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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 ...

oldchem 17.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Aviator (DVD)

Diabetics only

Advantages: Soppy girls will love it!
Disadvantages: Not for guys

The Holiday is one of those films I wouldn't normally rent but as it keeps popping up on here with 4 stars then it would be rude not to. The fact it's a chick-flick with Jack Black are two good reasons why I didn't rent it. But with our very own Kate Winslet and Jude Law onboard I thought it might have a little more depth to it, what the American versions with those pink dust covers tend not to have. I have nothing against rom-coms and religiously ...
...be nowhere near them unless the misses has picked it out from the video store by cover alone for the cosy night in. And when it's a middle-class romantic comedy, where miserable professionals spend the whole movie sobbing in the Kleenex because their life is somehow not complete without the perfect partner, and the guys are all feeble metro sexual men, it does leave little room for something for the male audience to enjoy on the couch. That, alas, ...

thedevilinme 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Holiday (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)

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)

Relationships are Never Easy

Advantages: Good storyline, Great acting
Disadvantages: May be a bit confussing for some, lots of strong language and sex talk

I really could not make up my mind if I wanted to see this film or not but I think the deciding factor for me was Jude law and Julia Roberts. I have to say that not knowing what to expect from this film I was indeed very surprised by it. The plot is somewhat different to any film I have seen before. There are 4 main characters, Dan who writes Obituaries for a living and is just releasing a book, Anna who is a photographer, Larry a Dermatologist and ...
...working as a waitress. At the start of the film we see Dan and Alice meeting each other and instantly falling for one another and then we move to a year later when Dan is off having his photograph taken for the cover of his new book when he meets Alice. Alice is divorced and she and Dan instantly find an attraction between themselves but Alice rejects Dan when she finds he has a girlfriend. Dan thinks he is getting his own back on Anna by making ...

sewbizzie 27.08.2009 · Read full review
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