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- Jun 26, 2006
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The Town. I sually like movies based around and about Boston and it's neighborhoods but this movie was fucking stupid...Yeah I know it was an Affleck vehicle but I thought it being about the Boston area would have made it at least interesting...it wasn't. It definitly was no Gone Baby Gone.
The Toy - 6/10
Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason. The kid in this was really good. But I didn't really like this movie. Wasn't that funny and the plot wasn't very good.
Got done watching Little Children. It was alright. (Spoiler) I had high hopes for the potential chomo, but he obviously was just fucked in the head I guess. I thought he was a good guy being framed as bad with just a one bad act, but nope... total potential chomo.
Anyway, movie was alright. DEFINITELY started out much better. First hour of this movie was pretty good or whatever, but it started really cranking out really slow and it just felt kinda boring at some parts.
Got done watching Zodiac (2007). Pretty good. It felt really long, but I liked it. I was an hour in and it felt like an eternity already, but I enjoyed that.
Stardust - 10/10 I loved this movie from beginning to end. I can describe this movie in one word: charming. It's akin to The Princess Bride, so if you like one you'll probably like the other. I personally like Stardust more.
Stardust - 10/10 I loved this movie from beginning to end. I can describe this movie in one word: charming. It's akin to The Princess Bride, so if you like one you'll probably like the other. I personally like Stardust more.
Dead Girl - 6/10
After I was in search of a zombie film the other day I came across dead girl, it looked promising so I gave it a go, it was without a doubt the most disturbing film I've seen in some time, I'm including the scene in hard candy in this assertion. It was well written, intelligent, in places witty, and I see the point that the writers were getting across, but ultimately I felt like I suffered through it, I didn't want to look at the screen, but felt compelled to. I made it to the end, and my advice would be if you want to watch it, google a synopsis. Then change your mind.
Ip Man (via Netflix Instant) - 9/10 - In the interest of full disclosure I have not finished this yet but I did not stop due to lack of interest. I am about 80% through it and I have seen enough to rate it this highly. It is a subtitled movie. Story of a Chinese man named "Ip Man" who is one of if not the best Kung Fu fighters in all of China. Really the official synopsis gives you all the info you need on the movie. The main actor is absolutely perfect as the humble master fighter. The fighting scenes will blow you away. There was one in particular that made me literally want to jump out of my chair and yell "holy shit!". Amazing amazing actiion and so perfectly choreographed. There are some "stunts" in the action but mostly it is strictly fighting and done so well that you think they are really fighting.
I felt the same way. I finally sat down to watch it a couple nights ago. The story was very weak and very predictable, as you said, but the visual candy more than made up for it. Beautiful imagery.Avatar: Rating....see below
So over a year later I finally got a chance to sit down and watch Avatar in my home theatre. This movie is incredibly hard to rate. Yes, the story is very predictable, the characters very one dimensional and the political slants are obvious.
But I don't really care. It was an absolutely beautiful movie. The vision, style, and overall feel was incredible and other than some obvious shortcomings in CGI (those black dog/panther things) it is one of the most convincing CGI movies to date. The Na'vi animation was incredible and they felt like the rest of the actors in the movie.
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I felt the same way. I finally sat down to watch it a couple nights ago. The story was very weak and very predictable, as you said, but the visual candy more than made up for it. Beautiful imagery.
Black Swan - I may be the only person that didn't enjoy this movie.
It's a friggin ballet movie people. I don't care about the underlying story and how good the cast is, it's still a ballet movie.
