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Planet Hulk

Chris — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:56:54 -0500

Rating: 5
Another Amazing Animated Marvel Feature, very close to the comic.

Pandorum

Chris — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:56:31 -0500

Rating: 4
A Pretty Cool Sci Fi Horror, very Event Horizon meets that movie about the Sun

Babylon A.D.

Chris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:23:40 -0500

Rating: 2
The movie was going so so, until the most horrific, i just forgot to the film the last 20 minutes of the movie ending...

Sex and Death 101

dare2try — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:12:32 -0500

Rating: 4
Just plain old fun

I'm not sure what I enjoyed more, the fact that I got to see "The mentalist" in a whole new light, or the idea of it all, or maybe it was just the looks that I was getting from my girlfriend as I laughed at some of the scenes. Have to agree the end was a bit bizarre but none-the-less a very good movie in my book.

Visitor, The

DVDFriend — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:56:43 -0500

Rating: 3
Visitor, The

Sex and Death 101

DVDFriend — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:56:10 -0500

Rating: 4
Coolest "wow" movie I've seen in a while.

While not an excellent movie, there's plenty of freak in this movie to hold you're interest. It's a funny, twisted movie. The last 10 minutes are truly bizarre.

Book of Eli, The

DVDFriend — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:54:37 -0500

Rating: 5
Yes, Denzel, you're a tough guy. I get it.

Hurt Locker

DVDFriend — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:53:48 -0500

Rating: 5
The Joys of War

SAW VI

Chris — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:37:37 -0500

Rating: 2
They really should stop making these

Gamer

Chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:53:26 -0500

Rating: 4
I know alot of people didn't think this was good, but I thought the ride was a blast.

Deliverance

Chris — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:54:09 -0500

Rating: 3
It was ok i guess, but ughh yea could of done without

Timeline

Chris — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:53:44 -0500

Rating: 3
Not to bad lol.

God of War II

Chris — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:48:16 -0500

Rating: 5
The Empire Strikes Back of the God of War trilogy.

Moon

Chris — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:47:35 -0500

Rating: 5
An amazing film, shot beautifully and interesting story.

Neuromancer

Chris — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:18:50 -0500

Rating: 5
An easy but exciting read about the future of hackers and genetic modifications.

Inglorious Basterds

Chris — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:45:21 -0500

Rating: 3
Good Cinema, worth a watch, but overall not what I was looking forward to seeing.

Pan's Labyrinth

DVDFriend — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:28:36 -0500

Rating: 5
Extreme victory

I've now seen this movie two times. There's a lot to it. I'll probably watch it again with the director's commentary; there are 2 on the blu-ray. PAN'S LABRYNTH is the story of a girl in a bad situation. She has an over active imagination to compensate for it. The movie covers here fantasy land, a lot of which is bizarre. Two of the scenes (frog and eye monster) are completely freaky. Meanwhile, in the real world, her sick mother is pregnant with a baby boy fathered by a sadistic Spanish captain. The captain is a hard-core bad guy. The war is over, and he's trying to clean up the remainders of the resistance. Everyone's acting is phenomena. Pan's Labrynth is a work of freaky art.

I Want Candy

DVDFriend — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:53:31 -0500

Rating: 4
A british comedy that works

"I WANT CANDY" starts off with two film students filming a funeral, because the entrepreneur of the two believes it to be an unclaimed niche market. The two students have been working on a screenplay for 3 years, and are looking forward to filming it as their final project. But, they learn that the final project can only be 2 minutes long. A female friend of their's, who you know that one of them will end up with, inspires them to make the film anyway. The only studio they're able to work with is an adult film studio. So, they rewrite their screen play to be an adult film. But, the writer wants it to be an adult film that people want to watch until the end. The rest of the movie is about them making the movie in their parent's house, without getting caught. Most of it is excellent. And, despite how the subject may sound, it was mostly done with class. There isn't any nudity; all the dirty parts, except for one, are just suggested. The one dirty part was completely out of left field and, in my opinion, corrupts the movie. The only other thing it loses points on is some of the jokes at the end. They named a couple of porn movies with names that parody real movies. But, the real movies are all pretty old. They weren't clever or current. For the most part, this is a really great and entertaining film.

Fired Up

DVDFriend — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:50:43 -0500

Rating: 3
A mixed bag

This is another movie about a bunch of 30 year olds playing high school kids. It's pretty much the same plot as avatar: infiltrate the enemy (cheereleaders/navi) for your own agenda (get cheerleaders/get intel), then become attached to the enemy and ultimately become the enemy. That's the plot of most movies, they just swap out some of the elephants. I laughed a lot during FIRED UP, but some of it was charitable. They had a lot of funny ideas, and some of them they pulled off, but I got the sense that no one in this movie should ever be in a movie. The acting was pretty bad, though not much was required. They had all of these little jokes that should've been funnier than they were, but didn't quite pull it off. I think I missed some stuff too. At one point, the cheerleaders fall to the ground. They help each other up. I noticed that one of the girls was kneeling behind one of her teammates, lost in the moment as she massaged her but and rubbed her facial cheek to the other's but cheek. Then she realized what she was doing and stood up. But, that wasn't the focus of the shot; that was happening in the background. Now I'm wondering if that was going on through the whole thing, and I wasn't paying close enough attention. The bloopers/cut scenes at the end show more of that. There was another gag that I really liked. You know when you watch a movie, and there's a big revelation, and then it does flashbacks from the movie showing you all the hints that you should've used to figure everything out, but you were too dumb too? FIRED UP does that too, but they flash back to a bunch of scenes that they never showed you before. They showed you stuff around the important bit, but not the important bit itself. Pretty funny.

UP

DVDFriend — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:43:36 -0500

Rating: 4
Top-Notch animation, as expected

I watched UP on a plain old fashioned DVD player. Even without the power of BLU-RAY, it looks amazing. Up is the story of a man and woman who grow old together. The woman dies, leaving the man to be lonesome and grumpy. When he's about to be forcibly removed from his house, he attaches a bunch of balloons to his house and flies off to South America, bringing an accidental passenger. Adventure ensues. I liked it, but not in a huge way. I appreciate the animation and the characters, but the story didn't do much for me. The opening scenes were sweet, but that was pretty much the extent of any emotional reaction. It never got too exciting. It was funny enough for some chuckles.

Year One

DVDFriend — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:39:53 -0500

Rating: 3
Slightly Amusing

This is about a bunch of people with modern language and sensibilities living in biblical times. Jack Black and Michael Cera converse as if the year is 2010. The main characters are all contemporary (to use Ramis's word), but all of the other characters are more suited to the times. Its kind of funny. I laughed out loud more than once. The actress that played MAYA did a great job. She didn't have a huge role, but made it count. The documentary was pretty good, for the most part. It's a "making-of" documentary focusing a lot on each of the actors bestowing worship upon the other actors; pretty typical. The distracting thing about the documentary was the segments about the costume design. This is not a serious, epic, or significant movie. It's just mildly amusing. Focusing on the artistic details of the costumes and how they relate to the background palette means nothing.

God of War

Chris — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:24:46 -0500

Rating: 4
This game was considered one of the best ps2 games of all time, now updated for ps3 its not hard to see why.

Year One

Chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:04:15 -0500

Rating: 3
Had some funny parts, decent but nothing ground breaking in the humor genre.

Avatar: "Dances with Wolves in SPAAAAAACCCCEE!!!!"

Chris — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:32:13 -0500

Rating: 5
Amazing, but lets focus on the negative in this spoilerrific review

Ok so most of us, minus some certain unnamed upper management, thought Avatar was a fantastic film, which I agree with in everything positive said about it, however I feel there was some negative aspects to the film that must go mentioned, just so we can truly better understand the social and political impact this film will have. First and foremost lets talk about the strongest focus of the entire movie and that was Nationalism(or the lack thereof). The main character of the movie is Jake Sully a Marine, a soldier trained in the art of death, yet the discipline and patriotism only few can obtain. He comes to this planet of Pandora in order to aid the military effort(corporate controlled) retrieval of a unobtainium(really not important because they did not really tell u what this stuff does). What bothers me(or not really but for sake of devils advocate) is that a Marine is a loyal soldier trained to protect his brothers, yet when comes to meeting a large amazonian alien woman he decides it is ok to go and kill his fellow Marines who are only doing there duty to protect the human race by mining this important mineral for their survival. So isn't he really the murderer, not just a betrayer to his people, but a full blown Navi Terrorist. Yes the political system which is working to obtain this material is flawed, however it does not mean, letting the human race die, when as seen by the end of the movie, the tree was not vital to the survival of the alien race. Plus there aliens....before we came to them, they were constantly coming to our planet, abducting us, probing us and spawning there young inside our stomachs. So Jake Sully, hero or traitor? I say Traitor....sad day for Nationalism. Another negative thing about this movie is its effects. They are just to damn gorgeous, so gorgeous that it makes the effects of "life" seem bland and uninteresting to exist in anymore. The colors were rich, and the perception was Three dimensions, lacking that pesky fourth dimension, yet giving you more than simple X and Y Axis. The Z axis is beautiful and complete. I went to work today, expecting 3D but was sadly disappointed in my Fourth Dimensional experience, 1 dimension to many....check please... Lastly......are the alien woman hot? You know this one left me feeling awkward, something I don't like to feel after a movie. Yes there tall, 3 times the size of humans, big boned perhaps? Yet there abs are flat, there rears shapely, but there hair tentacle receptacle strangely enticing. So I am not sure how I feel about the Human/Navi love relationship hat was going on and if i was Jealous of it, or spiteful. Either way....it left me no longer knowing Who I really am and What I want. Is my wife ever going to be Alien enough for me again? sigh, so the struggle of life continues....

Sum of All Fears, The

Chris — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:08:47 -0500

Rating: 3
I wanted to like it, but he just didn't feel like the younger version of Harrison or Baldwin

Hunt for Red October

Chris — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:08:16 -0500

Rating: 5
No Harrison Ford, but Sean Connery is Harrison Fords dad in Indiana Jones

Clear and Present Danger

Chris — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:07:50 -0500

Rating: 5
Favorite Jack Ryan movie ever!!!!!!

Patriot Games

Chris — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:07:26 -0500

Rating: 5
Amazing, almost flawless, one tiny step behind Clear and Present Danger

Patriot Games

DVDFriend — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:46:27 -0500

Rating: 4
Good Jack Ryan movie

Paranormal Activity

Chris — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:24:33 -0500

Rating: 5
I am not a fan of these movies, but for what this was less than 20K , i was scared crapless.

Stargate, Children of the God's: The Final Cut

DVDFriend — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:08:05 -0500

Rating: 4
The SG-1 Pilot revisited, with 12 years experience under their belt

Watchmen: Ultimate Cut

DVDFriend — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:07:05 -0500

Rating: 5
Improving on Excellence

The ULTIMATE CUT is every bit as good as the original plus some. As far as I can remember, it's mostly the same movie with the DARK FREIGHTER side story now embedded. That cartoon itself, while a tad disgusting, is great. Some of the transitions into it are triggered by the kid at the news stand. Others just get dropped in. I find WATCHMEN to be totally engrossing. There's so much to it. All of the characters are great. See my original review for more details.

Ghostbusters

Chris — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:46:58 -0500

Rating: 5
Still laughed my @$$ off after all these years, even poor outdated FX's can not take away how great this movie is.

Jennifers Body

Chris — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:46:04 -0500

Rating: 2
"Jennifer's Body" no matter how good it is, could not save this movie.

Tales of Monkey Island: The Lair of the Leviathan

Chris — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:06:53 -0500

Rating: 4
The 3rd episode in the series, leads Guybrush into an uncertain future.

Wedding Daze

Chris — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:06:10 -0500

Rating: 3
Cute Comedy Romance from American Pie Alumni

Mr. Brooks

Chris — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:05:48 -0500

Rating: 3
Good for the most part, but another movie ruined by Dane Cook.

100 Woman

Chris — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:51:58 -0500

Rating: 3
Spiritual Sequal to 100 Girls, ended up just being the exact same thing with a different cast.

Band of Brothers

Chris — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:51:32 -0500

Rating: 5
Even thou i've watched this mini series about 10 times thru completely already, I never tire of the phenomonal acting, gorgeous cinemetography and heart wrenching true stories of the 151st airborne.

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

DVDFriend — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:53:51 -0500

Rating: 3
Interesting, but nothing special

THE PLAN fills in some of the back story, and tries to justify some questionable decisions made during the series. The particular example that makes me think that is Sharon shooting Adama. "I shot him twice in the chest!" "Why not once in the head?". They're covering that up by saying Sharon was to close to Adama and "wasn't in control".

Band of Brothers

DVDFriend — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:27:58 -0500

Rating: 5
Could this be the finest 10 hours of television ever produced? Oh yes. It is.

Mars Attacks

DVDFriend — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:27:15 -0500

Rating: 3
Better than it was in 1996

I watched this because it's on the list of movies that I really hate, but should give another try. In 1996, I completely hated it. I haven't watched it since. In 2009, it's not so bad. I definitely got the joke in 1996, but didn't find it funny. Today, I do sort of. I wouldn't rush out to see it again, but nor would I nuke anyone selling it. It really is a super parody. What I may appreciate more now than I did in 1996 is the characters. Natalie Portman: She is completely bored through the whole thing. She never shows any spark of life. Pierce Brosnan: Portrays 100% confidence and never lets up even though he has no idea what he's talking about. Sarah Jessica Parker: I don't understand why I hate her. She's probably the loveliest person on the planet, but every time she comes on screen I want her to get stepped on by a Godzilla type creature. Jack Nicholson plays 2 roles: a president who's out of his league, and a vegas man who wants to capitalize on the invasion. There's only one scene that I always remembered liking from my 1996 viewing. The grandmother is at the home listening to a record. The aliens see that she's oblivious, and sneak up behind her with a giant ray gun. It could've probably killed her from a mile away, but they're mischievous little fellas, and they want to get the turret of this huge gun as close to her head as possible. Funny stuff. (That just reminded me of IDIOCRACY. The cops surround a car, and one of the cops fires a rocket at the car from about 2 feet away. Meanwhile, the guy that owns the car is hiding and cheering them on forgetting that it's his car.) There were a lot of people in the credits. Most of them only had a couple minutes of screen time. Michael J Fox: dead. Jack Black: Dead. That's all I can recall.

Mutant Chronicles

Chris — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:52:12 -0500

Rating: 3
Not the type of mutants i thought, should of just called them Zombies from Space Chronicles staring the Punisher

Avatar: "Dances with Wolves in SPAAAAAACCCCEE!!!!"

DVDFriend — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:43:59 -0500

Rating: 5
Delivers despite my skepticism

I never got the hype. Nothing I saw about Avatar prior to its release piqued my interest. Sure, its James Cameron and he hasn't made a movie in 12 years. So what? That doesn't automatically mean it's going to be good. Then, the advertisements were underwhelming. One of the trailers or commercials gives the run down of the plot. - guy is inserted into enemy territory - guy makes friends with the enemy - guy becomes the enemy Super simple. But, as often said "it's not the story, it's how you tell it". Well, I don't entirely agree with that. Sometimes you have to completely disregard the story and enjoy a movie for its other attributes. Sometimes you have to disregard everything except the story. In Avatar, you don't have to disregard anything. There is a lot more going on than the 3 bullet plot. There are a lot of characters, little subplots, and plenty of amazing visual effects. Its gorgeous, exciting, and entertaining. The only part in all of the 3 hours that I could've done without is the religious chanting in an effort to save a life. For some reason, it was awkward.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

DVDFriend — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:33:33 -0500

Rating: 5
A Christmas Classic

This is one of my favorite movies from my childhood, and it holds up very well. The part that used to really get me is the lubricant on the sled; he gives himself a push then completely vanishes. Funny stuff.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Chris — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:48:21 -0500

Rating: 5
Also Still Amazing.

A Christmas Story

Chris — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:48:03 -0500

Rating: 5
Still amazing.

Shadow Complex

Chris — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:47:39 -0500

Rating: 5
Best XBLA Game to date.

Bruno

Chris — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:47:09 -0500

Rating: 3
Had some hillarious parts, some offensive parts, but in the end it was just another Borat.

Luther

DVDFriend — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:12:03 -0500

Rating: 3
Historically interesting, but not a gripping movie