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I want to see that
I watched Zack and Miri Make a Porno on DVD. I thought it was good and I have got a crush on Seth Rogen
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Lists are boring and are not reviews, no one reads them! (your noob buddies don't count!) Yes ManHmm, I watched this yesterday or the day before but I can't remember any specific funny bits in it... Ooh Rhys Darby was good, Carrey was goofy and smackable as usual and Zooooey Deschchanchalel has the cute quirky girl thing down, but I think the best bit was the suicide guy musical number (Luis Guzmán is awesome). CYoung People FuckingStory of the lovemaking naughty sexy-time told from the perspective of 5 different couples of people, and broken into 6 stages (Prelude, Foreplay, Sex, Interlude, Orgasm, Afterglow): The couples are The Roommates, The Friends, The Couple, The First Date, and The Exes (last two storylines are the weakest or least funny in my opinion) I liked it, quite funny, very simply done. Hotties to watch for: Carly Pope and Diora Baird. A-
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One-Sentence Movie ReviewsDiamonds Are ForeverThe worst Connery Bond, playing out more like a slightly unfunny episode of Get Smart. TMNTThe wonders of computer animation has enabled the much-loved Ninja Turtles to become sterile and disconnected, with a yawn-worthy supernatural plot and none of the zing present in the first movie. DeliveranceA chilling and revealing documentary about typical American society. Babylon ADI was riveted... by indifference. Death RaceIt must be so hard for Jason Stratham, having to play the exact same character in every movie he appears in. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryStill beats TWoK as my favorite Trek movie because of the nifty Cold War parallels and multi-faceted story that drifts from a whodunnit to a political thriller, prison break, and space opera. The Death and Life of Bobby ZPaul Walker is a complete and utter cock once again. Appleseed: Ex MachinaGeneric plot elements and poorly-handled angsty bits make this not as good as the first one, which wasn't as good as the original OVA, which wasn't as good as the manga. V for VendettaKinda makes you wanna rebel against something, don't it? Dead Leaves...W...WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?! RuinsA rather creepy film which kind of justifies the enjoyable human pastime of destroying plant life everywhere. Hellboy II: The Golden ArmyOnly a very daring filmmaker or a lonely teenage fangirl would inject this much domestic drama into characters who are essentially ridiculous-looking rubber suit monsters. 
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The Boat That RockedIt was brilliant. Rhys Ifans puts on a really sexy DJ voice mmm  Nick Frost and Chris O'Dowd are so adorable cute. I think Bill Nighty is cool. The movie has a good soundtrack and something like a Titanic ending. Don't like Kenneth Branagh in it though.
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coldangel

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That sounds really good. I'll have to keep an eye open for it.
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I Love You ManMore Romantic than Comedy and the romance I'm referring to is between the dudes. To be fair I don't think I fall into the target audience. CObserve and ReportNot my favorite Seth Rogen movie but it was funny as hell. Anna Farris was a hilarious mess and there were so many entertaining beat downs. B+
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Valkyrie
Surprisingly good despite Tom Cruise. Pretty well paced and interesting the whole way through. The only thing that detracted from it was that I already knew the ending.
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coldangel

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Valkyrie The only thing that detracted from it was that I already knew the ending.
Well don't tell. Some of us like to be surprised. Titanic was ruined for me when a loudmouth let slip that the boat sank.
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Valkyrie The only thing that detracted from it was that I already knew the ending.
Well don't tell. Some of us like to be surprised. Titanic was ruined for me when a loudmouth let slip that the boat sank.
Not the part where Hitler survives. I was talking about everything else that happens at the end of the movie. I'm not a complete idiot......at least not every day.
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Monsters vs. AliensI know I am not the first, but hey, what you want from me?It's one of those films, that are decent enough to watch, and you wouldn't mind re-watching it, but you don't find yourself too eager enough to actually purchase it. I think its biggest problem is that 3-D part of it overshadows its actual content, which I think partly a lot of it is brilliant, a favourite part of mine reminds every scene with the president, voiced by Stephen Colbert. The film, in my mind, proves why 3-D films will rise and fall in the coming years. The 3-D first of all draws attention away from plot, I realise that special effects have done this for years, but the point is, 3-D will remain similar, at first the experience is cool, then the second time and perhaps a third time. But that would be it. Errr, well, to some. The point is, the 3-D craze will die out, especially considering that a lot of people prefer the more subtle 2D versions, which is by the way, the version I watched. The film is decent, but it is certainly not DreamWorks' finest hour. My opinion of this film may also have something to do with my macrophilia fetish.
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Blood SimpleDamn Cohen brothers sure know how to drag out a story, and scenes drag on in silence to build tension, one of their earlier films and it kinda shows in the quality compared to todays (well it came out the year after I was born!) About a wife who has an affair and her husband isn't too happy about it, it all goes wrong, their later film The Man Who Wasn't There is similar stuff, if I remember correctly. Oh and I liked the camera shot going along the bar and then over the passed out drunk guys head, "scuse me!" B
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Star TrekThe event: The Opera House makes for a kick-ass place to watch a movie. Walked up the hundreds of stairs, along possibly the longest red carpet ever, past hundreds of other peoples' adoring fans. Inside, they'd spared no expense - there were Star Fleet logos painted, projected and bolted to everything. Played spot-the-D-list Australian celebrity - which I sucked at. I only saw Hamish & Andy and the Triple J film guy... We then got led into the Concert Hall which had been bisected by the huge screen, with a little stage area left in front. JJ and the cast got up and said a few words before the start - he's quite short in real life. Overall, a really fun experience. The film:I liked it. First up, this isn't a reboot in the same vein as Batman Begins or Casino Royale. In fact, it could be argued that it's not even a reboot at all (everything's explained rather convincingly throughout the film). It's more a of a hybrid - part reboot, part sequel, part loving, po-mo, self-referential homage. I don't count myself as a Trek fan - I haven't seen any of the original series or films, and I've watched perhaps a handful of Next Generation and Deep Space 9 episodes late at night when I was drunk, stoned or both. The only films I'd seen up until now were Generations and First Contact, which I thought were pretty meh. So pretty much my entire remedial knowledge of Star Trek comes from a patchwork of pop culture references and wikipedia-skimming. That said, I knew enough to get most of the obvious in-jokes and references in this new film (and they're all there), so it played well to me.The acting is as good as you're going to find in this sort of thing, with the exception of Leonard Nimoy, who hams it up something terrible. The action sequences are done well - including the bizarre Cloverfield-meets-Jurassic Park moment on Hoth the snow planet near Vulcan. The CG is about par for the course these days and nothing you haven't seen done elsewhere before. The story is solid, the cold opening is probably the strongest part of the movie, and the plot is serviceable for a sci-fi film. The pacing is frenetic, and there's a lot squeezed into two hours of film. On one hand, at the end you feel like you've been on a rollickingly fun, action-packed romp, but at the same time the story is being pushed along much to quickly for any meaningful drama or tension to build. You never feel like the good guys aren't going to get away/win. There's a distinct lack of seriousness in everything bar the first 15 minutes. Eric Bana's Nero does some pretty horrendous things, destroying Alderaan Vulcan, torturing Morpheus Captain Pike for the codes to Zion Earth's defensive systems, etc, but the lack of any tension makes him come off more as a pantomime villain than a genuine baddie. Again, I don't know the source material that well, so this might be entirely in fitting with the style of the show, but I found it made for a shallower experience than perhaps was warranted, given the darker overtones set up at the beginning. That said, if you go in not taking the whole thing too seriously, it's a very fun and entertaining film. As I said, there are loads of 'nudge-nudge-wink-wink' references to the original series and its characters - in fact, a lot of it in the same vein as the Futurama episode. There are some genuinely funny bits too. So all in all, it's a fun, emotionally untaxing way to spend a couple of hours in the cinema. I think it will play well with the fans, as long as they don't go in expecting an über-serious, gritty re-imagining of the material, the likes of which we've been inundated with recently. Oh, and it's a hell of a lot better than the Star Wars prequels, so chalk one up for the Trek camp in that regard.
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Thanks Ben. You've taken a load off my mind; it sounds good. I won't read your spoiler bit because this is one movie I actually want to be surprised by.
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I saw Knowing last night. I'm really conflicted on how to rate or describe this movie, there are certain elements of it that are good, and other aspects that are silly. It certainly walks that line. Some of the science aggrivated me, and that almost NEVER happens to me (such as the computer shot where all the planets were LINED UP STRAIGHT) Didn't anybody watch Bill Nye? That's some Magic School Bus logic right there. Anyway, it starts really strong, comes back for a questionable last 3rd, and redeems itself with a great last 2 minutes, and amazing ending shot. Oh, and some parts had embarrassingly awful corny dialogue and predictable moments. Even though there's a lot of critisism here, I can't help not liking it. It's a fun movie, and brave, you're not supposed to get away with some of the scenes in here in hollywood.
IN conclusion, Knowing was a rollercoaster of quality, or perhaps a venn-diagram, with the juicy centre buried, and you have to dig to find it.
7 or 8 out of 10 overall. 9 for certain parts, and 5 for others.
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17 AgainI know what you're thinking, but my friend is one of those "I heart Zac Efron" girls, and as her friend I was forced to see it. But it was actually a pretty good movie, it was funny and overall it was a good movie. 7/10 The Boat That RockedGreat movie. Loved it. It was definetely swick worthy  I would watch it again. 10/10
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