[redshifter]

blood diamond: 7/10

insanely brutal story of the diamond trade in modern africa. relentlessly and graphically violent, but with some good performances.


poltergeist: 8.5/10

the film Stephen Spielberg made right before e.t., it says it was directed by tobe hooper, but that was a ruse (spielberg was under contract and ghost-directed (heh) this one). everything about this film is top notch, and the new dvd is great.

 

[ilikebananafudge]

The Dark Knight: 9/10

Heath Ledger was pure genius. The entire movie was extremely well done. The whole time I was in the theater I was tense because I thought something bad was going to happen to anyone at any second. The directors did such a fantastic job at putting you in Gotham City, I was blown away.

 

[xnothingpoetic]

dark night- 7 or 8/10

21- 5/10

 

[nickyboyo]

Hot Fuzz- 8.5/10

 

[Kirosia]

Flawless (2007) 7/10

The ending was kinda predictable, but it was a pretty good psychological/heist thriller. The acting was quite notable.

 

[m11a1]

The Dark Knight

4/10, just terrible.

 

[moriez]

Dark Knight - 5/10

Had to see what the fuzz is about. I guess you had to have a love for Batman as a kid or comics to fully appreciate this. As the movie developed it got worse to the point that I totally lost interest in the last half hour. It was not the acting. It just didnt build up and slowly died.

 

[EyeAmEye]

10,000 BC - 8/10

Thoroughly enjoyable. Moves at a brisk pace and never drags. CGI is pretty good, with the exception of the sabretooth. Narrated in similar fashion to 300.

 

[Audio-Omega]

The X-Files: I want to believe.

4 out of 5.

 

[Meliboeus]

Just watched "The dark knight" - 8.5/10 i usually don't like action films...but this one was not totally focused on action...not at all, plenty of long and intelligent dialogue, story is well developed, Ledger's interpretation of the joker is just unbelievable...one of the best performances i've seen ths year...along with Daniel Day Lewis in "There will be blood" IMO

 

[Rednamalas1]

Braveheart 9.5/10. Forgot how good this movie was.

nice try, 300.

 

[Samgotit]

[size=small]Vision Quest [/size] 10/10
Vision Quest (1985)

The best sports/coming of age flick of the 80’s.

The artificial pump-up I get out of this flick rivals a teenager stoking his first Airsoft pistol. It made me want to go running at 2:00 am and get a mohawk. A lot of that pump comes form the perfectly overlaid soundtrack, with greats like Only The Young – Journey, Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider (that scene gave me the chills), and original stuff from Tangerine Dream (who did the hypnotic soundtrack for the fantasy movie Legend).

The nice thing about it, it’s not a complete testosterone bath. Mathew Modine has a determined innocence that I celebrated in the end with a lot of fist pumping and yelps of “damn right Shute.”

As far as a coming of age films, I’ll duck under my desk and dare say that this one rivals some of Louis Malle’s work.

For those with Netflix, it’s part of their “watch instantly” line-up.:
Netflix Online Movie Rentals - Rent DVDs, Classic Films to DVD New Releases

 

[Old Pa]

"There Will Be Blood" - 9/10

It's hard to remember what an unrepentent muckracker Upton Sinclaire was, but this is a good reminder. Sinclaire's conscienseless hyperbolic pedantry fully matched the "robber barons" of the Victorian era and served as a model to present day media and other liberals. In this rehash of Sinclair's "Oil!", the characters of Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday (you gotta love the irony of the names after expereincing the story) are two men who move through the years with no evolution of their dark conciousnesses. The setting, cinematography, editing and Radiohead's Greenwood's quirky, percussive soundtrack back up consistently excellent acting to make this one seamless movie pleasure.

 

[nsx_23]

Batman: The Dark Knight

8/10. Was excellent, if a bit too drawn out for my liking towards the end. Very cool action scenes.

 

[JMT]

Atonement - 0/10

Couldn't even finish it.