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The Maltese Falcon- this Bogart film was recommended to me by a fan fiction writer after reading one of his works. It aged ok for a black and white film, but sometimes you will be lost if you blink.

More detailed review later.
 
Rise of the planet of the Apes.
Film 6/10
Ape animation 8/10

A children's formulaic movie.
It's good to watch though.

I will watch the next one but not pay for it at the cinema.
I was expecting a better script, some bits are bad which draws you out of the film and spoils the immersion.
 
Watched Senna last night. Wow. I'm normally not a crier, but
When they show the clip of him in '93(?) saying how he still has things to learn and do, and that he thought he was still only about halfway through his life :( And at the end, when they show him before his final race, and they go to the onboard camera for his last full lap. Gut wrenching knowing what's going to happen :(

Brilliant, I must say. Although I agree with the general sentiment that Alain Prost and Balestre are shown too much as the bad guys, it still makes for good viewing 👍

PS: And apparently my parents moved to Australia the day he died :crazy:
 
Going to the drive in movie theatre tonight with my girlfriend. Planet of the Apes first movie, Friends With Benefits second, and Hangover 2 third (which we've seen and likely won't stay for).
 
You could always stay and just not watch the third movie. Partial reenactment of the second, perhaps? ;)
 
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Win! And where is there a drive in movie theater? I've never seen one in person before.
 
I just watched Kick-Ass, it actually had a pretty structured plot line, comparable to many other superhero movies, except they put the romantic parts and a lot of humor in there very well. Throw in lots of explosions and realistic kill scenes, and you've got a happy CAM :).
 
Just watched WarGames.

It was passable and I was enjoying it... up until the part where the computer was trying to guess the launch code. It would have no way of knowing whether any specific characters out of its guesses were correct, so it'd take much much longer to guess the code than portrayed in the film. And even if you suspend your disbelief on that point and accept the idea that the computer could tell which characters were correct, then it'd take much less time to figure out the code. It'd just have to cycle through all 36 numbers and digits to figure out the correct characters, and bam! It'd know the code.

:p
 
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Love Kick-Ass.

Ok ok, it's corny at the end, but by the time you get there, you don't care.

Laughed my ass off at the funny bits, wanted to be 15 years younger when he popped into her room to help her with her shoulders, and winced every time I see him launched just after the stabbing.

Very underrated, and absolutely awesome movie, that would be not too good at all without Chloe Moretz.

"Now just stand real still child"

:lol:

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Just seen Super 8. Nice film, liked it more than Planet of the Apes.
Good young performers, making a film within a film. Fun and a few scares.
Really is like the Goonies meets Cloverfield.
8/10.
 


Love and Other Drugs (Edward Zwick, 2010) -- A woman suffering from Parkinson's befriends a drug rep working for Pfizer against 1990s Pittsburgh backdrop, and thus what starts as a normal, predictable rom-com, turns into a normal, predictable super drama about being in a dead-end relationship with someone who is actually having a chronic disease and will not get better. Sub-par acting, intense predictability and an apparent disregard of T&A, just to warrant an R-rating and thus, make it seem more interesting. The problem with this movie is the same problem as with so many other clones of its type... it doesn't make up its collective mind whether it's a comedy or a drama, but it's too much of each to be a dramedy. It's crap, that's what it is. Why did I watch it then? I went to my dad's house for lunch on saturday and we were going to watch Black Hawk Down on Bluray, LED, and 7.2... but my grandma was around and wanted to watch something, least I wanted was her to get a scare. 3/10

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The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992) -- A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world. This movie isn't at all predictable, except for its suspected 'twist', which seemed fairly obvious to me. Still, it's a very unexpected movie, especially because I was expecting more of the same IRA-type movies and it was nothing like it. Very well made, with deep and real performances, with some of the best writing I've seen and outstanding direction. Really made a lasting impression. 7/10

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Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (Peter Avanzino, 2008) -- The Planet Express crew must work to fix rips between their universe and another inhabited by a planet-sized, tentacle alien which soon takes over the Earth and uses it's ability to control Fry to command an entire religion which takes over and convinces the inhabitants of Earth to abandon the Earth to live in a pseudo-heaven, leaving the robots of the world to inherit the planet. Yeah, yeah, that's straight from the IMDb summary. I'm too lazy to write a decent review of this, except to say that if you like Futurama, this is more of it, but in a longer format. Fun flick, not much more to it. No big deal, nothing transcendental either. 6/10
 


The Driver (Walter Hill, 1978) -- The Driver is specialist in a rare business: he drives getaway cars in robberies. His exceptional talent prevented him from being caught yet, because he's very good at what he does. It's another of those movies made specifically for the chase scenes, and they really are good, especially when you take into account the movie is from a time when there wasn't much in the way of special effects. The Driver speaks little and doesn't seem to have any emotions, he just drives, exceptionally well. As it happens with older movies, there's supposed to be a 130-minute cut that has more chase scenes, but the ones in this movie work well enough. In short, a very minimalist movie with amazing car chases. 6.5/10
 
Just saw Midnight in Paris today with my girlfriend. It was actually a lot more intriguing than I thought it would be, since while it was technically a romantic comedy and focused on romantic aspects, I felt it focused more on Gill's (or however he spells it) experiences meeting his favorite authors like Hemingway and T.S. Eliot and such and being in the '20s. And when he was with the girl from the '20s and they went back even further to the 1890s, all I could think was "INCEPTION!!!...Romantic Edition. WE HAVE TO GO DEEPER!!!" (please spare me from making that into an innuendo...). So overall, I actually liked it, even though it was a pretty weird ending for a romantic comedy, and there wasn't actually a whole lot of comedy in it.
 


X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn, 2011) -- The first generation of the X-Men makes its debut in a recreated version of 1962, when the government enlists the help of Mutants to stop the bad guys from convincing the Soviets to start WWIII. At first I was amazed by the amount of TV actors in the movie, I was also a bit reluctant to watch it since I'm not a big fan of the original movies, and thought this would be a remake of a so-so movie already. To be fair, I liked it, even more so than the previous series, especially because the backstory of many of the characters in those movies seemed to be bits and pieces throughout every movie, giving you small amounts of information each time so as to have to watch every movie to thread it all together. This one gives you most fo the info on the major characters and makes it interesting enough. I also had issues on the overall personality of most characters in the previous series, and while here many of them lack the proper conviction to make them stand out, I guess it works better to not have too many people stand out and have a few background characters. Very much liked Wolverine's cameo as well. 7/10



The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, 1970) -- When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster. Unfortunately, and despite being a Billy Wilder movie, I have to say the story is a bit boring and the plot lacks the themes and mystery that have always made Holmes' stories so fun. There's also a 1970s TV-movie feel around it. I would've liked it to be a bit more mysterious and suspenseful, but it was too dumb, although the uncensoring of certain aspects made it fun, such as the reasoning beyond Holmes and Watson, two grown men living together and the apparent fact that when very bored, Holmes liked to get high on cocaine. Funny stuff, but not very entertaining. 6/10
 
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30 Minutes Or Less-This will be a very short review, but here it goes.

Very funny throughout the entire movie. The beginning was very cool, with the car sequence. In fact the entire car sequences in this movie were, IMO, very good for a comedy movie. Very enjoyable, and I think the only reason I don't give it a 9, is because they wrecked a poor Z. 8/10
 
Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus


The Mega Shark returns!!
After its titanic battle with the Giant Octopus, the world had only one question -- what would happen if the Mega Shark did battle with a 1500 foot giant crocodile? Well, luckily, we know the answer, as "Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus" is finally released!
Easily mistaken for a documentary, this film follows a band of intrepid heroes -- an oceanic sound engineer (played by Jaleel White, yup, "Urkel") who knows about sharks, a drunken hunter who knows about crocodiles, and an uptight FBI agent who is also a helicopter pilot and wears a tight tank top -- as they chase the two monsters around the globe.
The plot is straightforward; while mining diamonds in the Congo, workers unleash a giant crocodile. Meanwhile, the Mega Shark has returned and apparently finds crocodile eggs indescribably delicious. Thus, the tension between the two beasts. The top-of-the-line special effects will blow your mind as we follow the story from Miami Beach to Orlando to California to the Panama Canal. The Mega Shark is up to its old tricks (eating boats, jumping out of the water to attack planes, etc) and the Crocosaurus will live in your nightmares as you watch it trample through cities.
I am certain this film is 100% scientifically accurate.
11/10
 
Knuckle - A 12 year documentary about Irish travellers (gypsies - more or less) and their family fueds which end up in bare-knuckle boxing matches. Very interesting view into a world I never knew existing. It's pretty sad how these different families are so inbred that it ends up being cousins and brothers punching each other in the face. I score it a "wow-that-one-guy-is-old-and-mean"/10

Sarah's Key - A look into the French (not Nazi) roundup of Jews in 1942. Poor record-keeping by the French during WWII sets a modern-day journalist to investigate a family's heartbreaking story and it's possible connections to her own family. This was one of the best movies I've seen all year and it hardly left a dry eye in the house. A fascinating look into a historical tragedy which isn't widely taught in schools today. Very well done. I score it "that-was-the-most-painful-scream-I've-ever-heard"/10

Priest - An alternate reality where vampires and humans had been at war for millenia and a specially trained group of vampire hunters called "Priests" finally won the war for humans. The Church runs society and a Priest must break away from authority to avenge his brother and find his niece. It was exactly how it looked - shallow story with good fights and cool costumes. Scored with an emphatic "Paul-Bettany-should-never-speak-with-an-American-accent-ever-again"/10
 
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Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus


The Mega Shark returns!!
After its titanic battle with the Giant Octopus, the world had only one question -- what would happen if the Mega Shark did battle with a 1500 foot giant crocodile? Well, luckily, we know the answer, as "Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus" is finally released!
Easily mistaken for a documentary, this film follows a band of intrepid heroes -- an oceanic sound engineer (played by Jaleel White, yup, "Urkel") who knows about sharks, a drunken hunter who knows about crocodiles, and an uptight FBI agent who is also a helicopter pilot and wears a tight tank top -- as they chase the two monsters around the globe.
The plot is straightforward; while mining diamonds in the Congo, workers unleash a giant crocodile. Meanwhile, the Mega Shark has returned and apparently finds crocodile eggs indescribably delicious. Thus, the tension between the two beasts. The top-of-the-line special effects will blow your mind as we follow the story from Miami Beach to Orlando to California to the Panama Canal. The Mega Shark is up to its old tricks (eating boats, jumping out of the water to attack planes, etc) and the Crocosaurus will live in your nightmares as you watch it trample through cities.
I am certain this film is 100% scientifically accurate.
11/10
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:lol: I LOVE Saturday Sci-Fi channel low-budget movies. :D
 
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Just watched it on Netflix, your review is spot on.

I am certain this film is 100% scientifically accurate.
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It's the Asylum, of course it is.

Everyone knows prehistoric monsters chance sizes rapidly.

Was disappointed the line "Did I Do That?" wasn't snuck in there.
 
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Watched Senna last night. Wow. I'm normally not a crier, but...
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Same here, (going to list scenes, don't really think a documentary deserves spoilers really though?) but the scenes that got to me were his win in Brazil seeing how much it meant to him. And Sid Watkins talking about Senna's death, everytime I think of the words he says and the fact that he was such good friends, what he had said the day before...

Watched The Inbetweeners film Sunday, yes it is a very funny film but I don't think it reached hype. Well worth a watch, however if you have followed the TV series, you think that this would have been better if broken down and made into 30 minute episodes. The main thing is that they have gone from 30 minute (25 with adverts) episodes where you have to cram a storyline into the time with comedy then flowing throughout. They had over an hour here, but it did have very "stop / start" moments where necessity for a film storyline interrupted. Plus they didn't push the comedy as far as I would have hoped, no really cringing moments.
Well worth a watch though, there are moments that are very good and as a whole you will be glad to have seen the film. 7.5 / 10
 
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Pirate Radio - (7/10)

This has been sitting on my DVR for a while and I finally watched it the other night. Now, I am in a conundrum. See, I want to pick it apart. It has issues. For instance, we are introduced to the crew of Radio Rock through the eyes of Young Carl who joins the crew at the beginning of the film. Carl has his own story, but I don't care. It isn't his movie, it isn't about him. Yet, we keep coming back to him. We could get more into why the government wants to ban pirate radio, other than "The joy of government is that if you don't like something you just make it illegal." Is that truly their whole motivation? I mean, I see nothing in the story that says parents are upset and demanding action, unless only 7% of the British population in the 60s were parents. So, that is missing and instead we get to keep coming back to Carl. His story bits are slow, coming of age, stories. It contrasts so abruptly with the wild times of the crew of Radio Rock. You have two American DJs constantly trying to prove who has the bigger manhood, calling each other chickens, which is classic of the American adult male child. And the rest of the crew goes through all sorts of shenanigans, the kind of which you expect of a sex, drugs, and rock n roll lifestyle. But we keep coming back to Carl. His story is inconsequential to the point of the film.

That said, when we step away from Carl and the unexplained government actions I truly enjoyed this. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was excellent as the rebellious American who doesn't "give a 🤬 about your limey laws," Nick Frost as Big Dave turned out to be a much better character than I expected when he first appeared on camera, and Bill Nighy is the boss we all want, only enforcing enough rules to keep the ship afloat. And then there is the music. Ah yes, the music. 👍

The whole thing brought back a bit of that "Good Morning Vietnam" feeling.

But anyway, the movie isn't perfect, but where it does things right it does them good.
 
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