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Three unbelievable motion pictures

Advantages: Great acting and filming.
Disadvantages: very lengthy, can get boring for some, NOT ME.

The truely monstrous task of cramming a whole tolkien 'Lord of the rings' novel into a single movie looked unthinkable until Peter Jackson had a go, producing three spectacular films. 'The Fellowship of the Ring' was the first novel and so rightly, the first film to be created. The imagery and detail was incredible and after leaving the cinema I felt it was obvious i needed to go back just to re-live tolkiens world once again. But the film didn't ...
...once fairly unknown actor) shook the stage, it was in my opinion the best acting performance I have ever witnessed. I later found out that Viggo had learnt everything for this film, from horse riding to sword fighting, he truely wanted to get fully involved in the films action. Other leading roles included Gandalf, the old, kind wizzard, a friend to the ring bearer frodo, and a character whos careing attitude brought frodo to the edge of mount doom ...

bilbobaginz 06.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Extended Editions) (DVD)

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The Good, The Bad and the Musician

Advantages: Great Action, pure entertainment
Disadvantages: Predictable and unoriginal

Synopsis ********* Having seen the love of his life murdered in front of his own eyes and then his hand shot through from point blank range, El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) travels from town to town in search of the men responsible for his loss. With the aid of his hapless friend Buscemi (Steve Buscemi) they target the local bars, where Buscemi tells all that will listen about a huge Mexican who will stop at nothing until he finds the man who destroyed ...
...to the latest in a long line of bars, Buscemi is beginning to tire of their mission as El Mariachi has turned from being a highly talented guitar player in to a killing machine. After causing a blood bath in the latest of these bars, the injured El Mariachi stumbles upon the ample lap of local book shop owner and town beauty, Carolina (Salma Hayek), who tends to his wounds. But when Bucho discovers that not only is his life in danger from the vengeful ...

christianfilmcritic 09.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Desperado (Special Edition) (DVD)

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Awful snake film

Advantages: Jennifer Lopez's sexy body
Disadvantages: Poor script and wooden acting

Anaconda is one of those films that failed on its release due to a number of failings. It is probably more famous for being a flop than any other reason. This film is a horror film directed by Luis Llosa, which is about a National Geographic documentary crew who are in search of lost Amazon tribe to film. When they rescue a hunter, Paul Sarone, he persuades the crew that he can help them in their quest, but it turns out that the hunter has his own ...
...anaconda snake. Sarone manages to take control of the crew’s boat and drags them on his insane and deadly quest. However they soon discover that the anaconda is not a creature to be messed with. The cast for this horror film features the following actors Jennifer Lopez - Terri Flores Jon Voight - Paul Sarone Ice Cube - Danny Rich Eric Stoltz - Dr. Steven Cale Owen Wilson - Gary Dixon Jonathan Hyde - Warren Westridge Kari Wuhrer - Denise Kalberg ...

mozzie76 13.12.2009 · Read full review
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2012, intense, thrilling and full of huge blasts and destruction.

Advantages: fun, thrilling, and full of spectecular special effects.
Disadvantages: The viewer may think that a bit more destruction could have happened.

The fearsome coming year 2012 is a talk of every person nowadays. It is a feared thing by many and no one really knows what will be the face of the world after it. If you want a glimpse of that then do see this movie. The movie depicts very influencially what will happen when we will see Dec 21st, 2012. It shows worldwide destruction and trauma that the earth's alignment with the center of the galaxy will cause. 2012 movie is a film that will make ...
...it be your fate? The movie includes the direction of the genius behind "The day after tomorrow" movie that is Roland Emmerich and tell the real struggle of a man to save his family from the global catacylism that then turns out to be the saving of humanity. It shows that steps taken by the leaders of the world to ensure the survival of the human and other races in erupting volcanoes, tsumanies, and world-wide wave of tension. It is a must-see movie ...

youralibaba 12.12.2009 · Read full review
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2012

Advantages: i like it because the special effect is very good
Disadvantages: if the film tells about the end of the world why there are still survivors

the film begins in year 2009.when there is a huge explasion on the surface of the sun.we the see adrian helmsley an american scientist traveling to a cooper mine in india to meet his friend.,who discovered that earth's temperature is increasing rapidly.He return to Washington D.C and submits a report to his supervisor,who immediately takes him to a president,in 2010 we see the president of the United States tell other heads of state the situation ...
...over the world buying plane tickets for untold sums a money,in 2011 the original of the monalisa in the louvre is replaced with a decoy and is sealed away for unknown reason. This film is very controversial because it tells a virtual tribe tenteng prediction about the end of the world ...

chepay007 12.12.2009 · Read full review
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