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Ununnilium
Film Freak - 812 Films Ranked
Member Since: Oct 22, 2010
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Recent Rankings
71 T5 Iron Sky (2012) - May 22, 2013
"Hmmmmm. This didn't quite work. Oh, I see the attempt at campy B-movie-ness, but it switches messily between goofy comedy with comedy characters, idealistic attempts at deep characterization, cynical black comedy with flat characters, straight-up action, and serious social commentary - and these moments clash, instead of providing interesting contrast. The cinematography is wonderful, and the soundtrack is awesome, but it doesn't play as the satirical parody it's trying to be."
92 T10 Iron Man 3 (2013) - May 21, 2013
"Well why don't they just make *all* action movies like that? This was fun the entire way through - the kind of thing where you *never* have to turn your brain off to get a full-fledged action-adventure with good lines and good spectacle and also interesting characters and a good plot. It does geopolitics and media manipulation better than 90% of movies that try, it has the characters playing beautifully off each other, and Pepper kicks ass. More of this please."
77 T6 The Legend of Mor'du (2012) - Mar 28, 2013
"Some nice animation, even if the story is stuff that was told more interestingly in the film itself."
89 T10 La Luna (2011) - Mar 28, 2013
"Awwwwwwwwww! "
87 T9 Brave (2012) - Mar 28, 2013
"A more traditional Disney script, but polished up and done Pixar-style. Enjoyable, with good characters! Lacking in emotional punch, but fun."
85 T9 Looper (2012) - Mar 27, 2013
"There are several aspects of this movie that are pushing away from "standard vaguely cyberpunky badasses shoot each other up", and the biggest one is a coherent theme of responsibility and growing up. It acknowledges that adulthood isn't a matter of age so much as attitude, and that the younger generation often needs to fix the elders' mistakes; and that one person's actions affect many. Plus, a version of Back to the Future time travel without the sloppiness!"
84 T8 The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) - Mar 26, 2013
"I quite like the naturalistic style most of this movie is done in - and was a bit disappointed when it dropped out near the climax. Nevertheless, it's a pretty solid superhero movie, and well covers the aspect of Spider-Man that the original trilogy mostly missed - the humor."
72 T5 The Gruffalo's Child (2011) - Feb 20, 2013
"The animation is excellent, the visual humor is wonderful... but in their transition to dialogue, the rhymes become painfully forced, and the squirrel-based framing story doesn't really add anything."
79 T7 The Longest Daycare (2012) - Feb 20, 2013
"A clever, cute mini-adventure. It doesn't have a lot of substance, but it doesn't outstay its welcome, either."
87 T9 Head Over Heels (2012) - Feb 20, 2013
"Unreasonably cute and clever. I quite like how it takes both of them deciding they want to make things better to do so."