Latest seen movies 2008

It's more like a good double-episode of SG-1 than a movie. Still think the Ori are pretty lame.

Very beautiful photo. A bit on the long side but well worth it.

Not a movie I'd normally watch but it was a pleasant surprise!

OK movie, not very educational (I know nothing about this so called liberation of Texas prior to seeing this movie). BB Thornton saves this movie from the 2-star mark. Overall the acting is a bit overdone.

Trailer: The Kingdom

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Upped this from "not interested" to three stars, it was quite watchable. Billy Bob Thornton is really good as the sadistic gym teatcher.

Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt and Madeleine Stowe in a fantastic sci-fi movie. Directed by the maestro himself: Terry Gilliam,

I've lost track of times I've been trying to finish it...

A rip-off from Harry Potter, Narnia and Stardust. Still, pretty OK entertainment.

Better than expected. In no way a serious movie, even for a Jackie Chan one.

As many times before Roland Emerich has made a turkey of epic proportions. The script is stupid at best and full of inconsistencies.

Still, it's an OK adventure movie if you can see past the gaping holes in the script. I have after all seen worse movies!

The following list was shamelessly copied from IMDB, Flixster's older, smarter sister.

SPOLIER WARNING!

1. When you walk down a tundra mountain, you'll end up in a rainforest. When you go a little further, you'll end up in the desert.

2. Dinosaurs did not become extinct, they were turned into giant birds instead.*

3. There is no difference between the palaeolithic period, the neolithic period and ancient Egypt, it's all the same and existed simultaneously.

4. It only takes a few fagg0ts with long fingernails to enslave thousands of tribal warriors.

5. When you throw a spear to a god-king from a long distance, he will make no attempt to dodge, nor will any of his associates drag him to safety.

6. When your enemies threaten to kill your love, rush towards them screaming, they will be too confused to do anything to her.

7. When someone abducts you on his horse, stab him in the kidneys, but make sure he has no bow hidden somewhere when you walk away from him.

8. Female tribal shamans had telepathic connections to other girls and could use them to transfer life energy.

9. The first handcuffs were made from wood, not from metal.

10. A trapped, wounded and hungry sabertooth tiger is perfectly reasonable: He will acknowledge any attempt to save his life, he will be grateful for being set free and will not eat you, he will even show up later to help you.

11. When you witness 1 man take on and defeat the (long nailed) leader and an army of an entire civilization, go ahead and try to make a break for it with his girl. You'll probably get away with it.

12. When you abduct the hero's girl on your horse, make sure to tie her up properly (for speed's sake use your practical wooden handcuffs), so she cannot stab you in the kidneys.

13. Falling off a galloping horse to stony floor is not dangerous at all and will not harm you.

14. Being stabbed in your kidneys does not cause intense pain, you'll still be able to take out your bow and fire an arrow within seconds.

15. Mammoths come with a build-in hero-safety gene, they will never step on a hero, so it's perfectly safe for him to run into their herd.

16. If you kill the 'god' that is enslaving thousands of people to build a pyramid for him, apparently they'll finish building it anyways.

17. Blind people used to live in the ground.

18. There were only 2 women in those days. One old bag, one plain Jane.

19. Sticks (spears) used to be all the rage in the fashion world.

20. Mammoths are just brown elephants.

21. Thowing a guy 30 feet off the side of a pyramid will kill him instantly.

22. Mammoths could run! (They surely stole this from George of the Jungle)... (Elephants can only walk, not run... and we've already learned that mammoths were just brown elephants)

If you endure it you might as well wait until after the end credits.

I want the funny Jack Black back.

OK, I saw it. It was bad but the racist/christian Americans made it funny.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a clear candidate - if not winner - for "The Goriest Movie of 2008".

It was a long time ago I watched any of the other Rambo movies but I am certain that the level and detail of brutality, gore and violence was never this high.

Children are being tossed into fire - alive, people are forced to wade through mine-ridden rice fields, gangrape, decapitations... the list could go on. Perhaps the gore talks in favour of the realism of the movie - if realism can ever be mentioned in the same sentence as Rambo.









Note 1: It clearly wasn't enough to make the bad guy a sadist MF who executes unarmed prisoners and the fact that he was a (homosexual) pedophile. He had to smoke as well. Is this a message from the filmmakers? Smoking is bad m'kay?

Note 2: Showing people being blown and hacked to pieces is OK, but flashing bare breasts is not? I caught glimpse of two pairs of breasts during the whole movie, but quickly lost count of the gore scenes - including several gang rape scenes. Got to love that double moral.

Note 3: Rambo was never this talkative.

Not quite the intensity of the TV series - but still good.

Not my fav genre but this one talks to the caveman inside of me.

Cliché...

I don't understand that there can be a market for this kind of crap movies, Even less understandable is that people find junk like this funny.

Average "multiple storylines" movie.

Mean and a bit sadistic, and that's why I rate this higher than most romantic comedies.

Incredibly bad and boring.

Well acted and well written. A joy to watch.

The fact that I'm a sucker for cheap sex jokes saves this one from a 1 star rating.

Not even the naked ladies at the party could bring me to finish this awful movie.

I'm not a Jim Carrey fan but this movie was pretty nice.

No amount of softcore porn can compensate for poor acting by has-been movie stars.

A superhero movie with both heart and brains. For a Will Smith movie it's exceptional.

Something as odd as a romantic sports movie that I actually enjoyed.

Never finished it.

Why this one is called "Arizona Junior" in Sweden instead of the original title beats me. However it's one of the few movies where I can stand the sight of Nicholas Cage.

Wolverine = the most masculine anti-hero ever! ;-)

All that I had hoped for!

The second movie about Arn Magnusson has a much higher tempo and is over all a richer experience.

More detailed review coming soon.

A few "hehe" moments save this Johnny English copy from a 1 star rating.

Steve Carell is not a very good actor imho, how people find him so incredibly funny is beyond me.

Simply brilliant movie and one of the creepiest music scores I've heard.

One of 2008's coolest movies, both story and designwise. It also packs some really awesome melee sequences.

A "realistic" secret-agent-movie.

I really should stop going to Jim Carrey movies.

I sat down to see this with the lowest of expectations, it was predictible but turned out not to be a complete disaster after all.

It started out good but kind of lost focus around halfway in and kept swirving out of control the closer it got to the end.

But... George Lucas; "great" visual effects does not make a great movie.

And like many have already said, Shia LaBouf - WHY?

Save the planet. Whenever I've read that bumper sticker I've had to laugh. Save the planet. What for? And from what? From ourselves? Life's simple: kill or be killed, don't get involved and always finish the job. A survivor's code, my code, and it all sounds great until the day you find yourself confronted by a choice. A choice to make a difference, to help someone, or to walk away and save yourself. I learned something that day: you can't always walk away. Too bad it was the day I died.

I'm usually not much for bashing a bad movie but here goes.

Take Mad Max, Jhonny Mnemonic, The Fifth Element, Children of Men, xXx, Pitch Black and Blade Runner. Mix well, then dumb it down a few nudges and you'll get Babylon A.D.

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The movie started out well but it's like they ran out of steam the closer they got to the end/anticlimax. It's based on a book, so you might want to look that one up later, the story has a lot of potential and it might have become a nice cross between Children of Men and Blade Runner in the right hands. The script is quite inconsistent and the production itself feels like it should have been handled by someone else.

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Vin Diesel does his standard anti-hero performance as seen in many of his other films with perhaps a slightly darker tone this time.

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Did Milla Jovovich turn down the supporting role so they had to use a girl who looks just like her? Or is she simply getting too old? Aurora is almost as inconsistent as the script, being an enhanced human being with the ability to process information like a computer she is really good at running off doing stupid, completely incoherent things, and being a whiney crybaby in general.

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Props to Gerard Depardieu who makes a brief appearance as a slimy russian mobster, I'm not saying he does the part well, it's more like comic relief. Sepultura makes a welcome appearance on the soundtrack during a cage fight scene, that's always nice.

On a final note; the Neolite leader might end up on a future "badly portrayed movie villains" list from me.

Why the two star rating? I like dystopian movies and it's not so bad if you're prepared for it.

Nice animation and surroundings make up for the simple storyline.

"Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot."

V (Hugo Weaving) is one of my favourite anti-heroes and Natalie Portman looks cute with a shaved head!

I went against all my instincts on this one, I expected the absolute worst of worst when my wife and I went to see this. Turned out it was pretty OK. It's obviously made for girls, I could only spot two other guys in the audience, and there was serious giggling going on throughout the whole movie.

Moral of the story: I don't hate Twilight, I hate it's fans ;-).

A real review may show up in time for the next full moon.

"I'm here to save the Earth..."

Better than anticipated, but still:

Keanu Reeves is not a good actor.
Jaden Smith is an annoying kid.
Good FX does not make a good movie alone.
It lacked total annihilation.

More to come.

No matter how appealing the title might be I'm simply not interested.

Edit: saw it and was pleasantly surprised. But then again; you can't really go wrong with boobs and (some) full frontal nudity.

Another incredible movie from Pixar.

Will write a proper review soon...

Props for the Mac start sound hehe