Created Feb 03, 2013 02:44PM PST • Updated Feb 03, 2013 02:44PM PST
This is a list of movies I’ve watched, but still need to review. Don’t judge me :-)
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WordSlinger
– with 11 Trust Points – rated it
Very Good
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An interesting and original idea that was well presented, but did not fully live up to the potential the story had. |
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
Really Great
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A Royal Affair is truly regal, with a King, his Queen, their courtiers, grand councils and balls in castles.
Princess Movies have a new member in their esteemed royal court, right up there with "The Young Victoria":http://www.viewguide… |
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
Barely OK
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I’m a sucker for Humans v Alien movies, and when the humans are Marines, I’m a goner! One of my all time favorites of this genre is Starship Troopers. Battle of LA taps in to that same Hoo-Rah! Get them! emotion. It has sort of an aliens in Mogadishu feel. Although it has plenty of moments of suspense and action, as well as decent special effects – it fails to get past too many servings of cheese and overly-cliche depictions of war-time Marines. |
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Demona
– with 8 Trust Points – rated it
Barely OK
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This film is about the fall of human kind and the rise of Vampirism. The entire world is ran by vampires and they are running low on their food sources. The humans are dying off and they have to try and find an alternate way to survive, so that the human kind can replenish themselves. Edward Dalton is scientist, trying to find an alternate food source for his kind and is sympathetic for the human race. This film might be a little too intense for children, but for me, I thought that it lacked something. |
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Demona
– with 8 Trust Points – rated it
Really Great
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awsome! a few inmates that go around killing off each other just to gain their freedom is okay by me! |
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Spaceghost
– with 7 Trust Points – rated it
Good
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Such a cute damn movie. Could have been more – mostly in the humor department – but as it was, it was very entertaining with a great heart. Despicable Me centers around Gru – a supervillain who is being upstaged by a newcomer, so he sets out to complete the ultimate heist. He's going to steal the moon. The only problem is, the newcomer who has upstaged him so far, has the shrinking ray that Gru will need to shrink the moon and steal it. Thats where the girls come in. Gru sees the girls selling cookies door to door and decides to use them to get into the newcomers house and get the shr… |
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Fire at Will!
– with 7 Trust Points – rated it
Good
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Neil Marshall follows up "The Descent" with a schizophrenic action film not sure what it should be and when, though still managing to be entertainingly insane. |
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
Great
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I avoided End of Watch when it came out in 2012, thinking it was just a steroidal TV Cop Show, moviestar Jake Gyllenhaal notwithstanding. Then David Ayer's movie demanded attention, given "BrianSez's effusive review":http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/3633-end-of-watch and Ayer's recent masterpiece "Fury":http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/4133-fury. My verdict? It is a big screen Cop Show, and a great one at that. The movie presents as reality video on the big screen, facilitated by Gyllenhaal's hand-held video-cam, which he has 'cause he's taking a video production course. Ad… |
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
Pretty Bad
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Better than expected romance and typically painful Adam Sandler comedy make Just Go With It less awful than Sandler's usual. The former comes from RomCom pro Jennifer Aniston, who creates some palpable chemistry with Sandler; The latter from Sandler's recent shtick of caricaturing Hollywood archetypes for lifestyle comedy. This time he's a Hollywood plastic surgeon who acts like a jerk but has a heart of gold. He was a similarly drawn Hollywood agent in "Grown Ups":http://www.wikpik.com/movie_reviews/2850-grown-ups, his previous outing. What's next? A sitcom star who cavorts with p… |
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
Good
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Showbiz legends Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Vivien Leigh & Arthur Miller give My Week with Marilyn more sizzle than it deserves. A cinematic goddess descends to live amongst the hoi polloi and everyone loses their minds, the men mostly, the women indirectly through their men. Marilyn's also crazy. Michelle Williams essays Marilyn Monroe resplendently, albeit more in long-shot than closeup. There was only one Marilyn in closeup. Williams gives the movie’s best pseudo-celeb performance, then Branagh's Olivier, Ormond's Leigh & Dougray Scott's Arthur Miller. Dominic Cooper's Milton … |
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
Barely OK
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Baby Doll is a mistreated orphan trapped in an asylum who is due to be lobotomized. Can she save herself and a gang of equally hot woman from their fates? Well, if you are empowered with a male-mesmerizing dancing talent that results from fantasizing about killing monsters and bad guys with martial arts and big guns, you sure can. A patchwork quilt of surreal thriller fused with fantasy laden martial arts with a revenge story line. This movie is all over the place – with the only discernible central theme of maximizing the exposure and use of beautiful women in skimpy outfits perfor… |
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The Rub
– with 12 Trust Points – rated it
Pretty Bad
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Watch it until Superman saves the plane from crashing, then turn it off lest you want to be bored/brought to tears. Technically well made, but the bad acting and lame script cannot be overcome. |
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
Very Good
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This surprisingly effective revenge thriller plays better than its formulaic trailer might suggest. The mix of A-List star, well written script and competent direction injects plenty of life into an implausible set-up and the resulting cat-and-mouse games. |
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
Really Great
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Comic genius, thy name is Seth MacFarlane, the writer, director and voice of Ted, a wildly ill-behaved "living" teddybear. The movie's conceit is that a grown man's arrested development gets enabled by this magical best buddy, who has taken on nothing but bad habits since leaving chronological boyhood behind. Wake and bake? Check. Fortunately MacFarlane's creation – coupled with a tremendously appealing cast – makes for a flat-out hilarious movie. Often appalling, yes. But … |
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
Very Good
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Take a colorful cohort of old British retirees, send them to India where they’ve been promised an elegant and beautiful spot to retire, and then make lemonade from lemons. Best Exotic is a cute film, with an endearing quality that kept me (the most avid of action short-attention-span film lovers) interested throughout the meandering adventure. The India setting was great to be sure, but the killer grip was from the cast of top notch actors. Or, to quote a line in the film: “Things haven’t worked out as I’d expected. They rarely do, but what happened instead is the good stuffâ€. |
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
OK
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The first Bourne-less Bourne sequel felt more like a slog than a thrilling chase. Then its climax felt like a pause, which it is … for the next episode. So after more than two hours of frenetic activity, it wasn't clear the movie was actually over. Some legacy. Let's stipulate that most reviews of The Bourne Legacy are very positive, including "from the estimable BrianSez":http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/3593, whose taste is often in-line with mine. To each their own however. I kept waiting for the movie to tickle, to thrill or to show me something new. When it didn't an… |
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Triplebeard
– with 4 Trust Points – rated it
Very Good
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Take Night at the Roxebury Mixed with Dumb and Dumber and what you do get? a creepy no holds, full on Bob Odenkirk Comedy! this movie takes the relationship you have with your sibling so far that your glad your not the Brother Solomon. I mean come on. these guys are never gunna get some action but there gunna get a baby!! |
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Fire at Will!
– with 7 Trust Points – rated it
Good
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Keanu becomes Klaatu in this reimagining/update of the fifties sci-fi classic, with many changes (both cultural and technological) making it relevant once more, and with as powerful a message as before. |
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
Very Good
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Well produced Tom Cruise historical epic, appealing to those of us who like such entertainments. As he so often does, Cruise plays a character at once naive and smug, who reveals an admirable steeliness by the third reel. |
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
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Jeff Bridges is a virtual world designer who mysteriously disappears. Years later, his young son exploits a clue and enters that virtual world to find him. This movie’s highlight is the sci-fi effects of living in a virtual world, and the results are fairly impressive, albeit with some glitches – like the fabrication of a young clone of Jeff Bridges that never comes off quite right. Don’t look to make too much sense of the story-line, just enjoy it for the effects, skin-tight suit clad women, and cool action scenes with futuristic motorcycles. |
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
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Tom Cruise stars in one of the latest re-telling of the famous H.G. Wells tale. This is quickly recognizable as a Spielberg production, with ET-esque creatures, fantastical alien ships, and a family touch with dad Tom Cruise and cute daughter Dakota Fanning. It was entertaining to be sure, but I found the premise of how the Aliens planned to take over the earth, as well as what they did with humans just a little hokey for today’s sci-fi-standards. And possibly the most annoying thing was how throngs of people insisted on staying together and running in same direction whenever chased. It … |
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
Great
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First class prequels are Hollywood mutants, crisply intelligent rather than trite – obligatory touchstones notwithstanding. X-Men: First Class surpasses that standard, rebooting a tired saga with fresh casting, well grounded plot devices and an engaging mix of resonant themes. Marvel achieves this alchemy by putting a strong ensemble of stars in front of the behind-the-camera studs from "Kick-Ass":http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/2336-kick-ass and "Thor":http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/3112-thor, two other smart superhero movies. As executive producing goes, that's a loc… |
