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Stephen King writes novels now most of them read like great movies, all black and white, all on paper. And therein lies the problem with this film. It must not only be a nightmare trying to film something that we already have a frame by frame the movie clip on the ability of our minds by courtesy of King of making us turn the pages, but The Shining (1997) also need to live up to Stanley Kubrick, before ‘Monster-in-one “matching.
I guess the card you play this new version to follow the plot of the original novel, with more force. There is nothing wrong with that insurance, but often less is more.
Many of the additional background and subplot we came here with Kubrick not read very well, but does not burn so great in the movie (not in this version anyway). But the action, but surely can not match the heights of God, Jack’s Big-like performance, no matter how high in the clouds arrive.
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March 11, 2010 - 10:58 pm
In my veiw Harry Potter 3 was by far one of the best books. The plot wove into his car so well that I could read it 5 times and still smile as explained in the House of Screams. But for some reason many of the good bits of this film fell and the flood of the film with horrible mistakes (the Whomping Willow has moved from film 2 for instnace).
However, people still go out of his room at the front saying “read the book, no, I know the story!”. No, do not. The story is broken in this film.
No game quiditch cup? A crepe effect completely protronus special charm? But apart from that, the movie is brilliant.
the dementors are creepy and horrible. the Whomping Willow is humorus Hogwarts is dark and scary episode for this particular HP.
The soundtrack is something of the epic and the quality is very well done. If this was not the adaptation of a book, and it was just a movie it would get 5 stars, but is not, but still brilliant.
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Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) continue their battle against the machines in Matrix Reloaded, the second chapter of the trilogy, Larry and Andy Wachowski Matrix. As RELOADED begins, Neo, Trinity and Morpheus arrive in Zion with new crew member Link (Harold Perrineau), and discover that 250,000 dreaded sentinels are close to launching a massive attack on the underground shelter of the liberated mind of humanity .
When Neo seeks advice from the prophetic Oracle (the late Gloria Foster), the encounter leads to a sorely outnumbered fight with Neo’s old nemesis, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving). While the sentinels advance on Zion, various battles within the Matrix continue to rise, culminating in an extended sequence involving Highway Chase Morpheus, Trinity, more imposing agents, and two new adversaries - the relentless white dress Twins (Adrian and Neil Rayment). In Reloaded, the Wachowski brothers deepen the scope of both the parent and the apocalyptic, machine-controlled future reality. Initially giving ample attention to the romance between Neo and Trinity and the most underground city of Zion, the film eventually delivered an impressive piece after another, with incredible martial arts sequences and awesome in the first matrix effects even more amazing heights high.
In addition to the returning cast of Reeves, Moss, Fishburne, weaving, and Foster, Perrineau and Jada Pinkett Smith to welcome new additions, and Monica Bellucci offers an unforgettably sensual appearance. Larger than the original scale at all levels, The Matrix Reloaded is a very nice sequel that will leave viewers eager to conclude the trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions.
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The reworking of classic Hollywood script of “kidnapping of the family of influential men and their struggle to save before they die.” Unfortunately this movie can not deliver and sometimes you will find yourself yelling at the screen of Harrison Ford’s character to stop being so stupid. The film is disjointed in places and rushed in others.
While Harrison Ford and Paul Bettany try to deliver a good performance not pull it off because the unconnected script. You never really empathize Harrison situation. I’m glad to not pay to see in the movies.
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February 28, 2010 - 9:12 pm
I ve only really blame myself, the warning sign in big neon was a Michael Bay movie. Those four words really should have screamed not rent this movie, but he ignored me and as a result viewed the most complacent, sycophantic, consumer-driven film I’ve seen. Michael Bay, along with Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott are more vain than men currently working in Hollywood.
Visually appealing and build strong gold pieces don t equate film, Bay, would be more prepared to make a music video and really someone should tell that overuse of the story is not it great ta slow motion saying device. On a side note, the plot is labored and boring, the action scenes are done better elsewhere, the action is laughable, and Ewan McGregor s horrible generic American accent which is adopted for every single movie bars than ever. Apart from that.
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February 24, 2010 - 9:11 am
Where to start. It uses a technique called rotoscoping where the frames are drawn animation on live-action sequences. This has been used effectively in many other films … but not here, at places it seems that the director gave her children a box of crayons and let them loose.
It also took into account that this method is not the best in creating compelling fantasy creatures (the fire demon in the mines is a bit too similar to a guy with plastic bat wings attached to his back). Fortunately, as money ran out he had to finish the film in theaters peak to obtain cash to finance a second delivery. The fact that this never happened tellls everything you need to know about this risk.
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February 17, 2010 - 3:26 pm
I agree that this was sometimes cliches, but I think it was more than offset by the level of quality, a fantastic atmosphere, and to highlight the issue of conflict diamonds. DiCaprio has matured enough (this and The Departed have really changed my opinion of him) and Djimon Hounsou, so I have no words good enough!
His performance made the film. Certainly, I knew very little about the illicit trade in diamonds, or child soldiers, along with many others and I found that Blood Diamond portrayed these things strongly, but with sensitivity.
I felt a little guilty that I liked a lot, but definitely recommend it!
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February 16, 2010 - 1:54 pm
Realistically, this is a series of Will Smith. Like previous SCFI / CGI film I, Robot, the film is a much more exciting. Without blantant product placement i can add.
In fact, it is worthy of the top drawer status category. Smith carries the film and not surprisingly, in this film is a doctor involved in the search for a cure for mutations that have overtaken humanity on a scale almost complete.
I liked the storyline and clever editing I found helpful in explaining the events leading to the island of Manhattan was cut due to rabies through epideric population of the city of New York. I loved the realtionship betwen Smith’s character and his dog.
That dog serves a gong for his performance. Well worth seeing.
Pure escapism.
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February 15, 2010 - 1:14 am
Okay, so skip past the first five or six chapters … basically until they are in the water and then sit there for an hour watching moan of “being cold” and “work hard” to which you would like to eat everything in front of his eyes and shot the director to think that ‘Blair meets ‘witch’ Jaws ‘is like’ really claustrophic man, try sea sick, maybe.
It is useless to try to create suspense where not care about the characters. I will not give away the ending, but the presumption must be based on “real events” is laughable once you arrive and think about it for two seconds or less.
Well at least I laughed …
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