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I actually thought the first half was better, the parts with the......"auburn-haired" sister freaking about the collition were just a fucking drag.

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lol, and why is Mary Jane's family all british all of a sudden?

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Paranorman-85/100
I was surprised at how good this was. Very entertaining, beautifully animated, very funny and even moving. Also, this is the first time in a long time where kids were laughing along with the adults in the theater and everyone was totally into the movie.

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Transit - 8/10

A DTV thriller with Jim Caviezel that is pretty damn good despite having a fairly familiar plot.
Whoever had their eye behind the camera was pretty creative and inventive, lots of visual flair and eye popping camera angles.
Unfortunately though, I fell asleep in the last fifteen minutes and its all insanely murky to me.
However, I believe the good guys won and the bad guys lost, so I don't feel like its a MAJOR loss, but I'd definately rent it again and see it again.

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Othello (1995)

It's a Shakespeare production starring Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

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Mafia vs. Ninja (1984) 8/10

that 8/10 is for pure enjoyment, because this movie is as gloriously cheesy as the title makes it sound. Every trope about martial arts movies from the poor duybbing to the insane fights is in this flick, and it was so much fun to watch.

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ok, I've watched all the fast and the furious movies now and I'll say the 5th one is probably my favourite, followed by the 3rd, the 2nd, the 1st, and the 4th one last, which I felt lacked focus and a good villain, it felt like they got the main cast back and had to crowbar in a plot. although I thoroughly enjoyed the Vin Diesel written and directed short prelude to Fast and Furious called Los Bandeleros (or something like that) which did a better job of getting the band back together in 20 minutes than the whole movie did in 2 hours.

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I actually like #4 more than #3, but shoehorn that in right there and we've got the same list.
THink about it, isn't #3 like the Karate Kid?
But with drifting in place of martial arts?

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The Avengers - 9.5/10

I do have nitpicks. But that doesn't lessen how fucking awesome this movie is.
Theres so much to catch in the dialog. Its awesome.

Also idk who raised the question about how Hawkeye and Loki's minions found the helicarrier so fast-
if you look at the computer readouts in their ship, they were tracking Loki's scepter.

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I like 3 because I think Han is my favourite character in the franchise.
I sort of see what you mean about the karate kid similarity, apart from the "learning without realising" aspect, I think Han even says at one point "this isn't some kind of wax on/wax off thing" so the similarity may be intentional.

Another thing I didn't like about the 4th one is that it has a too similar plot to the second one, and I thought the set pieces were a bit lame, the GPS race was kind of stupid, and the tunnel chase was just ludicrous, and the poor CGI didn't help matters.

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I agree about Han as well. He's pretty awesome. That may be one character I'm actually hoping they come up with some dumbass excuse to have alive after the continuity of #3.

And yeah, #4 ain't perfect, but I do think it was a step in the right direction for the franchise. Albeit a half formed and rough around the edges step, but I still really enjoy it nonetheless.

Still, I don't think anybody could argue that #5 is just awesome. And the best in the franchise.

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no arguments here, and the Rock is awesome as a foil for the team.

anyway 21 Jump Street. LOL! hilarious!

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8/10

A surprisingly effective head trip movie that would've been a solid two points higher had they done something absolutely mind blowing with the third act. Tarsem Singh is a master of visuals, and the unnerving psychologically penetrating images and scenes that fill the movie are just as much spectacle as they are allegorical and metaphorical. However, one part of the movie's climax is big on visual allegory and eye candy but short on actual spectacle. Which feels nearly anticlimatic and somewhat disappointing.
Great acting all around and I suppose watching it alone in a dark room helped the eerie atmosphere, but in a movie with sets and scenes right out of the minds of people like H.R. Giger and Dali, its no wonder this movie is so flat out creepy.

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Expendables 2 - what a fun ride of a movie, even more of a throwback to 80's action movies than the first one ("OH NOES HE'S STOLED ALL THE PLUTONIUMZ") although it's basically held up with an awesome action set piece at each end with the plot and a few action scenes scattered throughout. Definitely recommend if you just want to go to the theatre for fun and explosions.

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^ I concur.

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yeah I agree with your review completely, although JCVD's tattoo was a goat not a pentagram, but it was a satanic goat so I'll let you off.

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The Dark Knight - 8/10

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Moonrise Kingdom-I think this was less funny compared to Wes Anderson's previous films. In exchange, it's much more melancholy and harsher. Not "Needle in the Hay" stuff no, but with the characters being pre-teens, Anderson makes it easy to feel their pain. Yet the movie does quite a lot of funny moments and scenes and I found myself enjoying it very much. Great acting. A pretty surprising and charming story. I feel like Wes Anderson just gets better and better with what he does. 10/10

To Rome with Love-Quite a lot of laughs here. But the movie goes on for too long. I think it was a mistake for each story to run in a different timeline. It creates a bit of a jarring effect. Also, what's the deal with Alec Baldwin's character? It's okay for a story to be absurdist but nothings about his character adds up in the logic of the movie. Enjoyable but not very good 7/10

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American Psycho - 8/10

Tired of 8's I want a 9 or a fucking 10.
I feel like my own goddamn mask of fucking sanity is about to slip.
Bale was awesome. His inner-thought moments, perfect. The ending? Perfect.
But maybe its my day, or my mindset, or how my couch seemed spectacularly un-fucking-comfortable after the first five minutes, but DAMN.

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7.5/10

It was good in the beginning, but the ending third felt rushed, and some of the voice acting was off. I'd love to see NPH as the flash some more, but I didn't really like the guy who played Hal.

So basically, to summarize, I didn't like the pacing and some of the performances were lackluster... so there are the same flaws as TDKRises...

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You thought the performances in TDKRises were lackluster?

Oh wow.

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