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Review: Armored BD

TheMovieman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:04:33 +0000

Greed is the root to all evil. That’s the basic premise to Armored, an old-school heist movie that doesn’t pretend to be anything else. The film is only 88-minutes long (including end credits) and it’s only about the half-way point where the movie really kicks in.

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Review: Did You Hear About the Morgans? BD

TheMovieman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:27 +0000

I don’t even know where to begin with Did You Hear About the Morgans? Well, for starters, I don’t find Hugh Grant the least bit entertaining. The same goes for Sarah Jessica Parker, yeah okay I watched “Sex in the City,” yeah okay I watched every episode because I was forced to, and it was a decent show.

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Review: The Boondock Saints II BD

TheMovieman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:00:41 +0000

Before I begin this review, let me preface it by saying I was a huge fan of the first The Boondock Saints. Now that I’ve said that, let me say that the sequel, Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is nowhere near to the caliber of the first flick in any way shape or form.

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Review: Where the Wild Things Are BD

TheMovieman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:58:45 +0000

Who in the world thought that making Where the Wild Things Are into a movie from a book should be banished from the creative field forever. The movie isn’t kid or adult friendly in the slightest, as I would think that kids would be bored and adults… well the same thing.

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Review: Planet 51 BD

TheMovieman — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:06:50 +0000

Although the studio behind Planet 51 isn’t anywhere near the big boys club of Pixar and DreamWorks both in terms of animation and story [...], when you just take it on its own merits, the movie isn’t half bad. There’s some fun jokes for the adults but will still keep younger kids entertained.

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Review: Old Dogs BD

TheMovieman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:13:52 +0000

Overall, Old Dogs might not be the best comedy and is in fact pretty damn lazy writing in terms of plot, but I managed to laugh a few times times throughout. I’m in no way giving this a whole-hearted recommendation, but I thought it was far better than I had expected it to be.

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Review: Grumpy Old Men/Grumpier Old Men Double Feature BD

TheMovieman — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:06:01 +0000

A year after already releasing Grumpy Old Men on the Blu-ray format, they are re-releasing it again this time with the underrated sequel, Grumpier Old Men. Most of the time this would anger me, but given the low SRP ($24.98 at the time of this writing), if the price gets low enough (~$12), it will be worth picking up just for the sequel.

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Review: 2012 BD

TheMovieman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:41:24 +0000

If there’s one thing you can count on in this crazy, mixed up world is Roland Emmerich directing a massively expensive disaster movie [...] and even though I will always have a soft spot for Independence Day and the groundbreaking visual and special effects, I was actually fairly impressed with his latest, 2012.

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Review: Law Abiding Citizen BD + DVD

TheMovieman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:13:54 +0000

I’m sure director F. Gary Gray and writer Kurt Wimmer had a great psychological thriller on their hands on paper, the problem is, and this seems to happen all too often, what comes onto the big screen thanks to pacing or even casting, doesn’t translate very well.

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Putting everything into perspective; this is a great flick that truly does need to be enjoyed by all. The few problems I have set aside the acting is phenomenal here and the ending has a great twist.

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Review: Sorority Row BD

TheMovieman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:35:46 +0000

For me, there is something worse than a bad horror movie: an average and forgettable horror movie. Sorority Row fits that bill because while it does offer a couple gruesome and gory murder scenes, the story itself is so thin and the ultimate baddie is completely lame and absurd.

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