomsday - 6/10

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