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Ninja Assassin

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:23:23 -0500

I said it when I saw V for Vendetta and I said it to myself over and over as I watched Ninja Assassin: James McTeigue is not a good director. While I find V's direction to be lifeless and bland, Ninja's is downright disappointing. In the hands o...

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Paranormal Activity

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:36:52 -0500

I like low budget films and I like scary films. I liked this film. However, it could be much better. It is the film about a couple who are haunted. It is told through "home video" footage that the couple recorded in the style of Blair Witch. ...

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Zombieland

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:58:08 -0400

I like zombie movies but I wasn't really looking forward to this. For whatever reason it just didn't speak to me. When I did get around to seeing it, I was glad I did. This is a pretty entertaining zombie movie. It isn't perfect, though. The m...

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Surrogates

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:09:22 -0400

Surrogates started out as a comic book. Even though I'm a comic book nerd I didn't read Surrogates. I just couldn't get past the artwork. I didn't like it at all. It looked to me like a bad impression of Bill Sienkiewicz or Ben Templesmith. T...

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Inglourious Basterds

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:39:43 -0400

Tarantino's latest film is just odd. It exists in a kind of cartoon, comic book world that existed before America actually entered WWII. At least on the covers of those early comic books the heroes would go over to Europe and kick Hitler's butt a...

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Vantage Point

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:02:52 -0400

Sometimes watching a good film is pretty frustrating because as good as that film is, while watching it, you can't help but see how it could have been a great film. Vantage Point is one of those film. The film is, as the title suggests, told fr...

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Time Changer

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:36:06 -0400

Is this the best movie ever made? Perhaps. Probably not though. I did love it though. Why? Because it is horrible and preachy and thinks everyone who disagrees with its message is just ignorant. OK, so this is another Christian movie. Th...

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Artefacts

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:34:47 -0400

I like this movie a lot. Or rather I like the first 3/4 of it a lot. Although a lot of people on IMDB criticize it for not explaining things I think it falls apart when it starts to explain too much. The film is really low budget but it has a ...

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Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:13:02 -0400

I got this from Netflix expecting a creature feature. The story is advertised as a group of people shipwrecked on an island where the only food is mushrooms and they turn you into a mushroom person. While this is technically correct, it is also...

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It's Alive

nobody@vox.com(jccalhoun) — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:17:23 -0400

This is one of those movies that I always saw in the video store but never got around to seeing. From the cover I was expecting something something like Basket Case or The Unborn but this is really much more sedate and thoughtful. Yes, it is ab...

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