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31st August 2007 2:11pm by Bunnylingus | |
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| Seraphim Falls Pompous Western
Seraphim Falls is ultimately a film about nothing. It sets itself up as a revenge western, with Liam Neeson gunning for Pierce Brosnan in the wilds of the post civil war American west. Revenge in the Wild West is a staple since the silents to Unforgiven and beyond. It‘s always been that way apart from when the movies are about Red Indians, but usually it‘s about revenge AND Indians. Sometimes it was Indian getting revenge on cowboys. Fuck it, hey were all about revenge. Cowboys need an excuse to shoot each other I suppose.
So far so good except the film never goes anywhere and never delivers anything along the concept of entertainment, like For A Few Dollars More or as like last year’s The Proposition any notion of making you think.
After a fairly tight first half hour or so the film dissolves into a series of episodic moments, including losing horses and meeting Quakers, much like how the longer Spaghettis were drawn out but Seraphim Falls is no Italian epic, it’s...  |
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27th August 2007 7:06pm by Charlie Parker | |
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| Movie: Wedding Crashers
Two buddies, John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn), gatecrash weddings to pick up women for one night stands. It's all going well till John makes the mistake of falling for Claire Cleary (Rachel McAdams). Meanwhile Jeremy’s being firing into Claire’s sister Gloria (Isla Fisher).
Wedding Crashers gets off to a slow start, introducing the two main characters and showing them crashing a few weddings, then begins to drag even further as it jumps back and forth, increasingly interspersed with shots of weddings. By this point I was worried I'd picked a clanger. Then we get to the main event—the wedding of the season—Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken)’s daughter's marriage. This is where the film really kicks in. Isla Fisher’s character steals the show from this moment on and you'll be laughing from then till more or less the end of the film. Walken plays a wonderfully menacing father figure but more could have been made of Jane Seymour’s role as his frisky...  |
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16th August 2007 10:58pm by Jaemi | |
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| Apocalypse Now: Redux
There’s an inherent paradox whenever someone tells you about a “classic” film, album, or something else, in that to be considered a classic it has to appeal to a wide range of people and hold that appeal over a great length of time. That, to me, suggests that a lot of what is actually considered “classic” should actually be lowest-common-denominator crowd-pleasing no-brainer slices of entertainment. That classic film and albums generally do not fall into this category is generally pleasing and indeed welcome. Classic films do seem to be remembered not for box office returns but for fantastic performances, well constructed set pieces and memorable scenes.
It was the latter in mind that I purchased “Apocolypse Now: Redux”. Reasoning that as it was considered a “classic”, there was no possible way I could be disappointed. It was practically a no-brainer: strong literary heritage (being as it is essentially a version of "heart of darkness"), weighty subject matter (the Vietnam...  |
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11th July 2007 9:18pm by endless psych | |
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| Mon Meilleur Ami - My Best Friend Antiques buyer Francois makes a bet that he can find a best friend within ten days, and enlists the help of taxi driver Bruno to do so. |
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24th May 2007 10:19pm by Bunnylingus | |
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13th April 2007 11:22pm by Crystal Mighty | |
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| Crank (2006) Poison in his veins, vengeance in his heart It's not going to blow your mind, but if you want 87 minutes of fast-paced action and Statham sneering at people you won't be disappointed. |
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19th February 2007 3:35pm by Poppy | |
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23rd January 2007 10:30pm by Trip | |
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| Clerks 2 With No Power Comes No Responsibility Kevin Smith’s return to counter-culture and all that it involves! |
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19th December 2006 5:47pm by Joe Spinebuster | |
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| Walk the Line Film Let down by an unconvincing performance from Joaquin Phoenix. |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 36 | 2,281 |
14th December 2006 12:43am by TragicHero | |
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