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It was, indeed. Thanks for the recommend. I liked it from the moment the opening credits started. That smartass kid was great. Everyone had some hysterical moments. The daughter saying "student shrink" after all the praise of her being a psychiatrist... hee! And the mom, "I drew this picture of Ben, see this is his head here..."

Pyro - I thought the end got pretty choppy. I like the story elements ok, but it seemed poorly cut together somehow.

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Review: Cabin in the Woods 8/10

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari .... it's like the Sin City of 1919: great sense of style, but leaves ya a little cold. Part of the problem is the (what are those things called where they write the words in a silent film??) are up for too long. I'm not a particularly fast reader, and I had time to read them three times each. The sets are fantastic though. Very surreal theatrical stuff.

Here's the strange thing: I swear that Crispin Glover is in it, looking the same age as he did in Back to the Future... which is the same age he looked when I saw him on the street 2 months ago.

Robots - im a lil inebriated right now so forigve stupis dpelling mistakes
i thought this film was well goodand i love robin williams as the ever failing fender. Hilarious. I love the britney spears routine during the battle sequence

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Undercoverlovers 100 REDUX

SAW II, excellent

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The Godfather-How in God's name did it take me all my life until now to see this movie, I can't even think of one thing about this movie that I didn't like. Perfect!!!!!!!

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"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." -Patton 1970

White Chicks- don't shoot me.............. i'll do it myself

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Vanilla Sky (Crowe, 2001)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Clayton, 1983)

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have you seen "abre los ojos"?.....i saw it before vanilla sky and i really don't see the point in seeing the same movie twice...they changed so little they shoudda just called it "open your eyes-the american version with tom cruise"

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hey adidasss couldya gimme a lil summary of abre los ojos. I havent seen vanilla sky and i wanna see abre los ojos before i do. whats good about it and whats bad about it?

http://www.movieforums.com/community...2&postcount=44

Try that if you want.

Even though i'm not adidasss, i really recommend Open Your Eyes, it's a great mix of genres and has wonderful performances from everyone. It's really intriguing story that needs attention and a bit of thinking, but it's easy enough. I can't recall and negatives about it, which probably means the aren't any (for me) or all the good points out weigh it.

I too prefer the original over Cameron Crowe's remake. I do like a few of the personal touches Crowe added, but yes, in the broader strokes it is an exact remake and totally unnecessary.

But you don't really want to know what either movie is about going in. You will have a much better time if you see it completely cold and discover it as it unfolds.

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

agreed, saying anything about the plot would ruine the viewing experience

Lost in translation
again...

Big Fish
Ed Wood
my roomate loves Tim Burton and me too, i loved both of them, mostly Ed Wood

My life without me
i love this film, directed by Isabel Coixet, excellent

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If i could laugh, I´d love you; If I could smile at anything you said, We could be laughing lovers; I think you prefer to be miserable instead...("Im your villain", Franz Fedinand)

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.................

Phantasm (d. Don Coscareli, 1978)
I thought would be a fun off the wall horror film, but it just seems dated and corny. I guess it takes itself too seriously.

It (d. Tommy Lee Wallace, 1990)
This succeeds everywhere Phantasm fails. It gives you well established characters and at least tries to make you care about them. It actually has some scary moments (courtesy of Tim Curry) and best of all, it's not afraid to be fun! Even when it was released it was spirited, now, add that to the dated special effects and the film is modern camp with a perfect balance of fright and fun that's just right for Haloween time.

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"Like all dreamers, Steven mistook disenchantment for truth."

Cursed (2005, Wes Craven)

2.5/5

I caught this a few nights ago and actually found it not as terrible as I'd been told. The creature suits resemble a shabby first attempt from the Dog Soldiers effects team (I wonder which movie had the higher budget? ) and Christina Ricci's hairdressers have made her look even more like a lightbulb than usual.



A cute lightbulb though....

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976 - John Cassavetes)

Wow. It was better than I expected. It was a bit more tight in structure than the other (few) Cassavetes films I've seen, but still of course with a clear mark of the director. I loved everything with the movie but especially the last scenes: the pep-talk by Cosmo to lift the spirit of his club employees and the closing song number by Teddy. But every scene of the film is really cool and looks awesome. The best film I've seen in quite a while actually!

....and Ben Gazzara has looked the same for thirty years now, hasn't he??

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

The Wicker Man -- Sparky in a 60s way, and kinda elemental .
Repo Man -- Oh yes, 'punk' cinema that's trying to reform. Perfick.
The Ninth Configuration -- Oh Lord. Some corny 'insanity' scenes, and a hilariously poor ending, but some fun and floaty ponderings along the way.
I Heart Huckabees -- 2nd viewing. Still genially silly-semi-serious. And i got to argue with my mate over whether the SFX are film-destroyingly cack (for the 2nd time ).

Been up for over 24 hours trying to get my 'day' to start during the day . Football was a mistake tho. Now i need to take a shower and eat a huge amount of tuna and onions. Possibly simultaneously.

Then i'll be ready for Trier's The Element of Crime. Yiiiiii.

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Part I of my Mangoldathon:

Cop Land (1997, Jim Mangold)

4/5

Ahhhh the delights of the modern Western. Sheriff Sly's never been better than when a-huntin' down Jack Ela...ermmm...Harvey Keitel's gang of outla...bugger.....corrupt cops.