Detroit Rock City - 9/10

Detroit Rock City is about 4 best friends who desperately want to see a KISS concert.  The only problem is, one mom thinks KISS is devil music.  She finds the tickets and destroys them the day of the concert.  The friends set out on a quest to Detroit to see the concert after one friend wins (or so they think) tickets and backstage passes.  However, when they get there, they find out the friend never gave his address and phone number when he won the tickets, so the friends were disqualified.
The rest of the movie takes place with all 4 friends going their seperate ways to find tickets.
The movie is pretty good.  It has some good cinematography, and it's pretty fun to watch.  Each characters' experiences are unique, and in the end, ***SPOILER ALERT*** things conveniently work out for them, and all of the friends get a girl.***END SPOILER***

Overall, the movie was a pretty fun watch.  It started out slowly, and then it began to pick up speed.  Pretty fun to watch if you don't want realistic.

Lady in the Water - 6/10

I'll probably have to see this one again to make a more fair assessment. I think I was holding M. Night's recent efforts against him, which may have made me like this less. Overall, I thought it was ok. Funnier than I expected, but with a lot of predictability. Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard were great, and most of the rest of the odd characters were good. The ending kinda sucked, but I guess there wasn't much else for them to do. Overall, pretty good movie.

Thank You For Smoking 8/10
 
A well crafted film.. Well written and paced.  The  characterisations were splendid.. the only character that I found lacking charisma was the son of the main character.. which is a shame but it didn't have a major effect on my enjoyment of the film. Funny stuff.

John Tucker Must Die - ?/10

I can't give this movie a fair rating because the entire audience was made up of a field tripping I'm a edgy teen class. Fucking dicks.

But I can say that there were several stupid parts. A couple of hot chicks. And I think I might have laughed once. Before hearing the goat behind me nearly choke collapsing a lung with her honk laugh and almost killing myself, that is.

Miami Vice 6.8/10

Could have been alot better.

One of the things I couldn't stand was the fact that the plot was impossible to keep track of. Miss one little keyword, POOF, your lost for the rest of the movie.

The biggest problem was half of the movie was just a pointless sub-plot of Collin Farrell and some asian chick going to Cuba for two days and having sex three times. This took up half the entire film.

It did have a few little shining moments. (Skin-heads being shot in the face.) Other than that, it was very weak.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - 9.7/10

What can I say?  I ended up really liking this movie.  The characters were great, the narration was hilarious, and the dialogue was well written.

Some guy is a small-time crook, but when he trips an alarm robbing a store, he hides in a casting office and ends up accidentally getting the part to a movie.
He travels to LA, and gets detective training, and meets his crush from High School at a party.  When he goes for detective training, he gets wrapped up in a murder mystery, along with his trainer.  I won't go on, but the movie is great.  As I said, it's funny and well-written (with the main character getting injured all the time).  My only gripe is that at the end, when they find out the whole deal behind the murders, I had no idea what had happened.  Maybe because my hearing is bad and we had the volume down, but I didn't understand what happened at the end.  Though, I like the movie enough to rewatch it, so that's not really much of a problem.
So, it's a different take murder mysteries and whatnot with a narrator who forgets to include what happened earlier until later on in the movie.  I recommend watching it.

Dead man's shoes 9.5/10

Quite simply the best British film since Trainspotting.

Paddy Considine kicks all ass and kills a bunch of northern guys that tormented his I'm a edgy teen brother while he was away in the army. Great horror/revenge/drama with plenty of blood and is full of twists, turns and all that crap.

Watch it now.

Aeon Flux

boooorrrrrriiiiing. Even though it's only 90 minutes it felt overly long, nothing new or fresh or interesting. I'm gonna go download some of the cartoon episodes.


Cellular

Fairly good thriller. I thought it was pretty tense. It could've used a lot of smaller and bigger touches to be great, though. The little comedy elements could've been thrown out for my taste, and it's irritating how movies tend to exaggerate modern trends, ie literally everyone on the pier using a cellphone. And the end credits were really just sad... a montage with credits shown on close-ups on the cellphone screen. Yuck.

A Scanner Darkly: 9/10

A little confusing, but with some incredible performances. Robert Downey Junior was incredible. Keanu Reaves was shit, but very appropriate in some of the ending scenes. The visuals were splendid shifting from looking like live action almost, to cgi, to traditional animation.

You know you're just saying that because of his reputation.  Keanu was fine in that movie.

Quote from: AdrenalineYou know you're just saying that because of his reputation.  Keanu was fine in that movie.

That was the first movie I've ever actually seen Keanu Reeves in. He was good in some parts, but he's bad at acting out casual converstion (a large part of his role). As a brainwashed druggie he's good. Thats all I'm saying.

Renaissance
7/10

Okay, first off, beautifull. I mean it, just as good if not better than Sin City. They REALLY got the whole noir thing perfect. Onto the plot, at times can be hard to follow, but pretty intersting and will keep you guessing. In the end, there were many questions unaswered, or answered so vaguely you still won't fully understand. Also, I'd like to note it has one of the coolest methods of suicide I've seen.

Quote from: pyromancer_clockThat was the first movie I've ever actually seen Keanu Reeves in. He was good in some parts, but he's bad at acting out casual converstion (a large part of his role). As a brainwashed druggie he's good. Thats all I'm saying.

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That is truly inconceivable.

Miami Vice - 7/10

I was surprised how it didn't suck alot. It was a bit long, and a bit confusing, but was pretty good all in all.

Exorcism of Emily Rose

Dreadful. Turned it off halfway through and I was already bored of it for a half an hour.

Quote from: Adrenaline...

That is truly inconceivable.

I dont see to many movies.

Still... the Matrix?  Bill & Ted?  Speed?  Nothing?

Quote from: StrangeClockExorcism of Emily Rose

Dreadful. Turned it off halfway through and I was already bored of it for a half an hour.

Can you really pass judgement on something you didn't really see through? I mean, I didn't think I'd like the new Charly and the Chocolate Factory when I saw it from the 2nd third of it until the end, but when I watched it all the way through, it actually kind of grew on me. Which reminds me:

Charley and the Chocolate Factory:

WARNING!! SMALL SPOILERS!!

FANS DO NOT BE MISLEAD!! This is NOT a remake of the 1970s musical, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It is a new adaptation of the original book. The film itself is much more true to the book then the original adaptation was, but that in itself did not make it better.
While the film is often smart, funny, and very entertaining, I couldn't help but wonder why some of the plot elements were in the movie at all. Some aspects of the plot are introduced, but never resolved. For instance: Later on in the film, Willy Wonka comes to the conclusion that since he feels terrible, his candy has turned terrible, but we are never introduced to this concept early on in the film.
The next flaw is with the characters. The films characters are just as smart and funny as the rest of the film, but one can't help but feel that these characters don't get the attention they deserve, manly the child characters. The film is called Charley and the Chocolate Factory, but half way through the film, the attention switches suddenly to Willy Wonka. True, Willy is a crucial character, but once he is introduced, do we really need to know him any better? The child actors in this film portray their characters much better then the ones in the original, but they are not given nearly enough screen time to show that aspect off. Plot elements like Wonkas origins (told in flashbacks, accompanied by the narrator) only take up screentime that could be used in developing characters. The only plot elements that were added to the first film were simply to express the purity of Charlie's purity of heart, which is sorely lacking in the other children. Although, Charlie's crandparents are very well portrayed.
Although Johnny Depp portrays Wonka very well, the story of the film portrays him as a character with severe emotional issues that need to be worked out, but Gene Wilder's characters of Wonka was portrayed as a fun-loving, slightly crazy, child at heart man, whose only desire is to pass on his gift to the most deserving child. Gene Wilder's character has a sense of magic and wonder to him, Depp's character is unmagically insane.
One thing I enjoyyed about the film was the effects. They are all top notch, and we really get the feeling of being inside not just a factory, but an all new world!
Also, the singing numbers by the Oompa Loompas are vastilly entertaining (If only the second time around).
So, while the film has character, the story is just two complicated to have the simplicity that should come with a movie based on a Roald Dahl childrens book. This film is riddled with comical modern day subtext, which, ultimately, doesn't need to be there and just takes up time. Charlie mentions in the film that:

"Candy doesn't have to have a point, that's why it's candy."

The original film got this idea perfectly, with a simple yet emotionally driven film. The new film has comedy, a great cast, and wonderful effects, but Tim Burton seems hell bent on proving a point to us that we don't even care about. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a smooth, creamy sensation! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is like a bowl of wipped cream, chocolate syrup, and all types of sprinkles, but just a small teaspoon sized scoop of ice-cream underneath it all. That my friend, is not true candy. And, although highly enjoyable, niether is the film.

6/10 for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (just barely passing).

Quote from: PredatorCan you really pass judgement on something you didn't really see through? I mean, I didn't think I'd like the new Charly and the Chocolate Factory when I saw it from the 2nd third of it until the end, but when I watched it all the way through, it actually kind of grew on me. Which reminds me:

I think if a 2 hour movie doesn't manage to become interesting during the first hour, it's safe to say it's a bad movie. It's not going to turn over on its ass during the second half, and even if it does, it's still a bad movie for being boring for so long.

Besides, it became clear quickly that it had only moderate horror elements and was mostly a very boring courtroom drama. I applaud filmmakers for trying to mix genres, but these two don't mix.

Quote from: StrangeClockI think if a 2 hour movie doesn't manage to become interesting during the first hour, it's safe to say it's a bad movie. It's not going to turn over on its ass during the second half, and even if it does, it's still a bad movie for being boring for so long.

Besides, it became clear quickly that it had only moderate horror elements and was mostly a very boring courtroom drama. I applaud filmmakers for trying to mix genres, but these two don't mix.

That's exactly what I thought about Napoleon Dynamite and Anchorman, but i sat through and ended up really enjoying them.

But, live and let live, right?