My Favorite Movies

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!!

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.

A powerfully gritty action movie, not for the faint of heart.

Justins Best Bit: Howards Saints just desserts.

Marvelouse, a spectacle of epic proportions.

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

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.

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!!!!!!!!!

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

An instant classic, not a frame wasted, fave bit is the mighty minigun.

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!

The Matrix was such a monumental and succesful film acheivement because it presented us with asuch an entertainingly origional plot that completely shattered the boundaries of reality.

The very idea that our entire universe is just a computer program just overshadows most other movies, because they are still trapped in "The Matrix".

There really are not words good enough to describe the coolness levels of this movie. It just oozes cool.

It takes a good deal of understanding, its not simple by any means. But perhaps the biggest question is, why the shit doesent anything like this ever happen to ME?!

Justins Best Bit: The brutal ball busting bullet ballet of the lobby scene

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.

The first real cinematic outing for the creators of south park remains their funniest by a country mile. The type of humor found here is totally unique and memorable.

Justins Best Bit: Too many to count

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.

This is brilliant movie making. Even though it is nearly impossible to reference to people about which one the bad guy is. The whole concept of a terrorist and an FBI agent switching faces and lives is great to watch. Seeing how the both cope living on the other side, and then facing eachother on either side of a mirror is just great. Also sporting an emotive and ironic ending, with loads upon loads of kick ass explosions, gun battles and personality.

Justins Best Bit: The showdown on the harbour.

One of the most iconic movies of its time, and easily the best Alien movie made to date. This is the home turf for all those quotes you hear like "How do I get outta this chicken shit outfit?? and "game over man, game over". The PC game Starcraft even lifted a handful of lines from this movie. ("Rough air ahead, we're in for some chop" "We're in the pipe, five by five")

The slien queen is a haunting doppleganger of puppet mastery that burns an image of its terryfying fram into your mind.

Its a fleshy, slimy, utterly enjoyable sci fi thriller and you cannot have a dvd collection without it.

Justins Best Bit: "Get away from here you bitch!!"

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".

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.

We certainly have come a long way from Adam West and the days of Zing! Blamph! and Pow! havent we?

The Dark Knight, thank Jesus, lives up to its hype. Then steps over its hype, squishes its hype, and kicks all its expectations to the curb. This is, by far, the best comic book movie ever made and rightfully the number one film to see this year. So lets run through just what makes this film such a massiv success....

First, the supporting actors. The choice to cast Micheal Cain as Alfred is a great one. Cain has the British charm to make him likeable, the discipline and experience as an actor to be beleivable, and enough youth left in him to not seem as though he's just a useless oddering old butler. The same can be said for Morgan Freeman, one of the best and most enjoyable to watch actors I've ever seen. He comes off as intelligent and useful, his likeable personality and genuine charm make him an asset to both Batman and the movie on a whole.

Maggie Gyllanhall makes for such a better Rachel Dawes than the annoyingly amatureish acting and child like looks of Katie Holmes. Where Holmes was blank and stale, Gyllanhall glows with emotion and heartfelt reaility. Such a good choice to switch them, if they hadnt been, this would have only gotten 4 1/2 stars. Lastly, Gary Oldman. Befre Batman, I never really thought that much of him. I had'nt seen many of his movies (Fifth Element anyone?) and to me he was just another one of those "successful but not really interested in" actors. After The Dark Knight I have a newfound respect for his talent and just how good it was to cast him in that role.

Now, here we go, the main course. Aaron Eckhart. Harvey Dent. Ive seen him in one pathetic romantic comedy and forgot about him soon after, but he seemed like the kind of guy who would do well in the right role. Harvey Dent is the right role. He's a nice guy, but only to nice people. Full of just causes and bearing a kind heart. Hes a man with a tough skin, but if that skin is broken, it will twist him to insanity. Eckhart portrays all this so well and its tough to think of anyone else with that perfect blend of "Nice but only takes a certain amount of shit"

As for Christian Bale as Bats, he has only improved. His deep and menacing "bat-voice" is such a marked improvement from the awefulness of George "stuck up his own arse" Cloony and Val "Shit" Kilmer. My only gripe is that, at times, he sounds a little too menacing for the things he is saying, but thats pretty minor. All in all he is without doubt the best Batman there has ever been. Whether Adam West and his tin of shark repellant is loved by all or not.

And now for the part youve been really waiting for. The clown, the laughing schitzo, The Joker. As far as I am concerned, Heath Ledger was not anywhere to be seen in this movie. There is no Heath to be found. Heath is not the Joker. The Joker is himself, and himself alone. A scary, dangerous, sadisticly malevolant basket case and when he speaks, its not Heath, it truly is The Joker you are watching and not an actor portaying him. He is one of the most truly unnerving characters of all time and I have never seen anything that even comes close to him. He is nuts, but he's smart. He is violent and rutheless, but indescrimenate. He has no motive, no real goals, no method, and no mind. He will probably go down in history as one of the best on screen characters of history. Rightly so. A joy and a spook to watch at the same time. Brilliant.

The Dark Knight excells in all other areas. The action and mayhem scenes were very well orchestrated. The films pace was superb, Putting the character focus, scene setting, action scenes and suprisingly excellent suspense scenes all in the right moments to keep you entertained the entire way though, which is a hard thing to do indeed.

In conclusion, you know the hype. Beleive it. Because this is one film that would be insane to miss. And if you dont want to see it, then why so serious?

Justins Best Bit: Its criminal to single out one scene as better than the others, but the "pencil dissapearance trick" will always have a special place in my heart.