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Just came back from PotC3. Great movie, bit slow to start, but once it did, the action and pace was good. Bit too many gags with monkeys in cannons, but a great movie nonetheless. Keira Knightley was decent in the first two but a lot better in this one. The seabattle was climactic and the ending perfect. -1 point for killing off the Kraken :icon7:

9/10

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oh btw

Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind (again)

yay i could do without the subplot though

I watched a movie this weekend, during which I got wasted.

10/10

bros grimm

eehh

easy going put me right to sleep

Letters From Iwo Jima - 5/10. Ok, I guess. Nothing special, really.

Hero - 9/10. Finally got around to seeing this one. Fantastic. Great cinematography, stunning to look at, etc. Decent plot, too. The music was a bit too exactly the same as Crouching Tiger, but I got over it. Also, a Jet Li movie that didn't suck. Nice.

The Edukators - 3/10. It won a bunch of German awards and some critic said it was the "funniest, most original movie" he had seen all year. Unfortunately it was neither of those. Boring, unfunny, clichéd, and predictable, all with bad camerawork. I turned it off about 3/4 of the way through.

Tormentius wrote:Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - 8/10

Best of the three IMO.

I'd call it the best of the three as well. Though I'd give it a 6/10.

Edit: I know it was a Disney movie and all but, man, did it ever have a bunch of plot holes.

I still think the first one had the best storyline, sans plethora of plotholes and all. But in my opinion, the sequels were bigger and better.

Actually I rather enjoyed the last one. 7/10

Shitates of the Shitabbean

Oceans 12 - Seems like complete shit thus far. Missing everything the original had going for it, but mostly missing the slick conversations but its messy in pretty much every other aspect too.

"Silver Bullet" (by Stephen King) 3/10

Boy, this movie taught me how memories can distort facts: The movie sucks and has more plot holes than a swiss cheese.
It gets 3 points because my memory says otherwise.

Captain Mazda wrote:I still think the first one had the best storyline, sans plethora of plotholes and all. But in my opinion, the sequels were bigger and better.

those movies are highly flawed from the begining.
please, orlando bloom as a blacksmith?
dude could barely lift the hammer let alone make a room full of swords without putting on any muscle.
pathetic casting, hokey dialogue, and characters that act like a cartoon = bullshit movies.
those movies get a solid 5 for being completely average.

Grudge wrote:The Departed - 7/10

It was ok, great actors and a good enough script. But I don't really see what all the fuss is about, must have been a pretty lame film year if this got 2 Oscars.

i agree, i picked up that and children of men this week.

i'm also inclined to give Departed a 7/10
it was good but nothing fantastic.
probably only won the oscars it did because they wanted to give marty some hardware before he dies. He's had the bad luck of his best films being up against really difficult competition in the past. So i think the accolades are more of a "lifetime achievement" award.

Children of men 9/10
I fucking loved this one, and i have no idea why it wasn't up for best picture/director. Guessing they just hit their quota on foreigners with Babel. At any rate... this film got undeservingly snubbed. It was incredibly well made and is the best film i've seen since crash.

Dr_Watson wrote:please, orlando bloom as a blacksmith?
dude could barely lift the hammer let alone make a room full of swords without putting on any muscle.

I have a uni friend who works full-time as an 'ye olde style' weapon smith. He regularly turns out high quality swords and armor using a small forge and base materials. His build is even lighter than Orlando's, so that kinda shoots down that theory.

there are exceptions to every norm.
but i just expect someone who's been making horse shoes and pounding iron 10 hours a day for years to be a bit tougher than orlando bloom.

he was the blacksmiths apprentice, actually. so that means he'd be handing tools and burning coal, primarily.

ok fine... i'll stop trying to explain why PoTC movies are crap and just say that i've only seen the first one, and given the opportunity to burn 2 hours of my memory out; i think that slice of my life would rank up near the top... right below almost dieing in a 3-wheeled ATV roll-over.

dead meat 5/10
mediocre irish zombie movie with a weak lead.

very little happens but it's got zombies and it's set in lovely old ireland.

Dr_Watson wrote: Children of men 9/10
I fucking loved this one, and i have no idea why it wasn't up for best picture/director. Guessing they just hit their quota on foreigners with Babel. At any rate... this film got undeservingly snubbed. It was incredibly well made and is the best film i've seen since crash.

i saw this movie and i just don't understand why people thought it was so fantastic.

is it just because of the premise of the plot?

more to do with the production quality and the intensity from start to finish.

reasons i liked it:
* the future created on film is just so creepy
* the acting is all very well done (i even liked julianne moore and generally speaking i fucking cant stand that cunt)
* the movie has very real concequence, and motivation for the main character. something missing in alot of "apocalyptic" films.
* the references to real-world facisim and genocidal atrocities is very well done without being preachey
* the cinematography is brilliant, with some extremely ambitious shots.
* you have to take in the whole scene, not just the people talking. nothing is truely "background"