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September 25th, 2010, 03:47 PM
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. A real nail-biter. Kept me on the edge of my chair...literally.
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September 26th, 2010, 05:39 PM
Double feature: GOR and OUTLAW OF GOR. I must confess that John Norman's GOR books are a guilty pleasure of mine. So the two movies were a bit of fun to watch.
Evil priests, power mad barbarian kings, a sadistic *****-queen and numerous scantily-clad slave girls dodging whips and chains. An indomitable, square-jawed hero...what more can a boy want?
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October 3rd, 2010, 09:23 AM
'Jennifer's Body'. Well, parts of it. The story seemed pretty wacked. An angst-ridden teen girl (Amanda Seyfried) is BFF with another girl (Megan Fox) whom apparently was killed in a satanic ritual, and some demonic force took over her newly-animated corpse.
There's considerable blood, sex, and body fluids everywhere -- not to forget the tar-like substance that Megan puked all over Amanda's kitchen floor.
Amanda knows something's wrong, but nobody believes her.
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October 4th, 2010, 04:46 AM
The Village - I've heard it was awful and after subjecting myself to
Lady in the Water I was highly wary of anything made by Shyamalan, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was quite creepy in places and well plotted. The twist could have been revealed a bit more dramatically, but overall I was impressed.
The Town - extremely cliched, yet also extremely well made. Worth seeing.
El Dorado - very entertaining western. Though what's with James Caan's Chinaman impression?
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October 5th, 2010, 02:37 AM
The Legend of the Guardians - EPIC and beautiful!!!
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"Once the Queen's dead the King's useless . . . maybe he's too depressed to fight; he really loved her you know"
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October 5th, 2010, 11:34 AM
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Not a bad film. The story of Perseus, and his battle with his father, Zeus, is a classic, and I always thought it deserved a new incarnation. This version, though, was not the epic I had hoped for. The action was good, the FX were better, but the story wasn't quite on par with them.
In all, it was comparable to the original. A deeper characterization for Perseus, who all-but-disavowed his divine lineage in favor of his mortal upbringing. Liam Neeson, as Zeus, was very enjoyable.
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October 9th, 2010, 04:15 PM
Splice.
The film was rather original, I thought, in the way it handled the 'science experiement gone bad' premise. The protagonists (Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley) were complex people who weren't simply the mad scientists we typcally see.
The effects were good. The story was thought-provoking, spooky, creepy, sexy, and had its share of 'What the frak?' moments.