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Oh Jim Carrey----> Dark and moody its a winner even before the film starts in my books! What an excellent way to spend a few hours. Delve into a very dark suspense filled, paranoia laced murderous chilling thriller with lashings of numerological "evil" references.


The Acting of Jim "Rubber Face" Carrey once again shows that he can pull off the Tormenting, Serious and Creepy characters. And actually act without the need for silly faces, comedic voices or goofy dances. The supporting cast are good too.

However what i really loved about this movie was the Dialogue and Narration. Maybe it was just me but it really stood out, creating that air of 50's Detective film, which glided right into the story surrounding the character in 'Topsy Krepps' (top secret) novel. I also really enjoyed the way the story played out even if there were some plot holes. The ending is particularly intregeing but i thought it did drag in where i thought it was the perfect place to end it they didn't rather adding another quite irrelavent scene.

Overall a really excellent murder mystery suspense thriller with an intimdating dark streak throughout. And in no way a HORROR! Just a little creepy thats all. Oh and if anyone can explain the relevence of Ned the dog? (i have a theory but still im a little confused!!!)

Great! Great! Great!

For a Horror film with a great Hollywood cast to be able to pull of a good film that has bags of creepy, without relaying on the usual hyped up overtly visual and gory effect. The plot and details develope with a calm effectivenes to create tension, instead of bombarding us with threatening ghosts, bloodsplatter or torn limbs. And the acting just rounds of everything so perfectly.



Micheal Enslin (John Cusack) is a writer compiling a list on Haunted hotel's, a firm sceptic, he comes thoroughly prepared to esperience things but never does. Then he gets a postcard from the Dolphin Hotel and it says......Do Not Enter 1408. After being ademently refused access and turning up research on numerous deaths atributed to the room, he gets very curious. But he is finally granted one night but will he survive Room 1408......... wait I know the answer I just saw the bloody film!



I think the acting was just excellent by Cusack. And Samuel L. Jackson is great for the whole 10 mins he's actually on the screen. Oh thats right people, from the trailer I figured he was in it as much as Cusack...well no he fucking ain't! 10 mins thats it!!!. But its a quality time and he plays the hotel manager trying to convince Enslin that the room truelly is an "Evil Fucking Room". He's commanding and forceful, without shouting or being agressive, and is also about to make you chuckle a little.



But Cusack is just fantastic as the sceptical, non-believe who gets his rude awakening in that room. He portrays that transition from calm to uneasy to freaked to freeing uneasy to creeped out to histerical and so on. And when the room really decides to fuck with him by making it personal, taunting him with his dead daughter, the acting from them parts is really good.



This film isn't a real horror film is more of a thriller wihich clearly has supernatural themes. Its never really established whether the room is evil, possesed or something else is going on there. There are ghosts terrorising Enslin because of the deaths there, and there are other very scary and weird things that happen like the room turning very very cold, or the room effectively destroying itself. I think it did a good job because it draw on lots of different themes, pyschological tormenting, visual scares, Ghost, Demons, Scary monsters in the vents, Possesed painting ect.



The only reason it doesn't get more starts is that there was alot of unanswered questions and there is a very weak set of stories surrounding Enslin father and his own daughter's death that sort of just get thrown in but never expanded on, which is a bit of a let down and waste really.

So let me set the scene for you 1920's Britian. Shy Bacteriologist, Walter, played (no suprise) astonishingly by Edward Norton, falls madly in love with the beautiful Kitty (Naomi Watts). Kitty seeing a great oppurtinity to leave her disappionted mother hastily agrees to marry Walter and they leave for his work place in Hong Kong. Quickly the love disolves when Kitty has an affair with the dashing Charlie, played by the very swarve Liev Schreiber. In revenge Walter volunteers the couple to help out at a far away village caught in the middle of a cholera epidemic. However, as the estranged couple are thrown into the disolute & hostile land and raw emotion of the horrors they encounter, it leads to a blossoming love and admiration!

Not a film i would generally (or ever) gone to have seen, but being a huge Norton fan i went along with eager anticipation. And once again i was left glowing with a smile from ear to ear!
Naomi Watts is very good throughout. However i did have issues with her character Kitty. where by when Walter tells her "....the next time you interupt i will strangle you!" i did hope thats she would indeed interupt time and time again in various parts of this movie just to stop the gloominess she exhibited!
Toby Jones is excellently cast as the freindly British guide and freind, and good work from Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as the army general incharge of the village.

Simple put this is a very sad and beautifully told love story with well defined characters and plot that leaves you with closure at the end. Any other human person would shed a tear but i am cold hearted and dead inside (well apparently) so i was therefore unable to!

WOW!!! I Loved this movie. Once again Edward Norton takes command of a movie and leaves you utterly thrilled with his performance. He is truelly captivating in this.



Jessica Biel's performance was good but nowhere as stunning as that of Rufus Sewell, as the evil prince or the outstanding acting of Paul Giamatti, who turns in a fabulous role as the chief of police investigating the 'illusionist'.



The story is very well constructed and easy to follow, with a fantastic twist at the end which leaves you delighted and stunned. The special effects are very good but not groundbreaking.



Overall was a really great drama, fantasy film with an interesting love story playing throughout.

Let me start of by saying yes this film is a stoner movie but with a lot more depth and intrege to the plot than 3 guys getting high and talking to imaginary aliens.

Plot summary (taken direct from flixster):
Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, an undercover cop, Fred, is one of many agents hooked on the popular drug Substance D, which causes its users to develop split personalities. Fred, for instance, is also Bob, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, Fred sets up an elaborate scheme to catch Bob and tear down his operation.

The way in which the film is shot, using roto-scoping, gives it a comic book style but also this surreal, almost pyschodelic quality to it. I really like this as it goes very well with the content of this film and gives it more edge.

Keanu Reeves as the lead actor in this is mediocare. He plays the character well, some good acting and dialogue, but to me his role is greatly outshone by Bob's 3 Substance D addict pals.

I mean Bravo to Robert Downey Jr, Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane. They ALL bring different qualities and epitones of drug addiction. For instance Downey Jr's character is this very intellegent, knowledgable guy, who uses his scientific and innovative info for legal means like making very cheap gun silencers and perfecting techniques to get purer cocaine. But he also brings this cold, paraniod, almost cunnivingly creepy airy to the role.

Then there is Rory Cochrane, with an astounding perfomance as the guy who has done so much Substance D that he's serriously fucked up. Hullucinating bugs crawling on him and other's ( including his pet dog), having uncontrollably body ticks and spasms, as well as slurred and incoherant speach. A really great performance.

Then finally Harrelson who is the likeable stupid stoner. Very dim, has paranioa about government conspiracies, very gullable and sweet. He has some funny lines and very much plays off Downey Jr's character.

It has qualies of fear and loathing in las vegas mainly due to the dialogue which i found very free flowing, at times funny at times a bit confusing. But undoubtedly this is a split movie, you either like it or you don't thare are confusing parts and the ending is a little anti-climating but with a good twist, also sometimes parts are a little to slow or just irrelavent.



I enjoyed it though, honest i did.

wow! just wow! Its not often i watch a movie and feel just amazed or blown away by it, so when the credits roled I was speechless.



I mean the story is great, excellently carved out and exicuted. The action is astonishing both visually and audio wise. I mean when those machines transform and attack its incredable, the special affects are just great and they look so real even though there obviously not.

By far my fav was Optimus Prime, seeing that trucking monster invade the screen was great. There could have been more focus on the other autobots, but what there was, was well done with great action and comedy moments like them hiding on sam's house, and resisting the urge to kill his annoying parents!

Really impressed by the human aspects the cast were great. Astoningly impressed by Shia La Beouf as Sam and megan Fox excellent as his car jacking girl. Also Much priase to Jon Voight, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel and Hugo Weaving (For a very emotionally charged Voice role). I however did not like John Turturro's character though the performance was good. I actually was hoping for a decepticon possibly a small teethy one to peel the flesh from him a dry freeze him......is that wrong?


Ok so besides my insatiably need for torture in a film i loved it i want to own it and i will be very eagarlly awaiting for what could be a highly successful and groundbreaking set of sequels.

Only queruel wasnt the wholesome American message of Self-Sacrifice and one life lost to save the many ruining by the event that occurs with Sam and the cube? But heck i do like the new message why sacrifice ourselfs in a noble act when we can annihalte the enemy by shoving the incendary device up there Asses!

What a ride go see it great fun and fantastic jaw dropping action! Funny, sexy cars, big trucks, cute but deadly machines and awesome values like courage, humanity and survival all washed in!

Love live the Earthlings for all our faults we still know how to detect and kick the butts of the enemy!

Fantastic movie which draws you in superbly then chews you up before spitting you out again! Richard Gere is good in it but never really caught my attention, and Laura Linney is excellent as the female ass kicking lawyer.

However it is Edward Norton, in his debut film, who shines like the north star in this! The emotion, the facial expressions, compeling acting, the despriration, the voices and the body language are all fantastic. The switch between Aaron and Roy seems almost natural in his acting, and i was strangely captivated but the malicious grinning and devilish Roy, more so than the shy weak Aaron. Even though the former had mere minutes of emergance in the film. The ending is simple genius, great twist and excellent portrail of the evil character!

Definately a must for every true Norton fan and worth seeing by the rest of the population just for the suspense, drama and tension that this film eludes! Sometimes i think that there was never any aaron to my roy either?

Well Mr John McClane please step forward and take a bow!!!! Excellent addition to the Die Hard series, but very different to the other films. Firstly McClane has to protect geeky hacker Matt Farrell (Justin Long) from the "Bad guys" because Farrell has created part of a code being used my internet terrorist to ultimately close the USA down.




This film is packed with high kicking, gun tooting, car chasing, helicopter killing action that will quite literally have you holding your breath andwatching in amazement at the brutallity of some of the scenes. there is some truelly increadable scenes including the helicopter V's a police car, and the 18 wheeler at the end. And reminiscent of the first film, McClane again ends up hanging on for dear life in an elevator shaft with a fireball below him.



Justin Long provides much needed computer geekyness to the technologically inept detective, and they both play of each other wonderfully and exhibit much needed comedy and one- liners. And i found it quite funny, considering the content.



When I first herd the internet based terrorism I had doubt it could fall rather flat, but it works soooooo well, new threat for a new age. And Timothy Olyphant is great as the cyber vilans leader, reliant on hired goones and his trusted hackers, he bearly lifts a finger to take out McClane and Farrell. He's smart, cunning, educated, ruthless and determined. Then you have Maggie Q providing that women can kick major ass! i mean she really beats McClane bad.



It really is a great film, solid plot, excellently directed and acted. brilliant cast and trys to tie in very very subtly the previous films. one of my fav quote has to be (from McClane) "you know that cute, kung fu-ing hooker bitch that likes to kick people, yay well last time i saw her she was at the bottom of a elevator shaft with a 4x4 shoved up her ass!!"
Classic!

SpiderPig, SpiderPig does what ever a SpiderPig does! I loved this movie! I laughed soo hard and so much I nearly chocked on my drink.

SO many great jokes and vigual gags, for both old an young to understand and enjoy. The whole range of the springfeild ensemble were here and on fine form.

Once again Homer has put the Town in peril by polluting the already toxic lake, by dumping his pig crap illegally to get to the free doughnut give away. In return the government places springfield in a glass dome, with the townies turning on homer the family flee to alaska. But Can they help save Springfield?

Funnies moments of the Film....Homers hammer action on the roof, Bart's naked escapade, Cheif wigham nearly shoting himself with his doughnut laced pistol, ken brockman's no botox gag, Bart's whiskey drinking and scaring homer with a picture of him as flanders, and ass kicking maggie!

The whole film is smart, funny, clever, refreshing and laced with tv and film references as well as some very big showbiz names, Green day sinking into the toxic lake to the final scene from Titanic and mr di vinci code himself Tom Hanks. Fun to watch throughly entertaining for all ages and levels of simpson veiwing. Heck my mum hates the show but admitted she enjoyed the movie, but that was after we released her from the harnessed chair and eyelid expansion device.......just kidding....maybe.....



Anyway I dont know how they made it so engrossing the movie flew by in an instant and didn't at all feel like a triple bill of the tv shows. It had a great plot, great lovably and familiar cast and it was what we expected of the show. I would love to see another one and i can not wait for the Futurama movie too!

Will Homer ever learn from his mistakes? Will Bart ever get the loving father he deserves? will Marge's hair get any taller? Will Maggie ever speak? Will Lisa ever be cool? Will Millhouse ever get Lisa's heart? Will Flanders ever become a Pot smoking devil worshiping hippy? So many possibilities to so many Questions, Watch it, find out, have fun, laugh until your in moderate pain, then laugh some more!! ;)

Wow just Wow! Probably the best Epic action film I have ever seen!

Incredably understated cast in Gerard Butler, David Wenham, Vincent Regan ad Dominic West. Who just work so well and bring great passion and conviction to their characters.


I loved the narration from Wehnam's character that echo's from start to finish, telling the tale of the great Spartan King Leonidas. It really helps to set the dark haunting ethos of this story. Also the dialogue and excellent one liner's such as 'then we will fight in the shade' and 'Because only Spartan women give birth to real men' really created both wit and the power and raw emotion that the story was about.



It was the truelly astonishing fight scenes that left me stunned. Great brutal battles, Bone crunching sound efffects, blood splatter, limb's flying through the air and good old Spartan Hell fury! All rounded off to the driving tones of an excellent music score.



Another thing I did love was the rousing speeches and that unbridled courage and inteegraty of personal sacrifice and honour. When done right and with actors that make you feel like standing up and grabbing the nearest spear and knife, charging into battle screaming at the top of your lungs, then i know that its a great film.


But i couldn't give it a full set of stars because i am sick of hollywood pulling this razzle dazzle dust over historic events. I love learning of the ancient cultures and was hoping that this was going to be true to form, and if it wasn't to be a real event portral then fine, fictionalise it but i cant stand when they just mix the too. Why have part real life part fantasy, all it does is creates more problems for the less knowledgable trying to seive through the two.



But with that said if you just want a great epic action adventure with dark themes, blood violence and good old honour and courage then this is a fantastic example!

Personally not a bad film, it was a three star until the end when it won an extra half star as its when it really sparks. Sadly too little too late. Don't get me wrong i enjoyed it the glitz and glamour of the performance, the application of the Pledge, Turn and Prestige (3 pregressions of a trick) However it all seemed a bit unoriginal and predictable, i saw the majority of twist and turns before they were revealed especially the ending.



The story is quite straight forward, Magician friends working together, tragedy befalls one due to the fault of the other, they set up as rivals continually trying to out do one another even going to such lengths as to embarass, maim, and even kill the other (not a spoiler its happens in the begining with the rest of the film working backwards to the event). The tricks are very well presented and the acting is very very good.



Excellent casting of Jackman as Robert Angier aka The Great Danton providing a slick, savvy showman quality to the illusionist. And Christian Bale as Alfred Borden aka The Professsor was simply genius to get the rough, unpolished no frills magic. (Even if his cockney london accent was far too Gruff, forced and unnatural) Micheal Caine is incredable in his performance as the master props man Cutter and Scarlett Johansson sparkles (some times quite literally) as the magicians assistant and an accent more natural than my own. But a massive hand goes to the performances of David Bowie except his accent was a trick by itself, was it english, scottis or welsh???? And also to the excellent Andy Serkis, who knew the guy behind Gollum and king kong could act so well.



It's not hard to see why so many people enjoyed and rave about this film, yes its good, yes its well directed, yes its got a fab cast, but just like the tricks, if you LOOK CLOSELY you will see that beyond the glitz, misdirection, sparkling lights and seemingly astounding tricks you too will see that it really is just a case of simplicity reigns supreme.




oh and also i thought that the film illusionist was much better but for different reasons.

Well my cinamatic viewing of PotC 3 was almost spoiled by the pompous idiot who cackled like a maniacal hyena throughout. However Captian Jack Sparrow to the rescue, and WHAT a rescue it was!!!!



I had such fun, packed to the rafters with humour both verbally and visually. Johnny Depp sparkles again as Captain Jack SAVVY!! The supporting cast are wonderful too, Fantastic acting and a delight to watch. And Miss Swann finally gets to kick some ass and become a top class pirate, here's to girl power! Once again that DAMN monkey steals every scene he's in. But the best scenes are Jacks endless conversations with his imaginary selfs, and the fantsatic epic battle scene at the end. The CGI is stunning, great action scenes and some very pionent scenes too.



Small downer is that the plot is a bit shifty as in its almost as if they have combined 2 stories into one film. And even at nearly 3hrs long it flew by and i was always entertained. So if your looking for a very funny non-interlectually stimulating , action packed intreging film then this is it. Ps stay till after the credits cos theres a small scene slipped in there. the sneaky buggers!



My final thought, applause for a DISNEY film that's opening scene is of men, women and children being hanged for piracy!! Gotta love the irony, its right up there with the assisted suicide of lemings off cliffs????

Fantastic movie much better than the first 2 films, much more dark and clearly very funny at times ( I loved the dark dancing Peter Parker classsic!) There is a very dark undertone to this movie which i did injoy but couldnt grasp why the "evil/ dark" peter parker was made up like an Emo??



The fight scenes and special effects are astounding, I quite literally felt every punch, stabbing kick and explosion! ( No wait that was my friend in the seat next to me! LOL) I'm suprised that spidey hasn't suffered brain damage with the amount of times he was slammed into walls; bashed on pipes or smacked with bricks, buses, cars, buildings, fists, sand, bells and a variety of other blunt & hard objects!



The only downer was that they squeezed soo much into the film that it was slightly disjointed like when a kid tries to tell a story while on a major sugar high. But then again i don't see how they could have done it any other way.



Overall then my opinion is that if your a spidey or comic fan, or just want to see a really enjoyable action packed funny film then definately go see spiderman 3.

review to follow soon.

love the scene in the pub when they beat the landlord up to the sound of Queen! Brilliant!

Of all the films so far i must admit i liked this the best. Maybe its the Raw, chaotic darkness or possibly the impending sense of doom and death that the story is establishing. Heck im a sucker for a movie thats been evilised and set in dire gloomy times, gets all my brain tingling.

I think being a bigger fan of the novels rather than the movies dampens my expectations. the book was more a transitional information laying ploy to te concluding story so wasn't that exciting of action packed, but i think they did a really great job of Sexing it up with out losing the essence of the plot. It wasn't too glitzy or overtly action filled but enough to make it enjoyable and keep the boredom away.

Must say though Emma Watson, Rupert Grint (if a little underused), Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham-Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Feinnes and Gary Oldman all played great parts with conviction and emotion. And to a certain extent Daniel Radcliffe was great. However his performance is a little wooden especially in the very emotional scenes, which i think lets it down a bit.

Great film to sit and enjoy, easy to watch entertaining to see, even if its just to see the fantastically maniacal, deranged but every so smiley Dolories Umbridge, played Exceptionally by Imelda Staunton. She was very creepy with her chirpy demenor and unscrupulous usage of torturous detention! :)

For a movie about premonitions, with the element of past and future events, I was glad that it didn't make me feel dizzy or confused. As oters of similar Genre bounce to and fro in epic porportions which just aims to confuse.

This story is played out of sequence but by the end things that happened in the earlier part of the film are explained. It did require some brian power to watch and so if you just want to be mindlessly entertained then best to avoid this. That said it isn't difficult to understand as long as you do stick till the end.

I really enjoyed the sentiment of the film about fighting for the things that sre important like Family,Hope and Love. Also the acting from Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon is excellent.

Oh fucking love that song playing in the opening credits!

Holy Hell this was Brutal, Raw, unrestrained horror gore!! But I liked it ALOT!! I felt myself drawing elements and comparisions with lower rated horror/gore films of late like "The Hill's Have Eyes" (But a carnival deep south feel), Hostel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Asylum. But the feel of this one is just a whole lot better.



Set around halloween in the 1970's a group of 2 guys and 2 girls are touring off road attractions for a book guide. They come across a little shop of "horrors" filled with all kinda strange and odd, but seemingly harmless stuff, they even go on a murder ride and find out about the local Crazy Dr Satan who tortured and experimented on his patients. Setting off in search of info they get into a lot of bother in the form of a Red neck family with serios issues.....like torture, skinning, cannibalism, satanic rituals, and even a little Ed Gein skin mask wearing!



I loved the Sound track to this movie it sets off the screen play so well. Perfectly in tune woth the 70's style only adds to the air of tension in this movie. With pounding Baselines and strange very otherworldly echos blasting in very slow scenes and softer but melodramatic music gratuating through the extremer more violent and disturbing parts. One poiniant use of music is in the scene where the cop is shot, utter sillence leading upto it so the gun shot deafens both the ears and the mind!



Great work though by the actors/actresses in the victim and Nut family side of things! The crazies are just ubsolute Psychos and if they weren't it wouldn't work as well. There is no remorse, no theory behind it, no mercy, they just kill and mutilate cos they like it!



They are all crazy with Bill Mosely's character Otis, the sickest. But my God that Sheri Moon Zombie is one crazy Bitch....Air head Bumb blonde hyped up on killing armed with a hunting knife.....now that is scary stuff!



I loved the fact that she stopped mid slice and dice to spit the blood out of her mouth then just goes back to the stabbing like it was nothing!



Rob Zombie You Da Man!!