"Starwoids" is an original Film Threat documentary about the 1999 Star Wars, Episode 1, explosion. Chronicling fans 41 day wait for tickets to the film premiere, to a year laters retrospective, and everything in between, "Starwoids" is an exercise in patience, and the nature of the Star Wars fun.
Frankly, this was an unsatisfying and pedestrian documentary. A bunch of dorks wait in line, in shifts, to see the new Star Wars film. They eventually clash, they never fight of course, maybe knock their toy lightsabers around a bit, and get angry, but that's the extent. Boring doc about some losers which make me glad I got out of that whole scene.
"Day of the Dead 2: Contagium" is a self proclaimed sequel/prequel to George Romero's 1985, "Day of the Dead". In the late 1960's, a viral outbreak occured in a small German hospital, causing some of the patients to become flesg-eating zombies. A vile of the infection, which was originally a military experiment, was stolen, stashed in a thermos, and lost in the mix. Fast forward to today, a group of mental patients stumble upon a thermos, containing the virus. As history would have it, curiosity killed the cat, and turned its handlers into the same meat craving creatures.
I'll just come right out and say it. This is the stupidest, worst ****ing horror movie I've ever seen. First strike is the literal sacrelige in using the "Day of the Dead" title, which happens to be MY favorite zombie films of all time behind SOTD. There's no relation whatsoever, as it was merely a cash-in by Anchor Bay. Secondly, the special effects were so incredibly low that the team used DRIED GLUE as PEELING SKIN! Yes..DRIED..****ING..GLUE. Oh, forgot the horrible acting, incredibly bad dialogue, even worse gore, because the STORYLINE took the cake here. THERE WASN'T ONE! They opened the thermos, dropped the vial, the infection spread, people acted like they were in a elementary school play, and then it was an exact re-enactment of the first scene of the movie!
Just crap..it was so bad, I get angry thinking about it.
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In the 4th installment, and the final of the 1990's, George Clooney suits up as the Caped Crusader to take on Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy, played respectively by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Uma Thurman. Alfred, the butler, sees his granddaughter come in from a school break, to dawn the Batgirl costume and fight alongside the crime fighting duo, partaking in some killer bat and cat fights.
As if you hadn't guessed, the franchise got progressively worse. Bright colors and cool looking new characters don't make up for horrible miscasting, and as cript mainly contrived of one liners. I don't think Mr. Freeze, when decipherable, had an actual sentence in the entire film. Clooney even sounded like he was reading off of cue cards. Totally uninspired efforts by the main characters, leaving Uma Thurman's sultry Poison Ivy to carry the weight of the 2 hour long crapfest. Well, props to Alfred. Even on his deathbed, he had more enthusiasm and energy. Like the other Schumacher "Batman" film, there was no real story. Just action, no character development, no history, just stretching a barrage of one liners and wire works for way too long.
Pass.
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Joanna Eberhart and her family have decided to leave the hustle and bustle of NYC and retreat to the little quiet town of Stepford. There, they immediately find bright shining faces, waiting to great them, and all the makings of domestic perfection. Almost too perfect, when Joanna and her friend Bobbie notice a pattern of undying male servitude in the Stepford women.
"The Stepford Wives" is a strong social statement, as well as smart thriller of sorts, especially for the 1970's. It seems like a stripped down David Cronenberg storyline, although, with little room for gore. The film, in short, puts the term "trophy wife" into perspective. Men desiring total perfection in their mate, as if they were robots, there for their every beck and call. The film was recently re-made with Nicole Kidman, and took a more savagely dark humor turn, whereas the original had a bitting social commentary for the supposed "archaic" males of the age.
A good movie, overall. While it ran a little long, and the imagery is dated, the message still rings true today, almost 30 years later, and comes across as quite inventive.
One of Ron Howard's better directed films, "Apollo 13" chronicles the trust story of the seemingly ill-fated mission to the moon that could have very well never been shared, given the overwhelming circumstances. NASA, having just endured a mid-mission catastrophe prepared for the Apollo 13 flight. Their pilot falling ill, a back up team captain took the chair, thus creating a chain reaction of roadblocks in the journey. In the end, the men of Apollo 13 stared adversity in the face, and while they never made it to the moon, more importantly than anything, they made it back home.
"Apollo 13" is a genuinely American movie. It's cast almost flawlessly with "average joes" such as Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, and Kevin Bacon, which had great chemistry, even of the negative persuasion which worked equally as well. Naturally, such a harrowing story has liberties taken with it, however, the authenticity was strikingly credible. Those of us that have had "one of those days" know that when it rains, it pours. Luckily, we're never had to comadeer a space shuttle during that time.
The film never sagged, which tends to be a problem in most long-running dramas, and was a plus. The suspense was genuine, and always kept me interested, and I was always left waiting to see what the boys at NASA would do to make things right again. "Apollo 13" was a beautifully shot film, a la "2001", with great landscapes, and breathtaking cinematography. All in all, it was a very well rounded space adventure movie. Nothing as showy or engaging as, say, "Armageddon", but the "All American" feel was still as strong.
A great piece of filmmaking, and the story is a testament to the will of the human spirit. Very uplifiting.
In the updated version of "The Fog", Antonio Bay is victimized by a mysterious, almost supernatural fogbank that summons the ghosts of a ship that sank 100 years ago. Looking to avenge their deaths, that are traced back to the settling families doublecrossing, the fallen come back to the town.
Revisions in the structure make the 2005 edition of Carpenter's story more solid. There's a sufficient backstory, some historical aspects explaining the feud, as well as some complimentary imagery. While Wainwright's effort seemed to have had a high school friendly twist, it never escalated to the absurdity of other teen horrors, more so staying true to the original. The whole picture actually had a lot of potential, and given the thin premise and original workings it had to operate with, it wasn't so much a disappointment as it was a missed opportunity for a better overall film.
"The Fog" displayed some surprisingly solid acting on the parts of Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, and the always fun Selma Blair. Nobdies performances came off as contrived or forced, just very mellow, per the original. In the end, what it came down to was the films lack of a real punch. 105 minutes was just too long to stretch an invasion of a big, evil cloud. While I appreciated it being more thorough in the storytelling, it was too sporatic, and would have served better as an opening, instead of sporatic installments, chopping up the pacing.
IMO, it's a renter, but I saw it for free. Makes for a decent date movie.
Ms. Harvey was an infamous female bounty hunter. Her tale was equally as entriguing as her personality. While the world lost Domino on June of this year to an accident overdose on painkillers, Tony Scott has brought her tales to the big screen in a fashion only he knows how to do.
"Domino" was a cool-ass film. Not flawless, but cool nonetheless. The picture depicts the tale of Domino Harvey, who grew up fighting adversity all her life, namely in her own family. Born into money and popularity, Harvey was never one for the "90210 lifestyle" her mother was so fond of. She hooks up with Ed (Rourke) and Choco (Rodriquez) and becomes the 3rd piece of a bounty hunter outfit. The trio are asked to hunt down a $10 Million dollar prize that was heisted earlier from an armed security truck. Little did they know, they'd soon have the mob, and billionaire, and a TV crew on their tail.
The entire movie was well acted. Keira Knightley was very convincing as the lead, while Rourke took the whole shady bad guy to a new level. Christopher Walken was hilarious as the cable TV executive, and Lucy Lui's stonefaced FBI interrogating agent all complimented one another. There were two things that didn't set incredibly well with me, that may merit and second viewing. The plot was heavy, and incorperated A LOT of different characters, and with the time shifts, the chronology was thrown off balance, thus confusing me for the longest time. Thankfully, after sitting down and thinking, it all made sense. The other thing was Tony Scott's stylings. He's made the "seizure cam" a household name, thanks to "Man on Fire". The visuals were just overwhelming sometimes, and their charm wore off. Fuzzy filters, discolored frames, and honestly, not a lot of footage that was shot steadily, or cleanly.
All in all, it was a story, with liberties taken, made to entertain, namely with insane visuals and LOTS of violence, set to an awesome soundtrack. So, if you're in the mood for a cool story, with some contemporary camerawork, and a lot of people getting sprayed. check this one out.
OK, I'm starting My own review thread, Not because I'm lookg for E-points or anything like that, I'm just trying to cover things that cine' did not. I write reviews becasue I like writing. and one last thing, Please do not post in this thread, just look and go, PM me questions and such. should have two up today.
I'm not the fastest writer in the world, I do have a life, Highschool defianatley messes with it.
Enjoy these reviews.
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I got the chance to veiw this movie earlier this week, And I must say, I loved it. Jack nicholson definatley deserved Best Actor for this movie, and It definatley deserved to win Best picture of 1975. It starts off with Jack nicholsons character "R. P. Mcmurphy" Coming to a mental institute. He isn't really crazy, he is acting crazy to get out of spending time in jail, and with lower security in the mental institute, he has a much better chance of escaping. I'd tell you more but I dont want to ruin this wonderful movie. The movie also gives birth to the actor Christopher Lloyd, who you may also know as "Dr. Brown" in "Back to the future" (another good flick).
Louise Fletcher Played a hard-ass nurse working in the institute, she is constantly on R.P's back, trying to decide on whether or not he is really a loon or not. She believes so, but the others think differently. Every actor who played a crazy did perfect, exactly how I think a person whould act in an institute. I could make a paragraph on each actor to be honest, But I will spare you the time, and let you watch the movie and Decide for yourself, I doubt very seriously you will be dissapointed. This movie comletley swept 5 oscars in 1976, and it very much deserved to.
All in all this is the directors (Milos Forman) best film, He is currently making 2 movies that are to open up next year. I very much look forward to those.
Serenity is like some people say "like being at a friends college party" unless you watched the "Firefly" series that was cancelled shortly after about 13 episodes. That however, was a HUGE mistake, claimed by many. So if someones crushes your idea's on TV, what are you going to do? Make a movie! And that is exactly what Joss Whedon did, and the results were great, I have the "Firefly" series in the mail right now. Now enough talk about this, here is the review.
Serenity is like a mix between Starwars, and the fifth element. The movie is about a ship of pirates on unknowingly carrying the woman-weapon "river tam", secretley holding the secrets of the Alliance's plans, and secrets, she is a fighting weapon, and a phsycic, which can be very useful when living a life of crime. This movie has tons of action, and blows ROTS out of the water IMO, the movie also had a good sense of humor, The comic relief is Adam Baldwin. You may know him from "Full metal jacket", as "animal mother" the marine with the faithful M60, He plays just the right role in this movie .
Chiwetel Ejiofor played the "no-name" operative out looking for River tam, he was a super bad-ass in this movie, he didn't use a gun hardly as much as he used his short sword, he is a master in kung-fu and other fighting. If you've seen "Four Brothers" he played Victor sweet.
Besides The no name operative being the bad guy, the real threat to the universe is the "reavers". they are galactic, man-eating beasts that eat and rape their victims...ALIVE. They are pretty scary, and I did not expect them to be so ruthless in this movie. they defianatley create some suspense for the movie IMO..
I was also very impressed with Nathan Fillion and Summer Glau's acting in this movie, they were great! I would suggest this movie very strongly to all Star wars fans, all fans of Sci-fi, and fans of the fifth element in particular. take my advice: the trailer is misleading, and Go see it now, while you still have the chance.
Funny its not on your favourites list in your profile. But yeah good review and good thing you opened this thread ; It was like Cine was monopolising the review section that once was.
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Here is a review on a DVD I bought the other day, The outsiders: full novel.
It pretty much covers S.E. Hinton's entire book, I cant think of a single event in the book that doesn't take place in the complete novel movie. What I love about it is it sows everything, which not all movies based on books do, because the filmmakers do what they think is best for the audience, who have both read the book, and those who haven't. Personally I loved the original movie, and I love this one too, let me tell you about the actual movie itself.
The movie is about 2 gangs, the soc's and the greasers. the greasers are from the north side, and they are all poor and look out for each other, they are the good guys in this movie. and the soc's are the south side snobby, and rich bad guys in this movie. what happens, is that a drunk soc, comes up to 2 greasers, (ponyboy, and Johnny) and attacks them, they are actually drowning one of the greasers, and could kill him. so johnny (played by Ralph maccio) whips out his knife and stabs the soc entirely out of self defense, they conflict is that they then hafto run away from town, so that they are not arrested. There is alot more to it, but I don't want to give it all away.
This movie is directed by critically loved Francis ford Coppola, the Godfather man himself. and does a good job with this movie. It really has a strange cast. Much of the cast went on to be even bigger stars, like Patrick swayzee, rob Lowe, Matt Dilan, Emilio estivez, and tom cruise. But as far as I'm concerned Coppola did a great job translating IMO.
And the actors did a great job filling in the rest, I would recommend this to everyone, but I recommend even more, the book itself. "the outsiders" by S.E. Hinton.
Clint Eastwood has a way of making everyone of his lines a memorable quote for you and me. I cent exactly put my finger on it on what he does, but I like it. Everywhich way but loose is a great way to show off what Clint Eastwood can do. Cint eastwood plays Philo Beddoe, a bare fisted fitfighter searching for his lady love west of the rockies. And lives with his 165-pound Orangatang buddy "Clyde".
This movie Is great, It's not oscar material, but you will remember this movie forever. That's usually how most Clint Eastwood movies are. This is Jeremy Kronsberg's few and best writings, in fact he only wrote this, and then "Going Ape!". So you dont really have much to select from this guy. And the director James fargo, Has a movie coming out this year, or already has, and I have no idea on anything about it.
But do yourself a favor, if you are a fan of 70's movies, go check this one out, and if you like it, check out it's sequel, "any which way you can".
This is a fascinating documentary, the likes of which I have never seen before. It records the events that happened in a smalltown in America named Black River Falls, between 1890 and 1900. It focuses on the bizarre and alarming amount of murder, death and bizarre goings on.
As though the very soil of this Midwest settlement was soaked in evil (there is little surprise in learning that serial killers Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer hailed from the same state), its largely German and Norwegian occupants found themselves inexplicably plagued with disease, insanity, suicide and murder.
Distilled from period newspaper reports into a book by Michael Lesy, director James Marsh has taken the astonishing events that took place in Wisconsin's Black River Falls between 1890 and 1900, and made a haunting and moving documentary.
It consists of eloquent narration over artfully shot vignettes and real life photos and newspaper reports of the time.Even though it focuses on death and murder, it is not voyeuristic or tastless, rather it gives insight into the fragility of the human condition and the great hardships humans beings had to endure at the time and continue to endure.
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"Jurassic Park III"
with it's great CGI Animation it makes a good Movie,Take that away it is terrible,not even good to start with come to think about,but persay it still was okay
Acting
CGI
Story
directions
i give it a D
( so what it is a bad grade..its a BAD Movie)
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