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Part Three is far from the glory of the first, but a reprieve from the second.The Hangover Part Three can best be described as the mouthwash created to vanquish the bitterness of Part Two from our cinema palettes. Part Two was god awful, a hack retread of the original. That clu...more
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Damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a torpedo technician!*Full spoilers* It is an exciting time to be a Star Trek fan. Gone are the days of being made fun of for cosplaying as your favorite fantasy or science fiction characters, as superheroes, ...more
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Summer movie magic at it's finest.As I walked out of Star Trek into Darkness my mind was running through a whirlwind of different emotions. I felt excited, happy, sad, and my mood was as good as it could ever be. These are the feeling...more
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Hey Frog, meet the Scorpion.With the 2009 reboot, director JJ Abrams succeeded at breathing life into a very melodramatic and crass television series which had long attained its cult following since 1966, but now, with this 2013...more
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Lucas, look at this place. They're so busy in here. You get to go and do something. Go help people. You're good at it.Part of me is pissed off that the tragedy of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 people in 14 countries was made into a film for profit. Then I researched to see if the money made from T...more
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The Good, the Bad, and the Gatsby! The Great Gatsby is a film I liked so much that I almost hated it for not being perfect.The Great Gatsby is a film that I adored so much that I almost hated it for not being perfect. Allow me to explain; the film is perfectly enjoyable to the point where you get lost in it's beauty. In t...more
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Not without its faults and borrowing of ideas, Oblivion stands well enough on its own as a decent blockbuster.You know what the inevitable problem with being ambitious is? You're more susceptible to pissing off a lot of people rather than only a few. I think director Jospeh Kosinski should be applauded and re...more
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... AFTERSHOCK is half a truly compelling movie and half a question mark of indifference...It's been a long time coming, but Eli Roth has seemingly reappeared in the horror game. Last year, he revealed his splatter-punk installation of gruesome entertainment in Las Vegas, he produced the re...more
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,,, While a bevy of negatives and plot-holes hold it back from greatness, it's still a step above the typical superhero flick...Last year, THE AVENGERS arrived to unanimously positive reviews despite some glaring issues with conflict-structure, a confused villain and Scarlet Johansson. Faults aside, it nonetheless proved to be...more
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I want to do something with him that's his first time. I'm going to look in his face when he tries ice cream. Every time he has ice cream for the rest of his life, he's going to see my f*cking face.If only that pleasant idea were a pure memory, but alas... Like Derek Cianfrance's previous effort, Blue Valentine, also starring Ryan Gosling (who is becoming the veritable king of the i...more
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Set your phaser to awesome. Star Trek Into Darkness is a thrilling, joyride of a film that will have diehard trekkies and neophytes alike beaming.Star Trek Into Darkness is a thrilling, joyride of a film that will have diehard trekkies and neophytes alike beaming. Director J.J. Abrams delivers a huge action film wrapped in trek lore, with a sur...more
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The Grandmaster is the martial arts movie for Terrence Malick fans.I hate to be one to deter others from seeing a Wong Kar-wai film; especially one that appears to be headed for major release in America. However I must admit that his film chronicling the legendary st...more
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You'll never see me coming. Touché Mandarin, touché.After creative differences over the final cut of "Iron Man 2" (2010) kicked Jon Favreau out of the director's chair, former Robert Downey Jr. collaborator and dark humor writer Shane Black filled the ...more
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You think I'm crazy? Well, listen up, there's a storm coming like nothing you've ever seen, and not a one of you is prepared for it.It's always jarring when a film gives you no inclination that you've entered a dream state, and Take Shelter takes that uneasiness and runs with it to the point of where you're not sure if the ending ...more
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It's Christmas. Take em' to church.Lethal Weapon 5, I mean Iron Man 3 had the task of following up from the box office behemoth The Avengers, last year's super hit that changed the playing field, expanding the Marvel Cinematic Universe...more
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It felt like a three act play that was missing its second act.Based on the true story of a secret mission to get six americans out of Iran amidst the chaos of the 11/4/79 takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran, actor/director/producer Ben Affleck's latest fi...more
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The best film on the subject of mental health I've ever seen.Based on the 2008 novel by Matthew Quick, director David O. Russell struck an acting trifecta in adapting a novel about a man's struggle to adequately deal with his bipolar disorder and find a path in...more
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Black's witty script feels fresh and almost flawless, unless you're a huge Iron Man fanboy. If that's the case, I highly recommend you don't bring a lighter with you to the theater.Here we are, folks. Right where we've wanted to be all year; summer. Summer is when all the great blockbusters come out, and what better way to kick the season off than with Marvel's newest addition t...more
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Shane Black's Iron Man 3 is darker, funnier, more human, and with a few unexpected twists that will annoy some diehard fans while vastly entertaining the majority of audiences.A ship's journey is always different under the command of a new captain. Shane Black, the pioneering action screenwriter of Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, certainly makes his mark on Marvel's ...more
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Hooper truly earns that golden statue with Les Miserables, but film is not a capable medium for fully recreating this tale's spiritIn 2010 Tom Hooper won Best Director at the Academy Awards for The King's Speech. I remind you of this because as solid a film as it was, has there been a more fleeting and upsetting Oscar win? At lea...more