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Fishy Chips

Advantages: Spacey was Spacey
Disadvantages: Impossible to keep up with counting

Fishy Chips 21 DVD The role of 21 in this scouting epic of utter capitalistic view of our society today; the film depicts how our very own values depends on background concerning financial fire-power. 21 is the ultimate film that subjects its audience to the imbalanced fortunes of money and brains. 21 consists of a huge amount of ‘high fives’ grey matter usage and that is not required by the viewer, fast women with fast counting skills ...
...good reliable plain librarian assistant. 21 is refreshing and throws no wobbly brain numbing thought processes that could make for interesting after chat; then again who wants thought provoking dialogue feasts when you could just read 1st2thebar reviews, tongue firmly lodged in cheek. The proof is that in the US there are intelligent people who are not high on 'e numbers' all the time, and 21 has enrolled itself within this group of people; - Based ...

1st2thebar 13.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 21

The Ups And Downs of Love

Advantages: good acting, fun plot
Disadvantages: -

...round to seeing it then. 500 Days of Summer had a lot of talk around it and seemed like a love story to me from the title but I soon realised it was not about the season but in fact a girl called summer. The story begins with us meeting Tom Hansen he works for a greeting card company just getting on with his life but we are told that from a young age he has always been looking for the one and was on a search. One day he is in his office when he looks ...
...I assumed it was about 500 days of the summer months when a romance happened but it is the opposite and even at the start of the film it states that this is not a love story. If you like a modern day film about relationships and a realistic approach rather than a fairytale ending, then you should take a look at this. The cast is great and there are a lot of laughs to be had in this film which also makes a film more watchable. The film lasts for 95 ...

ms19 07.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 500 Days of Summer

21 - Counting cards pays off.

Advantages: An interesting story, more so because it is based upon fact.
Disadvantages: A bit predictable towards the end.

...is based upon fact. 21 is based on the book 'Bringing Down The House' by Ben Mezrich. What's it all about? The film is centres on the character of Ben Campbell played by Jim Sturgess. He is a student at MIT in Boston, who desperately wants to get into Harvard Medical School to become a doctor. The film opens with him being interviewed for a scholarship there, as paying is out of the question. The interview doesn't appear to be going so well, ...
...and here his natural ability shines. So much so, that he draws the attention of his lecturer played by Kevin Spacey. He is invited to an extra curricular maths class with a difference; when he arrives he realises that a group of four other exceptional students are being trained by Professor Rosa (Kevin Spacey) to count cards at Blackjack. The plan is to work as a team and make a killing in Vegas, whilst going undetected. Ben is reluctant to join ...

LAURALILIA 23.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 21 (DVD)

This is not a love story. This is a story about love.

Advantages: Good Acting, Good Script, An Okay Film
Disadvantages: Something is missing, the film was too jumpy and confusing. It should have worked and it didn't

...they’re going to go through 500 days all in different order. The timeline moves back and forth, one moment they’re showing a day from the beginning of the relationship, say for example ‘Day 15’ and then the next scene it was ‘Day 456’. The reason why I say it’s a weakness is because it is quite hard to realise where you were in the film, however only in certain places. I believe the film was quite low budgeted, so the fact that they managed to include ...
...denying the fact that you struggled to know where you were. The cameramen attempted to help you with this, when it was ‘during’ the time that these two people were together, I believe they must have shot through a more colourful lens, they made sure that everything had a happy feeling about it and when he was depressed they made sure that everything had a dark and drab feeling about it. This helped slightly to help you realise where they were, but ...

DixieChick10 08.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 500 Days of Summer (DVD)

500 Days of Summer- A beautiful film on today's idea of love

Advantages: Original script.Fantastic performances.entertaining and charming
Disadvantages: Not for average rom-com lovers

I have been waiting for this since I saw its trailer after it has gone to several film festivals.Being a lover of lovey dovey films, i was sure i won't be let down by this film! Though i must say,it turned out to be more than what i expected-a rather honest depiction of today's romance. Gone are the days when a boy meets girl,fall in love,get married and live happily ever after. The narrator warns us in his funny voice that this is not a love story ...
...the way the film progresses,the director chose to make it interesting by showing us the days in the bracket,1 being the day he first met her.The film doesn't move chronologically but is rather random,jumbling from forward to backward at times. Summer is the new assitant of Tom's boss and he likes her from the first day.Its a modern take on romance where Summer(Zooey Deschanel) doesnt believe in the existence of love while Tom is madly in love with ...

aadnan613 04.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 500 Days of Summer (DVD)