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I just went out with my friends and saw Borat. It was hands down, all stops pulled, and no holds barred, the funneist movie I have ever seen in my entire life. Everyline is pretty much either hysterical, or leading up to something hysterical. There was one scene in the middle that was incredible disturbing, and so if you have a problem with male genitalia then it isn't for you. If you can stand the 5-7 min of badness, then it is really then funniest movie ever. 11 out of 10
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got a few minutes at work. i would have written sooner, but i bought gears of war. i gotta frag.

Casino Royale
Bond tries to thwart terrorists and end up in a high stakes poker game
B+ a very different bond movie. i really liked the movie, but there were no naked chicks in the beginning, no Q, few gadgets, and no moneypenny. Leiter is black again. i digress.... some great action sequences. a few funny lines. it hard to explain the movie without giving spoilers. The plot was a little slow as the film seems to focus on his progression into the reality of the life of 00 agent (emotionally and mentally) and the card playing. this is one of the more realistic movies. it doesn't involve diamonds, gold, or space shuttles. the fighting seems intense and real. craig gets beaten up a lot, but gets the upper hand and the eventual kill. he must be one of the most bloodied bonds. i guess he hasn't perfected his kill technique yet. I learned a new way to torture men. definitely see again, probably rent and buy

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Not to good at movie reviews but:

The Departed: Fantastic movie (except for obvious product placement and Leo not dying in the first 5 minutes :D ). Good interesting plot, which despite the slower pace of the movie compared to most other of same genre doesn't get "slow" and an interesting, fun and unexpected ending makes for a good evening in the movies or on DVD.
The movie is a bit difficult to get into because a lot happens fast as we meet the characters (typical first part of movie goes with meeting the characters and setting the atmosphere) however because of the lenght of this movie it doesn't ruin it. It had surprises along the way and a good plot. And Jack Nicholson plays absolutely marvelous. I'm not a big fan of Matt Daemon (Heh, can't say his name without thinking Team America) and Leonardo DiCaprio, however they did act better in this then I've seen them in recent films. 9/10 (-1 due to product placement phones, otherwise it'd be 10/10)


Borat: Funny funny funny - if you do not mind dark humor (very dark). "Borat" pokes fun at everything and anything and no topic is to sacred for him it seems, which makes it fun in a Southpark sadist kind of way. The fact that he can fool people make it extra fun. He does poke at some prejudices areas people might have about America, but in my view he does it not only so obvious but also so painfully embarrassing that I think most people - unless they feel directly targeted by it - would find it funny. From the "reserved" (: D) south who dislike him bringing an overweight black prostitute as dinner guest, to the rodeo crowd who cheers as he "supports" action in Iraq but turn when he butchers the US national anthem (well, puts new words to the tune, to symbolize Kazakhstan national anthem), to the frat-boys on a road trip.... not to forget the disgusting, yet very funny, intermezzo with his producer.
I laughed hard for the 80minutes it lasted, and even more once stories about the tricked people surfacing - apparently most with the intend to sue. 8/10 from me. Fun, but not for the whole family :) (damn, why it is always the US and A which get targeted, I'd love to see this play out in Denmark :D )
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Hard Candy: The premise of the film is interesting; a disturbingly mature (and even sadistic) 14 year-old girl goes out and deals out vigilante justice to a man she presumes to be a pedophile. Ellen Page (you might know her as Kitty Pryde from X-Men: The Last Stand) plays the part of the little girl and Patrick Wilson plays a pedophile you almost sympathize with. Without a doubt, this movie involves your psyche and is almost appalling in the girl's dealings with the man (in particular, one group of scenes had me squirming in my chair trying to avert my eyes, but unable to).

The thing I don't like is that Page's character is unconvincing as a 14 year-old. She's borderline brilliant and is cynical and cold. I suppose that was the point of the movie, but it drove me to sympathize with the other side more than I'd like to. In fact, the psychological tediousness and all the undertones were so overpowering that it took away from the film. I was almost revolted by the little girl's ruthlessness.

Other than that, it was a good psychological thriller and it will definitely have you thinking about it afterwards.

Three and a half out of Five Stars


Firewall: Despite its claims, the film has very little to do with security technology. It's a thriller. Harrison Ford and Paul Bettany square off against one another and without a doubt, are the best part of the movie. Most of the other parts (other than Virgina Madson's character) are played unconvincingly. Its plot has been tried and tested again and again - the everyman against all odds. Even a fairly entertaining fistfight during the climax can't save the film from seeming like a rehash of a dozen other similar flicks. It's not a horrible piece of work. It just doesn't do anything special or especially well.

Two out of Five Stars
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Just got done watching a classic, From Dusk Till Dawn. Lemme give ya a synopsis if you haven't seen it yet, mmk? It's a movie about two serial murderers and rapists, they take a few hostages because they want to get to mexico and avoid the cops from the US. But, how does this relate to the title? Easy, Vampires.

.................

I had that moment of silence questioning what in the world this movie was about too, the first time I saw it (And understood it) when I was 10.

Basically, the crooks take the hostages to a place in mexico they think is a normal strip club, but this actually isn't any normal strip club. It's a strip club full of Vampires!!! Oooooh, spooky.

Oh, and there's no plot, sorry folks, this movie has no actual order of events that climax into an actual conclusion, not one in sight.


In any case, you may be asking, why is this movie good or bad? Well, first let me say, this movie ROCKS! Sure, it's really random, there's no plot, somehow american crooks and a preacher and his children become hostages end up fighting vampires in a mexican strip club and of course, everybody dies except one of the crooks and the daughter of the preacher, as of course, the preacher becomes a vampire.

That's good, that's REALLY good of a story and a...movie, it's nice to see a movie with no plot, completely random, and it's filled with people kickin the crap outta vampires with a jackhammer stake! It's good because it's so bad, a comparison would be something like Plan 9 From Outer Space, it was the most god awful B movie that was ever invented, yet it's a legend and viewed repeatedly by many many people. Just the same, From Dusk Till Dawn is so bad it's actually good, and will always be good.

If you want to see condom's filled with holy water, a baseball bat and shotgun used as a cross, a jackhammer filled with a pointed log, and a mexican that uses a whip to cut the heads off of vampires which his name is Sex Machine, then this movie is definitely for you!

...Good times, good times.
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FLUSH AWAY
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A- i really liked this movie. it wasn't completely hilarious, but i giggled quite a bit. there are many references to other movies - you have to watch everything carefully. hugh jackman voices roddy and there's a scene where he thinks about putting on wolverine's costume. there is some singing, but it is not overbearing. the kids in the back of the theatre seemed to love it. good characters, good plot. i will probably rent and/or buy it.
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Mystic River: Three childhood friends drift apart after a tragedy and the murder of the the daughter of one of them reunites them. I actually found this to be overrated. Yes, the acting is good (with the all-star cast and a great book to base the movie on, it should've been), but in the end it seems a little contrived. The film is overly melodramatic at parts and doesn't have a clear, focussed theme, even throwing in a random Lady Macbeth-like scene at the end that no one could've forseen.

Of course, the Shakespearean plot wasn't horrible; it's just that you sort of know what's coming before it does (aside from who the actual murderer is and the aforementioned Lady Macbeth scene). Plus, the performanes of Sean Penn and Tim Robbins were well deserving of the Oscars they won.

Basically, the sum doesn't equal its parts; great acting with wonderful intensity and passion didn't make the film that much more enjoyable. IMO Clint Eastwood did a far better job directing Million Dollar Baby.

Two and a Half out of Five Stars


Once Upon a Time in Mexico: Although the third in a trilogy (El Mariachi and Desperado being the first two films), no background is really needed to watch this story about a gun-toting guitarist that is out to get revenge for his wife and child's killer. While the story is nothing amazing, it gets the job done, a lot in part to Johnny Depp, who excels in his role as Sands, a CIA agent who sets into motion a plan involving a Cartel (led by William Dafoe and including Mickey Rourke), the Mexican President, a retired FBI agent (Ruben Blades), a Mexican special force agent (Eva Mendes), and of course, El Mariachi (Antonio Bandaras). Throw in Cheech and Enrique Iglesias and it's one helluva fun ride. What sets the film apart from typical action films is an atmosphere that seems like it's breathing, thanks to great action scenes and sets. Like many movies before it, a lot of characters have their own plotlines and by the end they become intertwined in a thrilling finale. Depp really steals the show though as Banderas doesn't have many lines and a lot of other characters only show up every so often. All in all, it's a pretty fun action flick, with above average substance and some memorable lines.

Three out of Five Stars
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I watched Braveheart two days ago. Set in Scotland at the time when it was under English occupation, this movie tells the story of William Wallace, a freedom fighter who led the Scottish rebellion against the English. A very good movie and the best movie Mel Gibson ever directed, compared to the later ones. Acting was superb, good plot and a lot of memorable and stirring scenes, especially the part where he rallied the Scottish rebels to take on the British even though they were outnumbered, during the whole course of the movie. Lengthy, yes, but still a very good movie nonetheless.

5/5 stars.
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Edmond: Based on the 1985 one-act play, this somewhat disturbing take on the human condition stars William Macy as Edmond, a man who decides to try and release the animal that resides within him; and, the film completely relies on that vice. While a couple big name actresses grace the screen in marginal roles, everything revolves around Edmond. Macy is tremendous, delivering a great Jekyll vs Hyde performance and to see the frail Jekyll slowly morph into a crazed Hyde, you might even start questioning whether it is truly Hyde who is crazed or whether it's really Jekyll.

But there's a few issues. Some people might take exception to the blatant racism present in a variety of scenes. Worst of all, a lot of parts simply aren't fleshed out. There's frequent subtle references to things such as fate and higher powers, but then there comes a scene when all of it is regurgitated in one big finale - almost to the point where it seems like pointless ranting. I haven't seen the original play though so that might've been supposed to be there.

Three out of Five Stars
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I just watched all three of the Final Destination movies, don't ask me why I continued to watch them after the first movie.

Synopsis of all three movies-
Kid has a vision about how a bunch of people will die, first movie it was Flight 180, second movie it was a traffic accident, third it was a roller coaster ride, but since the kid had the vision before anything happened, he begged to get off the plane, out of the car, or off the ride, etc, well apparently a few other people also get off because they're mad, and since they were SUPPOSED to die in the accident, now they all have death stalking them, thus the point of the movie.

The movie goes through a detailed synopsis of how each person dies, and then kills them in the most bloody mess one could imagine, there is no plot, that's all there is, several people die and the movie is about how they die.

None of these movies are at all worth watching, there are reasons why THREE of them were made according to the ending of the first movie and second movie, BUT, there was no reason to bother trying to continue the story just because it's incredibly awful.
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X-men 3:The Last Stand
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Mandalorianx wrote:X-men 3:The Last Stand
Umm, you do understand the purpose of this thread right?
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Siberys wrote:Umm, you do understand the purpose of this thread right?
yeah to say your meanings of the last movie you saw and what the movie is about.... if im not wrong :confused:
Mandalorianx wrote:X-men 3:The Last Stand
it's a good movie, it's about mutans, and that a man have found a cure for mutation. and then magnito/erik lencher gater an army of mutans to kill the source of the cure and whats that left of it.
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Ehh, ok, you could have simply edited your previous post rather than make a whole new one with your review in it.
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@Mandalorianx,
as stated, this thread is a review thread, so there's an expectation that your post will include a bit more than just the name of a movie.

@Mandalorianx and Siberys,
Take it easy :)
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Watched a newer version of Carrie, the movie about a telekinetic girl.

Basically, the story is about a girl who's dream is to be accepted as a normal girl, and the best way she can think of doing this is going to prom. I won't spoil the end, but I will say that she's a very religious person who soon finds the power of telekinesis on her side.

Now, this new version is way better. Nothing is new with it, it's the exact same story (no hollywood implants that didn't appear in the original), but what makes it better is the actor who plays carrie is a LOT more believable.

In the original, you never saw that spastic distant mood, you never saw the creepiness of carrie, honestly she just looked like a slightly unpopular person. In this version she seems much more believable, and no offense to people with this disorder, but this is the best way to describe it. She kinda acts a little autistic.

This is pretty good actually, much better than the ones made in the 70's.
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Serenity [If Good, Click [url="http://www.neoseeker.com/user_reviews/helpful_reviews.php?helpful=yes&ur_id=31710&return=/Movies/Products/serenity/userreviews.html#31710"]Here[/url] and hit "yes"] - 4.8/5

THE GOOD:
- Lighthearted humour and banter between the characters.
- No awkward scene where you learn who everyone is.
- Excellent action scenes are involved.
- Tied in with the series "Firefly" very nicely.
- Good graphics and excellent make up for the enemies
- Antagonist well done and generally unique

THE BAD:
- Some parts are harder to follow without watching it once or twice.
- Morality concepts and dynamic characters a little overdone.
- The mass killing off of the extras from the show in one go.

SUMMARY:
Serenity was one of the best movies of it's kind to come out in years. While managing to keep the old fashioned Sci Fi genre, the director brought about a whirlwind of action, and incredibly graphics to make a movie that anyone who wants to see it, Firefly or not, should definitely find in their local stores.

While not having been a massive Firefly fan, but a fan of the other work done by the maker of Firefly, such as Buffy and Angel, I looked forward to this movie for quite a while, and was not dissapointed by what I saw. The typical dry wit and humourous banter typical for the TV show has transferred nicely over to the movie, with several remarks of varying levels of amusement included within the first few minutes of watching it. All the characters were defined within the next five minutes -- the slightly skittish pilot, his wife the dutiful first officer, the gun toting barely lit lightbulb, the protective brother, apologetic engineer and the sister with special abilities but slight mental unstability.

The ragtag group of thieves and pirates that steal from the wealthy and keeping it for the poor (generally themselves) was a healthy change from the recent movies I had seen. It was action without the gore, something that most directors can't seem to manage these days without pushing too much into the movie, or making the fight scenes lack lustre. The speed chases, developments, and plot is always on the rise with this movie, as well learn more and more about the special abilities and history of the most special crew member, and why she has the entire army on her before the movie even makes it past the beginning of the movie.

While we are there, the plot was one of the things that made this movie special. Not only can you really expect what will happen, you know that what will happen will either be funny or interesting, so your attention is almost always rapt on the movie. Our main antagonist, a man working for the good of all people, with no name and a nasty sense of honour, sets out after the youngest and slightly psychotic younger woman of the ship. Her abilities to read minds allowed her to see some of the most valued secrets of the "Empire" when she was placed in the same room and some high ranking individuals. We get to see all the old friends that we really wanted to see, see the old tricks that they've been using to escape capture all this time, and finally, we got to see some developements between older crew members change and finally blossom.

When it came to graphics, Serenity can hold up with some of the better ones. The engines still look as amazing as always, the space scenes continue to look majestic and the landscapes look so real that I could reach out and touch them if I wanted too. The characters injuries and the grotesque look of the enemies was well done to inspire fear, as well as the enemy ships, with ghastly additions to them that add a sense of horror and fear that are more rushes of adrenaline than actual terror.

There isn't much I can write about this movie. Reviews I generally reserve to speak of problems, and all I can think of with this one is the killing off of some of the oldest and wisest characters that I had come to like while watching the show. The fact that these people did what they did is monumental and beyond interesting -- for the last twenty minutes, from watching the fight with the reavers, both on ground and in space, to the funeral, I knew that I was watching one of the best films that I was ever going to see.

Would I recommend this movie to people? Yes, in a heartbeat.
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War of the Worlds [If Good, Click [url="http://www.neoseeker.com/user_reviews/helpful_reviews.php?helpful=yes&ur_id=31711&return=/Movies/Products/war_of_the_worlds/userreviews.html#31711"]Here[/url] and hit "yes"] - 2.5/5

THE GOOD:
The graphics in this movie were awesome. It definitely set it apart from the typical graphics we see in Sci Fi these days, which tend to look fairly similar when compared together.

THE BAD:
The aliens that we saw looked like the typical aliens in Sci Fi movies, greenish gray, large eyes, long arms and hands, etc, etc.

The plot in the movie was weak, and only actually appeared once or twice during the entire showing of the movie. Most of it was a series of violent encounters or long, dreary walks, which made up the majority of this pretty much boring and depressing movie.

SUMMARY:
Ah, War of the Worlds. Being a fan of Action films and pretty interested in some of the more recent horror ones, like Saw, the commercials intrigued me. The plot line, in short, is that we areinvaded by aliens who have no intent of slavery, communication or any form of contact at all outside of world wide irradication.

The beginning of the movie had some plot to it that's fairly interesting. Tom Cruise, our lead, is the divorced father of two children, who stay with him when his mother heads to Chicago to stay with her parents until her third child with a new husband is born. Almost right off, you can see that the characters were well thought out and made to reflect the actors that soon would be portraying them. The obvious tension between daughter, son, and father immediately lets you know that you're in for the long haul for a film that was not going to be happy.

Continuing on, we get our first chance to see some special effects. While I didn't think the lightning was something special, seeing close up images of the alien weapon disintegrating people into dust, leaving only clothes, was one of the first things to disturb me about the film. While the effects that were used were astouding, it managed to reach and hit deeper in me than most movies these days could manage, however, I feel it went too far and struck a chord I don't like touched.

In the next few hours of film, I felt as if I was watching a drawn out and pointless execution, filled with backstabbing, writhing bodies in torture, pure terror and needless violence. There is a fine line between enjoying the action and just being desensitized to it, and this movie definitely nailed the latter there. At one point, I considered standing up and walking out of the theatre, just because how it seemed to drag on and on in scenery and plot that should not have been stretched so long.

Movies tend to require balance, and I think that Spielberg managed to miss on this one. There was little to no happiness involved, just an overwhelming sense of tiredness and depression while watching it, followed up by pangs of heavy dissapointment in the work that the director and cast carried out. The movie would have been more enjoyable, if, in my case, they had cut half the slaughter scenes in half.

When it comes down to it, Graphics were the major forerunner in this movie. Not only were they impressive, they immersed you in them as you watched, which is what most directors want with their movies. They are a point of rare innovation in the genre with a "seen-it-all" type of attitude. As mentioned, the alien weapon and the effects it depicts were excellently done, as well as a number of other, more gorey effects that the team decided to add in. The aliens themselves were interesting, if not falling into a similar category how many other Sci Fi movies depict aliens - green or grey, slimy, with long legs and arms.

Moving onto plot, most of it was shoved into five minute moments of revealations which happen four or five times maximum during the entire movie, with most being shoved in at the very beginning. The rest was strethced out action scenes that were not needed, nor wanted, that seemed interspersed by more action that eventually leads up to one of the plot points that are a rarity in the movie.

My feelings about watching this were mixed. I am a fan of action, I'm a fan of Sci-Fi, but I am not a fan of watching the wholescale slaughter of the entire human race. Along with 28 Days Later and other related movies, the depression they wanted to add into the movie was overwhelming. I felt as if I was waiting for anything to happen, just as long as the scene on the screen would actually change from the same bloody cellar I'd been watching for the past forty five minutes. As mentioned, boredom, dissapointment, depression and a majority of other ill feelings just made me want to leave, as I knew I had another five to six hours left.

The conclusion of the movie, while unexpected, was one I throughly enjoyed. Many movies to date still have endings where it is assumed that the deaths of millions of their kind will go unnoticed, while this one places a steadfast defense in our hands for the furture. How it seemed to rumble up with a moral like "The smallest thing can cause the collapse of the largest enemy", etc, was one of the few high moments of the movie, and the somewhat heart warming ending was also well done, as it actually brought me back out of the coma like state I had been sitting through the movie in, so I didn't really have to watch it.

For me? I would not recommend anyone to see this movie at all. While trying to outdo other movies in the genre, they took the enjoyment out the movie and left behind a husk of malignant gore that no movie should have standing alone.
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Well, although "The Lost Room" is technically a 'mini-series' I suppose, I kind of thought of it as a movie. Especially since the Sci-Fi channel ended up running all three episodes in a row and you could watch it basically as one long movie.

I really enjoyed it. :cool:

I just happened to notice it on my satellite menu when it was about to start and reading the description I thought this might be worth a look. I was totally hooked after ten minutes. Without spoiling the story the basic premise is that a police officer discovers an item that has a very unusual 'power'. It is a key that will fit any door with a keyhole and will cause it to open to "ANYWHERE" they think of. The key is part of a mystery that began with a room that mysteriously no longer exists in time. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

My only complaint (and it is a very minor one) was that some loose ends in the story were left hanging. It was a little obvious that the producers were leaving the door open (no pun intended) for sequels. But overall a very good story, different and refreshing.
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Pan's Labyrinth

I anxiously awaited this movie's arrival here and got to see it yesterday. The wait was well worth it. This movie is fantastic! I give it a 4.5/5. This review is going to be pretty free-flowing and may contain some spoilers.

In the middle of WWII, a bright, young girl with an especially active imagination is forced to live with her new father, a brutal Captain under the Franco dictatorship regime in Spain (which started in 1938 I believe). The girl's mother is a lovely women who is pregnant with the girl's brother and, thus, the Captain's son--the movie eludes to the Captain knowing his unborn child is a boy, but I don't see how he could possibly know this in 1942. The Captain feels it imperative to have his male child born under his own roof, so, despite warnings not to because of risks to the mother's health, she and her daughter are pretty much ordered to travel a long distance by car to the Captain's command outpost, a creepy sort of castle fort.

The girl is already apprehensive about meeting her new father, and this only intensifies as she comes to realize the Captain is not at all the fatherly type (or husbandly type for that matter), but it is WWII after all, and at least a Captain can provide well for a family in those hard times. In fact, the Captain quickly proves to be quite the sadistic bastard who, it seems, has perfected the art of torture. If you haven't guessed by now, this movie is very much an ADULT fairytale.

So, what does a young girl with an active imagination, a treasured collection of fairytale books and living in a creepy castle with a wicked stepfather do to pass the days and nights while waiting for her brother to be born? Why, she escapes to a fairytale world where she becomes the center of attention, of course! And now the story gets really interesting.

I actually have to go for now, so I'm going to leave you all hanging for a little while. he-he! :mischief:
My other laptop has been downgraded to a coffee table. :rolleyes:
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
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