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Hi =] I'm Clare... But you can call me Cookie (if you really want to) =] Since this is a film site I'll babble on a little bit. I like lots of different stuff, bit of fantasy, romance, action, horror, animation - as long as I think the story sounds decent then I'll give it some attention. I love foreign films; not just your average hollywood stuff - something unusual is always interesting =] and I don't mind the subs at all =P If you want to talk, leave a comment and I'll get back to you ^_^ cos I'm nice like that ^_^ haha!!! :P

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  Red Eye

  by Jack

  With the action confined to a cramped passenger jet for most of the film's running time, there's no room for the kind of relentlessly over-the-top action that many Hollywood thrillers peddle. Instead, Craven and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth keep the focus purely on the power-play between Jackson and Lisa, keeping the tension high, and never lingering for too long before moving on to the next suspense set-piece.
  
  The director's aided in his task by the excellent work of the two leads, with Rachel McAdams proving that she can carry a movie as she portrays a realistic and three-dimensional character without becoming an action heroine stereotype. Murphy also excels, managing to be convincingly charming in the early scenes and resisting the urge to chew the scenery once Jackson's menacing agenda becomes clear.
  
  The script exploits the surreal nature of a life-or-death situation taking place in such a banal environment (most notably, when Lisa is menaced by Jackson in the airplane toilet, and one of the hostesses misinterprets it as an attempt to join the Mile High Club), while the efficient direction pastes over the more obvious holes in the plot.
  
  Sadly, Red Eye eventually falls prey to the kind of overblown climax that unseats many Hollywood suspense thrillers. In the same way that Speed faltered once it left the famous wired-to-explode bus, the film doesn't quite recover from letting the characters leave the confines of the plane, and opening out into a more traditional action thriller environment.
  
  Thankfully, it's still sensible enough to play the more ridiculous moments with its tongue firmly in cheek (thanks largely to the entertaining Jayma Mays as Lisa's mousy co-worker at the hotel). Even an extended sequence that's essentially Craven re-treading ground from the Scream movies can't completely derail what remains a surprisingly tense and satisfying thriller.

  ElectroBoy

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  posted 13 days ago
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  National Treasure: Book of Secrets

  by Jack

  National Treasure: Book of Secrets starts off on a gloomy night in April 14th, 1865. We aren't exactly sure where we are just yet with the camera panning around, but by the date alone it suggests that the Lincoln assassination is just around the corner from happening. We are immediately introduced to Thomas Gates who is a relative of Ben Gates played by Nicolas Cage. Thomas is offered a cipher from the diary of John Wilks Booth to try and decipher. Thomas begins to ponder over the clue of "The Debt That All Men Pay" when he suddenly notices his guest needing his service might be a bad guy. A struggle ensues and then we cut to seeing John Wilkes Booth in an amazingly well realized recreation of the Lincoln assassination. Mr. Booth kills Mr. Lincoln and then jumps onstage and shouts Sic Semper Tyrannus (Thus Always to Tyrants) before fleeing.
  
  We then cut to present times with Ben Gates and his father Patrick Gates (Jon Voight) giving a lecture on their brand new Civilian Heroes Exhibit. It's quickly established that since the first film the Gates family name has been cleared and is recognized with new prestige and honor. They are clearly basking in a newfound limelight and glory.
  
  However, no sooner than the audience is allowed to take this when Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris) enters the scene proclaiming that their great great grandfather Thomas Gates was one of the main people behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Due to the initially establishing to the audience that Thomas is innocent, we immediately react with the same shock and aplomb. How can this possibly be? Who is this rabid dog Mitch character and what are his true intentions?
  
  Mitch produces a page from the John Wilks Booth diary that has a list of all the men behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This page he claims has been passed down throughout his families history. We are immediately shown this page seems to be very real and certainly seems to somehow cast Thomas as a ringleader in something we know he didn't do. The plot certainly thickens right out of the gate before there is even any hint that a quest for a treasure might happen. With the rapid pacing of the first film the audience isn't left hanging too long before the film morphs into familiar ground of also being a quest for a treasure in addition to being a quest by Ben and Patrick to vindicate Thomas.
  
  The main characters for the first film are all back for this outing. Harvey Ketiel is back playing the role of The Wolf, I mean FBI badass. Justin Bartha returns in the films Han Solo role as Riley Poole, the wise cracking everyman. Although, we quickly see him lose his red hot sports car early on while noting of this unfortunate turn of events: "You know what taxes are for 5 million? 6 million!" I find it odd in general that frisky single people always seem to opt for red sports cars. Jon Voight also returns as the cranky father figure. This time around he seems to have lightened up some. Diane Kruger reprises her strong female character of Abigail that while dressing prim and proper can be just as gritty and no holds barred as any male. Nicolas Cage of course is back as the cryptographer and historian extraordinaire Ben Gates. This is certainly a role that Mr. Cage shines in, yet I never quite understand why he runs like a retired NFL football player in both films. Mr. Cage is the right mix of classic movie hero charisma and quirky offbeat charm. He is a happy puppy like character with brains that won't bite you, but will certainly find a way to beat you or sneak out of the backyard. New to the cast of particular note are Ed Harris and Helen Mirren. Mr. Harris is effective in a limited role. Helen Mirren seems to just revel in being in a silly role as the mother of Nicolas Cage.
  
  Just like the first film, the film is just as interested in the main characters figuring out each clue as it is with them finding the treasure at the end. In many treasure hunting films the clues merely serve as a small plot device to keep the main plot moving forward or to place the lead character in another exciting location. The National Treasure series aims to have each clue and the solving of it as its own unique set piece. Most sequences of sleuth and solving the clues do seem to be too greatly simplified, in comparison to the first film. The massive screenwriting team the film boasts clearly doesn't want the audience to have to think as much as it did in the first one. While this certainly works to give the audience more time to sit back and enjoy the ride, it results in it having large set pieces with even less things to do in. And with less things to do, things do feel more padded out than they should be. The padding mostly comes in the form of character development, so if you like the characters and really enjoy them, then you have nothing to worry about. We spend more time exploring the characters, what makes them tick and how they respond to adversity. The themes of adventure, history, patriotism is still there, but it is themes of family and global harmony that mark this second outing and set it apart.
  
  Just as in the first film we get to travel to and explore locations tantamount to American history. Book of Secrets unlike the first film sweeps through American history on a global scale and more national scale, we aren't just stuck on the east coast of America. This serves to make the new outing even more sweeping and epic. We also once again get to see historical locations with an all access type insiders' glee, which adds some additional excitement in seeing areas we in our real lives would never be able to.
  
  The set design like the first film is just amazing to take in. One of the huge selling points of this series to date is how rich accurate they try and craft their set designs. History from the past is wonderfully realized through massive and imaginative sets and finished out with digital effects. The blending and balancing of the two creates a magical universe we get to travel into with our characters. In addition the film once again makes incredibly fun use of actual historical places that civilians would never in real life get to explore in this fashion. I think many people have often visited a historical place and wondered what was behind roped off or closed areas. The National Treasure films play into this curiosity very well.
  
  Book of Secrets is constructed into two parts. The first part works as more of a traditional spy film. As we see our main characters chart across the globe as they try to unravel each subsequent clue and riddle. The second half of the film really switches in into more traditional action and adventure film territory. An over the top heist is still on the menu along with a car chase and some escape scenes.
  
  Despite the fact the film features many more locations than the first outing, it seems to be much more about exploring the characters themselves than everything else. So if you like the main characters from the first film, then chances are you will really like this one. If your looking for more action and adventure this time around, then you might walk away disappointed. It's less about being a cat and mouse thriller or adventure and more character driven.
  
  Book of Secrets is a film crafted for the entire family to go out and see and have fun this holiday season. As such it's easily the most thrilling family adventure of 2007.
  
  Overall, I think Book of Secrets is a way too simplified version of the previous film on a much grander scale. I think what the ending really gets wrong is not introducing any mythical, supernatural or resonating moments of transcendence in its final act. Some combination of these elements and themes at the end would have certainly taken it to another level of spectacle. We get to a spectacularly realized set piece that gives us and the characters little more to do than just yawn, which is an odd way to go out of an otherwise often exciting film.

  ElectroBoy

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  The Skulls

  by Jack

  Laced with horribly clichéd secret society mumbo jumbo and unintentionally funny homoerotic undertones, "The Skulls" is a laughable thriller about a pre-law Yale student (Joshua Jackson) so shallow and ambitious that he's willing to throw over his best friend and the girl he loves just to be accepted in an underground campus club of power-hungry blue bloods.
  
  The Skulls, you see, are an indomitable, clandestine handful of the country's social and political elite -- all Yale men -- who the movie tells us founded the CIA among other ominous undertakings. Members are members for life. They get branded and paired up with other members as "soul mates." They live by a musty, leather-bound, 200-year-old book of rules. They cover up each other's scandals.
  
  When this brotherhood accept new members, money is deposited money in their bank accounts, they're given expensive cars, tuxedos (which are worn to frequent Skulls dinner parties), nice wrist-watches, nights with call-girls in a Christian Dior gowns, and -- most importantly as far as young Luke McNamara (Jackson) is concerned -- they pay their conscripts' tuitions and see to it they get into the law school of their choice.
  
  But above all, they keep each other's secrets. So once Luke is in -- following an funhouse initiation ritual so ridiculously cabalistic and ostentatious it's reminiscent of "Phantom Of the Opera" -- he finds himself in a tight spot when The Skulls murder his now-estranged best friend, a campus paper cub reporter looking to expose them.
  
  Caught in a slow-witted, collegiate retread of "The Firm," Luke realizes (a bit late) that The Skulls aren't such a swell bunch of guys after all and has to run for his life while looking for a way to blackmail himself out of the organization and bring the murderer to justice.
  
  Got all that?
  
  Helmed by journeyman director Rob Cohen (Daylight, Dragonheart) and aimed squarely at easily entertained teenagers with eight bucks to burn, "The Skulls" isn't a bad idea for a movie. But when Cohen started casting weightless heartthrobs like Paul Walker (Varsity Blues, She's All That) as Jackson's well-to-do rival, and Wonderbra hotties like Leslie Bibb (TV's "Popular") as his scholarly arm ornament, it became a project with plenty of looks but no brains.
  
  Most of the movie's budget seems to have gone into presentation. It's well-paced and edited, the photography is crisp, clean and exciting and the sets are ludicrously spectacular. The Skulls meet in an ceremonial underground chamber lined with marble pillars, and even Luke's 400-square-foot dorm room has vaulted stone ceilings.
  
  But the characters are deadly dull and the Swiss-cheese scenarios so frequently laughable that the crowd at the preview screening -- enlisted by a local top 40 station, the picture's target audience -- couldn't stop snickering through the whole show.
  
  Without a single moment of genuine suspense and with a climactic confrontation that seems to ignore many of the plot revelations, the movie's biggest problem remains that its main character is fundamentally unlikable because he's so utterly selfish, turning his back on his friends until he needs to be rescued.

  ElectroBoy

  If you look up the word "Rubbish" in the dictionary, there's a picture of this there.

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  The Number 23

  by Jack

  Jim Carrey's The Number 23 finds the former stand-up comedian tackling the thriller genre. The film has received awful reviews from most critics, which is a shame.
  
  Carrey plays Walter Sparrow, happily married to Agatha (Virginia Madsen), with one child, Robin (Logan Lerman). Agatha comes across a book titled The Number 23 and buys it for Walter. As Walter gets deeper and deeper into the book, he begins to become obsessed with 23 and discerns several similarities between the characters in the novel and his own life.
  
  Please dismiss the dreadful reviews this film has received and give it a chance. It really isn't that bad, I have seen a lot worse in this seemingly plagued genre. I must admit despite the intriguing idea behind the film of a number referring to everything in someone's life and therefore driving them insane, the script and eventual plot twists offer nothing new or particularly thrilling. Not that I am saying I knew what was going to happen; the twist certainly surprised me, but it didn't leave me in complete awe.
  
  However whilst the main plot of the film gradually nosedives into all too familiar territory, the film's biggest positive develops from the story within the, err, story. As Walter reads the book, director Joel Schumacher shows us what is actually happening in the novel. The scenes are beautifully shot and lit to create a unique look, perfectly separating it from the rest of the picture.
  
  With the two stories commencing we get two doses of Carrey and Madsen as they also portray characters in the book. Carrey is solid anyway as Sparrow, delivering a very subtle performance as the number slowly obsesses his character. But it is his turn as the lead character in the novel, Detective Fingerling, where he really shines and shows just how far he has come as an actor. As for Madsen, she doesn't really get enough screen time to fully develop both her characters but it is her character Fabrizia in the novel that she is clearly relishing playing.
  
  So okay, I will admit that The Number 23 is an average thriller at best, but still there are positives to help counter the negatives. If you are a fan of Mr. Carrey you most certainly should check out The Number 23; and even if you aren't, don't be completely put off by the way the movie has been received, see for yourself. And after you have watched it, I almost guarantee you will be searching for that number one way or the other.

  ElectroBoy

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  The Art of War

  by Jack

  Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes) is a covert operations agent for the United Nations (UN), providing a little persuasive power when traditional diplomatic channels don't do the trick. Shaw operates under the guidance of Eleanor Hooks (Anne Archer), who's the right-hand person to the UN Secretary General (Donald Sutherland). To say that the methods Shaw employs (usually involving some form of blackmail) are unorthodox would be an understatement, but they are effective.
  
  As one would expect, the movie starts with a furious action scene just as the year 2000 is about to turn in Hong Kong, where Shaw persuades a North Korean general to get back to the bargaining table. Shaw escapes from this mission in a grandiose manner, parachuting off from a tall building with a few bullets lodged in his shoulder.
  
  The pacing after this sequence never lets up. Shaw is soon framed for the murder of the Chinese ambassador who's negotiating a trade agreement with the UN. This leads to yet another one of those situations where the protagonist has to overcome unsurmountable odds to uncover the truth: Shaw has to deal with his own government (the FBI and the NYPD), people on his side who may not be what they appear to be, Chinese gangsters, New York City traffic, and a love interest in the form of a UN translator, Julia (Marie Matiko).
  
  Snipes has played this sort of a role before (in U.S. Marshals) and does a fine job. The rest of the cast, however, is given a terrible script to work with. While Marie Matiko is attractive, the conversations between her and Shaw are groan-inducing. As is anything said by Anne Archer, and Michael Biehn who plays Shaw's partner. Even Donald Sutherland, can do little to save this film from an acting/script perspective. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa plays a decent villain.
  
  Set in the present, the film makes some intriguing points. The notion of The Art of War is borrowed from Sun Tzu's work, and the core theme of the film is that the enemy should be defeated from within. The right-wing idea that the Chinese are undermining American "democracy" from within (thus winning the war) is put forth. The notion that wars can be fought effectively in this subversive way is shown, but also illustrated is the idea that such a war inevitably does more harm than good. The argument is made that allowing free trade with China would lead to a reduction in sweat-shops and other Chinese slave labour, because of "western competition". I'd argue the result would be the opposite in reality.
  
  But forget the logical holes in the plot or the pseudo-philosophy. Director Christian Duguay is best at setting the mood of the film, as he freely borrows from the classics, including the slow-motion martial arts and bullet sequences from The Matrix. Duguay also uses bleached and black and white scenes to illustrates flashbacks and action sequences; New York has rarely looked this bleak.
  
  The Art of War is a fast-paced high-energy action thriller, with some amazing visuals and camera work.

  ElectroBoy

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  The English Patient

  by Jack

  Synopsis: Tuscany, as the Allies pursue the Germans north at the end of WWII: traumatised by loss and carnage, Canadian nurse Hana (Binoche) decides to stay behind in an abandoned, bombed monastery and care for her dying patient (Fiennes). He seems to recall little of his life, but when Caravaggio (Dafoe), a vengeful, morphine-addicted thief, turns up and quizzes him over past dark secrets, and as Hana reads from his beloved Herodotos, memories return of the pre-war years when, as an archaeologist/cartographer in the Sahara, he had a passionate affair with Katharine (Scott Thomas), wife of a British colleague.
  
  
  My verdict: Though Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel simplifies, jettisons and changes certain elements of the original story, it remains a rich, complex, entrancing piece of work. Part poignant romance, part suspenseful adventure, part enigmatic mystery, it's essentially a study in different responses to love and war, honour and betrayal, nationality and identity, falsehood and forgiveness, which sounds subtle echoes as the narrative flashes to and fro between two main time frames. Needless to say, the performances are flawless; more surprising is the fluency, poetry and scale of Minghella's direction (John Seale's sensuous desert photography is superb), equally eloquent whether depicting boudoir intimacies, bomb-disposal skills, drunken dementia or a deadly sandstorm.

  ElectroBoy

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  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

  by Jack

  Synopsis: It's 1938 and when Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is informed by a wealthy American businessman that his father, Henry Jones (Sean Connery), has gone missing while researching a clue to the whereabouts of the Holy Grail, Indy sets off in search of him. With his father's Grail diary as a guide, he enlists the support of Dr Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliot) and the enigmatic Austrian professor Dr Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody) only to realise that the latter is not all she seems.
  
  After finding his father, the Jones boys find themselves in a frantic race against time to beat the Nazis to the Holy Grail, the cup that holds the blood of Jesus and can grant men immortality.
  
  My verdict: The third installment in the Indiana Jones saga bucked the trend of most sequels (ie, the law of diminishing returns) by actually bettering the sequel [Temple of Doom] and matching the feelgood element of the original Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
  
  Part of this lay with Steven Spielberg's welcome decision to lay off the nastier elements of the sequel (or prequel) in favour of the knockabout fun of Raiders.
  
  But most of it lay with the decision to cast Sean Connery as Indy's father. It was a stroke of genius.
  
  The banter and camaraderie between Ford and Connery added a new element to proceedings that made for an even more enjoyable adventure. It was both funny and touching and played to the strengths of both actors.
  
  Key moments in their relationship included a terrific scene in which they were bound back-to-back to each other on two chairs and forced to unite to escape a burning room (caused by Connery's own incompetence with a lighter) and their reunion in Africa following the tank chase sequence, when Snr thought Jnr had perished.
  
  Alison Doody also played her part in accentuating the rivalry that existed between father and son, having bedded both of them during various twists and turns in the story (though we're thankfully spared a sex scene involving Connery).
  
  In fine Indiana Jones tradition, The Last Crusade also boasted a number of spectacular set pieces, including the aforementioned tank sequence, a cracking canal chase in Venice and a moment involving the Jones boys on a motorbike and sidecar not to mention an exploding Zeppelin and the opening flashback (that found River Phoenix playing the young Indiana Jones).
  
  And let's not forget the audacious sequence in which Indy gets an autograph from none other than Adolf Hitler!
  
  The Last Crusade also boasted memorable support from returning cast members Jonathan Rhys-Davies and the late Denholm Elliott, who was finally given more to do as Indy's bumbling college colleague and some typically formidable villains.
  
  Indeed, such is the overall sense of enthusiasm surrounding this third film in the series, that it's little wonder to find that Steven Spielberg has since declared it to be his own personal favourite. It's a fun ride that actually plays to a wider audience because of its emphasis on family values over harder violence. I'll go with Spielberg and say it's the best one.

  ElectroBoy

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  ElectroBoy

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  Películas para No Dormir: La Habitación del Niño (Films to Keep You Awake: The Baby's Room)

  by Jack

  This film was bizarre, to say the least.
  
  The story follows a family who move into a house which they think is perfectly normal. But when they have a baby listener to keep a check on their baby, they hear someone's voice, and find out there's more sinister things in the house.
  
  Sound crap? Well, it is. It was...stupid, to put it simply. Not very scary for a film claiming to be a horror either. Oh, and it made no sense. And it was crap. Oh wait, I've already said that.
  
  Whatever.

  ElectroBoy

  Ugh.

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