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Here's what happens if someone takes the darkest 25% or so of My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic episodes, and makes a serious movie trailer out of them.
I gotta say... this is fucking awesome. Deal with it.
7.6/10 from both of us (imdb avg is 6.5/10).
4/5 stars from Carolyn, 3.6/5 stars from me
(avg Netflix is 3.9/5 stars, with a guess of 4.1 for us)
I call this Underworld 3 because it's the 3rd non-prequel movie in the 4-movie franchise. We now have 0 through 3.
Anyway, this was an improvement over the 3rd movie, Underworld 0:Rise Of The Lycans. Kate Beckinsale is back, since she was barely in the prequel movie (though it's easy enough to mistake Rhona Mitra for Kate, if you forget the eye color difference).
It's been too long since the first two Underworld movies for me to really say whether this was any better or worse than 1-2.
The main twist here is that vampires and werewolves are now known to exist by the general public.
For the most part, this just feels like a Resident Evil movie. Moreso than any of the previous Underworld movies. Whether that is good or bad is your choice.
This had some good action, as expected -- but the story could use a bit of work. The movie was kind of short. Not too much happened. There needs to be more movies in the franchise, because this one created more new issues than it resolved.
But it was still good. High-budget, polished action.
4/5 stars, 8/10 from both of us, though the general public only rated it 2.7/5 stars (Netflix guessed 2.6 for us!) and 5.5/10.
This is the closest film I've ever seen to the movie Hardware (1990).
There are a few scenes that seem to be in DIRECT homage to Hardware. It lacks some of the comedy and psychedelia in Hardware, as well as the amazing cameos...
But in terms of cinematography, subject matter, style, and even character appearance (including the "villain"), this is simply a Poor Man's Hardware. It even has William Hootkins ("we all sing, the wibbery-wobberly..walk!"), though he's playing a suit instead of a perf.
Despite this being a poor man's Hardware, it's still better than 95% of scifi horror movies from the 1990s. So it gets 4/5 stars and 8/10, instead of the 5/5 stars and 9/10 rating that Hardware received.
Brad Dourif is pretty fricking crazy in this, and a lot of people are saying Heath Ledger must have watched this film at some point as inspiration for his insane portrayal of The Joker in The Dark Knight.
We watched the 111-minute (PAL/Europe) cut, though I would have preferred to get the 128 or 120-minute cut. Stay away from the 99-minute Netflix cut. You'll be sorry. Get the PAL (europe) DVD if at all possible.
This movie also gets a very special LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for having THE STRANGEST MARIJUANA JOINTS TO BE FEATURED IN ALL OF FILMDOM.
Clint & Carolyn: 3/5 stars (Netflix avg=3.6, guess for us=3.3).
Clint: 6.4/10 (high 6)
Carolyn: 6.6/10 (low 7)
IMDB: 5.3/10.
There is so much wrong with this, but could I really refuse to watch a Smurfs movie because I think it MIGHT be lame? No, I could not. Especially with Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays (Hiro's perfect match from Heroes), and Sofia Vergara.
And was it lame? Yes, in some ways.
Of course, the original 80's cartoon is pretty goddamn lame if you sit down and watch an episode of it in 2012, so one could argue that this movie was actually an improvement. The problem is peoples' rose-tinted nostalgia that causes them to reject everything made on an old idea. But The Smurfs WERE ALREADY AN OLD IDEA when they came to American television. The Smurfs as a franchise are 50 years old; the cartoon is only 30 years old. It was already an adaptation before it was adapted for this movie. So get over it. The movie was fun.
They went into the real world, which is a cheesy plot device used in so many cartoon movies, as well as an excuse to cheap out on the animation budget by using live-action people.
But there was also a real charm in seeing Gargamel as a ridiculous live-action person caught in a world he doesn't belong to. He assumes homeless people are other wizards. It's funny, in a 3rd Rock From the Sun Season 1 kind of way, to see someone try to figure out a world they don't belong in.
And the CGI on Azrael was really cute.
When all is said and done, we have to admit to liking this movie, even if it wasn't great.
4/5 stars, 7/10.
Native ratings: 3.4/5 stars (Netflix's guess for us=3.9), 6.3/10 IMDB.
We definitely had to read the wikipedia summaries of the last 3 movies, because it has been soooo long since the first 3 Scream movies came out. Plus, the 2nd and 3rd ones weren't as good.
Fortunately, Scream 4 seems to be continuing the trend of resurrecting old horror franchises with a sequel better than the last few sequels.
Final Destination 5 was better than FD3, 4, and maybe 2. And Scream 4 is better than S3 & S2.
Horray for fixing broken franchises!
WOW. This is the best of the 25 movies we've watched so far this year. 5/5 stars, 9/10 from both of us.
Native ratings: Netflix 4.0/5 stars (guessed 4.5 for us), IMDB 7.3/10.
Think of it as a trippy, drug-fueled Flowers For Algernan.
Just wow. This movie deserves a full-on review, but after writing hundreds of those I'm getting lazier about it.
Let's just say... It warrants watching. The execution of the story is so awesome, both plot-wise and visually.
Yea, there are some improbable moments you could get hung up on, if you don't know how to have a good time. But we do, and thought it was fucking awesome.
...And apparently a lot of other Rammstein songs too. That little drummer girl looks too young to comprehend rhythm, but then she switches to a harp at the end of Sonne? And the singer-guitarist also plays the violin? This is the best child music performance since that Metallica cover band with the 8 year old lead guitarist girl!
What if Michael Bey directed a live-action My Little Pony movie? Hat tip to Tauna X.
Yet another unexpected "collaboration" - MC Chris has released a song all about My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic. Fear the Brony movement!
MOTHER OF GOD this is the coolest fucking elephant video i've seen in my goddamn fucking life, holy shit!!!
I mean... holy fuck. Is this CGI? No? What the..... I had no clue they were capable of this. I knew they were smart, but still. I thought they were kinda locked in their awkward bodies and prevented from doing anything as cool as this.
Twist & Shout, by the Beatles. As Death Metal. With original 1960s black and white video. Good stuff. Pretty funny how well this synced.
This... is... frickin' hilarious.
More current shows need 80's-style theme song parodies!
It's nice when my favorite band ever (okay, it's a 3-way tie) agrees with me... And they always have. Working Assange's speech into the beginning, fan content, and an extra verse by Boots Riley, this is the 3rd edit of this Wikileaks supporting video from Atari Teenage Riot's latest album.
I still want to fly a black flag.
A video interview of Salvador Dali, for all the surrealists out there.
So now we have to get a broadcast license, like a TV station, just to embed a YouTube clip on our blogs? I guess this is as good a way as any to squelch the voice of the people, and make sure no one can criticize the government. The UK is a world leade
HBO is airing a documentary about the unaccountable Diebold voting machines that run our elections, and how easy they are to hack and fake. Diebold is demanding they don't air it, of course.
Civil rights investigation. Watchable video is on youtube and linked in from the article at thought-criminal.
Here's some video of them putting the noose around Saddam's neck.
LiveLeak to the rescue again, giving us the coverage that CNN lacks the balls to give. I wont believe he's dead until I see the body!
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