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| Shaolin Soccer | 2005-12-08 |
| I'd say I enjoyed it at least as much as Kung Fu Hustle (and I was surprised/pleased to see it shared a lot of the same cast). Stephen Chow is truly a creative person with a knack for creating diverse films that I can't really classify into a genre. |
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| Sky High | 2005-12-07 |
| I rented this film for some Bruce Campbell, Dave Foley, and Kevin MacDonald. Other than that my expectations were low - so I was quite pleasantly surprised when I got a rather fun and humorous movie! I give Sky High my second highest star rating - ½ star! |
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| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005-12-04 |
| Creepiness, flashbacks, Christopher Lee, and well... some more creepiness made me enjoy this version even more than the old Gene Wilder film. My hat goes off to Deep Roy for playing the part of over 100 Oompa Loompas! |
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| Alien vs. Predator | 2005-12-03 |
| I figured this would totally suck, but I rented it anyway because I love Predator. It sucked, but a lot less than I thought it would. I could've done with less humans and more Predators. But I guess some humans were actually needed to develop the "plot" and explain why Aliens and Predators were fighting each other. In summary, Predators are seriously awesome, but scripts are also rather necessary.
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| The Longest Yard (2005) | 2005-11-22 |
| Pretty standard Adam Sandler fare. The beginning was a bit slow and annoying, but the end of the movie had a lot of unexpected laughs in store for me. I couldn't believe how much I laughed at all the gags with the prison guard who had his steroids replaced with Estrogen pills. |
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| Sin City | 2005-11-15 |
| The corny dialogue seemed to stop bugging me after the first ten minutes and I really got into this film. I was thoroughly impressed from start to end, especially with Mickey Rourke and Elijah Wood. Definitely a really unique and very compelling movie! |
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| Tim Burton's Corpse Bride | 2005-09-24 |
| Very enjoyable movie! I don't see how somebody could dislike it, really. But at the same time, I don't think I'll remember much about it in a few weeks. A+ for animation and Christopher Lee!
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| A Clockwork Orange | 2005-08-01 |
| There was simply never a point during the movie that I was ever into it. There weren't any characters to get behind or identify with, so the film felt like a serious of random events happening to people I didn't care about. Perhaps I didn't get the point. |
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| Batman Begins | 2005-06-25 |
| Best Batman film yest, but I still wasn't in love with it. The first hour of background was awesome, but it started to lose me during the way-too-long and absurd car chase. On a scale from 1 to 10, this movie was pretty good. |
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| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 2005-06-22 |
| Obviously, it's classic satire with some funny scenes involving Peter Sellers. I'm sure I would've enjoyed this a lot more if I'd experienced the feeling in this country during the Cold War. Either way, on a scale from 1 to 12, it's a fun film and I'm glad I finally watched it! |
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| Garden State | 2005-05-22 |
| I can't figure out what so many people loved about this movie. I found some of the characters irritating and the film went absolutely nowhere for me. I prefer sleeping. |
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| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 2005-05-08 |
| Weird movie. I was lost a times because they were moving really fast between parts of the film without explaining things. It was extremely visually stimulating (like the planet factory scene!) but lacked a lot in substance. On a scale from 1 to 25, I didn't really like it very much. |
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| Kung Fu Hustle | 2005-04-26 |
| A ton of fun! Reminded me of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Dick Tracy at times with its cartoonish goofiness, but I was definitely thoroughly entertained for its entire duration. |