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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)

Starts off great but begins to fades away

Advantages: Some excellent action scenes, solid performances, stunning visuals
Disadvantages: narrative starts to drop off after a while

Released in 2001, Enemy at the Gates is a war film set during the battle of Stalingrad and starring Jude Law as russian peasant-turned-sniper Vassili Zaitsev and Ed Harris as Major Erwin Konig, an elite German sniper who gets the job of tracking down and taking out Vassili after the russian attracts the attention of his superiors on account of his hunting-honed sniping skills and is moulded into an important Soviet propaganda weapon. The film's opening ...
...Nazi lines that echoes Saving Private Ryan in its stark and uncompromising brutality. Troops are handed one rifle between three and instructed to pick the weapons up when their wielder is killed; German Stukkas strafe overcrowded Soviet troop boats with machineguns whilst Sargeants pump revolver rounds into anyone that tries to escape by jumping over the side; conscripts are mown down from the front by concentrated german fire whilst NKVD machinegunners ...

Burning_Darkness 02.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Enemy At The Gates (DVD)

'The Holiday' DVD

Advantages: Jack Black, very good scenes showing the chemistry between characters, excellent soundtrack
Disadvantages: Cameron Diaz can be quite irritating but not enough to put me off

...though I admit that often the character played by Cameron Diaz was irritating - she plays a very high-maintenance workaholic who seems to fail at relationships. The story is about both Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz's struggles with love and results in them agreeing to participate in a home exchange in order to escape their current lives. The film also has an excellent music score primarily by Hans Zimmer, also featuring the likes of Imogen Heap and ...
...Alfred are also crucial to the film and help evoke emotion in the viewer. Overall, well worth watching - I watched it two days in a row and have already downloaded most of the soundtrack! I had already seen it about a year previously when it first came out but enjoyed it much more this time around. Also, as it is older it is much cheaper to buy now. ...

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Review of The Holiday (DVD)

Artificiality

Advantages: Good graphics, very involving
Disadvantages: Disturbing, far too long

This film was shown on television a while ago, and although I had heard the name of the film several times, I really had no idea what it was actually about. I was certainly expecting some sort of robot film, but from there my ideas of what the film was about turned out to be dreadfully wrong. There was barely anything on television so after flicking through several channels I spotted this movie and thought 'ah, a movie,' then settled on it with a ...
...much, although to be honest they are not usually my type of film, so my expectations were not that high. Future The film is set in the future, at a time where our current fears of global warming melting ice at the poles and drowning the land have become a reality. This has not stopped the human race and the good old fashioned cuddly toy we know of now is not a thing of the past, but a thing transformed. In fact, this film does feature robots, in ...

Ayesha- 18.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (DVD)

Blows hot and cold

Advantages: Decent Thriller
Disadvantages: Slight over acting

...longer see his young son, the only thing going for him is his love of baseball and in particular that of the giants and their new signing Bobby Rayburn. With nothing left to fill his life, his passion for baseball turns into an obsession, controlling his every move and thought, and when Rayburn is persecuted by the public and critics for having a bad season, Renard takes it upon himself to sort things out. Having intervened in a fatal manner, Rayburn's ...
...and his obsession with the Giants is turning into an obsession with Rayburn as he starts to stalk his every move, idolizing his new hero. But after an opportunity arises and he gets to chat to him, Renard realises that he is not the hero he thought he was and loses the plot as he decides to teach Rayburn a lesson. Opinion ********* I have to admit I am a fan of sports movies, especially ones which revolve around baseball, so when, in 1996, The ...

christianfilmcritic 10.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Fan (DVD)