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thedarkwolf

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RIPD 3/10
All the reviews about this POS are accurate. About the only good thing I can come up with about this movie is it has Bacon in it.
 

thedarkwolf

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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones 3/10
Take what was a mediocre book and cut out most of the story building so it doesn't make much sense. Then change around most of the stuff you do leave in and cast Skeletor's son as the male lead. What you end up with is this movie.
 

DaveSimmons

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RED 2 - 6/10 - fun despite Bruce Willis.

In Looper I thought Willis was acting sleepy and disoriented from the effects of time travel, but now I'm not so sure. He often seems like a grumpy codger that wants a nap in this, but he's not awful and it's still a fun movie because of the rest of the cast.
 

Majcric

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Insidious 2 IMHO was horrible. 2/10. Almost walked out of the theater on this one. Just plain Fk'in stupid.

Hey cap, I'm gonna take a guess and say you'd like "You're Next" 7.5/10. A pretty good slasher flick with satisfying Gore/Violence mixed with suspense.

The Conjuring 8.5/10.

Would you rather 6.5/10 Give this one a shot as well. Plenty of gore involving a crazy death game.
 
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 8.5/10

Unlike the first one in the series, it was a long movie that didn't feel long. Also, it had enough action and plot to be rather enjoyable. The ending reminded me of The Matrix II where it just ends at a major part of the storyline. I know that there is another movie in the series, but I wish they found a better way/time to stop this one.

Good to hear this... My wife has wanted to see it since it came out so we may go today
 

shortylickens

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Yes, then he helped bring Cuckoo's Nest to the screen only three years later! Impressive.

KT

His producing I knew about, including Cukoos nest. I just wasnt sure about stuff before that.

I also didnt know Martin Sheen was a hugely successful 60's actor.
 
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Invasion: Earth : 6/10 .... 6 episodes on Netflix. That was season one. The only season. It is an interesting concept and I am easily going to make it through all 6 episodes. I'm not sure what I can say without spoiling too much. So here is hte synopsis of epsiode 1:

Episode 1: "The Last War"

England 1944, during the height of the V-2 rocket blitz on England, an unidentified and notably non-German object crashes, devastating the suburb in which it falls. A bomb disposal team arrive on the scene, led by Lt. Charles Tyrell, an Oxford Don and anthropologist, but while searching the scene the soldiers discover two of the crashed craft's occupants; one is shot dead by a soldier while attempting to flee the scene (much to Tyrell's dismay), while the other occupant falls out of the craft, badly injured by the crash. It soon becomes apparent that the occupants are not human, with their domed heads and speckled pale skin. Tyrell establishes a rapport with the survivor, just as Military Intelligence arrives.

The action then moves to Scotland, 1998, and a joint RAF / NATO airforce base. Flight Lt. Chris Drake and his navigator, Jerry Llewellyn, are two Tornado aircrew scrambled to intercept an unidentified craft over the North Sea. During the ensuing encounter, both the base and the interceptors are seemingly attacked by a weapon that shuts off their power and disables all their instruments, so Drake impulsively acts against orders and shoots down the UFO. In the process, his own craft is damaged and he and Llewellyn must eject over the ocean. Drake is recovered alive but Llewellyn suffers serious injuries during ejection and dies in the sea before he can be rescued. The guilt-ridden Drake is grounded as a result of his hasty actions.

At the same time a local group of government-sponsored university students, who moonlight as amateur SETI watchers, pick up a strange transmission aimed at the far reaches of space. Led by Dr Amanda Tucker, the group comes to the conclusion that this is an extraterrestrial message. After hearing rumours of the UFO encounter, Tucker heads for Scotland, where she meets and after a fortuitous meeting she joins forces with Drake. After uncovering some of the truth behind the events, they are reluctantly recruited by NATO commander Reece (Fred Ward) (who believes the transmission to be terrestrial rather than alien) to decipher its meaning.

Meanwhile, RAF personnel race to hunt down and capture the downed UFO pilot and recover his craft. Equipped with alien technology, including a cloaking device, the pilot evades them (despite being wounded by a pursuers) but he finally stops a motorist, who takes him to hospital. Once located by the military and stripped of his strange garb and apparatus, the pilot is found to be none other than Tyrell, who refuses to communicate with his captors, even though they assume him to be a test pilot for a foreign nation's air-force. Meanwhile Tucker's associate, computer wiz Nick Shay (Paul J. Medford) discovers that the signal sent by the alien craft has in fact been intercepted and jammed by another force, and he suggests that they might be dealing with two distinct alien races who may be in conflict with each other.
 

thedarkwolf

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Hollywood. Wouldn't have been nearly as scary with a normal looking doll . Good movie though. Even the Red Letter Media guys liked The Conjuring.
 

Cappuccino

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Insidious 2 IMHO was horrible. 2/10. Almost walked out of the theater on this one. Just plain Fk'in stupid.

Hey cap, I'm gonna take a guess and say you'd like "You're Next" 7.5/10. A pretty good slasher flick with satisfying Gore/Violence mixed with suspense.

The Conjuring 8.5/10.

Would you rather 6.5/10 Give this one a shot as well. Plenty of gore involving a crazy death game.
Baaah. 2/10 is really bad lol. I give it a shot tonight and see if it's any good. I'm sure it's bad though. :thumbsdown:

Yep! 'You're Next' and 'The Conjuring' good movies. Thanks for the suggestions. I like my horrors
 

ImpulsE69

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Would agree. Not the best horror movie ever but definitely worth a look. What the hell is up with that creepy ass doll - I would have never brought that damn thing into my house.

Supposedly they are making a spin off movie about that doll because everyone liked it so much....

http://news.moviefone.com/2013/11/11/annabelle-doll-the-conjuring-spin-off/


Elysium - 6/10 - Ok, I like sci-fi ish and underdog movies and it was both those so it was ok, but nothing special.

Insidious 2 - not sure/10 - I personally really enjoyed the first Insidious. This one, I'm yet undecided. I watched it twice because I was mixed the first time I saw it. For those who do not know what this movie is about, it basically picks up right after the ending of the first, then spits you back in time to when the father was a boy troubled by spirits. From there, if you've seen Poltergeist 2, you've pretty much seen this movie. Seriously, I swear they ripped all the bad ideas and bad plot right out of it, except for the evil Giger tequila worm. I can't say more w/o giving away major plot points (that while different run in parallel to Poltergeist 2). It's not bad by any means, but it is....such a different take on the original, and the way they spun the 2nd chapter well..let's just say is not believable, and down right confusing...for a ghost story. I think my biggest issue is that it is exploring the reasons for the haunting, which always seems to take away from the suspense of a storyline (Just like Poltergeist 2). I want to like this movie, because it has it's moments, but....they just did it so wrong.
 
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mikeymikec

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Margin Call (2011)

I liked the shifting morality that this film depicts. Worth a watch IMO, though I wouldn't recommend running out into the street right now to get it.
 

Via

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Predator - 8/10

Predator washes over the screen like a wave of testosterone. From the moment they exit their chopper and step into the movie Ahnuld's team grabs us by the balls and simply takes over. The group is standard Hollywood fare, right down to the mystic native American who communes with the earth and can "sense" things, but it's all ratcheted up to an irresistible notch.

Their trek through the jungle is masterfully choreographed, and the editing is almost perfect. An assault on a guerilla camp seems like standard Schwarzenegger fare, with most escaping real damage.... but something was watching, and was mighty impressed indeed. And so the game begins.

Two huge thumbs up for Alan Silvestri's glorious musical score. fast forward to :50 to bask in some true cinema score glory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdcIMV1xcOQ
 

Mr. Pedantic

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Hunger Games - Catching Fire - 7/10

I really like the premise of the movie, and I think it has very interesting themes and symbolism that are very relevant to our world, but it definitely could have been executed a bit better. The acting was a bit wooden at times, and the movie felt quite slow. It was 146 minutes long, and for a 2 1/2 hour movie, not much really happened. Also, some bits left you kind of wondering, "wouldn't it make more sense if..." - a few of the parts felt like they were there for the sake of being there, to move the plot along.

Nice special effects though. I think the movie did a good job of showing exactly what kind of a society Panem really is, which I felt they really could have screwed up. And the whole "strong heroine" thing is kinda hot.
 

DesiPower

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Next - 6/10

OK movie, of course, like any other story which has anything to do with future or time travel, this movie too had lot of stupid things but you just have to stay with the story teller.

BTW, Jessica Biel was HOT
 

ImpulsE69

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Martyrs - 7/10 - Very f'd up French 2009 horror film about 2 girls held captive and abused that escape then come back to enact vengeance on their captors 15 years later. It has some pretty graphic parts and is just bizarre in general. Just when you think you understand what is happening somewhere near the final 3rd of the film it goes completely in another direction and off the rails and you are wondering wtf is going on leading to an ending that I certainly did not see coming. Not the best movie out there, but definitely keeps you watching to figure out what is up. Not for the squeamish.

Cargo (2013) - 9/10 - Best most original Zombie movie I have ever seen.
 

ImpulsE69

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Martyrs is amazing. One of my favourites.

KT

I liked it, but the middle part of the movie bugged me the entire time and I didn't quite understand if it was lost in translation or badly written...I didn't truly start getting into it until the last 3rd or so when it took me by surprise.

Going to try to watch "Inside" tonight as I hear it is good as well.
 
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