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  1. #2656
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    Cave (2016)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4915318/

    The Descent this definitely ain't and it's even worse than 2005 The Cave.

    I expected better and more from a movie made in Norway.

    1/5

  2. #2657
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    Mischief (1985)



    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089601

    A 1980's teenage movie starring Kelly Preston, Catherine Marie Stewart (The Last Starfighter, Night of the Comet)



    and Jamie Gertz (The Lost Boys, Less Than Zero, Twister)



    Kelly had a banner year in 1985!!

    She got naked in this movie and also in Secret Admirer. Then the following year she got naked in 52 Pick-Up.

    I think once she met that Scientology loser John Travolta, that's when she started doing less nude scenes.

    I love all these cheesy teen flicks from the 1980s, when the biggest problem our hero would face is getting laid before going to college.



    He loses his virginity with the popular girl (Kelly) but at the end he finally figures out she is a bitch and the best girl for him all along is the ugly duckling (Jamie) who is no longer ugly:



    What a cute romantic film!

    4.5/5

  3. #2658
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    Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2592614/



    It was alright. Could had been better. Most of the new characters are paper thin and not around long enough for you to care about them and they are just zombies fodders.

    Milla Jovovich still kicks butt and I guess she decides she doesn't want to play Alice anymore so they are selling this as the end of the franchise.

    I have been wondering why it took 4 years since the last Resident Evil movie. I guess maybe Milla was done with the role after the last one and she needed some financial incentives to return to the role for this one to close out the franchise?

    3/5

    That's the lowest rating I have given to any Resident Evil films compared to the ratings I gave the other 5 films on here:

    Resident Evil (2002)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120804/

    A fitting start to the Resident Evil film franchise!

    A very well made film and faithful to the games.

    5/5


    Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318627/

    This 2nd entry in the Resident Evil film franchise picks up where the first one ended.

    A very enjoyable sequel and almost as good as the first one.

    4.75/5

    Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432021/

    The 3rd entry of the franchise: it had its moments and it's still much better than the PG-13 horror wannabes and the crappy reboots and remakes littering the movie industry nowadays.

    4/5

    Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220634/

    I liked this movie very much; my only disappointment is they could had given the Alice clones more screen time.

    The final scene is priceless and it makes the upcoming sequel worth the wait.

    4.5/5

    Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1855325

    Could had been a bit longer...

    4/5

  4. #2659
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    Man On Fire (1987)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093489/



    French Italian produced thriller with Scott Glenn and Joe Pesci.

    Glenn is a former CIA agent hired to protect the young 12 year old daughter of a wealthy family. When she is kidnapped by the Mafia, he goes all out to save her.

    Yes!! This is the movie director Tony Scott's 2004 Man On Fire with Denzel Washington was remade from.

    This is so much better than that noisy 2004 remake.

    By the way, a bit of strange trivia:

    Tony Scott was originally considered to direct this but the producers and studio felt he wasn't experienced enough as a director at the time with only one commercial release (The Hunger) in his resume so he went on to direct Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop II instead.

    4/5

  5. #2660
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    East Side Sushi (2014)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2340650/



    Not only was this a great movie, I want some sushi now!

    4.5/5

  6. #2661
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    36 Hours (1964)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057809/



    Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

    Excellent performances by a 36 years young James Garner, as the American major, and also by Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint and Werner Peters.

    A worthy psychological war thriller on the same level as Frank Sinatra's similar 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate.

    4.5/5

  7. #2662
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    Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969) full 143 minutes version



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_(1969_film)

    Director Alfred Hitchcock's longest film and also his biggest commercial and critical failure.

    It's adapted from this novel:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_(1969_film)

    which in turn was based on this real spy scandal in the French government:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martel_affair

    The large cast of this film does a splendid job but the story can sometimes be muddy, the pacing is very slow and Topaz overall lacks the suspense and tension that are a trademark of Hitchcock films.

    2.5/5

  8. #2663
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    American Fable (2016)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4671002/

    Can't make heads or tails of what this movie is trying to be:

    A fairy tale like The Spiderwick Chronicles or Pan's Labyrinth? Or a Fantasy fable like Little Red Riding Hood? Or even a scary monster story that we tell our children at bed time?

    The main protagonist of this movie, a 11 year old farm girl played by young actress Peyton Kennedy, shines as a child who is trying to understand the world around her and who must make an adult choice that will affect her life and her family, while at the same time she is dealing with strange happenings that either real or part of her imagination.

    This movie had a good premise but first time full length movie director Anne Hamilton just doesn't have it to bring it to fruition - the movie gets stuck in his own symbolism and misfires terribly.

    2/5

    p.s. I've learned a long long time ago that when you see a movie with a poster that has a ton of awards and film festivals official selection logo on it, beware!! It doesn't always means the movie is any good - more often than not it sucks!


  9. #2664
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    The Mob (1951)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043812/



    By the book cop goes undercover to investigate the mob's murderous control of the NY harbor and its waterfront longshoreman union.

    Tough, gritty, violent and bleak film noir where no one appears to be who they are with a great deal of lively, sharp intelligent no nonsense dialogue.

    A young Ernest Borgnine is strongly convincing in the role of the sinister mob boss.



    5/5

  10. #2665
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    xXx Return Of Xander Cage (2017)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXx:_R...of_Xander_Cage

    Who greenlit this waste of time junk???

    The only good part of this farce is the record shop girl from Mission Impossible Rogue Nation getting out of the swimming pool.















    0/5 for the movie

    5/5 for the scene of the record shop girl in a swimsuit

  11. #2666
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    The Omen (1976) Uncut

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/



    This movie and also The Boys From Brazil (1978), 2 films I saw during that time in the 1970's when I was still a kid, are the reasons I won't have any dogs especially rotweillers and doberman pinchers.

    After over 40 years, this movie still has the power to shock and scare without needing to resort to gross bloody gore found in today's so called horror porn.

    5/5


    Damien: Omen II (1978)



    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077394/

    Not as good as the first film.

    By the time this sequel was released, it has lost the freshness and discovery of the first film. We all already know Damien is the Anti Christ.

    Still the strong acting by a great cast including William Holden, Lee Grant, Robert Foxworth, Nicholas Pryor, Jonathan Scott-Taylor as Damien, and a young Lance Henriksen, all working off a well written script, makes up for its lack of scares and tension and chills and thrills that made the first film great.

    4/5

  12. #2667
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    The Final Conflict (1981) aka Omen III

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082377/



    Even a young Sam Neill's (the man who will later save a couple of annoying disobedient rugrats from the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park) fine acting as Damien couldn't save this kookie sequel to the first two Omen films.



    I remember going to see this film with my brother and my Dad on the Friday it was released in 1981.

    The box office cashier told us the movie print didn't get delivered so we ended up watching a very forgettable movie named Cutter's Way.

    My viewing of this film earlier tonight is also my first viewing ever of it. I can see we didn't miss much that Friday in 1981. This movie is also very forgettable!!

    2.5/5

  13. #2668
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    Pandora (2016)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6302160/



    This was a good movie but very difficult to watch.

    We as the human race have doomed this planet with our own selfishness and arrogance.

    The earth's temperature is rising, the ice caps are melting, natural resources are dwindling and yet we keep reproducing at an alarming rate and there isn't enough to feed every person on this planet.

    Most of the species of animals and insects that were on this planet a 1000 years ago are either near extinction or extinct due to the human race.

    We sit here and call ourselves the Master Race of this planet and we revile the rats and roaches and other critters, but one day when the last human on earth ceases to breathe, those critters will still be around and who will be the Master then?

    Furthermore, the day we opened the nuclear genie's bottle in 1945, we signed our own species' death warrant - it's not if a nuclear disaster/accident (or a nuclear device detonated either by terrorists or by war) will happen again that will wipe out the human race, it's when and it will be soon.

    Don't let the Netflix throw you off. This movie was made in Korea and Netflix is only responsible for it's online streaming distribution. Netflix had nothing to do with the production and script and directing of it.

    5/5

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    Shin Gojira (2016) aka Shin Godzilla aka Godzilla Resurgence

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4262980/



    A scathing critical indictment of how the excessively bureaucratic Japanese government dropped the ball after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

    Godzilla symbolizes both events.

    This film illustrates how every member of the Japanese government from the lowest level assistant to the Prime Minister are all inept and more concerned about their titles and hierarchy positions.

    The movie is almost 2 hours long shun credits and Godzilla appears for probably only 20 min but I do have to admit the special effects for it were pretty good.

    The rest of the movie shows the Japanese bureaucrats holding meetings after meetings, conferences after conferences, think tanks after think tanks, secret behind the doors you scratch my back and I will scratch your back negotiations to gain a better political position, etc etc

    This is not a monster disaster movie. This is a harsh political satire disguised as it.

    After watching this, going back to revisit that crappy long forgotten Roland Emmerich Godzilla film with Ferris Bueller as a very unlikely, unconvincing Nuclear Regulatory Commission biologist is starting to look pretty good just about now.

    2/5

  15. #2670
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    The Founder (2016)



    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4276820/

    The story of how failed traveling milk shakes machines salesman Ray Kroc took Richard and Mac McDonald's "speedee" system burger restaurant and turned it into a world wide burger conglomerate.

    Kroc was a thief. He broke his written contract with the MacDonald's brothers. The contract was for him to sell franchise locations and sign up new franchisee. Instead he started making changes to the way each franchise restaurant is operated, what ingredients to use, financial systems for each location, etc etc which was outside of his duties as stipulated in the contract he had with the MacDonald's brothers and furthermore, all changes to any restaurant need to be approved in writing by the McDonald's brothers.

    Then when Kroc finally bought the McDonald's brothers out at $2.7 million, the original contract was that the brothers will also get 0.5% of all royalties from the profit of McDonald's corporation.

    Kroc made them leave that out of the written buyout contract saying his investors who are loaning him the $2.7 million will not approve but he guaranteed the McDonald's brothers he will make good on it.

    He even shook hands with the brothers but he never paid a penny of it which to this day will be $100 million a year.

    Kroc didn't make money from McDonald's franchisees selling burger and fries and milkshakes. He made money by buying the land to build McDonald's on it and then by owning the building for each restaurant location and leasing it back to the franchisee along with the franchise fees and the % of their food sales profit.

    McDonald's Corporation is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, owner of real estate properties in the world. That's how they make money! By being a landlord!

    Kroc made so much money that after he passed away in 1984, he left the entire empire to his 3rd wife Joan and when she passed away in 2003, she donated most of it to Salvation Army, the NPR and other charities at the tune of almost $2 billion.

    4/5

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