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8mm DVD Review

Advantages: Characters, Tension.
Disadvantages: Not for everyone.

...(Chris Bauer) 8mm exhibits bad taste and may be shocking to most people, but to me it felt like a movie with serious intent, especially seen as though it tracks the descent of Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage), as the ordinary guy, into the nasty, immoral world of underground pornography. The character, understandably, is tormented, mentally, as he simply cannot accept why all the evil surrounding him exists. Notoriously panned by critics upon its release, ...
...Carter), Welles is handed an 8mm recording of the young girl being murdered- dubbed a "snuff film"- and has to uncover whether the film is real or not. Joel Schumacher brings the typical suspense and twisted horror that made Se7en so popular in its time, though, in a sickening kind of judgement, I must admit that I enjoyed 8mm a lot more. The atmosphere is one of the main features that I judge this film as being a success. The dark, surprisingly ...

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin - A good love story

Advantages: nice cast and beautiful scenary
Disadvantages: not Nicholas Cage's normal type of role

...have to put up with Captain Antonio Corelli (Nicholas Cage). They don’t like his presence but unlike the other soldiers and officers he seems a little friendlier, especially with his passion for the Mandolin. When Pelagia’s fiancé (Christian Bale) heads off to fight the war the relationship between Pelagia and Antonio starts to really flourish as the circumstances bring them closer together. The rest of the story focuses on their relationship and ...
...Cast ***** Captain Antonio Corelli: Nicholas Cage Pelagia: Penelope Cruz Dr Iannis: John Hunt Mandras: Christian Bale I thought this was a very touching love story and a very good movie. It is adapted from a book written by Louis De Bernieres and although i have not read it i did find this film to be very good. I picked this up thinking it would just be a war film but was very surprised when i found out it was romance but that did not put me ...

Southernboy 12.05.2007 · Read full review
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What Could Have Been...

Advantages: Good performances, interesting story, quite touching and tear jerking at the end, nice plot twist
Disadvantages: None really, that I can think of

...- Plot - The Family Man tells the story of Jack Campbell, who initially is a high flying bachelor businessman/financier in Wall Street in New York City. Its Christmas eve and, typically for him, he's at work, addressing his colleagues about a big merger thats about to happen the following day. His colleagues aren't keen on coming back in to work on Christmas morning but Jack tries to encourage them to do so, making it clear that the money they'll ...
...a flight to London in the late 1980s and decided, of course against her wishes, to not return at the time and work on their relationship, thus splitting with her. This makes him wonder, for a moment, whether or not to take the call, why after 13 years would he suddenly get a call from her, after all? but, as another colleague points out, why bother, its old history, filed and forgotten, don't go back there, so he leaves it. Then things turn a bit ...

IzzyS 31.10.2008 · Read full review
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Weepy delight

Advantages: poetic, moving
Disadvantages: makes me cry!

...a good weepy. City of Angels is a love story with depth, not unlike Romeo and Juliet in my oppinion. The movie is touching and poetic, brought to life by a superb script, strong acting and a knock-out sound track. Maggie Rice (Meg Ryan) is a surgeon who begins to question her own existence and purpose when she cannot save a patient undergoing heart surgery. Seth Plate (Nicholas Cage) is the enigmatic angel who walks the earth giving peace and strength ...
...there to take Maggie's heart surgery patient, but upon seeing her is struck by a feeling he cannot ignore. He 'shows' himself to Maggie, as a human, when she is most in need of somebody to talk to, and he offers her the solace through friendship that she needs. Maggie and Seth grow close, despite Maggie's relationship with co-worker Jordan. Maggie grows increasingly frustrated with Seth because of the questions he cannot answer about his life. ...

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Stars and Wipes

Advantages: Well balanced, clever effects
Disadvantages: Inaccurate points - but I'm no editor

DVD - WORLD TRADE CENTER Produced - 2006 Director - Oliver Stone Titled - Stars and Wipes **************************** A generation will not forget what happened on September 11th 2001 in New York. The world changed that day, and this Oliver Stone film depicted what was lost when it came to pride and honor. Not surprising that the horrors installed a backlash which we are still reaping today, even though if not just diluted ...
...independent building adjacent to the World Trade Centre pit, was not shown to have also fallen, which fell exactly like the twin towers did; wasn't even mentioned. I liked that because that building holds the biggest conspiracies that prior the event no-one even entered the building, and also the CIA had used it for years. This is where Michael Mann had centred his fury in 'Fahrenheit'; which made a donkey out of the security services along the way ...

1st2thebar 04.06.2009 · Read full review
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