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Everything was crackerjack for such a great entertainment.
Trailers:"The Rise of the Planet of the Apes": SFX look terrific. These labs monks get drugged and get evolutionary with human eyes just full of evil. It's gonna smoke.
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo": Looks really good. Top flight cast with Daniel Craig in the lead. Because of budgets it will probably smoke the original.
Edits: 06/03/11Follow Ups:
...and while I still liked Fast 5 better, this one was better than I expected.
Well acted and an interesting plot superimposed over the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis.
But you'll have to admit, the hairy creater driving the plane reminded you of Chewbaca from Star wars.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
Yes, sometimes my head is turned by the simplest of things. But the crystal pair was most intriguing!
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
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Very enjoyable movie, great cast, very good story.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
though overflowing with CGI - mutant powers were on display - I mostly enjoyed the film.
Kevin Bacon is a good bad guy and January Jones was delightful, though Jennifer Lawrence held my attention (she was so good in Winter's Bone)
second best in the franchise (to the original)
Phil
Too bad. I really like Michael Fassbender and Rose Byrne. Nice folks. But this was kind of an arguous connect the dots plot to get us to a place we knew about from the get go. Prequels have to be more than a linear build up to a punch line we already know.
There was another Hi Fi moment, but it is slipping my mind right now.
I'll give the film a 5.5/10.
...How about Revox (I think) tape machines in Kevin Bacon's lounge?
I was trying to remember which vintage piece it was!
Everybody likes it, droid.
More people like Outback than Ruth's Chris, too.
You shop for music based on Billboard's rankings?
;)
88/100?
Way too generous.
No nudity - there's 20-30 points off, right there. (Sorry, "naked" blue chick doesn't count.)
I thought they all did a perfectly fine job.
Maybe I'll go 5.6.
Happy now?
...I say tomato.
Oh, brother.
well, every aspect. Too bad you have never realized that.
Bresson's budget was 1/1000th of Hollywood and in the areas you mention, it outperformed 99.9% of the huge budgets you love so much.
Look at a Bela Tarr or Tarkovsky film and see how much your "X-Men" films defeat it in any of your categories.
big difference. And a LOT more expensive. a LOT more.
So I've been told.
Jack
I'm really unfamiliar with whores as you apparently are. Try keeping your personal revelations to yourself.
"I never met one."
It simply fails to make the connections between budgets and quality of film making in the film industry. The advantages and disadvantages to having more money to make a film are a lot more complex than how you dress a hooker. There's just no metaphorical connection.
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"Let the Right One In," was better. Quite obviously, it was vastly inferior. Of course, you had to be able to read subtitles, a high hurdle for some here.
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sfd
That was the one thing that was actually done pretty well in the remake. I consider the original to be a masterpiece and arguably the smartest horror film since the days of The Exorcist and Jaws. The remake clearly failed to capture everything that was good about the original. But I can't fault the actors for that. It was a good cast and they did as well as could be asked with the material rewritten the way it was.
...Fast Five - more fun?
Hard to believe.
I've seen a couple of the previous ones, but X-Men has never appealed that much to me.
It's all fantasy but well done. Plus, January Jones is mesmerizing.
...prequel, sequel, schmequel.
Just an excuse to make more money with younger actors.
X-Men as much as your car chase drama.
X-men tackles complex intellectual subjects and places these topics within the shared zeigeist of existential angst that existed in the 1960's and has reappeared again in the world's current geopolitical state.
X-men ably compares and contrasts the mores of the early 60's - the objectification of women, the existential threat of "the other," and how we order our social heirarchy - with current X-men lore.
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