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- Review count278
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- First reviewJuly 20, 2008
- Last reviewOctober 26, 2012
- Featured reviews0
- Average rating4.5
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Well, I'm calling it... pregnancy sucks.
PostedJune 14, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Appears at first to be a superficial appetizer with little on its mind beyond cliché and predictable formula...but some genuine tenderness surfaces..and Banks is terrific. ..the film's lack of ambition ultimately [prevents] it from becoming anything more than a barely-adequate time-waster.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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I don't know. I'm not a friggin' storm trooper.
PostedJune 12, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Though Safety Not Guaranteed is comfortable and pleasing, it's also amazingly fresh, concentrating on its characters and emotions rather than on a collection of visual effects, genre staples, or gratuitous thrills. Part road movie, part romance, part coming-of-age comedy and part something entirely its own, "Safety Not Guaranteed" is an unexpected pleasure. Delightful proof that money and fame have nothing on ingenuity and wit, "Safety Not Guaranteed" is worth a million meaningless blockbusters. Even if it cost millions less than any one of them. A must see.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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5
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5
We were wrong, so wrong!
PostedJune 8, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
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Special Effects
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Art Direction
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Acting
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When it comes to technical wizardry and sheer visual spectacle, Prometheus unequivocally delivers. Unlike any of the sequels between it and the original, Prometheus is a horror movie first and foremost, gnawing at subconscious terrors even as your conscious mind attempts to bat it away. Master director Ridley Scott creates a riveting ride while Michael Fassbender steals the show. A thigh-clenchingly frightening science-fiction epic as well as a ruminative, soul-baring existential study that's not afraid to ask the tough questions. A must see.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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I should have killed her when she was a child.
PostedJune 1, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
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The film has the DNA of a blockbuster and the soul of a haunting folk tale. It is as dangerous, dark, intelligent and beautiful as its wraithlike villainess. Theron turns a stock character into a memorably sinister mix of scorned gold digger and plastic surgery addict. It takes a lot more than a pail of water to wipe out this wicked witch. This isn't your parents' or grandparents' version of the familiar tale, and anyone mistakenly taking their young kids to see it and expecting more of the same old Disney magic are certain to be surprised. It gets closer to the spirit of the Brothers Grimm than any previous Hollywood movie. Disneyfied, it is not. Overall I had fun with it, but no, Kristen Stewart is not fairer than Charlize Theron. FANTASY. A must see.
Pros well paced
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Have you herd of extreme tourism?
PostedMay 25, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
If you're looking for a spooky way to kick off the summer movie season, Chernobyl Diaries more than fits the bill, because it's not every Friday that you see a horror movie that includes a bear attack, rabid wolves, a mutated fish, and something that looks like the creature from Basket Case crawling across a floor. A thoroughly frightening study in how to do a tried-and-true formula proud.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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5
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All you gotta do is jump... Time - Jump
PostedMay 25, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
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A nice throwback to the original and a fun film in its own right. The fresh blood added to MiB3 makes it such an enjoyable movie. Brolin's evocation of Jones never fails to amuse. All in all, its a nice edition to the MIB trilogy and a must see this summer.
Pros great actors
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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5
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Yakhmandel yakhmandeli ais aisha... I just made that up!
PostedMay 18, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
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Provocative, uncomfortable, irreverent, and oftentimes, laugh out loud funny, The Dictator is a genuinely funny and entertaining film.
As long as you can stomach such displays of ethnic intolerance as Asians being teased about confusing their l's and r's, Arabs referred to as sand monkeys, and Jews having urine poured on their heads, you're apt to enjoy this equal-opportunity offender. A must see.
As long as you can stomach such displays of ethnic intolerance as Asians being teased about confusing their l's and r's, Arabs referred to as sand monkeys, and Jews having urine poured on their heads, you're apt to enjoy this equal-opportunity offender. A must see.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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5
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He said one day we'd find them. Or they'd find us.
PostedMay 18, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
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Acting
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Battleship is an alien invasion flick with too earnest dialogue and ear-splitting explosions. Yet, everything works: the special effects, the performances, the breakneck pace. Like "Transformers," which it rivals in relentlessness, "Battleship" comes with its own force field, a furious energy that renders criticism irrelevant. Battleship knows that it's big, dumb summer fun, and it doesn't pretend to be anything more. A must see.
Pros well paced
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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I must admit, they have not aged a day.
PostedMay 11, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
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An adaptation of an old, antiquated TV show that feels fresh and alive in large part because of its star. Like its root '66 TV show Dark Shadows, this film is a heady mix of vampire, werewolf and witch ingredients all bubbling away in a cinematic cauldron. Whether it works is a matter of taste, but the fact that Burton's revisit unearths enough fun while feeling like four films in one is testament to the source's seductive bloodline. A must see.
Pros great actors
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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"There's no version of this where you win."
PostedMay 4, 2012
redbeard
from Kent, Wa
Age:18 to 24
Gender:Male
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Dialogue
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Special Effects
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Art Direction
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Acting
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A spectacle in the grandest sense of the word ... It's two-plus hours of visual brawn, unexpected heartbeats and welcome humor. The first blockbuster to kick off summer with and a must see for comic fans and moviegoers alike.
Pros great story, great actors
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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