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« #520 : 05-26-2010 01:39 »
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The Wolfman I don't know if I had super low expectations watching this, but I didn't think it was bad at all, the main actors turned in fine performances, maybe Hoskins was a little weird, but Benicio and Blunt were good dammit! The story is nothing original or anything but being the only Wolfman film I've seen I can't really fault it: guy becomes wolfman, goes all beastie on people, they chase him, no surprises! The sets and costumes and stuff were great, really bleak and properly eerie looking, and it's got gore and a bit of action too, whats with all the negativity I've heard? OwoooOOOooo!!!
C+ at least.
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« #525 : 05-27-2010 14:33 »
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Haha, it is unbelievably bad, and I was reading Verns review of it in his new book last night and he was talking about how people keep saying "it's supposed to be like that" and "what did you expect from a movie about giant robots?" Um, what kind of fucking stupid argument is that? I expect a decent movie no matter what the hell it's about!
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« #529 : 05-27-2010 22:44 »
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Thanks, Spacedal11. I figured that, given what a piece of crap the 1st one was, the only way they could go was up. Then I remembered it was a Michael Bay film, and any impulse to watch it (even if they paid me to) quickly passed...
Think of it as an art film
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« #532 : 05-29-2010 12:59 »
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Samson and Delilah
I saw this film on TV, it was hands down incredible. Marissa and Rowan act really good, maybe because there's not a lot going on to weigh them down, but still the story goes on without a boring moment, it's really great. It won't appeal to everyone due to its lack of dialogue, but it tells the story in visual terms really good.
Avatar
First off, it wasn't as good as Titanic. But it was still pretty awesome. The animation is great, the story is good, although it's been done before. For example, The Ant Bully, but Cameron wrote Avatar years before. It has some loose dialogue, like when Jake started going 'Oh yeah! Who's bad! That's right! That's what I'm talking about bitch. That's right..." It has real emotion and power in the story, it has its twists and turns. Jakes character is a bit of a smart-ass, like the way he's in the Na'vi tribe and he goes "Hey, how ya doing?" when he should know not all of them speak English. James has still got that masterful storytelling inside him. I enjoyed it very much, however I do hope the sequels are good enough.
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« #538 : 05-31-2010 01:46 »
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Mystery Team ( trailer) Ok so I saw Danny Glover (Community, awesome) was in this and it looked kinda goofy, it's about a Hardy Boys type mystery solving team who are grown up and still acting like they're 7 trying to find missing kitty cats, except they get involved in a murder case and end up in strip clubs and trying to buy cocaine. It's very silly of course but I laughed a few times, it's like a Saturday Night Live sketch extended or something. Also Dot Com and Lutz from 30 Rock have cameos. C+
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« #550 : 06-02-2010 15:50 »
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Tasogare Seibei (The Twilight Samurai) Great drama set in samurai times, about a low-wage/rank samurai who is nicknamed Twilight by his work buddies from the Castle Storehouse because he never goes out drinking with them, leaving at twilight to take care of his family after losing his wife to illness, and he has 2 daughters and a mother with dementia to take care of and is pretty poor after paying for his wifes funeral. So he finds out from his buddy that his childhood friend Tamoe (his buddies sister) is recently single and she starts helping him around the house with his kids and stuff and everything's cool for a while. But somehow he ends up fighting her drunkard of an ex-husband and beating him with just a practice stick against his sword, and later on this victory earns him a commission to kill a guy after a big political power struggle when the clan lord dies. He refuses at first because but they basically force him to do it or he'll be banished, so there's a great scene of him reluctantly taking his sword out and sharpening it and practicing for the first time in years, while his young daughter narrates and watches from bed.
Great film, great acting and sets and stuff, it's not an action film however, there's only two fights in it, but that's cool, it's a well told story and you're rooting for Iguchi, aka Twilight all the way.
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