| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizen Kane - PG | The result of giving Orson Wells an unlimited budget. One of the most phenomenally well crafted movies ever made. | December 4, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon - PG-13 |
I did like it, I really did. I've seen it twice now, once with the rabid teenagers at the theater and once alone. What I don't understand is the people saying this movie follows so closely to the book. I've read all four books at least twice and while this does fit into the overall outline of the book, there are LARGE chunks missing and odd things changed. I think for me the directorial style of Chris Weitz doesn't lend itself well to this series. Twilight had an overall ethereal feeling to it that raised it above the Teenage Harlequin with Vampires theme. The music, vocal and incidental were both modern and mystical. I think Stephanie Meyer said it best on her website when she said Weitz's style is more traditional. Traditional just doesn't work for this type of movie. I remember thinking that the heavy orchestral accompaniment was dragging the whole story and pace of the movie down.
However, the effects were GREAT! And I'm of the "I don't want to know how he put on those 30 lbs" club with Taylor but if I were 20 years younger, I'd be all about that poster on the wall, or ceiling... |
November 25, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Ninja Assassin - R | November 25, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Children of the Corn 4: The Gathering - Unrated | October 10, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - PG | Read the book. Really. If you later feel the need to see the special effects and yumminess that is Alan Rickman as Snape by all means watch the movie. But It just skims the surface of the actual story. | October 3, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Doctor Strange - PG-13 | Weeellllll.....It sort of kind of bore a passing resemblance to the comic. A bit too much "Batman Begins" there at the beginning. Not a riveting watch, but not too bad either. A good time filler. | September 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Surrogates - PG-13 | September 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Donnie Darko - R | This is every Emo kid's Citizen Kane. I'm probably out of the age range to truly grasp this concept, but I really couldn't take my eyes off it! It's fascinating in a Well Damn That's Freakish kind of way. One of those movies I'm sure would make much more sense after a good toke. ;D | September 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morě di sete!!!, (Andy Warhol's Dracula) - R | September 10, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Io non ho paura (I'm Not Scared) - R | September 10, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| X-Men Origins - Wolverine - PG-13 |
It didn't suck. I was told by a lot of my comic geek friends that it really sucked so I went in with very low expectations, but happily, it really wasn't awful. There were some REALLY great moments and some really "OMG WHY" moments. When I first saw Hugh Jackman wailing his greif over the dead body of his love interest in "Van Helsing" that was actually chilling. A bit less so, but believable in X-Men III. Doing it again in this one is just been there done that doesn't really mean much anymore.
Ryan Reynolds was severely underutilized. There are two lines taken by comics, one in which Deathpool doesn't speak, and one in which he is just a smart-assed run at the gob that you want to kill on a regular basis. Ryan Reynolds, as we saw in the first sequence was PERFECT for that Deathpool. They really should have stuck with that one. My biggest gripe about this movie, however is the character assasination perpetrated on Remi LeBeau (aka Gambit). Dude, if you're not going to do him right, leave him out. Remi is a deep-rooted, home-grown Cajun. To see him played as a smart assed card sharp with a vanilla midwestern accent and attitude was just...wrong in so many ways I can't even list them all here. I morn all future Marvel movies since they have been bought by The Evil Disney Empire. If this was what they're starting to put out before it even happens, I shudder to think how much worse it can get. |
September 8, 2009 | N/A | |||
| G-Force - PG | Nope, this one was just as stupid as it sounded. No surprises there. Very nice CGI, but that's about it. meh | September 8, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Up - PG | Oh, alright, I went into this thing wanting to hate it. It was a double feature at a Drive In and it just looked stupid on the comercial. Dammit all if I didn't end up really liking it. I was lead around by the nose like a six year old with a pixie stick and just didn't care. The story was contrived, crafted to scewer your sappy heart like a fresh kabob, I knew it, and I cried anyway. Either I'm getting old and hormonal or I have to admit this really is a good movie in spite of itself. grrrrr | September 8, 2009 | N/A | |||
| I Love You Beth Cooper - PG-13 | July 18, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Hangover - R | July 18, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Proposal - PG-13 | July 18, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Brüno (Bruno) - R | July 18, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Punisher: War Zone - R | Srsly, I read the comics so I knew this wasn't going to be kiddie friendly but DAYUM! I haven't seen that much gratuitous gore in a non-horror flick since Natrual Born Killers. There may have been a plot involved but I couldn't get past the chair leg through the guy's eye socket. ::ugh:: | July 3, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Public Enemies - R | July 2, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - PG-13 |
I would have thought they would have learned from the last movie to not put all that exposition and stupid teenage comedy stuff in. It's a comic with robots blowing stuff up. They really could have stood taking it back to the editing room and cutting out another 45 minutes. I respect that they at least tried to work the Matrix and Omega Prime (kinda) in between all the useless bits.
The robots blowing stuff up parts were really great though. :D |
June 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Star Trek - PG-13 |
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Complete, AU, OOC No disclaimer needed Pairings: Spock/Uhura Concrit welcome, no flames plz. Reviews are luv. I wish I was kidding. Some of the characterizations were fun, though. |
June 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Doctor Who - Unrated | I'm a Whovian from WAY back so when the series was cancelled in 89 I was STARVED for Who when 96 rolled around. Now granted this isn't any kind of great cinematic masterpiece, but I do think it was as WHO as a bunch of Americans could get. Paul McGann is actually one of my top 5 favorite Doctors because he made this incarnation so different and yet still The Doctor. It was refreshing to see the Doctor so free and full of life again. He got a bit dark as Seven. Weellll, I say dark I mean Semi-Machiavellian. It's a fun watch, I'd recommend it. :D NOT the Enhanced Version put out by the BBC though. Ran that throught a blender, they did. Awful mess. | June 16, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Frankenstein Unbound - R | I am really having a bad streak in horror flicks. I made the age old mistake of thinking "Hey, it's got John Hurt in it how bad can it be?" ::headdesk:: I get the over arching parallel of the morality play that is Frankenstein in both lead characters. The problem is they gave me nothing new. It's been told ad nauseum and much better without the time travel to meet fictional characters and shaggin Mary Shelly. I am beginning to lose hope. | April 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| HULK VS. - PG-13 |
This was just bleedin fun. Hulk vs. Thor not as much, but good in it's own way. But I would actually pay money to see the second feature vs. Wolverine. The characterizations were spot on, the art was very well done and the actors acted the hell out of the parts. A lot more respect given to performing an animiated comic movie than I've seen in a while. And yeah, they totally played Logan Canadian. LOLOL
My only complaint, and it's really not a complaint, more of a OH GEEZ, REALLY?! Is the ending. It's good, but ya kind of want to kick the guys at Marvel at the same time. |
April 25, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Champ - Unrated | April 23, 2009 | N/A |
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