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Saw it when it first came out. It's not the best story ever made, but I wouldn't call it a bad one. May have to watch it a couple of times to get all of teh nuances of the story. As far as special effects, looks pretty darn good. Almost everything, including the "sets", are computer generated. This may be the way of the future, because it might be cheaper that way than to build huge expensive sets you'll only see a few minutes of in a film. The only thing I didn't like was Gwyneth Paltrow's acting. But I would highly recommend go see this movie before it comes out on dvd.

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Has anyone seen Walking Tall yet? You know, the one with The Rock. I didn't really notice it the first time I saw it, but since buying the dvd Last week, I've seen it a couple of times (my 3 year old son chose this movie over Home on the Range). Anyway, for those who saw it, I have a question. How can the Rock go into the sheriff's office one in one scene and see a fully staffed office with both sheriff's personnel and civilian employees, and later on in the movie go in that same office after he fires the deputies, and there's no one around? He was the right to fire the deputies, but I can't believe in a job-strapped community, that all of the civilians would walk out. Even the Rock's character wouldn't have fired them. Just a curiosity I noticed and there's no explanation for it in the film.

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I've seen Shark Tale twice now, once with my son and once with my nephew. It's a great movie. Even though it's made by Dreamworks, it's not quite on the par with Shrek, but it's still pretty good. I highly recommend you see it, especially if there's a young one in your family. And speaking of that, I know where I'll be next Friday night. that's when The Incredibles comes out. Looks like it will another great movie from Pixar.

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Not a recent movie but i saw The Recruit the other day and I must say it was a very good film, I would say that considering it had Al Pacino in but i'd advise you to check it out http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

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"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" by Michael Gondry.
Very good film, but not for the masses, they'll probably find it boring. Very realistic characters and good story. Story of love and parting. And return.

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Yeah, that movie was quite excellent. I like all those films written by Charlie Kauffman, i.e. Being John Malkovich and Adaptation.

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I just came home from watching ELEKTRA.

*** WARNING SPOILERS ***
Pretty good action movie - a lot better than Dare Devil was. Jennifer Garner is very pretty and fights well, too! Some interesting villains with supernatural powers, though they turn out to be not so tough as they first initially seem. Elektra died at the end of the movie Dare Devil, but it turns out that her blind martial arts master, Stick, used his magic powers to bring her back to life. Besides teaching her fighting skills, he also taught her a meditation technique to see the future, which she uses a lot to locate enemies and anticipate attacks. Some short but good fight scenes. The best thing about this movie the beautiful main character.

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Cool, Thanks.

Blade 3 was pretty good too.

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The Aviator

My friend tricked me into going to see this movie with him. I usually don't go see movies with Leonardo diCaprio in them, but this time I knew nothing about this movie until it was too late and I so I didn't know he was in it.

Some parts of the movie were boring, but some parts were pretty good, like the flying scenes. Leonardo wasn't as bad as I expected and he was OK for the most part. He's very good at doing those scenes with the obsessive and strange behaviors. The movie ended kind of unexpectedly and suddenly at a point where it seemed like there was going to be more.

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Ong-bak: The Thai Warrior

I saw this movie today. Wow! If you like martial arts movies, DEFINITELY go see this movie. I would say this movie is one of the top ten martial arts movies I have ever seen. Tony Jaa is Ting, the hero of the movie, the Muay Thai fighter, and he is GOOD. Excellent fight scenes. He is incredibly skilled: fast, acrobatic, powerful. Very very impressive. I'm sure Jaa will go on to make many more successful martial arts movies.

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Unleashed

Jet Li's latest movie is very violent. Lots of fighting - and it's brutal fighting, not the efficient, controlled and elegant fighting style we saw in some of his kung fu movies. He was trained from the time he was a kid to be a dog - when he wears his collar, he is quiet and passive. When the collar comes off, he goes berserk and kills everyone. Some excellent hand-to-hand combat scenes. Very simple story line. Not for little kids.

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1. The Avator

It is not as good as they say it is, in fact it is quite bad.

2. Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith

Simply awsome.

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith

I saw this movie last night. Not bad, it was quite an entertaining movie with many funny bits. This is not a serious action movie, it's more like a comedy, and there's quite a bit of silliness. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are in it. They are married, but unknown to each other, they are professional assasins working for different secret agencies. Problems arise when they are both given the same assignment and they find out each other's secret. Anyway, an OK movie. I am not a fan of either Pitt or Jolie but this movie was not bad.

By the way, I never understood why many guys like Angelina Jolie so much. I don't find her attractive at all... One of the girls we went with said, "Brad Pitt is so handsome!". Too bad I don't look anything like him and never will.

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Kingdom of Heaven

A fairly good movie, in my opinion. Though I am sure someone more knowledgeable about the crusades could point out several historical inaccuracies. It takes a while for the action to get started...in fact the first hour or so was quite slow. But after that (the other hour and a half) was pretty good.

For those of you who don't know, it's a movie set in the 12th century, I think the specific date was 1184 at the start of the movie. Basically a movie about the crusades, and they manage to weave in a lot about the hypocracy of Christians and Muslims, and the blind reverence towards a city (Jerusalem) that both faiths hold as sacred. Anyways, it was fairly entertaining.

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The Big Lebowski

Just saw it on TV yesterday. They cut the crap out of it to edit for language and nudity... and it was still a scream!! I'm going to go out and rent it next weekend to see the "unadulterated" version.

Revenge of the Sith

I was truly blown away by this movie. After the bad taste left in my mouth by the previous two, I did not expect to see a film with this much serious business going on. Kudos to Lucas for finally putting substance before gimick. I was "very moved" at several points in the movie. Go see it.

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I'm behind the times as usual (too much sleeping I guess)

The Village

I watched The Village for the first time last weekend. Thought it was very entertaining - much better than mixed reviews it's recieved. Worth renting at least.

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I just came back from seeing 'War of the Worlds'. It was quite well done and is worth seeing...

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COol, thanks, I will go see it tonight... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I have to say that I have my reservations though your comment has helped to improve my curiosity.

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I rate Batman Begins WOOT!!! out of !!!!

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I also saw Batman Begins last weekend. It was good enough to reset the batman series and launch a new and improved one. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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I saw war of the worlds, and it was very nice http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif go and see it if you can.

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I liked that this Batman actually had a sense of humour and some people skills, which I wasn't sure I would.

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I haven't seen War of the Worlds yet but I will go see it for sure. I really liked the original book by H.G. Wells and the old 1950's movie as well. (The TV series wasn't that good.) I understand that this new movie is totally different and unrelated to the other shows. In general I like Spielberg's movies and this one should be a good one as well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I was actually not all that impressed with War of the Worlds. Great visual effects, acting and characters are lackluster IMHO. Not sure if I'd spring for a CD once they come out.

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Took my son the other day to see Herbie Fully Loaded. For those who may have grown up watching Herbie movies, it was pretty good. I just wish they had Dean Jones and Suzanne Plushette (?) make an appearance. And I think Buddy Hackett died a couple of years ago. Overall, a good family movie that is actually worth taking the family to see.

I'm going to try seeing Batman and WOTW hopefully this weekend.

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Did the original Herbie blatantly defy the laws of physics and engineering (with a vengeance!) like can be seen in TV preview ads?

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The original Herbie swam accross about half an ocean, if I remember correctly, so yeah.

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I went to see Crash last week. I thought it was really, really good, but that might just be because I happen to live in Los Angeles, so I kinda "get" a lot of what happens in the movie. It basically follows several different characters of varying ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds, as their stories intertwine over a two day period in Los Angeles. There is a trailer and a clip of the movie over at http://www.apple.com/trailers.

I'm pretty sure it's a limited-release kind of movie, only showing in the bigger markets, plus it's been out for about a month and a half now I think, so it may be hard to find. But if you see it playing somewhere, I highly recommend you go see it. Caveat is, it's not a "go with the family" kind of movie, and I would say that you'd have to at least be in your late teens to get much of anything out of it; besides, there's brief nudity, violence, and racial overtones throughout.

--edit: Oops, it seems apple doesn't have the trailer any longer. It is still on the movie's site, http://www.crashfilm.com/, but I don't think the clip is anywhere now.

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Star Wars Episode III

Well I finally got to see Star Wars Ep. III...and damn was it ever good.

Have you ever gone to a theater, watched a movie, then when the movie ends you feel as though you are still in the world the movie created? Star Wars created this feeling for me this evening, and it is very rare for me to experience it.

The effects were nothing less than awe-inspiring, and the story was deep...and dark. Much darker than any of the other movies. Yet its very darkness makes it appealing in an age of sugar-coated movies where everything turns out well in the end. It's refreshing to say the least when a movie shows that the good guys don't always win, that people never "live happily ever after".

It was almost gut-wrenching to experience the betrayal by Skywalker, the slaughter of all those Jedi...the story was so immersive I found myself feeling as though I was there, watching the entire thing first hand, experiencing all the emotions to go along with it...a rare thing indeed.

As you can tell, I liked it. A lot.

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Well, I didn't want to go to it, but I took my son to see Shark-Boy. I hate 3d movies, mostly because I have a depth perception problem and it's hard to get those 3d glasses to fit over my regular glasses. After seeing Spy-Kids 3d, I wasn't too surprised at anything in this movie. If you're at that age range the movie was meant for, then it's probably pretty good. I caught myself falling asleep a couple of times. Not for me, but my son loved it, which is what really counts.

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My nephews are begging me to take them to see this movie, Shark-boy. I would much rather take them to go see "Watching The Grass Grow" - than suffor through yet another abysmal child geared 3d movie. OMGNFWINH - Oh My God, No F'ing Way In Hell!

To bad about EP III (Star Wars) It was a really good movie that simply was not epic enough. When all is boiled down, there isn't enough to keep people coming back for more. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif The movie has grossed over $360,000,000 million US and close to a billion world wide, with only about $975,000 in sales last week so its on the fast track to the DVD market.

Star Wars was a revalation in the movie industry. Since then most movies, say for Titanic, have not been as "must see" as Star Wars and I honestly don't think there ever will be again. Sure ET and a few others were great movies, but nothing on the scale of Star Wars as far as uniqueness and glass roof shattering presense.

ROTS - albeit a great moive, simply is the end of an era that could have been a lot more exciting in its journey than in its execution. To many people were turned off by EP I and II to trust the revies of EP III.

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Well, no, we're probably not going to have that same feeling again. We're used to stunning visuals, great plot twists and good story. Even if what we get is normally not that good, there's still movie's like Spiderman 1&2, which are two of the highest-grossing movie's of all time. Plus LoTR, Batman Begins was good, plenty of good movie's that are worth seeing and can amaze you.

But none of them have the same impact, because we know these movie's can be made. Star Wars was a new thing when it was made.

You know what I say? So what. I. Don't. Care. If a book is good, I'll re-read it. If a movie is good, I'll see it again. And in the end, I'm happy I saw or read something that was good, even if it's not that new.

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I don't know about you AT, but I think the great movies are timeless. I can watch a movie series like Star Wars endlessly without getting bored of it (except maybe for Ep I...).

Basically, all the new, revolutionary ideas have already been thought of, done, and beaten to death a dozen times. Perhaps one day there will be another truely revolutionary movie or movie series created. We can only wait for that day, and hope it does indeed come.

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Well I went and seen War of The Worlds. Man what a distrubing movie that was. Very well done, Tom Cruise was really good in the movie despite all of the hidden political and advertising nonsense.

Is it me, or did those aliens look a lot like the ones from Independance day? Also I think I have seen those tri-Pods before....HALF LIFE 2.

Still its a good movie, not good for young kids though.

And yes, Renegade 13, some movies are timeless, and Star Wars is one of them.

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Half-Life 2 got those tripods from WoTW. As did the Justice League cartoon and probably dozens of others I either forgot about or never knew about. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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The thing about this WoTW's movie is that is does an effective job of pulling you into the point of view of an ordinary person faced with extordinary circomstances. Tom Cruise pulled it off very nicely. There are scenes in the movie that just make your skin crawl. It was a good movie, one that I would love to see expanded upon. You know, from the leaders point of view perhaps.

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Still haven't seen WOTW yet, but hopefully I will before it gets on dvd. I was bummed when I found out the movie was a present day affair. I'd really love to see a version made in 1898, when you have horse-drawn artillery taking pot-shots at the martian machines. If there is one book that can be said that changed my life, it was H.G. Well's book. After I read it when I was around 10, I became hooked on sci-fi forever. Too bad I didn't know about The Hobbit, or the Harry Potter books weren't out then. It took me a few more years to discover fantasy.

Anyway, took my son and nephew to see Fantastic Four. Great movie. I didn't read the comic when I was a kid. I was more partial to Batman and Superman back then, but I more into reading & collecting the war comics. But I enjoyed this movie. I was just disappointed when Doom finally spoke through his mask. I always imagined a deep, resonating voice coming through. Instead, it was just the actor's normal voice. Bummer. Also, the guy who wrote it lives in the Tampa area, and he's been getting some press in the local papers. Seems like he wanted to have Galacticus as the main villain, but the studio heads and the bean counters thought it would cost too much. But he said that if he's given the chance to write the sequel, he'll make Galacticus the villain again. That would be great, since they've been talking about doing a Silver Surfer movie for years. That would be a great introduction for the character if it's ever done.

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I saw Fantastic Four last night. It's a fun and entertaining movie and I liked it. I never heard of the comic before, so I have no idea if the movie is based on the story from the comic or not, but it was good. I don't care if the whole premise of the movie is unrealistic (five people go up to a space station and they're exposed to radiation from a cosmic storm. Their DNA is altered and they all develop different super powers. One guy turns evil and becomes the super villain and the other four team up to stop the bad guy.) Hey, comics don't have to be realistic, it's a fun movie, OK? Also, Susan Storm (Jessica Alba) is cute!

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I think there is a period WoTW movie being made. There was something about it on the forum, anyway.

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I don't know the details, but there was going to be a WOTW movie made during the time of 9/11. For whatever reasons, the movie was pulled out of production. I don't know if this was the movie that Spielberg made, or if someone else was doing this. If anyone knows anymore, please enlighten us.

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King Arthur

I saw this movie in theatre's last summer, but just rented it again tonight to watch at home. I liked it a lot, in fact it was very well done in my opinion.

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About WotW, cool movie but nothing really new... in fact, i found the original movie better... even without special effects it gave a more cool atmosphere...

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WotW ??

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War of the Worlds

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I've just saw The Cube 2, it was ok, a bit odd movie.

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What?! Cube rated a remake? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Please tell me it was a straight to video special, or hidden away in a bizzare 'art house' cinema.

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Have you seen Transporter 2? I haven't seen it yet. Is it good? I saw the first movie and it wasn't bad...

Last week I saw Revenge of the Sith yet again. That will probably be the last time I see in the theater.

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Has any one seen the Dukes of Hazard? -

Is any one going to go see Serenity?

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Eh, i don't know i have not seen the first one, anyways its about 8 people who suddenly appear on a room with doors on each side which leads to other rooms exactly the same, where the laws of physic & time, don't appear to apply some of the rooms are bobby trapped so you can imagine, is this the movie you're talking about? if yes then yes they made a remake. hiddden? nooooo, it was on blockbuster

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I'll be honest there were at least two movies about groups of people being trapped in a serires of rooms were no real laws applied. One was cube, one was something else.

When I posted I thought it was Cube that was the awful one, as a remake appeared it must have been the other one that was awful. Whoops. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif