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Paranormal Activity - R
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November 30, 2009
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N/A
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Surrogates - PG-13
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Worst Title. What is it about pregnant women? Interesting premise but completely unbelievable in anyway. Our society at large would never go in the direction of this technology. Bad pacing, dumb "murder mystery" that is obvious all the way through and sadly, the most embarresing performance of Ving Rhames career. Get ready for this to be on a lot of WORST lists this year. Corny.
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November 30, 2009
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N/A
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Funny People - R
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A weird comedy? Drama? Dramady? Thats not really that funny. An obvious vanity project for Apatow who insisits that his Wife become a movie star. Sandler's character is a nasty sort of fellow who apparently doesn't learn from his mistakes and a near death experience. While there are enjoyable moments the overall vibe is just BLAH. Skip this.
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November 17, 2009
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N/A
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The Good Student - R
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November 12, 2009
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N/A
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Zombieland - R
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Fun yet forgetabble. I almost wouldnt even consider this a Zombie movie as it's mostly certered on the humans. Nice comedy.The Bill Murray stuff was fun. Emma Stone = HOT. Jesse Eisenberg does 2 "Land" movies in one year. Loved all the "rules", but again not much amounted to anything. Loved the SLOW MO. intro., although I would have enjoyed more of an explaination and how the world plunged into the Zombie Apocalypse.
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November 6, 2009
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N/A
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Moon - R
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Loved the story, loved the atmosphere, loved the music, loved the whole sci-fi thing.... but man, it SUCKS to be a clone. This is a damn depressing movie, so get ready to sulk.
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November 6, 2009
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N/A
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Up - PG
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Pixar does it again. While I still really enjoy it I wouldn't put it above many of the other Pixar films.
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November 1, 2009
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N/A
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I Love You, Man - R
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"I SLAPA DA BASSA".."City SLACKA".. Again Paul Rudd is my comedic hero in a blast of a comedy. The chemistry between Jason Segel and Rudd is great (once again) and keeps paying off through the whole flick. Great small roles for Jon Favreau and Jamie Pressly. Great fun all the way through.
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October 24, 2009
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N/A
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The International - R
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October 24, 2009
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N/A
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Adventureland - R
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Ahhhhh.... a return to real movies. Real chracaters, a believable story. I really needed this fresh breath of goodness to fight against most of the garbage that continues to rain down on us via Hollywood. I really fell in love with Kristen Stewart here. Another great role for Martin Starr as well. In the end I just loved this film. It felt like real life, no BS "romantic" crap. Real people have real issues coming together and aims true rather than trying to create some sort of silly cliche garbage. Great use of 80s music. Maybe I dug this becasue I was in High School in the 80s and I remember the vibe. I will be very interested to see what Greg Mottola does next.
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October 24, 2009
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N/A
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Drag Me to Hell - PG-13
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While I appreciate Raimi's return to "sillier" days (ala Evil Dead series) I didn't feel very compelled by this story. I hate when ideas based in Biblical theology (such as Demons and Hell) are abandoned to be fought with Un-Biblical methods (New Age BS stupidity)/ When the chick is told to INVITE the demon IN TO HER SOUL??? What?? Whatever.. my reasons are personal and won't effect others. Overall I was just bored. Allison Lohman is lam.. sorry. Cute but empty.
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October 24, 2009
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N/A
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G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra - PG-13
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A PERFECT movie..... if you are 8 years old. Hot chicks for the teens (and me). A complete vapid experience of CGI and Hollywood toy-rific excitement. This is THE golden example of THE Hollywood film, perfect in all ways for marketing, promotion, sequels, etc etc, on and on. Whats not to like? SAD.
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October 8, 2009
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N/A
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Lost Boys 2: The Tribe - R
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Beyond seeing what happened to the FROG Bros. in this re-hash (almost remake) of the first film, there isn't much going on here. and WHY cast a main character who looks like an almost perfect double for Jason Patric? The main vampire was laughably BAD. Bad acting goes to horrible everytime he opens his mouth. While I didn't completely hate this, I felt like the majority of it is a waste of time. Why not make it a sequel and tell me what happened to the original characters rather than just repeating the same crap with new people? Corey Feldman was fun (although Hammy) in his return as Edgar Frog. IF we get another sequel can we focus on Edgar and not all this other crap? Meh.
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September 26, 2009
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N/A
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Career Opportunities - PG-13
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In this movie Jennifer Connelly is about the hottest and most beautiful female ever commited to film. She's breathtaking. Overall the movie rings hollow in that what starts as an interesting character study in to all things "John Hughes" about High School peer class level turns super DUMB when 2 bumbling thiefs enter the picture. This fairly lame movie will be timeless if anything for Connelly's devastating appearance. TOO DAMN HOTTT !!!
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September 26, 2009
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N/A
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Day of the Dead - R
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Middle of the road remake, that of course, has nothing to do with the original film. A great example of how Hollywood shoplifts a "brand" to then do whatever the hell it wants with it. This is a paint by numbers Zombie flick. No suprises. It is very over the top corny with Zombies always leaping and jumping and running at "faster then human" speed. Cracked me up the way Zombies just changed within seconds with all the flesh on there body festering up instantly. DUMB. Not the worst Zombie flick, but not too great either. Nick Cannon = SUPER dumb.
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September 26, 2009
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N/A
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Inglourious Basterds - R
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QT is in rare form here. Very different, almost tame, for him. A great fantasy revenge movie. The way that Christoph Waltz played with the people he was interrogating was fantastic. Pitt was hilarious in full hick mode. "AND I WANT MY SKALPS". and fell in love with Melanie Laurent. The devil is in the details with this film. It's in the slight extended pause as Waltz would drink milk and smile before going in for the kill. Very tight script. My ONLY complaint would be that I didn't buy the LACK of heavy and tight security around Hitler and the Nazi Command. But then again.. this is a fantasy.
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September 16, 2009
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N/A
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Mutant Chronicles - R
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This is all kinds of BAD in many ways, but I do salute Simon Hunter for being extremely ambitious.. to a point where it's measly budget cannot live up it's the vision. There's an interesting plot in there somewhere that sadly gets snuffed out under the weight of cheesy digital blood, hideous and uneven pacing and laugh out loud atrocious acting. While I think this "cheap behemoth" could possibly develop a cult follow I don't think that it's ready for prme time by a long shot. It's too bad really, as I think that there are promising elements to it. I am interested to see where Simon Hunter goes next. File under Coulda Been.
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September 10, 2009
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N/A
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The Stunt Man - R
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August 27, 2009
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N/A
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The Hangover - R
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Had a total blast with this. lots of good laughs. A higher quality comedy than most of the moronic crap we see today. Loved that we never saw the actual events of the night until the photos in the closing credits. great tip of the hat to Rain Man as well. MUCH FUN !!!
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August 25, 2009
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N/A
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Brüno (Bruno) - R
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Absurd, ridiculous, over the top and pure fun!! Get ready to howl out loud at this farce. Bruno is more brutal than Borat in that it really piles drives the "hard-R" humor to a new level.. seriously.. I'm talking full c*ck shots filling the entire screen. The movie exists to offend anyone and everyone.. and thats what makes it gold. My favorite part of the film is more in line with how Bruno was played when he was a recurrent sketch on DA ALI G SHOW, when Bruno interview's people and in the line of questioning makes them look like complete jack-asses, unbeknownst to them. I think Baron Cohen is a master comedian beyond the normal stated sense though in that his films are more of a social experiment/statement on the state of prejudice and other issues. GLAAD has come out against this film which I think is a ridiculous mistake. This film, more than any Ive seen, really displays open prejudice in a way that cannot be denied. Funny yet with a statement and NOT stereotypical... ITS A JOKE FOLKS !!! lighten up. The Camp scene is killer!
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August 25, 2009
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N/A
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District 9 - R
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MUCh bad-assery here! Great all around and probably close to the top of my 2009 best of list. Suck it Hollywood you just got spanked.
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August 21, 2009
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N/A
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Knowing - PG-13
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They steal everything from Christian theology, suck anything having to do with God out, recast Angels as nice ( but creepy) Aliens.. and POOF you have your self the Secular Rapture. Even only the "elect", ie chosen ascend from doomed Earth in the end. Pathetic. I also found the movie rather brutal in going full bore to show people suffering and being killed in a series of disasters. For the plot we didnt NEED to see the suffering.. but becauise they wanted us to see people BURN and BRUN and BURN again they felt it necessary to force you to absorb as much human suffering and destruction as possible. What a let down from Alex pryas.. but yet another flamming turd from Nick Cage on his continued path of garbage movies.
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August 8, 2009
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N/A
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The Hurt Locker - R
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August 8, 2009
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N/A
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Nickelodeon - Unrated
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July 28, 2009
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N/A
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Step Up 2 the Streets - PG-13
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July 23, 2009
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N/A
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