February 27, 2009, 1:50 pm :

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“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great”.  – Havelock Ellis

February 17, 2009, 11:47 pm : Reviews on 2 more movies

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The International – Clive Owen is a paranoid guy on the edge who is the only one who believes his story that this huge international bank is involved in an array of illegal doings, and anyone who tries to bring it to light either dies or disappears. It builds up and up, all leading to a climactic shootout in the Guggenheim museum. Then after that, there’s still a half hour of movie. I kind of found it hard to pay attention to more talking and stuff after the shoot out. But it did complete the story. The ending was one of those open ended endings which is admittedly more realistic, but you don’t feel like you have a concrete “ending” that you can take home with you.

••• (Three dots out of Five)

Friday The 13th – This is not a simple remake of the first “Friday the 13th,” it’s more like a remake and condensing of the first 3 movies. They show Jason’s beginnings, establish his sick motives for killing endless amounts of innocent campers, and set the stage for a bloody battle royale. They attempt to make Jason more human, and add to the character, but it borders on ridiculous. First off, Jason shouldn’t run ever. The people run, then Jason just ends up in front of them somehow, it’s more creepy that way. Jason living in his mom’s old run down house is plausible. Jason having an underground lair where he has trip wires that set off chimes so he can go murder when he hears people on the trails above is ridiculous. They added some realism, but took out all the paranormal feeling that came with Jason. They turned him into just another burly, disfigured serial killer in a mask. I seriously thought they might actually make him talk. They did throw in a bit of Jason Voorhees immortality near the end. But one could argue that he WAS human in this one. To compete with the surgery channel-esque “horror” movies of today like “Saw,” they make the deaths super gory, but for a cynic like me, they were nothing special. This movie was okay, as it breathed life into what some people thought was a dead horror franchise, but for us who have been camping at Camp Crystal Lake since we were little, it was kind of a let down. But I will say it was better then I thought it would be. – P.S. – Hey film makers, let Kane Hodder play Jason in the future, nobody does it like him.

•• (Two dots out of Five)

February 3, 2009, 9:26 pm : Review on 2 Movies

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Defiance – 007 Nazi Hunter? Daniel Craig is the leader of a group of Jews dodging the SS in Nazi Germany. I thought this movie was going to be just okay. But it was really good. They draw you in, and get you emotionally involved in the characters. It was much better than I expected.

•••1/2 (3 and half dots out of 5)

Taken – They took Liam Neeson and made him a combination of Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer. He’s an ex-secret agenty type guy, and he’ll stop at nothing to get his kidnapped daughter back. If you want to see Liam Neeson ruthlessly beat up bad buys for an hour and half, why the hell not.

••1/2 (2 and a half dots out of five)