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[jellydonut25]

I mean, I can't expect a 10 year old kI'd to know any better...but good Lord, the makeup is amazeballs.

[Dr Kain]

Attack of the Clones - Man, what is up with these prequels? They don't feel like they are actually trying to tell a story, but instead, they are just putting all of the pieces into place so the events of the original trilogy make sense? Once again, what should have been a great story is sacrificed in order to bait the next movie. Every piece of dialog that comes out of Anakin's mouth feels forced or poorly improved. Not to mention the way he acts towards Padme is more on the obsessive stalker side of things instead of just being infatuated with her. Padme is really just there to be a baby oven. And there is no development at all for Jango Fett or even Count Dooku. In fact, Christopher Lee has this look on his face that says, "I'm talking to air but I don't care because I'm getting paid a lot of money for this." Obiwan is the only character in the movie that does anything and he is the only one to have any sort of development. In fact, he is pretty much just Quigon Jin's character from The Phantom Menace, but relevant. The choreography, visuals, and sound are all fantastic. Unfortunately, everything else is subpar. At least it is an improvement over the first one. At this rate though, the series won't be perfected until the fifth entry. Overall, I give Attack of the Clones a 5/10.

[canofhumdingers]

Kain, I'm really enjoying your prequel reviews. Your general assessments are very similar to mine. Well, except for the visuals and music. I think the visuals/effects often suck quite badly because they're blatantly obvious, poorly done composites or crappy cgi when making real things would've been easier and better (did you know they didn't build a SINGLE piece of clone trooper armor? Not ONE. They were all 100% cgi....). And the music has it's moments, but they let Ben Burtt ruin it in editing. Seriously, I've heard rumors that Williams was very upset about how badly they chopped up and mangled his TPM score - so much so that he wrote significantly less for AOTC. Ben Burtt is a great sound designer, but man he's terrible at editing it. I'd didn't notice at first, but after seeing the films several times, if you really pay attention to the music editing, you'll notice it. I'd give specific examples but I haven't watched these movies in years and I'm not sure I'll ever watch them again.

It's funny reading your reviews too, because it sounds like you're just now realizing how bad these movies are. I don't know if that's true, if it's intentional, or if it's just a result of the way you word things, but whatever it is it's quite entertaining to read. And I mean that in all seriousness, not picking on you about it.

[Destroysall]

Just saw Godzilla again.. loved it again!!!

[Dr Kain]

[Dr Kain]

Revenge of the Sith - There are many things great about this movie, but at the same time, there are things bad about it. First off, the movie just starts out fantastic with a great battle in space the likes we have never seen before and it is accompanied by an incredible score of drums. Unfortunately, it seems to dwindle down once Anakin and Obiwan reach Grievous's ship as Count Dooku is dead while Grievious runs away like a coward. I just do not understand what the purpose of Dooku was in this entire series. He shows up in the last half hour of the previous movie and then is dead within 15 minute of this one. He had absolutely no character development and his character was entirely irrelevant to the plot of either movie. It was like they just wanted to have Christoper Lee's name attached to it. Also, the Grievous portrayed here is the exact opposite of who he was in the Genndy Clone Wars cartoon. As that Grievous was bad ass, would go all out on a fight and not stop until his prey was dead. Here, he is a cheater and a coward, which completely contradicts his character to those that watched the cartoon that had been released at that time.

Obiwan is once again the star of the movie as every scene he is in is nothing short of excellent. It does not matter if it is just him having a discussion with Yoda to his battle with Anakin, this man is amazing. Palpatine also stands out here, but did they really need to give him a reason for having an ugly face in the original trilogy? Couldn't he just have gotten ugly from both age and his own corrupted desires? Once again the visuals and the sound rule the movie as we are treated to some great landscapes, pretty battles, and some of the best music from the series. Sadly, the more things improved, the worse some areas got. Padme's dialog is just atrocious as all of her lines feel forced and unrealistic. Anakin has improved a bit, but not enough to warrant anything less than a smacking. One of the best scenes of the movie is when Palpatine is talking about Darth Plagus to Anakin though as it truly built up some mythos that could be explored in future times, which is something the previous two movies lacked. The movie overall is quite good, but could have been better if it did not exist just to set everything up for the original trilogy, which is ultimately where this trilogy as a whole fails at. Instead of telling its own stories, and giving us a series full of finely detailed characters with rich development, they gave us three movies that were made to just set everything up for what comes after, killing any sense of suspense or mystery that could have been made.

Overall, I give this movie a 7/10.

[jellydonut25]

The Raid: Redemption: I think this movie is gonna be like Dredd for me. The first time I see it, I get why it's good and kinda like it, but on a re-watch is when I'll be in love.

[MouthForWar]

[Dr Kain]

Alien vs Predator - Holy crap this movie is worse than I remember. There is absolutely no character development as everyone except Bootleg Ripley is there to die. They completely mess up the life cycles of the Xenomorphs. I mean, seriously, how the hell do they go from a Face Hugger to Chest Burster to full grown all in the span of 20 minutes? That is not how it works. Also, why are there three times as many Aliens as there are people who were sacrificed? Why are the Predators going out in a cold environment when it has been established in the Predator movies that they only go for hot tropical environments? The Aliens also have been shown in the other movies to not kill someone that has one of them inside of them, so why do they all, especially the queen, try to kill the Predator? How is Not Ripley supposed to get home? Who is going to believe her that everyone was killed and she did not leave them? Why does nothing happen at all for the first hour, and then when stuff happens, it is just random? UGH!! This movie sucks!! I give it a 3/10 stars and that is just for it being better than Resurrection.

[XvGojira]

[Dr Kain]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the effects of the movie, they are bad, really bad. That Predator looks down right terrible without his mask as he looks so rubbery and fake. The entire pyramid looks fake and the Aliens are absolutely atrocious. CGI'ed and crap.

[Destroysall]

Saw Ordinary People today.. I was surprised at this film. Lots of good acting, in my opinion. TONS of character development that I felt created so many love/hate relationships for each character. I didn't expect the ending to be so cold and warm at the same time. The music was really good as well as the editing. If you haven't seen this movie, I highly recommend it.

[jellydonut25]

[lhb412]

Road to Singapore

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour are on the road to (a studio set with extras of various ethnicities doubling for) Singapore! Charming fun, hope the other three films on this DVD set are as good.

[Dr Kain]

American Psycho - This movie is weird, really weird. The first 3/4s of the movie are fantastic and then I feel like it kind of fizzled out in the end as it just seemed to stop instead of having an ending. I do understand why it ended that way, as it leaves things everything ambiguous as to whether or not that was all in his head, but still. I think the part that the movie just completely lost me at was the chainsaw chase, as things just got a little goofy. Nevertheless, aside from that, the acting was great, Christian Bale was freaking awesome in it. Overall, I give it a 7/10. It will not be a movie I will go out of my way to rewatch any time soon, but I am glad to have finally saw it.

[Dr Kain]

Night of the Hunter - I was expecting this movie to pretty much just be "The Stepfather" but it turned out to be a lot more than that. It was well done, the kids did a great job at acting, and the pacing was great. I do feel the last five minutes of the movie got a little weird when there was a random angry villagers scene that emerged for no rhyme or reason, but aside from that it was really good. I give it a nice 8/10.

[Dr Kain]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - To get ready for the new one, it was time to rewatch this movie, and honestly, it was an overdue one as I have not seen it since I first bought the BD. The movie is quite good as it really builds up Ceasar's character and hey, a movie where James Franco does not look like he is stoned all of the time. The plot is well done, albeit flawed, but the execution is good and the movie is just enjoyable overall. It is a great start to a rebooted universe and they use the CGI right in this thing. Overall, I give it a nice 7/10.

[Doctor Kaiju]

100 Bloody Acres (2012)- Australian horror/comedy. This movie has everything you would expect when sitting down to watch a film about a pair of brothers adding humans to their fertilizer mix. Yes, there is a big meat grinder.

[jellydonut25]

[Dr Kain]

[Dr Kain]

Aliens vs Predator When Lighting Fails... I mean Requiem - Words cannot describe how much this movie sucks. It is so bad that it makes Alien Resurrection look like Aliens. There is nothing to like at all in this movie. You cannot even say you like the designs of the monsters because you can barely ever see them. The PredAlien looks down right stupid from what you can make of it, and the movie puts plot and character development to the side lines so it can just throw at your action sequence after action sequence without there being any rhyme or reason for it. Everyone in the city is just there to die. What is worse is the fact that these so called Brothers Strause (have no idea what they have done before or after this movie) try to copy things from previous movies and cannot even get it right. They have a character named Dallas, obviously meant to be a homage to Dallas from Alien even though this guy is an utter moron and we know next to nothing about him other than he was once a thief. Then there is some military woman and her daughter, clearly meant to represent Ripley and Newt, but again, without any story to go with it. We are just supposed to like these characters without having a reason to do so. What is worse is the movie goes for shock value with the likes of having a Xenomorph burst out of a child's chest and then the pointless nursery scene. None of it was done for scare factor, it was done to get people talking about the movie to say, "OMG, I cannot believe they did this." There is no reason to watch this movie at all as the effects are crap, the CGI looks like absolute ****, and the Predator is easily the worst design yet. And why would he go to Earth by himself? That makes no damn sense. The only scene that makes this movie worth suffering through is watching the blonde dumbass getting killed by the Predator saw frisbee boomerang thing. She so had her death coming and it was over due. Overall, this movie is nothing but crap and it is pretty much Battlefield Earth bad. It is an insult to everything Scott, Cameron, Weaver, O'Bannon, and Giger created. I give this turdfest a 1/10 stars.

[XvGojira]

I remember seeing it in the theater and at one point some one says something along the lines of "We have to make sure [Female name] stays alive, she knows how to fly the chopper!" and since you don't get to know the fodder I mean "characters" my initial thought was "The little girl knows how to fly a helicopter?"

[Dr Kain]

[Psycho Soldier]

AVPR is one of those movies that tries so hard to be dark and disturbing, and just falls on its face. I can't think of any reason to watch it more than once. Even to watch it once isn't wholly advisable.

[lhb412]

I thought it was really decent of the makers of AVP:R how upon realization of how bad their movie was to make it so dark you can't actually see anything! It's like when authors make sure all their crappy unreleased work is destroyed in the event of their death.