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Total Recall was shit. The worst bits were all the little nods to the original which just reminds you that a much better version of the film already exists. I liked the sci-fi Deus Ex type sets but come on, it wasn't even on fucking Mars. Boo.

the raid: redemption - 8/10
hadn't even heard of this until i read about it here - solid entertainment without the usual flabbiness of martial arts cinema from thailand/indonesia (both seem to have the same dawdling, soap opera-like attitude to story progression in action movies). if you know martial arts then it probably is a bit boring/samey, but i don't, so it was actually sort of nice to see what looked like the same style all the way through. what made it stand out was the fact that it occasionally made me shout things like "fuck, i bet that hurt" at the screen - can't even remember the last action movie that did that.

feedback wrote:The 10 minute uncut fight sequence in tom yum goong ruined all further martial arts movies for me :s

going to watch this as soon as dinner arrives.

expendables 2 - 6.5/10
feels more like expendables version 2 than part 2. does everything the first one tried to do and failed, but here it sort of works.

would've been much better without chuck norris, he adds nothing and one of the people sitting on the row in front of us (who looked maybe 20/25 years old) thought it was the sidekick from 'home improvement' and didn't understand why he was in an action movie - he gets one cool kill, but anyone could've taken that. randy couture needn't have bothered turning up and bruce willis is pretty damn awful too, but everyone else looks like they're having a lot of fun - especially JCVD. if you want an entertaining action movie that clocks in under 2 hours, this is a safe enough bet.

cabin in the woods - 6/10
another safe bet, MTV/Joss Whedon takes on a classic twilight zone theme. Struggles with pacing and being a bit too clive barker'ish, but has lots of really nice ideas.

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The way Star Wars should be. E5 on the way.

The Day the Earth Stood Still 3/10

Keanu Reeves.....nuff said.

Keanu Reeves was only one of the million problems with that "remake".

Oh yeah...I forgot..

The Raid: Redemption = 6/10 - Someone here had mentioned it so I grabbed a torrent and it was decent. Considering martial arts movies bore me stupid, this one was pretty entertaining.

And I agree with 4days in that ALOT of the stunts looked genuinely painful, which gave it a more authentic feel.

resident evil retribution - 1/10
spent most of the movie (the bits where i wasn't just looking at the leading lady) wondering what the fuck was going on - bit pointless picking holes in a such a crayon-chewing derpathon, but one major gripe was that the umbrella facility itself was so utterly ridiculous. the lighting system alone for an installation that size would be more complex than the LHC and NASA combined, let alone the plumbing - and it's underneath an ice field normally only accessible by nuclear submarine. really? scifi has to have at least a vague air of realism if it's going to work at all. where do they get the resources to produce all those clones? how do they keep themselves in lemon-scented napkins and paperclips? This honestly felt like it took less time to write than it did to watch.

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GONNAFISTYA wrote:The Expendables 2 = 8/10 - Finally. This is the movie I expected the first time around: a cheesy, 80's action-feeling throwback with one-liners, nearly non-stop action, a bazillion explosions and an over-acted bad guy (lol) with "acting" being a serious piss-take. Sly loves the gore and this film will not disappoint in that regard. Everyone got a respectable amount of screen time to justify their names in the credits and in addition to looking like the action-heroes they're supposed to be, every-single-one-of-them got to shoot a big fucking gun.

Just pretend the first movie never existed.

SPOILER ALERT

Jet Li makes an early exit from the film. I was kinda hoping that he'd come back at the end for the last boss fight (instead of Stallone) as a deus ex machina and show the entire planet just who the best martial-arts action hero is by beating the living snot out of Jean-Claude Van Damme. But alas, it IS a Sylvester Stallone movie after all.

Just saw The Expendables 2

Yes predictable and enjoyable at the same time. Love those head shots and the appearances of the old (should be in a museum) actors and like GONNAFISTYA well worth the 8/10

The Dictator - 6/10

Funny film, some fine moments of comedy but some tedious bits too. Cameo's are ace

seremtan wrote:Bourne Legacy - first hour and a half of the movie: 8/10, last half hour: 4/10

SPOILER ALERT

a very 'front-heavy' movie that starts up with a good exposition, weaves the story in with the Bourne Ultimatum quite well, but then there's a split-level chase that rips off the similar chase in that movie, then a shitty motorcycle chase that recycles the Paris car chase from Bourne Identity and the Moscow car chase from Bourne Supremacy (but nowhere near as good as either) and then the movie just ends

wtf

(also, sequel alert)

saw that too, worst of the series, good thing i didn't pay for it

Safe - 6/10

Best Jason Statham movie ever made.

Avengers - 1/10

Bonus point awarded because it eventually ended.

the raid, redemption

action movie done right. great fight scenes. check it out. 9/10

Prometheus - 6/10

On my phone so I won't type my review now...but I did kind of enjoy it

Yeah, I also quite enjoyed Prometheus.

I'm reading a lot of hate for it online, because it apparently isn't "hard sci fi" enough.
Pretty pathetic considering it 's in the same universe as the Alien movies, and I haven't read a lot of hate for them.

Looper 7/10

Good not great...

Plan B wrote:Yeah, I also quite enjoyed Prometheus.

I'm reading a lot of hate for it online, because it apparently isn't "hard sci fi" enough.
Pretty pathetic considering it 's in the same universe as the Alien movies, and I haven't read a lot of hate for them.

Looper = 6.5/10 - Decent concept with good acting that's fairly entertaining.

Resident Evil Retribution = lol holy shitbags it's fucking retarded

and this (spoilers):

shit. apparently i don't know how to link to youtube properly. faggotry.

Prometheus - 8/10

Makes me want to watch the first two Alien movies again.

Cabin in the Woods 7/10

Entertaining mostly. Quite liked the whole Twilight Zone inspired plot, didn't so much like the first part of the movie, which is far too cliche. I know, it's meant to be... i just didn't like it. It was made up for by the crazed unicorn stabbing a dude to death though, that shit was inspiring yo

Plan B wrote:I'm reading a lot of hate for it online, because it apparently isn't "hard sci fi" enough.
Pretty pathetic considering it 's in the same universe as the Alien movies, and I haven't read a lot of hate for them.

There's a lot of hate for it online because it's a shit movie, not because it's not 'hard sci fi' enough. And you haven't read a lot of hate for the Alien movies part 1 and 2 because they are good movies, excellent movies even. The parts after that... i'm betting there's a whole lot of hate for them to be found, seeing as those were also shit movies.

I hated almost every minute of the shiny turd called Prometheus, can you tell?

Ryoki wrote:

Plan B wrote:I'm reading a lot of hate for it online, because it apparently isn't "hard sci fi" enough.
Pretty pathetic considering it 's in the same universe as the Alien movies, and I haven't read a lot of hate for them.

There's a lot of hate for it online because it's a shit movie, not because it's not 'hard sci fi' enough. And you haven't read a lot of hate for the Alien movies part 1 and 2 because they are good movies, excellent movies even. The parts after that... i'm betting there's a whole lot of hate for them to be found, seeing as those were also shit movies.

I hated almost every minute of the shiny turd called Prometheus, can you tell?

I can

Obviously I have to agree with most faults and discrepancies as posted by GFY.
But they didn't really bother me. I just liked the art direction and atmosphere of the thing.
Meh, my opinion is probably fogged because I was just happy to see something from the Alien universe again.

Ryoki wrote:

Plan B wrote:I'm reading a lot of hate for it online, because it apparently isn't "hard sci fi" enough.

There's a lot of hate for it online because it's a shit movie, not because it's not 'hard sci fi' enough.

^^This. As "sci-fi" it's good, but as a movie and a story, it's simply horrible, annoying and frustrating. Prometheus sucked for basically the same reasons the Star Wars prequels sucked.

I honestly don't understand why people keep defending it.

I'd bone that pink haired whore if she took those fucking piercings out of her chest.

piercings in her chest?