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Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
Top Critic
The best of it plays like an acting exercise that serves the intimate, often bruising relationship at the core. Gosling seems to be pulling from an impressive bag of performance tricks, Williams from a deeper well, drawn from life.

Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times
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An intensely intimate rendering of love that limits itself to that first falling in and that last falling out.

On August 06 2011 06:07 Deadlyfish wrote:
Recently just watched 2 movies that i can strongly reccomend.





The Mist (2007)

This movie is actually really good despite starting out kinda cheesy. It's basically about a bunch of people trapped in a supermarket by this mist, i wont give anything else away. I'd say the first half of the movie just sets you up for the second half. The story of the mist is really interesting, although we dont hear a lot about it (which might be why it's so interesting). The effects are really great though some of the creatures look a bit too wierd, but it's still very believable. By the end of the movie you'll really feel with the characters. The ending was probably what just made the movie - it's awesome. The only bad things about this movie is the sorta cheesy/slow start and the fact that some of the acting could be better. I'll admit that i really like these kinds of movies, so other people might not rate it as highly as i do.

8.5/10

On August 06 2011 06:07 Deadlyfish wrote:
Recently just watched 2 movies that i can strongly reccomend.



The Mist (2007)

This movie is actually really good despite starting out kinda cheesy. It's basically about a bunch of people trapped in a supermarket by this mist, i wont give anything else away. I'd say the first half of the movie just sets you up for the second half. The story of the mist is really interesting, although we dont hear a lot about it (which might be why it's so interesting). The effects are really great though some of the creatures look a bit too wierd, but it's still very believable. By the end of the movie you'll really feel with the characters. The ending was probably what just made the movie - it's awesome. The only bad things about this movie is the sorta cheesy/slow start and the fact that some of the acting could be better. I'll admit that i really like these kinds of movies, so other people might not rate it as highly as i do.

[b]8.5/10[/b

On July 31 2011 22:47 KaelSC wrote:


Sadly I beg to differ (but of course this is a matter of personal opinion :D).

Irreversible was an utterly mediocre film, far from cerebral/intelligent unless you're the kind of person that thinks Sudoku is clever. The shock moments are just there to spur on some poor sense of sensational revelation while at the end of the film (or the start, depending on how you look at it) you're left with a aire of pointlessness. I would go in to my reasoning further but i'd struggle without referencing spoilers.

Ultimately a 4.5-5/10 at best.

On August 11 2011 14:24 Mangix wrote:
Saw Memento :O started off slow but really got interesting... 9/10

Basically Leonard is hunting down a man who killed his wife, but he has no short-term memory and has to take photos and notes to remind himself of his findings. The movie plays backwards.

On August 14 2011 20:28 Deadlyfish wrote:
So i also watched "Starship Troopers"

[...] The movie has some message that war is bad or whatever, but it simply gets lost because the movie is too cheesy. [...] Ended up just treating it as a comedy though, especially towards the end. [...]

On August 14 2011 20:28 Deadlyfish wrote:

So i also watched "Starship Troopers"



This movie is kinda strange. The first half is just something about how these young people enter the army (btw this is like way in the future) and then half way through the movie bugs attack and they go to war. Everyone in this movie looks like a model. It's kinda creepy. The movie has some message that war is bad or whatever, but it simply gets lost because the movie is too cheesy. There are some cool fight scenes which are worth watching, but the rest of the movie is just strange and cheesy. And some points you dont know whether the movie is trying to be serious or if you should laugh. Maybe i just dont get the humor or whatever, but i didnt like that. Ended up just treating it as a comedy though, especially towards the end. You wont give a shit about the "story" or any of the main characters, you end up just wanting to see more zerg destruction.

5/10 - watch the cool fight scenes, skip everything else.

On August 11 2011 15:12 Z3kk wrote:


Now I can officially say that I have seen it!

Unfortunately, I read the summary on Wikipedia while ago and never felt like watching it. Soooo pissed at myself for spoiling it. It is a freaking amazing film regardless of my stupidity, and I definitely recommend it. This is a movie that all men need to go see.

9/10 because I spoiled it for myself and because I don't want to seem like I'm "easy"