ANIMATIONS
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Director / Cast / Artists |
Format
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Comments:
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Titan A.E.
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VHS
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Excellent!!!
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The Lion King
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VHS |
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Captain Herlock (The legend
returns)
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DVD
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Four 20 min miniseries
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Scooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteries
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VHS |
4 toons
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The Prince of Egypt
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DVD
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Monsters Inc.
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DVD
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Excellent!!! |
Ice Age
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DVD
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Excellent!!! |
Akira
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Katsuhiro Otomo |
DVD
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Excellent!!! |
| Captain
Herlock, The Endless Odyssey |
Taro Rin
(Metropolis) |
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4 episodes
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| Millennium Princess |
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DVD |
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| Ghost in the Shell 1 |
Mamoru
Oshii |
DVD |
Incredible animation,
intelligent story line, artistic, excellent music. |
| Ghost in the Shell 2,
Innocence |
Mamoru
Oshii |
DVD |
Incredible art! Twisted and
complex mind trips, similar to "The Matrix". |
| Princess
Mononoke |
Hayao
Miyazaki |
DVD |
Superb. |
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SPACE
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Apollo 13
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VHS |
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2010
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VHS |
Cult! |
Total Recall
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VHS |
Cult!
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Lost in Space
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VHS |
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Mission to Mars
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VHS |
Not very good, unfortunately.
Wasted a good idea. I had to have it because its about mars colonization
of course...
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Red Planet
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VHS |
The acting really sucks and
the music sucks too; very very slow paced; I recommend
to fast
forward through the trip to mars part. Interesting "interventionist"
ideas at the end with cool animations.
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Armageddon
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Bruce Willis |
DVD
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Mostly funny. Yet the subject
is dramatic.
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Babylon 5: The Gathering / In
the Beginning
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Michael Straczynski |
DVD
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Cult!
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Star Wars: New Hope
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VHS |
Excellent!!! |
| Star Wars: The Empire Strikes
Back |
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VHS |
Excellent!!! |
| Star Wars: Shadow Menace |
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VHS |
Excellent!!! |
Star Wars: Clone War
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DVD
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Excellent!!! |
| Pitch
black (Riddick) |
Vin Diesel |
DVD |
Pretty
good |
Chronicles
of Riddick
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Vin Diesel |
DVD
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Excellent!!!
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ACTION /
ADVENTURE
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Rising Sun
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DVD
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Excellent!!! |
Point Break
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DVD
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Chain Reaction
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DVD |
Excellent!!! |
Cyborg
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Vandame |
DVD |
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Swordfish
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DVD |
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Mission Impossible
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VHS |
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Heat
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VHS |
Long, noir, brutal. Not my
favorite.
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The Abyss
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VHS |
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The Fugitive
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VHS |
Excellent!!! |
Stargate
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VHS |
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Demolition Man
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VHS |
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Gone in 60 seconds
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VHS |
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007 You Only Live Twice
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VHS |
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The Saint
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VHS |
Excellent!!! |
The Rock
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VHS |
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The Negotiator
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VHS |
Excellent!!! |
Robin Hood
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DVD
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Highlander 1
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VHS |
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The Last
Samurai (Tom cruise)
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5/5
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Cruise
actually acts pretty good in this one. The movie is interesting because
it explores many facets of Japanese culture and traditions, especially
the samurai. Awesome fighting scenes. A very good movie.
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The Hunted
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Christopher Lambert. |
VHS
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Martial arts, clan wars and revenge in Japan.
Pretty good.
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DRAMA
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Cast Away
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DVD |
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Dracula
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DVD |
Excellent!!! |
The Big Bleu
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Eric Serra |
DVD |
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Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
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DVD |
Excellent!!! |
The Red Violin
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VHS
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Absolutely
awesome. |
Contact
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VHS |
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Amistad
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S.
Spielberg / Anthony Hopkins |
VHS |
Excellent!!! |
The Last of the Mohicans
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VHS |
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The Tomas Crown Affair
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VHS |
Excellent!!! |
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
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Sergio
Leone / Ennio Moricone |
VHS |
Best Western Ever. Period.
Music from
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William Shakespeare's Romeo
and Juliet (1996)
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DVD
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Extremely creative and
artistic. Its very very good in spite of Leonardo Decaprio. Excellent
filming.
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The Truman Show
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Peter Weir |
DVD
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Its just a great movie. Very
unusual. Keeps you on our toes the whole time.
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| The Dead Poet Society |
Peter Weir |
DVD |
Robin William's is a
professor with unusual methods. He tries to promote the student's
individuality and develop their interests. He succeeds too well.
Excellent movie about intolerance of unconformity. |
| Soylent Green |
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DVD |
Cult! Overpopulation + George
Orwell style political system.... |
| Ma Vie en Rose (My life in
pink) |
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DVD |
About a 10 year old girl in
the body of a boy. She discovers that she is different because people do
not accept her as she is, a girl in the body of a boy, and not a boy.
(in French). This movie is very moving; excellent acting. |
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| MEDIEVAL /
FANTASY / D&D |
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The Dark Crystal
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VHS |
Excellent!!! |
Labyrinth
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VHS |
Artistic and enchanting. The
David Bowie singing part is painful though. Small price to pay for a
nice journey into another world.
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Legend
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VHS |
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Krull
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VHS |
Ancient,
but none the less surprisingly artful imagery. Classic journey of
companions. Great movie.
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Willow
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VHS / DVD
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LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring
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DVD
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Excellent!!! What's best in
the genre so far. Very good acting. Great animation and superbly
immersive. |
LOTR Two Towers
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DVD
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Excellent!!! |
LOTR The return of the King
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DVD
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Excellent!!! |
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COMEDY / FUN
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| Lock-stock
and two smoking Barrels |
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DVD |
Prequel of
Snatch. Same deal. Hilarious! |
Snatch
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VHS
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Excellent!!! |
Home Alone 2
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VHS
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I am ashamed to own it. It's
that bad.
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Dogma
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DVD
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Waking Ned Devine
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VHS
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Hilarious Irish comedy.
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Liar Liar
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VHS
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Funny enough.
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The Dinner Game
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DVD
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Hilarious French comedy.
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| Shakespeare in Love |
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DVD |
Actually could be considered
a drama. Good acting. Very engaging. |
Canadian Bacon (Political Comedy)
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With John
Candy. Directed by Michael Moore. |
3.5/5
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Hilarious
yet scary...too close to the truth about arm business and government
conspiracy. Must see.
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Boondock Saints
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DVD |
Excellent!!! |
| South Park
Season 4 |
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3 DVDs |
Gaddamit
itz funny! |
| South Park
Season 5 |
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3 DVDs |
Gaddamit
itz funny! |
| MOVIES I
STRONGLY RECOMMEND BUT THAT I DON'T HAVE (...YET!): |
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Grade / 5
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Alien Quadrilogy (Space / Action)
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4/5
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Castle in
the sky. (Animation)
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5/5
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Das Boot
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4/5
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War time
submarine tour. Very realistic.
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Hero (Jet
Lee)
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4.5/5
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Extremely
artistic and interesting political plot. Dramatic in all aspects. If you
can understand that the story is mystical and hence so are the fighting
scenes, that you will get over the fact that the protagonists
continually defy the laws of physics. Good movie.
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Much ado about Nothing (Comedy)
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4/5
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Shakespeare
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Empire of
the Sun
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S.
Spielberg |
4/5
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Mansfield Park (Drama)
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4/5
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Chick
Flick, but good.
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William Shakespeare's
"Merchant of Venice".
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4/5
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The Time Machine (Adventure)
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4/5
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Steam Boy (Animation)
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4.5/5
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| Phantom of
the Opera (Adapted form the Broadway version by Andrew Lloyd Webber) |
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5/5 |
Awesome
classic drama
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Dr. Zivago
(Drama)
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5/5
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Awesome classic
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Spirited Away
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5/5
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Miazaki.
Magical, enchanting, and beautiful. Awesome work. |
| Memories
(3 mini animations) |
Katsuhiro
Otomo |
4/5 |
From the maker of Akira. Bizarre explorations in style and
stories. You have to watch this one with an artistic and intellectual
perspective. |
| The Cat
Returns |
Miyazaki |
4/5 |
Not as
good as Spirited Away, but still extremely cool. |
| The March
of the Penguins |
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4.5/5 |
Beautiful
scenery and camera work. Nice story. |
| Nightmare
Before Christmas |
Tim Burton |
4.5/5 |
Cute,
beautiful, and artistic. |
| Turtles
Can Fly |
Bahman Ghobadi |
5/5 |
Awesome
Drama. First movie made in Iraq after the American Invasion/Liberation.
Story about children in a refugee camp. |
| Beetle
Juice |
Tim Burton |
4/5 |
Funny and
artistic classic. |
| Paradise
Now |
Hany Abu-Assad |
4.5/5 |
Actuality/Drama. Two great Palestinian friends are called upon to
execute a double suicide bombing attack. Excellent filming.
Psychological intrigue, intelligent. |
| Crash |
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3.5/5 |
Not bad.
Mixture of of comedy and drama (mostly drama) on the theme of racism and
ethnic differences. |
| Why We
Fight |
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4/5 |
A fairly
balanced documentary about America and war. Must see. |
| Fahrenheit
911(Roger Moore) and FahrenHYPE 911. |
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3.5/5 |
These two
documentaries must be seen together to get a balanced view, but in the
end the viewers will need to do some research on their own to get to the
facts... |
| An
Inconvenient Truth |
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4/5 |
Al Gore
about global warming. I recommend everybody to take a look at this.
Nothing new, but well presented facts, although it might be disturbing
to those not in touch with the issue. I suppose that's the point. |
| Hotel
Rwanda |
Don
Cheadle; by Terry George. |
4/5 |
Very
similar story line to Shindler's List, except it happens in Rwanda an is
much more intense. I
think its a must see given the terrible massacres
that happened in Rwanda in 1994 while the rest of the world stood by and
watched. |
| Appleseed |
By the
writer of "Ghost in the Shell" Shirow Masamune; directed by Shinji
Aramaki. |
4/5 |
3D
animation. Great CGI and art work, meticulously detailed design.
Interesting outlook in the future. The plot does not insult the views
intelligence. Awesome combat scenes. Some music Paul Oakenfold. |
WARNING!!! Movies that are
not worth seeing or having.
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Don't waste your time!!!! |
Grade / 5
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Comments
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Blade
Runner (Harrison Ford)
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1/5
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Its an old
cult movie. I suppose it was good in its day, but for today's standard
it very bad. It drags, its dark, its odd, its just not
good. The story line sucks too; a robot that wants to be human or have
equal status and a dude that loves the robot. Nothing exciting. The
vision of the future is totally off track.
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Reservoir
Dogs
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1/5
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Garbage.
Elemental plot. Ugly scenes. Blood and gore. Bad karma. Stupid movie.
They obviously filmed this one over a weekend.
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Hitch
hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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1.5/5
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... and
I'm generous. Not funny at all. Lame.
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Hitch
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1/5
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Not funny
enough to keep me watching more than 15 minutes. I wasted a rental
ticket on that one.
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House of
Flying Daggers
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2/5
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Love
triangle with decent fighting scenes a la "Fighting Dragon Crouching
Tiger". Beautiful scenery in China. The scenery just might be the best
part of the movie. A much better similar movie is Hero with Jet Lee.
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The
Incredibles
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0/5
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3D
Animation. A Family of humans with super powers fights an evil adversary
of same caliber. Sort of like Batman vs. the Joker. This movie SUCKS.
Don't waste your time. Its not even funny. Except one or two scenes.
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Old Boy
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2/5
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Strange
mixture of good and bad acting. A guy got locked up in a small apartment
for 15 years, not knowing why. He has only a few days to find out. It
turns out he is victim of revenge of someone he hurt as an adolescent.
This movie is extremely violent and hard to watch at times. Nauseous
ending. The English dubbing SUCKS. Some good scenes and good camera
shots. Overall I don't recommend it.
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Team
America, World Police
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0/5
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THE WORST
MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. Actually I didn't see it all. I couldn't get
past the 10 minute barfing scene. I expected at least some good political
satire from the makers of South Park, but not even that. Its scary that
this was such a big block buster.
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Unleashed
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2/5
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Not worth owning
or seeing. Lack of character development. Some Good fight
scenes (Jet Lee: duh!).
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