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Forget about seeing any other new film this week or last week except for this one. This is quality filmmaking at its finest. You can thank Wes Anderson for this delightful animated tale with an all star cast of voices including George Clooney and Meryl Streep. This film is gorgeously designed and it's witty dialogue and script add plenty of the humor you'd expect from Wes Anderson.
I've never thought a film could beat Pixar or even give it a decent run for it's money without being scammed by the Academy like Cars losing to Happy Feet. This is a truly unique animated film that deserves all attention brought to it and it's also Anderson's best film in his career. I'm truly serious. don't expect your usual kid friendly elements as this film has humor mainly for adults and Wes Anderson fans alone, but if you want to become a fan than see this movie.
This film has adventure, action and loads of smoking if that offends you then go see a movie more your age known as well anything geared at premature teens. You'll laugh and cheer for the zippy characters who are all well done and well voiced with enough zip to keep the film on a non stop fun trip till the end.
I highly recommend this film.
Review A
Well it took over 260 million dollars to destroy the world in Roland Emmerich's latest we're screwed movie about the end of the world known as 2012. Well December 21st 2012 to be exact because that's when the Mayan calendar ends. Anyway the only big stars in this film are John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, and Woody Harrelson. Woody has more of a cameo that is too short because of how good his character really was. The rest of the cast are basically unknowns to use the rest of the budget on incredible visual effects.
Well you get what you pay for and that's corny and campy fun plus lots of gorgeous and upgraded effects that put anything Michael Bay or Roland himself have done to shame. If only the script could live up to the hype of the effects. The script is quite campy and pointless, but luckily it's beter than GI Joe. i'll give some more credit to the film's ability to entertain and it's easily Roland Emmerich's best film as of late.
I won't focus on the plot except for the fact that it involves a hidden shape designed and hidden to escape 2012 and hold a certain amount of people to repopulate the Earth. It's up to John cusack, to save his family from 2012 and board the ship in order to save the human race.
This film is preposterous, campy and just a blast of decent eye popping entertainment. it's far from a masterpiece, but it's good entertainment and Emmerich is starting to get better with these films.
It'll be great to enjoy some entertainment before we enter rehab next week with New Moon. I am quite surprised though that there is a midnight showing for New Moon considering the fact that midnight is way past it's fan's bedtime.
Review B
It looks like we have another loud and explosive end of the world movie from Roland Emmerich. The man is responsible for films like Independence Day, The Patriot, Day After Tomorrow and 10,000 BC. Basically have of his films including these movies have been box office successes as well as critical duds besides two of his films. He's been criticized for his lack of screenplay quality and sloppy directing and story telling. Well that never stopped Michael bay who's been criticized for the same thing including overuse of special effects.
This movie has been receiving pretty good early reviews except for a really low review on Yahoo movies. The topic could also draw interest for all interested in the Mayan empire and the end of the world, 2012 connection.
Most likely this film will remain the number one film until next weeks rehab session with New Moon.
If good reviews are bestowed upon this movie then hopefully this film will be worth it. I'll have to see it to believe all the reviews or just wait until somebody posts all of the early negative reviews so I can change my mind on seeing it.
The only thing that puzzles me is that Conservatives allege that we should focus our money on wise spending and prevent wasteful spending. They allege that we don't have the money for certain bills yet we can fund a 2 1/2 hour 200 million dollar movie like 2012 and Fox can make Dragonball Evolution.
Well let's hope this movie is a worthy investment.
It proves that computer generation and Jim Carrey can still strike box office gold as Disney's latest CGI adventure has landed on top. Well it's better than Hannah Montana or the Jonas crappers. Robert Zemeckis continues his new calling with another box office hit in his new CGI attitude. I still wonder if robert will ever go back to directing any original and more creative artistic pursuits, but at least his films retain some quality. Jim Carrey does his usual comedy and facial expressions humor and acting to make his characters awesome, but I want to see him in an academy award nominated performance like Eternal Sunshine and the Spotless Mind. Oh wait that wasn't nominated because the Academy isn't open minded enough to see a true talented non hollywood performance especially by a comedian. At least they acknowledged eddie murphy, but then screwed him out of an award because he wasn't old school Hollywood like Alan Arkin. Yes that was my rant of the day.
Anyway this was a good movie, and it should be semi successful in theaters until 2012 next week. Great we have another special effects film. Well if bay is in the summer then Roland Emmerich is in the Winter and spring. If next week's 2 1/2 hour movie sucks then hopefully A Christmas Carol will stay on top and rehab will have to wait till next week for the second chapter of the overrated, dumb, vampire genre killing, Emo disguised as romance, poison known as the Twilight Saga: New moon. That moon is the ass of small minded mainstream bogus blinding us. It's basically rehab for intelligent moviegoers
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When donnie darko first came out there was enough following to make it a cult classic and a huge success for Richard Kelly on his first debut film. Even though Donnie darko was far from the best film of the year the fans were rabid enough to degrade your family just to prove that it was. They believed that the film was so inventive in it's style and artistic vision that it must mean something fantastic. Unfortunately, they were right and it also proved that Richard kelly is a bit to obsessed with his own artistic ambition and philosophy that he took a great concept and muddled it into an overlong and confusing acid trip. That concept was the story known as The Box.
This movie is derived from the story called Button, Button, and is about a couple who receive a box from a disfigured man who promises them that if they press the button, someone they don't know will die, but in return they will receive one million dollars. Cameron Diaz and James Marsden star as the hammy acting couple who can't decide what to do with the box. Frank Langella stars as the ominous and seemingly evil disfigured man who gives them the box
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Yep this is it alright.
It would appear that Michael jackson's This Is It! was the nuymber one movie in America to almost nobodys surprise. Paranormal Activity remained in second thankfully and will hopefully keep the number two or one spot until rehab time with the New Moon arrival. Yes I really hate the books and movies as they destroyed the vampire name with their inane stupidity and appeal to tween sheep all around the world
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It would appear that the latest limited engagement movie about a singer has proven to be truly one of the best as Michael Jackson lives on through this movie regardless of it was intended to be seen as a full concert or a rehearsal sample.
The movie grossed over 100 million dollars worldwide, and ranged in the 30 to 40 million dollar range in Canada and the United states. This is a great documentary concert film in general and certainly kills any Hannah Montana or tween idol concert that hit the big screen. This was a very entertaining film and I'm glad that it did so well especially since it was the only major film out this week
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this week the ridiculously overdone Saw franchise met it's lowest debut of 16.8 million as it was trumped by paranormal activity at the box office. the little horror movie that could continues to scare in the 20 million range and prove that creativity and independent filmmaking can still be done to Perfection. all the other films dropped in profits from last week, but still remained high on the list. the former first and second are now third and fourth. that's right I'm talking about Law abiding citizen and Where the Wild Things are. The rest of the new releases this week tanked at the box office. That sucks for Paul Weitz who directed Cirque De freak which was panned by most critics and did horrible at the box office which proves to be another Universal studios dud. They better call Spielberg. Paul now has to watch his brother Chris rake in the dough with New Moon.
Here is the box office roundup for this week
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Daddy's Home!
In terms of acting in a horror movie remake you must give dylan Walsh credit. He carries this film as the insanely creepy stepfather who murders families that disappoint him. He plays the part so suttle and natural that he doesn't even have to try to hide his evil as it leaves an emotional resonance with you during the entire film. While his performance is great in terms of reprising a horror movie character the film as a whole falls flat.
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Where the Wild things are topped the box office with 32.5 million which is terrific because it truly shows that an art house film can succeed at the box office. Some people may have been expecting Paranormal activity to be number one, but I'd wait till next week to see that happen. Law Abiding citizen came in second with 21.5 million which just shows two actors cashing checks for a solid pay day before doing a movie that's worthwhile. It also shows that testosterone filled 300 fans still worship Gerard Butler and believe that 300 was the best film of this decade. Paranormal activity moved up to 3rd place with 20.2 million dollars. It would've made more, but sadly the studios have not fully released it in as many theaters nationwide. Alright I understand the previous delay, but this is ridiculous,. they just need to release it in every theater and stay on top of the box office until New Moon reaches theaters and the underage sheep known as Twilight fans take over until Avatar comes out in December. We'll call the New Moon period, the annual rehab period for cinema whenever a new Twilight movie comes out.
Anyway, the success of Paranormal Activity and it's low budget still makes it more successful than Wild Things and Law Abiding Citizen. Let's hope that Paranormal activity can gross towards the one hundred million and become a huge success, and let's hope there is no sequel.
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Comment by Christopher Waldeck
on Paranormal activity demands at over 700000
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