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Post by bigHEADinc on Feb 18, 2008 11:09:18 GMT -5
It was a movie for its time for better or for worse, like SWINGERS was for mid-1990s nightlife in Los Angeles. But I'll say this for GO.....at least it was decent, which I can't say for Doug Liman's later MR. & MRS. SMITH. Man, you got so much hate for Mr. & Mrs. Smith... I think it's time you shared a review for the flick as I thought it was awesome... Why didn't you like it?
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Post by bigHEADinc on Feb 18, 2008 17:07:36 GMT -5
FARGO
Maybe it's just me... Maybe the Coen Bros. just fly straight over my head... Maybe I'm just not the target audience...
Their latest effort, No Country For Old Men, gets some praise from me, but that's generally overlooking what I thought to be a ridiculously weak 3rd act (Although, admittedly, the combined forces of Bardem, Brolin, and Jones saved it). A movie that worked that slowly to a resolution only to get the whole thing done with in a few moments. That's ridiculous to me.
But apparently it wasn't their first time doing that.
The slow build, holy crap the slow build is raging here, but this movie has a problem. I hate every single character. Okay, let me rephrase that. Outside of Frances McDormand's wonderfully quirky yet smart Marie Gunderson and John Carroll Lynch's Norm Gunderson, I hate every single person in this flick. That "Is it Canadian?" accent that was just pounded home with everybody being so over-nice... I wanted to punch all of them. That includes the would-be kidnappers, the bumbling Jerry Lunderrgard (William H. Macy), and his father in law. My only care was that the pregnant Mrs. Gunderson didn't die and she was so far from the danger the whole time that it was a non-issue.
But damn if Frances McDormand didn't steal the show and make me absolutely love her as the pregnant Police Chief of a small town who seems to almost stumble into all the answers. She made the movie entertaining.
** out of *****
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Post by Jiren on Feb 18, 2008 17:10:45 GMT -5
National Treasure 2
Good acting, good cast & plenty exciting moments made this a decent sequel
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Post by bigHEADinc on Feb 18, 2008 17:16:20 GMT -5
National Treasure 2 Good acting, good cast & plenty exciting moments made this a decent sequel On the Ridiculous meter, how ridiculous was the plot? I know the first one gets like an 8 from me out of 10 on the ridiculous meter.
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Post by Jiren on Feb 18, 2008 17:17:37 GMT -5
National Treasure 2 Good acting, good cast & plenty exciting moments made this a decent sequel On the Ridiculous meter, how ridiculous was the plot? I know the first one gets like an 8 from me out of 10 on the ridiculous meter. About a 25 But i still enjoyed it
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Post by rra on Feb 18, 2008 17:32:31 GMT -5
National Treasure 2 Good acting, good cast & plenty exciting moments made this a decent sequel On the Ridiculous meter, how ridiculous was the plot? I know the first one gets like an 8 from me out of 10 on the ridiculous meter. 11...easily. I mean, as silly as the first NT movie was, at least there was streamlined logic behind the treasure premise. But the sequel..........goddamn, I should start a thread sometime of how damn idiotic it is even in its treasure gimmick.
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Post by rra on Feb 18, 2008 17:39:28 GMT -5
It was a movie for its time for better or for worse, like SWINGERS was for mid-1990s nightlife in Los Angeles. But I'll say this for GO.....at least it was decent, which I can't say for Doug Liman's later MR. & MRS. SMITH. Man, you got so much hate for Mr. & Mrs. Smith... I think it's time you shared a review for the flick as I thought it was awesome... Why didn't you like it? Oh, I'll review that in the near future.... Lets just say though, its a good example of a movie cut and re-shot to hell in post-production, that its like a schezephrenic nightmare with bullets and two celebrities screwing each other.... Which aint bad on paper, but come on....
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Post by Jiren on Feb 18, 2008 17:41:39 GMT -5
Mr & mrs smith was terrible
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Post by bigHEADinc on Feb 18, 2008 17:56:47 GMT -5
Man, you got so much hate for Mr. & Mrs. Smith... I think it's time you shared a review for the flick as I thought it was awesome... Why didn't you like it? Oh, I'll review that in the near future.... Lets just say though, its a good example of a movie cut and re-shot to hell in post-production, that its like a schezephrenic nightmare with bullets and two celebrities screwing each other.... Which aint bad on paper, but come on.... Well then.... MR. AND MRS. SMITHIs it bad that I loved this movie? It stems from my strictly hetero love affair with Brad Pitt. I think the guy's a genius and has a superb comedic timing that, outside of the Ocean's Eleven series, is rarely put to good use. This movie did that. His scenes are frequent show-stealers. The first scene at the therapist ("Hows your love life?"... "I don't understand the question") combined with the last scene ("Can you repeat the love life question?"... "How's your love life?"... **Holds up 10 fingers and mouths "Ten"**) sold me on this one. It still is overshadowed by the conversations between Jolie and Pitt after they realized that they were both assassins and they began comparing battle wounds and various lies that were told to each other... John Smith: How many? Ok... I'll go first, then. I don't keep exact count, but I'd say, uh, high 50s, low 60s. I mean, I know I've been around the block an all, but... Jane Smith: 312. John Smith: What? How? Jane Smith: Some were two at a time. The Pitt/Jolie scenes plus their in-home fight scene definitely solidified this movie as a great popcorn flick. Seriously, I don't understand the hate. **** out of *****
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Feb 18, 2008 21:50:09 GMT -5
I just watched "Shoot 'Em Up". Solid action flick! Pretty light on plot, but when the title of the picture is "Shoot 'em Up" what are you really expecting? For being such a great action flick I give it 8/10 (Yes the Patented 1-10 Schlapowitz rating system is back.)
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Post by texaswhopper on Feb 18, 2008 23:05:15 GMT -5
I watched The Amistad on TCM. 31 days of Oscars.
Very sad at times but it told a story. Matthew Mcconaughey did a good job and played a character that really was determined to get justice. Mr.Hopkins as John Adams was good in his role. Amazing how badly those Africans were treated on that boat.
They destroyed that slave fortress in the movie. Good.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Feb 18, 2008 23:27:59 GMT -5
FARGOMaybe it's just me... Maybe the Coen Bros. just fly straight over my head... Maybe I'm just not the target audience... Their latest effort, No Country For Old Men, gets some praise from me, but that's generally overlooking what I thought to be a ridiculously weak 3rd act (Although, admittedly, the combined forces of Bardem, Brolin, and Jones saved it). A movie that worked that slowly to a resolution only to get the whole thing done with in a few moments. That's ridiculous to me. But apparently it wasn't their first time doing that. The slow build, holy crap the slow build is raging here, but this movie has a problem. I hate every single character. Okay, let me rephrase that. Outside of Frances McDormand's wonderfully quirky yet smart Marie Gunderson and John Carroll Lynch's Norm Gunderson, I hate every single person in this flick. That "Is it Canadian?" accent that was just pounded home with everybody being so over-nice... I wanted to punch all of them. That includes the would-be kidnappers, the bumbling Jerry Lunderrgard (William H. Macy), and his father in law. My only care was that the pregnant Mrs. Gunderson didn't die and she was so far from the danger the whole time that it was a non-issue. But damn if Frances McDormand didn't steal the show and make me absolutely love her as the pregnant Police Chief of a small town who seems to almost stumble into all the answers. She made the movie entertaining. ** out of ***** I will agree with you, accept for the fact that I didn't even like Frances McDormand in that movie. None of Fargo was enjoyable to me.
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Post by bigHEADinc on Feb 19, 2008 14:43:22 GMT -5
BUBBA HO-TEP
I have a confession to make. Despite being a part of the entirely too sarcastic internet world, I've never actually seen any movies Bruce Campbell has been in outside of the Spider-Man movies. So no, I haven't seen Evil Dead or the Army of Darkness or any of the campy horror movies that have become the staple for Campbell. I don't even really like horror movies, campy or otherwise.
And I wish they had cut Bubba Ho-Tep out of the picture entirely.
The first hour of this movie is awesome. Campbell's "Elvis" and Davis' "JFK" are hilarious in a dry way and have such chemistry together. Campbell just commands the screen and he is definitely the highlight of this movie.
But goddamnit if the mummy parts of the movie just weren't entertaining for me.
The scheming, the plans, the talks, all wonderful... But the movie seemed to get actively worse whenever they were directly going against the mummy. The movie was still pretty damn funny. The scene with Ella Joyce as the nurse rubbing up "Elvis'" growth was hilarious as was the Elvis flashbacks. And holy crap was that one guy's daughter hot (Best panty shot ever).
I wish the movie just centered more on the two men going through senility rather than there actually being a mummy and scarabs and whatnot. Thank god that Campbell was awesome.
*** out of *****
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Post by 4real on Feb 19, 2008 17:45:34 GMT -5
Jumper: Very disappointing and boring film. Hayden Christensen is one of the most wooden and uninteresting leading men I've seen in a Hollywood film. Jamie Bell was by far the best thing in the film, not bad considering Samuel L and Rachel Bilson are in it.
Nice idea, but it would have been nice to have some back story on Samuel L and Bell in particular. But I'm guessing that comes later.
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Post by lucaspunkari on Feb 19, 2008 18:50:12 GMT -5
Saw the new Rambo last week, I don't think I was supposed to laugh as hard as I did watching it.
Wasn't bad, but I could of gone for another half-hour, and need more of the mercenaries, especially the british guy.
3 out of 5.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Feb 19, 2008 19:15:36 GMT -5
Die Hard 4.0 on DVD.
This made me angry. Not at the film cause I think the film is good. I'm angry at DVD distributer. See despite saying on the box 'UNCUT VERSION NOT SEEN IN THEATERS!' it is in fact the movie seen in theaters with the violence toned down and John McClain's catch phrase muffled by a gunshot.
I feel ripped off. It looks like I will have to get the complete version from overseas.
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Post by bigHEADinc on Feb 19, 2008 20:12:05 GMT -5
Die Hard 4.0 on DVD. This made me angry. Not at the film cause I think the film is good. I'm angry at DVD distributer. See despite saying on the box 'UNCUT VERSION NOT SEEN IN THEATERS!' it is in fact the movie seen in theaters with the violence toned down and John McClain's catch phrase muffled by a gunshot. I feel ripped off. It looks like I will have to get the complete version from overseas. Wow, that's f***ing gay... Sorry dude... NETWORKI was first introduced to the great Sidney Lumet as the director of "Find Me Guilty" starring the incomparable Vin Diesel... Man, I might've gone a bit too far with that compliment... But the preview did look interesting and I wanted to see how Vin Diesel did outside of the "big dumb tough guy" role. Vin Diesel, happily, did a pretty damn good job as a middle aged, overweight, balding mob boss. The movie itself gets a "Meh" from me, but convinced me that the director knew something. After that I saw "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead" starring Marissa Tomei, Ethan Hawke, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. To tell you the truth, I originally downloaded this because I read that Tomei was naked for like the whole first half. Seriously, that woman defies any laws of aging as her body looks absolutely amazing. Weirdly, the movie was actually almost as awesome. You guys really should check it out. But yeah, back to "Network". When I read up a little on both of the prior movies, one movie that always seemed to pop up was this movie. I jumped at the chance to watch it. I really shouldn't have jumped as I exerted too much effort to turn this on. Maybe it's my fault, expecting a different movie from the various stuff I read, but it was bad. Instead of focusing on the increasingly interesting Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the movie focused more on the Network itself and, frankly, those people were boring. The love affair between the 50+ man and the younger woman was just ridiculous, but Faye Dunaway was gorgeous. The general messages of the movie still held up in today's world (It was scary how much stuff was exactly the same as today) but the characters were a bit uninteresting, outside of the aforementioned Howard Beale. There were really well written and acted parts, but the movie ran way too long and included many scenes I could've done without. **1/2 out of ***** For Comparison: Find Me Guilty - **1/2 out of ***** Before The Devil Knows You're Dead - ****1/2 out of ***** Marisa Tomei Naked - ****************** out of holy crap she gave me a boner.
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Post by Jiren on Feb 19, 2008 21:21:43 GMT -5
Howard the Duck
This movie may get loads of flack but i really enjoyed it.
Jeffrey Jones was awesome as the villain
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Post by Millie D on Feb 19, 2008 22:32:25 GMT -5
I watched a movie called DARK CITY with Kiefer Sutherland, Richard( riff raf) O Brien and Rufus Sewell I liked the concept about the city always changing like a rubics cube and the bad guys kinda reminded me of Dementors but I like Kiefer's role in this as the Dr with the way he pronunciates each word....It was cool
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Post by REDUNBECK~! on Feb 20, 2008 0:32:32 GMT -5
American Dreamz
If you like Dr. Strangelove and you hate American Idol, you'll like American Dreamz. It has all the social and political commentary of a Strangelove and the big joke payoff, and it manages to skewer America's pop-culture obsession as much as it does the government.
The President reads a newspaper for the first time in his life and gets so depressed by what he sees that he locks himself inside his bedroom. To draw him out (and to boost popularity ratings in the polls), the White House Chief of Staff books the Prez as a judge on his favorite TV show, the singing contest called American Dreamz. What no one knows is that one of the contestants on the show is a sleeper cell terrorist who is commanded to blow himself and the President to smithereens on the season finale episode. Throw in sub-plots about another, conniving contestant and her dimwitted (and slightly demented) Iraq War veteran boyfriend, the show host's empty, self-loathing life off-camera, and the hilarity of a Hassidic Jew rapper, and you have this movie in a nutshell.
This movie was a major flop at the box office, but I personally liked it. It isn't perfect and it's far from the level of Dr. Strangelove in terms of cinematic excellence, but American Dreamz is funny in it's own, desert-dry, pitch-black way and it features some solid performances. The slow-build of the film is a bit too slow (the entire first hour is (unnecessarily) purely character study to set up the finale), and some aggressive editing could have shortened things up without losing the punch of it's underlying political themes. And perhaps a few more lighter jokes (like the terrorists with Tivo and an HDTV in their tent!) to garner some giggles would have been good. American Dreamz is a good film that maybe could have been great but fell short.
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