Metal Reviews

21: Okay movie about MIT students counting cards. Worth a watch, I suppose.

Stomp the Yard: Surprisingly not awful. Really cliche-y but it wasn't the shitfest I expected.

Best in Show: Fucking Hilarious.

yeah i saw The Prestige, and it's much better (plus Christian Bale rules).

talk about CB, also saw The Machinist, another fine movie.

just saw Layer Cake, it's nice but i like lock, stock and two smoking barrels better.

The Brave One - 9/10 Revenge is awesome and watching Jodie Foster shoot people makes for an awesome movie. It really didn't even need a setup, if it was just 2 hours of Jodie shooting people it would have been awesome. Also, how come sometimes Jodie Foster is hot and then in the next second ugly as shit stuck to my ass? Its like Uma Thurman syndrome or something.

No Country For Old Men - 8/10 The second half of this movie really does kinda ruin it. I kept hearing that from everyone and so I was all like "It cant be that bad, I bet its fine, people are dumb, Im not" but seriously, what the hell happened? The first half of this movie is nearly perfect.

Baran - 8.5/10 Odd movie I found in a bin for 4 bucks about Afghan refugees working on a building (Illegally) in Iran, one day one of the workers breaks his foot and so his son goes to work in his stead but is later on discovered to be a young girl. The only worker to discover the secret seems to fall in love with the girl and stalking/heroics ensue.

Cloverfield

Speechless...

Watched Battle Royale last night. Really fucking good.

Sin City-T'was quite good, the version I watched seemed a bit edited for TV though. Clive Owen cannot do a good American accent.

Battle Royale 1 was excellent, 2 left me a bit perplexed, probably because the only version I could get was in french.

Why didn't you go see it in the cinema OH THAT'S RIGHT YOUR LIKE 12 YEARS OLD AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Tough break, kid.

I've never been asked for ID for booze, ever. That 'aint the problem, it's the fact that 90% of the time the cinema ruins stuff I like.

The first time I ever bought l'alcool was the day before my 18th birthday. I lied and pretended it was that day, what a rebel.

i didn't like the ending at first but it wraps up the sheriff's part of the story - him not being able to face pure evil (chigurgh), so he quits his job. it makes a lot more sense if you've read the book.

Books almost are always better and if not better, at least more clear. The problem I had with the second half didn't really come from not understanding it or anything though. The first half of the movie was just so interesting and exciting, it really started with a bang and kept it goin for abit, but it really just fizzled out in the end and became average I think. I may give the book a chance though, the characters were great and I wanted to like it more.

Anyhoo:

Curse of The Golden Flower - 5/10 Very disappointed by this. This was made by the guy who did Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Happy Times so maybe it was my fault that I expected something not.. gay. Well up next I will be checking out Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles by this guy, it seems interesting.

Idiocracy - 8/10 Awesome set up, extremely funny. It feels like its missing something though, I think this movie would have benefited from being longer.

The Darjeeling Limited - 8.5/10 Dragged abit in places but overall I really enjoyed it. I think I was in the right mindset for this fortunately because I could tell that any other time I might have found this movie horrendously boring, like The Royal Tenenbaums.

21 - Puke. Horrible movie. 2/10.

I really liked the ending in the book, even if it got a bit preachy for the last 20 pages. Looking forward to seeing the movie.

Rendition - 7/10

You really thought it was that bad?

Back to the future

Road to Perdition. A little disappointing. Pretty good, but it took so long to get started that the second half felt rushed.

Note to Sam Mendes - you can't have the same music from American Beauty in a gangster film set in the first half of the 20th century. It doesn't work.

I could make grilled cheese sammiches the rest of my life with the amount of cheese the came out of that movie.

The only reason I went is because I won tickets to it for some lame work event.

Cloverfield-7.5/10
John Rambo-6/10