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Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) Continuing my TG phase apace with this rather exasperating film. I want to love it. But I don't. I really like it, yeees, but there is always something there to remind me that it isn't hitting that spot. Bum. Ahem. Bruce (BC) is tasked with discovering the cause of a outbreak that decimates the human race by Arthur Dent . The Pitt channels his inner Busey. The Riddler plays a shrink. Yeah, THE Riddler ... not that other tit . There IS a lot to like here ... but like The Fisher King ... you can see the joins. Typical Hollywood mentality. Force a genuine artist to work to a pitiful budget whilst squandering lakes of money with utter shite like Pearl Harbour. I digress. Wouldn't watch the tv programme. Why bother? AT ALL?? Hollywood. Next!!
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Film starts with a criminal being shot and killed for a murder he didn't commit , jump forward 30 years later after being hypnotized a young man personality begins to change ,we soon learn he is possessed by the spirit of the criminal and seeks revenge on those responsible for his death, including Louis Gossett JR as jive talking preacher. Some violence and plenty of 70s bush on display but a little on the dull side. 5/10 Now watching one of my favourites the hidden. |
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Army of the dead. 2008 In 1590 a division of soldiers went to find the city of gold but never returned. Present day a group of people unleash a curse and brings back the dead. Excuse my language but holy ****ing shit, this was the best movie ever, great acting, brilliant CGI effects. Now that I said that I'm gonna commit myself to the nearest mental hospital. This was like a piss take of army of darkness set in present time. I was hoping it would get better, I can't believe I watched it all the way. Avoid at all cost.
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Battle: Los Angeles. If it wasn't for Battleship, surely the most hoo-rah American cheese-fest of recent (ish) years. Fortunately for me, i love B:LA - this is probably my 4th viewing and its still pretty gripping (and very cheesy). I hesitate to call it a 'guilty pleasure' because i don't think its that bad a movie, whilst Battleship most certainly is a guilty pleasure (and another film i enjoy despite its ra-ra nonsense). Shaky-cam gets a bit annoying at times but places you in the middle of the action as marines battle to take back LA from aliens that land in the sea (as they do) and emerge from the ocean like cross octopi spoiling for a fight. Shit gets blown up, grown men make cheesy speeches about the good ole U S of A and Michelle Rodriguez does her usual schtick (which was getting a bit tired even in 2011) and gets a mouth full of alien goo. What's not to like?
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Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) Vampire Eddie Murphy and victim Angela Bassett have enough chemistry to make you long for a proper horror film rather than this ill judged mix of spoof horror, romance and black ghetto humour that is at times dreadful and at others just plain stupid. Murphy practically ruins things by, as was his thing at the time, playing more than one character, ala The Nutty Professor, meaning we have to have a roll call showcase of Murphy scenes that are largely unnecessary. This was a definite step down for director Wes Craven who was capable of so much more and proved it again the following year with Scream, the film that gave horror a new lease of life. |
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Emanuelle and The Last Cannibals (1977). Another rip roaring adventure for the intrepid reporter. This time in the Amazon jungle after finding the mark of a lost tribe on a girl in a mental hospital. Together with an anthropologist, played by her real life husband Gabrielle Tinti, our heroine risks all, including her clothes, to get her scoop. I've seen this film on numerous occasions and it still never fails to entertain me. Okay, it's no Cannibal Holocaust, but it's still a fun watch, and with a few good gore scenes thrown in as well. One of the highlights for me is the smoking monkey on the riverbank, whilst Emanuelle and her young friend are doing a bit of nude bathing. Credit must go to the great score as well by Nico Fidenco. 7/10. |
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Rambo 3. John rambo is in thailand stick fighting to raise money for monks in a monastery when his old pal Colonal troughtman turns up wanting him to join a mission in Afganistan to help them fight against the russians, but Rambo has had enough of fighting and wants to live a peaceful life with the monks. but when the russians kidnap colonal troughtman he changes his mind and goes to rescue him. plenty of action again in this one, and a great scene were Rambo cortorises a wound from shrapnel using gunpowder, and it made me laugh because Clint eastwood had done this in a western many years ago. and also funny one liners like when the russian chap who is torturing colonal troughtman says, who is the Rambo God? and Troughtman replys God would have mercy he wont. and as usual Rambo has guns that never seem to need reloading as well. but very good film and i award 90.6 outof 100.
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