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| Get Smart (2008) |
| 2008-07-11 16:41:03 |
This was a very amusing spy spoof. Director Peter Segal and his writers executed a film which is very much in the spirit of the original TV series. The cast “chemistry” was good. Since much of the film was filled with the usual movie material of today, chemistry and good quips were important elements. There [...]...
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| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
| 2008-07-11 04:32:02 |
Brain voyage!
Distorted memories, deja vu on high gear and a confused, struggling hero. Michel Gondry’s movie takes us into our inner sanctum and shows that is the very place where one can live one’s finest hour.
There are only a few movies, which could speak to people’s hearts intimately without being corny. Among the [...]...
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| The Shining(1980) |
| 2008-07-04 07:35:28 |
The shining- On the ‘axe’s’ edge!
Stanley Kubrick demonstrates how horror and terror can be carved on a screen, in his 1980 film The Shining. Based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King ‘The Shining’ proves to be a horror Avant-garde. At the same time it vividly states that blood and gore which [...]...
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| Wanted (2008) |
| 2008-07-03 00:10:43 |
Although I didn’t like some aspects of this film, I gave it a decent grade, based on the stunts, exciting sequences, editing, special effects, sound track and some twists. I thought the director & team did well in these areas. I thought the fundamental concept driving this film attempted absurdly to propose that there existed a ”super-hero” character latent [...]...
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| Happening (2008) |
| 2008-06-26 00:43:49 |
This movie is saved from disaster primarily because it had good music accompanying the action and because the photography had a moody beauty. The latter effect was due to the suggestive, portentious and lyrical quality of wind blowing through trees and grass, as well as the good composition of people suddenly becoming “planted.” Therefore, both [...]...
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| The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
| 2008-06-25 00:03:27 |
Well directed and edited, this was a film that seemed to be more than it actually is. One can be mesmerized by the special effects, as well as the frequent and often lengthy chases and general strifing. The music, sound effects (often some kind of shooting firearm), and roar of the Hulk (Ferrigno’s voice) all [...]...
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| Kung Fu Panda (2008) |
| 2008-06-18 01:47:30 |
This was an amusing movie. I liked it. It blends a warm Disney animated film product with elements of matial arts spoof and homage. This being “today,” there are a lot of “sitcom” style quipping of the type found frequently on television series. There is an essential element within this story which reminds one of [...]...
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| The Strangers (2008) |
| 2008-06-04 23:31:03 |
This is a curious film. The director/writer Bertino seems almost to challenge the moviegoer. It begins by shots of pedestrian matters, houses and so. There is both printed material and narration to set the basic subject of the movie. There can hardly be anyone who doesn’t understand right off that the film is going to focus [...]...
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| Indiana Jones:Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
| 2008-05-28 19:00:59 |
This film opens with a prairie dog climbing out of its hole to look around. Promptly, it is almost decapitated by some young folks on a wild joy ride in a flat, jejune plain. So it goes in this enjoyable movie. From beginning to end there are many variations of human strifing and nick-of-time escapes. There is [...]...
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| Kingdom of the Crystal Skull(2008) |
| 2008-05-27 09:27:46 |
Indiana Jones 4 - Adventurous travelogue
17 years ago, the third movie in the Indiana Jones series was released. Ever since then nobody has seen Mr.Jones or his comrades except in the American television series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles which was broadcasted from 1992 to 1993. Now, this summer, Steven Spielbergh comes forward with the [...]...
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| Scarface(1983) |
| 2008-05-22 11:34:12 |
Scarface- A flamboyant tragedy!
A year after ‘Blow Out’, Brian De Palma loosely remakes the 1932 film of the same name and this time his script is penned by Oliver Stone. Al Pacino and Steven Bauer play the leads of this passionate but powerful movie. With a historical background, the life of Tony Montana, a [...]...
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| The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
| 2008-05-21 21:13:31 |
The overt tale is of a happy land whose merry, motley denizens must now dwell in fear and hide, due to the oppressive rule of the Telmarines. A Prince Caspian (Barnes) becomes endangered by his Telmarine guardian and flees, but well-tutored, in the alleged safety of the forest he sounds his horn, summoning the mythic [...]...
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| Sexy Beast (2000) |
| 2008-05-14 14:59:48 |
Sexy as well as skanky!
‘Films or commercials, Whatever you do, do it in style’, seems to be the motto of Jonathan Glazer who has directed this Sexy Beast written by Louis Mellis&David Scinto. We admire this Pocket sized dynamite as soon as we see it, we are awe-struck when its [...]...
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| Speed Racer (2008) |
| 2008-05-14 12:39:56 |
This is an extraordinary blend of video styles. I thought that it was brilliantly singular and enjoyed watching it. However, because it is stylized, it may not be for everyone. For me many of the racing scenes were like “good” psychodelic trips (as I would imagine such to be). The special effects were fantastic and [...]...
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| 28 Days Later… (2002) |
| 2008-05-08 04:56:12 |
Anarchy in the UK
Waking up in an empty hospital, realising everybody is missing from an otherwise teeming metropolis. Shocking, isn’t it? But it will be even more frightening when the streets are filled with people again.
28 Days Later… opens with a short sequence, where animal right activists let loose a few chimps, subjects to experiments [...]...
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| Die Hard 4.0 (2007) |
| 2008-05-08 02:37:12 |
The big daddy is back again, this time banging his way against Virtual-terrorism. The master cook has presented us a costly sandwich which contains action spread in both the slices. The movie begins in action,progresses in action action and climaxes in action action action. But this time the action gamer uses a computer geek as [...]...
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| Ocean’s Thirteen (2007) |
| 2008-05-08 02:27:41 |
Danny Ocean’s crew walks in this time earmarking another casino but with a different incitement altogether. The master gang-leader behind this plot, director Steven Soderbergh hits the bulls eye for the third time supported by his same old financier Jerry Weintraub and sets the cash registers ringing at the box office. The writers Brian Koppelman [...]...
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| Iron Man (2008) |
| 2008-05-07 23:48:15 |
This flick turned out to be fun. For a modern film it is relatively tame. There is some violence. It is a hyper-sizzle sort of movie. The special effects lead the way. There are significant chunks of filmtime which are devoted to rendering Robert Downey, Jr., in hightech construction, or tinkering, or ordering his computer-robot [...]...
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| Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
| 2008-05-07 13:09:41 |
The Potter boy is back to school this year with the book named “Order of the Phoenix“. This time his megaphone is wielded by David Yates and he is worthy to be given jubilation. Unlike the screenplays of some previous Harry Potter movies, this one travels fast and fastens our psyche. Daniel Radcliffe has the [...]...
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| Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
| 2008-04-29 23:55:12 |
This is an episodic comedy about best friends trying to capture the hearts of their respective dream girls. This last aspect is literal AND metaphorical, as both “Harold” (Cho) and “Kumar” (Penn) each have two or three fantasy scenes with the ones they love. Harold wants “Maria” (Garces), and Kumar moons over “Vanessa” (D.Harris). For these lads there [...]...
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| Dead Poets Society (1989) |
| 2008-04-27 13:08:50 |
Oh Captain, my captain
Poetry, youth and Robin Williams without excessive jokes in a quiet, quite reserved manner.
A new class is beginning its term at Welton Academy, in a traditional and very highly regarded school for boys. This institution has its own rules, the four pillars of which are tradition, honor, discipline and excellence. In other [...]...
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| Into the Wild (2007) |
| 2008-04-26 04:30:09 |
Stripped all but pride
A young American man, aged 23, leaves behind everything: modern society and all that what society itself could give to him. He begins his own adventure into the wild. He does it without the gifts of modern day appliances, apart from his rifle and a few books.
Who is this young man? He [...]...
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| The Bank Job (2008) |
| 2008-04-25 22:16:19 |
This is an adult, satiric melodrama. The production team had good fun with a story which is alleged to be based on factual events involving a 1971 London bank robbery. If this story–in its broadest sense–is anywhere near being accurate, then it would tend to confirm George Lord Gordon’s comment that truth is stranger than fiction. The story [...]...
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| 88 Minutes (2007) |
| 2008-04-23 21:36:25 |
This is a film thriller that I found distasteful. I really thought that I’d find it interesting, but, alas, it was an impaired project from my point of view. I did not realise the focus was at least as much on “sex in Seattle”–perverted at that–as on a man caught in a maniacal countdown. For [...]...
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| Prom Night (2008) |
| 2008-04-20 21:10:52 |
There was a movie made in 1980 with the same title, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. It had to be better than this version. In truth the titles are the same, but the storylines have substantial variations.
This was a film with a large cast of players, with at least eight being more or less prominent. It [...]...
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| Stop-Loss (2008) |
| 2008-04-20 17:43:47 |
Tis said: War is hell. Some movies can also be like that. This is one.
The depictions of battle in Tikrit, Iraq (Saddam Hussein was a “homeboy”), were confusing. I was reminded of training scenes for police, where “pop-up” citizens, either good folks or bad guys, occur suddenly. Moral decisions become impossible under such mortal duress. [...]...
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| Tideland (2005) |
| 2008-04-18 10:32:01 |
Fields like Oceans
Being an orphan of an infantile couple, stranded in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by apparently demented neighbors Jeliza Rose find herself in wonderland, which on second look rather resembles to a nightmare.
After the very scenic and spectacular sets and visual grandeur of Brothers Grimm Terry Gilliam took a few steps back [...]...
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| 21 (2008) |
| 2008-04-14 22:00:57 |
This is a film that tries to prove that dreams can come true, if you’re young in age, crafty and lucky. The protagonist of this film scores an “A” on all counts. Aces MIT! Aces Robinson Scholarship! Aces Harvard Medical School entrance requirements! Aces his clever MIT professor! Aces all other MIT males by scoring [...]...
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| Rocket Science (2007) |
| 2008-04-13 00:04:57 |
Rocket Science is a story about a boy with a bad stutter trying to make it in the school’s debate team, which makes it agonizing and yet fun to watch. The story opens with Hal Hefner, a boy with a bad stutter, a mentally and also physically abusive (sometimes, but in a brotherly love kind [...]...
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| Leatherheads (2008) |
| 2008-04-11 14:01:25 |
George Clooney has a great a face, and he KNOWS it. His new film Leatherheads, his third as director, is set in the middle nineteen twenties, a time when the like of Rudolph Valentino and Douglas Fairbanks were playing rakes and rogues on the big screen, sans dialogue. They relied on their faces to register [...]...
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| The Ruins (2008) |
| 2008-04-08 22:49:36 |
This is a movie that is both preposterous and yet well-done. If one can imagine the ”Little House of Horrors” transformed into a Mayan Temple in Central America, you are well on the road to grasping this flick. As with the “Little House of Horrors,” this film is surprisingly entertaining. It is also gory in places, and [...]...
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| The English patient (1996) |
| 2008-04-08 14:33:44 |
Nothing else matters
Are there any things you hold so dear that you could forget everything else? Yes, there are – according to the Oscar-winning 1996 movie from the late Anthony Minghella.
The English patient took the world by storm in 1996. The movie won numerous prizes and proved: classic cinema still has its appeal. The two [...]...
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| Wassup Rockers (2005) |
| 2008-04-06 09:49:21 |
The other L.A. story
Take a bunch of latino teenagers from Los Angeles suburbs, put them on a journey from downtown LA to Hollywood and you get a perfect cross-sectional view of western society.
Los Angeles suburbs. A group of teenage skaters, discrimination and (presumably) the first sexual experiences. At first glance these are the main elements [...]...
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| Meet The Browns (2008) |
| 2008-04-02 21:09:14 |
This is a film that focuses on one family in Chicago, and how they deal with adversity. Mr. Perry is a talented man, but it isn’t easy wearing three hats. Sylvestor Stalone recently did the “hat trick” with marginal success. The production looks pretty good. I’m not saying that Mr. Perry is covering up reality, [...]...
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| The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
| 2008-03-31 14:01:33 |
To begin with,the novel ” Last king of scotland” by Giles Foden is responsible for this movie’s actions.But the screenplay evidently makes a good show.The movie hatches out in Scotland and grows in Uganda of the 1970s. Dr.Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) is an young Scottish medical officer (he is our scottish king too!) who [...]...
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| The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
| 2008-03-25 23:59:11 |
This is a film that history-oriented minds may find appealing. This point in English history is crucial to the emergence of a “new England” in which The Church of England is born, bearing the shape of Catholicism but with the Pope/Prince of Rome replaced by the Sovereign of England. Thus, the concept of “priest/king” once [...]...
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| Doomsday (2008) |
| 2008-03-19 23:41:13 |
Strange story, strange vision. This film seems to suggest that human future–at least on the British Isle–will be a blend of the “Road Warrior“(1981), “Braveheart” (1995), and the “Sex Pistols Live!” and includes the suggestion of an isolated, insulated control center run by crypto-Fascists. This film is a curiosity, going from standard urban-dominated apocalypse, seen in [...]...
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| Juno (2007) |
| 2008-03-16 23:42:25 |
This movie is a study of a serious, albeit too common, difficulty some young women experience. It is presented in an engaging manner. The camera is virtually “glued” on “Juno MacGuff” (Page), following her as she tries to work out this important event in her life. The supporting cast are for the most part well [...]...
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| 3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
| 2008-03-14 23:18:36 |
Dusty but not rusty!
Elmore Leonard’s short story is born onscreen for the second time, following the Glenn Ford starrer in 1957. This time James Mangold is the man with the star for this dusty western story. Like a rock, the story demonstrates that it could withstand time phenomenally. Lion Gates entertainment has spent a 50 [...]...
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| Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
| 2008-03-12 05:11:36 |
I have to admit that I was reluctant to watch this movie as first of all there was not much buzz about it and second the synopsis was pretty boring and just stated that it is a story about a man who dates a blow-up doll that he bought from the internet. I only watched [...]...
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