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Mission Impossible 3 7/10

Acting was pretty solid, story was ok but not the best out of the four movies (I preferred the first movie's story more). I have to say I loved the atmosphere that J.J Abrams created throughout this though.
 
Stardust (2007) [First Time Viewing]: 8.4/10
- Very pleasent surprise; wasn't really expecting anything from it, even though it was Matthew Vaughn directing, but turned out to be an incredibly entertaining - and also very funny - fantasy film with great pacing!

Red (2010) [First Time Viewing]: 6.5/10
- Kind of delivers what you want, nothing more, nothing less.

Shallow Grave (1994) [First Time Viewing]: 9.1/10
- My third favourite director, Danny Boyle's first feature film. Fantastic in every aspect in my opinion. I always love Boyle's unique directing style and it even exists this far back! Very enjoyable and fun film with a great ending.

Kick-Ass (2009) [6th Viewing]: 9.3/10
- Not everyone's "cup of tea", but Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass is easily one of my favourite films of the last ten years. This film is just far too entertaining to watch and there are so many unbelievably great scenes in there too (One being one of my all-time favourites). It also includes an updated version of John Murphy's "Surface of the Sun" (Originally from Sunshine), which also happens to be my favourite soundtrack/score. I cannot stop watching this film!

Sin City (2005) [First Time Viewing]: 5.0/10
- As is the case with Snyder's "300", I don't quite see the brilliance in this film; I mean, "technically-speaking", it is great, but the film didn't come across as that different and didn't really do anything in the end for me - although it did have its moments.
 
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Hope Springs 5/10

Meh. The performances are great, but the plot didn't seem like anything really new. Predictable as well.

Badlands (Second viewing) 10/10

My favorite Malick film. Great performances from Sheen and Spacek. Not to mention, beautiful cinematography and score.

Jackie Brown 7/10

Not the best Tarantino film, not the worst. Great dialogue and acting though.

Hannah and Her Sisters (Third viewing) 8.5/10

Classic Woody Allen. After watching Blue Jasmine, I re-watched some of his older work. Funny, quirky, and original.

After Earth 0/10

An insult to film. I really hope this is the nail in the coffin for M. Night.
 
Elysium - 8/10
Not as slick of a story as 'District 9', but fairly entertaining. Definitely recommend if interested.
I think the criticisms of the heavy handed U.S. illegal immigrant for our healthcare paralells are themselves a bit heavy handed.
The shaky-cam is a bit strong, and I severely dislike the American style fight action sequences where the camera is crammed right up onto the actors. Very annoying. I much prefer the 'Raid: Redemption' style "pull back the camera so that we can appreciate the action" style.


Trance - 5/10
If you like mystery thriller pseudo-heist pseudo-psychology mumbo jombo then this'll be okay.
FULL shaved frontal of Rosario Dawson was a bit unnecessary, but whever. It's nice to see a non-size 2 girl. She looks good. Whatever.


One Missed Call - 4/10
Stupid.
Dumb.
Totally missabe.
 
O Brother Where Art Thou - 4/5
One of the Coen's best.

Step Brothers - 3/5
A few funny moments, but its no Anchorman.

L'Atalante - 4.5/5
Beautiful French film from the 30's. The underwater sequence is superb. Apparently the director was at deaths door during the making of, but the film he left behind is a real gem.
 
Dawn of the Dawn (remake) 6/10

Meh. A few good moments, some nice cinematography, that guy from Modern Family, and some good old fashion zombie gore :cool:

Thumbsucker 9/10

Great film. Amazing performances (especially from Swinton), beautiful cinematography, and perfect pacing. Surreal and beautiful.

Stranger than Fiction (second viewing) 7/10

Good film. Some very funny moments. I think the film should have ended with her writing that Harold Crick wins $60 billion dollars. Then they split the money. That's what I would have done.

Running with Scissors 4/10

I liked the book. The film has it's moments. But not enough moments to keep me interested/entertained.
 
Mary Poppins directed by Robert Stevenson; produced by Walt Disney - 10/10
This is just a really great musical. I love the music, I love Julie Andrew's performance, I love the special effects, and I feel that this is Walt Disney's true swansong. It's practically perfect in every way!

In The Mood For Love directed by Wong Kar-Wai - 10/10
This movie is going to be with me forever, everything about it is great. I don't think I have anything new to say about it, but I just have to say that this film has the best use of music in any film that I have seen. The film has a dream-like quality to it, and its probably the most romantic film I've seen, and it accomplishes this by its restraint. I'll have to watch this film again and again.

Hua Yang De Nian Hua directed by Wong Kar-Wai - 7.5/10
This short film was an inspiration for Wong Kar-Wai while making In The Mood For Love. The film is basically a collage of classic Chinese films of the 30's and 40's with the great Chinese singing star Zhou Xuan singing the title song. I really liked the film because that era fascinates me, and it makes me want to watch all of the films in this collage.
 
Clear History 4/5
Awesome, just like a really long curb your enthusiasm episode

West of Memphis 3/5
Everything I expected, presented well

Union Pacific - 2/5
Slow and boring and no great dramatic scenes with miss stanwyck

Best Worst Movie 3/5
Not a bad doc, but it was really more of a character piece than a behind-the-scenes look at what went wrong
 
Sling Blade 10/10

Great film. Thornton is a great writer, director, and actor. Powerful.

Oh, and Jim Jarmusch is in it :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pz2kXoDo_s

Gotta love dem potaters! :)
 
Love in the Afternoon 9/10 What a fantastic romantic comedy! i'm glad to see my decision to watch more audrey hepburn movies is paying off. is so rare for me to find a movie i like this much, i'm feeling great

there were so many priceless moments in this film and the ending really hit everything home. this is the #2 best romcom i've ever seen, #1 being city lights.
 
I'm Still Here 6/10

Kind of funny. Kind of awkward. Kind of boring. JP was annoying as hell though.

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The Trip. Very nice. It doesn't hurt that I'm in these guys' age group. I was like, really, these guys are in their forties? They look older than that, don't they? Am I that old? Damn. Oh well. Good stuff.

Bloody Bloody Bible Camp. Well, I suppose it has some amount of charm.

The Man with the Iron Fists. I stopped watching about a quarter of the way through, if that. I know we're supposed to watch bad films, too, so that we can learn from them. But do I haave tooooo... ? Maybe I'll try again some other time.

Rise of the Guardians. Actually pretty nice.

Identity Thief. I think I was hesitant about sticking with it, but I did, and it turned out to be fairly amusing and nice enough.

Tabloid. Good stuff. Entertaining. Recommend.

The Hole. Not bad at all.
It's more-or-less House (1986), only starring attractive young people. Not that The Greatest American Hero wasn't attractive or young, I guess.

Trouble with the Curve. Actually fairly nice. Once again Justin Timberlake shows he is a good actor with good screen presence. And of course Amy Adams and the rest of the cast as well.

Tales from the Script. For maybe the third time. Still brilliant. Although, this last time has me thinking that screenwriting, or at least the business, might not be for me. Hmmm.

Unfinished Sky. Pretty good.
 
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Side by Side 9/10

Spoilers ahead.

Brilliant. It started out going over the basics of digital vs. film, then got much deeper, talking about how many digital formats are impossible to play anymore. There's nothing to play it on. I found it interesting that film can never die. It's the only format that cannot be outlived. For some reason I got chills. Very well made film.
 
IRREVERSIBLE - Gasper Noes rape revenge drama. Some elements of the film were fantastic some parts really dragged for me. 7/10

Hidden Fortress - Another Kurosawa Samurai adventure. Lovely film start to finish and an apparent (and in hindsight totally obvious) influence on Star Wars. 8/10

Y Tu Mama Tambien - Pretty fantastic from start to finish. 8.5/10
 
Tales from the Script. For maybe the third time. Still brilliant. Although, this last time has me thinking that screenwriting, or at least the business, might not be for me. Hmmm.
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Never heard of Tales from the Script - Looks awesome!

My brutally honest most recent watches:

The Imposter (9/10)

Disney's Teen Beach Movie (4/10)

The Grey (7/10)

Elysium (6/10)

Turbo (7/10)

A Place Beyond the Pines (8/10)

The Wolverine (5/10)

Rating films is hard! I feel like any of these movies could have received +points or -points depending on what kind of day I was having when I saw them. Maybe that says something about me, or maybe it's just the nature of experiencing film. How do you enter the theater with a clear mind and clean slate, to experience a film and have the purest emotional response to it? Maybe there's no good answer. I'm overthinking it.
 
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How do you enter the theater with a clear mind and clean slate, to experience a film and have the purest emotional response to it? Maybe there's no good answer. I'm overthinking it.
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You gotta review them in context.

You gotta weigh your own personal natural interests against what both the genré's history has already produced + what a "general" audience will likely appreciate + what a genré & sub-genré zealot will appreciate.
This is especially true for horror movies where the genpop just wants great value without regard for quality, while a horror fan will easily differentiate between a slasher/torture porn/gore porn/creature feature/ghost/demon/whatever film.

I find going into a movie with "sufficient" education about it beforehand provides a more objective perspective than going in with a nube in the forest approach (which seems to be the overwhelming majority preferred approach.)

I like seeing originals before remakes and originals before prequels, but sometimes just bite the bullet.
Also, watching the extras on DVD/BR's helps provide context.

Film people and regular people are slightly different and have different demands.
There are some films that film people should watch just for the cinematography or story construct that regular people won't even appreciate.

If a film SHOULD be watched just on general principles I'd give it a 8 or above.
If worth watching at least once a 6 or 7.
If it's missable but decent maybe a 5 or 6.
If it looks good but is a cr@p film 5 or 4.
If it both looks like cr@p and it's a cr@p story 3 or 2.
If the director & distributor should be mailed a dog turd the film rates a 1.

Add/subtract points for anything you want: camera work, story, T&A, language, SFX, anything.



Hit and Run - 3/10
Kristen Bell just isn't so cute as to keep watching this. Turned it off after twenty minutes.

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But it made money, so... good for them.


Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - 3/10
IDK WTH anyone involved with this $50M film was thinking. I can't believe it made 5X that amount in rev.
Again, I turned it off 20min in. Watch 'The Brothers Grimm' instead.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - 7/10
It's not too bad.
I watched this with my teen daughter pretty much for the express reason to get her to watch the original + the TBurton remake just to better understand what remakes are all about + the whole PotA series.

We also watched 'The Grudge' Americanized remake (6/10), and will watch the beginning of 'Ju-on' (5/10) for the same reason.

I feel this will better help her understand how her own school reports can refect multiple interpretations of the same source material.

John Carter - 6/10
Childish drivel that looks good.
I can't stand the theatrical over acting.
 
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You gotta review them in context.

You gotta weigh your own personal natural interests against what both the genré's history has already produced + what a "general" audience will likely appreciate + what a genré & sub-genré zealot will appreciate.

I find going into a movie with "sufficient" education about it beforehand provides a more objective perspective than going in with a nube in the forest approach (which seems to be the overwhelming majority preferred approach.)
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Hmm, I think I understand what you're saying, which is why I would be a terrible critic/reviewer for the masses. The ideal viewing experience for me is when I know nothing about the film prior to watching it. That doesn't mean I never develop context by reading reviews, watching interviews, talking to people who have seen it, etc...but I kinda wish I never did :)

The critic's task may well be an under appreciated one!
 
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