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The Science of Sleep (2006)
I'm a pretty big fan of Michel Gondry and have been wanting to see this movie since it came out. I'm happy to say, after all that waiting, I'm not disappointed in the least. It's maybe not quite as good as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but then it doesn't boast a Charlie Kaufman screenplay so how could it be. Nevertheless, it's still a great movie that feels a little like a companion piece to that movie. Both Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg are excellent in here, helping ground this very surreal movie with somecreal emotional weight.

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The Man from Nowhere (2010)
I'm kind of a sucker for a good revenge story and this is great one, maybe not quite as amazing as Chan-wook Park's vengeance trilogy, but pretty close. It's the classic "messing with the wrong guy" tale told with with heaps of mood and gorgeous cinematography. I'm not surprised to learn it was the number one movie in South Korea the year it came out, it really is that good.


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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
I hadn't seen this is ages and figured it was high time to revisit it. I'm happy to report it's held up well. Maybe not my favorite Spielberg movie but still a very good one. I was a little shocked by some of the actors in it. I expected Richard Dreyfus and Terri Garr of course, but was surprised to see Melinda Dillon (A Christmas Story) in a major role, Carl Weathers in a brief cameo, Bob Balaban in a major role, and weirdest of all, François Truffaut in a major role.


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Night Watch (2004)
Continuing my little streak of extremely popular movies in their home country, this movie was (and possibly still is) the highest grossing Russian movie ever. The premise, which concerns the battle between light and dark superhuman forces in contemporary Moscow while regular people remain totally unaware, has some pretty strong echoes of Harry Potter, though much more dark and violent. Pretty damn enjoyable though. I especially appreciated seeing a big blockbuster type movie that wasn't afraid to have a not very likable main character and a thoroughly downer ending.

I watched this recently. It's not as intense as when I first watched it.

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My favorite movie of all time.

Well **** now I can never use fav movie for security questions again. Oh well.

I've been watching musicals all weekend, Moulin Rouge was the last one.

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It's probably one of my favourite musicals ever.

The Call
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I finally got around to watching this and I enjoyed it for what it was. I don't know if I would want to see a sequel though. Also Abigail's acting in this bothered me in certain scenes. It just didn't feel believable normally she gives a really good performance but I don't know what happened with this movie.

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The writer/director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War) always has interesting ideas and makes really great looking films and this is no exception. Justin Timberlake is surprisingly good and Amanda Seyfried is gorgeously kooky but the DVD print is horrendous. Very grainy which annoyed the crap out of me and there are a couple of gaps in logic in the film but it was enjoyable enough.
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A decent little British doc about a guy (Tom Spicer) with fragile x syndrome (a sever form of autism I think) who is obsessed with Lars Ulrich from Metallica so his older sister and younger brother set about a meeting between them. Imagine my surprise when the sister turns out to be Kate Spicer a sometime journalist/judge on Masterchef!

It was definitely worth a watch especially as Tom changes his mind at every other opportunity to actually meet Lars (due to his condition) but it didn't have the emotional punch I wanted as Kate already has contacts in the industry and money behind her so the meet was a lot easier than it could have been and that robbed it of some genuine emotional magic.
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Written and directed by the infamous Uwe Boll who has the unfortunate moniker of being our generations Ed Wood in terms of making abysmal movies but having never seen one of his films I was pleasantly surprised by this.

A jet black (and violent) film about a 20 something guy who has had enough of his bland life and so builds an armoured suit and goes around his local town shooting the crap out of all and sundry.

It has a couple of nice twists, the acting is decent and it takes many digs out of mass consumerism. If this came out in the early 80's and without Boll's name attached it could well be a cult classic.

Silent Hill: Revelation
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I really liked the first Silent Hill movie...could've been a lot better, sure, but it's a video game adaptation done the way it should be, ie using the source material as a launchpad to explore new ideas as a story. In fact, along with Mortal Kombat and Prince Of Persia, it's one of my favourite adaptations (although admittedly it's not really up against particularly stiff competition). So, yeah, I was actually quite looking forward to this one.

This film was just an abomination though. Definitely the worst film I've seen in a long time, if not one of the worst I've ever seen in my life. Very, very rarely do I think a film is irredeemably awful in every single way, but this certainly qualifies. The acting is bad, the characters thoroughly unlikeable if not totally bland, the effects are laughable, the story from start to finish just smacks of the kind of cheap, hollow gimmicks designed to suck money from fans' wallets, all stitched together to form a boring and totally illogical plot.

If you've thought about seeing this, do yourself a favour - don't!

Pacific Rim (2012).

I honestly didn't enjoy this film. It felt cliched and the plot was paper thin.

I know it's supposed to be silly fun, but watching a slightly less serious Real Steel isn't my idea of a good time.

Omg, you literally are like awesome! It's totally my favourite too and I know all the songs as I bought both soundtracks. The end of the movie song is incredible:

What is that? geez, what do you even consider a good time if NOT that? Did you even have a childhood? lol
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You don't need a heavy plot when you have robots battling huge monsters!

Real Steel is a film starring Hugh Jackman about robots that fight each other.

I consider films like The French Connection, Goodfellas and The Master a good time, because they're exciting but also incredibly well made and/or though provoking.

Pacific Rim is satisfactory because of the great effects, but is mere satisfaction really enough?

Also, I think I would have enjoyed the film a lot more if the script was done better; I cringed for about 10 minutes after hearing, “Haven’t you heard the world is coming to an end? So where would you rather die? Here or in a Jaeger?” lol

Ahh you are one of those.

I don't see what's wrong with being able to enjoy both types of films. I do. I'm able to get into the more artistic well made films but also turn my brain off and enjoy a blockbuster trash fest for what it is and not look for deeper meaning in a movie about big ass robots fighting monsters.


Also, I do know what Real Steel is and I have yet to finish watching it til this day. I saw the first 20 mins but I just wasn't interested anymore. I may finish it one day.

I don't see anything wrong with being able to enjoy both kinds of film, I just don't happen to be one of those people that can. For me, if the film doesn't have something deeper, it tends to feel the same as the previous fun blockbuster.

That's not to say I don't enjoy very fun films; my favourite film is one of the goofiest I've ever seen (a film called Playtime). But the film also has a lot to say about modernism and how it can be destructive to cultures.

Real Steel is nothing special, though.

I loved this film, or rather, how interesting the storyline was. Although the actors didn't let down either. I have yet to see a Justin Timberlake film where he disappoints. He's always surprisingly good (I especially liked him in Southland Tales). I bought this one on BluRay and I've seen it about 10 times. I have a soft spot for off-kilter sci-fi / drama films though. You'd like it even better if you were able to watch a good copy of it.

Okay, what? The Master is one of my favorite films released in the last couple of years. I won it. I've seen it like ten times. I love Paul Thomas Anderson. I think he's the next Kubrick.

However...

A GOOD TIME? I mean, it had it's moments but it was a very challenging film. I bet you thought the bathroom mirror scene was the best time of them all didn't you? I just don't understand.

Enter the Void and City Of God.

City Of God really lives up to it's reputation.
Enter the Void was basically the trippiest movie I've ever seen. It brings a whole new meaning to the song "Lights" by Ellie Goulding :P

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Mud (2012)

Two boys befriend a fugitive (Matthew McConaughey) on a deserted Mississippi River island. Really enjoyed the performances from McConaughey, Sam Shephard and Tye Sheridan as Ellis, the boy who most connects with McConaughey's character, Mud. Part Tom Sawyer, part Stand By Me, I enjoyed the story and even though the movie was a tad long, the characterizations kept me interested throughout.

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i watched it with a client who is a kid and im sure thats the intended demographic. but i feel like they added too many character quirks to each character and kinda over loaded them. i really didnt like this movie lol but billy crystal was actualyl very good. hes the only one who saved the movie. also marissa tomei is suuuuuch a milf id eat her butthole with a spoon. but the kid actors are bad too and for some reason i am always overly critical of kid actors lol

rating;;; D

This is the film where I realized that Matthew McConaughey has played huge trick on Hollywood. First he starts off his career by playing lovable stoner type characters and works his way right into the romantic comedies. He starts racking up money. Then out of nowhere, after he has made a security blanket of money, he starts really working on his acting skills. I loved him in Mud and he was great in Killer Joe and the Lincoln Lawyer. Hell, he was even good in Tropic Thunder. He has a role in Scorcese's next film and I expect it to be great.

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I originally didn't want to watch this because I thought the base concept was far-fetched and "silly" in a way that most bad sci-fi films have in common (what some may call "low-fi".) But I put these feelings aside and soon realised it has more value as a drama/character study than a sci-fi anyway. I thought it was really good. Sparks the brain and moves the heart.

This picture isn't showing for me. What movie is it?

Oh, damn! It's Another Earth directed by Mike Cahill, winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance Film Festival. I should've written that in my post in case of the image not showing up!

Oh, I saw a trailer for that movie a while ago and remember thinking it looked interesting. I'll definitely have to check it out.

It's fantastic. Brit Marling who stars in the film is one of my favorite people in Hollywood right now. She's a great actress and also great writer. She helped write Another Earth. Check out Sound of My Voice and The East. They're also written by her.

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Zero Dark Thirty

Loved it. I mean I knew I was going to, I have a love affair with both Kathryn Bigelow and her movies and this is easily one of her best ones. I don't even know why there's controversy about this movie considering it doesn't condemn nor endorse controversial topics like torture. What it does is presents the facts as the movie understands them and then asks the audience to make up their own minds about it. Maya was an outstanding character and I loved how the film didn't make a big deal out of her gender and importance and magnitude of the mission. The recreation of the raid on Bin Laden's compound was very well done and has proven that you don't have to sacrifice realism to make things more engaging.

Easily one of the best movies of 2012.

Anyone seen Alpha Papa yet?

Agreed, she is just amazing.

No one saw Elysium this weekend? That's a shame.

I saw it but I can't talk about it because I was way too tired when I went to see it and ended up only catching parts of it.

I saw it this weekend. Really great, probably the best summer blockbuster of the year.

I'm going to go see it again probably Monday or Tuesday. Most likely Tuesday.

I really want to see this movie and support Neill Blomkamp because he's one of the best things to happen to science-fiction in a very long time... but I just hate the moving going experience. Doesn't seem to matter which theater I go to or at what time, there's always a bunch of inconsiderate assholes that just ruin the experience. I really can't wait for the day when movies will be available on demand at the same time they're in theaters, even if there is a markup price, although obviously within reason. I remember hearing that Tower Heist was suppose to be the first movie to try this and they were going to charge $60 for the privilege of seeing an inconsequential Bret Ratner movie in the comfort of your own living room.

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It was OK overall and entertaining enough, but I thought it dragged on WAY too long, more so than any movie I've watched in recent memory. I also thought each consecutive "storyline" got progressively worse.

I have to say though that those were some of the better chase scenes I've seen. Kind of reminded me of Children of Men in a way in terms of how intense it was.

I thought Cooper did a really good job. Gosling was Gosling, I guess. No one else really stood out too much, and Gosling's kid was really bad.

5.5/10

I've seen Hellraiser, Hellraiser II : Hellbound and Hellraiser III : Hell on Earth over again. I'll comment on Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2 first.

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I've seen these before, but it's been a little while. Should anyone not know them, they are 80s horror flicks, but they are not quite run-of-the-mill as that may sound. The macabre intelligence of Clive Barker's gothic horror mythology makes for a very intriguing and spooky setting and Doug Bradley as the cenobite Pinhead makes for such an interesting character, I find. The whole mythology and its rules quite compelling. The movies are also more dark, gloomy and gory than your average 80s horror flick.

The rest of my post may contain some spoilers, so read at your own peril!



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Hellraiser 3 doesn't have the quality of the first two. It's more boring, less spooky, less gory and it doesn't seem to stick to the rules of the mythology like the previous two did. Pinhead, while getting plenty more screen time and dialogue, comes off as less menacing, even if he is the main villain this time around (spoiler, sorry!). Without having seen the rest of the series, I have heard that the quality only declines the further out you go. Perhaps I'll watch them out of curiosity .. not sure yet.

I love the mythology and the cenobites, so I don't like the thought of them being in sucky movies. ;)

The first Hellraiser is one of my favorite horror movies. (I do find its ambiguous location kind of funny though.)

Ambiguous location?

Ugh, I watched the fourth Hellraiser film, Bloodline, out of curiosity today. While watching it, I just got the feeling the writers didn't understand the myhology or characters. For example they pretty much establish that the Hellraiser hell is the biblical hell. The explanation behind why it doesn't quite look like it seems to be that while it used to be more biblical, hell was literally just redesigned away from the Danteish style of old at some point. In the first film, the cenobites are 'demons to some, angels to others', but this film establishes them as biblical demons. How much less intriguing .. And whereas Pinhead was more or less just an amoral entity fullfilling some purpose or doing some job in the first two movies, in this he's an evil guy who works towards enslaving or killing all of humanity or somesuch.

In other words, they took something unique and made it a lot more unimaginative and run-of-the-mill. I'll stay away from the rest of the series.

It's probably been about six or seven years since the last time I watched it so I forget the exact details, but I seem to recall about a 50/50 mix of British and American accents in the movie for no apparent reason and references to American locations as the characters moved through a landscape that looked exactly like England.

Still, it's a great movie that creeps me the hell out. :)

Yeah it was shot in England with mostly U.K actors but (as per usual) studio interference meant that it was supposed to be an American movie, but it's still a great movie even though it's been years since I saw it.

Hellraiser 2 is in many ways better and has some gorgeous visuals but once again studio interference meant that Clive Barker had his named removed from being director and the film was finished by errr can't remember offhand!

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Well this was just O.K. Certainly not a crock but the fight scenes have been seen a million times before and a little too much C.G.I for me.
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Well that certainly hit the spot! Anyone who reads my film posts will know that I am not the biggest Tarantino fan and both Deathproof and Inglorious left me underwhelmed but this was superb. Great dialogue (as ever to be fair) matched with great visuals and superb action scenes. Samuel L Jackson is so damn good in this too. Secretly pleased that Tarantino still has something left in the locker.
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Another pleasant surprise. I was expecting this to be a crock and although Harrison Ford's character arc was dubious I found this to be great fun and the aliens were pretty decent too.
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U.K remake of Nicholas Winding Refn's first film benefit's from adhering to a low budget formula and although it doesn't capture the nihilism of the original it was a very good effort with a decent soundtrack by Orbital and some good performances and cinematography.

Yela cheppanu movie.