Metal Reviews

In The Loop.

Fucking brilliant. Malcolm and Jamie might just be the best character duo on screen.

Right on. Classics. Two is soo good. Next, Zad is going to say he wasn't even a fan of Bruce Campbell all this time.

He was good in Bubba Ho-Tep.

Go watch EDII and AoD ffs.

Watching Taken right now. Goddamm Liam Neeson can be pretty badass. Just wish he didn't try sound American and stayed Irish. "I don't know who you are, but if you don't let my daughter go, I will find you. I will kill you." would sound even better with an Irish accent.

Impostor: Your typical "I'm not who the government thinks I am"-scifi. It could've been worse.

Solomon Kane: The fighting was ok. The rest was rubbish.

Exit Through The Gift Shop

Hilarious. Definately showcases the never ending power of the hype machine.

Loved that movie. It did a good job of being a documentary about graffiti, criticizing the art market, and telling an interesting story at the same time.

The Disappearance of Alice Creed - Great music, camera shots, and acting but it didn't really have a protagonist so I didn't really care which of the three characters would come out on top.

Iron Man 2 - Eh, meh. Too much going on, not enough of it was interesting.

Kick-Ass: SO GOOD. It's definitely a flawed movie, but Hit Girl has got to be one of the best action movie characters/superheroes ever. The actions scenes with her are unbeatable.

The Sixth Sense: not as good the second time around, obvi, but still hauntingly good.

I liked that aspect, that all three were horrible human beings and that it didn't ask you to root for any of them. Plus one on the acting, Eddie Marsan is one of my favourite actors now, and Gemma Thingy was excellent, hope she gets more decent roles than Prince Of Persia.

I dunno I can appreciate the realism but for me to really get into a movie I need to like at least one of the characters and want good things to happen to them. There's a fine line between making characters flawed and making them flat out unlikable, and I think the movie would've been a lot better and more powerful if by the end I were caring about all three. I think that would'be been possible since an hour and a half plus three people gives you time to flesh everyone out as characters. Instead there's just a jerk (Vic), an idiot (Danny), and a hostage who was feisty but didn't really have a character or story (Alice).

trainspotting had awful but likable characters. just an example.

Blood Into Wine - Don't really care about wine but watched this since Maynard was involved. Sense of humour was hit and miss (should've gotten Zach Galifndsjhfkis to do the awkward interview bits) but overall I was entertained. Listening to people talk about their passions is always nice and inspires me to pursue my own. Made me think about some stuff the movie didn't explicitly mention (when Maynard talks about how each wine is the result of the soil/grape/harvesting/storage/etc I started thinking of that applied to other types of food, and then clothing eg the scarf my grandma knit me, then lots of other stuff in general. And how the way things are set up now the consistency of the product and the way it seems to magically appear on the shelves, it's so easy to forget the work and resources that went into making it. Also thought about the difference between "creators" eg Maynard and "receivers" eg the Revolver editor and the wine magazine writer, and how I mostly fall into the latter category but would like to move towards the former. Tangent.) Also I really liked this quote:

"i write these songs to move through some pain or work out some issues, and if i'm successful in my art, in my expression, I shouldn't feel the same way I did when I wrote those songs anymore, and there should be a progression"

Really, really want to see the remake of True Grit.
Haven't been interested in a new movie in a very long time, but this looks awesome.

Ditto, heard great things.

Intrigued.

Good movie.

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Black Swan

Fucking intense. Probably my favorite Aronofsky movie yet.

Not that this is the right crowd to ask, but was Ricky G funny at the golden globes?

Evil Dead 2 - hort de fork?

Just you wait, it gets even better.