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Back to the Future Part III (I think this was in 1080i HD, it was a while ago so I'm not sure)
8/10
I just happened to catch this on TV. I missed the beginning and saw it from where Marty McFly has just run into the so-called Indians (my way of saying which bit without spoilers.)
A great film as I'm sure you all know. Seeing it on TV is no match for seeing it in the cinema for the first time. It really benefits from things which I did not watch it with this time: massive screen, big great sound. Moving story, not so great this time cause not only did I know what was going to happen but I had not watched the previous two films recently. Anyway, good film to watch :)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (in 1080i HD)
7/10
Some things were so unrealistic, e.g. It was disappointing that they gave Gambit the ability to fall a long distance safely without explanation (he's not got Wolverine's healing ability).
The film was good, though, entertaining and left me wanting more. Another Wolverine film. (They are working on one :) )
Deadpool was badly done. I hope they portray the character better in the Deadpool film they have planned.

Timecop
8/10 if you don't know it well, 7/10 if you do
Just happened to catch this on TV. I've downloaded it before, the better sound quality of TV was welcome.
Having seen this film lots of times before, I knew what was going to happen most of the time. (So it had the wind taken out of its sails a bit.) I still like this film :)

The BFG
6/10
Just happened to catch this on TV.
I don't recall having seen this before. I almost stopped watching it when one of the (few) songs was going on cause the song was so rubbish, but the song finished just in time :) Maybe I'd seen it before and that's where I watched it to before. I always thought the book was great and this cartoon was well done. It has a style to it that you don't see from Hollywood animation. It did look dated but that didn't bother me, cause the story is good.
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3/10.
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Drive = 5/10 - Meh. It's ok I guess.
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DTS wrote:
X-Men

Some things were so unrealistic


Fucking Magneto. How does he work?!
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DTS wrote:

Timecop
8/10 if you don't know it well, 7/10 if you do
Just happened to catch this on TV. I've downloaded it before, the better sound quality of TV was welcome.
Having seen this film lots of times before, I knew what was going to happen most of the time. (So it had the wind taken out of its sails a bit.) I still like this film :)



Yes I remember that one :) Saw it about a year ago and like you said DTS, it is better the first time.



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Memphis wrote:
DTS wrote:
X-Men

Some things were so unrealistic


Fucking Magneto. How does he work?!


:olo:

Serpico 8/10

I'd never seen this! And now i have. Glad i did, it's very good.



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The Shipping News 7/10
had a pretty good cast, and an authentic feel to it. Story wasn't mind blowing just one of those good book adaptations that satisfy but don't make any lasting impression.
Kevin Spacey acted well.

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Killer Elite = 6.5/10 - Hey, it's Jason Statham playing a role he's never done: an ass-kicking machine having girlfriend problems. Decent movie, though.

Real Steel = 6/10 - A happy happy joy joy summer family movie with every cliche you can think of in these types of films...even a cheesy montage of gheyness. However, it's got huge Rock em Sock em robots pounding each other and instead of the incoherent mess of movement that The Transformers movies have, you can actually see what the robots are doing.

Robot Boxing should be a real sport...instead of current pro boxing.
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Contagion 7/10

Not your typical pandemic-omg-we're-all-gonna-die movie in the sense that there's almost no footage of the military driving around in choppers or shots of big conference rooms filled to the brim with jackasses and large high tech screens.

For the rest it's pretty much something you've seen before in 10 other films. Oh, and they fail to deliver a righteous sense of complete society breakdown when a hefty percentage of the population dies off, that was rather disappointing (seeing as that's possibly the only reason i enjoy watching movies like this). Still giving it a 7/10, i feel effort was made and what the hell, it wasn't terrible.



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Ryoki wrote:
Contagion 7/10



Fuck you, asshole.




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There, i made it go away :p



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good thing xer0s quoted it in his own post :dork:
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There, I made it go away. :p
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GONNAFISTYA wrote:

Robot Boxing should be a real sport...instead of current pro boxing.

Could be very very interesting. Repair costs wouldn't be an issue, you could have regular matches even on a weekly basis. Would really help to setup some kind of proper elimination based championship much like other sports, without having to spread it out 2 or 3 years at a time.

Nah, sounds kinda stupid
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Columbiana - 2/10

A boring soundtrack and boring cinematography make a predictable story held together by a few thoroughly uninspiring and implausible action sequences even more boring.
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ey remember that show robot wars?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Wars_%28TV_series%29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNYtI-0O2s

it was pretty neat



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That so-called Robot Wars was remote control car wars really; it wasn't robots fighting they were all remote controlled, by the contestants. Pretty sad that they kept calling them robots.

Japan has real robot fights already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ZFHgxHJsA

They also do robot football (soccer to you Americans). One robot making/training team says they aim to have a team able to take on and beat a human team in the not-too-distant future (they said what year).
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Ryoki wrote:
Contagion 7/10

Oh, and they fail to deliver a righteous sense of complete society breakdown when a hefty percentage of the population dies off, that was rather disappointing (seeing as that's possibly the only reason i enjoy watching movies like this). Still giving it a 7/10, i feel effort was made and what the hell, it wasn't terrible.


You are being too generous...and probably suck cocks on Tuesdays behind the dumpster. You filthy whore.

The whole reason this film falls flat is precisely because you don't really see any societal breakdown that makes you aware of how dire the situation is. There is no real human connection with the consequences of the disease other than a few select characters. To me as a viewer, the X million people who died don't matter at all because there was no reinforcement of the sense of urgency I was supposed to feel. And the quick montage at the end of how the disease actually came into human contact was the last slap in the face of any mystery or interest I had in the film.

IMHO I think this genre is dead.
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Contagion was fucking awful, completely failed in making you care about any of the characters yet at the same time somehow making it unenjoyable when millions of Americans die. It was a movie about shared guilt.

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i started spec'ing sons of anarchy why i dont know lol its like an addictive soap oprea.

also boardwalk empire stated up again thats really good. sancuary too

i'm still spec'in the "have gun will travel"s
those are soooo awesome, almost done tho :( going to move to Maverick or gunsmoke maybe next.



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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
You are being too generous...and probably suck cocks on Tuesdays behind the dumpster. You filthy whore.


What can i say, i was in a good mood when i watched it and in a good mood when i wrote that. So yes, my rating is probably being way too generous. On the other hand... so much utter shit has been produced in this genre that this comes off as not bad, it did to me at least. I always try to rate a movie in it's genre, sortakinda.

GONNAFISTYA wrote:
The whole reason this film falls flat is precisely because you don't really see any societal breakdown that makes you aware of how dire the situation is. There is no real human connection with the consequences of the disease other than a few select characters. To me as a viewer, the X million people who died don't matter at all because there was no reinforcement of the sense of urgency I was supposed to feel. And the quick montage at the end of how the disease actually came into human contact was the last slap in the face of any mystery or interest I had in the film.


Very true, although i could certainly have done without extra drama on the side. In fact i found the lack of drama quite refreshing, it was all deliciously clinical and it could have really worked somehow if it was a smarter movie.

But yeah, some wrapup on how utterly fucked the world would be if a more than percentage of the population dies in the space of a month would have been nice. Homerobberies, really? Weakness. They should have done a quick montage of food riots / massive looting / wars instead of that lazy montage at the end.

GONNAFISTYA wrote:
IMHO I think this genre is dead.


Aww, i hope not... i do enjoy the genre as a whole :(



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I guess the reason the genre is dead to me is that there hasn't been a decent attempt since "Outbreak". Besides, watching Laurence Fishburne stand in front of a podium telling the world in a monotone voice that the world is in trouble and everyone's genitals are about to fall off isn't exactly engaging cinema.
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Have you ever seen fire in zero gravity? It's beautiful.



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if by beautiful you mean totally uneventful and short lived then yes.
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Phantom of the Opera - Live at the Royal Albert Hall.

Simply magical.

Look I am so, so lucky to have seen the stage play/musicals a couple of times each and add a movie or two, but this is something else.

PS: Do stay 'till the very end of the credits so as not to miss the history lesson :D from Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Some chumps :olo: left at the first sign it had ended and missed 15 or 20 minutes of extras :smirk:

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4 of the Phantoms on stage singing
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Another video here and perhaps a better overall look

9.5/10 and a must see



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Lost - 9/10

I know it's not a movie, but what the hell. This show was awesome. We started watching it from the beginning probably 3 months ago and finally finished episode 120. Really glad I watched it. I'm going to have to read a synopsis so I can tie up some loose ends I'm curious about. But what a great show. J.J. is good...
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In Time - 5/10

another good idea intellectually robbed and brutally raped.
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Captain America the 1st Avenger: 4/10 The character and everything around him is just not interesting. Pacing, action, dialogue....snoozefest.

Thor: 7/10 FUCKING JOTUNHEIM!!
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Wall-E

A PIXAR classic and entertaining enough for sure :)

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Tsakali wrote:
In Time - 5/10

another good idea intellectually robbed and brutally raped.


Totally agreed. I actually burst out laughing in that one scene where Justin Timberlake pops up wearing sunglasses and looking all serious and shit...I was positive he was going to dance. But yeah...great concept but devoid of anything that didn't make you want to retch in the third act.

The Change Up = 6.5/10 - Typical claptrap but a genuinely funny movie. I maintained my erection for every second that Oliva Wilde was on-screen. That's two movies in a row with Olivia Wilde looking hot. :up:

Giggity giggity giggity goo! Alright!
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Drive - 9/10

There is a furious intensity throughout the movie even though the main character wears a terminator style aloof expression in every single scene, even as he's stomping a hitman's face in, right after locking lips with his girlfriend with her watching. The irony is that he wears a similar expressionless rubber mask in a number of scenes. But I think that's what's so cool about this movie is exactly the lack of emotion he shows, he lets you feel all the suspense and tension while he shrugs it off. The movie is like watching Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood - cold, hard, ruthless men who does what it takes to kill the bad guys, though Ryan Gosling is a bit too 'boyish' to really fill those shoes.

It's well directed and I loved the feel of the movie, it's stark and there isn't a million special effects and explosions. Just simple muscle car chases and crashes, Bullitt style. It's a bit of a throwback to when movies didn't need all the CG, though I think the gore would have been better off if it was merely suggested.

Oh, and cool soundtrack and Christina Hendricks!


Battle Los Angeles - 4/10

It's like Black Hawk Down meets Independence Day, but in a really bad mix. Independence Day was fun to watch because it doesn't take itself too seriously, it's just a fun action movie about aliens invading earth. Black Hawk Down has the whole shaky cam, muted colours, documentary-ish effect for a serious movie about real life events. But mixing the two and you have an alien invasion movie that pretends it's serious and plausible when it clearly is not, so it's just stupid.

You also don't really care for any of the characters so you don't really care if they make it or not. I actually felt more for the aliens, in one scene a couple of grunts decided that the aliens must have a hierarchy and that the lower aliens were probably just like them taking orders and wondering if the aliens "feel fear just like us". Then right after, they catch one of the poor buggers and dissects it alive by hacking at it with a knife to learn if they have any weak points in their anatomy. Seriously, humans deserve to be wiped out.



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30 Minutes Or Less = 2/10 - Not funny in the slightest.

Our Idiot Brother = 3/10 - Another movie labeled as a "comedy" that isn't funny at all.

Conan The Barbarian = 2/10 - Great production design, horrible acting, dumb action and a boring story. I can see why Hollywood just NEEDED to make this movie...to prove that remakes aren't worth anyone's time or money and to prove beyond a doubt that the Arnie Conan movie was a million times better.
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