February 2012
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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat, the adaptation of the 90s video game of the same name smashed onto the big screen in 1995 when I was 12 years old! I think that’s why I love this movie so much, it got me at the right age and hooked me. I was a huge fan of the computer games since the original Mortal Kombat destroyed Street Fighter II at the arcades due its violence, blood, and gory Fatalities, my friends...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, The Turtles and Shredder battle once again in everyone’s favourite cartoon movie turned big screen brilliance. This time our crime fighting, pizza loving quartet of reptile heroes fight for the last canister of the mysterious ooze that created them. Battling there old nemesis Shredder who wants the ooze for himself to create an army of...
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This is Spinal Tap
This is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner fake documentary that dances the fine line between stupid and clever and instantly creates a new genre the “mockumentery” . The story and music was writtin by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Rob Reiner, they play the characters they created in one of the wittiest, and wisest films about being a band ever made. I think that...
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Blade Runner: The Directors Cut
Blade Runner The Directors Cut, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of author Phillip K. Dicks Novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” is one of the most famous and influential science fiction films of our generation, with a huge cult following. One of the reasons that Blade Runner has such a cult following is the existence of more than one version, its been tweaked here and changed...
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Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Aww I donno people really don’t know . There was the whole hype surrounding it, how it was going to be this amazing 3D spectacular event to knock the pants off all that came before but I was not overly impressed. It was better than “Revenge of the Fallen” but it doesn’t live up to the first one not by a long shot. Too much mayhem is going on, its meant to...
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The Grey
The Grey, John Ottway (Liam Neeson) is returning home as part of an oil drilling team in Alaska, when disaster hits and their plane crashes in the middle of nowhere. Surviving the crash isn’t as lucky as you may think when you find out that the chances of living through harsh winter conditions whilst being hunted down by wolves are slim… well unless your Liam Neeson, if I survived a...
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X-MEN: First Class
X- Men First Class, the second prequel to the original trilogy which is set before the first prequel Origins: Wolverine, ok take your time to wrap your hear around that. It takes us back to the beginning of the marvel mythology to when Professor X was Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) a partying 60’s college student using his powers to get laid and Magneto was Eric Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender)...
January 2012
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, sees the crew all assembled again. Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) and Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) Yes did you see his epic reincarnated return at the end of Dead Mans Chest? As if Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) falling to the clutches of the Cracken wasent a cliff hanger enough! Our crew are joined by the...
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Black Sheep
The plot is simple, Al Donnelly (Tim Matheson) is running for governor of Washington State. His opponent a tough old ball buster called Governor Tracy (Christine Ebersole) is determined to win and is not scared to use any dirty tactic in the book to do so. The dirtiest tactic is picking on Als younger well meaning but accident prone brother Mike Donnelly(Chris Farley). Getting him fired from...
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Get Him To The Greek
Get him to the Greek, a movie where one guy has to get this other guy to the Greek Hotel.. with hilarious consequences. Russell Brand reprises his role from forgetting Sarah Marshal as Aldous Snow the snake hipped British rock star! Aaron Green (Jonah Hill), his biggest fan, suggests to his boss Sergio (Sean “Puff Daddy” “P-Diddy” Combs) to hold an anniversary gig in honour of...
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Office Space
Office space, a movie about Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) a lonely and depressed guy who goes to work every day and really hates what he does. Pretty much like we all do really. Peter hates his job more than anything. Pretty much like we all do really. At one point, he admits, “Each day of work is progressively worse than the day before, so every time you see me, that’s the...
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Rango
Rango, a loveable pet chameleon living the comfortable life as a family pet in his terrarium. A natural born actor Rango spends his days directing his own life with his troupe of actors a headless Barbie doll, wind-up fish toy and a dead cockroach, with no worry’s at all other than figuring out his place inside his own wee story. That is until fate steps in and whirls our lizard friend...
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Yes it has a sub heading good start they are giving it more thought than just a roman numeral. You know what I was looking forward to this movie I really was. I tried to keep my head down and not take in too much of the publicity hoping rather to enjoy it for myself first time round. The opening sequence is actually really good full of action and everything...
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Commando
Commando, a movie packed with an absurd amount of over the top action, hard-core, brutal and unmotivated violence with a host of classic witty one liners crammed in for good measure. Its basically the best parts of every mental 80s action movie ever made all stuffed into 90 minutes of awesomeness. I sadly do not have the directors cut which is even more insane but i will keep my eye out for it!
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, is the first of two sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Both “Dead Mans Chest” and “At Worlds End” were filmed back to back developing a story arc that would span both films, and retroactively turn The Curse of the Black Pearl into the first of a now going to be a saga of movies. Now all...
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The Fifth Element
The Fifth Element, one of the coolest Si-Fi movies of the 90’s and undeniably the most fashionable Luc Besson creates the world of the 23 centaury with the perfect combination of production design, special effects, costumes and an overactive imagination. The CGI is limited in the film, sure we have the spaceships and the flying cars but that gave way for the more practical effects like...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the first in what is rumored to be a Six part saga, and I think my favorite of the lot. There is more action in the later movies but this one is much more cleaver with the characters and script. Its not all about the action for action sake its more “Savvy”. Its all the wee back story that is not fully explained until the...
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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is one of those movies that I wish I had of been able to see on the big screen, how it was intended to be seen. A large astounding visual experience with a blasting sound followed by the deeper silences. However since it was released fourteen years before I was born I had little chance in that, so I will make do with my DVD. Its also the sorta movie that i think would...
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Movies 2012: An Introduction
I have decided to keep a little track of every the movie I will watch this year, every movie i watch not just the new ones. So the rule is even if I watch it two or three times Im gonna write about it! All in chronological order recording the format wither it be the cinema, TV, DVD or Blue-Ray! Movie reviews are all over the internet, I know there really is nothing original about what I’m...