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Be Cool, the underdog of terrible movies

Advantages: Having a nice box to throw garbage into
Disadvantages: Watching a movie that will make you want to disembowel yourself

...I really expected this to be a good movie. However, as a comedy, just doesn't feel put together. For a while I thought I was watching a musical rather than a comedy. I don't think I've seen more music videos in a movie before. The happiness of it and the lack of death of main characters made it seem to fairy-tale ish and just wasn't good. I mean, they try to show the main characters well in adversity but every scene, something incredibly good happens ...

Wong89 03.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Be Cool / Get Shorty (Box Set) (DVD)

Couldn't Put Humpty Together Again

Advantages: A great cast.
Disadvantages: Poorly written, subject to heavy handed metaphors and an overpowering score

...one for trying my patience. All the elements are here; a heavyweight cast, a universal story with contemporary parallels, an ominous score… But Zaillian goes completely over-the-top, smothering the film in clumsy visual metaphors (you know three people are going to die because he zooms in on three crosses at the side of the road). He signposts everything – characters play constantly with guns or gaze at each other in a meaningful way. He’s too fond ...
...air conditioning and it becomes all about damage control. You never see how the honest politician becomes slippery snake-oil salesman. It damages the dramatic impetus of the film, making the otherwise reasonable two-hour running time drag interminably, so every revelation and twist feels like hard work. Zaillian’s screenplay makes the fatal error of focussing on Jack Burden rather than Willie Stark’s fall from grace. Sadly this makes for a far less ...

afy9mab 30.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of All The King's Men (DVD)

The best TV show ever all in one big box

Advantages: acting
Disadvantages: rude

...consider myself a master of the gangster genre - I've seen every De Niro and Pacino movie, I've read all of Puzo's novels (even the rubbish ones), I've even (literally) bought the t-shirts. Then, someone suggests I watch The Sopranos. I google it, buy it, and sit back to becomE literally addicted to the finest show I have ever seen. SEASON 1: In a nutshell: the Soprano family are gangsters, involved in the waste disposal world, gambling, money ...
...daughter. Family number two are the mafia family - Paulie Walnuts being my personal fav. The whole show revolves around Tony trying to run the two families, failing, and going into therapy. This IS NOT 'Analyse This'. It's a gritty, shocking, dark and funny show that pays homage to every gangster film out there. It's original, award winning and powerful. There's laughter, tears, and plenty of dead bodies. SEASON 2: Each season of The Sopranos ...

bruffyboy 26.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Sopranos - Series 1-6 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

Sex and the City

Advantages: funny, great performance
Disadvantages: long

...so many exciting reviews on Sex and the City that I decided I watch it. It is a real chick flick romantic comedy and that evening it was the perfect entertainment for me. The film was written and directed by Michael Patrick King. Actually he was the co-producer of the film as well with Sarah Jessica Parker and Darren Star. Michael Patrick King is an American film director and screenplay writer. Besides Sex and the City he wrote the screenplay of ...
...balance. She and Steve have sex about twice a year and even then she is not so involved. She is hurt and devastated when Steve confesses that he had sex with another woman. Miranda separates immediately from him and sees no chance to forgive him. Charlotte has a happy family since they adopted Lily. She is a beautiful girl. Charlotte soon realises that since they gave up trying to have a baby she is pregnant. Can she carry out the baby? My opinion ...

D_i_a_n_e 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sex And The City - The Movie (DVD)

There's final hits and final hits. What kind is this one to be?

Advantages: One Of The Best Films To Come Out Of The UK.
Disadvantages: None!

...I first saw the film Trainspotting after hearing so much controversy about it on television, from reading about it in the newspapers and from everyone talking about it around me at the time. It was all everyone was talking about on it's release in 1996 and of course I just had to see it for myself to see what all the hype was about. Well I went to the pictures to watch this film and was quite shocked by this outrageously, yet brilliant tale of five ...
...ago that my husband purchased Trainspotting to add to our DVD collection as we both really enjoyed watching it over the years at various times on television (in a sick kind of way I guess). He picked it up second-hand for £1 at a car boot sale, so it certainly was a great bargain. This film really will not be suited to everyone though. I think you will either love it like I do, or absolutely hate it. It certainly is worth watching once though just ...

hillhead 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Trainspotting (DVD)