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Wizard, on 20 Mar 2009, 20:40, said:

No, not really .

But I'm not rating or comparing only movies that have Vin Diesel in them .

Watchmen: The IMAX Experience - 8/10

This movie is quite faithful to the graphic novel in most respects. To the point that they chose actors who look the same as the comic's characters. Unfortunately, some of the actors gave quite bad performances such as Silk Spectre II and Nite Owl II in my opinion. The Comedian and Dr. Manhattan were probably the best actors as well. Also some minor plot changes can annoy fans of the book . Overall though, the very original storyline manages to save the movie. It is in no way your conventional hero movie. Watch it!

Also can't wait for Tales of the Black Freighter with the character voiced by Gerard Butler

Body of Lies - Thriller

The main thing I like about this movie is the fact your really not sure who to trust, its also nice seeing a kickass CIA agent showing some character not just "Americaaaa, fuck yeah" The plot on the whole is very good, although sometimes it may take a little while for you to realise what happened or which of 2 situations just happened. My main criticisms are - The subtitles text is awful and blends in to much with the picture, so in the arabic sections it can be hard to see what the characters are saying. The main character also seems to have super-human healing powers, from one scene were he is half dead, 30mins later he's bright as a daisy again! One of the torture scenes is also unneccessarily grisly, but these are all minor complaints. Overall, a very good movie and worth a watch.

8.5/10

I must add Di Caprio's Arabic was excellent though the rest of the cast spoke more with either a Lebanese or Syrian dialect not Jordanian. I love how it showcases the way intelligence works in the Middle East and how much it pwns other countries'.

Following its recent reviews here on FS I decided to give this one a go:

2001: A Space Odyssey - 9/10

You know right when you see it that it's a Kubrick movie, though this one is exceptionally "silent". There are minute-long intervals in the movie in which nothing at all happens, sometimes there's even just a black screen, or you hear nothing but breathing or some machine hissing. Dialog, or any voicing for that matter, is extremely sparsely used, with the movie relying on a music score or some monotonous ambient sound to get through, or no sound at all. If you get bored quickly I suggest you avoid this movie because it is very slow in its progression (it takes about 40 minutes until anything happens, really, and it even takes a couple of minutes for there to be any images on the screen) and in retrospect not too much actually happens in the movie, comparing the status quo at the beginning with that at the end. However, from a more broader, less-than-skin-deep perspective, 2001 is really a work of art. Following a number of scientific themes like evolution, space travel, artificial intelligence and extraterrestrial life, filmed in a scientifically relatively plausible and realistic way, especially for a science fiction movie, if you can bear to keep watching the movie it is very much worth the while. Kubrick's filming is quite surreal and done in a very compelling way for those who can appreciate the themes in this movie, but for those who don't, I would not at all be surprised if this movie puts you to sleep.

Movies I saw recently:

-Taken: Two words: f**king awesome. One of the best action flicks to come out in a while. Liam Neeson plays an ex-CIA operative who gets pissed off to the max when his daughter gets kidnapped by criminals and goes on a killing spree in Paris to find her. 8.75/10


-Valkyrie: I was skeptical over Tom Cruise playing a Wehrmacht officer, but the movie was very well put together and managed to be tense even though anyone who even just fell face forward into an open WWII history book would know what the outcome was. Did the same actor who played Hitler in Der Untergang play Hitler in Valkyrie? 8.25/10

Will Ferrel 'athon

Step Brothers 6/10 - not as fun as I'd expected. Certainly not as good as some of his other movies. Just absurd in places and supposedly funny because of that and not for genuine comedy value imo.

Semi-Pro 8/10 - much maligned at the box office and by the critics iirc but much the funnier of the two I watched last night. Ferrell gets back to his Anchorman best.

Rush Hour 2- 8/10. Sometimes the movie has too much sexuality feeling (Although it might be normal for American movie ), but hey, Jackie Chan is always awesome, and so is Chris Tucker.

Star Trek: Generations- 10/10. Kirk, Picard, temporal phenomenon, Enterprises. AWESOME.

Gangs of New York - 9/10
I love the final scene with the graveyard and the skyline of New York rising in the background over the years.
Edited by Rayburn, 26 March 2009 - 07:53.

The Producers (2005) 9/10, little bits could be better and its a tad too long for its humour amount, that being said I still love it and every time it reminds me of seeing it live which was epic.

Godzilla vs Hedorah
I don't know / 10

Hoooo boy... This movie was really weird. I'll compile dot points since I don't know what else to say

- The enemy monster is basically a giant pollution blob thing
- Godzilla flies
- It reflects the time it was made in a fair bit in terms of psychadelic music, hippies, etc.
- Godzilla flies
- Hedorah kills people by throwing sludge at them
- Godzilla flies
- This was made around the time Godzilla was a 'hero'. This one probably went furthur than most. Instead of "Oh no, it's Gojira!" we get "Godzilla's gonna save the daaay!"
- Godzilla flies
- The Godzilla costume is pretty 'meh'
- Godzilla flies

That's all I got.

Slumdog Millionaire - 9,5/10

A really well done piece about who wants to be a millionaire, the idea is quite original, and I've never seen a story like this. In the merciless world of the streets of India, one guy from the slums manages to get on the show and, incredibly enough, get to 10 million rupees, with just one question to go to the jackpot. This sparks a series of flashbacks around which the story revolves. Very much worth the effort, with outstanding acting and a great and interesting story.
Edited by Chyros, 02 April 2009 - 23:31.

Dr No, 7/10: First Bond and its showing its age a lot worse than others from the same era. The choice of Ursula Andrews as the 'bond girl' was a mistake, should have been an English speaker. The series needs to mature past this point to become good.

Ghostbusters, 8/10: Cheesy but good fun, and the music is catchy

Oh and one other thing +1 post count.

In Bruges - 7,5/10

A movie about two gangsters hiding out in Bruges (aka Brugge) for a job they pulled in London. This outline belies the actual genre of the film which is nothing about violence really. It's hard to describe the movie any further without giving the plot away but suffice to say it's acted well and is an interesting twist from more usual gangster movies.

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Heh, well, if there's one place where posts are well-deserved, I'd say it'd be here .

Magnolia

Paul Thomas Anderson's masterpiece about chance and coincidence. Everyone should watch this movie. The movie, in essence, is a series of montages as various people in Los Angeles deal with loneliness, heartbreak, abuse and... frogs. Seriously. Incredibly well-directed, building up into a ridiculously unexpected ending. Nobody's ever heard of this movie, but it has an ensemble cast! Tom Cruise, John C. Reilly, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Alfred Molina and William H. Macy. In. Fucking. Credible.

A must watch.

10/10

Knowing

Good movie all around with trying to stop the disasters it keeps you in suspense the whole way through but the end was shit crystal space ships and adam and eve take
it was great till that point which funnily enough the scene where the glowing people like things and Nicolas cage and the 2 kids where standing in that dried river bed at that moment i said to my friend what next a space ship! as a joke and what do you know crystal fucking space ships. I told my self when i walked into the cinema that something lame like that would have happened near the end and it did!

5/10

Four Brothers - 7,5/10

A story about four adoption delinquent brothers whose saintly mother gets killed during a robbery. The brothers "ask around" the neighbourhood for who's done it. Good action movie, well worth the watch for action fans.

Chyros, on 8 Apr 2009, 21:13, said:

Hmmm I've heard of that, but not something I'd immediately go and watch - there are better movies around for me I think.

Well I've watched a ton of movies of late - it's the holidays and all

Freedom Writers: Hilary Swank only made it onto my radar with Million Dollar Baby, an exceptional movie that showcased her fantastic acting skills. After that however, she did a couple of movies that didn't really suit her style - such as The Black Dahlia - she's simply not a typical Hollywood a-lister and doesn't suit those roles. She's an imerrsive actress to watch when she gets the right roles however, and they hit the nail on the ead when it came to Freedom Writers. Swank plays Erin Gruwell in a touching, monumental film. As Erin Gruwell, Swank is the teacher to a selection of delinquent youths in Long Beach in the USA, an area wrecked by segregation and gang warfare. Despite this, the state education authority has forced youths into high schools and mixed them up amongst their racial groups - with disastrous consequences. Inspired by a particularly callous drawing of one of her students, Swank goes into depth about the Holocaust - it is not until after she is done when she realises that none of the people in the room actually know what the Holocaust was. With this in mind, she begins to educate them in every way that she can, motivating them into learning where no other teacher can. Working three jobs and fighting against the beurocracy at the school, she provides books and trips out of her own pocket for the students, and forms them into a family within the classroom. A truly touching film, probably not to everyone's tastes as it is very much a drama, lacking in a lot of actioon or comedy that people may expect. But for the genre that it is in (down and out students turning their lives around), it is second to none. Seriously worth watching - it makes my day to see such a touching piece of cinema.

9.5/10

Libains, on 12 Apr 2009, 19:54, said:

It's not something I'd recommend you specifically either since it's really an action guy movie, and you don't seem to be one from what I've gathered .

Anyway,

Cloverfield - 8/10
Finally a proper monster movie, this one has a few facets that can keep such a relatively cheesy genre alive. The most notable is that the entire movie is filmed with a hand camera by one of the movie's characters which has a few obvious consequences. For one, you are not shown everything as the camera records sporadically. Second, you can only see what the filmer is clumsily filming which is usually not everything, keeping an eerie suspense going since you're not only not sure what's going to happen, but also you don't always know exactly what's happening at the time either. Finally, you are never taken outside of the filmer's vicinity, but you're not always looking with semi-first person perspective either, sometimes the camera is dropped or put down for a moment. Also, all you're doing is just following a random character who doesn't know what the hell is going on either and therefore neither do you, which keeps alive the mystery which many movies must solve for some reason. The combination makes for a very refreshing movie in its genre.

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah
10/10

BEST. GODZILLA. MOVIE. EVER.

Everything about this movie was plain cool. Sure, it worked unbelievably hard to rip off terminator in every way, the American actors were all horrible and the special effects were all B Grade at best, but that just made it even more completely AWESOME.

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters
7/10

Definatley one of the better movies. The end fight is a tad one sided though
Edited by RaiDK, 19 April 2009 - 11:08.

The Children - 7,5/10

A horror movie of which I shouldn't spoil too much. Suffice it to say that the camerawork is very well done and the atmosphere built neatly, but the use of children feels rather forced, since they are a known element of added horror. Overall not a bad watch for horror fans, and thriller fans might like it too.

Daredevil 7.5/10

In public, Daredevil is a lawyer called Matthew M. "Matt" Murdock who lost his sight when he was still a kid. Being still a teenager and without clearly known reason, his body evolved a superhuman "radar-like" listening sense (which makes him a mutant, just like the X-Men). Living isolated and sleeping in a water filled, iron coffin to hold back all the noises from his surroundings, he punishes (=kills) murders, rapers etc. who got away with it. The reason behind this is simple: Revenge for his dad, who got killed by the mob.

The movie is based on the comics and as known from all Marvel storylines, it contains tragic, with a good portion of funny scenes combined with a little romance and spectacular action. The protagonists are less known characters from the Marvel Universe, but some Spiderman fans might remember "The Kingpin" from the comic series, who hires "Bullseye" to take care of Daredevil.

Marvel comics/movies are always based on so called "stretched realism". Just think of a bubble gum. You can chew on it which leaves the bubble gum just what it is (=realism) or make a bubble out of it, by stretching (=stretched realism), but when the bubble bursts, the fun is over and you'd better get back to reality. For me, Daredevil bursts the bubble one or two times, an acceptable but still staining amount.

Personally, I think if you have watched some or all other latest Marvel Movies like "Spiderman" and/or "Ironman"and liked them, it's worth a watch.

Teron, on 20 Apr 2009, 9:52, said:

Aren't Marvel redoing Daredevil? Getting rid of Ben Affleck?

Léon: The Professional - 8/10

Proof that Jean Reno is a versatile and convincing actor, this movie isn't exactly what I expected of it. This movie would have benefited from longer duration, but it's not at all bad as it is. Somewhat versatile movie that's not a half-bad watch for I think most people, with Jean Reno, Nathalie Portman and Gary Oldman all doing some nifty acting here and there. Also, though the movie certainly has a good amount of action in it, it's not even really over-the-top. All in all, I'd call this a well-balanced movie with a bit of everything.

Semi-Pro

Will Ferrell + Funk + Bear = Awesome, oh and throw in a bit of Dodgeball type humor of the underdog rising up and you have created a fun movie.
I would recommend to all silly comedy fans and the fans of Will Ferrell.

8 Doctors out of 10