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As you can tell by my overall quote, I liked the first Hostel better. In fact, the two films are drastically different. One encourages brutal violence, but keeps a mystery throughout and never really abuses the use of that violence. The other not only keeps all that violence, but piles...
Americans can't get enough of gore. It's a simple fact that has allowed the Saw series to remain constant, describes how Rob Zombie is still making movies, and made Eli Roth a household name within the "torture porn" sub-genre of horror with his 2005 entry, Hostel. The previous year, audiences had s...
Seth McFarlane has had a bumpy road to success. His now hit series Family Guy was canceled, and after DVD sales hit the roof, the show was brought back and is bigger than ever. Now it seems that that success has gotten to his head a bit. He campaigns until Family Guy is nominated for Best Comedy Ser...
In 2007, Rob Zombie gave us his vision of John Carpenter's Halloween. It was a bad movie. Not because it seemingly "destroyed" what made the film's antagonist, Michael Myers, so unique(by giving him a backstory), but because it was simply a bad horror flick. Period. Zombie had the right idea, but hi...
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"Best film of the summer-District 9"
District 9 rose from the ashes of the Halo film adaptation....
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At first glance, G.I. Joe may seem like Transformers minus the robots. But there's something oddly unique about it that makes it that much more enjoyable. Could it be Sienna Miller's leather-clad rack that gets more screen time than Cobra Commander? That's definitely a keeper, b...
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Before going into this sequel to the 2007 blockbuster Transformers, one must realize that this is a pure popcorn movie, and that's all it has to be. It's no surprise that Michael Bay is best known for his out-of-this-world explosions and effects, and with Transformers: Revenge ...
Terminator Salvation is a movie that Terminator fans were/are on the fence about. From the very beginning, lines have been drawn like the war that the film captures: fans who have been waiting for this movie for 24 years, and fans who think it's not necessary, devoting themselves to James Cameron's ...