Movie Reviews 2.0

Yeah, X-3 was a bit heavy handed, but the small scene after the credits made up for a lot. It definitely helps though that I was the only one together with my wife to stay until after the credits. Everyone else had left!
 
Fargo- 9.5/10

A near perfect movie. Nobody spells "deep shit" like the Coen brothers. I never noticed before there's a statement before the movie claiming that the events in the movie are based on a true story. Apparently, it was more like a culmination of numerous true stories, mashed up into one.
 
The Expendables

It was perfect. It's so shamelessly cheesy at times that they must have made the action scenes first and then just threw a story around it after. Watch with a group and expect it to be way more manly than you can imagine.
 
Caught a matinee of it today with a friend and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. Just good, fun, mindless action. And watching Stallone and Rourke onscreen at the same time is like a battle of bad botox.
 
It has amazing action scenes but I forgot all the characters' names maybe five minutes after I left the theater. The action and the one-liners were infinitely more memorable than any of the acting or exposition and what have you.
 
I'll give Scott Pilgrim an 8/10. I really enjoyed the comics and thought they did a great job of capturing the erratic pacing of the comic. The casting was good and the humour worked, and Edgar Wright did a great job of paying homage to comic books and video games. That said, I think the average person will hate this movie. It is definitely not meant for everyone. For fans of the comic, some things have been changed, but it works. It's hard to put all six volumes into one movie.

I saw this 4 months ago. They changed the ending

he ends up with knives at the end. They will have that ending for teh bluray.
 
I saw this 4 months ago. They changed the ending

he ends up with knives at the end. They will have that ending for teh bluray.

That's weird.
In the comic it ended pretty much the same, walking down the street with Ramona, asking her to try again.
 
Piranna - 8.5/10 Arguably the best movie of the summer, and the best use of 3D ever.
WTF on both counts, I assume you post in jest :D

plot - nope
acting - except for the sleazeball wasnt in the film

OK Sure if youre a 18 or younger year old guy, seeing girls in bikini's can constitute a film

There were 2 good things I grant you,
I did enjoy seeing eli roth's head getting munched
It was better than piranha 2 (from james cameron no less)

piranha 6/10
piranha 2 2/10
piranha 3d 4/10
 
WTF on both counts, I assume you post in jest

Actually, no. The movie was incredibly fun to watch. So many little touches that someone my age would appreciate. One quick example is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Me_the_Way_to_Go_Home

That song was playing on the radio in Dreyfuss' boat at the beginning, and brought an instant smile to my face as I recognized it. I decided right then and there that I was going to like the movie. And I did. So amazingly low brow, unabashedly campy, that it took that genre of film and raised it to an almost artistic level. A true masterpiece. And the Louvre has nothing more beautiful than Kelly Brook topless in 3D. Let me write that again: Kelly Brook topless in 3D.

Revised score - 9/10
 
WRT Dreyfuss + jaws, you most likely would of noticed they also done in piranha3d the famous camera zoom from jaws when the guy's on the beach and the shark attacks the first time.
The producer of the original piranha film was roger corman, the king of the B films. Piranha3d is pure Corman

Kelly Brook wow, words cant describe her acting ability, paris hilton is oscar worthy in comparison.

Sure fun to watch (I enjoy watching crap as much as the next guy) but at the end of the day its still crap
 
Of course, they might also have been predicting the future and so had the sabres in the right place at the right time :)

Qui-Gon says just that - "he can see things before they happen, that's why he appears to have such quick reflexes".
 
The Expendables. There's no real point in grading it, but I can say I liked it much more than the A-Team.

It felt like Jason Statham was being compensated for something by giving him major part of the action scene awesomeness.
 
The Other Guys - 6/10 - The first half or two thirds was consistently funny, but then the movie just lost it and the theater went quiet. There's nothing worse than a comedy that ends without any big laughs. Some of the funny parts earlier in the movie was really really funny.
 
Started watching Wall Street. Hadn't seen it in fifteen years. I wanted to go back and figure out if Oliver Stone was always a hack. Honestly, the movie doesn't really stand up so well over time, at least not so far. It's pretty 80s cheesy in a lot of ways. Michael Douglas has a robot waiter in his house that looks like a garbage can. Nothing about the movie seems really believable to me. I'm sure the type of guy Michael Douglas plays actually exists, but the way things happen just seem incredibly melodramatic and corny. The Charlie Sheen character is not believable at all.
 
Nothing about the movie seems really believable to me.
Being able to make a phonecall from a beach still is pretty unbelievable
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