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Gorky
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Adventureland
For some reason, this movie reminded me of The Graduate--not in quality, really, but there was just this whole I'm-a-listless-college-grad vibe that I always associate with that movie. Anyway, it was funny and all, and despite the fact that I want to hate Kristen Stewart on principle (anyone involved with Twilight, really), she wasn't too bad. But there was just a hell of a lot of weed and booze and relationship drama, and only some of it was really engaging. Honestly, I think I would've enjoyed this a bit more if not for the last twenty minutes; it's just sort of tired thematically, and they drag it out for too long. Seriously, did anyone think the movie wasn't gonna end that way?
B+
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coldangel
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One-Sentence ReviewsPaul Blart: Mall CopThis would have been awesome if they’d thought to make it funny. Secret WindowJudging by the depth that Mr. Depp immerses himself into some of his characters, I reckon this is actually going to happen to him one day – Captain Jack Sparrow or someone like that will manifest as a multiple personality and start killing people. Me, Myself & IreneThe slapstick stuff’s mostly pretty dull, but there’s enough real hilarity to cover for it. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindA brilliant conceptual film with Jim Carrey at his finest that makes the viewer wonder if it’s possible to selectively erase their memory of having seen Dumb & Dumber. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestNow impossible to take seriously because of that Simpsons episode… you know, the one with ‘Michael Jackson’. Every Which Way But LooseI wanted to like it because it’s Clint, but couldn’t on account of it being pointless and unfunny. Heroes: The Movie PushI’m sure fourteen-year-old Dakota Fanning in her tiny skirt brandishing guns and a tart attitude was a treat for all the paedophiles in the audience, but it just made me very uneasy. Inglourious Basterds (Inglorious Bastards)Wow, that was ever-so overrated!
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Nixorbo
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the army general sounded more lke the "War were declared" guy from Futurama, but the credits said it was Keifer Sutherland... wha? I decided it was Sutherland doing his best John Dimaggio impression.
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DogDoo8
Liquid Emperor
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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel Chris O' Dowd, (Irish guy from the IT Crowd) and his friends on a pretty good time travelling pub adventure, similar to Shaun Of The Dead/Lesbian Vampire Killers, (though not as bad as LVK), and Anna Faris shows up a few times. Throw in some special effects and a few clever time travel encounter gags and you have a good movie!
B+
Will have to look for this one. Thanks faze.
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Tweek
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Gregory's Girl (1981)
When one thinks of the best school based films this gem is often overlooked in favour of well known American films which is a shame as Gregory's Girl is just as good. It certainly has a very British feel to it, Gregory plays in the school's football team which has lost every match of their season, instead of shouting at the team the coach wearily holds a try out for new players. The only person trying out who is any good is Dorothy... the coach doesn't want a girl on the team but reluctantly lets her join as he really has nothing to lose. As soon as he sees her play Gregory falls in love with her and sets about getting a date with her.
John Gordon Sinclair does a great job as awkward teenager Gregory and there is a fine supporting cast including Dee Hepburn as Dorothy, Clare Grogan as Susan, a friend of Dorothy's who likes Gregory and young Allison Forster who, in her only acting role, was delightful as Gregory's sister Madeline. It helps that the main actors aren't in their mid-twenties and the school is clearly populated by children.
While the main plot is obviously about Gregory there are also plenty of other interesting characters including two boys who work for the school magazine who make money selling photographs of Dorothy in an unofficial shop they've set up in the boys' toilets, here we also see Gregory's brother selling assorted pastries and various boys having a smoke. Even though there are lots of surreal moments this film seems to be one of the most realistic portrayals of a school; the children all seem like real school children, at least from a British perspective. We don't have the standard group of cliques we would get in a US school drama and nobody really cares that the football team is useless.
I'd certainly recommend this film to anybody wanting a good laugh and a fairly accurate depiction of life at a British School.
9/10
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Tweek
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Jason X
I can't say how this compares to other films in the "Friday the Thirteenth" franchise as I'd only seen one of them before and that was twenty years ago. Thankfully you don't really need to have seen previous instalments to understand what is going on. We are told several times that the hockey mask wearing Jason Vorhees is an unstoppable killer then we see him killing lots of people who's efforts to kill him barely slow him down.
I don't know it is was deliberate but this film seemed to have elements of lots of other science fiction films including: Alien (unstoppable killer in space), Demolition Man (Killer and person who knows what he is cryogenically frozen) and Aliens (gung-ho space soldiers killed easily and somebody trying to keep the danger alive for money). While this might make the film derivative it didn't spoil the entertainment for me.
The film opens with Jason chained up in preparation for cryogenic imprisonment at a facility run by Rowan, a scientist played by Lexa Doig. Soon the military turn up to take Jason away for research but before one can say "psycho killer" Jason is out of his chains and they are dead. Rowan lures him to the cryogenic chamber and captures him, unfortunately for her he breaches the container and she is also frozen. Four hundred years later the Earth is uninhabitable and the facility is being examined by archaeologists who find Rowan and Jason and take them back to their spaceship. Once there there thaw Rowan and assure her that Jason is dead. Of course he is soon on his feet killing scantily clad students and soldiers in a variety of imaginative ways.
While nobody was about to win any acting Oscars for this I thought Lexa Doig did a good enough job as Rowan, Lisa Ryder was OK as android Kay-Em 14 and Peter Mensah put in a decent performance as Sgt. Brodski, the rest of the cast were fairly forgettable, they were just there to look pretty and die. The special effects were pretty good for the most part, certainly better than I'd expected from part ten of a slasher franchise.
Several people have said this will only appeal to fans of the series, I have to disagree with this as I thought it was fun... perhaps it only appeals to fans of the series or fans of second rate science fiction.
6/10
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seattlejohn01
Space Pope
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300
It's been out for a while, but I just saw it. Visually striking, amazing CGI, extremely bloody & gory. Story was good (especially the voiceover), but historically inaccurate (the battle of Thermopolye was fought by 300 Spartans AND about 1000 other Greeks from assorted city states against the Persians). Unfortunately, they didn't explain how this uniting of Greeks eventually inspired Greece to abandon their city states & unite into one country, which exported, amongst other things, the concept of Democracy (if the Greeks hadn't stayed in the Thermopolye pass, Democracy might never have been introduced to the rest of the world). But, that's just nitpicking. Overall, well worth the money.
9/10
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M0le
Space Pope
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« Reply #308 on: 09-24-2009 11:46 »
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I was just about to make the comment "and I suppose 300 was based on a historical event, hahah you are quite the cad, Ben", and then I realised somebody actually WAS talking about 300. ZeligMy new personal favourite Woody Allen, along with the last eighth of Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex. Favourite scene: the masturbation class that starts early without him. YES I LIKE IT WHEN WOODY ALLEN MAKES JOKES ABOUT GENITALS BECAUSE I HAVE A FUNCTIONING PAIR OF ONE OR MORE OF THEM. Like all best Woody Allen movies sans Sleeper, it's best to imagine the whole thing as a setup for a one liner, but I can't pretend I don't like them. Funny, fast, full of familiarity, and to break the alliteration, vaguely historical (Adolphe Mejoue and Red Grange!?! ), and once again I have to be amazed at how successful Woody Allen is with women compared to everyone else, but it appeals to everyone's interests. Shoudn't take much effort to find and watch; so HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. AThe Life and Death of Colon el BlimpOne of only a few movies I've seen lately that I highly recommend. Best way to describe it would be as season 4 of Blackadder, roughly 50 YEARS AHEAD OH YEAH AND IN ACTUAL WARTIME PROBABLY DURING THE BLITZ. HOLY Bananas they were bold. I can't remember any quotes but I wrote some down a few weeks ago and it's taken me so long to write a review that I lost those notes. If you see it based on this, assume anything that makes you smirk was seen before you by me and smirked at pre-emptively. And before either of us, Churchill hated it and smoked his ugly fat cigars dismissively. A+
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Books
Near Death Star Inhabitant
Urban Legend
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~FazeShift~
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« Reply #317 on: 09-27-2009 05:43 »
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Interesting, must be awesome to get a D... Anyhoo, Sleep DealerMexican sci fi set in the future where immigration to US is no longer necessary due to a sort of internet "Matrix", where workers can control robots across the border by connecting into the system through electrical nodes hooked into their nervous systems in these big labour Matrix factories in Tijuana. A young farmer guy, Memo, accidentally hacks into the military "Matrix" one day and his father is killed in the resulting attack on his home, so he has to go work in one of these factories to support his family. He meets Luz, who helps him get his "nodes" to connect him to the Matrix an find a job (a cool scene where he connects for the first time and is overwhelmed when he discovers he's controlling a robot welder on a high skyscraper in California) Anyway he develops a relationship with Luz (the lovely Leonor Varela ). I found it really interesting, has many parallels with todays society of disconnection from face to face contact and replacing it with technology, even the video calls he makes to his home town is not satisfying for him, like it is today. He also starts going blind from being connected too much, square goggles! Fantastic movie. ADeath SentenceRevenge flick starring Kevin Bacon. His son gets killed by a gang and in taking his revenge by killing the young initate who did it, he starts a war with the gang, pretty standard stuff but the last half hour or so is pretty cool, just Bacon as a broken man with not much left to live for (well sorta). B
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #318 on: 09-27-2009 08:06 »
« Last Edit on: 09-27-2009 11:44 by coldangel_1 »
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I love that a guy named Bacon has a nose like a pig's. One-Sentence ReviewsAppaloosaI will not stand for Renee Zellweger being made into a slut! There Will be BloodThis was the worst comedy ever – I didn’t even laugh once. The RookieConveniently collects every single cop movie cliché into one handy package. The Assassination of Richard NixonSubmitted for your approval – the most inept assassin in history. Joy DivisionThe Second World War has never been less interesting. FlatlinersYou can’t dislike a film that has Jack Bauer getting beaten up by a little kid. Mirrors.emal fo dnik saw tI The Pursuit of HappinessFrustratingly unrealistic in that it depicts a person trying their hardest to achieve success and actually achieving it.
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chay´s head
Space Pope
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UPDawwwww, this movie was niiice. Pretty tragic start though... But after all that it was a very good story, didn't really know what the story was other than the obvious and I was glad. Doug is one of my favorite characters now, so awesome. I give it two thumbs up! GEDDIT?!
'cause it's the title of the movie...
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