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| Movie: | Oldboy, Dawn of the Dead (original), The Quick & The Dead, Goonies, The Killer, Crying Fist, Batman, Ong-Bak, A History of Violence, Happy Gilmore, John Q, Predator 1 & 2, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Aliens, Hard Target, Land of the Dead, Shaolin Soccer, Blade, Save The Green Planet, Bourne Identity & Supremacy, Evil Aliens, Inside Man, Hard Boiled, Battle Royale, Evil Dead Trilogy, Batman Returns, Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Hostage, Run Lola Run, Bubba Ho-Tep, Falling Down, The Departed |
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| Actor: | Chow Yun-Fat, Bruce Campbell, Ha-Kyun Shin, Peter Falk, Denzel Washington, Matt Damon, Michael Keaton |
| Director: | Sam Raimi, Chan Wook Park, George A. Romero, Neil Marshall |
| Quote: | Groovy! - Ash (Evil Dead 2) |
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Well, my DVD collection consists of mostly World Cinema - Asian, French, Russian - I love escaping from the world of Hollywood with its constant sequels, prequels and remakes and discovering what the rest of the world has to offer. When I'm not obsessing over Emily Booth *drool* or Bruce Campbell (Hail To The King!), I'm writing short fiction, reading or working. Genres I'm not keen on are chick flicks, westerns, war movies and romance although I have probably seen a few I enjoyed.
MORE MOVIES I LIKE! Brotherhood of the Wolf, Inferno, City Hunter, Batman Begins, A Better Tomorrow, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, God of Gamblers, Blues Brothers, Brotherhood of War [taegukgi], Office Space, Returner, Lucky Number Slevin, Ring Trilogy (Japanese), 300, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Miracles, Fist of Legend, The Matrix (Only Part 1), Night Watch, Guyver: Dark Hero, Police Story 1 & 2, New Police Story, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Lethal Weapon Quadrilogy, Face/Off, Die Hard Quadrilogy, Underworld Evolution, Sin City, 16 Blocks, Unleashed, X-Men 1 & 2, The Thing, Born To Fight, The Untouchables, Zoolander, Dragons Forever, Brothers Grimm, XXX2, The Talented Mr. Ripley, V For Vendetta, Constantine, 28 Weeks Later, Equilibrium, Mean Machine, Silent Hill, Taxi Trilogy (French), Walking Tall, The Transporter, Kiss of the Dragon, Amelie, Kung Fu Hustle, Avalon, Beetlejuice, Starship Troopers, Enemy At The Gates, Running Scared, Behind Enemy Lines, A Night At The Roxbury, Drive, The Siege, War of the Worlds (new), Blast From The Past, Tremors 1 & 2, Four Brothers, Lady Vengeance, The Bone Collector, Sleepy Hollow, Freddy vs Jason, The Warrior King, Joint Security Area, Crying Freeman, Welcome To The Jungle, Winners & Sinners ANIME I LIKE Azumanga Daioh, Ninja Scroll, Gunslinger Girl, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Dragon Half, Kiki's Delivery Service, Streetfighter II, Princess Mononoke, Ghost In The Shell 1st & 2nd GIG, Steamboy, Ninja Scroll: TV Series, My Neighbor Totoro, Dominion Tank Police, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (CGI), Howls Moving Castle, Laputa: Castle In The Sky, Mezzo, Rurouni Kenshi/Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, Spirited Away DO NOT ADD ME AS A FRIEND IF: 1) Your profile is filled with widgets, they slow my PC down like hell and sometimes cause my Internet Explorer to close. 2) You don't have a profile - make an effort. 3) We're not 'Causual Buddies' or higher - also if you have reviewed only ONE film and it makes us a 60% match - it doesn't count, review more. |
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Alone in the Dark
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Perhaps Bolls' only decent film, although having never played the games I can't compare them. Carnby (Slater) is a paranormal investigator searching for clues to his past while keeping steps ahead of those trying to stop him. B-movie territory with Slater doing martial arts, Dorff playing his ex-boss and some pretty awesome (in my opinion) CGI creatures to boot.
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Evil Dead 2
R
Many think when watching this that Ash returns to the cabin but it is not so. The rushed beginning is just a recap of the first film. The reason only he and his girlfriend appear in it is because the other actors didn't want to do the sequel. The film properly starts with Ash being possessed by the spirit like the first film ends. This film mixes some humour in and creates a slapstick approach to the horror but carries it off. The laughing cabin, the spirit chasing Ash around the cabin and even beating himself up - it's all pulled-off in a ludricously great fashion but the blood comes by the barrel-load when the relative of the cabins' owner comes to visit and then the gore begins. Awesome sequel.
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The Evil Dead
NC-17
Awesome start of a B-Movie trilogy starring the Man With The Golden Chin aka Bruce Campbell. Directed by Sam Raimi, who went onto direct the Spider-Man Trilogy, the film was made by a group of friends with local funding and it inspired many film-makers. A low budget gorefest, Evil Dead tells the tale of friends who go to a cabin for the weekend only to awake the spirits living in the woods These spirits possess the teens, using their chosen host to kill the others. Brilliant movie. After reading Bruce's book 'If Chins Could Kill', I got a great behind-the-scenes look on this film and the general making-of and how depite the low budget, certain parts were acheived, which made it more fun to watch. It's a classic piece of horror history and still stands the test of time. Oh, my copy happened to be the special version in the form of the 'Book of the Dead' and I would highly reccomend it. If not for the sponge-like cover or the Necronomicon artwork gracing the pages (the DVD insides are like a book) then the free movie you get! Yes, you get a free copy of 'Running Time' inside the 'book'. Best £7 I have EVER spent!
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Army of Darkness
R
Set in a different time than the other two, the tormented hero finds miself captured by knights who believe he is the Chosen One that'll bring an end to the Deadite threat but unwittingly unleashes the army of the dead led by his evil twin! Cue hilarious exploding skeletons, brilliant one-liners and the best ending to any trilogy, or possibly any film! Any wonder why this series will go down in history! Hail to the king baby!
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Battle Royale (Batoru Rowaiaru)
Unrated
Japanese cult-classic with cult icon Takashi Kitano playing the dark-humoured teacher of the ill-fated class. Delinquents are about to be taught a harsh lesson for their behaviour: kill or be killed. There can only be one survivor and a remote island is their playground. Friends soon turn to foes, lovers hang each other and the killings begin all the while a countdown ticks down. In order to prevent escapees everyone is fitted with an explosive necklace that detonate in certain areas, if took off or if there's more than one survivor. An awesome film and an instant must-see. Could you kill your best friend?
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
PG-13
I've always been a big Chow Yun-Fat fan, A Better Tomorrow made him my favourite Asian actor and I've followed his films from Hard Boiled and The Killer to God of Gamblers and Tiger on the Beat. However, one thing in movies I've never been a big fan of is wire-fu. Jet Li annoys me so much with his constant defiance of gravity - I like my martial artists to have solid fights without the trickery so I can see what they're really capable of. So I was torn when I heard of this film - Chow Yun-Fat and wire-fu but despite my sense of dread, it played out perfectly. This is miles ahead of the likes of Hero and House of Flying Daggers, sure this has the odd flying scene but nothing compared to the others and the action scenes are top-notch, Chow showing he's not only capable with guns. This is the best wire-fu film ever!
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Dog Soldiers
R
Neil Marshall (The Descent) rips up the screen with this brilliant Brit horror where British soldiers on a training exercise find themselves the target of a pack of werewolves who have laid waste to most of the other team and find themselves holed up in a cottage awaiting their fate. Football jokes, blood and guts and a hilarious kitchen punch-out - best Brit horror ever!
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The Midnight Meat Train
by Khrisposted 2 days ago -
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The Midnight Meat Train
by CreepI was loving this movie in the beginning. Everything, from the great acting to the dark, dreaded atmosphere, grabbed a sudden hold of me. It wasn't even the gore that excited me really. The gore(the blood actually) looked too animated and stylized, and it did't much impress me. It's not that CGI gore is lame to me, it's just that the feel of The Midnight Meat Train, at least to me, was quite realistic. I give all credit to the acting for making me feel that way, which is a good thing. Perhaps the use of more latex or more actual blood syrup would have had a bigger affect on me. What I'm saying is, the use of more realism in the kills would have shocked me more. All in all, the gore was pretty cool, just not the main highlight for me in this particular film. And also, the thing about The Midnight Meat Train being "insanely gory", I have to disagree on that one. I can't see why people are saying this is so frigging gory. It's not really that much of a bloodbath at all. Good use of violence, but definitely not the continuous, non-stop gore that I've been reading about. Graphic, but not too graphic...still, not a big deal.
Back to the beginning, as I was saying about the great atmosphere and terrific acting, and also along with an intriguing storyline and some nifty camera work, The Midnight Meat Train definitely had my eyes glued. I loved Ryuhei Kitamura's Azumi, so I sort of had this feeling that I wouldn't be let down from the very beginning. Great style he uses in all his films.
Okay, here's the bad part...
About 30-40 minutes into the film everything fu*king fell apart. The acting became weak and the characters became emotionless. I know it sounds insane, but I kid you not. The acting went from great, to fu*king sleepy and boring. It's like the actors weren't even trying to act like the "original" characters anymore, and I don't know if it's because the script started getting bad or what, but the dialogue started getting silly and pretty corny. Almost like the director wasn't telling the actors exactly what to do anymore. I swear, it was freaking weird. Everything just became weak, at least in comparison to the whole fu*king beginning of the film. And like I said, the dialogue became pretty corny. The responses the characters were giving in scenes just became too typical, simple, and very predictable. Why?? The dialogue seemed so sharp and intelligent in the beginning. Did the director loose the last 60 pages of the script or something?(sarcasm of course) Even the two main characters who are dating, suddenly and completely loose their chemistry. They have this one scene when the main photographer has an emotional meltdown with his girlfriend about taking pictures of "happy" things. It was such a disgrace. What a ridiculous scene. At first I was convinced they truly loved each other, and then at that particular scene they "acted" like they loved each other. Yes people, there is a big difference. Bad performances come from actors who look like their trying so damn hard to act good. It becomes obvious to the point where it's laughable. In that scene in The Midnight Meat Train, they were trying soooooooooo hard to be torn by their issues and show their love for each other, that it became way too silly. Their acting skills went out the fu*king window and it looked more like they were auditioning for a bad high school soap opera. I only point out this one scene because that's the exact point, if I remember correctly, that the movie started to go down hill. I have no problem with bad acting in horror films, trust me, that's not the real issue. It's just that it didn't fit the film...at all. Everything in Midnight Meat Train was going at a certain pace, and great acting was part of that. And then BAMN!...you suddenly get bad acting in the middle(and continuing the whole time from there) and now you get a whole new movie. Just didn't fit well.
Things get worse...
Scenes started to drag out for a long time. My mind started drifting off to other things at those points. I was no longer focused on the movie. It was like the director finished the whole film, realized that it was too short, then went back for reshoots to fill in some more running time(I'm sure that didn't happen, but I swear I wouldn't be surprised if it did).
The camera work started to get a bit sloppy. And I'll say this again, only in comparison to the beginning of the film, is why I complaining about this. The filmmaking was top notch in the beginning, Slick and wise angles, shot choices and camera movements, as well as nice cinematography. Then later on, everything kind of became flat. It just didn't feel like the same movie. It all got a little dull and sloppy. Nothing fit well to me!(at least in my eyes) Did the DP take a bottle of sleeping pills? Maybe. Or maybe the whole damn crew just fell asleep on the set. Again, if you read my other reviews, sloppy movies don't turn me off DEPENDING on the film's overall tone. The Midnight Meat Train did not start like this, and I can pretty much bet they didn't want a half-ass horror film. Ryuhei Kitamura is known for using unique and amazing styles in his movies. I just don't know what happened! And this is actually a great way to explain the whole thing!...It felt like, and I seriously mean this, it felt like they simply ran out of money in the middle of filming. Like lots and lots of money. Everything after a certain point just felt cheap and rushed into.
Now...The worst thing about The Midnight Meat Train was the whole ending! The whole 15 minute crappy ending that capped it all off. Just when I thought it wouldn't get any worse. I always said Clive Barker came up with some truly amazing stories...I guess now I can also say some crappy ass endings. The film went from being a serious, intense horror thriller, to a movie about a heroic man jumping on trains like superman and fighting supernatural goblins in a tunnel. Yes, that might sound cool...but it just didn't fit well. The movie seemed to have gotten lost in it's own story, got tangled in a mess, and spun out of control. It was like a horror movie with manic disorders. Constantly up and down and all over the place. I seriously was so psyched about seeing this movie too. What a huge disappointment. My rating on The Midnight Meat Train is for the beginning part of the film only. I give it credit for having a good and interesting start.
Just my opinion. Many people do like this movie, and you might as well. You might want to give it a look.Wasn't really a fan of this at all. Very disappointed. But you still might want to give it a try.
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Feast II: Sloppy Seconds
by CreepI'm not missing the point with Feast 2. I get it completely. John Gulager directed Feast 2 bad purposely, with plenty of outrageous raunchiness, loads of cheap gore, and silly little kid toilet humor. The fact is he failed at being stupid. There are many good horror films that don't take themselves seriously, most on a shoestring budget, but plenty of them still don't fail to entertain. The trick to a silly cheap B horror movie, in which nothing is taken seriously, is to actually be funny. If you're going to tell a joke, make sure it's a funny joke. Same with this, in terms of filmmaking, especially with cheap horror films. If the movie is meant to be a joke, than the movie should be fu*king funny. Nothing about Feast 2 was the least bit funny. It was like a 12 year old had written the script, and was the only one who was amused by his jokes. Now that I mentioned this, and also looking back on the film, that's exactly what it was like. The film seemed to be just one long "inside" joke, that was personal to the director, or maybe even some of his filming buddies. Too bad I wasn't hanging with them to laugh also, then maybe I would've enjoyed the film better. So I correct myself...I really didn't get the point of this film, because I just didn't get the joke.
It's to bad too, cause Feast 1 was a great little horror film. Feast 1 was also produced by some big names who are truly familiar with the horror genre, one being Wes Craven, who had nothing to do at all with Feast 2. It's starting to make me think how much pull Craven actually had the first time around. Think about it...Maybe him and a few other professionals stopped most from falling into John Gulager's hands, saving Feast 1 from becoming a complete disaster. Where are your buddies when you really need them, huh? Oh well...let's wait and see if his upcoming film Feast 3: The Happy Finish can tell a better joke. Perhaps John Gulager isn't such a hack after all...but highly doubt it.
On the plus side, the one good thing about this movie were the closing credits. Just skip to that part and save some time!
Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds...sloppy movie...sloppy everything.Not funny in the "good" sense...actually it's not funny in any sense. It's just pretty stupid in the stupid sense.
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Mirrors
by CreepA huge disappointment, and a huge sloppy mess in filmmaking. Does not feel like a Alexandre Aja film at all. As I figured, it was more just like a stupid "Grudge" film with 2 lame gory scenes thrown into the mix. Nothing about this film was even remotely scary. Just tame, silly, and boring. Without the blood, Mirrors is just like another crappy PG-13 horror movie. Such a shame, this could have been something special. I pray that Alexandre Aja comes back hard with his next horror film. Up until now he was one of my new favorite horror directors. It just seemed like he was trying to prove something with this film. As if he was trying to show people that he can tackle any kind of formula in the horror department and make something good of it. Well he can't! Alexandre needs to stick to what he's good at...and that would be the sick shit. The vile and disgusting display of violence he always portrayed that put his name on top of the genre in first place. I'm not saying that a horror movie without the graphic blood is bad, and if done right Mirrors could have been great, but this element really just isn't Alexandre's cup of tea. He proved that once with Mirrors, I'm just hoping he doesn't prove that again.
I hope Alexandre Aja was just joking with this film...or maybe he was just sick with the flu.
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Child's Play
by Danielle"When you're feeling down or feeling blue
A Good Guy will always be there for you!"
Chucky is a Good Guy, a line of dolls based on a popular children's cartoon, or perhaps the other way around. This particular Good Guy came to be alive when notorious killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) was pursued by an incompetent police officer named Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) into a toy store, whereupon Charles Lee Ray was mortally wounded and, before his death, transferred his soul into the nearest item the aforesaid Good Guy doll. It's Andy's birthday, and he really wants a Good Guy, a near life-size talking doll. All Good Guys have their own names and respond to certain commands- they're like precursors to Furbies. Unfortunately, Andy's mother, Karen (Catherine Hicks), can't afford this expensive toy. Fate intervenes when she meets a peddler who sells her a Good Guy at a cut rate. While Child's Play is first and foremost a horror movie, there are enough elements of mystery and satire to help it rise above the genre. As the nominal hero and heroine, Sarandon and Hicks bring a nice level of human foible to their roles; they're not superheroes, and their encounters with the wicked doll are played with a kind of graceful absurdity that's as charming as it is nerve-wracking. As 6-year-old Andy, Alex Vincent is very good. His performance is natural, not too cloying and not too knowing. Chucky, looking like the in-bred cousin of the "My Buddy" dolls briefly popular in the mid-'80s, Chucky's big blue eyes and toothy overbite are creepy enough on their own and nightmarish when the monster inside the plastic takes over.
Chucky: "Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?"
Dourif is a talented character actor with a resumé that includes a range from award-winning classics to bottom-scraping drek. He's perfect as the voice of the foul-mouthed, nasty, punk-ass Chucky, whose leering, low-rent sadism makes him the white trash answer to Dr. Phibes. Child's Play is a solid scary movie.Hey, you should really see this!
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Death Race
by KhrisCarmageddon fans rejoice!!!!!! Our movie has arrived. And better this than some trashy game to movie adaptation.
There is a real clear cut story behind this which propels it pretty fast... everyone's favourite non-hollywood star Jason Statham does it again with this steel tough thriller. Alongside a cast which also happens to have some of the nastiest prison figures you'll see on the screen.
Of course, you watch this baby for the thrills and spills!!! this is hardcore action baby!!! I never enjoyed a driving movie as much as this in a long while, and it delivers.
Buckle your seat belt and hold on to your hats for this one folkes!! Its a killer.
Emphasis on "killer".Hey, you should really see this!
posted 13 days ago -
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The Fall
by ElisaWeird and wonderful, The Fall is nothing short of a contemporary The Wizard of Oz, a hypnotic and intoxicating tale of ravishing beauty and spellbinding imagination.
Films about children and films made for them are not always synonymous, but they often address the same subjects: imagination and the bold force of storytelling. "Pan's Labyrinth" is among the most rapturously disturbing movies of the first type; "The Princess Bride" is among the most enchanting of the second. "The Fall" falls somewhere between the two. There is death and violence and terrible sadness, but it's also rich in ideas and humanity, and it reminds us that fiction is real to the one who imagines it.
Haters of fantasy and tearjerked drama might have some trouble with "The Fall", but if you take it for what it is -- if you swallow both genres whole -- the film becomes something close to allegory. It's a fiction within a fiction about the curative power, and possessive lure, of fiction. Who owns a tale? The one who tells it, or the one who listens? --"It's my story," Roy says. "Mine, too," replies Alexandria. -- Both become invested in the telling. And by the credits, so had I.
"The Fall" is wholly beguiling, an utterly transportive piece of filmmaking as dazzling in its visual audacity as it is in its spartan simplicity. It stole the breath from my lungs and coaxed tears from my eyes, a true work of art and one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen.Hey, you should really see this!
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Slums of Beverly Hills
by DanielleThe story of Vivian (Natasha Lyonne), a 14-year-old girl with an ever expanding bustline and Viv's father Murray (Alan Arkin) who moves his family (including Viv and her two brothers) every few weeks, jumping rent but staying in Beverly Hills because it's got "good schools." Lyonne is exceptional as Viv. She's sweet and sometimes endearing. She's the movie's lynchpin, and she's up to the task. The characters of Slums may seem overly quirky. No one in the film is normal. But therein lies the value of family. No matter how crazy you get, how far your luck has fallen, family is the home that is always there. That is the reward for the challenge of it all. So we fight, and we yell, and we do it because we have something invested in our families, ourselves.
Murray Samuel Abromowitz: "Who the hell is that on your shirt?
Eliot: Charles Manson, sir.
Murray Samuel Abromowitz: Okay...
[to family]
Murray Samuel Abromowitz: Your sister gets the bedroom."
What Slums of Beverly Hills lacks in cohesiveness, it makes up for in schmaltz and spirit. Hence, its more sentient moments are rarely obscured. This despite a gaggle of offbeat characters, an unusual brand of sexual frankness that flirts on the fringes of titillation, and a circus-like style of plot exposition. Many times, films that combine comedy and drama do so in an uncomfortable and unwieldy manner. In Slums of Beverly Hills, the approach is natural and satisfying.Hey, you should really see this!
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Tapeheads
by DanielleIvan and Josh have grown up together, playing ball and being co-named the most likely to succeed. But, they haven't succeeded, by their standards - not yet. They leave their jobs as security guards after getting caught having and videotaping a party on the premises. Videotaping, it seems, has always been a hobby. Josh, in particular, has an eye for the most up-to-date, cheesy 80s effects that could be generated at the time. Josh is the talent, and Ivan is the manager of the operation. They luck into sharing a loft free of rent and put out their shingle for Video Aces. Their goal is to make music videos, but along the way they find various other jobs, from videotaping living wills to capturing the happenings of local political events. Their big break comes when a band they have taped is killed in a most unlikely way. The video they made is aired in remembrance, bringing them attention and acclaim. They want to use their new power for good, helping boyhood music idols find the fame they richly deserve. Before they can enjoy the success, though, they must tie up some loose ends.
Mo Fuzz: "All good things come in threes.
Josh Tager: It's not good things. It's celebrity deaths that come in threes."
Cusack and Robbins are delightful as Ivan and Josh. Cusack reminds us why he is one of the funniest and quirkiest actors in movies today. With his pencil-thin moustache and slicked-back hairstyle, he's like a cheap version of John Waters. His character is set in his own little world, trying hard to achieve respect that will never come, at least not with that moustache. Robbins plays a more geeky character who is shy and meek, but has a rip-roaring streak in him. Robbins has shown that he has the stuff of great comedy.Hey, you should really see this!
posted 22 days ago -
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Your Friends & Neighbors
by DanielleLaBute paints a picture of personal selfishness and unsettling personallites in this film. He really gives you the impression you are spying on these peoples lives and it's as interesting as it is unsettling. The main characters in this play are the married couple Mary and Barry, and their old friends Terri and Jerry who are living together. The names might sound a little silly, but in actual fact their names are never mentioned anywhere in the entire film anyway. You only see them in the credits, so it doesn't really matter. Mary is played by Amy Brenneman and her husband Barry is played by Aaron Eckhart. These two have settled into their lives, physically settled in fact. He's gained weight, wears whatever she says to wear, and they almost certainly drive a mini-van, though you never see them do so. They have basically no remaining sex life whatsoever, and he can pretty much only get satisfaction via masturbation, failing to rise to any other occasion. She is needy beyond belief and living in a 60-cycle hum sort of rut. Their friends Jerry, played by Ben Stiller and Terri, played by Catherine Keener, are one of those couples that you can't imagine ever got together. He's a professor who teaches acting, loves Shakespeare, and can't stop analyzing their relationship in great detail. She's pretty much an ice queen who can't stand his talking, in bed most of all. They are coming apart at the seams, and their sex life is completely on the blink as well, consisting mostly of grudge sex. During a visit after a yearlong break, Jerry and Terri come over for dinner. As they are getting ready to leave, Jerry comes on to Mary, telling her that he has thought about her continuously for the last year and that he wants to see her. After a little resistance, Mary allows that she has thought about him as well and they arrange to meet. This meeting begins the spiraling crash of all of the relationships involved, with much loathsome and pathetic events along the way. Another player in the game is Cary, played by Jason Patric. Cary obviously has some sort of double reverse Oedipus Complex. He is extremely vindictive towards woman, a reptilian sort of predator who, in his own mind at least, is protecting manhood against the slings and arrows of female treachery. He is an old friend of Jerry and Barry's, and his character is one of the most interesting of all. He is cold and calculating to a fault. He does things like practice his sexual patter, record it, then review it later to figure out how to make it more effective. In a strange way though, he is like an animal or reptile, in that emotion doesn't enter into the equation. He kills only for food so to speak.
Barry: "I just think for right now, we need to treat each other like... meat. Right? Didn't we read that? You need to see me as a - a big - a penis. And you need to be just this huge vagina... to me."
It is provocative, contraversal, demanding, and even a little bit of guilty fun, it develops each cahracter to it's fullest extent. All the characters are sick demented freaks, but they think they are good people. While flawed, the female characters in this film are far stronger and more humane than their male counterparts. Except for its misfired ending, Your Friends and Neighbors is a compelling piece of work from an expert provocateur.Hey, you should really see this!
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Which character do you like most from Samurai Champloo?posted 26 days ago -
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2)
by IainDefinitely on a par with the original movie, Del Toro scores another hit which is probably tied with Dark Knight for second place in the best summer movies category. Ron Perlman puts in another top notch performance as Hellboy, and Selma Blair is given more time as his girlfriend. The movie belongs to Luke Goss, as the evil prince, Doug Jones as the Merman and Seth MacFarlane as the voice of the German smoke-man.
Hey, you should DEFINITELY see this! This is by far one of the better movies of the summer.
posted 34 days ago -
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Doomsday
by CreepNot for everyone, but I liked it. Crazy, enjoyable, bloody entertainment. It's a movie that I feel is great for a one time viewing only. I'm sure I'll forget about this film in a year from now, but it was good while it lasted. It entertained, and that's good enough for me. I wasn't expecting nothing else from Neil Marshall. Before seeing this, and judging mostly from his movie Dog Soldiers, I knew once again I was going to be treated for more mindless fun, over the top action, and gory mayhem. Well done!
You should see this. Good way to kill 113 minutes.
posted 36 days ago -
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Pump up the Volume
by KhrisThis was an excellent movie!!!!!
The ultimate teenage rebellion, angst and outspoken movie ever. Forget American Pie and all those other poser teen movies, this is the definitive rebel yell from one of the most rebellious Hollywood stars.
You have to love the soundtrack to the movie, it rocks hardcore. And so does the local pirate DJ, who happens to be a discreet, shy teen suffering in the prison which his life has become, and opens his mind and attitude to others in a literal "call to arms" to take back their lives, their identity, against a totalitarian school bent on eradicating their very souls.
Its a hard hitting, yet funny look at the repressed teens of our society and the unity of kids against their school, parents and government for limiting them, turning them into the opposites of what they really feel, what they really want.
Cause in the end, as the message goes, to be a teenager, to have a life, to have your own mind, to have an open minded education, to have the ability to think for yourself.... its a God given right to be YOU.
ENJOY!TALK HARD!!!
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Tin Man
by DanielleD.G. (Zooey Deschanel) knows that something's wrong in her life. This waitressing job, living on the farm with her parents, this isn't her. One night, a great tornado hits the farm and, in the confusion, her parents start acting scarily strange. They demand she jump off of the roof and into the tornado. With her faith in their love guiding her, she leaps into the storm and is suddenly transported to a strange land full of magic, munchkins, and robots. This is the Outer Zone, or The O.Z., for short. Before she can begin to understand where she is, or even grieve her parents, she must run for her life from a battalion of black-clad police working for the evil Queen Azkadellia (Kathleen Robertson). In eluding her hunters, D.G. meets Glitch (Alan Cumming), a flailing, brainless fugitive, Cain (Neal McDonough), a heartless but dedicated Tin Man and Raw (Raoul Trujillo), a cowardly lion-like creature. In their travels to see the wondrous Mystic Man (Richard Dreyfuss), each realizes that they have more inside them than they ever thought possible, and that D.G.'s childhood dreams of princesses and fairy tale kingdoms are more memory than fantasy. Deschanel's wide-eyed naïvety works for a little while but conflicts with the sassy new Dorothy and feels insincere, especially after D.G. discovers her origin and powers. Dreyfuss is a weird choice in the wizard role. He hams it up the way he's supposed to. McDonough does his best Henry Fonda as the titular Tin Man but, while the anachronism of the western sheriff is intentional, it really does feel out of place in the vaguely futuristic land. Kathleen Robinson is fine as the evil queen. Tin Man captures the original dark tone of Baum's tales.
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