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- First reviewNovember 12, 2010
- Last reviewOctober 20, 2012
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Predictable, yet entertaining...
PostedOctober 20, 2012
The0New0Avengers
from San Antonio, TX
Age:35 to 44
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:monthly
Dialogue
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5
Special Effects
3
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5
Art Direction
3
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5
Acting
4
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5
Story
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5
Camerawork
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Sinister is about a true crime writer (Hawke) who moves his family into the former home of the family who is the subject of his latest project. What he gets in the progress is much more than he bargained for. What at first appears to be serendipity, soon turn to horrifying regret...but is it too late for he and his family to get out alive? Sinister at least makes an attempt to apply original execution to a not so original concept. How different is this from Amytiville Horror or even The Shining, which is obviously a great influence for this film? If you've seen those, you have seen sinister. Not as original as Cabin in the Woods or as ambitious as Insidious, but I would still recommend Sinister to the advid moviegoer who didn't get enough "thrills and chills" during their midnight first run screening of Paranormal Activity 4. Excuse the typos, doing this from my phone.
Pros great actors
Cons too much invested with too little payoff
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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The Panamanian Job
PostedFebruary 12, 2012
The0New0Avengers
from San Antonio, TX
This movie has everything you would expect from an action-suspense heist thriller. As cool and collected as Wahlberg carries it onscreen, Ben Foster and Giovanni Ribisi are the two gems that bring this movie together. Even though, as a villain, you never really fell like your characters are in very much danger around Ribisi's "Briggs",that all gets balanced out in the third act by....sorry, no spoilers here.
While some elements hit, others miss, and some you have to suspend disbelief in order to move on to the next scene...but as I have always said, storytelling is sometimes about suspending logic for the sake of drama.
While some elements hit, others miss, and some you have to suspend disbelief in order to move on to the next scene...but as I have always said, storytelling is sometimes about suspending logic for the sake of drama.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Phenomenal....
PostedJuly 22, 2011
The0New0Avengers
from San Antonio, TX
Phenomenal is the only word that I can use to describe Marvel Films' triumphant "Captain America: The First Avenger". Never before has a more perfect origin story be told cinematically, not since the first "Spider-man".
The hero's struggle to prove himself wasn't done after the event leading to him becoming a Super Soilder...he still needed to put his money where his mouth was with the troops on the front line...an achievement perfectly scripted and executed by the director and his team...and perfectly acted, to my surprise, by the super hero typecast, Chris Evans...but after watching this movie, most will agree that although, like Toby McGuire in Spider-man, Chris Evans wasn't everyone's obvious choice (just saying what everyone was thinking) but he owned the role in the end...as much as Michal Keaton owned "Batman" and almost all previous roles were forgotten...everyone moviegoer from now on will gaze upon Chris Evans with "star-spangled" vision until a more defining role comes his was...which I doubt could occur. Chris Evans IS Steve Rogers...
And as far as defining roles are concerned...notable mention must be displayed for Haley Atwell's Peggy "Great Aunt Peg" Carter and "Hot Tub Time Machine's" Sebastian Stan as "Bucky" Barnes, credit must be given to both Hugo Weaving for playing a perfectly balanced "unbalanced" Red Skull and Tommy Lee Jones for his portrayal of Col Phillips.
From start to finish, "Captain America" is less a comic book movie as much as it is an inspirational,
Motivational, coming of age film about man's struggle to better himself and the world around him be being the purest example of what he stands for...this can be said about Steve Rogers and the Red Skull as both play opposite sides of the same coin spiritually...both attempting to define themselves through their actions in their own ways.
"Captain America" is the mark of a cinematic revolution which makes a bold attempt to return the heart and soul to the moviegoing experience...well, at least for this cinefile...who hasn't had a film turn him around completly and had him inspired to believe in something better, in a better world through film, since E. T.
To the cast and crew of this amazing adaptation, as a decorated veteran of the Armed Forces, I salute you....
The hero's struggle to prove himself wasn't done after the event leading to him becoming a Super Soilder...he still needed to put his money where his mouth was with the troops on the front line...an achievement perfectly scripted and executed by the director and his team...and perfectly acted, to my surprise, by the super hero typecast, Chris Evans...but after watching this movie, most will agree that although, like Toby McGuire in Spider-man, Chris Evans wasn't everyone's obvious choice (just saying what everyone was thinking) but he owned the role in the end...as much as Michal Keaton owned "Batman" and almost all previous roles were forgotten...everyone moviegoer from now on will gaze upon Chris Evans with "star-spangled" vision until a more defining role comes his was...which I doubt could occur. Chris Evans IS Steve Rogers...
And as far as defining roles are concerned...notable mention must be displayed for Haley Atwell's Peggy "Great Aunt Peg" Carter and "Hot Tub Time Machine's" Sebastian Stan as "Bucky" Barnes, credit must be given to both Hugo Weaving for playing a perfectly balanced "unbalanced" Red Skull and Tommy Lee Jones for his portrayal of Col Phillips.
From start to finish, "Captain America" is less a comic book movie as much as it is an inspirational,
Motivational, coming of age film about man's struggle to better himself and the world around him be being the purest example of what he stands for...this can be said about Steve Rogers and the Red Skull as both play opposite sides of the same coin spiritually...both attempting to define themselves through their actions in their own ways.
"Captain America" is the mark of a cinematic revolution which makes a bold attempt to return the heart and soul to the moviegoing experience...well, at least for this cinefile...who hasn't had a film turn him around completly and had him inspired to believe in something better, in a better world through film, since E. T.
To the cast and crew of this amazing adaptation, as a decorated veteran of the Armed Forces, I salute you....
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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"Skyline"...really?
PostedNovember 12, 2010
The0New0Avengers
from San Antonio, TX
As alien invasion movies go, "Skyline" scrapes from the bottom of the barrel. Direction from the Strause Bros nonwithstanding, (which was excellent BTW) the plot and flow of the storyline left quite a bit to be desired. Call me Captain Hindsight, but if they had at least left the human race some kind of "out" I.E. Water allergies...prone to computer viruses, etc...there would at least been some sort of hope that even tho OUR heroes didn't make it...at least SOMEBODY did...instead, our salvation lies in the fact that some of our human brains may be incompatiable with their alien bodies and a very small percentage of us are in a position to retain our consciousness. Is that about right..? All in all, not very well thought out in terms of hitting all of the marks to making a disaster movie relatable to the masses. People think stuff like this could actually happen and we look to these movies to provide us with ideas for resolution...not show us how totally buggered we are in a situation...the only translation I can find is this script coming straight from someone's bad dream directly to the silver screen. But don't get me wrong..."Skyline" isn't THAT bad...just bad.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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