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Iron Man

2008-05-30T21:56:34Z

Fun. 4 out of 5 toes up. I felt it dropped the pace with the big showdown with the villain and the villain's build up. But it's great to see Robert Downey Jr. get decent work. He is one of the finest actors ever.

Don't forget to stay for the scene after the credits. It's worth it.

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Golden Compass

2008-04-03T19:56:04Z

There seem to be a ton of fantasy movies recently out and still coming. Thanks to a ridiculous amount of emails and pseudo-news stories about the movie being written by an atheist (which is apparently worst than being a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or hypocrite) I had no trouble getting a seat in the near empty theater in the church going community I live in. It's a shame this movie won't get seen more, shunned by the same knee-jerk Christians that were told to vote for Bush because God wanted them too.

The production values here are better than anything since Lord of the Rings and they make the last big one, the Chronicles of Narnia, pt. 1 look like it was made for TV in comparison. An interesting comparison since the author intended them as a sort of rebuttal to the converted C.S. Lewis' undisguised Christian themed Narnia series. But if your looking for any religious debate or even discussion you won't find it here.

What you will find is a fascinating fantasy adventure The story takes place in a parallel earth, one of many. On this earth, every human's soul resides in an animal form (called a daemon) that is their constant companion and speaks to them. Neither can exist without the other, so if one dies both die. There is a primal substance called Dust that among its properties would alive travel between between worlds. It is also believe to be related to Original Sin, it's very mention is taboo to the point of almost no one knows of it. Mention of its existence is like Galileo saying the earth isn't the center of the universe and one is asking for a world of trouble from the Magisterium. The Magisterium protects the Truth from heretics and other free thinkers.

Unfortunately for Lyra, a 12 year old girl, she does hear of it and is given a device that uses it, an alethiometer, or golden compass. It's the last one in existence. All others were collected and destroyed by the Magisterium. It's function is to reveal the truth if one can understand how to use it. Truth is a dangerous thing, so the Magisterium goes to any length to protect people from it. This puts Lyra on the run and on course for the many adventures she has. The film is fast paced without seeming rushed. The books may have been written for children but there is nothing childish about this film and it never talks down to its audience. It's PG-13, so if you have young children you may need to think about it. There is a bear fight that made my jaw drop and I would imagine produces a gasp out of every audience.

If you like fantasy, go. I doubt you will be disappointed. 4 1/2 toes up.

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Beowulf

2008-02-01T21:50:24Z

Beowulf is the oldest known piece of English literature. And even though the story has been made into a movie many times, (Beowulf, Beowulf and Grendel, Grendel Grendel Grendel, The13th Warrior, and others.) and may be as familiar as Snow White to many it somehow doesn't seem possible to discuss this movie without giving spoilers.

Every version I've ever seen has tried to embellish the story, usually disastrously. Zemeckis' version too takes artistic license with the story. There is one key difference. The additions only serve to seal gaps in the story and give us single narrative. Something the original poem doesn't do. I haven't decided whether they went to far or whether it works. I will say this, that this version changes it the least and that's with Angelina Jolie as Grendel's Mother.

Visually, the film is far less powerful than I would expect. There is no reason for this to be animated. Actors are safe for a few more years. The biggest problem is the eyes. They tend to look lifeless making the digital performances lacking. I found the monster Grendel to be extremely unbelievable, something that couldn't possibly be alive.

They milk everything they can from a PG-13 rating, it's shameful. It's looks nice in IMAX 3D. Three toes up. That may change on a repeat viewing.

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Stardust

2008-01-28T19:16:18Z

Stardust is an unfortunate mess that wants so terribly to be a great pop epic but was settle for being a B-movie with a lot of razzle-dazzle and very little soul. The problem here is that nothing feels original, it's like a bouillabaisse of ever fantasy tenant in history. Unicorns, witches, gay pirates, magic wishes, hocus pocus, flying shps, royal ghosts, swordfights... you name it's all here.

Problem is it's all entirely like we've seen it before. Like that pirate ship, seems just like the one that became the hat (ingenious) from Time Bandits. Oh, how about how a certain character is blown into thousands of fiery rocks (don't touch it, it's eeeevil!).

Secondly, the world that's created makes up its own rules as it goes along, so there's no real rhyme or reason at play to define it. It also struck me how effectively LOTR created it's physical world, so you always knew where the heroes were going and where their journey took them. Here it makes no sense. The pirates pick up our heroes and take them on a 3 day pleasure cruise (2 days of which is all it takes to become a master swordsmen) before finally getting them where they need to be in time.

It's just all too much and not enough to hold it together. If the heroes were more compelling and their arc stronger they could have done it, but these leads are pure vanilla and emote nothing for their characters or their audience.

Matthew Vaughn is clearly a talented director, but fantasy is not his game. He tries to make it a huge epic, when a simple inexpensive story is all this needs.

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Simpsons Movie

2007-12-26T17:46:36Z

What did y'all think of this. I was surprised that I didn't find it that appealing. Some of it was the pacing, which seemed kind of slow. Perhaps I'm used to the same amount of jokes crammed in to 30 minutes, who knows. Either way, I felt kinda bored halfway through. Add to that the conculsions were forgone, and nothing we haven't seen already. I need to rewatch it, because at the very beginning on the DVD, there is a disclaimer that the EPA strenuously objects to their portrayal. I couldn't rewind to that disclaimer, so have to start it over again and re-read it.

The special features on the DVD are funny, but not so much so that I would say 'worth it'.

Ultimately, I have to agree with Homer's statements at the movie's opening. We are jerks for paying to see it. Can't say they didn't warn us, I guess...

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I am Legend

2007-12-20T17:31:37Z

Unfortunately I can't add anything about previous incarnations of this story, wished I could for perspective. But this version, on it's own, isn't really worth seeing. It has some great thrills, chills and white knuckle moments, I caught myself a couple of times craning my neck to look around corners, but that alone can't carry the movie.

From start to finish, it's a Will Smith movie. Will Smith all the time. Personally I've never really cared for him, but as a dramatic actor I think he's really come into his own and I think I've warmed up to him. He makes the character's struggles compelling and believable. They even did some great character development on the dog too. But that's really all the film is about. Will Smith, well trained dog, zombies, a few high speed car chase scenes, a few things blowing up and you have yourself I Am Legend.

I think the most disappointing thing about the film is the ending. After all the tense action and buildup for the entire length of the film, the production punts on the ending by giving it somewhere in the hood of a mere 15 minutes to wrap it up. Smash bang, scary urban environment, 10 minute drive in the country with cute kid, end of film, probable setup for sequel. I was tempted to boo. Several people did in harmony with groans and "whatevers."

I seriously can't at all recommend this film. I am so glad I didn't have to pay for it - free screenings rawk!

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I'm Not There

2007-11-28T20:39:53Z

(x-post from Movie whores)

I am still trying to wrap my head around this film. It is at once a brilliant and equally frustrating experience. Having some fore knowledge, such as watching Martin Scorcese's documentary or even reading a Wikipedia entry on Bob Dylan will help you piece together the fragments of this movie. The style is truly unique and the acting, particularly Cate Blanchett (Oscar, please), is outstanding throughout, as is the music of course.

But what does it reveal about the troubador is hard to say because we don't know of the intercut stories told here, which are true, which are imagined, which are fantasy and which are factual. Dylan was an enigmatic man and a chameleon who chnged is being more than once in his career, often alienating his followers in the process. The film documents this well, but is edited in such a seemingly arbitrary fashion that does not coalesce into anything meaningful in the end. And that's a shame. Cutting from one Dylan to the other does not often have significance (occasionally it does) and the split between different stories (and actors) is done not entirely by timeline but by psychology, which makes the film quite a head trip. I didn't walk away knowing much more and had many more questions than I had before.

It's definitely a must see (probably 4 or 5 times as needed) if nothing else than for the performances and the music and to see if you can figure out any more about the strange men that made up Bob Dylan.

(PS... the machine gun scene is priceless)

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Sunshine

2007-11-25T20:07:20Z

There have been some retarded sci-fi movies based on doomsday scenarios. Pretty much all of them are boring, stupid or absolute crap. Armageddon, Deep Impact, The Day After Tomorrow, The Core and probably others I've happily forgotten. The only one I ever cut any slack for was The Core, not because it was any good but because it's Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth in modern terms.

The latest to add itself to this list is Sunshine. Now, I asked myself why, why, why would someone try to make a movie of what seems the stupidest of all: The sun is going out, so we send a team of scientists to drop a nuke and get it going again! Besides, any Doctor Who fan can tell you the sun isn't going to go out for another 5 billion years.

I figured I was in for another dumbfest. For one thing, I couldn't figure out what legendary kung-fu babe Michelle Yeoh was doing in it -- she plays a botanist with Spanish name Corazon.

It didn't take long into the movie to realize I had terribly misjudged it. It was being intelligent. The characters were intelligent. The dialog was intelligent. Nobody was doing anything stupid. And the most amazing thing of all, this is true Sci-Fi. No aliens, no zombies, no mutating space viruses, no ray guns. Just a pure scientific "what if" and a rational playing out of that premise. Something you only find if you read books. Without the usual gimmicks it manages to tell a story with drama, suspense and even horror.

7 scientists are sent along with all the fissionable material left on the earth to the sun on the chance that what they are doing will save the world. As they get closer to the sun, communication with earth is no longer possible and the story is all about them. This movie in many ways brought up memories of 2001, Silent Running and even Dark Star. I didn't feel it was as dry as those movies but I'm sure some will disagree. I give it 4 toes up. From the same writer and director of 28 Days Later.

It turns out I even had to cut them slack on the premise. There is a theoretical relic of the Big Bang that could theoretically reduce solar fusion.

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Zodiac

2007-11-24T02:02:43Z

Long, but great. Downy, Ruffalo, and Jake all did an outstanding job. Period music, cars, hair, etc., all very good.

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Critiques of "Sicko"

2007-11-13T06:36:50Z

Well Michael Moore is one of my favorite filmmakers ever and "Bowling for Columbine" is the main reason I decided to get into documentaries. With that said, he isn't what he used to be. I've been thinking about it and "Sicko" kind of sucked ass. No doubt he had compelling info in it but overall it was flat and predictable. Here are my three main points against the film....

1) The story didn't really make me think outside the box. He is always accused of being one-sided and polarizing issues which is sort of true but I didn't mind it in his previous films. With "Bowling for Columbine," for example, he presented so many issues around media, fear, and military history that after watching it I could consider gun violence within a broad context, which made the story that much more interesting. In "Sicko," it was just America's health care is bad and the other countries are good (which I agree with, no doubt), and he discussed our labor and education system but that wasn't really enough for me.

2) Some of his examples of how other countries have better health care were really weak. Like when he went around and talked to a few families and doctors to show their good standard of living, I was like what the fuck, just cuz you show a few people from that country like that, I should believe that's the norm there? And the last scene in Cuba was such a joke, just a bit too melodramatic. Those folks made one visit to a Cuban hospital and got sent back to the States where they would have to continue dealing with the American (lack of) health care system. I don't exactly think that one visit made as much of a positive impact on the patients as MM wanted us to feel, unless they would have regular access to those medical facilities after the cameras stopped rolling. It was just really cheesy to me. I think I'm a lot more skeptical and apathetic than I was several years back, so it takes more in a film to get me worked up now.

3) Last but not least, and this relates to number 1, I really don't think Moore needs to suppress any info from the other side to advance his own message. No one needs to assume other countries have perfect health care cuz they don't. My friend who lived in France for years said she had quacks for doctors, and of course there is the issue of taxes. Moore can incorporate these factors and still produce a strong conclusion that the US needs reform. Besides, taking all this into account might help people understand some of the reasons (besides corporate and political influences) why America is still like this. It's not always those in power, but also citizens who choose not to make changes. I know some people who would rather stick with our shitty system (which they don't think is shitty anyway) than cough up taxes for otherwise free health care.

Thoughts, feedback, anyone?

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Spider-Man 3

2007-11-06T03:11:06Z

Same great cast/formula. Special FX, action, comedy, drama all great. A bit longer than the other two (2.5 hours), and it seemed to close up the franchise. All in all a great romp. Dragged at times.. 4.5 digits.

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Transformers

2007-11-03T01:44:09Z

I also saw Transformers yesterday and going in I was hoping that they'd retain some elements of the original cartoon. Coming out I wished it wasn't entirely exactly like the original cartoon. It was fun, too long, of course and the special effects were awesome. But man was it cheesy. Pretty much all the way through. It amy have been live action, but make no mistake, it's still a cartoon.

I doubt I'll see it again except for that scene when Megan Fox is trying to fix the car. That scene I'll download to my iPod.

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We Own the Night

2007-10-14T00:46:47Z

awesome..
phoenix is wow...he plays so many range of characters in movies...

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The Darjeeling Limited

2007-10-08T17:12:11Z

What a great little movie. Why this isn't getting such great reviews amazes me. It's a very simple, sweet stroy of three brothers trying to get over their father's death and their differences on a "spiritual" journey that doubles as a nice travelogue through the countryside of India. The fact that it was all filmed in the subcontinent helps greatly. India is practically a character in the film.

Overall, it's a film about different types of ritual, about healing and about broken people who are trying to find themselves in a land so completely foreign the only thing they have in common is each other.

This is Wes Anderson's best film since Rushmore, IMO. It's also his most grounded in reality and while it still has the quirkiness of his other films, it's not completely out there and he lets the location set the art direction. After two films that went a little overboard, this film feels smaller, more mature and complete. It has the exact right running time, never outstays its welcome and is funny, emotional and dramatic at the same time.

There's one prolonged scene (flashback) I would have like to see different, but otherwise, it's quite enjoyable.

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Into the Wild

2007-10-08T17:09:47Z

Into The Wild is an extraordinary portrait of a confused man on a confused journey deep into the heart and soul of America while trying to find and lose himself along the way. While I never really liked Chirs, I came to understand him and was affected by his journey.

It’s a film of big ideas and extraordinary adventures that is deep, exciting and fun. While it does stretch on too long (I got impatient after reaching the 2 hour mark), it is well worth the trip and worth it on the big screen to see the majesty and natural beauty of locations from South Dakota, down the Colorado River and into the very heart of the Alaskan wilderness.

But this movie is about more than the journey on the road, it is about the desire for something else, for something different and for something better, if such a thing actually exists. As we follow Christopher McCandless (ne’ Alexander Supertramp) in his rebellious quest to destroy his belongings, shed his middle class comforts and live off the land, he abandons his family and college education and raises a big middle finger to the society that has protected him during his first 21 years of life. But what drives him is the ultimate question of the movie. Certainly his abandonment and the devastation that brings to his family is a truly selfish act, though the selfishness of his actions are not fully explored, perhaps because he did not see it this way. He fled a dark and violent family life (that in reality wasn’t anywhere near as dark or violent as he had it in his own mind).

And he did so without the knowledge or experience needed to survive. He made many mistakes, two of which proved fatal. Is death the ultimate freedom he sought and the only way for him to find what he was looking for?

Or is there something bigger? Something that drives us all to see more, to be more to live more or to experience more? And if we allow that quest to drive us too far, will it be out undoing? Will we get trapped, like Chris did, on a secluded island by a roaring river with no hope, alone with no one to share his experience with?

Perhaps it is companionship that drives us – the ability to share our experience - as Christopher was to finally realize, “Happiness only real when shared.”

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Eastern Promises

2007-10-07T23:33:54Z

Brillant...i went in with low expectation..and wow...i liked it...it's worth seeing it....surprising too...

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Spoiler Alert

2007-09-28T01:17:33Z

Someone is writing a blog now reviewing movies he hasn't even seen. It's really funny. It's called Spoiler Alert.. www.spoileralert.typepad.com

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (3D)

2007-07-31T23:18:12Z

Enjoyed it. Not as much as I'd hoped but still had a good time. I was looking forward to the adaptation of this book more than any of the others and perhaps knowing what to expect and knowing they must cut at least half the book or more for time and wondering if they were still going to get it right was on my mind. Going in I was also concerned that the big battle would lose impact if it was just a bunch of people shaking wands with effects coming out.

Not wanting to accept Voldemort's return the powers that be insist he hasn't and are starting to deal harshly with anyone that disagrees. This makes life suck even more for Harry Potter who spends the movie pissed off and confused like a normal 15 year old. The sickly sweet facade of the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher appointed by the Ministry of Magic is the only humor in this film and it's dark like the rest of the movie. Imelda Staunton does a perfect job capturing her character as does the set designer with her quarters (yikes!)

Harry must of course attempt to foil Lord Voldemort once again which leads to a climactic battle. If you see this in IMAX this sequence will likely be in 3D or you picked the wrong IMAX theater to see it. The 3D is as good as 3D gets these days so if this is your option be sure to sit at least half way back and stay in the center. The finale doesn't disappoint.

Some scenes could and should have stood out more but the director seems to have a bit of a monotone. Harry's detention while the same is far more gut wrenching in the book. I'd slack them if it was PG but it's PG-13. The monotone of the movie may also have to do with presenting only the main events from the book. But some changes remain a mystery. In the 3rd film (Prisoner of Azkhaban) it's never explained in the film (it's a key point in the point) why a stag appears when Harry casts the Patronus charm to banish the dementors. In this film it sort of is explained but Harry can no longer produce the stag but all the other students are able to produce their own animal forms.

Still, 3.5 toes up. Well worth the price of admission in this disappointing summer.

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Fantastic Four - Surfer

2007-07-16T02:09:52Z

Short, entertaining, a good summer romp, and true enough to the original characters..

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Play Dirty (1968)

2007-07-14T17:27:49Z

Play Dirty-Vivid World War II flick about a squad of outlaws doing an endrun around Afrika Corps to blow up a fuel depot.This 1968 flick plays like a modern movie-when it comes to pacing,action and attitude.Micheal Caine leads a group of former prisoners on a covert mission way behind enemy lines.The men are portrayed as survivors not heroes.There are many tense scenes and some very uncomfortable scenes near the end of the movie.A sarcastic enterprise worth a rental. B+

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In The Realms of the Unreal

2007-07-05T16:57:09Z

In The Realms of the Unreal:The Mystery of Henry Darger - a well made documentary about one of the most notorious and interesting outside artists.Henry Darger was a recluse who lived near poverty for most of his life in Chicago.An orphan or ward of the state for most of his youth Darger was an outsider even in the worst state institutions.Nobody knew that while Darger was at home he created an imaginative and enthralling universe of characters and stories mixing collage with his self-taught techniques and his unique world view.A good mix of biography and a re-telling of his epic paintings using the pics and animating some of them.Creative and entrancing.The DVD has a 30 minute interview with the director Jessica Yu and utilizes the voiceover talents of Dakota Fanning and Larry Pine. A

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Deja Vu

2007-07-05T11:46:53Z

You can pretty much get me to watch any time travel movie whether it's H.G. Wells or Bill & Ted. It's generally interesting how the writer will deal with the common themes of paradoxes and predestination. I was a little curious about this one since they got Brian Greene as a consultant. Greene is a leader in string theory, he made a 3 part Nova about year ago based on one of his books that took the latest research and dumbed it down for the masses. He is also part of a team that will be conducting an experiment using entangled particles to see if time travel even with just sub-atomic particles is possible other than in theory.

The film is suspense thriller about a terrorist attack on a ferry which kills hundreds. Denzel Washington plays an investigator from the ATF which because of some insights gets him involved in a secret agency also investigating the attack. He's told they are able to create a window into the past using multiple satellite imaging and computers that will create a simulation. An explanation he soon finds too hard to accept. He begins forming an attachment to one of the victims as he constantly observes her life and knows that she will lead him to to the terrorist. Soon he finds he cannot accept that she will die/is already dead. "Of course she's dead, you went to her funeral."

There are some novel uses of the time theme like simultaneously chasing someone in two time frames. Unfortunately, after presenting a set of laws that cannot be worked around they go and do just that without explanation. They manage to keep the suspense going almost to the very end which you don't need a time machine to see coming. Had they even had just a few minutes of follow up it might not have been such a disappointment since there are just obvious questions that would be followed up but aren't.

Not terrible, but not great. 2 1/2 toes up.

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The Fountain

2007-06-18T23:18:38Z

The Fountain, directed by Darren Aronofsky

I'll give this 3-stars as there could've been more to the script and acting, although the themes are compelling and the visuals are amazing. Here's a link to a more detailed interpretation of the film and how Aronofsky treats the subject of death, from my blog:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=116932167&blogID=198312263&MyToken=8a86f6a9-8084-4635-9acd-fa3e04153590

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Post something you slackers

2007-06-11T06:07:25Z

I was about to post my a review of Pirates #3 and then I started wondering what the hell happened to this tribe? This used to be a pretty active tribe. Now what? Nobody goes to movies, buys them, rents them or watches them on TV? Over 300 members and no one posts a damn thing?

Day Watch came out in theaters this weekend? Did anyone find a theater it was playing at?

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A New 300 Movie

2007-06-02T14:39:34Z

Hi, my name is Christina but called me Remi. I want a female version of the movie 300, 300 female Spartan women killing 1,000,000 Persian men. Such empowerment!

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House of Games soundtrack?

2007-05-24T13:12:42Z

Hi all,

I just joined the tribe and hopefully will find my answers here :)

Here comes the first question: Is there a soundtrack released for the movie called 'House of Games' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/)?

I especially love the 'Fugue from the Toccata in C Minor' by J.S.Bach. However, after listening to many versions of this piece, I decided that I want what is played in this movie. The others did not simply 'taste' the same :) This piece was played by Warren Bernhardt.

My problem is, no matter how much I searched, I could not find a Soundtrack of the movie nor was it included in any Warren Bernhardt CD.

Can anyone help me about this? If there's no other option, I'll have to rip the piece from the movie's DVD.

Thanks in advance.

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movie review discussion at Social Sampler - a new social networking event

2007-05-12T01:22:30Z

Social Sampler

A new concept in social events: "Social Sampler". 28 activities in 7 rooms over 6 hours with 300 chairs using 50 tables. Conversation tables, dancing, games, sing-alongs, read-alongs costume club, toys, food sampler join, watch, or wander activities. several helpful hosts. waltz dancing, latin, swing dancing. 6pm to midnight

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All ages, Comfortable attire. No partner necessary. $12 general, $6 student with ID.

Oakland Veterans Hall, 200 Grand Avenue Oakland CA X Harrison.A beautiful dance hall, with 3,500 square foot hardwood floor, extra room for socializing and meeting new people, easy access, great parking.

CONVERSATION TABLES: Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, Vacations; DANCING: Waltz, Swing, Latin SOCIAL : Board games, Card games, Social games, Sing alongs, Script Read alouds, Costumers club, Toys, Food sampler

Conversation Tables
Each Conversation table has a different theme such as Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, and Vacations.

Each table has a deck of cards with a different topic on each card. Each card is turned over one at a time. People talk about the topic as they wish until everyone who wants to talk is finished. Then the next card is turned over. For example, for the Movie Table, topic cards include “Your favorite movie?” “Your favorite actor?” “Your worst movie experience?” “Your favorite theatre” “Your favorite movie snack?”. Similar topic cards decks are set on each conversation table. You may participate or just listen. You may join or leave any table at any time. There is a host at each table to answer questions.
Movies Table May 26 -a table each for Spiderman III, Shrek III, Pan's Labyrinth, movies in general.
Books Table Recent book discussion, writing, literature, business of authorship
Relationships Table Romance and Relationships discussion
Culture Table Symphony-dance-opera-ballet-theatre
Technology Table Technology, computers and science fiction
Dining Table cooking, fine dining, restaurant, food, cooking experiences
Humor Table Read Jokes, write cartoon captions
Random Chat Table There are 100 cards: "What was the oddest thing you have ever seen?""What is your worst hair day?" “What was your worst job experience?" "Most embarassing moment?"
Artists Exchange Table Exchange techniques, shows, art
Networking Table Business Networking: startups, marketing strategy, IPO, financing
The Writers Exchange Table mutual help for new writers and authors
Harry Potter Table movies, books and trivia
Pets Table cute pet stories, pet health
Vacations Table favorite vacations, budget vacations, dream vacations
Weather stories Table Everyone has interesting stories about weather. Blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes, hail

Dancing
Waltz Dancing Dj music for Waltz, Polka, Congress of Vienna, Bohemian National Polka
Swing Dancing Dj music for Lindy, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Shag, Balboa, Blues dances
Latin Dancing Dj music for Salsa, cha cha, samba, mambo, bachata, cumbia dances

Games Room
Social games including charades, acronamatic, the question game, story time, WHAT IF? There are social board games in the room: pick up a social board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Board games including cranium, outburst, monopoly, Pictionary. There are social board games in the room: pick up a board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games

Card games including Hearts, Holmes Card Game, Magic: Mamma Mia, other. There are many decks of cards and many specialty card decks. Pick out a game, select a table, invite others to join. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Social Rooms

Toys
Legos, Tinker Toys, K’nex, Erector sets, modeling clay, group jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzle. You are welcome to play with the toys and invite others to join you.

Script read-alouds
reading aloud scripts from TV, plays, movies, such as the Simpsons, Seinfeld, Friends, Mash, All in the Family, Hamlet, Shakespeare in Love,Buffy, Coupling, American Beauty. There are many scripts on the table. Pick one that you would like to read aloud. Select a table, invite others to join in. Everyone selects a character, and start reading aloud.

Food Sampler There is a different food sampler each Social Sampler. Some food sampler themes are ice creams, chocolates, coffees, potato chips, cookies. Odd Ice Creams with be sampled for May 26: Avacado, Buko (Baby Coconut), Ginger, Green Tea, Halo Halo (Buko, Langka, Ube, Pineapple, Mongo &Sweet Beans), Langka (also known as Jackfruit, a relative of the Fig), Lychee, Mango, Thai Tea, Sweet Coconut, and Ube (purple Yam).

Costumers Club activities include swap or sell fabric, clothing, or costumes' sewing circle talk; or meet potential new clients about new costumes, tuxes, or gowns; or finish a costume in a 'stitch and bitch' session. This is a group for costumers and seamstresses who make costumes, gowns, wedding dresses, and clothing for such events as Renaissance Faire, Dickens Faire, Science Fiction costume masquerade balls, Halloween balls and events, Sea of Dreams NYE, Anon Salon events, Costume cons, Belly Dancers outfits, Greater Bay Area Costume Group events, Art Deco's Gatsby picnic, Newport Week, San Francisco Waltzing Society, Friday Night Waltz New Year's Eve formal Waltz Balls, Peers and Gaskells formal balls.

Sing alongs
Sea Shanteys are songs traditionally sung by sailors to accompany and set the rhythm for certain kinds of heavy, repetitive work on board ship—raising and trimming the sails, raising the anchor, and working the pumps.

Musicals are the songs from musical plays and movies, such as Sound of Music, Grease, Singing in the Rain, Brigadoon, Hair, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls.

Folk songs are just that: traditional folk songs.

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GIFTS YOUTUBE CHANNEL

2007-04-21T08:37:38Z

On may 1st the Gulf Islands Film and Television School will be launching a youtube channel! The channel wil feature Gifts classics, films by students and alumni and a really awesome contest for independent filmmakers!
Check it out May 1st at www.youtube.com/giftsfilms if you like it subscribe and tell your friends!
If you want to find out more check us out at www.myspace.com/giftsyoutube or find out about programs offered at www.giftsfilms.com

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300

2007-04-21T00:44:00Z

Something for everyone.. but kids.. and those that don't like blood.. Otherwise, very entertaining!

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Grind House

2007-04-17T17:14:27Z

I can now count Grindhouse among the 4 movies I have walked out on in the middle.

After an seemingly endless parade of action and relentless gore split up by the most uninteresting scenes of dialogue and "character development," we are treated to 30 minutes of a Tarantino yap fest. The first 30 minutes of Death Proof has absolutely no plot development, just these rather dull and vapid girls chatting and chtting interspersed with shots of feet, closeups of a jukebox and, no kidding, a melodramatic montage of text messaging. I couldn't handle anymore.

I hear the car chase is great, but I'll have to wait for cable.

If you like over the top violence and zombies, you'll probably like Planet (why Planet?) Terror though I found it a bore. If you think that people actually talk like Tarantino thinks they do, you might like Death Proof.

Personally I think that when these two directors get together they get amplified into their most pretensious.

Also, I had a hard time getting into the shitty seventies film stock and grain when the movies were set in modern day.

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The Departed

2007-03-30T15:20:28Z

So, sorry if this is old hat, but I just saw this with the lady. Holy Shit this movie is so goddamned good. Its not Goodfellas good; it doesn't have the same sleazy/menacing atmosphere or "poetic" violence. However, in the cops n' robbers genre, this is brilliant. the tension is constant, the turnarounds dizzying at points, and the writing spot on. And I'll be damned, di Caprio is great. Jack is great, Marky Mark is too. Hell, watching Matt Damon spiral into a morally depraved pit was worth the ticket price alone. Well worth the ticket price. 3.5 toes up.

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this week's rentals and purchases

2007-03-30T05:02:56Z

Two For The Road - Interweaving several different roadtrips in a couple's relationship this flick shows the good and bad of a relationship.Audrey Hepburn & Albert Finney play the main couple in this 1966 flick. It is nice to see a relationship movie that feels vaguely real .Some interesting anachronisms - like cigarette girls on planes and hitchhiking without fear of serial killers. B+

Eulogy - over the top look at a dysfunctional family preparing to bury their father and dealing with each other- inconsistent. With Ray Ramano,Famke Jannsen,Piper Laurie,Hank Azaria,Kelly Preston,Rip Torn and others. C-

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made - seems to be a made on the cheap compilation of trailers for 50 truly terrible flicks- I enjoy bad flicks and was hoping for a decent documentary on some of these turkeys -sadly this 60 minute comp just featured a guy with a vaguely wacky voice talking over the trailers for the movies and no movie not even the top movie got more than 2 minutes of coverage. It is neat to watch for the bad effects and stuff- but not that informative C-

Bret Hart:The Best There Was/The Best There Is/The Best There Ever Will Be - while the current WWE product is suffering in quality and popularity- the DVDs continue to be excellent.This 3 DVD set features a 2 hour history of Bret's wrestling career with clips from his pre WWF days all the way til his troubled tenure in WCW.What makes this set a wrestling fan's dream is the 7 hours of extra matches including his great match with Owen Hart @ WM X, his match against the British Bulldog @ SummerSlam 92 in front of 80,000 people and even better matches against great workers like Rickey"The Dragon" Steamboat. A great edition to any wrestling fans library. A

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Night Watch

2007-03-30T04:56:54Z

I'd never heard of this film. It played at a few art houses when it was released. This is a Russian made thriller. It reminded me a little of Underworld without the huge budget and over the top action scenes. There are two sides of magical beings, one light and one dark and there is a truce between them. Neither may tamper with the lives of humans. They call themselves Others. Each Other must choose their own path, to follow good or evil. The good side that insures the evil side does not break the truce is call Night Watch, their evil counterparts are Day Watch. Most Others tend to be vampires but there are a few with other abilities like shape-shifting.

After discovering he is an Other, the main character joins Night Watch. Although they are the good guys they don't seem to be all that good. Mainly, they seem to contrive sitiuations that allow them to come down on the dark side. Driving the story to it's conclusion is prophecy of an Other who will appear that will be so powerful he will change the balance forever towards the side he chooses.

There is one thing really unique about this film that I have never seen before. I recommend the sub-titled version for this reason. The sub-titles are intended as part of the film. There are scenes when the text for the dialog turns to blood and washes away with the water in the scene and other atmospheric effects. Not overpowering not overdone and not distracting and they add character towards watching this film.

I give it 4 toes up. It is the first of 4 Russian novels, Night Watch, Day Watch, Dusk Watch and Dawn Watch. And I truly hope the others are made as well.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/

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Breach

2007-03-18T19:58:02Z

Breach
By Powder
http://www.entertainmentjunkies.com/2007/01/20/review-breach/

Breach
Directed By: Bill Ray
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Chris Cooper, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, and Caroline Dhavernas
Releasing: Feb 13, 2007
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 110 min.
Official Movie Site: http://www.breachmovie.net/

Intelligence Agency thrillers are some of the most enjoyable types of movies, that is, in my opinion! And Breach does not let you down! The story arcs around actual events and people in the FBI just about 6-7 years ago. Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper) a renowned Special Agent in the Bureau has just been assigned to lead up a new division to safeguard and protect the Bureau’s intelligence. Eric O’Neill (Ryan Phillippe) has been assigned to Hanssen to act as his clerk by day and report on any and all of Hanssen’s activities by night.

O’Neill, having gained respect and trust for his boss doesn’t know why the Bureau is having him spy on such an honorable man. Confronting his contact, Kate Burroughs (Laura Linney) she finally tells him the truth and brings him in on the sting (along with her boss Dan Plesac played by Dennis Haysbert). Hanssen is a mole. He has been selling secrets to the Russians for years, and it is O’Neill’s inside work, if he can pull it off, that will help bring down the man responsible for the biggest security breach the country has known.

The film itself takes off gradually, following O’Neill through his low level job and his aspiration to become an agent. We get to see many sides of his character, the bureau side, the husband side (to his wife Juliana played by Caroline Dhavernas), and his religious and spiritual side. And Phillippe pulls it off without a hitch. He is perfect as O’Neill and never once releases you from the movie and back into reality.

Linney is quite the same, playing Agent Burroughs subtly yet with conviction. Although you never do see her with a gun, you believe that she is a part of the “gun culture” of the FBI through and through. And of course Haysbert, as always is a strong and powerful figure never faltering – wonderful!

As you get pulled deeper and deeper into the plot it’s suspense comes on gradually as well. But the suspense is definitely there! The filming style mixed very well with the subject matter and screenplay that my own blood pressure rose a number of times throughout the movie. And although it begins slowly, I never did once check my watch.

The only problem I had with the film was with the fact that I wasn’t familiar with the case before entering the theater. In college at the time, I didn’t follow the headlines – and the film assumes you have certain knowledge of the case at times. Not to a fault, but it is certainly there in the expectation. However, nothing is left without a sufficient explanation in the end.

It is a great suspense flick with enough entertainment and shock value that it is certainly worth the price of a movie ticket.

-3 toes up.

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Hannibal Rising

2007-02-16T00:36:59Z

OK, so I'm not a great book-reader. I'm not an avid pursuer of the literary arts. I also don;t watch a gazilion movies. But I know crappy when I see it.

So, I lucked out and found the audio version of HR on cd, wife is a big fan of the other two, so XMas gift solved. Critics weren't crazy about it, but we liked it well enough. As I said, I wouldn't know how to compare the book to the previous ones by Thomas Harris, so ya know, all I can say is probabaly less suspenseful that the others, so far.

So we thought, lets see the movie. Oi.

Well, it was bad. So bad we left the theatre, and requested a refund, which we got.
The movie stays faithful to certain scenes, at least to hit certain major themes. But it's like the book on extreme fast forward. Certain characters are left out completely, some scenes are added that were not in the book, and the audience is treated to a no-subtelty head-bashing series of "remember when he did x, y, or z in other movies" moments (complete with samurai mask reminiscent of his mask in the SotL movie. Certain characters, such as Lady Mirasaki are ruthlessly destroyed from the degrees of subtlety peresent in the book, and the movie was quite simply, so rotten, we left just as Hannibal was getting in to and working around in medical school. Much as we were determined to ignore the reviewer who panned it, and judge for ourselves without any expectation of it being "good", we fled.
Even without having read the book, this was a bad movie, that drained the character of any of his charms. The one saving grace was the actor who played Hannibal got the several of the Hopkins-esque mannersims across nicely, and should have a good career ahead of him.

If you thought you liked Air Bud, Harry Potter 2, or Mummy Returns, you might like this movie. Then again, maybe not...

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The Messengers

2007-02-13T19:59:33Z

The Messengers
By Mack
http://www.entertainmentjunkies.com/2007/02/02/review-the-messengers/

The Messsengers
Directed By: Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan Turner and Theodore Turner
Releasing: Feb 2, 2007
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 84 min.

I love Ghost stories if they make me jump, have a decent story, and bring that creepy factor into play. I went to see this with three friends and we all loved it. I have been waiting for so long for a film that can make me jump and squirm in my seat.

This film clobbers you right off the bat and continues to bring those moments that make you jump and squirm using visual effect but also letting you use your own imagination to scare you. Set in a creepy old farm house where the family supposedly ran off due to failing crops. The new family’s children soon discover there is much more to this house than just looking creepy.

The story centers around a teenage girl “Jess” played by Kristen Stewart and her baby brother “Ben” played by twins Evan & Theodore Turner. Both of whom are haunted by spirits in the house. I found myself wanting to yell at the characters to do things and not do things as Jess tries to figure out what is happening & begging her family to leave to no avail. She turns to a local boy “Bobby” played by Dustin Milligan for help convincing him what she is seeing and feeling is real.

Jess’s parents of course are too wrapped up with their own issues to see that Jess is not just trying to get them to move back to Chicago or get attention due to mistakes she had made in the past they can’t let go of.

I don’t know about you but I love a scary film that draw you in enough to get you to try to help the characters and many members of the audience who were in the theater as well were yelling up to the screen coaching Jess through the film. I loved this film and want to see it again. The characters are believable, the acting is pretty good and the story holds your interest until the end. If you like ghost stories go see this film. I think it’s the best one I have seen in a very long time.

(He didn't give it a star rating, but the way he talks about it I assume it would be about 4 or 5 toes up!)

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Because I Said So

2007-02-13T19:57:57Z

Becuase I Said So
By Astrix and Krymson
http://www.entertainmentjunkies.com/2007/02/04/review-because-i-said-so/

Because I Said So
Directed By: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo and Steven Collins
Releasing: Feb 2, 2007
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 102 min.

Not cinematic magic, that’s for damn sure! Daphne (Diane Keaton) is an overbearing, overprotective, over… anything mother. A single parent to three young women - The married Maggie (Lauren Graham) and Mae (Piper Perabo), and the unmarried Milly (Mandy Moore). Milly has just decided that she’s perfectly fine being single. So Daphne, being the over-everything mother takes out a personal ad online to find a “life partner” for Milly.

Enter many creepy online men as well as the smarmy, sophisticated, high class Jason (Tom Everett Scott) and the sweet, straightforward, smooth musician Johnny (Gabriel Macht). The two men begin to date Milly all the while, unaware of her mother’s meddling. You’ll have to see it to know the rest… or continue reading into our spoiler filled critique.

*SPOILERS*
The first issue we take with the film is the over acting and overbearing nature of Diane Keaton’s character. We understand that she is a mother who loves her daughter(s) - Milly in particular in this case, but c’mon!!! Frickin’ hell, it was just painful at times. To watch, to hear, to take as entertainment of any kind would bring you to tears.

belt1beltThe second issue is with wardrobe for Daphne. At this point we believe it must be contractual and actually feel bad for the costume designer. YOU SHOULD NOT WEAR GIANT/BIG BELTS WITH EVERYTHING YOU OWN! Now on occasion giant belts can be cute. Take our word for this, Krymson is a costume designer herself and Astrix has worked in fashion for a while. Buy a frickin’ Vogue and figure out what the fashion is of the day if you’re going to try and mix it up. Turtle necks, big sweaters, huge poofy skirts, black tights with high hells, and gargantuan belts!! Now you may be asking yourself why we’re carrying on about this to such extent, and the answer is it took us out of the movie over and over again. It was such an annoyance that we will call it a “wardrobe malfunction”.

dogThe third issue is with the gratuitous dog scenes. The dog had more scenes than some of the people, in fact it had more scenes that the dogs did in The Truth About Cats and Dogs or Must Love Dogs. We just don’t really need to see a dog humping anything or getting all randy over watching people go at it. It was cute for a second the first time, but after that was just disturbing. How many times do we need to see a dog respond to the camera?

The fourth issue *a warning* is with two scenes - the “locker room” scene. 1. Who stands around in their underwear with their mother? 2. The turtleneck and granny panties!! Enough said. The other scene is the “make-out” scene. There was no part of that scene to make the audience believe that Joe really couldn’t keep his hands off Daphne. She had a jacket and a scarf to help guard her, not to mention her body language. How would Joe have felt that she was irresistible? It just didn’t work.
chemistry
But there were some redeeming qualities to the film. The chemistry between Mandy Moore and Gabriel Macht was phenomenal. A great match for film, they were believable as a couple. Both of us hope to see them in more films together as romantic interest.

On this note, we should point out that, besides both of our love for the man (and for Astrix this has gone on for many years), gabeGabriel Macht was such a highlight. In the theater at the screening we attended, every time he walked onto the screen the, audience responded in wonderfully positive way. Gabe, we can’t wait to see you step into a lead role in a film.

Another great thing about the film (which was pointed out to us by a male friend) is that Mandy Moore was not the typical stick figure protagonist you normally see. She was still beautiful (and had a great wardrobe! *cough*). Also Lauren Graham’s character was a welcomed addition. She added such great flavor and had a great relationship/chemistry with Mandy Moore that they could have been sisters.

But the final thing about this film, and we’re both not thrilled with the idea, that we will both end up owning the DVD simply because of Gabriel Macht.

(They gave it 2.5 out of 5 stars which I think would translate to about a neutral on the toe system. Maybe half a toe up)

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Venus

2007-02-13T19:55:00Z

Venus
By Powder
http://www.entertainmentjunkies.com/2007/02/09/review-venus/

Venus
Directed By: Roger Michell
Starring: Peter O’Toole, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker
Releasing: December 21, 2006 (NY/LA), Wide Release Unknown
Rating: R
Running time: 90 min.

Only 5 men a year are recognized by a nomination to win an Academy Award for best actor, and for 2006 O’Toole is one of them for his role in Venus. He truly did an amazing job and was utterly believable as Maurice, a dying actor who falls for a reckless youth. So now for a little 6 degrees… Jessie, also known as Venus (played by Jodie Whittaker) is Ian’s (Leslie Phillips) neice’s daughter. She comes to live with him as a caretaker until she can get on her feet, but to her this doesn’t mean much. She prances around the house making Ian feel like a stranger in his own home.

Maurice, Ian’s best friend and fellow actor, becomes enamored with her immediately. Working very hard to crack her rough exterior he slowly gains her trust. For a girl who is altering the lives of these two men so drastically the unknown happens, she becomes changed forever.

Despite the depressing, and worse yet, awkward moments the film leaves you somehow with a wonderful feeling. Perhaps it’s the message of love and trust, or just a great soundtrack to go along with the emotions of the film, but director Roger Mitchell truly captured the real insecurities and hopeful nature of the human spirit. My first thought upon exiting the theater was how much I enjoyed the song that was playing the credits. It somehow rounded out the end of the story like a title treatment displaying the words “the end”.

The acting was top notch as well - clearly! O’Toole wouldn’t have received a nomination for Best Actor if it had been otherwise. Whittaker has some great moments in the film, but can leave you high and dry at other times. Redgrave (who plays Maurice’s wife) was fantastic. She was a great supporting role and even left you wanting more. Leslie Phillips, although grouchy and angry for most of the film was also a good supporting character which added to the complexity of the story.

Where the film lacked was in the shared intimacy of Jessie and Maurice. It is a strange love story about passion in life and trust, but (and not to the fault of the actress many times) Jessie’s reasons for being friends with Maurice weren’t always clear and genuine. Without her shared connection (that is until the end) was the story completely solid.

For the final 20 min. of the film alone it is worth a watch. And although I believe O’Toole has some tough competition this year for best actor, I completely agree with the nomination!

1 toe up. (such a different rating system from what I'm used to!! :-D).

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Music and Lyrics

2007-02-13T19:50:47Z

Not one of my better reviews... but here it is nonetheless.

Music and Lyrics
By Powder
http://www.entertainmentjunkies.com/2007/02/12/review-music-and-lyrics/

Music and Lyrics
Directed By: Marc Lawrence
Starring: Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Haley Bennett, Brad Garrett, and Kristen Johnston
Releasing: Wed. Feb 14, 2007
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 96 min.

I don’t think I’ve laughed this long or loud at a movie since (ironically another Hugh Grant film) About A Boy. From the first moment the film begins we are transported back to the 80’s with the fictitious boy band Pop’s music video “Pop Goes My Heart”, with the perfect 80’s style video, bad hair, horrid clothing, and cheesy music.

PopWe are then rushed into the present where we discover that Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant), the second rate star of Pop to band mate’s Colin Thompson’s huge fame, is grasping to keep his “has-been” status to pay the bills. Performing for theme parks, high school reunions, and so on… He is finally getting a good opportunity to keep his foothold in the industry, he must write a song for the world’s biggest pop singing sensation (“bigger than Britney and Christina combined”) Cora Corman. But he must find a lyricist, Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore) to help him finish the song first.

GrantHugh Grant brought the best aspects of his Prime Minister character in Love Actually to this role, a bit more dancie and silly. The way he pulled off so many of the punch lines with true British humor, serious yet hilarious all the same, was the highlight of the film. Drew Barrymore’s Sophie Fisher had great quirks, a self-assured quality yet still self-conscience. Her character is the heart of the film and will be, no doubt the part that female audiences bond with. Haley Bennett’s pop princess, Cora Corman, was the perfect portrait of Britney Spears media persona – from the “dancing” spirit, the sexuality, the lack of reality, to even the world tour she’s to embark on, the “Karmic World Tour”. With these parallels to our perception with media it just completes the story with hilarity.

SisterBut possibly my favorite part of the entire film was the supporting characters. Chris Riley (Brad Garrett), Alex’s Manager and Rhonda Fisher (Kristen Johnston), Sophie’s fan girl sister. They have some hilarious moments throughout the film. They are likeable and have great chemistry with the other actors and fit into the story with great ease.

I have decided after seeing this film Music and Lyricsthat there should be a Hugh Grant section in my DVD collection. He is quickly beginning to rank on my favorite actor list. Drew has been on my favorite actress list for some time, and the two together are fabulous!

So for all of the women out there that are already dying to see this film, you won’t regret it. It’ll surely be the next film in your home collection after all of the Hugh Grant greats and the Wedding Singer. But men, if you are being drug to this by your wife, girlfriend, significant other, or just a friend – sit back and relax. It is a true chick flick, but my bet is you’ll find yourself laughing more than once. And if you can recall any bit of the 80’s you’ll have a great hysterical appreciation for this film! It could truly be a film that you will walk away from having enjoyed the last 96 min.

5 toes up! Such a fun film!!

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Smoking Aces [SPOILERS]

2007-01-31T21:38:02Z

2.5 Toes up for this one. Not for story, but cinematography, tension building, and violence. Some nice choices in casting, some great moments, and good characters, but when all is said and done, most of the 'big twist' was obvious about 30 mins in, and the 'twist' itself doesn't make logical sense in the real world. The realities hit you about five minutes afterwards, discussing it with friends, and you go: "Waitaminnit, that doesn't make sense". However, I don't think 'sense' was the hook of the movie. Trailers are all about 'watch a violent movie', so it was obvioulsy appealing to the Tarantino-type fan base. The convolutions of who gets where and how is QT-esque, as are some of the characters, however, the movie plays like its about getting to the shootout (as suggested in the trailers as the point of the movie), rather than the conclusion of the film, which is so seriously lacking it plays like an after-thought.

I'd say: netflix it if you like the genre, or wanna get drunk and watch mindless but comedic violence. Don't expect a big finish you can buy into, but still, as mindless gun movies go, it was way better than Mean Guns.

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Pan's Labyrinth

2007-01-15T07:33:29Z

Hey, has the price of gas kept y'all from going to the movies?

4 toes up. This almost gets the big 5 up. This bizarre fantast is set in 1940's Spain after Franco's rise. Ofelia, a 12 year old girl moves to the countryside with her mother to be with her new stepfather, a captian in the army. The move to the country isn't for the scenery, it's because her stepfather is part of a campaign to hunt down and exterminate any remaining rebels.

There are two stories going on. One in the real world where the captain leads his sadistic campaign and terrorizes everyone and the fantasy world Ofelia finds where she is told she is the long lost princess and must complete three tasks to return. The movie is very visual, dark, moody and tense since it is clearly only a matter of time before Ofelia will be in the way of her evil stepfather.

My only complaints were that far more time is spent in the real world than the fantasy world, which is clearly a place we want to see more. There are also two minor plot holes, one in the real and one in the fantasy world that detract from being taken in completely by the film. Still it is an impressive piece of work and will keep you engrossed the entire way.

One last thing. This is rated R for good reason. There is no nudity or sexual situations. It earns its rating from very tense scenes of combat and torture. Not gratuitous but leave the kids at home. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles

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War of the Worlds -- The Musical

2006-12-04T21:48:29Z

Yeah, you heard me. The Musical.

Once upon a time, well about 30 years ago was a musical concept experiment by Jeff Wayne. He took H.G. Wells War of the Worlds and told it in music. That album is collector's item. It had a narration by Richard Burton and featured Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues as the main singer. Now, it's been revived on stage in the UK. It's actually more of a concert with visuals. Richard Burton survives as "talking head" and Justin Hayward is still singing away. "♪The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - - - but still they come... ♪"

If you ever heard the album you know what it is. It will either be your cup of tea or not because that's the way music is. The 2 DVD set is only for sale in the UK so you will either hunt it down or not care in the slightest. But look at it this way -- NO TOM CRUISE! That's a win win for me.

This DVD just takes me back in time to the 70's. 5 toes up on both feet.

The links I've put are for info only. I can't vouch for any sales from them. I have about half a dozen British co-workers who regularly take trips to visit family in England. And since it's a UK DVD you need a DVD player that can play PAL which is most really inexpensive no-name Korean brand DVD players or any recent Philips DVD player that will auto-convert PAL to NTSC (if it's not region coded).

There's a clip here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000J10LC2/ref=olp_product_details/026-3366404-7075664?ie=UTF8&seller=

The site:
http://www.waroftheworldsonline.com

History:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne's_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds

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The Queen

2006-12-03T22:06:50Z

pretty good, not amazing go-see-it-now, but solid. it was kind of documentary style in showing clips from 1997 from Princess Di's death and the aftermath - the news, flowers piled up at the gate, the candles, tears, celebrity attention. helen mirren and the actor who plays tony blair are amazing as the queen processing the event over 5 days in real time. shows the relationship to britain's PM and the royal family, and modernatization of the whole institution. also, moment at the end in speaking to tony blair is especially poignant as power and public opinion comes and goes.

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The Christmas Card ~ NEW Hallmark Original

2006-12-02T18:54:37Z

Here is some glorious news about a Hallmark movie that will premier tomorrow night. ~ Happy Holidays!

THE CHRISTMAS CARD
“The Christmas Card” a Hallmark Channel Original Holiday movie, premieres Saturday, December 2 at 9 p.m then repeats at 11 p.m. on the Hallmark TV Channel. This movie will air again on Thursday, December 7 at 9m as well.

"THE CHRISTMAS CARD"
Multiple Emmy® Award winner Ed Asner (Lou Grant -The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, John Newton (Desperate Housewives, Melrose Place) & Alice Evans (102 Dalmations) star in this heartwarming holiday story about a career soldier stationed overseas who takes a leave of absence to search for the young woman who has written him a deeply touching personalized, but anonymous Christmas card. When Cody (Newton) arrives in the picturesque California town from which the card was sent, he soon meets and falls in love with Faith (Evans), the girl who sent the card, and he is practically accepted as a new member of the family by her parents (Asner & Nettleton) as he helps them save the family Christmas tree farm. But there’s one major roadblock to happily-ever-after: Faith is already engaged to be married!

Glorinda Marie plays ‘Molly’ the sassy diner waitress in this touching Holiday film!

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A Scanner Darkly

2006-11-28T07:50:56Z

You'll either love it or hate it. Philip K. Dick is a Sci-Fi author whose books and stories have been made into more movies than any other, Bladerunner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Imposter. In A Scanner Darkly he sticks to his common themes regarding reality and identity. The novel is somewhat autobiographical and is about someone who watches the lives of friends and himself destroyed by drugs and addiction.

Set in the near future, 20% of the population is addicted to the drug "Substance D" an extremely addicting substance that has the side-effect of separating communication between the right and left halves of the brain. This can leave the brain trying to use other areas of the brain to compensate for the missing part and distorting reality. The result for Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is that he has lost his former upstanding life and family and now shares his run-down home with friends who are also addicts. And what's really unfortuante for Bob is that he is also "Fred", undercover cop assigned to follow Bob's every move to hopefully lead the cops up the chain to the source of Substance D. And as the movie poster says, "Everything is not going to be okay."

If you didn't know, the movie was filmed with live actors and then taken into computer and rotoscoped into a very fluid animated look which only adds to the surreal nature of the film. The film has a very non sci-fi feel as many of the scenes are the paranoid exchanges of conversation between Bob and his friends.

This film is very non-standard. It has neither villains nor heroes. I don't think it will do well at the box office. So if you have any intention of seeing it, do it quickly. I give it at least 4 toes up, but like I said, you will either love it or hate it. I loved it.

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The Prestige

2006-11-28T07:07:30Z

First things first... the less you know going in, the more you will be rewarded.

DON'T READ OR WATCH ANYTHING if you plan to see the film. INCLUDING THIS.

Secondly, I loved it. I dare say it was my favorite film of the year so far. The way the story unfolds is a marvelous slight of hand where time and space aren't always what they seem and you actually have to pay attention, and think about where yoou are. It's ever confusing, but you are rewarded for keeping up with the story.

Third, it's dark. These are broken men, true anti-heroes who often do things that are mean-spirited and potentially evil due to their obsessions with each other. Often I don't like when the main characters are this dark, but here it was different. They reminded me of the broken heroes of the 1970s when doing good meant being bad at the same time. This will work for some and not for others (my fiancee hated the film for this very reason).

Fourth, what a great cast in great locations doing amazing things. And the way that tricks are revealed and then turn back on them is fun to watch.

Fifth, Nikola Tesla was a real person. He did have a rivalry with Edison. He did create marvelous lightning machines. He could not transport people. You'll either go with it or not.

This is an intelligent, supernatural thriller that rewards patience. If you like magic at all, you should definietly check out The Prestige. It's not for everyone, but for me it was.

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'Don't Come Knocking' - Movie Review

2006-11-24T08:04:46Z

MOVIE REVIEW
'Don't Come Knocking'
By Mario Savioni

You can always tell a good movie by the attention to detail. The first image shows two what appear eye holes with the blue sky and clouds behind them. Everything else is black so it’s like you are looking out from the inside of a mask. Then light is added and we see that they are holes in rocks and then a cowboy rides between them and then under a rock formation in a perfect placement that includes a full moon at midday above the rock bridge where there are both beautiful colors and another beautiful composition.

The movie is landscape-beautiful. Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) rides off into the full-day escaping the filming of a movie. I ask myself the question, how is anything relegated to such beauty and irony – perfect urban metal mail boxes that are in better condition than the out-back rustic dwellings that harbor the tenants who live in them?

This movie is about famous actors who just want to escape their tied-down, regimented lives.

And it’s amazing how our parents become fragile as it appears when Spence gets home and his mother had asked him, “Why, after 30 years are you now coming home to pay a visit?”

We leave a legacy with our lives and face the music of a thousand neon lights of our hopes and dreams that perhaps the movie star recognizes was just a façade to the emptiness he now feels.

There is some separation that forms in the loneliness of man. Needing long roads and freedom and there is so much light in this movie, a lot of color and beauty – a bar on one side of the room and a grill on the other and a blonde on the side that might keep him out of trouble and she recognizes him.

The problem is she’s got her mother’s remains. She follows him to a hotel. Women, you’d think follow men with the means to protect and provide for them.

It’s the people in the beginning who knew you for who you are who matter most.

It’s like the sadness of an emperor, who is distanced from the regular people.

Lost and detached.

You can hear it in the loneliness of a son who never saw his father and all the disconnections that are not connected with a glimpse. You have to engage yourself to love.

Jessica Lange is such a beautiful woman and actress. She is both fragile and delicate in her gestures and haunting good looks that have worn in time. We know her as a former famous actress and she comes across even now in the blue dress and red beads against her fair skin and blonde hair. Her history as an actress and as an actress now blend into our memory of her and in the context of the movie we can see ourselves and how we fade.

The power of love means you just don’t fuck somebody and walk away. Meanwhile, the light changes. It shifts within seconds in Butte Montana, where everything seems to tell the truth.

I don’t know about your life, but my life is nothing more than a series of memories. And then a car covered in square-press-on mirrors goes by as if everything that glitters seems glamorous but is really just a reflection; it’s like good art that simply takes reality and pushes it through a medium and it’s that simple process that gives us a belly kick of self-recognition. And then an ice cream truck goes by and Spence is sitting on an old couch that was pitched from the window, where his son is living. All, it seems, are the contents of his son’s house at the outskirts, in the road. What is it about our lives? Joined by a dog, Spence sits on the sofa in the night, as friendship has its memories and an empty cardboard box blows by and he looks back at it and he stays there finally sleeping.

He’s scared. He doesn’t want to be related. “Maybe, I threw everything way,” he says.

“Well, make it your home,” his daughter from the past tells him.

And she scattered her mother’s ashes from high atop Butte. Once you find your mother and your father, time goes by, and people slip away. And in Butte, there’s not a place more isolated, sterile, where everybody knows your past, present, and future.

When we can turn our emotions into music or something makes us more, we apologize.

We make promises we cannot keep and so the metaphor rides into the sunset.

A film by Wim Wenders – Official Selection Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection Cannes Film Festival, starring Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley, Fairuza Balk, and Eva Marie Saint.

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Jackass 2

2006-11-12T04:59:51Z

awesome....better than the 1st !

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'Don't Tell'

2006-11-09T10:35:36Z

MOVIE REVIEW
'Don't Tell'
By Mario Savioni

Dust thicker than the smoke of incense burning seems to be covering every surface and how like a crypt our tour of the home appears.

It was nothing how she knew in the memories of her abuse that how in a random second she was pitching herself up in bed after putting pictures of her father in a frame and the sound of her boyfriend coming up the elevator made her put them away quickly. Every dose of the violation is dealt with in some self-saving manner, but the subconscious is there to remind her.

Even as a child, she knew in Daddy’s voice with his zipper open that some unwelcome father-like figure would raise its head and come for her.

It was how her brother didn’t know and there was nothing she could do or say, thinking this should be the last place to fear. But on the bed post was a dragon. The clock told of an hour that would bring her into adult time.

While her father toiled with the unnaturalness of his act, using a whinny child’s voice, unlike his daytime sternness, the memory of what he did to her leaves her even now in a disturbed contemplation.

Saved by the fact that the brother has two boys, or so I thought, this instance of repetition does not continue into the next generation.

“Kids cancel out everything,” the brother’s wife announces.

“Safe from what?” the protagonist cries to her brother now knowing that her dream was in fact a reality that he was a party to.

The director of a TV Show within the movie writes a screenplay, where the protagonists are garbage collectors, which is to him telling a story through the debris of its characters. “The things we hide resemble us the most.”

She cannot heal no matter how deep in the pool she swims.

There is no escaping the locked doors in the moving train, where she finds herself having escaped her husband who cheated on her. She is alone in her hour of need, so she returns to the father (upon reflection) as a last resort, and he comforts her. Her water is broken and this is the last chance.

Academy Award Nomination 2005 – Best Foreign Language Film – by Cristina Comencini, starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Alessio Boni, Stefania Rocca, Angela Finocchiaro, et. Al.

(See: S.F. man guilty of raping girl who endured years of abuse, Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer,Tuesday, October 31, 2006, http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/31/BAGQBM3DJR7.DTL)

As a tag: "When the woman in the DOP shampoo factory has an abortion in order to avoid having a child she would be unable to feed, she makes a free decision in order to escape a destiny that is made for her; but this decision is itself completely manipulated by the objective situation: she realizes through herself what she is already; she carries out the sentence, which has already been passed on her, which deprives her of free motherhood." -- From: Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, p. 235.

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Absent moderator? New Moderator time?

2006-11-09T01:59:20Z

Checked with Tribe.net, and our moderator here has not signed on to their account in "quite awhile". I see she has lots of friends, maybe they know if she's gone or coming back? Or if she wants to come back to pass on moderatorship to someone else?

If she doesn't want to moderate or doesn't want to come back, does anyone else want the job? Post your own thoughts, and if you want the job here. Thanks.

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Map of The Human Heart

2006-10-22T17:31:38Z

Map of The Human Heart - I can't candy-coat it - I love this movie- I own the soundtrack and once paid much moolah to get it on VHS- yet somehow I missed the DVD release of this Vincent Ward movie.The DVD has some deleted scenes - but no behind the scenes or even a trailer.This epic follows a young eskimo boy (Avik played very well by Robert Joamie as a wide-eyed youth and Jason Scott Lee when he is older) who is rescued by a British mapmaker when it is discovered he has T.B. and taken to hospital.While there he encounters the cute charming and tomboyish halfbreed Albertine- they have instant chemistry as they fight,play,steal and hang out whenever possible.Since the hospital is run by nuns they seperate the two.There are jumps in the story and we end up 10 years later.An older Avik helps Walter on another mapmaking journey and hears about WWII- he wants to help.Soon Avik is a bomber for the R.A.F. and he reconnects with Albertine who is working for bomber command-yep that is a major coincidence.Soon we encounter some amazing shots of nighttime bombing over Germany and some major melodrama.The movie is a tragic romance about 2 soulmates that seem like they should be married from the first second that they meet- but life keeps getting in the way.Beautiful movie with great cinematography. A

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Brick

2006-10-22T17:31:13Z

This is one of those indie films that you will probably never hear of and will probably only come across it when it makes it to IFC or the Sundance Channel.

Often, old stories are retold in modern settings. Romeo + Juliet comes to mind. Fortunately, for Brick, it doesn't need a big budget to tell its story and tell it well. Brick is classic film noir put in the setting of a modern high school with all the elements of a classic Philip Marlow or Sam Spade detective story. Double crossing dames, a convoluted murder and the loner walking the seedy underworld to get to the bottom.

Played straight the entire way, some scenes and dialog actually are funny because you can easily picture them being said by Humphrey Bogart or Robert Mitchum but in a bizarre setting as when a vice principal's office takes the role of the cops putting pressure on the hero.

The hero, played by the kid from 3rd Rock from the sun goes on the trail of a missing ex-girlfriend which of course takes him through the seedy underworld and various thugs, bosses, stooges and hot dames and must eventually turn the tables from being the chump to controlling everyone's fate. If your a fan of genre it's a load of fun even if you know how it must play out and what must befall each character.

4 toes up.

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Horror fest??? 8 Films to Die For

2006-10-06T23:45:24Z

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/8filmstodiefor/hd/

Anyone know more about this???

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Take The Lead

2006-09-19T11:29:40Z

The importance of the movie Take the Lead starring Antonio Banderas is that addresses the human spirit. Rather than a film/reality that divides and conquers, the entire movie is about bringing people together. Banderas says that you can assign the blame, but all he sees are choices. No one is a reject.

Each individual in our walks of life share dreams and abilities. We can come together, and so the film is an example of what brought many schools a program that taught people to dance so that the men would respect the women and the women could trust the men or set boundaries if they broke that trust.

The movie is so powerful. Love boils over in it and in all it is a celebration, pure joy to watch.

I've always been afraid of dancing because I felt uncertain in steps that seemed to go against my ability to coordinate raw desire and impulse. As I get older, I see that life is too short not to partake in something that is about the expression of our deepest need; dancing is us in a state of self-discipline, but not of an ugly externally influenced discipline, but from deep within, we allow ourselves to hear a rhythm that unifies. It is, as Banderas says, made of steps that are universal, except of course we also can improvise and personalize what for me anyway is a moment of achieving personal confidence. In dance is where fear disappears because I am in "My moment," as YaYa says.

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Little Miss Sunshine

2006-09-19T06:34:02Z

Godddddddddddd...such an awesome film...just awesome...a dvd must at least for me..it kept me laughing from the beginning to the end...
Arkin and Carrell, awesome characters...

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The Devil Wears Prada

2006-08-05T02:47:23Z

Ok, most may think .... chick flick. But it's not! Yes, there's the fashion and the shoes (oh my God, the shoes!!!!!!) but the story line is not about that, but about an evil boss!

Meryl Streep is AMAZING! Just the facial expressions alone should earn her a nomination when the award season comes around!

Anne Hathaway was good too, although her characters seem very similar in many of the movies she does. Maybe it's type-casting.

There are lots of laughs, and if you ever had one of these evil bosses, lots of times you can cringe along with Andy Sachs, the main character. There was actually one point in the movie (won't tell you what it was exactly) but there was nothing actually said or anything really scary that happened on screen, but then entire audience in the movie theater actually simultaneously gasped!!

I would recommend seeing it. Not just a chick flick!!! And for those like me, who actually do love fashion, there is that added bonus to the movie! Such great clothing and shoes!!

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Clerks 2

2006-07-28T22:01:47Z

If you--like me--liked the first one than you'll certainly like the sequel. You may even like it better. I think I laughed more during "2" than I did watching the original. It's gotta be the best comedy out there right now. And it's gleefully vulgar. Gotta love that.

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Dead Man's Chest

2006-07-28T20:57:46Z

POTC: Dead Man's Chest is, unfortunately, not a very good movie. It's a muddled, overlong and bloated film that never ceases to remind you that it's a sequel. The classic characters that were established in the first film (which I love) have now become caricatures of themselves and they are pushed and pulled into episodic situations in order to keep them separate or together. There are lengthy passages (the cannibals?!?!) that could be entirely removed without much consequence to the story and therefore shortening the over 2 1/2 hour running time.

I've heard the film referred to as the "Empire Strikes Back" of the series, mainly because it keeps it's protagonists apart for a great deal of the story. I would say that it bares more of a resemblance to "The Two Towers," but unfortunately ended up reminding me more of "The Matrix Reloaded" in many ways, right down to the last scene.

The villains are no where near as interesting as Barbossa and Capt. Norrington from the fantastic first film and a giant misstep is making Norrington a bit player in the story to a slimy and dull new regime. There are also almost no swordfights, something that really elevated the film, and when one finally happens, it is so over-the-top, that suspension of disbelief is even hard to muster. In fact any elements that were highlights, or comedic bits in the first film, are replayed here, but amped up, as was the level of gross-out special effects. This is a slimy, grungy movie with a lot of rain.

It's not all bad news, some of it is cool to look at. The Kraken was scary are were Davy Jones' crew. And all in all the film looked and sounded amazing. The actors do what they can, but they just seem like they're along for the ride, cause that's what the script tells them to do.

Whereas the plot of the first film was thought out and complex, the new film is merely convoluted and in many parts just a mess. It's often difficult to tell where the characters are or why. And it just keeps going. In fact, this never-ending film is so long, it isn't even over yet.

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Superman Returns

2006-07-25T19:56:53Z

Saw this last night and I think it's one of the better of the new Mega-Movie genre (movies that cost more than $200Mil to make, like Kong, or Pirates). It was good... I don't really have many complaints, but I don't have too many praises either. It was very, very CG, which was unfortuante and Superman and Lois had no chemistry, so there's that.

It was kind of a remake and a sequel all in one, cause it retread many of the same types of things from the originals.

SPOILER

I also don't understand how Lois could have a child and think it's her boyfriends and for it to have been conceived on that one night she and Supes were together. Unless she was dating Richard at that same time. Don't get that.

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