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"Movies are movies Howard, not life,"

Advantages: Some wonderfully filming
Disadvantages: Too long, some poor character portrayals

THE AVIATOR DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE 2008 DVD FORMAT FILM FACTS Rating: 15 Format: Colour Director: Martin Scorsese Producers Leonardo DiCaprio, Charles Evans Jr., Graham King, Sandy Climan, Michael Mann Screenplay/Writing Credits: John Logan Cinematographer Robert Richardson Release Date: December 17, 2004 Movie Length: 170 Minutes DVD DETAILS Format: PAL Region: Region 2 Number of discs: 1 Classification: ...
...- Ludlow THE FILM When 'The Aviator', directed by Martin Scorsese, was fist released in 2004 I quite fancied watching it but just never got round to doing so. While ordering some books from Amazon I looked up the DVD and as it was only £1, I added it to my order. In retrospect - I'm glad that it was only £1!! The story follows around twenty tears in the life of the infamous, eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes from his making of his epic ...

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Review of The Aviator (DVD)

What Casino Should Have Been

Advantages: A pleasant surprise after being put off for so long
Disadvantages: Marred by bad publicity

The job of a cooler refers to the world of gambling; a cooler has an aura about them that makes someone on a winning streak start to lose. One such cooler is Bernie Lootz, although a loser in real life he is the best cooler in Las Vegas. Bernie has been in debt to casino manager Shelly Kaplow for some time, however after years of repayment Bernie is finally out of debt and has just 7 days until he plans to leave the casino forever to start a new ...
...the business Shelly does not want to let Bernie leave. Shelly offers to buy Bernie prostitutes, and even agrees to have Bernie's knee operated on which was shattered some years earlier. But Bernie is sick of his life, he is lonely and alone, even his cat left him; and as a result nothing is going to make him stay. But into Bernie's life comes a few surprises; first Bernie meets the lovely Natalie whom he falls in love with instantly, then Bernie's ...

sghawken 18.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Cooler (DVD)

Glengarry, great cast and screenplay about salesman

Advantages: Great Acting and Dialogue
Disadvantages: No DVD extras, Basic Production Values

This is David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winning story adaptation about the day to day life of being a salesman who work in a small but energetic office where there is only one winner (ie the most successful salesman of the month goes home with a huge bonus) and the rest are hung out to dry. One day a hugely successful Salesman (Alec Baldwin) from a rival firm gives a lecture on how to succeed and sell. He displays mercinery and ruthless tactics which ...
...are not accustomed to. If your thinking about being a salesman, this is a film to watch but it might put you off as it does'nt glamorize the industry and shows just how pushy and unattractive these guys need to get in order to sell (in this case, land). The film also heavily emphasizes the fact that you are only as good as the info you are provided with and how the management (Spacey) provides little better than the phone book to the less successful ...

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Baldwin At His Best (Minus Answerphone)

Advantages: Cheap and cheerful comedy drama
Disadvantages: No special features

...you’re a Hari-Krishna working at Miami airport and everything is just great. Great that is until you run into Junior (Alec Baldwin), and he breaks your finger, just for being happy. Not a good start to your day, but even worse when the shock of having your finger kills you. This slightly off the wall beginning of Miami Blues is just the start of things in this quirky oddity of a movie. Made in 1990, this movie while being at times incredibly dark ...
...interesting as Junior runs round Miami delivering his own form of justice, while with each incident pointing the finger back at Hoke. And while all this is going on Susie believes that Junior is out doing an ordinary day job, while she plays at making house. Screenwriter George Armitage swiftly moves the genres of this movie in a loop, keeping you on your toes as to whether the next scene is going to amuse or shock you. Delivering a quick succession ...

sghawken 11.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Miami Blues (DVD)

A mediocre war film

Advantages: Great special effects
Disadvantages: Doesn't stay true to the actual events, love story is way too sensationalised

Pearl Harbor is the 2001 epic war film based on the real events of the attack of Pearl Harbor during World War II. The film was made on a budget of $151,000,000 and grossed an estimated $449,220,945 at the box office. Despite doing incredibly well at the box office this film bombed (no pun intended) with the critics, largely because of the sheer inaccuracy of the movie from everything to how the bombs drop to the lead characters taking down numerous ...
...has received more critism for Pearl Harbor than any other film in his career. He has however been involved in some fantastic films (directing or producing) such as: Transformers 1 & 2, Bad Boys and Armageddon. Jerry Bruckheimer produces along with Michael Bay. Bruckheimer has been involved with: Enemy Of The State, Coyote Ugly, Black Hawk Down and Pirates Of The Caribbean. Ben Affleck and the gorgeous Josh Hartnett are of course the main stars of ...

Great_reviewer07 25.05.2009 · Read full review
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