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300
(2007, R)
Increadibly stylish, brilliant. Nothing short of a masterpiece. The tale of the brave 300 is one of the most exciting and awe inspiring ever told.
Justins Best Bit: The fire and passion, the raw talent and perserverance of each and every greek soldier.
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This movie is about sheer, raw, fire and passion, about whats truly right, about freedom. William Wallace fights and lives for one reason and one reason alone. To make Scotland free. Politics? Bah. Truce? Not a chance. Wallace sits confortably in the hall of patriots, alongside the likes of other great honourable men like Leonidas.
Justins Best Bit: FREEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!
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Fucking cool! Beautifully intertwined story's make for an entertaining hour or so indeed.
Justins Best Bit: "English....Motherfucker.....can.......you........speak it?!?!"
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With quite possibly the coolest thing ever, a flaming skeleton on a chopper with a chain for a whiplash, youve got alot of free room to make everything else a little shit and lame. Just tune out for silly loviness and terrible acting, and focus on what must be the most bad arse marvel charcter since Wolverine. The plain white skeleton looked a little crap, but the fantastic flames effect and the sharp eye ridges made it all bearable. Nick Cage also apears to have been doing some sit ups. Ladies rejoice.
Justins Best Bit:
Bad Guy: Please!!! Have mercy!!
Ghost Rider: Sorry, all outta mercy!!!!
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Will Ferril has to be the funniest man of the millenium.
Justins Best Bit: Booting Baxter
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Helms deep is one of the best battle scenes in movie history.
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A fitting and thrilling end to a master trilogy. The biggest and undoubtably the best in the series. An absolute masterpiece. Is also better than Harry Potter.
Justins Best Bit: Saurons defeat!!
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A powerfully gritty action movie, not for the faint of heart.
Justins Best Bit: Howards Saints just desserts.
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This movie is in my prestigiouse faves, excellent directing and plenty of blood. The characters are fantastic and the acting is superb. Also possesing the three essential G's for a movie, Guns, Girls and Gore.
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Now THIS is the half of the Grindhouse feature your gonna want to see. Rose McGowan is incredibly sexy, (even with one leg) and oddly funny. The characters are fun and enjoyable with plenty of stupid and sickening special effects.As for all that homage nonsense, you might actually grasp the concept when you watch it, unlike the painful Death Proof. Also unlike Death Proof, Planet Terror is packed with gun battles, gore, zombies and other totally awesome shit often enough to actually entertain, rather than bore the balls off you. Planet Terror has downed a bottle of steroids, snorted 10 lines of coke and been unleashed upon the movie universe in a sweet, insane, frothing frenzy.
Justins Best Bit: So many I cant be bothered to type them all.
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Watching this movie was officially the hardest ive ever laughed. Ever. At anything. Its a very intimidating movie and is not for the meek. Those with the gall to sit through it are rewarded with THE MOST hilariouse and stupid things your ever likely to witness.
Justins Best Bit: The entire movie
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Marvelouse, a spectacle of epic proportions.
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Gotta respect a guy who can kill you with naught but a carrot. Basic Plot Synopsis: Clive Owen eats carrot, shoots guys who chase after a pregnant lady, kills guy with carrot, Monica Belluci adds token female cleavage (best cleavage ever!) Bad guys get dominated by Clive Owen, who eats another carrot and bangs Monica Belluci while killing more bad guys and uttering dry one liners. Lots of carrots, lots of flying metal, lots of pulp fiction esque awesomeness, only with much more mayhem. Very light on any character development, which i guess is an appropriate space maker for so many gun battles. Pretty much just "Crank" with Clive Owen instead of Jason Statham, but with differences. DIFFERENCES I TELLS YA!
Justins Best Bit: My hands are encased within a cast, but i can still kill bad guys with a gun and my trusty carrot!
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Sam Jacksons characters have always been that of some kind of biblical teacher, who can cryptically and powerfully talk his way out of the gun pointed at his face. This is one of his best roles, and accompanied by a chained half naked nymphomaniac Christina Ricci its entertainment from start to finish. This is good because, like with any of Sam Jacksons characters you take a little something special away from it. Times that by a million and you get Black Snake Moan.
Justins Best Bit: Sam L wailing away the song Black Snake Moan on his blues electric guitar, and the song he does in the bar, and Christina Ricci half naked, and Christinna Ricci two thirds naked, AND proving Justin Timberlake is a whiny little bitch.
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Realism. That is the defining factor that makes up Saving Private Ryan. Everything you see, from the beach assault to the bridge battle is created so well that you will feel the bullets whiz past your own head. Fubar.
Justins Best Bit: The entire movie
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Jaws
(1975, PG)
Best ocean monster ever! I wish the shark had have lived actually.....
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No review i can write does this movie or Tony Jaa justice. This is spectacular. Dont mess with the Muay Tai master!
Justins Best Bit: The tournament in which the warrior bashes the snot out of three highly trained fighters. To hell with computer graphics and wires!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So cool i popped several blood vessels watching it. Tony Jaa is easily comparable to Bruce Lee. His second movie with a similar paper thin plot to Ong Bak, Tony Jaa Mutilates all those who stand in the way of him retreiving a kings elephant. The movie is loaded with ultra coolness, like an insane quartet of wrestlers, a mad capoera fighter and ten minute fight scene in which the camera does not change frames. This comes very, very highly reccommended. Bones shatter, tendons snap and Tony Jaa kicks ass all over again!!!
Justins Best Bit: Defeating steroid pumping wrestlers with elephant bones, going up against who looks like Eddy from Tekken and working upwards a massive spiraling tower and hurling enemies off its balconies, all with the camera not changing frames once!.
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Unleashed is a martial arts movie with a difference. It has a heart and soul. Its a brilliantly told story, that doesent focus on mindless violence in every scene, in fact, most of it focuses on the rediscovering of the slaves humanity.
Its a sad and desperate atmosphere, but that makes the eventual warmth and happyness that much sweeter and really makes you bond with danny the dog in a surreal, almost Tim Burton kind of way.
The action scenes themselves, particularly the gladiator arena, are amazing. The bad guys really look like they are trying to hurt him, and are not just waiting for their cue.
But the real success of Unleashed lies in watching Danny reclaim his stolen humanity, from a particularly awesome loan shark Bob Hoskins, by using his memory of music, his mother, and the love and generosity given by an ever brilliant Morgan Freeman and relative newcomer Kelly Condon.
Unleashed is a real gem of a movie. It takes a personal discover story, and simply brutal martial arts and throws them in a blender to produce this entertaining and touching movie. Buy it. Even if you have not seen it.
Justins Best Bit: Hoskins clicks off the collar and snarls "Get 'em".
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Dog Soldiers just goes to show that you dont need a massive budget and bombastic special effects to make a purely enjoyable movie (does'nt it Micheal Bay?) This is honestly the best werewolf movie out there, second maybe only to Underworld, but to tell you the truth I enjoyed this just as much, maybe more.
The werewolf effects are entirely anamatronic and done with suits and pupeteers, but as with alien, it adds that effect of them not being CG. They are really there, in the frame with the actors trying to eat them alive. The werewolves are tall, scruffy and lanky, they kinda look a little shaky, but the camera isnt ever focused on them for very long, making fast paced and frightening action sequences.
Dog Soldiers also features top notch british humor, with dozens and dozens of fantastic funny one liners and comments peppering the carnage. But what is so great about them is that as enjoyable as they are, and as much as you get to like the characters, it never ever takes away from the grizzly atmosphere of being stalked and hunted by bloodthirsty lycanthropes.
Be warned, this is a gory one. Not outlandish sick-for-the-sake-of-being-sick gore, but well done and effective violence. Another thing it does well is actually makes you give a shit about the characters. Giving them genuine personality instead of just obviouse attempts at giving them quirks designed to make you feel pity makesit that much better.
This is truly a great werewolf movie, and I reccommend it to fans of british humor, army humor, monster movie lovers, werewolf movie lovers, gore heads movie enthusiasts and everyone inbetween. Except, you know, for kids and wussy people.
Justins Best Bit: Sean Pertwee as Sarge delivers most of the best lines. "We are now, up against, live, hostile targets. So, should little red riding hood show up with a bazooka and a bad attitude I expect you to tune the bitch." Also, the sequence of Spoon vs werewolf is absolutely awesome. How many guys take on a werewolf bare knuckled and beat the living snot out of it? Spoon is one of my all time favorite heroes for that. Champion.
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Gladiator sits confidently in the top three sword and sandle movies of all time. 300. Braveheart. Gladiator. Gladiator is a stylish and emotive movie while still retaining its manly hack and slash elements.
Justins Best Bit: Finally sticking it to that dorky murdering emperor type bastard.
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Doom
(2005, R)
A valiant effort, but runs out of steam in the vital scenes. I was suprised to be genuinely gritting my teeth during some parts, and by and large the creature effects were very well done. What lets this movie down is the fact that, yet again, it strays from the game plotline and makes up its own shit. But its not the biggest offender in that department (is it Street Fighter?). Good amount of gore, well done action sequences and black army humor, and the end first person sequence is without doubt the best choice ever made in a video game movie transfer. Why? Because its a loved aspect of the game, revamped and done WELL!! Rosamund Pike is also a major cutie pie and not a bad actress.
Justins Best Bit: Nausiatingly familiar first person demon killing.
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I challenge you to find 1 vehicle thats seen but not destroyed.
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An instant classic, not a frame wasted, fave bit is the mighty minigun.
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This is a definitive man movie. From the opening credits to the slightly crappy ending, bam its action all the way. Not even any time for character development, which is cool when your driving through a mall or taunting a motorbike cop like a child.
Justins Best Bit: The determination of Chelios to kill the rat sack bastard who poisined him.
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Its advertised as a funny buddy cop satire film, and while it does that just fine, it throws in unexpected but strangely hilariouse violence. Great references to Point Break and Bad Boys 2, this is one cop movie that breaks all the rules.
JUstins Best Bit: Falling church steeple (i wont spoil it for you) and the old lady copping a boot to the face.
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Not so much a war as it is a desperate run for survival.
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Quite good, a different idea which worked, i like that.
Justins Best Bit: Angelina Jolie in leather, with a whip!. And hitting that little O.C punk in the face with a phone.
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Awesomely funny, cool action. The entire crew is a blast.
Justins Best Bit: Crewmember Jane and his sarcastic attitude
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The plot, the characters, everything was just and excuse for sickening gore, brilliant!
Justins Best Bit: Behold! The power of my rubber band, body slashing right arm!
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Has hilarity and AWSOME hot chicks, but gave birth to that shit Scotty song.
Justins Best Bit: "Hey you have some wax on your nipple...."
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Really really funny. A tribute to drinkers of the amber fluid everywhere. All hail BEER!!!!!!
Justins Best Bit: Tits and beer!! Tits and beer!!!
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The task of finding the right chin for Batman probably a more difficult task than we think, but Christian Bale fits the bill perfectly. The series has been given an awesome dark twist and Batman proceeds to scare the heeby jeebies out of the bad guys before walloping them.
Justins Best Bit: The effects of the fear gas, makes you see through time sideways with a keleidascope.
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Underworld must have opened about 60 cans of canned lion sounds to improvise for the werewolf snarls. This is uncommon in the way that the action isnt all that hot, but the storyline is very good, and would potentially spur off beter sequals, which it has and which ive already reviewed.
Justins Best Bit: Super sweet concealed sleeve blade.
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Bloody good, darker, faster, stronger than the first.
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Neo has had enough screwing around, and is ready to beat the utter crap out of anyone dumb enough to challenge him. This movie rocks!
Justins Best Bit: ANY action bit.
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If you have a mind that can bend steel, then rent this, if you are a veggie, just fast forward to the awsome action bits.
Justins Best Bit: The climactic brawl between Neo and Smith
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The ill fated trend of video game movies continues with this woeful interpretation of Dead or Alive. You know what? It wasnt even the acting that let this movie down, many (not all) of the cast are actually talented actors, but they simply do not fit the characters from the game, plain and simple. Therefor its painful to watch them no matter how beleivable they are.
Hollywood REALLY needs to realise that they cannot just slap together any old plot, force in a bunch of actors and give them the names of the game characters and expect to have an enjoyable game to movie tranfer. It just doesent work that way. In fact, the only guy who fit the bill for his character was Kevin Nash (Bass).
The fight scenes did not reflect the styles of the game, the plot had almost nothing to do with the game and if i havent mentioned it yet, the actors do not fit the characters!!
Speaking of characters, this movie left out screen time for some of the most fun and brutal ones, like the high pitched dragon cry of Jann Lee, or the precise and powerful hits from Hitomi, who didnt even make an appearance.
There are a few saving graces to be found though. Holly Valance is a suprisingly talented actor, and much of the film is spent with the girls bodies on display, which is nice to look at. But thats pretty much it.
All in all there were way too many downfalls that make this movie painful to watch to even consider picking it up. Really makes me wonder why I bought it. Probably the bikini's. Yeah the bikini's.
Justins Best Bit: Sarah Carter has without doubt THE best torso of the femal species.
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Van Helsing boasts the best creature design seen in a long time, the werewolves, frankenstein, dracula and his brides look exactly how they should. This is great gothic fun.
Justins Best Bit: Werewolf-Hugh Jackman scrapping with Dracula.
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Hulk
(2003, PG-13)
Man-obsessed director Ang Lee has blown the entire budget on "daddy issues". Heres a thought, more mindless hulk-esque destruction and less crap about love an acceptance and blah blah blah.
Justins Best Bit: Serious boozehound Nick Nolte as Bruce Banners menacing father.
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Quite good, i do like when a scaryish film is incorporated with funnyness.
Justins best Bit: Screaming contest between the mummy and Brendan Fraser
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* sigh* they screwed it up by adding the kid, thus making it slightly less funny. Still good though.
Justins Best Bit: The sexy fight between the two chicks with the daggers.
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