Saturday, July 11, 2009

I'm out of here

Due to my complete inabilty to keep this thing up to date I have jumped on the twitter band wagon, so come follow me there or whatever it is you do on that thing. I have actally been updating it and everything

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Sunday, July 05, 2009

Wow an update, here's a years worth of randomness I can't even remember some of these

Two Thumbs Up
Dark City - Directors Cut
Superbad
The Dark Knight
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 2
The Mist
The Fall
The King Of Kong
Black Snake Moan
The Shining
In Bruges
Mad Max 2
The Breakfest Club
Zodiac
Let The Right One In
Syndoche, New York
Once
Ghostbusters
The Hangover

Thumbs Up
The Fugitive
Inside Man
Rambo
Roman
My Kid Could Paint That
Get Carter
Twins Of Evil
Mississippi Burning
Kenny
The Getaway
The Killers
Vantage Point
Gone In 60 Seconds
American Grafitti
Lethal Weapon
Tremors
Night Moves
Iron man
Speed Racer
Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull
Race with the devil
Night Watch
Donnie Brasco
The Incredible Hulk
Beetlejuise
The Girl On The Bridge
Psycho II
Hellboy II
American Movie
Persepolis
Weird Science
All the boys love Mandy Lane
Kung Fu Panda
Shine A Light
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Expess
Three days of the Condor
Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers
Stranger Than Fiction
Spider-Man 3
Sideways
Elizabethtown
Blazing Saddles
Arlington Road
The Maltease Falcon
The Public Enemy
Man On Wire
Talledaga Nights the balled of Ricky Bobby
Patriot Games
Female Agents
The times Of harvey Milk
Step Brothers
The Wackness
Charlie Bartlett
King Of California
Quantum Of Solace
Burn After Reading
Straight Time
A Complete History of My Sexual Failure
Zach and Miri Make a Porno
Insomnia
Clear And Present Danger
Schindler's List
Born on the Fourth of July
Apt Pupil
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Terminator Salvation

Thumbs in the Middle
I'm Not There
The Counterfeiters
Resurrected
Body Heat
The Machinist
Assembly
Down in the Valley
Where the truth lies
Run Fatboy Run
Do the Right Thing
Dragon Wars
Miss Potter
Waz
Incense For the Damned
Black Xmas
Praire Home Companion
Son of Rambow
The Cell
Trust The Man
The Doors
Stop-loss
Mr Woodcock
My Blueberry Nights
The Bank Job
Recount
Redacted
Diary Of the dead
The Mean Season
Breach
Smart People
Day Watch
Untraceable
Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired
The Walker
Reign Over Me
Galaxy Quest
Margot At the Wedding
Semi-Pro
Wedding Daze
Leatherheads
When Borat Came To Town
Jumper
The Specials
The Blob
Licence To Wed
Drillbit Taylor
Hallem Foe
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Deception
Brooklyn Rules
The Shape Of Things
Psycho III
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden
Year of the dog
Joe Strummer: the future is unwritten
Lars and the real girl
Doomsday
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Gangs of new york
Nashville
Venus
Wall.E
Breakfast On Pluto
[REC]
Rescue Dawn
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Brothers Solomon
U.S. Marshalls
Death Rides a Horse
The Hired Hand
Interview with the Vampire
Black Mama White Mama
Citizen Kane
Star Wars Clone Wars
Wanted
Pineapple Express
Definitely, Maybe
City Of Men
Cast Away
Bridge To Teribithia
Standard Operating Behaviour
Marnie
Hot Rod
Mama's Boy
Mongol
Mad Dectective
The Strangers
Love & Sex
A Might Heart

Elite Squad
Redbelt
Waitress
RocknRolla
Bee Movie
Sukiyaki western django
Gomarrah
The Foot Fist Way
Appaloosa
The Hoax
The Sum Of All Fears
Transsiberian
The Omega Man
Richard Pryor live on the sunset strip
The Other Boleyn Girl
Home Of The Brave
.45
Interview
The Oxford Murders
Chaos
Incendairy
Pride and Glory
Chapter 27
Pathology
South Central
The badder-meinhoff complex
Tropic Thunder
The Bucket List
Donkey Punch
Magnum Force
Penelope
Ghost Town
Roadgames
The Rocker
27 Dresses
Saw V
The Grey Zone
House Of 1000 Corpses
Lakeview Terrace
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
The Reckless Moment
Awake
X-Files Movie
Midnight Cowboy
Fido
Sex and the City
Hang 'Em High
Whisper Of The Heart
Space Chimps
Milk
Butterfly on a wheel
How to lose friends and alienate people
The Hand
Taxi to the darkside
Choke
Gran torino
Baby Mama
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
W.
The Ruins
Land of the blind

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Goya's Ghosts
The Battle of the Buldge
The Devil wears Prada
The Reaping
Rise
The Contract
I'm going to get you sucka
2001 Maniacs
Right At Your Door
Lucky You
Bewitched
Dance Party, USA
The Pursuit of happyness
The Messengers
Flyboys
The Serpent
Gone In Sixty Seconds
Funny Games US
P2
10,000 bc
The Happening
Good Luck Chuck
Return to the house on haunted hill
The Invasion
Deck the halls
Hancock
St. Trinians
Mummy 3
Hitman
Scoop
Streets Of Fire
Zombie Strippers!
Aliens Vs Predator Requiem
Man Of The Year
Righteous Kill
Taken
My Name is bruce
Max Payne
Cleaner
88 Minutes
The Condemed
Scorpion King 2
King Boxer
What Happens In Vegas
Shutter
The Eye
The Cottage
One Missed Call

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Dead Silence

Dead Shit. There you go you have waited all this time for an insightful and in depth review from me an this is all you get, it is however completely accurate. It also pays tribute to one of my favourite reviews from a friend’s day for the film “hope Floats” his response “Shit floats more like”. Thumbs Down.

Jesus Camp

If Jesus was alive today he would kill Harry Potter, or so says a bible thumping wacko in this documentary about a religious summer camp for kids. The aim of the camp appears to be to brainwash kids so that they can go out and fight those God damed Muslims that are spawning suicide bombers every day or so the propaganda these folks spawning goes. Anyway, as interesting and awesome as the mullets every kid here sports. Thumbs Up.

Catch and Release

Had no interest in seeing this as it looked like your run of the mill shit romantic comedy, but had been reading the recently released Kevin Smith diary which runs over the time he was acting in this and he made it sound interesting and different, the lying fucker, its you run of the mill shit romantic comedy unless it gets quirky and good in the last 45 minutes that I didn’t watch. Thumbs Down

We Own the Night

I really liked the 70’s vibe this had but I never fully got drawn into the story enough to care about what was going on. Thumbs in the Middle.

Mr Brooks

Best thing Costner has done in a while completely spoiled by an out of place sequence that neither fits in with the rest of the film nor makes any sense. Thumbs in the Middle.

The Hills Have Eyes II

Gave up after 40 minutes, why are all the good guys in modern horror arrogant pricks that you want to see die horrible deaths and after the first couple do you just loose interest as there is nothing left to enjoy as you have already seen some dickheads die. Thumbs Down

Black Widow

Neither offensive nor interesting from the little I can remember now, a not so bald Terry O’Quinn with a lethal looking moustache rally badly putting the moves on Debra Winger is about all I remember. Thumbs in the Middle.

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

Bored by the first one so of course I have to watch the sequel, apparently you can clear someone of conspiracy to murder by finding a City of Gold, hopefully that nugget of info comes in handy for you some time, oh and can the pre 2000 Nic Cage come back please, you know the one with the not so shit hair and the ability to choose interesting movies, I blame Con Air for the change. Thumbs in the Middle

Mr Untouchable


Documentary about one time cocaine baron of New York, Nicky Barnes. Follows his rise to fame where he was nearly untouchable to the police, to his fall from grace before snitching out his entire gang cause the guy that took over the business stole his woman. Thumbs Up

Perfect Stranger

Can’t even remember too much about this now, apart from some nonsensical twist at the end. Thumbs in the Middle

Sunshine

Rips off 2001, alien and a bunch of other popular space movies but I still liked it quite a bit if you ignore the last 20 minutes or so where I thought it went a bit shit. Thumbs Up

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Two hours of the true story of a guy blinking a lot doesn’t sound to interesting but this is quite a fascinating, uplifting story. Only annoyance was the bloody sub-titles, the main character communicated by somebody going through the letters of the alphabet and then blinking when the letter he wanted was said but of course he is spelling French words but the subtitles would translate the letters to the letters of the English equivalent word, sounds petty but it wound me up. Thumbs Up

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Only cinema visit of the year so far, I left this about a month so I had heard all the whingeing and bitching by the fan boys. While there are several moments that make you go what the fuck where they thinking, all the idiot fucking fan boys need to remember that the original three had similar moments, maybe not raiders, which are just as dumb. The rest of the film feels like an Indian Jones movie and is a tonne of fun if you sit back and enjoy it for what it is, which all these fan boys have lost the ability to do. Thumbs Up

The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys

By the numbers indie coming of age Story only with a bunch of actors I really like, so made how average it was even more disappointing. Thumbs in the Middle

Inglorious Bastards

Italian made, American starring WW2 man on a mission film that is the inspiration for Tarantino’s next flick, it’s a tonne of fun and these men on a mission movie’s are one of my soft spots where no matter how cheesy they get there still brilliant. Two Thumbs Up

Tell No One

Decent enough French Thriller, whose conclusion made logical sense instead of the random twists that Hollywood throws out without properly explaining. Thumbs in the Middle

The Savages

Another run of the mill U.S. indie, acting as usual is great but the story as been covered so may times before in these type of films.

Youth Without Youth

Supposed to be Coppola returning to form and finally doing a personal film again, I just found it dull, now its out of his system maybe we will get 70’s Coppola back and we can start to see some great movies again. Thumbs Down

The Nines

Good idea poorly executed, Ryan Reynolds is a god like being that uses earth as a world of warcraft type game and like WOW folk gets addicted to it to the point that he is going to die so other god types try to wake him to the dilemma. Thumbs in the Middle

Balls Of Fury

Now my second favourite Ping Pong film after Ping Pong, main problem was that they would always go one joke further than they had to, the joke being out of character for whoever was doing it, breaking the realistic illusion of a ping pong contest to the death. Thumbs in the Middle

Be Kind Rewind

The sweded takes on films is brilliant the rest is average for Michel Gondry but is still nice heart warming stuff. Thumbs Up

The City Of Violence

Poor Korean actioner, the country was producing two or three stunning movies a year a few years back but it all seems to have dried up and I have to wait till next year for Chan wook Parks next as well. Thumbs Down

Batman Begins

Getting myself in the mood for the Dark Knight, this has it’s flaws but is still brilliant, this new blu-ray edition has the Imax preview for the dark knight which should be the opening of the actual film and is stunning. Two Thumbs up.

Batman: Gotham Knight

Animatrix style cartoon action that links Batman Begins to the Dark Knight, it’s a bit hit and miss were I found that I either like the style of the animation but didn’t like the story or liked the story but did not like the animation style. Thumbs Up

In the Shadow of the Moon

Stunning documentary about the moon landings with interviews with almost all the astronauts minus Neil Armstrong, the NASA footage is stunning and is worth watching this for alone but is added to by the stories of complete lack of knowing if anything would actually work. Two Thumbs Up

Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium

A quirky Kid’s film, Natile Portman and Jason Bateman, I should have loved this but something was just off in this and I am not sure what. Thumbs in the Middle

The Dark Is Rising

Another kid’s fantasy franchise that feels ripped of from other existing franchises, not sure whether the main character is American in the books or that is at the studio’s doing so that American audiences can relate better but it put me off at the start and just made things go down hill from there, so got the fast forward treatment about an hour in. Thumbs Down

Half Nelson

Good acting but shitty story the characters appeared to have a story circle instead of a story arc so they ended up in the crap circumstances that they began in. Thumbs in the Middle

The Wicker Man

Back to Nic Cage again, this is horriblly bad to the point that you think that is the intention, I watched it till the little girl got hit by a truck on a boat about the fifth time then gave up, just watch the original. Thumbs Down

The Replacement Killers

Was crap when I first saw it and hasn’t improved with age. Thumbs Down

Saw IV

Probably my favourite of the series outside the original, but comes no where near to that one and the twist on the time lines in the film at the end still has me slightly confused, probably what you get for watching a horror first thing in the morning when your hung over. Thumbs in the Middle

Eyes Without a Face

Old French horror about a doctor who kidnaps women to steal there faces to give to his daughter. Some of the imagery is stunning and has been ripped off multiple times in the years since, but I don’t really hold it up as the classic they many others do, but again this is what can happen to the films that initially invent certain idea’s or looks. Thumbs Up

Dan in Real Life

There is quite a bit to like here but once about every ten scenes that is a scene so horribly bad and out of place that it was annoying me. Thumbs in the Middle

Chicken Little

Crap, all I have to say on that one. Thumbs Down

TMNT

Been watching this while writing this, in my days they were only hero’s because if we heard the word ninja we would all start killing each other, maybe that is finally what is wrong with society today, that the kids are allowed to call them ninja’s. Thumbs in the Middle

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

2008 so far

More neat piles of randon films

Two Arms Up

There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men

The most depressing thing is that nothing else this year will even come close to how brilliant these two films are

Two Thumbs Up

Touch Of Evil
Superbad
Pan's Labryinth
Once
The Darjeeling Limited
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Orphanage
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Juno
Control
Enchanted
Bonnie and Clyde

Thumbs Up

Point Break
1408
800 Bullets
Seraphim Falls
Shut Up & Sing
3:10 to Yuma
Sicko
American Gangster
Cloverfield
Eastern Promises
Rodger Doger
Eagle vs Shark
Beowulf
Hard Candy
Into the Wild
The Golden Compass
The Good German
Rocket Science
The Lookout
The Name of the Rose
The Crazies
The Cooler
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Cabin Fever
Lust Caution

Thumbs In The Middle

2 Days in Paris
The Sci-Fi Boys
Revenge
Hairspray
Husbands and Wives
The Pink Panther
Edmond
Shoot 'Em Up
Jimmy and Judy
Snake Eyes
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
The Song Remains the Same
A Guide to Recognising Your Saints
Superman: Doomsday
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Gas, Food Lodging
Death Sentence
Hannah and Her Sisters
Infamous
Tombstone
Big Night
Disturbia
The Bridge
The Big Kakuna
The Kingdom
Bobby
The Tailor of Panama
SherryBaby
Michael Clayton
The Number 23
Fade to Black
Notes On a Scandal
Atonement
Cat People
Across the Universe
Stardust
The Brave One
Music And Lyrics
Paris Je T'aime
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Magicians
The No1 Ladies Detective Agency
Black Sheep
Rendition
Premonition
Made
Last King Of Scotland
School for Scoundrals
30 Days of Night
Volver
I Am Legend
The Heartbreak Kid
An Inconvenient Truth
Halloween
Slaughterhouse-Five
Running with Scissors
Idiocracy
Bug
Charlie Wilson's War
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Before the Devil Knows Your Dead
Mother Of Tears
Jackass 2.5
Hatchet
Lions For Lambs
Catch A Fire
Breaking and Entering
Because I said so
Arthur and the Invisibles

Thumbs Down

The Return
Night at the Museum
Let's Go Prison
The Covenant
Hollowman II
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
Captivity
Rush Hour 3
The Marine
Accepted
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
The Breed
Southland Tales
Pulse
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
I Want Candy
Outlaw
Texas Rangers
War
The 11th Hour
Committed
Beneath

Monday, June 02, 2008

The rest of 2007

Time to get back on course so here is the rest of 2007 in 4 nice piles.

Two Thumbs Up

Ratatouille
Death Proof
Zodiac
Planet Terror
Sin City: Extended Versions
This is England
The Wild Bunch
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremecy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Nightmare On Elm Street

Thumbs Up

Double Dare
Renaissance
Knocked Up
Coffy
Death hunt
Vanishing Point
Pretty Persuasion
The Big Heat
Crazy Mary Dirty Larry
Hoodwinked!
Gimme Shelter
12 Angry Men
If...
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Blow
Sixteen Candles
The Chumscrubber
The Devil's Rejects
Rope
Rear Window
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Wild At Heart
Black Book
Cars
Die Hard 4.0
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Black Snake Moan
Exiled
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Casino Royale
Hellboy
The Lives Of Others
Hearts Of Darkness
Monster House
Django

Thumbs in the Middle

Blood Diamond
Inland Empire
Flushed Away
Z Channel
Real Genius
The Good Son
The Zodiac
Spider-man 3
For Your Consideration
Crimes of Passion
One Night at Mc Cools
The Naked Kiss
Happy Endings
Riding Giants
Cross Of Iron
Django the bastard
Freaks
Vacancy
Hostel Part II
Click
Hardware
The Sentinel
The Woods
Pirates of the Caribbean: Sead Man's Chest
California Split
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Veronica Guerin
Hannibal Rising
The Quiet
White Noise 2: The Light
All the King's men
Shrek the Third
Ocean's Thirteen
PTU
The Simpsons Movie
Black Christmas
Friends with Money
Deep Red
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Open Range

Thumbs Down

ATL
Harsh Times
Man Of the House
Next
Severance
Straightheads
The Newton Boys
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Begining
4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
The Hitcher
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
Open Season
The Ant Bully
Transformers
The Holiday