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Mirrors (2008). Pretty cool flick with some good ideas. It was not as Hollywood as i expected it would be, but it was still pretty much standard fare. i liked the ending. Ashe.
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Super Capers.
A pisstake on the superhero thing that wasn't another "movie" movie seemed like it could work. What you get is a watered down hybrid of Mystery Men and Sky High. It was funny in maybe 2 places...but really not worth the watch...and every fucking parody pointed out as though every single person ever watching it would've missed everything. "Look, a parody. Idiot" Crap.
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"The Golden Hawk" (1954)
-Sterling Hayden, Rhonda Fleming Plot: IMDB Kit Gerardo, also known as The Hawk, is one of Frances's most daring privateers, rescues Rouge from a Spanish ship. She is also a pirate, working to restore the fortune the French took from her. When Kit is captured by the governor of Cartagena, Luis del Toro, Rouge demands that he be hanged for piracy. Only one person knows it, but Kit is the governor's son. Phantom's Review: Low budget, but fun pirate adventure. Great sea battles. good looking women, and cool sword fights. Very enjoyable.
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Scars of Dracula (1970)
Another great Hammer Dracula sequel. This action packed installment has some nice sequences, including the discovery of bodies horribly gored by bats in a church , Dracula climbing up the Castle wall as Bram Stoker noted, and a vampire seduction ending with Dracula stabbing the woman to death. Christopher Lee has more screen time than usual, and here Dracula is thoroughly evil and sadistic. >>: B+
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Death Bell (2008). Starts out promising, then gets rather slow in building up the premise, get a little more interesting, after which it takes off like a demon rocket. This turned out to be a pretty brutal and twisted Korean flick that kept me guessing till the very end. One plot is still bugging me, but i probably just missed something. Definitely worth a watch. Ashe.
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asolutely amazing in every way. i know sooner or later there will be those who will think its cool to say they thought the movie sucked ... i cant wait to hear how articulately that will be explained.
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Theoretically it was well concieved, and there's plenty of good ideas in it, but the central character is as dull and unlikable as they come- so after awhile I was numb to any of his pain. Effects-wise it was phenomenal, but after awhile I was tired of brain-splatter-camera shots and a film which tried to attain all of its emotional height by close-ups of a man going "Oh fook. Oh fookin shit, man", "You're my fooking wife, man!", "What the fook?!", etc.
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funny, but it wasnt the documentary approach to the film that achieved realism for me .. it was the man you hated so much. i thought his character was completely believable. you dont have to like a character for a character to be real. i thought the guy was 100% dead on. there were clues given here and there that painted a much more detailed portrait of the man and his life.. Much more layered than you give credit for. your criticism to me sounds like the movie isnt cinematic enough .. i can dig it if you dont like documentary style films .. i dont mind them .. ikeep hearing people moaning about them all being alike ... (but nothing said about the 10,000 of other films all being shot alike in the non documentary style ? the splatter was real .. these are what these weapons did .. unless you want to go back to the days of the western where people got shot, bloodlessly held their chest and fell over ... then you might have to deal with realistic violence. i cna honestly say that there wasnt a frame of this film that ddnt ring true to me with one exception ... ****************************SPOILER*************** *********** the fuel they needed also triggers a transformation in humans ? but the film was so good i was easily able to overlook the convenience edit to add... now that i think of it- the gun, the ship .. the technology was based on biology - so maybe that wasnt as goofy as i was initially thinking. Last edited by urgeok2; 08-26-2009 at 09:21 AM.
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