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Saw Taken last night, an okay-at-best action/thriller whatnot starring the always awesome Liam Neeson. Sure, the action was cool and I must confess I sat there giggling like a schoolgirl as he deftly crushed arms and legs and throats and other bodyparts at will, but the plot was paper-thin at best and the acting so-so, except for mr. Neeson, that is, who came across as menacing and professional

 

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Two movie I watched.

 

History of the world pt1(by Mel Brooks):

Classic mel brooks comedy some fantastic gags and so not politically correct

Favorite joke:How do you make a venetian blind.... Poke his eyes (corny yes but delivered with very good Mel Brooks timing)

 

Noise: Aussie film very strange and fractured between the storyline of the lead (Brendan Cowell) and the plot line of someone shooting 8 people dead in Melbourne's inner east, with the side story of the witness of the first murder (7 shot dead in train) I would recommend to watch it, not sure how to rate it though it was confusing on occasion

saw vertigo last night, and despite all the claims of "best film ever" I found it somewhat... boring o_o If there are any Hitchcock fans here, please don't kill me, I really liked north by northwest? I just found it dragging on at times, but hey, maybe I didn't get all the subtle undertones or something. But the ending was excellent, and so was a dream sequence about halfways in. 6,5/10!

 

After that I saw forgetting sarah marshall, which i expected to be a somewhat dumb comedy, but I liked it quite a lot actually : p Lots of lovely humour to end my day. 7,5/10.

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Dunbar - You summed up my feelings on FSM as well.  Plus I got a little crush on that female lead as well.  And the songs....

 

Old as Ancient Skies

I'v had these wondering

And you took me by suprise when you let me inside of you

 

Inside of you

Inside of you

There's got to be

Some part of me

Inside of you

How often you watch movies demi? ::)

 

Far too often

 

^^

 

I try to squeeze in one a day, two if I've got time and friends that are willing!

 

Saw Kagemusha day before yesterday (was working yesterday, so no film :( ), an most epic japanese film about war and honour. Lovely use of colour, especially, and a good story! I give it 8,5/10!

 

Also, I'd probably pay to see the dracula muppet musical in FSM

Phycho beach party- A 80's inspired whodonit with a gidget like female lead, bad special effects waves and a killer killing everyone who has a defect.

Also the female lead has split personality and a mother with a strange past

saw    The Man From Earth    (I Like Using Capital Letters When Naming Films) which was ok. The story was interesting and somewhat thought-provoking, but nothing too deep. Production qualities were somewhat low, b-movie style. Acting was okay. 6,5/10.

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saw    The Man From Earth    (I Like Using Capital Letters When Naming Films) which was ok. The story was interesting and somewhat thought-provoking, but nothing too deep. Production qualities were somewhat low, b-movie style. Acting was okay. 6,5/10.

 

That movie was only made on a $200,000 Budget (most going to the actors, which isn't much money all things considered, and that one fat guy happened to be in Walker Texas Ranger, another was in Star Trek, so your basically talking about 15k to each actor, + camera + film + Editing... Its not a super low budget film, like that time travel one I wathced, and I think Empy thought was good to... But it definatley wasn't AAA... What didn't you like about it? (I know alot of people hated a section of the movie that happened about 1/2-3/4s into it...

I didn't hate it, or dislike it or anything, I just didn't find it too.. fascinating, I guess. Yeah, it was an interesting premise, and I was intrigued by it, but the whole Oldman being you know who (I'm trying not to spoil here) I found a bit silly, to be honest, and the biology teacher just plain annoyed me at times o_o. But yeah, it had a really interesting story, but I just didn't find it exceptionally awesome. What I did start thinking of was how awesome a series of films about his (or someone like him's) life. In hindsight I'll raise it to 7/10!

 

Also, I saw the birds just now, with some friends, one with acute and quite paralyzing fear of birds. It was... quite an experience. Also, the film is quite amazingly creepy, 8/10!

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Hostel Part 2: 

 

Ummm... I am not even sure why I began to watch it but after the naked woman started bathing in the blood of the other naked woman I was done.  I give this a no rating cause I didn't watch more than 30 minutes.

 

Wall-E:

 

Cute, original and smart.  My favorite part spoke to how lazy people are as they got all fat and rode around in a daze on their hover recliners.  Even though the only dialogue consisted of "Wall-E" and "Evaaaa", the expressions of Wall-E were great like you would see from a dog.  I disagree with Cads that the first part of the movie was slow.  I thought it was well done.  I give this movie a... well... 4.5 out of 5. 

 

Rendition:

 

This movie is about the CIA's policy to secret extradiate terrorists back to countries where people can be tortured without falling under US law.  So this movie had a lot of torture in an Arab country.  In this case, the Arab that was taken off his plane in the US was legit and married to a US citizen, so the movie is spent showing how torture doesn't really work and how the wife goes about trying to get her husband back.  Overall not a bad film and it will get my average rating of 3 out of 5.

 

Coming soon:  The Countifiters and Edge of Heaven

Saturday: Saw

 

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra: i give thee 7/10, for thy at times hilatious references to olden monster movies and over the top acting. It got a bit mich towards the end, but was still rather enjouable.

 

Shoot 'em up Woo, shooting, over the top violence, sex AND guns simultaneously, and some dry (...) carrot related humor. 6,5/10

 

Anger management. Jack Nicholson is pure awesome, concentrated into a manly shape. Otherwise fine, 7/10. It has some funnies *nod*

 

Sunday

 

Glengarry Glen Ross, superb acting and quick and witty dialogue makes this a good movie! 8/10!

I disagree with Cads that the first part of the movie was slow. 

 

Never seen it, you're confusing movies or members. *nod*

 

 

 

I watched Cashback, a british indie flick starring that cute boy who played Wood in the first couple HP movies. He's gotten taller and thinner, but his eyes are still adorable puppy dog sad. Also, the bionic woman plays his ex-girlfriend. Anyway, it was a pretty decent flick, a little talky, as the lead character had a voice over throughout. The voice over was a little excessive in the beginning, but it either became less noticeable, or less frequent as we actually got around to the core of the plot. College-age artist breaks up with girlfriend, becomes insomniac, takes night shift at supermarket, learns he can stop time (though it is not treated as a big deal, or some sort of sci-fi element, it's blended very smoothly into the storyline without being the main focus) to focus in on any particular moments he likes. New romance ensues.

 

Available on NetFlix Watch It Now, and recommended for anyone who likes indie flicks or non-flowery romances, or for anyone who likes to see attractive, naked female bodies (but you really only have to watch the first 30 minutes for that).  ;D

 

 

 

 

I've also been watching Kim Possible, which is entirely age inappropriate, but I still kinda like it. >.<

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Yea, I saw cashback awhile back. And you know what? I bet now that cads gave it an A+ Empy's gunna be over that like a fat kid... empy, all over a chocolate cake! :P

 

 

Anyways, I made it through 3 disk of the Wire friday night. Man this show is just getting better and better!

And McNulty! Wow, talk about pissing off his boss! ;)

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"These are for you McNulty.  You have my attention now"  Rawls says while holding up two middle fingers for a long time.

 

And Omar is bad ass. 

 

Cads- since it is watch it now, I will add it.

saw The assassination of Richard Nixon last night, and it wasn't too bad. Pretty convincing acting from Sean Penn and overall an intriguing and interesting story about a failed assassination attempt. I give it 7,5/10.

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Persepolis

That french black and white animated movie about a girl who lived in iran during the revolution, and was able to go to Vienne during the late 80s.

 

Favorite Scene describing her accendence into adult-hood

 

"first I grew 7 inches, then My left hand got bigger, then my right foot, My face got longer, My nose got 3x as large, Then I grew boobs. (cut to animation showing all of this, and as she grew boobs, she fell face first on the ground) Then My ass restored my center of gravity"

Saw Game of death last night, which I found highly ejoyable, despite a lack of the real Bruce Lee 'til the last 11 or so minutes. Lots of kung-fu-tastic moments. 7,5/10!

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I am not sure Samurai is capable of posting more than one word in a post....

 

 

Tropic Thunder:

 

I am not a fan of Ben Stiller or Ben Stiller movies.  Sure, he strikes gold about every 10th film he does.  There is Something about Mary and Dodgeball come to mind.  I didn't particular like him in this movie either... but everything else about it was great.  I didn't laugh nonstop or anything, but I did laugh quite often.  Mostly it was something Robert Downey Jr said or Tom Cruise.... Tom Cruise was great.  I am giving this one 4 out of 5 empies. 

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