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The Adjustment Bureau

Billed as what happens when Inception impregnates Bourne, this thriller revolves around Senate hopeful David Norris (Matt Damon), who falls in love with ballet dancer Elise (Emily Blunt) after bumping into her on election night...against the wishes of the Adjustment Bureau, who enforce their scenarios for mankind with men in Trilby hats. This sets Norris on a wild ride to change his fate, as well as that of Elise.

Like Inception, the movie does explain the technical stuff well, e.g. how the Bureau is able to enforce their scenarios. However, there are some loose ends left untied at the end, which slightly weakened this movie's appeal. Don't get me wrong, the movie isn't terrible, the acting isn't terrible, the script isn't terrible...just good. Not very good, not great, not excellent, just good, and so I give this a 7.5/10.
 
I really enjoyed that movie. It's been a few months since I've seen it but I remember it holding my interest very well (which is an accomplishment :lol:).
 
I just finished Monsters. It was actually pretty good. There were some iffy things (like I wasn't aware that the Mexican jungle ran all the way to the border.) And has a little bit of District 9 feel to it. But...all in all, not a bad movie. a 7/10 or a 4/5
 
Saw Senna on Friday:

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Brilliant film. I love the way it was presented. No narration, no talking heads. I've never cried during a movie, but that changed on Friday. Though I feel like they rushed the beginning of the film, barely mentioning his pre-F1 years, and brushing over his first few years in F1 while driving for Toleman and Lotus. But other than that, the film was brilliantly done! The final 30 minutes or so are just heartbreaking.

9/10.
 


The Gumball Rally (Charles Bail, 1976) -- One of those American 70s movies about the pure joy of open road driving, at full speed and in amazing cars: a Ferrari Daytona, a Shelby Cobra 427, a Camaro Z28, a Porsche 911 Targa and others. The movie is little else, as everything else about it is quite absurd, but the driving and pursuit sequences are as good as you probably wouldn't expect and there's a true sense of things being worked on, rather than computers being played with as it happens today. The actors actually do their own driving and they're good at it as well. But as I said, the movie is almost nothing else. 5/10



Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970) -- What starts out as a tender coming-of-age story devolves into a story of sexual obsession and missed connections. It's the story of a 15 year-old boy who starts to work in a public bathouse, where he meets a woman named Susan, who is the real tease. She toys with him and makes him think she loves him, when in reality she does the same thign with everyone else and even has a few affairs on the side while she carries around a fiancée. The cinematography is awesome, with every color, crack and spot being very obvious as to what is to come in the scene and the outside sceneries really give otu the image of 1960s Britain. There's a few details here and there egarding the overall movie, but acting, cinematography and direction are great. Too bad the image quality is so morose. 7/10
 
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The Adjustment Bureau

Billed as what happens when Inception impregnates Bourne, this thriller revolves around Senate hopeful David Norris (Matt Damon), who falls in love with ballet dancer Elise (Emily Blunt) after bumping into her on election night...against the wishes of the Adjustment Bureau, who enforce their scenarios for mankind with men in Trilby hats. This sets Norris on a wild ride to change his fate, as well as that of Elise.

Like Inception, the movie does explain the technical stuff well, e.g. how the Bureau is able to enforce their scenarios. However, there are some loose ends left untied at the end, which slightly weakened this movie's appeal. Don't get me wrong, the movie isn't terrible, the acting isn't terrible, the script isn't terrible...just good. Not very good, not great, not excellent, just good, and so I give this a 7.5/10.
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I'm glad you did that review driftking, as I just found this film somewhere in the ether and watched it whilst I ate.

I would say, it is an excellent concept, poorly realised.

Kind of like The Matrix, in the way that you have that moment of realisation as to how the whole concept could actually blend into real life, and would explain a few things (well, was it two cats, or the same cat?), which makes the film exciting.
But then there is not enough fleshing out of that concept, so as to allow the viewer to become fully immersed, before the sillyness takes over, and you find yourself watching another Bourne with less guns, less Mini's and less three punch takedowns (like Liam does in 'Taken', if you have no idea what I'm waffling on about, watch that instead 👍).

Oh, and in no scene, anywhere in the film, does she wear that red dress......

:irked:👍
 
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)- It was good, but they left out about half the story from the book. Really is a movie you have to have read the book to really know what is going on.

There was also the whole Lisbeth figuring out the bible quotes when it was Mikael's daughter in the book. They also left out the whole Mikael and Erika love plot as well as what happened to Mikael after his prison sentence was ocer.

Really wish they would have gone a little more in depth, still worth a watch though if you liked the book. - 7/10

Will probably watch The Girl Who Played with Fire Tuesday, hopefully it goes a little more in depth story wise.
 
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Flushed Away (2006)

7.5/10 stars

The makers of Wallace and Grommet teamed up with Dreamworks animation studio to create this star studded computer animated flick. Voice-over actors include Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Jean Renu, and Ian McKellen as well as some other recognizable celebrity voices. I'm surprised I never heard of the movie until Netflix recommended it. It revolves around the secret underworld of rats underneath London as our main character is accidentally flushed down the toilet. Unlike Pixar's Ratatouille, this movie is actually enjoyable start to finish. The animation and facial expressions of Wallace & Grommets claymation was mimicked with the use of computers. For the first few scenes it looks a bit funny, but after about 10 minutes you can see the animators really started to have fun. The music soundtrack is fully integrated into the movie and the reoccurring "slugs" are hilarious. Excellent character development for a kids movie and on par with many of Pixar's efforts. Ok, it's not as good as Toy Story 3...but I will certainly pick it up on DVD/Blueray the next time I see it on a discount rack. It's worth watching again.

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Death Race 2 (2010)

6/10 stars

For car guys, anything involving racing is a must see. This movie fits the car enthusiast genre pretty well. Not as good as a big-budget flick like Gone in 60 Seconds, but still enjoyable to watch on a rainy hurricane afternoon (provided your power doesn't go out). If you saw "Death Race" from 2000, an obvious homage to the 1975 "Death Race 2000", then you'll want to catch this flick too. If you haven't seen it yet, this movie is essentially a prequel to the one staring Jason Statham and watching his version is not a requirement. In fact, it may actually be more enjoyable to watch this one first. The movie is filled with prison brawls and violent car chases and that's about it. It doesn't try to be epic, or make you think too hard...and the final sequence will have you cheering and ready to watch the first flick.

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Blitz (2010)

8/10 stars

Jason Statham has been in some pretty bad American flicks (the Crank series for example) but this film is 100% British. Although it is still an action flick with lots of fight scenes and some gory violence, there is far more suspense than you'd expect out of a typical action movie making it fit more into the crime thriller category. The pacing goes along the lines of Guy Ritchie's "Lock Stock" and "Snatch" but the plot isn't quite as complex. In any case, it was unexpectedly enjoyable and had a killer finale.

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All Good Things (2010)

7/10 stars

Almost every movie that Ryan Gosling is cast for ends up being a very deep, heavy drama and character study. This film is no exception. The important fact to remember in the film is that it is based loosely on true events. Because of that, the movie changes focus mid-way through and never quite resolves. But then again, how do you resolve something that hasn't resolved in real life? If you enjoy watching Dominic Dunne's "Power, Privilege, and Justice" then you'll love this movie.
 
For the life of me, I cannot remember what the movie was called. But it was a documentary about the West Memphis Three. The three teenagers accused of murdering three second graders for no reason other than that they were different. They were accused of being in a cult that worshiped Satan, just because they wore black, listened to Metallica, and had long hair. The entire case was fairly shocking, and the people who lived in that city were bat:censored: crazy. One was sentenced to lethal injection, while the other two were sentenced to life in prison.

HBO did a follow up to it, and right now they are about to release a third to follow up on the newly found evidence that shows the three aren't guilty. It points to the stepfather of one of the boys that was murdered, in which that boy was brutaly maimed, just a few hours after pissing his stepdad off. His stepdad is the craziest of them all, and they even found a knife owned by him with human blood on it, (back when the case was still going on) though they can't persecute him because it could be his blood on there. So far, they three are now out of prison.

10/10 Great film.
 
I'm finally using my 30 day netflix trial and have been watching movies off that a lot lately I'll list the most notable ones, good and bad. I'll start off with the worst:
DO NOT watch this movie, "200MPH", unless you like becoming dumber than you were before you watch it. Seriously, wth. Cars are okay in the movie, but why oh why did they make this. Firstly, lets start with the description, it says the main character drives a Datsun 280Z, his car is actually a Mazda RX-7 FC3S, which turns into a Nissan S14 while he test drives it for some reason, and they also mistakenly call it an MX-5. Don't forget the NAWZ, you can't hook that up yo, so let me buy it from you. Also really horrible CGI which half the time was unnecessary.
Seriously, my rating is a 0/10

Then just tonight I watched The Mystery Team. I had almost forgotten about this movie. I wanted to see it when it first came out. I love Derrick Comedy and their old Youtube stuff. Was a pretty funny movie. I really liked the bit when they dressed up like "gentlemen" to get into a gentlemens' club. I'd give the movie a good 8/10 because it really fits my sense of humor.

I've seen it before, but had to re-watch it. The original Italian Job. Fantastic movie, and if you hadn't seen it before, it's definitely worth watching. Awesome cars, and a ton of Fiat 500s in just about every shot in the last 30 or so minutes, lol. I was thinking of creating a drinking game, to where you take a drink every time you spot a Fiat 500... but then you would keel over dead from alcohol poisoning. For it's time, it really was a cool movie, I'd give it an 8/10.
 
Watched "Just Go With It" last night. I hate when people review comedies because it's so subjective to comedic taste but I found it incredibly funny despite the plot being entirely predictable. Seriously though who watches an Adam Sandler movie for a storyline. Very good comedy in my opinion.
 
Lords of Dogtown:

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The film follows the Z-Boys, made up of Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, and Jay Adams, a trio of skateboarders in the 1970's, as they go from humble beginnings in Venice, California, to mega-stardom, and deal with the trials and tribulations along the way. I quite liked the film. The story was well put together, and in particular Heath Ledger's performance of Skip deserves much praise. There were a few minor kinks here and there, but overall, good film.

7/10
 


You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger (Woody Allen, 2010) -- Classic styled Woody Allen movie set in London; the movie follows the lives of a few married couples as their passions, ambitions and anxieties lead them into trouble, awkwardness and finding love, or whatever the illusion of it may be. It's a typical Allen movie in the sense that the outset of the characters is a rather pessimistic one, where couples rarely find love, but just are content to live with the illusion of it. The funny thing is that the movie is portrayed as a sort of romantic comedy, when it really is more of a horror flick, depicting all the tragedies that can happen if you make the mistake of not taking care of your significant other. It's the perfect feel-bad movie. 7/10



The Italian Job (Peter Collinson, 1969) -- Yes! The classic awesome European car movie! Having just left prison, Charlie finds one of friends has attempted a high risk job in Italy, right under the nose of the Mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'Job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of jaguars and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal the Gold and escape. With all its flaws, it's a classic movie of pursuits, narrow escapes and amazing car stunts, even the filming of the roof scene on top of the Fiat factory. It remains one of my all-time favorite car movies. 9/10



Deja Vu (Tony Scott, 2006) -- An incredibly predictable movie despite working itself from the unpredictability, about an ATF agent who travels back in time to save a woman from being murdered, falling in love with her during the process.The first 100 minutes are boring as hell, then, out of the blue comes a terrorist who has no motives and is actually too much of a patriot to care about killing about 500 people. Then there's the whole time machine setting which really just had me in tears as to the uncreative, mediocre approach they took while thinking up the movie... yet another flick that amazes me that is being done nowadays. 3/10
 
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Deja Vu (Tony Scott, 2006) -- An incredibly predictable movie despite working itself from the unpredictability, about an ATF agent who travels back in time to save a woman from being murdered, falling in love with her during the process.The first 100 minutes are boring as hell, then, out of the blue comes a terrorist who has no motives and is actually too much of a patriot to care about killing about 500 people. Then there's the whole time machine setting which really just had me in tears as to the uncreative, mediocre approach they took while thinking up the movie... yet another flick that amazes me that is being done nowadays. 3/10
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Good review. i saw this a while back and was not impressed. It was pretty predictable the entire time.
 
Watched the movie Skyline:

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After a night of partying, a group of friends awake to strange blue auras that are scattered around Los Angeles. Soon, giant alien spaceships are appearing from the sky, and abducting every last human in the city. Now the group is stuck in their coastal high rise apartment, and must find a way out of the city before they are next.

To be honest, this movie was garbage. The acting was terrible, the plot was paper thin, and the ending was the dumbest I've ever seen. The Strausse brothers are known for their special effects wizardry, but the effects in this movie were just down right laughable. Some of it looked like it was done with Movie Maker or some other previously installed program that came with their laptop. All and all, this movie get's a big "Whaaaaaaat?" and an "Oh, brother!".
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1/10.
 
Just watched the Final Destination Quadrilogy again.

Yet to see the fifth instalment. Anyone seen it?
 
Saw Dodgeball with that comedian dude. Oh god, what's his name? Ben Stiller? Yeah, that's his name.

Yeah, its obvious that its more slapstick comedy than anything else. Seen it three times beforehand. But, having consumed a bottle of red wine beforehand, this film kinda made sense. Its just about being together as a team, no matter how bad each individual talents are.

More of a feel-good film than anything else, really. Was good enough to make me be happy with the time watching it.
 


Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971) -- Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Aborigine on "walkabout": a ritualistic separation from his tribe and form a strange friendship. As far as the movie's message, I have to say it went a bit overboard with the whole nature/aborigines=good and industrialization/white men=bad theme as well as the culture clash. Aside from that, the movie has a few too long scenes of trying to make up subjects from the long shots and overall cinematography, which frankly lost me after a while, losing the meaning. The movie should be about self-discovery and surviving the outback and the relationship between the characters and it does that well enough, the problem is that it dwells too much and for too long on other subjects and stances that take up too much time, which had me bored with it after a while. 6/10
 
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Saw Senna on Friday:


Brilliant film. I love the way it was presented. No narration, no talking heads. I've never cried during a movie, but that changed on Friday. Though I feel like they rushed the beginning of the film, barely mentioning his pre-F1 years, and brushing over his first few years in F1 while driving for Toleman and Lotus. But other than that, the film was brilliantly done! The final 30 minutes or so are just heartbreaking.

9/10.
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+1, I saw this too. Incredible movie. Although I didn't cry, I was very close to. It's very sad just seeing a body lay there. Very well said.
 
Tom Servo


Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971) -- Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Aborigine on "walkabout": a ritualistic separation from his tribe and form a strange friendship. As far as the movie's message, I have to say it went a bit overboard with the whole nature/aborigines=good and industrialization/white men=bad theme as well as the culture clash. Aside from that, the movie has a few too long scenes of trying to make up subjects from the long shots and overall cinematography, which frankly lost me after a while, losing the meaning. The movie should be about self-discovery and surviving the outback and the relationship between the characters and it does that well enough, the problem is that it dwells too much and for too long on other subjects and stances that take up too much time, which had me bored with it after a while. 6/10
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Sounds like a good Sunday afternoon film to have a little snooze to...
 
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Sounds like a good Sunday afternoon film to have a little snooze to...
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though I couldn't :indiff: I did get to watch this one:




Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (John Hough, 1974) -- Mary and Larry are two lovers who, with Larry's ace mechanic, rob a grocery store and flee the police with hopes of making the professional racing circuit. They are chased over hill, over vale by the cops, who deploy everything from a 426 Hemi to a helicopter to stop Larry's Dodge Charger culminating in a memorable ending. This is yet another awesome chase flick from the '70s with Peter Fonda and Susan George, there's so many great chases and stunts that even if the overall plot doesn't hold much, it's still a blast to watch. One of the definitely unsung heroes of the best chase movies of all time. 8.5/10
 
I just saw this movie recently.

Seven Days, starring lovely Kim Yoon-jin as Yoo Ji-yeon and Park Hee-soon as Kim Seung-yol.

Ms. Yoo is a successful lawyer who has never lost a case. She is committed to her career, and finds herself having little time for her young daughter Eun-cheong. So, she decides to go participate in a school field day with Eun-cheong, in a mother-daughter relay race. However after the event is over, Ji-yeon is unable to find her daughter among all the uniform-wearing children. She gets a call from a man later that day, who tells her that he has her daughter. To get her daughter back, Yoo must get man convicted for the murder of Lee Hey-jin found not guilty in appeal court. So, she teams up with corrupt policeman Seung-yol, to find out who really killed Hey-jin and get her daughter back.

The movie is exciting, the story intriguing, but at the same time, they've packed it with WAY too many red herrings. I can't help but feel that had they removed some of them, the plot would have been more exciting and in a shorter playtime.

7/10 if you ask me. Good movie, but it could have been better.

The trailer is super cheesy but the real movie looks better and has an atmosphere that this trailer really can't show.

 
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The Expendables - Watching a movie starring a fair number of action stars from the '80's, one has a level of expectation similar to that of an Olympic caliber limbo dance-off - very, very low. In this case, I think that helps as you come into it, even without knowing anything about it like I did, expecting crap. Sure, it has it's eye-roll inducing moments but all-in-all it was actually a fun movie to watch. Some interesting fight scenes, a handful of jokes and a big ass shotgun makes for a decent evening as far as I'm concerned.

7/10
 
I hated the Expendables. It took itself way to seriously.


We watched two movies about aging assassins this weekend...

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The American (2010)

2/10 stars.
The whole point of a suspense movie is to be suspenseful. I guessed the ending pretty early on...and looking back, the whole plot is just a boring slow waste of time. It could have been resolved in about 5 seconds of action. I enjoy drama and character studies as much as the next movie goer, but this one was simply dull and lifeless. I give it 1 star for cinematography and another star for a hot chick that wasn't anorexic like most American actresses these days.

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Wild Target (2010)

7/10 stars.
Another movie about a veteran assassin...but this one has a British comedic flair to it. The relationships are quirky and the action sequences are haphazard and unpredictable. There is even a great finale. I enjoyed the film start to finish and Bill Nighy had a great dead-pan performance as always.
 
Cars 2 - late to the party!

I LOVED Cars.... and that is the years greatest understatement (so far). What really makes it is the scenery and world which is created by Disney and Pixar. They clearly worked hard on the scenery within Cars 2, but with so many locations it was going to be difficult setting a scene as well as they did in Cars.

My major gripe with the film is the story though. Firstly, it revolves mainly around Mater. Don't get me wrong, Mater is a fantastic character but the story at least needs Lightning McQueen in a similarly important role. Secondly, the races themselves... They just seem to happen in the film and never be shown proper. Most emphasis is on second race but only for wrong reasons (won't spoil it!).
It seems weird talking about a kids film in such a way, but a CLASSIC cartoon will adhere to a wider audience. Cars did that, but Cars 2 is child specific and loses some of its appeal for it.

Children will love it no doubt for Mater's goofing about, 8/10
Anyone above age 10 will struggle though and you just end up tolerating it, 5/10 at best
 
TB
The Expendables - Watching a movie starring a fair number of action stars from the '80's, one has a level of expectation similar to that of an Olympic caliber limbo dance-off - very, very low. In this case, I think that helps as you come into it, even without knowing anything about it like I did, expecting crap. Sure, it has it's eye-roll inducing moments but all-in-all it was actually a fun movie to watch. Some interesting fight scenes, a handful of jokes and a big ass shotgun makes for a decent evening as far as I'm concerned.

7/10
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Apparently Chuck Norris has been confirmed for the sequel. Which is a coincidence because Chuck Norris refers to the entire human race as 'expendables'.
 
I heard Bruce Willis signed on as well. I think the sequel has potential of surpassing the original.

Speaking of 80's has beens, just watched this one last night (available on NetFlix instant watch):

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Diner (1982)

7/10 Stars

This film is a who's who of 80's stars. Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Paul Reiser. The film is set in Baltimore, 1959, and follows a group of late 20 something guys who have been friends since High School. They basically hang out at a Diner into the wee hours of the morning and shoot the ****. I connected with the film because each of the characters reminds me of one of my high school friends. It is a character study of male friendship and nothing more. My wife didn't get it. The pace is along the slow side and the plot doesn't exactly go anywhere, but its funny to see these guys when they were younger, Mickey Rourke especially.
 

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