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| Name | Brian W |
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| I'm From | Philadelphia Check out my BLOG |
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| Last Login | Thu. May 15 |
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| Age | 29 |
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| Movie: | In general I like horror films and mystery/suspense/drama; I also like indie films and most anything directed by anyone listed below. |
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| Actor: | In general, my favorite actors are those that are under 35 and, in my view, have proven thru their acting that they chose the correct vocation. Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Gosling, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Giovanni Ribisi to name a few. |
| Director: | Pedro Almodóvar, Gregg Araki, Darren Aronofsky, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Michael Cuestra, Brian De Palma, Michel Gondry, Lasse Hallström, Alejandro González Ińárritu, Ang Lee, David Lynch, Michael Polish, Robert Rodriguez, Martin Scorsese, M. Night Shyamalan, Quentin Tarantino and John Waters |
| Quote: | I like to get kissed before I get fucked. -Danny Archer, Blood Diamond |
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Camp Out
Unrated
I wanted to see this documentary because its subject are so different from. Ten campers trying to reconcile their Christian faith and their homosexuality.
I never had that problem because religion isn't a big part of my life at all, but it was interesting to see, and would be good viewing for gay teens dealing with the same issues.
Prom Queen
Unrated
I guess I have to watcha gay movie every once in a while or the gay mafia will revoke my membership. Trust me, it's in the bylaws.
Well, in any case, too bad I chose Prom Queen...
It's comically stereotypical, cheesy and very Disney Channelesque, and not in a cute way. And what's worse, for a movie that's only four years old, it's woefully dated, even the stereotypes.
Ya, I guess it has somewhat of a good message -- but that's about its only redeeming quality.
Good thing I didn;t pay anything to see this.
Made of Honor
PG-13
I didn;t want to see this originally, but I got roped in, and it was free anyway, so what the hell, right?
But it was about as good as I thought it'd be, which wasn;t very...
Slow in parts and very formulaic. Not totally horrible, but only worth a rent and only if you like the genre.
Tiny Shorts Guy made me laugh tho, haha
27 Dresses
PG-13
OK, so there are some pacing problems, and it's not very original at all, but honestly, does anyone watch these types of films expecting to be wowed with flawlessness and originality? No
But it was fun! And although some people said Katherine Heigl's talents were wasted, I disagree. KH is perfect for the role, especially at this stag in her carreer, and she and Marsden had good chemistry.
I busted out laughing during Benny and the Jets.
It was a good time.
Lars and the Real Girl
PG-13
Odd but not off-putting, offbeat but not gratuitously so, it's oddly captivating -- that is, in the beginning, but soon enough, just captivating.
Lars is a 20-something socially-awkward guy who lives in the garage of a home he co-owns with his brother, Lars has, from my perspective, unresolved issues dealing with lives and deaths of his parents (who have died by the time the film starts) that are never really explained.
He use "the real girl" as a coping mechanism.
As ludicrous as it sounds, during the course of the film, you almost forget that the girl is a doll, given that Lars' family and the local townspeople accept her as real out of love for him.
Expert acting from Gosling and great casting choices for the supporting characters.
Perhaps not for everyone, but it should be.
Iron Man
PG-13
Besides possibly Batman Begins, easily the best comic book film (forget Sin City) of the 2000s.
The best part of it was that it had a good story, and it was interesting enough, and pulled me in enough, and there was nothing cheesy about it.
So different and so much better than Fantastic 4, for example.
With decent acting too.
Def. one to see in the theatres.
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Bella
by Rposted 2 hours ago -
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Speed Racer (2008)
by DNot so good. Nothing comes off worse in a movie than attempting to hit two opposite demographics at once. Goodman, Ricci and Hirsch were all good calls. Ricci is really a missed gem in the acting world and Goodman is always a good father.
The action is fast, I guess (define fast really), however it's done in the worst possible way. It's all CG, which I suppose is necessary but it's is way over the top, past the point of comical to just plain boring. Unfortunately they try to make the heart of the story itself serious and interesting, but all is lost in the horrible comical aspects.
When a movie juxtaposes seriousness and well placed interest with monkey poop throwing humor and just horrible machoism-cgi-bullcrap racing scenes, well, it doesn't make the film any easier to watch for either.
Could've been much better, could've been great in fact, however, like many great ideas, the final product was a dud. In that sense, it was doubly disappointing to watch, although, imagining what it could have been is almost worth the effort to sit through it.This is an un-recommendation. It's what I do best.
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China Seas
by Veronique"china seas" is directed by tay garnett who also helms the classic noir "the postman always rings twice"...it has every gable/harlow formulic elements adopted from their former collaboration "red dust": oriental background, racist insinuation, sexist inequality, man's madonna complex with sensual blonde and prim brunette, luscious harlow swoons over reluctant gable whose heart is taken by the demure brown-haired lady, then eventually harlow captures gable back with a twist.
clark gable is gallant captain alan gaskell who discards aside his former flame ,showgirl chinadoll (harlow) with a foul humor, while he re-encounters his long-lost crush for years, refined British dame sybil (rosalind russel). chinadoll attempts to entince gaskell's attention again while she finds him enamour of his english girlfriend who he plans to marry. harlow pulls it off clumsily by insinuating gable's crude disdemeanors at the past on the dinner table, growling about her wretched heart in his cabin, making excuses to approach him by putting her cigarettes in his drawer. she tries everything she could but gaskell still dismisses her as obnoxious, a desperate girl who could hook up with any sailor. while rosalind russuel behaves tastefully as a obedient love interest who withdraws wisely at their confrontation. as harlow groans "i ain't like that english dame who gets brought up to say the right thing, i speak whatever inside my mind"
meanwhile wallace beery is jamesey, chinadoll's courting admirer who schemes to backstab captain gaskell with chinese piracy then captures chinadoll as his own since she has been frequently demeaned by gaskell. infuriated by gaskell's insult when she sneaks to his cabin to warn him, chinadoll steals the key of arsenils for jamesey. then the ship gets robbed for the first time after the trainwreck of typhoon. gaskell's foot also gets swayed tightly by oriental turturer. the villain commits suicide while the blonde bashes out her agony of love as treason confession "yes! i steal your key and give it to jamesey, i would have stood backward back with you, figure it out yourself why i don't, you teach me something i have never known about myself, when a woman can love a man right down her fingertips, she could hate him the same way as well...go call your cop, if you could ditch it out then i could take it!!!!"...then the fabulous line of wallace beery in his last breath would be "loving you is the only decent thing i have ever done in my whole life, even it's obviously a mistake."
"china seas" is more clever than "red dust"..."red dust" is more of gable's concession to the bourgeois values by giving mary astor away to gratify her husband's dreams of marital happiness, and harlow is more like a trophy of solace, a substitute of ease, a woman closer to his proteriat upbringing would make a better spouse as he shamelessly cheers "we're all rotten people in this stinky country". additionally astor's role seems like a pretentious closet bitch who likes to pose goody-goody, and that role has been brought back to life by grace kelly again in its remake "mogaboo"
but "china seas" is a recuperated love of pathos, it is harlow's ignited hatred which hunts gable back as avengeful betrayl is somehow an intensified way to express affections. when he utters sympathetically "you hard-headed crazy little fool", he's hers. so he decides to resign his position in court to rescue harlow from hanging, and also nullifies the chance of entrance into a higher society, "yes! i love her!! but not the way i do you"...as he glances her being sent to the police, she looks up to wave farewell, he smiles warmly then the movies closes.
"china seas" has engrossing melodramaticity, gut-wrenching villainy and the enchanting oriental backset to gloss the scenes. the first shoot of panoramic view of a thousand ships in the china seas is impressing, and the picturesque set of hong kong dock is turbulently prosperous. it has kaleiscopic scenes of orient despite the usage of its disdains to its people, such as the bitter-tongued annoying oriental lady as the stereotyped asian cosmopolitan who humuliates harlow by calling her the cheap liquor before the delicate wine, the lives costed by typhoon catastrophe are all asians who get run over by the giant machine and gable sneers at the chinese pirates who are also the negative oritental stereotype as insidiously inscrutable. put racism and sexism aside, "china seas" is vivid and vibrant with enough dramaticities and exotica to pay audience's interests. and this time, gable/harlow romance is managed in a more chivalric way, and the script does come up with a more proper twist to nobilize clark gable, and more "romantic" in its partriachic pattern.
the wardrobe of jean harlow's is also another fashion accomplishment by adrian, and some dresses harlow wears in "china seas" should have become stylistic milestone. adrian pastiches the styles of occident and orient well in several night gowns with dragon and pheonix upon the backside. except the one dress which bares harlow right breast(a blatant gratitude for male audience), all the other brightful suits are sorta neat and lovely. besides, clark gable also looks very dashing in white navy suit of captain when his "diamond in the raw" phallic image mellows.it's the best among the gable/harlow collaborations. the black with a white phoenix on the back and the dress she wears in the "a woman could love a man right down her fingertip"...and in the flick, jean harlow wears a wig becuz her trademark blonde hair is in its awful shape due to repeated dyeing. and the orient backset is an escapist purpose to console the audience in the depression area. it's highly watchable with enough dramatic plots.
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Hey, I like your profile.
Can you do my quiz? And my poll?
Only if you want to though, don't worry if you don't want to. =)
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Charlie Bartlett
by HarshA smart teen comedy about high school kids and their parents. Not as good as "Rushmore", but still worth watching.
Hey, you should really see this!
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I recommend you see...I haven't seen the movie... No one has been that lucky just yet... I did edit my own trailer for it though... Click here and check it out.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8105036805389084146&q=the+dark+knight&ei=q8crSN_nNaX4qwPuvKysCQ&hl=en
Reply to tell me what you think. Sorry I haven't been on in so long. Things got a little crazy recently, but now that I have time I'll do more cool stuff like this and I'll share it with all of you guys.
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James Dean
by LisaReally excellent biopic about the legend that is James Dean. For films like this is is seriously hard to choose the right actors to portray them. James Franco however made an excellent James Dean. The two do look very similar so that helped a lot. Some parts of the film were made up which I really didn't see the point of. Like Dean's father telling him his mother wasn't sure he was his father. Why? All the performances in the film are fantastic. I even read that the beach house is the one that was used in Beaches. I also heard that James Franco became so immersed in playing James Dean that he went from being a non smoker to smoking two packs a day, as well as playing the guitar, the bongos, and learned to ride a motorcycle. That's dedication. A must see film for all James Dean fans.
Seen this ages ago but no one has seen it so I thought I would recommend it. James Franco is surprisingly good as James Dean.
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The Savages
by MarkStory about a middle-age brother (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and sister (Laura Linney), who have to set aside their self-absorbed lives to take care of their dying father. This movie is AWESOME! A moving comedy focusing on two people who suffer from intimacy issues and commitment because of emotionally absent parents. Great dialogue that is so real when we witness one sibling confronting the other about lying the viewer feels like their eaves dropping on someone's argument. Catch this movie to see two of the best actors in Hollywood exhibit their talents.
I think you'd really like this movie!!
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Just saw u online n went through ur profile. Guess we like d same stuffs in movies.
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The Shepherd
by DeanJean-Claude Van Damme's latest action-thriller movie is getting better since Until Death with lots of exciting action scenes against the rogue American Special Forces and his team.
Hey, you should really see this!
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What Happens in Vegas...
by AlexanderGet lucky.
Set in Sin City, story revolves around two people who discover they've gotten married following a night of debauchery...
Cameron Diaz: Joy McNally
Ashton Kutcher: Jack Fuller
In the beginning Vegas has a bit of originality and fits perfectly in the so ridiculous it's hilarious comedy type but then, step by step, it turns into a normal romantic comedy. It has numerous comic scenes and some of them are really funny. Weird shit like him weeing in a sink comes to mind has damn right laugh inducing or Ashton taking off the toilet seat and Bathroom door.
We can see it especially at the ending, because it has the expected, conventional, and boring Hollywood ending we are all used to watch in this sort of comedies.
I liked the performances of the main actors though. I think Ashton Kutcher is funny, like he was in other comedies and Cameron Diaz still has that charm and seductive ability to dazzle.
Of course it's not a grand comedy, it's even a bit silly and flawed at parts, but overall funny and entertaining.
Vegas is like Super Ex Girlfriend and a brilliant date movie.Saw this last night and what an amazing way to finish off a scorcher of a day!
Perfect silly Romantic Comedy which also makes a good Date Movie.
Worth watching, Ashton & Cameron have a laugh, wait for the credits for some more laughs! :Dposted 1 day ago -
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Speed Racer (2008)
by QuintoTake a drink whenever someone or something slides across the screen changing the image in the background.
Seriously, this film is more of an anime than the cartoon ever was. Emile Hirsch was a very lousy Speed Racer, but everything else was so much fun.I know this film has generated a lot of hate, but it's really not that bad. Aside from a miscast Emile Hirsch and the troubled story, the rest are two hours of pure excitement, joy and colorful fun. Recommended to those who loved and hated the anime (except epileptics!).
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