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torgo1968
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Member Since: Jun 24, 2007
Location: USA
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40 Chain Reaction (1996) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: Shameless rip-off of The Fugitive made only slightly less shameless by the fact that it was directed by the same guy and was the first movie he made after The Fugitive. Clean, free energy, government/industrial sources want to stop it, Keanu on the run, blah blah blah.
50 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: Seriously? Remember that horror you felt when the sequel to The Matrix was so self-important and un-fun? Yeah, same thing here. Damn near every bit of the score I gave it is for the masterful FX work on Davey Jones. Other than that, what a catastrophe.
60 The Ghost Writer (2010) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: Technically competent but snoozy thriller. Also, directed by a child rapist, so there's that.
86 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: Spot-on parody of the big Hollywood bio-pic. A Lifetime movie about J.K. Rowling just ran the other night and was structured exactly like the cliched movies that Walk Hard skewers. Lots of great cameos (Jack Black as Elvis is incredible) and great supporting performances all around.
90 Inception (2010) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: Byzantine plotting threaten to sink it, but the visuals and awesome, if contrived dreams-in-dreams story, make it a must see. Dicaprio brings genuine sadness to a universe whose rules make it difficult to maintain emotional investment.
60 Red Dawn (1984) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: Hysterical but oddly watchable Reagan era gun porn. The tale of a Soviet invasion of the U.S. piles improbability on top of improbability; the harder it tries to be serious, the funnier it gets. The action sequences are oddly static and sterile, hindered in no small part by an apparently meager budget. "AVENNNNGE ME!!!"
90 The Social Network (2010) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: David Fincher conquered his Ridley Scott disease and made a movie with interesting, three dimensional characters whose fates are worth seeing. That it's a straight drama doesn't prevent Fincher from pouring on the stunning visuals, but they aren't overbearing nor do they distract from the narrative. And obviously, making a story about geeks and intellectual property theft compelling is a minor miracle itself.
85 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: Fun, genuinely imaginative adventure/anti-romance. Probably not for those who don't have at least a passing knowledge of video games and their conventions. Michael Cera steps reasonably far from his Michael Cera typecast as the Mary Elizabeth Winstead-smitten protagonist who must fight his way through boss battles consisting of her exes. The visual effects are something that is almost non-existent in VFX these days: original.
60 Planet Terror (2007) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: If you try too hard to be over the top, it's not entertaining, it's just over the top. This comes across as someone who took a bet on making an outrageous movie instead of one that came about organically. Not funny, lame action.
17 Lady in the Water (2006) - Jul 25, 2011
Mini-Review: Stupendously awful work by M. Night. It's a meandering exposition marathon interrupted by Shyamalan's pathetic whining about critics. The plot: Shnorgs from the underworld of Watervania come to our world through finkle-portals that allow evil Boodle-bonkers to follow through and... Ok, I'm just bullshitting, but ask anyone who has seen the movie, and they'll tell you I'm not far off.
 
 
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