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05/12/09
direction?
05/12/09
Fixed now.
05/12/09
(1) It's Steven Gould with a "v", not a "ph".
(2) Reflex didn't go anywhere near planet- or time-jumping.
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05/12/09
No, Griffin was the asshole. Rice was a whiner or a douche at best/worst.
"...where he's in both places at once...:
Which will be parodied somewhere about giving yourself a high five when having sex with Megan Fox.
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EEEEEEE.
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12/29/08
You're absolutely right!! Considering how much I loved this movie, I'm ashamed to admit it completely slipped my mind.
Is it too late to call for a recount?
12/27/08
I have yet to find a single person or reviewer who hasn't liked this movie. It's pretty much the antithesis of "Twilight," "Ultraviolet," "30 Days of Night" and ever other crappy big budget vampire movie released in the last 10 years. No pounding techno soundtrack, no stupid leather trenchcoats and bullet-time fight sequences, and absolutely no unnecessary explanations about vampire lore and all the magical things they can and can't do. (this movie rightfully assumes you know most of that stuff already, and delights in throwing out little references that may pass over the head of casual viewers)
One of the things I love about this flick is that it could have been made at any time in the last 20 years. There's absolutely nothing in it that couldn't have been filmed by The Cohen Brothers or Cronenberg in 1988 for approximately the same budget.
That's not to say it doesn't have special effects, they just aren't the driving force of the movie. Aside from that one crappy CGI cats sequence (which probably should have been filmed with animatronics or puppets) and one blink-and-you'll-miss-it set of glowing eyeballs, all the other effects were physical.
Just several gallons of fake blood, a few wire sequences, and random severed body parts. Everything else is just the actors being extremely creepy. That's the way horror movies should be!
In short, you can sum up the awesomeness of this movie with a simple equation:
'Let The Right One In' = Near Dark + Innocent Blood / Fargo + Deliverance.
12/26/08
Of course, I actually liked Hancock. Let the flaming begin, but I found it interesting. It was light enough to not preach to everyone, but hinted at a lot of deep possibilities.
Aside from those, you have a good list there.
PS: I rented Doomsday and have it waiting at home. Havn't seen it yet.
12/26/08
It's gloriously understated in everything it does, and I highly recommend watching the original before Hollywood screws it up.
12/26/08
A fairly common phenomenon here is that the decisions on whether these movies were good or not seem to have been made way before ANYBODY saw them, based on who made them or was in them, and what was being said by these and others.
12/26/08
Awful? no. But it ain't good either.
And anyone who thinks Speed and Clovie is bad needs a "how to get a clue" book.
Caveat: haven't seen "Let The Right One In"
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At least it should be above "Speed Racer" and "Cloverfield". Jesh.
12/26/08
Yeah, gotta agree with you there. "Let the Right One In" was easily one of the year's best films. I couldn't even make it through peed Racer, although my boyfriend loved it.
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11/16/08
Not to speak ill of the dead (aw, why not) but Michael Crichton's books are hardly examples of great prose, but the ideas therein were captivating. Asimov's writing is quite a bit better, but it's the strength of his ideas that make them memorable.
11/15/08