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I am not a very emotional person. I am a girl but I don't want people thinking that it will influence how I feel about this movie. Granted I went all weak at the knee when the second installment in the Twlight saga came out but that is it I am usually imune to gilish burst of tears.
When I went to see 'Brothers' I didn't cry but I almost did and for that it is big thing. I have never seen a movie that tears at your heart strings more and it does it so well. 'Brothers' as the title suggests is about two brother played by Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal, one has just got out of prison after doing time for, as far as I can tell, robbing a bank. The other brother is about to go away to do anthor tour of duty in Afganistan. It is not difficult to figure which brother we are supposed to feel for but as the movie runs its simple couse the lines become very blurred.

It is very often I have described a movie as simple and boasted of that as its charm but if that continue to be my argument this movie has no charm. It is the most complicated movie I have ever seen and that has nothing to do with plot difficulty or our ability to know what is going on, it is to do with our ability to know what people are feeling. 'Brothers' is about the trip our emotions take us on. How we deal with the hardest things that life can throw at us and how we don't deal with them.

You might now be thinking that, that would make it a very hard movie to watch and you would be right it does. There is almost a physical pain to it because the movie gives you no comfort, there is no big relief, no moment where you suddenly think that everything is going to be ok. That is right though because doing it any other way would be incredible unfair to the subject matter.

Even the character surprise us a every turn. I don't think it is too presumtious to say that when we walk out of a movie you could write a list of who the good guys are and who were the bad ones but 'Brothers' betrays that convention. Not one person in this movie is good and not one of them is bad, they are who they are and you accpet that, you don't hate them and you don't love them, they are just who they are.
I have to put in a mention here of the two little girls in the movie Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare they just stole the show and left in the dust the steller proformances by the adult cast. Much respect.

It is actually quite hard for me to just tell people to go and see this movie. It is without doubt worth the ticket price but it also extreemly hard to watch. If you are already an emotional person I would actaully say don't go and see it because it will haunt you for a long time. But as I said before if you think you can take it, it is worth the ticket price.

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A Christmas Carol 3D

December 14th 2009 11:27

It is offical, I love 3D movies. I am completely 100% sold on the item of fantom images of christmas past being throw at me across the cinema. I love that I am no longer safe in my cinema seat and that a movie can be so compelling when you are so much a part of it that you can ignore the really stupid people talking in the row behind me. They know who they are and all I have to say is pick up a book it might do you good.

Ok besides that people in the rom behind me I did actually like the movie. the characters were wonderful and the scenery beautiful. The 3D just made it a prefectly round picture. It made it scary too , I have never been so afraid of the ghost of christmas yet to come as when he was pointing his finger out at me. Jumpy in fact rather than scary but actually not somthing I would bring children too because I honestly think they would be freaked out. There is yelling, crying and scary children beneath the robes of a ghost who bones turn to dust. Not scray for the grow-ups in the audience but I can imagine a lot of nightname for the younger generation.
This retelling of Dicken's timeless classic is flawed for that very reason. It is a movie aimed very obviously at children. I saw that because of a very long chase sequences where the main character is reduced to the size of a mouse, as well as other things. It is aimed at children but it is not really a very plesent experience for them.
And it is not as good as the Muppet version. I cannot watch a Christmas Carol without thinking how the Muppets did it but in this case the film really did lact the depth and the universal enjoyment that the Muppets provided.

If you were ask me. I would say go to the cinema for the love of 3D but if its A Christmas Carol you are going for rent the muppets on DVD.

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Paranormal Activity

November 27th 2009 07:25

I am a fan of horror movie but there hasn't beena good one for a realy long time. Sure the decent was fine but it was more of a jumpy movie than something really scary. I liked the orignal Saw movie too but it was just your standard blood and gore not truely frightening. There really has been nothing that has made me sleep with the light on since the Blair Witch Project( and I didn't even get to see all of that because of motion sickness). There has been nothing until Paranormal Activity.
Paranormal Activity is not a million miles from the style of the Blair Witch Projoect. It is all filmed using a hand held camera capturing the strange goings on affecting the lives of Katie and Micah. Only this time instead of being out in a distant wood somewhere, now it is right inside your house and even worse than that, in your bedroom, under the very covers you use to hide. Remember being scared to go down to the wood, now prepare to be scared to go to bed.
Ok that all sounds very cheesy but it is not, it is just that I can't go into too much without ruining the movie for you and believe me I don't want to do that. I want everyone to have the experience of being as scared as I was last night in the cinema. You might be thinking that I am just a big girl and afraid of my own shadow and that may be true in some cases but not when it comes to movies. I am a bit of a cynic when it comes to horror movies. I just can't help pointing out the obvious to the people I am watching it with and telling them what I am sure is going to happen next( I am sure I will never get a friend to come to the cinema with me again) but this movie frightened me out of that. I was far too scared of what would happen next to conteplate it. I know I keep saying but it really has been a long time since I have walked out of a movie totally freaked out and I want to shout it from the rafters. We have a good horror movie here people and what a rare treat.

Seriously though, all joking aside, this is not one for the faint hearted. You can bring the girlfriend but tell her before hand that you are not going to leave half way through because she might just want to do that. Do you know what, I might even go as far to say, scariest movie I have ever seen. I know that is a bold claim because I have seen a lot of movies but there it is I have said it now. Go see it and bring a coat to hide behind.

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New Moon

November 24th 2009 07:39

Wow, that is all I can say about New Moon from the Twlight saga. Wow if you are a girl or are into guys in general and not so much for the rest of the population. For once though I don't really care.
Ok let me clarify that a bit. If someone was to accuse me of such a thing as being into 'girl movies' I would be upset and possibly even storm out of the room but New Moon is totally a girl movie and I absolutely loved it. New Moon is the second installment in what is bound to be a very exciting saga. It is the story of the girl who fell in love with a vampire and thought that life couldn't possible get better until he leaves her for her own sake and she finds comfort in the massively musclely arms of a friend who was always there but that she has barely noticed before

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UP 3D

November 19th 2009 07:25

I had many opertunities to go and see the 2d version of up and even one which was free but I turned it down. You see before UP had even come out I had already had my first RealD experience(toy Story) and had seen the future of cinema and from there, there was now going back. 3D is the perfect medium for kids movies because it gives you so much more of an experience and makes kids have to concentrate to know what is going on. Having said that, UP is not a kids movie.
Sure is it suitable for children but so are alot of things that you wouldn't necessarily bring them to see. UP had layers and saddness that I don't think children can understand. The characters ahve motivation and hidden emotions that are not splashed all over the screen in techicolour. It is a movie for grown-ups with an adult sensibility. Mostly though it is just a really baeutiful movie

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Fantastic Mr Fox

November 8th 2009 13:33

I have to be honest and say that two things coloured my viewing of this movie. One of them was a small child sitting on my head, actually he was sitting on the back of my seat but his feet were on my head and his mother didn't seem to mind very much. The other thing was the fact that I hate George Clooney. This is not one of those rational things where I met him once and he wasn't nice to me, it is not even one of those rational things where I don't think he is a very good actor. It is in fact a very irrational and unexplainable thing but I just don't like the guy. IN some ways I think maybe it is just because everyone else does but there are other popular actors that I don't have such a hatred for so i is probably not that. I don't even think it is something he has done I just don't like him and that was the baggage I was taking with me to see a movie staring him, my mortal enemy.
I didn't actually hate it. It was of course a timeless story By Roald Dahl who will never go out of fashion and I will grudgingly say that it was done very well. The animation was spectacular it would actually remind you of the original Quentin Blake illustrations which I have always loved. The characters are excellent, really witty and entertaining which is what you want from a movie. Also in all cases apart from Mr Fox himself they were played to perfection, it is hard to imagine a stop-motion characters having so many levels but it is achieved in this movie. The animals have personalities and human traits that some human actors are lacking. It is a very well put together piece of work all the elements just gel to make it a really enjoyable movie

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

October 25th 2009 13:17

The only reviews I had of this movie before actually seeing it were my friends telling me that it was weird. That was the long and short of it, most of them didn't even tell me whether they liked it or not just that it was weird. Actually they were right, it is weird but I like weird and and it is definitely a good thing here. It is a movie ab out a show which is put on to tell the story of the universe but that is not really what it is about. It is a tale of good versus evil and about the flaws of humans and the goodness too and it manages that without being too cheesy which is a feat in itself.
Most people are going to go to see this movie because it was the last thing Heath ledger did and I suppose that is a good a reason as any but another one is that this is Terry Gilliam's return to form. It is a visually stunning movie . A lot of it is in cg which can often be to a movie detriment but that is not the case with this. The images are absolutely beautiful and transform the world of the movie by bringing you through the stark contrast between our world and the world of our imagination. That is where it gets strange but you don't really care because plot takes second place to what you are physically seeing on screen which pushes through the mundane to something much more special

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Adventureland

October 14th 2009 13:12

Adventureland is the story of James Brennan's (Jesse Eisenberg) summer of 87'. He is about to start grad. school in New York city but first he is going to head on the trip of a lifetime to Europe to see the sights. Then his dad loses his job. When that happens that money that was supposed to pay for the trip and accommodation when he got to NYC dries up and he is forced to get a job. The only place in town that will take him his the theme park Adventureland. That is when the summer begins.
If I am truly onset I only went to see Adventureland because there was nothing else on last night. I am glad I did though. It is not exactly that I didn't think it would be good, it was just that I thought it wouldn't be good enough for me to go to see in the cinema. It was on my 'get it out when it reaches DVD' list. This year that is a long list. I love going to the cinema but the fare has not been wonderful. I am looking forward to the beginning of the winter season but with trepidation

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Away We Go

September 30th 2009 10:49

Away we go is a movie about a couple, Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph), who decide to find a new place to settle after their home is disturbed by the moving away of the soon to be grandparents of their daughter. Burts parents are moving 3000 miles away from them and since that was the reason they had moved into the neighbourhood they decide it is time to move on. This journey takes them on a long trip around the people they know finding different balances in life and eventually discovering the ones that suit them best.
It is a simple movie about two peoples lives and their intersection with rthe rest of the world. It is a simple story with no real excitment or major events it is just about life as it happens. It is a very funny movie though and not in an obvious way. There are no jokes as such just occurances which are funny because you can very easily imagine them happening. Most of the comedy in fact comes from facial expressions and knowing looks and it is not just something small that makes you think in your head, oh that was funny, it is laugh out loud that has you spilling your popcorn all over the floor. (I would like to take this opertunity to apologise to the cleaning staff at my local cinema) Ok I lied it is not all totally natural, a litlle of it is a bit out there. For example the hippy cousins with the family bed. Still none of it is unimaginable, every action is something that you can picture happening and the reality makes it funny

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Julie & Julia

September 9th 2009 13:06

Julie & Julia is a movie about two women a generation apart who both find meaning I their love of cooking and both have a great desire to tell the world about it. It is a movie as much about finding a direction as it is about cooking, the two things are intertwined in the lives if these two ladies and it brings purpose to their lives. The movie flicks back and forth between the beginning of Julia Child's career as a cook and Julies mission to cook every recipe for Julia's book in a year. 365 days 528 recipes

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