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Rail splitter & Vampire splatter: Lincoln v. Vamps by sussmanbern Pros: Excellent photography and special effects. Good production values.
Cons: Some scenes a bit confusing. The usual rules of vampires do not apply here. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER was a reasonably successful novel in its genre and as a movie it is (in its genre) thoroughly entertaining.As a boy in Indiana, young Abe Lincoln sees a local villain sneak into his home and drain his mother of her ...
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May 4, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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4.5 stars. Excellent script and very well performed by a great cast. by rmurray847 Pros: Kevin Space, Jeremy Irons & others at the very top of their games.
Cons: Sometimes clumsy exposition. Penn Badgley has no business in this film. For me, the most satisfying movies are those that start with a great, intelligent script and match it with outstanding performances. MARGIN CALL fits that tough standard very well indeed. Writer/director JC Chandor has crafted a fill that ...
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May 4, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Superman vs. The Elite — Is He the Superman the 21st Century Needs? by elvisdo Pros: Great adaptation; stellar voice casting especially Robin Atkin Downes performance
Cons: Animation style could have been more refined Superman is stale. Superman is old-fashioned. Superman is a thing of the past. Superman isn’t relevant in today’s society. These statements, and other similar ones, have been echoed by many throughout the years, and is still going strong even ...
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May 4, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A Time of Ghosts by msiduri Pros: Interesting premise, mood setting.
Cons: Overwrought plot. I found the premise behind this BBC-presented Netflix-pushed film intriguing: in 1921 Great Britain, ghost-busting Florence Cathcart comes to a boys’ prep school where there might be a real ghost. The building was once a private--if opulent--home ...
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May 4, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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2.5 stars. Technically competent but hampered by poor script by rmurray847 Pros: Decent special effects. Eckhart is very suitable for his role.
Cons: Bad script and questionable military tactics. No one will ever accuse BATTLE: LOS ANGELES of being a good movie. It has very little on its mind and accomplishes even less. It’s a simple story: the world is under attack by aliens who have landed on the coastlines of major ...
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May 4, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A Big Waste of Talent – A review of The Big Wedding by Diversity646 Pros: A stellar cast...too bad they didn't have a decent script to work with
Cons: Just about everything about the film is a con, include the promotional pitch Robert DeNiro, when he has the right script and cast, can do virtually anything on the screen, from comedy to action to romance. Here, though, he just can’t seem to make us want to believe that he’s a gracefully aging Lothario ...
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May 4, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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An Iron Man of the People - a Review of Iron Man 3 by Diversity646 Pros: The mechanical body shell takes a back seat to the human interaction in this installment
Cons: At times, the story pokes almost too much fun at itself. Tony Stark's still narcissistic The trouble with some blockbuster adventures on the big screen is that the producers and directors forget that, underneath the explosions and mayhem, the story has to shine through the special effects to keep us, as audience members, grounded. ...
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May 4, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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On Target by whaler66 Pros: Downey's charm and confidence. A fun ride.
Cons: Jokey and unfocused at times. Lot of talent wasted. There is a moment in "Iron Man 3" that made me chuckle in the spirit of cinematic familiarity. It's when Killian (Guy Pierce) blows away a member of his crew in cold blood. If you know director Shane Black's work you'll know exactly why I chuckled at ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Iron Man 3 - Robert Downey Jr. Soars (No Spoilers) by dragonfire88 Pros: Entertaining movie. Robert Downey Jr.
Cons: Few things could have been handled better. Marvel started something very ambitious with Iron Man in 2008. They weren’t just hoping to launch a movie series about one character. Instead, they were building an entire world inhabited by ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Victor Garcia's "Hellraiser: Revelations" by tatumforever Pros: None.
Cons: The worst of the series, and that is saying A LOT. When your option on continuing a once mildly successful horror film franchise is running out, do you let the series die a quiet death, since you haven't contributed anything to it in five years, or do you come up with a quickie entry that might make a ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Spencer Williams' "Go Down, Death!" by tatumforever Pros: A couple of stand-out cast members
Cons: Sadly awful stuff Made specifically for segregated African-Americans in the 1940's, this heavy-handed Christian story is admirable for entertaining a repressed segment of the population, but to be blunt- it's pretty awful.For a fifty-four minute film, this is ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" by tatumforever Pros: Certainly nice to look at
Cons: A failure in more ways than financial Over thirty years after its release, "Heaven's Gate" has become synonymous with the term "big budget disaster." Up until recently, when an expensive film bombed, this film was used as the watermark example of Hollywood spending gone mad ("Waterworld," ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Documenting the Slasher Genre : GOING TO PIECES by xxxxer Pros: Worthwhile introduction to the world of the 1980s slasher film
Cons: '90s horror; Scream is the, like, best movie ever In the decades since the genre began in the 1970s, there really have been no mainstream films that have been quite as demonized as the horror movie and in particular, the slasher film. Beginning with 1978's trendsetting Halloween, ever more ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The Overloaded Bandwagon by topreviewerman Pros: Fred Astaire's dancing.
Cons: The humor seems dated at times. Bandwagon overload: Everybody wants a piece of the action. Writer Lester Marton (Oscar Levant) waves around his hot script about one Rod Riley a children's lit. writer whose career takes off moonlighting as a ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Dreams of the Departed Labyrinth. Top 15 of 2006. by jeff_wilder78 First off, the crap shoots of 2006. American Dreamz was a one-joke attempt at satire that alr ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Beware by spelvini Pros: convoluted plot with twists delivers
Cons: yeah, politics is a dirty business For a downer, bleak film about the political machinery driving the U.S. Government, this little movie makes the machinations of those hungry “Machiavellians” in charge seem very romantic. George Clooney gets high marks for helming this ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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To Review Mystery Men, Mystery Men You Must Review by carstairs38 Pros: Some laughs and engaging story
Cons: Not nearly as clever as it pretends to be I know I first saw Mystery Men when it was in the theater. My roommate at the time loved it, but I was less enthusiastic. Fast forward to today, and my current roommate and a mutual friend decided to watch it, so I stuck around to give ...
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May 3, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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IRON MAN 3 or, The Man Behind the Iron Mask. by talyseon Pros: Combining Comics, CGI, and explosions with a good story, solid acting, and Robert Downey Jr.
Cons: A bit overdone in the "So Much Armour; So Many People To Destory It" schtick. Iron Man 3 (2013) Directed by Shane Black I'm Tony Stark. I build neat stuff, got a great girl, occasionally save the world. So why can't I sleep? Iron Man 3 has a hard hill to climb; Iron Man and Iron Man ...
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May 2, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Surviving Scandal: The Good Wife-Season One by skbreese Pros: Acting, Writing, Character development
Cons: Series gets off to a slow start The highly acclaimed CBS television serie
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The Good Wife, adds a new dimension to the courtroom drama genre, by adding the extra dimension of a scenario we have to seen all to often in recent years in politics; the exposure ...
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May 2, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Unpleasant rogue cop by Stephen_Murray Pros: first minute, last five
Cons: I can't accept that Van Heflin had appeal There was something about Van Heflin (1910-71) that kept me from finding him likable even when cast in good-guy roles (the farmer fathers in “Shane” and “3:10 to Yuma,” for instances). That is not that much of a ...
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May 2, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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O, Brother where are thou from? by seacow Pros: Good production values, considering the budget; good story
Cons: Does look dated; is somewhat strange There are three main reasons I watch a movie these days: I like the coming attractions, it’s a movie I saw a long time ago or it’s a Z movie that I have to see to believe. I came across Brother From Another Planet while looking ...
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May 2, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Loverboy - Kyra Sedgwick loves a child "too much" by ladyconsumer Pros: Beautiful direction, impressive performances, nice cast
Cons: Horrifying story to watch unfold I have to admit, while watching Loverboy, I found myself so annoyed at the words and actions of the main character, that I had difficulty enjoying the movie. However, as the final credits rolled, and even for hours after, I found myself thinking ...
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May 2, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Snow White and the Huntsman: Let's Hear It For the Squirrel by rmthunter Pros: Some good cinematography, decent effects.
Cons: Eveything else. I may have said this before, but let me repeat it: if you're going to do a remake of a fairy tale, stick to the story. It's been time-tested, and it works.People just don't listen.We all know the story of Snow White: ...
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May 2, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Being John Malkovich = King John + Movable Chi by seacow Pros: Different concept
Cons: May not be what you expect WARNING: I’m going to give away a lot of detail about this movie. I’m not sure that this will ruin it, but some people don’t like to know a lot about a movie going into it. You’ve been ...
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May 1, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Trance – Building A Thriller Around Rosario Dawson’s Shaved Pussycat by coldsteel7 Pros: Interesting concept, strong performances from McAvoy and Cassel, some tense scenes.
Cons: Contrived, no redeeming characters, confusing switches between dreams and flashbacks. Danny Boyle is well known for his tense storytelling from films like Trainspotting and, my favorite, Slumdog Millionaire. Boyle’s perspective combined with my favorite film genre ...
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May 1, 2013 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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