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Today's my last day....but I have a Math exam:(
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Crazy canadians... still in school.
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Crazy canucks! Someone tell 'em it's summer, eh?
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Just finished watching langoliers and beyond re-animator
loved reanimato, know it by heart now, but forgotten how good langoliers actually was, OK, no horror movie, but still good Bronson Pinchot's performance was excelent!!! just see the movie for him alone
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Creep 9.5/10 2001 Maniacs 3/10 (and that's being generous) Satan's Little Helper 7.5/10
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I post these on my LJ, so references to certain names refer to my friends IRL who read these. So... ignore them. :)
--- Ultraviolet (2006) (Chose not to rate) I was intrigued by this when the trailer first hit Apple. When it premiered, I checked RT and the rating was rather low - but since it's a collective, it usually is low for a lot of movies. I then checked the more viewer-friendly IMDb - where critics don't exist, only wannabes like myself. It was low there too, and only negative reviews existed. I'm glad my views on films vary a lot - because, since I experienced this in the past, I gave Ultraviolet a chance, thinking it may apply here as well. Eh, not really... but I am glad I watched it. It's not as bad as people make it out to be, average... below par. Let's just say it's comparable to a few notches below what Aeon Flux was. It does, however, have more redeeming qualities. The reason I chose not to actually rate this, is because... I can't. I just... can't decide really, it's difficult. Star ratings are so limited, anyway, and often don't reflect the written part... so, hell. I'll start with the bad, and that's pretty much everything evident in the very first scenes. I was thinking of shutting it off, because honestly the beginning is amateur on so many levels. Bad CGI, bad direction, bad writting, bad delivery, bad acting... egh. It did get better, and for that, I'm glad. The most painful scene to watch was the motorcycle chase/fight... it hurt, really. I didn't even pay attention to the bike or flying bullets - just the very, very, very badly animated CGI cityscape background. To make it worse, the greenscreen work wsn't all that either. Were highschool Volunteers used for this section? Kaitlyn... did your little Rogers group have a hand in this?! Hehe, okay, not... but it really is that bad. This had a hand in what I thought was the reason for using the stylistically blurry video. To make the CGI seem more well blended. Well, it may have - or like I now think, it could have just been a style thing. You really don't notice it after a while, and it's not needed for my first presumption after the effects get better in the latter half. Speaking of style, the film pours of it. Not WOAH style, but decent enough. The direction gets a lot better during the second half, as do the effects and background and general futuristic setting. This was a very good thing. Sadly, the writing stays pour. Not so much in actual plot or scenes, but dialogue. The lines that you could tell were meant to be hard-hitting, came off as just plain "mental" (If you haven't seen the film or trailer, you won't why it's in quotations). Bad writing guys... shame, shame. Don't misunderstand this, it's really only these one-linears that are terrible, the rest is okay, passable. The plot was... well... it had potential. With some cleaning up, reorganization, removal of scenes, and re-writtening those previous mentioned lines - it could have great. I enjoyed the story itself - something about a vampire and a dying human. It's just... sort of beautiful. Something I didn't expect of this film. I like how they label them "vampires" (the journalists in the film refer to them as these, to gasin readers) and give them some charateristics rather then following the typical things and making it seem like a "monster" movie. NOT a fan of those. Okay - back on track. If they would have cleaned this up, it could have been solid, emotional, and all that - but it came off as disconnected, disjointed, sort of all over the place and used some moments too much. The heartwarming moments were overkilled, oddly placed, in sandwhiched between "pissed off" fighting. Speaking of heartwarming scenes and pissed-off fighting... some of these scenes were very well done, direction-wise. The car chat with the boy and Violet was a rememberable one for me. As was the fight in the white room, the fight with the flaming-swords, and the "church" scene with her cross-shaped weapons. After the first few fights, they actually get good. Back to the style (Yes, okay, I'm as disjointed as the movie. I do my entries in stream-of-concious, so sorry if it's everwhere.) - I didn't think the film had a lot of budget - but the latter parts seemed like it did alright for itself in the money-department. Looked good, solid, and even threw in some nice futuristic items. The print out cell phone? GENIOUS. Oh, and I honestly hope they used a different special effects crew for the first section of the film then the second. They had to. The effects in that first part? OH THEY ARE BAAAD. Her anti-gravity belt, while being quite cool, had a very annoying, ugly, and plain out power-rangers "initiation" sequence. Zoom in on the buckle, sent some drawn orange sparks, some lights, balls of energy, and some clicking here and there and bam. NO MORE GRAVITY!!! Yeah... The little boy, also in RUNNING SCARED and a few others, did a good acting job, but got pregressively worse near the end. Mila did what she usually does. Look sexy. Some of her scenes seemed a little off character... and not so well executed. But, hey... she's skinny. Don't hold it against her. Not reccomended... well... yeah okay, not. --- Boo and Creep are good? Heard average to bad things about them. Maybe I'll check them out now... 2001 maniacs, I thought was good. A fun comedy that went far in what it showed. The whole PART OF THE SHAFT OF BUDDY'S PENIS SHOWING was completely unexpected, lol.
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