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The Dark Knight Rises 2012
Added by Matt "Cinebro" Conti 73 Before I start this review, I’d like to say the following: If you liked or even loved the film, that is fine. I frankly envy you. This is a film I wanted to love. But I didn’t, for reasons I will go into during this review.
Previous to this rewatch, I had last seen The Dark Knight Rises at the midnight premiere. The idea of a filmmaker finishing off a comic book trilogy and summing up their run of a…
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The Master 2012
Watched by Matthew Buchanan 24 Jan, 2013 PTA’s long-awaited and uncompromising chronicle of cultdom, the elusive nature of power, and the deep need for acceptance in the wake of debilitating post-war angst is as over-stuffed with on-screen talent as it is lacking in coherent engagement. Hoffman and Phoenix lay themselves bare, but are hampered by a failure to fulfil a basic tenet of the medium: there isn’t a soltitary developed character for which to feel an ounce of identification or sympathy.
Phoenix is a marvel as he…
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LCD Soundsystem: Shut Up and Play the Hits 2012
Watched by FilmApe 22 Oct, 2012 7 The Good
James Murphy the musician
The look and editing
KeithThe Ugh
James Murphy the person
Arcade Fire
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The Day the Earth Stood Still 2008
Watched by DirkH 30 Sep, 2012 Basically a dramatised version of An Inconvenient Truth.
Apart from the very real life coming out of Keanu Reeves.
He's an alien.
Who'd have thought?
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Premium Rush 2012
Watched by Chris Harrop 23 Aug, 2012 Michael Shannon gives a hell of a performance, but the film's tone is so disjointed to make it come off as cartoonish rather than intimidating. A big letdown from two of my favorite actors working today, but mostly due to a horribly contrived script and dull visuals. A chase flick shouldn't be boring.
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Glengarry Glen Ross 1992
Watched by Jackson Tyler 19 Aug, 2012 1 Out of all the films about angry immoral white men shouting, this has the angriest, shoutiest, immoral...est of them all.
Incredible, from start to finish.
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Daylight 1996
by Chuck Dowling 14 Jul, 2012 Pretty good disaster set up to start with, and it follows the Irwin Allen-style of character development to the letter. But once things get going, DAYLIGHT becomes increasingly tiresome, especially as the best characters end up dead, leaving only the whiny assholes behind.
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief 2010
Watched by DirkH 08 Jul, 2012 28 Dear Hollywood people,
Please leave the ancient gods alone. You've proven your point, you just don't know what to do with them.
Sincerely,
Me
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Prometheus 2012
by Marcin Wichary 08 Jun, 2012 3 It was perhaps unavoidable that Prometheus would disappoint given the colossal expectations, but then again it was Ridley Scott’s decision to tie it so closely to Alien. If you never saw the original, the prequel must be a puzzling mess. If you did – it’ll be a puzzling mess still, but also a fascinating case study. Either way, though, it won’t be that good of a movie.
Some individual pieces in Prometheus approach brilliance. The beginning harks back to great…
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009
Added by Mike Roseingrave 1 This is not a film. This is psychological warfare. It's the MK Ultra of our generation. By blasting incoherence straight into our brains at a billion dB, "they" (rhymes with Bay: coincidence? I think not) render us incapable of forming logical whatsits, thingies, with the stuff…thoughts!…thoughts. I'm on to you Bay.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin 2011
Watched by grooveman 30 May, 2012 23 Easily my least favorite film I've seen this year. The most heavy handed piece of pretentious crap I've seen since Paul Haggis's Crash. Every Character is one note. Tilda Swinton is good but she's always good so I could care less. This film is just watching a little fucker act like a little fucker for 2 hours with shitty out of place music thrown in for dramatic effect. Fuck This Film!!!
