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- Review count12
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- First reviewJanuary 21, 2008
- Last reviewJune 28, 2010
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This was great summer fun!
PostedJune 28, 2010
It's been a while since I've been at a movie where the audience laughed as much as we did at this movie. Plus, if you're in you late 30's -40's, this is a total flashback type movie. Everyone is hilarious and its amazing how they all share jokes throughout the cast. It was great fun and can't wait til I see it again!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Eli went Awry: Another slam on Religion
PostedJanuary 19, 2010
I expected Mad Max meets Last Temptation, and it started out that way, but then it just became another Hollywood corporate wrapup the ending and save the girl. Starts off nice, and has a twisty ending that explains why half the stories in the Bible make no sense and are totally unreal. I did enjoy the movie, and to be honest, as a big Denzel fan, his low key mode was blown away by Gary Oldman. Gary saves this film, His maniacal fanaticism is a perfect balance to Denzel's cool, Godly nature. And like "The Invention of the Lie" it points out the craziness of religion, and actually reminds us to believe in God, and to be weary of religion. Great after-movie dinner discussion.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Its cute, but just OK
PostedDecember 28, 2009
Let me start off with a disclaimer: I'm tired of this midwest punk look doldrums style of movie. I should have paid closer attention to the Juno director disclaimer, but I love Clooney and wanted to see it. The movie is Juno Part II. Although well paced, and cute at times, its doldrums just roll on one after another. According to this movie, no one is ever happy, and if they are, they are just fooling themselves. But Clooeny gives the movie life, because of his doldrum-savoirfaire style. It works, but at the end, you're left with just feeling like...blah.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Worth every penny for 3D
PostedDecember 28, 2009
I originally thought I had to see this movie to get it out of my system, like 2012. Unlike 2012, I loved this movie and it was worth every penny to see it 3D at ArcLight. Although its the basic "Dances with Wolves" story, outsider gets to know and falls in love with the natives, Cameron takes it to the next level. The screen is incredible. This isn't paint a couple of CGI backgrounds. The entire world is created and looks seamless from the real characters, and that creates the world the film pulls you into. Awesome!!!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Classic summer movie
PostedMay 4, 2009
Big booms, lots of zoom! But not better than X-Men 1 & 2. The directing made the film jumpy, and the story had no warmth or heart. How can Wolverine, so full or rage, simply turn and walk away when he finds out that he's been betrayed without ripping the place apart? Great acting from Schreiber made his character so much darker than Wolverine, I almost wished the film was about Sabertooth. Overall, lots of fun, and classic summer blockbuster flick
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Long, Boring and Confusing
PostedMarch 8, 2009
I was expecting an X-Men type movie here, but instead, what I got was a boring, dull, exasperating, and utterly confusing intertwining of stories that, even as I write this, still can't figure what it was all about. The graphics and costumes were great, but the plot was non-existent. The fight scenes were all copied verbatim from the first The Matrix. There are at least four different stories happening here. One minute you're in 1940, then 1985, then 1960, then 1970, then 1950, back to 1985. Whatever! The opening credits ran 15 mins. Those setup the characters, which was innovative, but useless. Then the first 45-60 mins of the movies was trying to explain the characters. This could have been scrapped and you would not have even noticed.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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The Day the Script Stood Still
PostedDecember 15, 2008
The title would suggest that the Earth stood still, collectively holding its breath. But no one stand still in this rambling mess. Klaatu comes to the planet to speak to the world leaders. He grabs a couple of spy satellites before he stops in, and suddenly he knows everything about Earth? But he apparently doesn't know about love until he see some step mom crying with her brat son? And if he is so powerful, why didn't he just bogart his way into the UN after all? He can escape from a top secret maximum security defense facility, but couldn't figure out how to catch the D train to the UN? Instead wasting $10 to see this, just watch Independence Day again.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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3
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Now I understand M - Wheis Bond?
PostedNovember 17, 2008
This is the first Bond movie that allows the audience to see Bond through M’s eyes: We have no idea where he is, what he’s doing, or where he’s going. We don’t know who he’s fighting or what he’s fighting for. We just know who he’s killed, and yet, we don’t know why.
This was a rambling mess of a movie. I still don't know exactly who the bad guy was. Should being a greedy business man really put you on Bond’s list? What happened to the psycho billionaire planning on world domination? The action is chaotic and over done. There’s no sexiness, just a big English bully running lose. Oddly enough, what this Bond needs is to get laid!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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This aint no Constantine
PostedOctober 27, 2008
When you see the previews: the shoot outs, the dark angels, and the "the devil wants him to find what God wants to keep hidden" speech, I was expecting a battle of good v. evil Constantine type of movie. But no, this was The Departed meets Jacobs Ladder. The story jumped around and seemed hap hazaradly put together. One thing that bugged me the whole movie and pointed out how ridiculous this was, its the dead of winter, snow everywhere - and not one single person is walking around with gloves!!! I'd wait for the video.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Horrible, horrible, horrible!!!
PostedOctober 12, 2008
I expected that this was going to be a smart government cover-up thriller. What I got was a horrible, disgusting, disjointed film about the worse of humanity. The whole premise could be interpreted as America turning a blind eye to the world, but that quickly fades when one of the blind men pulls a gun and starts ordering people around and raping the women. Juliana sees this, literally, but not once did she tell the guards, or even fight back. This stupidity is multiplied when she actually volunteers to be raped instead of fighting back, even though he is blind. I wish I could give the ending away, but we left long before that. As my cousin said after I told him about the movie, “I didn’t even see this movie and I want my money back.”
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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