Article ITT I attempt to review every movie I've seen.

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Title: Torn Curtain
Year: 1966
Country of Origin: US
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Plot: Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), a famed American Rocket Scientist, has decided to defect to the Soviet Union...much to the confusion of this fianc?e (Julie Andrews).

Review: This is a later Hitchcock film and not one of my favorites. It's well shot and well acted, but it's missing the sense of excitement and surprise of his earlier work. Sure, there is a decent twist in film and the ending does pick up quite a bit...but this is definitely not one Hitchcock's better films. If you're a fan of Hitchcock, then it's worth checking out, but for most people this isn't essential watching.

[7/10]
 
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Title: Shadow of a Doubt
Year: 1943
Country of Origin: US
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Plot: Charlotte "Charlie" Newton is pretty sure there is something wrong with her uncle Charlie, but she can't quite put her finger on it...

Review: Shadow of a Doubt is a solid mystery thriller about a teenage girl who is pretty sure he uncle, who is staying at her house, is up to no good. This is a smartly written and wonderfully directed film. Teresa Wright is great as Charlotte and Joseph Cotten is spot on perfect as uncle Charlie. Actually, out of all his films, this one was Hitchcock's favorite and it's pretty easy to see why. Sure, I might enjoy some of his other films more, but this is still classic Hitchcock.

[9/10]
 
mason54 said:
Fun fact about this movie, it took place on one set making it the most expensive and largest set ever built, learned that one in class studying him.
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I didn't know that, but it makes sense. As one set, it would have to be massive. On, second thought I would really like to see a 'making of' for Rear Window

mason54 said:
Have you thought about reviewing 49 ronin?
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After the reviews and hearing about from some friends I kind of avoided the film like the plague. Though given that it was a massive flop both critically and financially, I might have to check it out just to see how bad it was.
 
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mason54 said:
300 rise of an empire, and 2012, they both were awsome movies!
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I still need to see Rise of an Empire...


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Title: 2012
Year: 2012
Country of Origin: US
Director: Roland Emmerich

Plot: The world is ending...like in just about every other Roland Emmerich film.

Review: This movie is just stupid as all hell. Like really really really stupid and I saw it twice in theaters because is funny in all the ways it shouldn't be funny. The size and scope of the devastation in this movie is just stupidly entertaining. Like we're talking the city of San Fransisco completely collapsing, an aircraft carrier crashing into the white house, or the Yellow Stone caldera exploding with the force of an atomic weapon. Though my friends and I were the only ones laughing in the theater so I might not be that funny, but I still think it's a funny movie. The movie itself is what you'd normally expect from Emmerich, the acting is flat, the plot is dumb and usually involves our protagonists fleeing oncoming disaster...like running away from a wall of water in Day After Tomorrow, or running away from a wall of fire in Independence Day, or running away from a wall of red coats in The Patriot. Actually the only really great character comes from Oliver Platt, who plays a nay-sayer (i.e. the only rational thinker in the movie) that is surprisingly entertaining...he actually utters the line "well life isn't fair"...it's pretty great. I mean, it's a Roland Emmerich film, you know exactly what this film is going to be like because you've basically seen it before. I personally think they're dumb fun, but it's up to you if you want to ease into another global disaster flick.

[6/10]
 
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Title: The Devil's Backbone
Year: 2001
Country of Origin: Spain/Mexico
Director: Guillermo del Toro

Plot: There is something spooky going on at one Spanish orphanage and it's not just the encroaching threat of fascism.

Review: So as you probably already know, I really like Guillermo del Toro, like I really like him. I mean, I am waiting on buying a new gaming console to find out if Silent Hills is going to be cross platform game or a PS4 exclusive...and for those who are saying to themselves that I should just get a PS4 hasn't seen D4 yet. Like I want a Kinect just because of that game...and I think the Kinect is super dumb. Anyway, The Devil's Backbone is a classic ghost story in that the ghost a start of a mystery than a menacing presence. So, like a Gothic, Victorian like ghost story...instead of something like The Haunting in Connecticut, which is just a bunch of jump scares pretending to be a movie.

The mystery in of itself isn't all that great, but the film is still interesting enough. This isn't my favorite del Toro film, which you could probably tell since I started off talking about gaming consoles...but it's still worth watching...though I would recommend Pan's Labyrinth over this one...it's also a horror film centered around a child during the Spanish Civil War...or slightly after.

[7/10]
 
Sexy Beast said:
Oh wow that reminds me, I've been meaning to go through some of Corman's earlier horror films. Especially his Edgar Allen Poe stuff.
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Yeah. Just ended with John Dies at The End. Not really a B horror but been meaning to see it after reading the book. I just bought the second one (spider name I can't remember) so I have that to look forward to reading.

I plan on watching The Signal some time this week. I have been hearing a lot, and I mean a lot of mix things about.
Along with Coherence which I'm kinda really excited to see. Wish I was going into it a little more naive but my friends who seen it before me are kinda dicks and can't keep their traps shut :/
 
ChocolateVillain said:
Yeah. Just ended with John Dies at The End. Not really a B horror but been meaning to see it after reading the book. I just bought the second one (spider name I can't remember) so I have that to look forward to reading.

I plan on watching The Signal some time this week. I have been hearing a lot, and I mean a lot of mix things about.
Along with Coherence which I'm kinda really excited to see. Wish I was going into it a little more naive but my friends who seen it before me are kinda dicks and can't keep their traps shut :/
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I loved John Dies at the End, both the book and the movie. I've been meaning to read the sequel This Book is Filled with Spiders...or something like that, but classes started and all my reading time is now put towards books like Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy or Globalization and the Race to the Bottom. So let me know how it is, because really enjoy David Wong's writing stye.

The Signal is pretty decent, it's an anthology movie so both the tone and quality waiver with each director...also I haven't even heard of Coherence, I'll have to check it out.
 
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Title: Perfect Blue
Year: 1997
Country of Origin: Japan
Director: Satoshi Kon

Plot: Mima, a Japanese pop star, has decided that she wants to pursue a career in acting and leave her pop career behind. But, will she be able to deal with the stress of transitioning to a new career on top of finding out that she has a stalker who is non-to-happy with her new career choice?

Review: So this film is essentially an 80s era De Palma film, but as an anime...which is a good thing. Perfect Blue is a great psychological thriller and one that manages to keep things interesting all the way through the films run time. The film deals with a couple of pretty interesting themes, one that is particularly important is dealing with a changing sense of self image, or how our protagonist's career change is forcing her to re-evaluate herself...in a pretty extreme way. All in all, this a solid film and one you should check out if you're into psychological thrillers.

[8.5/10]
 
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Title: Clash of the Titans
Year: 2010
Country of Origin: USA/UK
Director: Louis Leterrier

Story: RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!...and that's pretty much it.

Review: Now I've never seen the original so I can't really compare the two, so whatever. Clash of the Titans is not a good film, but not exactly that bad of a film. It exists in the void of mediocrity, where many film of this type can be found. It's sad to see this, I mean there is a lot of talent behind this one; we have Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes playing the two main gods...but they don't exactly excel all that much in their roles. The whole film feels like a build up to the Kraken, but when we finally get to the monstrosity we are treated maybe one minute or so of screen time. It all just so bland. Maybe I'm just too spoiled with God of War's approach to Greek mythology.

[5/10]
 
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Ok, it's finally happened. I've exceeded to word limit in the OP, so I've split the review list in two...which is why Clash of the Titans is now on this page.
 
Sexy Beast said:
Ok, it's finally happened. I've exceeded to word limit in the OP, so I've split the review list in two...which is why Clash of the Titans is now on this page.
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Is there an award for that? And what is the word count?
and I can't find airplane, it's almost like I can't find any movie I want to find, but when I'm not looking for it, I find it lol
 
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mason54 said:
Is there an award for that? And what is the word count?
and I can't find airplane, it's almost like I can't find any movie I want to find, but when I'm not looking for it, I find it lol
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I kinda wish there was an award, anyway the max character length for a post is 100,000
 
Dunno what you're talking about, I LOVED the first Wolverine movie. Easily my favorite of the X-men films.
 
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