| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
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| The Christmas Shoes - Unrated |
Well Christmas is here again so I've started off my christmas movie watching season with this movie starring Rob Lowe.
My sister told me this was a really sad movie and boy was she not kidding, this movie pulls at the heart strings like you would not belive at times. I found it a bit much to take at times though, as the subject matter of 'death' does not make for a happy movie. It pulls at the heartstrings a bit too hard for its own good and will leave you dreading the day the same things happens in your family or you'll be remembering back to when it already has. It's one of those movies that makes you want to cherish every moment with your loved ones and hope they do the same for you. the thing is though, this movie is fighting a losing battle because we as a species are a heartless and uncaring bunch of selfish gits. |
December 1, 2008 | N/A | |||
| A Christmas Carol - Unrated | December 1, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Friday the 13th Part 2 - R | October 21, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Friday the 13th - R |
The first Friday the 13th movie was great in its day, but time has not been so kind to it. If you watch this movie and then pretend the other 10 movies with Jason in them never happened (and the remake on the way) then this Friday still works well.
When you think of the other movies though, you really miss Jason and as good as Betsy Palmer is as Jason's nutty mom, you just can't help but wish he was in this first outing for the franchise as a killing machine. Just look at the flixster page for this first movie to see what I mean. It's all Jason??? WRONG!!! So I'm going do this review without thought for Jason (killing Jason) or the other movies. ----------------- So it's 1980 and it's a year after Carpenters Halloween, what you get here is a cash-in pure and simple, sure it's a great cash-in but it's one all the same as it's ticks all the Halloween boxes. Unseen nutjob POV? Check. Great nutjob score? Check. Horny teens that are sure to die for their sins? Check. Almost pure as the driven snow female teen that is sure to live at least past the first movie? Check Lots of gory ways for the horny teens to meet a sticky end? Check Old timer actor or actress to lend some credibility to the movie? Check Start of a movie franchise that will last forever? Big Check. So yea! It ticks every box and it works very well because of it, it's almost a law now to have such things in these movies and these early slashers wrote the rules. So what works with this movie? The cast of mostly unknown teens do there job well, they overact when they see the camera and you can almost hear them say 'please sign me up for big time movie stardom' before the 5 mins of screen time they have is up when they die. Although Kevin Bacon is still the only face I know well (Bings son Harry Crosby is in this, but did not follow in his dads footsteps but instead became an investment banker) The music score is ace as it says 'kill them mommy' over and over in a haunting errie way... Betsy Palmer is great as young Jasons mom, out to stop any more kids from getting hurt, although I'm sure she did not need to use big sharp pointy things to actually get her point across? hehe! The on location setting works very well. The Bad - The pace is just all off when we meet Jasons Mom, in fact the pace in this movie is pretty slow all the way through, what worked in 1980 seems very dated now and a so called rollercoaster ride back then is more like a baby crawl now. Overall, it's a great start to a series of movies that's still going strong today, sure it's a bit slow paced and dated, but it's also still fun, has a great baddie, and thick as mince teens are always worth watching as they are sliced and diced for just being horny and stooooped. (reviewed 18th Oct 2008.. Source? R2 UK DVD) |
October 19, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Mutant Chronicles - R | October 15, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer - R | October 12, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Brain Damage - R | October 2, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Legend - PG | September 21, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Kindergarten Cop - PG-13 | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Total Recall - R | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Last Action Hero - PG-13 | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Raw Deal - R |
An Arnie movie I had never seen before? Sure I've always knew it was there but I had heard so many bad things about it over the years I never bothered with it.
WRONG! This is a typical 80's arnie movie and it's pretty damn good. If you've played GTA4 on the 360 or PS3 you'll see a lot of that game in this movie. The last 20 mins are a lot of fun when Arnie gets to kick some bad guy ass. There's even some classic Arnie one liners like this little gem- After his wife in the movie throws a cake at him in anger he responds by saying "You should not drink and bake" |
September 18, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Stay Hungry - R | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Conan the Destroyer - PG | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Commando - R | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Red Heat - R | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Junior - PG-13 | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Eraser - R | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| End of Days - R | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| American Zombie - Unrated | September 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Bubba Ho-Tep - R | September 14, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| The Black Hole - PG |
Some dodgy acting, some very iffy science behind the story, very dodgy special fx (you can see the wires... A LOT!) and a ending that will have you going 'HUH?'
BUT It's still pretty good and a childhood fave (I even used to have the Maximillian toy as a kid who I used to beat up Darth Vader *put evil laugh in here*) Talking of Maximillian, he's still pretty damn cool and evil looking and a highlight of the movie. Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens seem to take up a fair bit of screen time as robots V.I.N.CENT and Bob and although the voice work is great the effects suck with all those wires, This movie cost something like 20 million and even in 1979 this movie was already dated and unfinished looking for all that cash being spent on it. For all it's flaws though (and there are many) I still have a soft spot for it and a place for it in my dvd collection. Oh, the music... yea I love that:D |
September 13, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Black Hole - PG | September 13, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| True Lies - R |
It had been a long time since I had watched this movie and I forgot just how much fun it was. Probably one of swartzi's best movie. A great supporting cast and amazing set pieces.
I wish he had made another one of these along with Jamie Lee (who is ace in this). |
September 12, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The 39 Steps - PG | September 8, 2008 | N/A |
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