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OkkCoCa
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Member Since: Jul 31, 2009
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK
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Featured Reviews
79 Rango (2011) - Aug 23, 2011
Mini-Review: Not the kids movie I was expecting! "Rango" is very smart, self-aware, & satirical. Although the plot is nothing orginal, (in fact it's archetypal Western) Verbinski is very clever in using the films satirical nature to play on & have fun with the very notions of what makes a good Western. The animation & character design is flat-out fucking incredible & is strengthened by an excellent voice cast. Most of all I enjoyed how "Rango" often shied away from easy laughs for something more subtle.
15 I Am Number Four (2011) - Sep 14, 2011
Mini-Review: Caruso makes it a trio of absolute stinkers with "I Am Number Four" adding to the horrible "Disturbia" & "Eagle Eye". Caruso has the annoying habit of casting the blandest teen trend-setters who are just so boring to watch. The sci-fi elements are boiled down to the absolute basics, as Caruso instead focuses on that supremely interesting American phenomenon of the High School clique! The whole 109 minutes are amazingly stupid. Caruso is essentially Michael Bay for the 'Twilight generation'!
74 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) - Jan 13, 2012
Mini-Review: It gets a tough rap because it's so often compared to one of the finest movies ever made. "2001" should not stop you watching "2010". It is in it's own right a stonkingly good piece of sci-fi. The performances are good, the atmosphere palpable & the concepts intriguing. It looks good too (not "2001" good admittedly!) There's so much scope for expansion in "2010", it's a shame Hyams didn't really push the boat out, but I think he was afraid of being accused of trying to out Kubrick, Kubrick!
39 Green Card (1990) - Sep 07, 2011
Mini-Review: It's like watching a slow-motion car crash! Its terrible, but you just can't take your eyes off it! Andie McDowell is probably the worst actress since, well just about ever, and Depardieu, the mental fucker with his supremely punchable face, is just always so strangely watchable. Honestly I could probably watch the guy take a shit and be well entertained... and then I'd punch him in the face!
67 Pom Poko (1994) - Dec 21, 2011
Mini-Review: I found it a little too heavy in its moralism and it's a good 20 to 25 minutes too long. Even so, it's good fun, very unique, and just a little bit mental! The problem is that its length means that some of its novelty and charm start to wear pretty thin towards the end. The animation is supurb however, the original Japanese voice acting great and there is more than enough originality and surreal lunacy to entertain.
96 Ai no mukidashi (2008) - Nov 23, 2011
Mini-Review: "Ai no mukidashi" is outrageously enjoyable. It is absolutely mental and the characters are totally ridiculous, but strangely totally believable!? Miraculously and completely unfathomably Sono manages to make this movie comic, dark, violent, touching, beautiful, silly and emotionally effective; with the whole range of these effects sometimes occurring within moments of each other. It's four compelling hours of perverts, erections, camel toes, cults, blood, guts and love! Hugely recommeded.
15 American Flyers (1985) - Oct 16, 2011
Mini-Review: Cue opening scene: Man on a womans pedal cycle, wearing a denim shirt, stetson hat and hotpants, then get him splashed in water, which he just loves, 'cos it's hot or something? Add a little bit of 80's power ballad, Kevin Costner with a frankly fabulous moustache and plenty of sickly patriotism. Follow this with a pointless cycle race and some man love and you will have "American Flyers". Or in other words; 90 minutes or so of unmitigated diarrhoea.
60 Sucker Punch (2011) - Apr 14, 2011
Mini-Review: I have been thinking about this film a lot since I watched it, & have changed my score several times. It has me quite torn. I can't deny that it looks great, & several scenes got me geekishly excited! But the concept is a total mess, & after the epic opening sequence everything else makes little or no sense. The script is a shocker also, as Snyder switches between pure misogyny & some sort of neo-feminism! But I have a soft spot for Snyder's style, lets just hope he never writes anything again!
41 Veronica Guerin (2003) - Dec 18, 2009
Mini-Review: Not a film Schumacher should ever have tried to make. He lacks the subtlety & skill to make this film what it should have been. Instead of a powerful drama about Guerin's brave story, we end up with a cheap feeling, overly melodramatic and clumsy movie. Blanchett's talents are wasted & the support cast are okay at best. There is some terrible music in this film & some nasty dialogue too. This has the feel of a film made by an outsider to Ireland, & as such falls into some terrible clichés.
67 Toki o kakeru shôjo (2010) - Jun 25, 2011
Mini-Review: Overly melodramatic, cliche and cheesy, but enjoyably so. It may not live up to Hosoda's excellent anime, but this is a very different film. Despite having a slightly overlong runtime for a film that in reality doesn't have too much substance, as well as an amusingly awful time travel sequence, the sheer likability of the central characters wins through. Overall it's simply a fun and charming piece of soft sci-fi romance that is hard not to like, and Rissa Naka is excellent in the lead role.