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three extremes - 6/10. really let down by takeshi miikes segment. children of men - 9/10. the best film i have seen at the cinema this year. its not been getting the best reviews but it really struck a chord with me, especially the end, loved the way you didnt know much about the larger story besides what clive owens character experienced. its just a small piece of a much bigger tapestry. so well directed as well, i thought Cuaron was a good director before but this really feels like him spreading his wings in terms of scope and audacity. those long takes!! fucking hell i know there must be edits somewhere but you cant see them and the results are phenominal. thoroughly recommended. |
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thank you for smoking - 6.5/10 |
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Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It had Raul Julia in it so I thought it might be good, but I was wrong. Between this and Street Fighter, he was involved in two of the worst movies ever. Cool. |
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nothing 1/5 terrible (everything). I gave it a 1 because the concept could have been intereting. |
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Children of Men - 10/10 up there with the best i've seen all year just come back from watching it. very very very good, gets straight to the point. and it has some Aphex in it :-p |
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the party - 3/5 city of lost children - 4/5 |
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here's a couple of documentaries for a change: - Grizzly Man (by W.Herzog) 9/10 - Who Killed The Electric Car 7/10 |
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those two are amongst the top of the list to rent, grizzly man looks intersting as does Who Killed... |
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The Departed - 8/10 Great story, moved quickly through the whole 2.5 hrs, though some of the acting might have been a little better. Plus, there was a whole love triangle thrown in for no good reason that I could see... there was already enough tension to make the story interesting without it. Great ending though, I recomend it. |
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Glenn Gould Hereafter - 3.5/5 Not a definitive documentary on Glenn Gould, but more of a cum inducing film for manic fans. A wet dream for Gould enthusiasts that is mixed with archival footage as well as a stand-in for Glenn in various scenes. I think this can be only fully enjoyed by people who already are familiar with this enigmatic musician. Not a good start for beginners, perhaps. The Departed - 4/5 Uneven in spots, including some stuff in the end, but still immensely entertaining and well crafted. I like when old-time directors put out new movies. Their movies always stick out from the others, especially if they have always been about the crafting of a good story visually and script-wise. Also, some fine performances in this picture. Nice. |
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Bully, about 2/5, but the shock was a good 5. |
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BenchWarmers - 1 of 5 The Hills Have Eyes(Uncut) Remake - 4 of 5 |
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Severance - 3/5. a film of classic funny dismemberfest genre in which Troma's Decampitated leads. Also, there is a scene where they eat a pie, that is very much like what has been parodied in scary movie 2, he he. |
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recycle, grizzly man is one of the most stunning documentaries I've seen... I wanted to like the electric car documentary more, but it feels like made-for-TV production. It raises good issues, however. On another note, The Departed is currently #60 on imdb top films list, which makes me wonder if remakes - however good - should be banned by law. I'm sure it's a good ride, but leave the East Asians alone, Hollywood! |
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Riget I, Riget II...........4/5 |
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Yay, it's still here :D The Yards 3/5 Hostel 4/5 A Cock And Bull Story 4/5 |
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wank:a true-ish story 1/5 an inconventional truth 4.9/5 the end credits song sucked ass |
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The Machinist - 3/5 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang - 4/5 Azumi - 2/5 Spartan - 4/5 War Of The Worlds - 4/5 Superfly - 2/5 Open Water - 4/5 Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire - 3/5 Deterrence - 3/5 King Kong (2005) - 4/5 |
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I'm Going To Tell You A Secret - 3/5 Run Silent, Run Deep - 3/5 The Battleship Potemkin - 3/5 Element Of Crime - 2/5 Team America: World Police - 4/5 Cube - 4/5 The Forgotten - 3/5 Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge Of The Sith - 4/5 The Corporation - 4/5 Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism - 3/5 |
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The Shipping News - 3/5 After The Sunset - 3/5 One Fine Day - 3/5 I, Robot - 4/5 The Bunker - 3/5 Mr Death: The Rise And Fall Of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. - 4/5 The Straight Story - 4/5 Charlotte Gray - 2/5 Match Point - 3/5 The Astronaut's Wife - 2/5 |
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Brotherhood - 2/5 Feds - 2/5 Jarhead - 4/5 Underworld: Evolution - 3/5 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ...And Spring - 4/5 Cellular - 3/5 Blade: Trinity - 3/5 Munich - 4/5 Funny Games - 4/5 Look Back In Anger - 3/5 |
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The Machine - 2/5 Exorcist: The Beginning - 4/5 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story - 3/5 Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy - 3/5 Stander - 4/5 Croupier - 3/5 Walk The Line - 4/5 I Heart Huckabees - 2/5 Shark Tale - 3/5 Elektra - 3/5 |
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Good Night, And Good Luck - 4/5 Pacific Heights - 3/5 The Bone Collector - 3/5 Soft For Digging - 3/5 The Edge - 3/5 My Stepmother Is An Alien - 3/5 The Constant Gardener - 3/5 My Architect - 3/5 Dead Man's Shoes - 4/5 Ray - 3/5 |
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Starship Troopers 2: Hero Of The Federation - 3/5 True Crime - 3/5 Fetishes - 4/5 Murderball - 3/5 Syriana - 3/5 The Leader, His Driver And The Drivers Wife - 3/5 His Big White Self - 3/5 Pride & Prejudice (2005) - 3/5 Domino - 3/5 The Assassination Of Richard Nixon - 5/5 |
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hahaha welcome back, dan! death of a president - 2/5: it focused mostly on the events of the assassination of bush and the investigation/trial in the months following. it would have been more interesting if they'd focussed on predictions about what the effects would be on the national and international level, in the years following. that way there would have been less 'interviews' too, which i think is one of its negativs. the interviews are hardly convincing. the actors don't give a convincing display of being the 'real people' that were there while the events were taking place. admittedly, it's probably incredibly difficult to pull that off, and in some places it almost does...but that's not enough for this concept to work. |
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Lucky Number Slevin - 4/5 Man On Fire - 4/5 The Falklands Play - 4/5 Fantastic Four - 3/5 The Package - 1/5 Criminal - 2/5 Event Horizon - 3/5 V For Vendetta - 4/5 Garden State - 3/5 Conan The Barbarian - 2/5 |
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Capote - 4/5 Inside Man - 4/5 Essex Boys - 3/5 The Woodsman - 4/5 Stealth - 2/5 Pierrepoint - 4/5 Primer - 4/5 Bullet Boy - 3/5 Scary Movie 2 - 3/5 Fierce Creatures - 3/5 |
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White Noise - 3/5 Ocean's Twelve - 2/5 Hitch - 3/5 16 Blocks - 3/5 The Edukators - 3/5 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous - 1/5 Kinsey - 4/5 Cool Hand Luke - 3/5 Mission: Impossible III - 5/5 The Panic In Needle Park - 2/5 |
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Assault On Precinct 13 (2005) - 3/5 Scum - 4/5 Closer - 3/5 Bat*21 - 3/5 The Business - 3/5 The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 2/5 Constantine - 3/5 X-Men: The Last Stand - 3/5 The Da Vinci Code - 3/5 United 93 - 5/5 |
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The Wind That Shakes The Barley - 3/5 Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 3/5 Office Space - 3/5 Napoleon Dynamite - 4/5 Superman Returns - 4/5 Miami Vice - 4/5 Once Upon A Time In The Midlands - 3/5 Hide And Seek - 3/5 2010 - 4/5 Meet The Fockers - 3/5 |
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park - 4/5 Salesman - 4/5 Code 46 - 3/5 The Motorcycle Diaries - 4/5 The Cooler - 3/5 Aeon Flux - 2/5 Maverick - 3/5 28 Days Later - 4/5 Overnight - 4/5 The Man Who Knew Too Much - 3/5 |
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Swimming With Sharks - 3/5 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - 4/5 Flight Of The Phoenix (2005) - 4/5 The Sum Of All Fears - 4/5 The Cassandra Crossing - 2/5 Creep - 4/5 Dark Water (2005) - 3/5 Ong-Bak - 3/5 Don't Look Now - 3/5 Green Street - 3/5 |
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The Fearless Freaks - 3/5 Max Q: Emergency Landing - 2/5 The Abyss - 4/5 A Perfect Murder - 3/5 Darkness - 2/5 Free Enterprise - 3/5 The Ring Two - 3/5 The Jacket - 3/5 The Quiller Memorandum - 3/5 The Matador - 3/5 |
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So You Want To Be A Rock'N'Roll Star - 3/5 The Black Dahlia - 3/5 Star Trek: First Contact - 4/5 The Weather Man - 3/5 National Treasure - 3/5 What Remains - 4/5 The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse - 2/5 Aliens - 5/5 Serenity - 3/5 Children Of Men - 5/5 |
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Y Tu Mama Tambien - 3/5 Apollo 13 - 4/5 A Short Film About Killing - 4/5 Hidden - 3/5 The Hit - 4/5 The Glass House - 2/5 The Hitcher - 3/5 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - 4/5 Sympathy For Lady Vengeance - 4/5 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - 4/5 |
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The Departed - 4/5 Death Of A President - 3/5 ...and that's me up to date! |
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an inconvenient truth 4/5 the wind that shakes the barley 4/5 |
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"I like when old-time directors put out new movies" you do realise the departed is just another hollywood remake of a superior foreign film? |
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So you like movies? |
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Nah, can't stand them. |
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I got too confused with the original. Everyone kinda looked the same to me. |
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ooh, nice one! The original had the most lovable yakuza boss though. |
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The Life of David Gale 4.0 very good. little predictable. society 4.3 excellent. do not watch when stoned out of your fucking brain. repeat: do not watch when stoned out of your fucking brain. |
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Yes I do, but I have never seen it. What I was trying to say, and thought I made clear, was that when an "old-time director" puts out a new movie (a movie they relatively just finished making, not a re-release of one of their "classics") it usually sticks out from everything else because of a "movie generation gap" for lack of a better phrase. Different techniques are imployed visually and story wise, but usually visually. Take, for instance, the recent Brian De Palma picture that came out. If, say, David Fincher had directed it, it would look and "feel" different from what De Palma produced. Younger directors will probably make different movies than old ones even if they are the same story. And, regardless of the story having already been told, The Departed is still a new movie. But, yes, you have single handedly made it known that the original telling of this story is arguably better than Scorsese's attempt at it. Golf claps all around for you. |
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Threads - Absolutely bloody horrible and terrifying to boot. The hardest hitting film I've seen. 10/10. |
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Oh my. I feel bad for laughing at that...well, maybe not bad, just a little unpleasant. hehe |
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It's not the first time a film from the far east has done that to me. I guess it does sound a bit un-PC to say that, but quite literally, I'm telling it like I see it. I expect that somewhere in Korea right now there's a guy sitting on his sofa watching some Hollywood movie and thinking to himself, 'man, all these dudes look the same to me'. In Korean though. |
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Actually our "racism" is more justified, since far eastern people _do_ look more alike than, say, hollywood actors. It's simple: they all have black/dark hair, they all have pretty similar body types and so on. (PC = dead) I never had such problems, though. I guess I can pick up facial characteristics better? |
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The devil wears Prada 3/5 |
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the twilight samurai 4/5 really cute |
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