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Summer Wars 2010
directed by the same director of "the girl who leapt through time" (i didn'y know until googling for the soundtrack), the film is honest, funny, touching and successfully conveying universal family values to it's audience. these i realized was also what's good about the director's previous movie, and i have high hope for his third project. both movies have stand second and third viewing perfectly well, highly recommended.
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Captain America: The First Avenger 2011
Flat boring. I was going to say this is on par with Green Lantern and Thor, but actually both are slightly better.
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2007
short review : ^_^
this is a simple movie with unpretentious approach on a time travel theme. it's so refreshing to watch a movie with such innocence i can't help myself enjoying it every time.
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The Hangover Part II 2011
i only give credit to this movie for casting the girls (jamie chung, sasha barrese? gotta admit they have taste) and some nice locations they picked to shoot. otherwise, it's a fucking annoying movie.
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Entrapment 1999
Three words: Zeta Jones' ass.
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Dragon 2012
Disclaimer: don't read the synopsis of this movie (i suspect from tmdb?), it contains spoiler. This review however does not have any spoiler in it.
Swordsmen is a bad title translation, google translate confirms my suspicion that the original title 'Wu Xia' actually means 'Martial art'.
Set in 1907, the main character played by Donnie Yen is living a simple life in a simple village. He's a family man with a wife and 2 kids. Then a couple of thugs… -
The Change-Up 2011
i love it (probably low expectation factor). i think this movie is a level above other recent comedies like Hangover, Take him to the greek etc. Natural, clever delivery and, dare i say, nicely edited. There's really no "dramatic-major-fucked-up event" or "unbelievably stupid assholes & lame friend" formula played up here. And the two guys actually pulled off some decent acting here too, especially Bateman, which is seriously underrated imho.
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Constantine 2005
fuck whoever casted keanu for this movie
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The English Patient 1996
if you're a sucker you'll like this. (i do. i am)
beautiful images of sands in the 40's and great soundtracks.