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Name: Target
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Austin
Birthday: 10/27/1979
Gender: Male
Interests: This is mostly just a blog for myself. I hiope others read it and tell me if they liked or disliked the films i watched. Not really reviews, mostly just my thoughts, ect.
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Member Since:
1/13/2006
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| Just some quick reviews to note i watched them:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: **** (four Stars) my fave movie of the series and my fave book of the series. Hermoine is gonna be HOTT.
V for Vendetta: *** (three stars) Will make any suburbanite 15 year old inspired to rebel against whatever the left tells him to!! Hugo weaving is great. Not as good as the comic. but good.
Inside Man:*** (three stars) DENZEL!!! CLIVE!!!! nuff said. great cast.
ALIAS Season 1: ***** (five stars). First Five star rating here ever. It's a PHENOMENAL series that is everything great about the new style of TV latley. Much much more than a spy thriller, as good as the first season of 24.
Ice Pirates: * (one star) Should be seen once in a lifetime. just once.
Hitch * (one star) Yes it's funny. And i thought it represented eerything wrong with our culture. Emphasis on image over substance, materialism over realism, and that money and changing who you are make you a better person.
Waiting. ** (two stars) ryan reynolds is funny, but the movies comes off too "idie" production value could have been better. BUT, working in a restaurant for 3 years, and seeing that, it's true. so true.
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| After a short hiatus and a month of watching TV on DVD (currently catchin up on ALIAS and Star Trek: Enterprise) I'm back to comment on an oldie but goodie.
Mission Impossible ***1/2 stars
SO i figure i'd take a look at one of the classics of the past 20 years or so. I'ts been several years since i've really sat down and watched Mission Impossible, and with a sequel coming out in a few months, i fured it was time to get re-aquainted with the movies again.
It stars Tom Cruise as super secret agent Ethan hunt, on a mision that has a worse outcome that jack bauer at a terrorist convention, and tries to figure out the mystery of whodunnit, and howdunnit.
Overall, the movie is jsut a nice classic caper film that feels more like something out of the early Bond collection than it does out of the modern caper film, which, is what it is at it's ccore. Most people know the difference in style and tone between the first and second films is as stark as night and day, but, in thier own vein, they're each great. The first one however, truly, upon a rewatching, FEELs like a cclassic, it feels like when you re-watch one of the indiana Jones movies, quoting lines, excited even though you know every twist and turn. It's jsut a SOLID movie front to back and should be enjoyed bya ll. Plus it's pre-momma katie/whacked out scientologist Tom. back when he was the pompous ass we all loved, and not the psycho mvegan cultist we still love. Great movvie, pop it in and re-enjoy it all voer again. then watch the seequel, and wnjoy every single slow-mo shot of long haired tommy swing double guns in a beautiful vista while doves fly past him, casue really thats all the 2nd one is.
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| GREAT TRASH!!
Red Eye***
(3 stars on the trash scale)
The
beauty of this movie is in Rachel Mcadams....I mean.. In it's
simplicity, but McAdams being smokin hot doesn't hurt one bit. Add on
Cillian(pronounced Killian apparently) Murphy's creepy psycho
performance, and you have an airplane thriller that kicks the crap out
of Jodie Fosters's poor excuse of an attempt. The beauty of this movie
is it's simplicity. Murphy's character is relentless and scary, very
calm until the end, and shows an unrelenting ability to be an asshole.
I really think Mcadams will eventually be one of those "renown"
actresses, but for now, as a hot leading lady in mediocre roles. she
excels. Plus Wes Craven directed it and knows how to pace a thriller
movie well. he knows how to build the tension with shots and music.
It' a TEXTBOOK thriller, but that is where and why it excels. IT's
simple, no major twists or turns, what you;d expect, but even though
you expect it, you're still on the edge of your seat. Plus, I love any
movie in which you root for the bad-guy as much as you would the
heroine. Murphy is a great psycho, and I was waiting for him to say
"It's the Bat-Man...." and look around all creepy the whole time, but
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| The Transporter 2: ***
(3 stars, on the Great trash scale)
Rarely do bad movies, that are so bad, so bad that you cheer for every bad moment, every poor line, and every piece of over stylized cliched action, come along that you giggle with joy over the mere memory of them. Currently the top of my list are the amazingly awful and great Starship Troopers, and the atrociously awesome Van Helsing. But the recent addition of Transporter 2 to DVD, could be a sign of a new entry at the top. This movie has little to no plot, tons of over the top action, hot girls with uzi's. I mean wow. There's no point in trying to say anything intelligent whatsoever about this film. But MAN, I loved it. Best scene is when, after spotting a bomb attached to the bottom of the car, our hero (played by Jason Statham), realizes the most practical way to remove said bomb from the bottom of his Audi, before the bad guys blow it to smithereens, is to ramp off of a conveniently placed piece of knocked down wooden fencing, and put the car into a corkscrew, flying through the air, and use the also even more conveniently placed crane hook to latch onto the bomb and remove it while settling his car back on all four wheels, and driving away to safety before the explosion. nuff said. I give it three stars on the trash scale, by no means a life changing movie, horribly acted and cheesy at times, but oh so fun to watch.
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| quick hits
The Wedding Crashers: **1/2 (2& 1/2 stars) -Vince Vaugn being..well..Vince Vaughn. Some pretty funny stuff all considering. The "cameo" isn't nearly as good as I was told it was. Rachel McAdams is SMOKIN. Easily forgettable.
The Cave: ** (2 stars) -Pretty much Same idea as "pitch black" even with some of the same cast, mosters looked cool, some sweet acction sequences. Original impression I got was that they actually found a Cave leading to Hell, not the case. Once again, easily forgettable.
Flightplan: * (1 star) -This movie get's one star for it's incredibly good first half hour, and incredibly crappy following 3. The first half hour looks sleek, is mysterious, and tense. The following hour and a half slips easily into predictable hollywood drivel. blah.
The Great Raid: ** (2 stars) -James Franco (Harry Osborn from the Spidey movies) leads a group of commandos into save American Soldiers held captive in the Phillipines. An intriguing story, but it felt like a made-for TV movie. Crazy opening scene showing torture of US soldiers by dumping gasoline on them while stuck in bunker, then lighting them on fire, and shooting them if they try to run.
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