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The guy who did the 70 min review of Phantom Menace did one for Avatar.
I didn't realize the Disney eyes or that it was basically Titanic + Aliens until I saw this review. Now I'm as mad as ever that this thing is the highest grossing movie ever! His reviews are probably the best things on YouTube. His review of Star Trek Generations was great. I'm looking forward to his review of Attack of the Clones.
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Nixorbo

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Now I'm as mad as ever that this thing is the highest grossing movie ever!
Adjust for inflation and feel the rage drain away.
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Nixorbo

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I'm still waiting for my pizza roll.
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hobbitboy

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Had some good points though, plot and characters compared to the OT were a pile of butts.
As someone who had never even heard of the book let alone read it, those criticisims were of no interest to me whatsoever. (In general I've found that film reviews that get sidetracked into comparing the film with the book its based on tend to end up telling me much more about the reviewer than about the film itself.) To me he came across as a guy who view of the movie was centered around a couple of things that differed from the book which ultimately offended him so much that he couldn't keep them in perspective..
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Nixorbo

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The ... Star Wars books?
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i_c_weiner

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I think hobbitboy thinks there was an Avatar book. James Cameron should've wrote that 10 years ago and made billions off that first.
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Bend-err

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Metropolis - 2010 version (only 6 minutes missing)
Well, everyone should know the story of the movie and behind the movie and why it took 83 years until the (closest we can probably get to the) complete version was shown for only the 2nd time ever. sure the new material isn't in the best condition, but what can you expect from a 16 mm copy that way lying unnoticed in an archive in Buenos Aires for about 50 years...
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Frisco17

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What is it with you people and hiding things in Argentina?
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Bend-err

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it wasn't hidden, it was unknown
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Xanfor

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They don't happen to have any copies of Marco Polo, Mission to the Unknown, or The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, do they?
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« Reply #224 on: 02-13-2010 02:33 »
« Last Edit on: 02-13-2010 02:47 »
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The Fugitive
Cardiologist Dr. Richard Kimble (played by Harrison Ford) is arrested & convicted for the murder of his loving wife. All during the trial, he maintains a one armed man killed her. Upon transport to prison, his bus crashes & he escapes. The arch of the story is the cat & mouse chase between Dr. Kimble & a Deputy with the US Marshalls (played by Tommy Lee Jones), determined to capture Dr. Kimble & take him to prison. What seemed like a simple hunt & capture to the Marshalls starts to change, as they begin to wonder if he's guilty. At every opportunity, Dr. Kimble altruistically helps others & saves peoples lives even while he's on the run; totally uncharacteristic of a criminal.
Based on the 1960's hit television series, this may well be a perfect movie. Fast paced, intense, layered characters (even the bad guys are multi-dimensional & likeable), strong story, great acting. It's Harrison Ford's film, and he's exceptional in it, but the movie is stolen by Tommy Lee Jones's remarkably dynamic performance, one that won him the oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category. I can't think of anything that rings untrue or wrong with this film; it's one of the best I've seen in recent memory. Definite rental.
10/10
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Bend-err

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They don't happen to have any copies of Marco Polo, Mission to the Unknown, or The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, do they?
go over and ask...
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hobbitboy

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The Fugitive
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10 chocolate doughnuts with some of those little sprinkles on top out of 10
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Tnuk's single sentence reviewsSpoilers alert. The Mist (2007) Stephen King wrote a short story that takes half an hour to read but apparantly has to take two hours to watch about a bunch of scray half-seen monsters from another dimension bleeding though into a supermarket.
Silent Running A spaceman tries to peacefully defend his garden but ends up accidentally comitting murder, so he kills himself and sets the garden adrift with a robotic gardener to watch over it.
They Live Roddy Piper saves the world from evil aliens with a pair of special sunglasses.
Moon A company decides to clone their favourite employee, and the clones aren't too pleased about it, but fortunately are kept on the moon where they don't bother anybody.
G-Force Guinea pigs take on the world of corporate espionage for the FBI, but are betrayed by one of their own team, and also they learn stuf about the nature of being "special".
Surf's Up Two penguins learn that you can't quit surfing just because you fall off your board or get tired of it, and they get beaten by a pot-smoking chicken.
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Nixorbo

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Those are less reviews and more summaries. By which I mean those are entirely summaries and are in no way reviews.
Unless, of course, you're using a completely different definition of review than what is implied in the thread title.
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Nixorbo

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Whatever. Single sentence summaries sounded too alliterative.
Awesome alliteration is actively artistic. I *want* either District 9 or Up to win Best Picture. I *expect* Hurt Locker to win.
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