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Ok so I watched resivoir dogs and here are my thoughts. I think the acting was great as well as the whole idea behind it, but it kinda felt like it was the intro to a movie. Everyone talks about this robbery and yet they never show what actually happens and yes I know they do a good job of explaining what happened I just think they should of showed it. They showed tons of small stuff that didn't really matter and not the biggest thing. The ending was good and not expected although didn't make sense as there was three people with guns and one of them wasn't being aimed at by anyone and yet somehow still gets shot.
 
Fright Night.

A pretty enjoyable movie to watch! It was funny aswell as gory, but in a slightly comical way, the movie is not designed to be taken seriously. 8/10
 
The other night I watched Black Swan:

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I was going to watch this with my mom who wanted to see it. I'm glad I didn't, that would have been very awkward.:lol: But I thought the movie was terrifically done! The acting was fantastic, especially Natalie Portman. And the cinematography was great! There were some scenes that I felt were a bit odd, and had me asking why they were necessary, especially the love making scene between Portman and Mila Kunis (Why do I get the feeling I just caused several members to add this movie to their Netflix queue?). But all and all a great movie.

9/10
 
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Ok so I watched resivoir dogs and here are my thoughts. I think the acting was great as well as the whole idea behind it, but it kinda felt like it was the intro to a movie. Everyone talks about this robbery and yet they never show what actually happens and yes I know they do a good job of explaining what happened I just think they should of showed it. They showed tons of small stuff that didn't really matter and not the biggest thing. The ending was good and not expected although didn't make sense as there was three people with guns and one of them wasn't being aimed at by anyone and yet somehow still gets shot.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. My friends thought I was crazy when I started talking about that the first time we saw the movie. I have it on dvd and watch it once a year maybe lol. Good movie 👍

*adds Black Swan to queue
 
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Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

4/5 stars

Great movie, start to finish. It is more of a modern day war movie than it is a science fiction flick. It was the perfect combination of live-action and CGI that pulled you into the action and kept you there as if it were real. I'd give it 5 stars if it weren't for a few issues I had with the script and editing. The character introductions at the beginning are a little hard to follow. You get the feeling you need to pay careful attention because the back story is going to come into play, but there is too much to absorb and a lot of it ends up not being important. They try to paint the main character played by Aaron Ekhart in a gray area where the other soldiers don't trust him. However he doesn't come off like Tom Berringer in Platoon. Aaron is a nice guy and as a viewer, I never saw him as a backstabbing villain out to save his own ass at the expense of other soldiers. The epic monologue that eventually reveals the truth of past events is too little too late. The audience has already decided they like him, so its wasted screen time trying to prove it to the other characters that we don't care about anyway. But its an action flick, so proper character development is not necessarily high on the list of priorities. The movie gets an A+ for action and heroism and I'm willing to look past the flaws and give it 4/5 stars.
 
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Matthew Broderick plays the eponymous main character who skips high school for a day. Together with Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck) and Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara), he tries to avoid the relentless efforts of the school's Dean, Edward Rooney (Jeffrey Jones) to catch him and force him to repeat the final year of high school.

Broderick plays the role of Ferris exceptionally well. There is no bad acting from any main character, and I found it quite ironic that Charlie Sheen made a cameo as a drug addict. :lol:

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It is truly a classic, much like the Ferrari of Cameron's dad. It's not a laugh-out-loud comedy, but I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't need outrageously obvious jokes.

Rating: 9.5/10
 
I feel bad for anyone over the age of 14 that hasn't seen that movie yet. It is a timeless classic full of quotable quotes.

Charlie: Drugs?
Jeannie: Thank you, no. I'm straight.
Charlie: I meant, are you in here for drugs?
Jeannie: Why are you here?
Charlie: Drugs.
 
I saw this film a month ago with a girl... :)

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But I don't remember the movie!!! :dunce:

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I think it was Pirates of the Caribbean... but I'm not sure... :p
 
I just saw Contagion. It kinda combined everything I don't like, cheating wife, man suffering grief from losing wife, threat of cute little girl dying, man losing his son, and threat of dying at any given moment. I would not have wasted my time if it wasn't for the extra credit I get. I suppose I'm more of a comedy person :lol:.
 


11:14 (Greg Marcks, 2003) -- An entertaining and mysterious movie dealing with five very different sets of incidents which all converge at 11:14pm; the movie follows the chain of events of every separate story with five different characters and all come together in one major story of murder and deceit. The movie is no big deal and it's quite predictable at times, but it's a very entertaining way to spend 80 minutes during a Sunday night (provided the NFL isn't your idea of fun). Given the plot, I was expecting some sort of Pulp-Fiction-ripoff, but it has very intelligent dialogues and highly creative circumstances in which very bad things happen and darkly funny. As I said, expect entertainment, but not much more. 6.5/10



Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) -- An immensly irreverent satire of Biblical films and religious intolerance focused on Brian, a Jew in Roman-occupied Judea. After joining up with an anti-Roman political organization, Brian is mistaken for a prophet, and becomes a reluctant Messiah. I was honestly expecting the mastery of comedic filmdom after reading the reviews and hearing people's comments, and while the movie was very funny, I didn't find it that awesome. There's many funny moments and some laugh-out-loud ones, especially the Biggus Diccus bit, but in general I found it hard to follow and too lengthy iat times, but the funny part is when you look at what it could have been like in a society that was expecting the Messiah to show up at any moment, and covering it in a massive coating of comedy. 8/10
 
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Life of Brian is great to watch if you don't get enough Monty from Holy Grail...but it is very dated and the movie as a whole drags until you get to the classic scenes. It's a "must see", but not a "must own" or "must watch over and over again".
 
I watched Blood Diamond today. Don't know why but recently I've become a big fan of DiCaprio and this movie didn't disappoint. It's a plotline I'm only too familiar with but it still managed to move me. Worth watching.
 
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Life of Brian is great to watch if you don't get enough Monty from Holy Grail...but it is very dated and the movie as a whole drags until you get to the classic scenes. It's a "must see", but not a "must own" or "must watch over and over again".
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I agree, Holy Grail is awesome and a movie I enjoy watching over and over; I was expecting Life of Brian to be similar and it wasn't.

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I watched Blood Diamond today. Don't know why but recently I've become a big fan of DiCaprio and this movie didn't disappoint. It's a plotline I'm only too familiar with but it still managed to move me. Worth watching.
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Yeah, but Blood Diamond is great, regardless of DiCaprio. The plot is very familiar, but it's very well executed and has one of those issues in which you know what's going to happen, yet you're hoping it won't.
 
Leo is a great actor and has done a wonderful job picking roles over the past decade. I can only imagine that he is thrown hundreds of scripts to choose from and each movie he has selected has been interesting in a different way. He'll get his Oscar in the next decade for sure.
 
Echoing the DiCaprio sentiment - sure, we all want to hate him for Titanic, but he's a fantastic actor. The only dud I can think of that he's done in years was that one with Russell "Toss-a-Phone" Crowe.

Saw Drive on the weekend. A bit cheesy in parts, and suffered from some painfully awkward long pauses in the first third, but after that it was a good film. Not surprising in any way, but Gosling does a decent job of being a bad-ass wheelman (he doesn't even get a name in the film). Surprising turn by Christina Hendricks too. The soundtrack is great - grabbed it the next day and have been listening to it non-stop since. It's like listening to a neon sign.
 
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Paranormal Activity- (5/10)

So, what was the big freaking deal? This was boring. I mean, some doors slam and some stuff gets moved around and that's pretty much it until the last 15 minutes. The guy is a complete a-hole and so I have no care about what happens to these people. Ten minutes in of listening to this guy and I was hoping some Lovecraft-like beast would appear and mutilate him.

Plain and simple, a whiny girl and her a-hole boyfriend are being haunted and you will hate them so much that you think they deserve it.

I keep thinking back to all the hype and the talk of how scary it was. What was scary? They had the worst form of telegraphing the "scary" bits ever. The video would show a timer over them asleep and fast forward through the night and then return to normal speed about 15 seconds before something happened. The fact that it was asthmatic sounds and moving doors mostly made it even worse. But that timer was worse than the way the music in traditional scary movies telegraphs the "BOO!" moments.


I suggest skipping this. It takes the Blair Witch concept and does everything wrong.
 
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and with all that you still gave it a 5? What gets a 1-4?
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I didn't fall asleep or turn it off without finishing it. It kept me thinking something would happen just enough to make me keep watching just to see how they saved it. The writers managed to create a crappy story that kept promising something more, kind of like Heroes.

Plus, it was handheld footage that didn't make me feel sick to my stomach because this apparently takes place after 1885, when they developed image stabilization technology. Of course they do go out of their way to explain he bought a really huge and fancy camera for it. And the bits used to convince you it was real, where scenes were introduced with normal everyday people conversations, were well done.

It should also be noted that 6 or below is considered bad in my book.
 
Watched Thor the other day. It is nothing special if you like the other super hero movies than I'm sure you will like this. However I watched it in blueray and wow everything looked so awesome. The colors were popping out so much which made it more enjoyable.
 
Just go done watching Clockers. It's a Spike Lee film about a young guy in the projects getting himself (and the ones around him) into trouble. The movie in itself is the basic example of "if you do something wrong, it'll come back and bite you in the 🤬." (8.5/10)
 
Just finished watching The Ledge. Hmmmm....watchable enough but a pretty silly story line when you think about it as the end credits roll.
 
I liked Paranormal Activity. Me and my gf went to see it at the theater and when the girl was dragged into the bathroom she wanted to leave right then and there. So we left and I saw the movie in full on dvd. Haven't seen PA 2 yet though.

Watched Limitless yesterday through Netflix. Awesome movie and I wish I had access to NZT-48 👍 Robert DeNiro didn't play as big a role as I thought he would but still did a good job. Bradley Cooper is one of those actors that is watchable in any role in any movie. I still remember him in Alias.

Watching Last of the Mohicans now on Netflix. One of my all time favorite movies 👍
 
Just watched Drive. It got rave reviews from Top Gear but I'm honestly not sure why. True, the car scenes were pretty cool and very old school but the movie was quite unnecessarily gory and had one of the most annoying soundtracks I've ever heard.
 
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This.

I'm half way through and have to say I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
It's a documentary about street art and a guy who films the artists. Very insightful.
Worth watching for anybody who likes art or documentaries. 👍
 
I knew about Banksy prior to watching the film...but I knew nothing about the movement. It was a good introduction and rather odd but interesting film.
 
Watched 'Rampage' (:sick:) yesterday, didn't know anything about it when I saw it on tv.
After checking it on IMDB and seeing Uwe Boll was the director, it made a little more sense.
 

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