‘Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones’ Download and Reviews
“Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones” Movie Details
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones tagline: A Jedi Shall Not Know Anger. Nor Hatred. Nor Love.
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“Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones” Movie Review
“Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones” Plot Summary
Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padme Amidala while his teacher, Obi-Wan Kenobi, makes an investigation of a separatist assassination attempt on Padme which leads to the discovery of a secret Republican clone army.
Better than I expected
Before seeing Attack of the clones I had seen neither the original star wars nor episode I and I didn’t have any particularly strong ambitions to see them, I am a big cult fan but star wars just never really appealed to me
I happened to come across the episode II DVD going cheap while browsing in my local library and thought I might as well buy it. And to my slight amazement, I really loved it. Many fans complain that the new ones are nothing compared with the originals, having never seen the originals to compare it with I thought it was brilliant. The action, the adventure, the love story, the lightsabres, C-3PO. The chase through the city near the beginning was fast and furious and had great special effects, as did the scene when Obi-Wan first sees the clones. The arena scene is a particular favourite of mine as it flows so well passing from one piece of action to another with such ease. The fights were amazing (particularly Obi-Wan’s and Jango’s) and very well choreographed. The film made me laugh (which is something I almost always look for) just little lines like ‘I retransmitted it to Coruscant, just as you’d requested, Master. Then we decided to come and rescue you.’ [Obi-Wan looks at his handcuffed hands] ‘Good job’. The whole thoroughness of it all just made me wonder about the sheer immensity of George Lucas’s imagination and it made me realize why all those boys in my class used to make lightsabre noises. I admit that some of the Anakin/Padme dialogue was sickly sweet but being a typical teenage girl when it comes to love, I’m fine with that. Also overall the acting was slightly wooden but I admit that this did suit the Jedi style characters. Overall, it was my ideal film, action, adventure, romance, comedy and some nice epic not too drawn out battles. If this is bad compared to the originals, then I really should get round to seeing those originals.9/10
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‘Jurassic Park III’ Download and Reviews
“Jurassic Park III” Movie Details
Jurassic Park III tagline: This Time It’s Not Just A Walk In The Park!
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“Jurassic Park III” Movie Review
“JP3″ Plot Summary
A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Alan Grant to go to Isla Sorna (the second InGen dinosaur lab.), resulting in an unexpected landing…and unexpected new inhabitants on the island.
This is no Jurassic Park, but a helluva lot better than The Lost World!
If you are like me, and have been following everything on Jurassic Park III for the past 5 months, you’ve probably set your expectations pretty high, and chances are, you’ll most likely be let down. In a way, I was. My expectations were pretty damn high for this film, but that was my own fault. No film could have possibly lived up to those kinds of expectations. But, the movie was everything it promised to be: A superbly crafted, action-packed, rocket of a movie. It was fast paced, and the action hardly lets up, maybe for just a few minutes for you to catch your breath, and then you’re hit right slam in the face with another dynamic action scene. The movie is only 95 minutes long, and about 75 of those minutes are nothing but thrills and scares. Yes, the movie is too short, but it’s hardly a problem. It leaves you wanting more and that is a sure sign of a great movie. Just don’t get your hopes up, thinking this is going to be as good as the first, because it isn’t. It is, however, a kick-ass special effects feast for all you hungry movie-goers out there with a taste for fine suspense thrillers…ok, I know that sounds chessey, but who cares. My grade: B+
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‘Interview with the Vampire’ Download and Reviews
“Interview with the Vampire” Movie Details
Interview with the Vampire tagline: Drink From Me And Live Forever
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“Interview with the Vampire” Movie Review
“Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles” Plot Summary
A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
Vampire Sociology
Brokeback Mountain is said to be the ultimate exam of viewers’ homophobia, but before everybody that’s straight heads out to test their endurance with that film, I think Interview with the Vampire is keeping the throne warm for now. There technically isn’t anything sexual in Interview, but author and screenplay adapter Anne Rice does a fine job establishing the ‘bisexual in nature’ sociology of the vampires and how it compares with the mortals. Goes like this: the vampires cannot be sexual (all of one’s body is dead, so… use your imagination), but when they quench their thirsts for blood on their victims, male or female, the thrills they achieve are so exhilarating that the act is comparable to sex. Once the viewer understands this, with some parts of the movie, it’s hard to decide whether to be disgusted or not, not with the near homosexual relationship between Tom Cruise’s Lestat and Brad Pitt’s Louis (which is acceptable) but with Louis’ little girl companion, in a pedophiliac sense. Kirsten Dunst, who was about 11, gives (still) the best performance of her career as Claudia, an aging vampire whose physical form stays childlike. However, since Claudia becomes adult and beyond and tries to do away with Lestat so Louis can be all hers, it’s hard to watch what still seems to be a child to the naked eye grow so lovelorn for an adult. Their relationship raises tons of questions, some you may not want the answers to. My favorite scenes (tie) are toward the end when Louis seeks fiery revenge on some misled vampires in the name of Claudia and the edgy dialogue and body language exchanged between Louis and Armand (Antonio Banderas, fresh off playing Tom Hanks’ lover in Philadelphia) in the scene after. My beef with the movie is not homophobic by any means. I just don’t like getting beat over the head repeatedly for a point to be made, and casting all ‘pretty boys’ like Cruise, Pitt, Banderas, and Christian Slater as the current-day interviewer is doing just that (though it’s really the only case of it). Other than Pitt, I wish the casting director would have chosen the parts by acting ability and not by shock value.
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‘My One and Only’ Download and Reviews
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My One and Only tagline: An almost perfect portrait of a family comedy
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| IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 out of 1,466 votes |
“My One and Only” Movie Review
“My One and Only” Plot Summary
An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.
Wonderful Road Picture
This is truly an engaging, endearing and very funny look into relationships; both romantic and filial, typical of the 1950’s
One member here criticized the movie as hetero-phobic; I wouldn’t go that far, but men in the 1950’s were certainly not metrosexuals! And the classy blond belle which Ms. Zellweger plays with pitch perfect demeanor is just the type of woman that would attract unattractive male attention. The brutes she meets give the film its energy and give her a journey worth making for the audience. And there are two supporting male characters who are good hearted in the film, so the criticism simply doesn’t hold up. Zellweger has never been better!What we have here is a funny and poignant story about the survival of a woman who leaves her husband in the world of the 1950’s. As good as Ms. Zellweger is, the movie is stolen by the two very gifted young actors who portray her sons; Logan Lerman and Mark Rendall. The two of them couldn’t be more different, but they are brothers and understand each other and understand their mother. Lerman plays the more grounded of the two and creates a very real and sympathetic portrait. Rendall plays the flighty older brother; obviously gay and has a good deal of the ‘zinger’ lines which he delivers perfectly. After 20 minutes, you want to be with this family for the rest of the film
This is the kind movie that depends on writing and Charlie Peters has given us a convincing and at times, very witty screenplay. You feel and understand every character. The movie is directed with an understated classiness by Loncraine. It moves from adventure to adventure fluidly with assurance and style. And the production design has perfectly captured the era
Don’t miss this one! Frankly, one of the best films of 2009.
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‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ Download and Reviews
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” Movie Details
X-Men Origins: Wolverine tagline: Witness the Origin
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| IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 out of 65,250 votes |
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” Movie Review
“Wolverine” Plot Summary
After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine. |
Best of the X
‘I’m the best at what I do and what I do ain’t pretty’ This film surprisingly stays fairly true to what we know about Wolverine and the ‘Weapon X’ program through the comic books. The film is largely based in Barry Windsor-Smythe’s ‘weAponX’ which was run as a serial in the ‘Marvel Comics Presents’ comic book line and later released in Trade Paperback form.
There is a lot here for fans of Wolverine, certain aspects of this story were taken right from the Wolverine series of 1988 – Wolverine’s relationship with ‘Silver Fox’ uses a lot of elements straight from the books and that ‘chapter’ of the wolverine story is actually fairly close to the source material. The only dramatic license I did not like was that Sabretooth and Wolverine are shown as brothers.
Since the weAponX story by BWS was drawn in a cinematic style, a lot of the imagery from that book survives translation to Film format just as well as any Frank Miller book.
While a lot of creative license was taken with some characters and some of the events that occur, much of the dialogue is taken straight from the books and the overall concept is maintained.
Regarding the look of the film, I can use one example, when ‘Gambit’ reveals his powers, the image we are given matches the iconic profile of Gambit- From the comic books and the 1992-96 Cartoon.
Since ‘Victor Creed/Sabretooth’ was a major part of this film, I was semi-disappointed that they did not get Tyler Mane to reprise his earlier 2000 role (Or, pre-prise, whatever the word would be) – The original X-Men film had perfectly cast Sabretooth. I wish they had cast Liev Schreiber for that original film, as he gives more to the character than occasional grunts and snarls that Tyler Mane used for language. Schreiber actually gives the character valid depth and darkness and is less of a cardboard cutout. My only real gripe about using a new actor for this role is that they did not try to match the image from the books, as the 2000 film did perfectly. And so the popular image of Wolverine engaged in mortal combat with Sabretooth- As painted by former Wolverine artist Mark Texiera and reproduced as a huge poster – That image was damaged and I do not know if other Wolverine fans are a forgiving as I am.
Regardless of if the reason ‘James Logan’ becomes part of the Weapon X program is the same reason as the comic books (In The comic books Logan is abducted) – The Process of Wolverine accepting the ‘Adamantium’ metal to his bones is the centerpiece of this film, it is the most important part of the film, and as far as I am concerned you can toss the whole film and leave the process.
The filmmaker needed to take the threads that had been woven in the first 3 X-Men films and give us a start point… Where did the Adamantium metal come from, what Stryker wanted to do with it, and why, all of these questions are explored in this film and as a fan of the comic book series, and also a fan of films in general, I accept the questions, answers and the way it was filmed unequivocally.
I know I enjoyed this film highly, and so did the large amount of people I saw this with, this film got a lot of crown response.
And so, I say the critics and paid shills that are panning this film can go to blazes and I hope that someone does to them what Wolverine does to ‘Deadpool/Wade Wilson’ at the end of the film – And you’ll have to go see it to find out what he does. Oh, look the shills popped up and marked my post as ‘not helpful’ – Which means nothing except that someone is using a bunch of fake IDs
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‘Gamer’ Download and Reviews
“Gamer” Movie Details
Gamer tagline: In the near future, you don’t live to play… you’ll play to live.
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| IMDB Rating: 5.9/10 out of 11,156 votes |
“Gamer” Movie Review
“Gamer” Plot Summary
Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments… |
a fun action movie worthy of being seen on the big screen
Most people enjoy video games. I know I do. Since I got my XBOX 360, I’ve been devoting a great deal of my time to HALO 3 on XBOX LIVE, time that I should be spending being more social. But in this dark and disturbing vision of the future, the world of online gaming pretty much destroys our moral judgement. I was going to play HALO 3 after I saw this movie and I don’t think I want to play video games for a week.
This is Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor’s third film together, their first two being the ridiculous but fun CRANK and it’s way-over-the-top-but-so-much-fun sequel, and I have to say that it’s a lot of fun. This one could take place in the same universe as those movies. This movie is a combination of last summers DEATH RACE and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s THE RUNNING MAN. Here, we have Gerard Butler who hasn’t kicked this much ass since 300. He plays Kable, a convict who participates in the deadly game of SLAYERS where he is controlled by a gamer, played by Logan Lerman. Kable is close to winning his freedom but Ken Castle, played by DEXTER’s Michael C. Hall, is in no position to allow that to happen.
This movie works not only as a fun action film, but also as a social commentary on online gaming and how far it can go. There are some really disturbing scenes where a gamer controls a woman to go around places and have sexual encounters with people. It’s scary to think that one of those people who spends the day sitting in a chair in front of 6 flat screens will watch this movie on some website and see those scenes and have the desire to control real people to do whatever they want. The thought of it sickens me. Also, the fact that human beings no longer have any sense of morality makes this more disturbing.
Aside from all of these aspects of the film, the action scenes deliver. The scenes are really flashy and edited in a frenetic style but I’m not criticizing the film. I really dig Neveldine/Taylor’s direction here as I did with CRANK and CRANK 2. These guys are really good at making something for a small amount of money and still making it kickass. The film looks amazing as well. I really bought into this world and it’s amazing to see that being This movie does have it flaws of course, but no one should go into this to expect a great piece of science fiction. I think that it’s worth seeing in the theater but only if you watched the ads and really want to see it. Overall, it’s a great rental and definitely worth check out on BLU-RAY. It’s not as fun as CRANK 2 was, nor was it as ridiculous and over the top, but it’s pure adrenaline fun. It’s nice to see that Neveldine/Taylor have tried to do something different from the CRANK movies. They don’t have just one card trick to show us. I am really looking forward to seeing what these guys try to do next. I’m also curious to see what these guys would do with a really budget.
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