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Lourdes. Really quite lovely. Young woman, almost completely paralyzed by MS, goes to Lourdes to pray for a miracle (and also because pilgrimage is pretty much the only way to get out of the house when you're confined to a wheelchair). So what happens when it looks like she actually gets what she's praying for, to her and all the others around her...? Slowly but not too slowly paced, lets people say one thing - everyone's a devout catholic, after all, and they're specifically there to be heard - and then lets the camera say more. Or less, as the case may be. Fair, ambiguous, tragicomic, beautiful. :star4:

Cyrus. John C Reilly is bitter and divorced, Marisa Tomei is a kooky single mom, and they hit it off right away... or would, if not for Marisa's 21-year-old son who's had his mom to himself his whole life and knows exactly which buttons to push. Fumbling relationship drama about a fumbling relationship, which doesn't always work but works very nicely when it does. Just don't expect any big laughs. :star3:
 
Broken Embraces. Visually stunning, Penelope Cruz charming as ever and in full glory. Still, found myself nodding off several times, Almodovar is good but I do so wish he would try something completely new once in a while.
 
The Last Exorcism ~ I thought this was one was pretty good, I've seen a lot of internerd griping about the ending, but I liked it. :star4:

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Legion - Had potential to be so much more.
The Expendables - A waste of Steve Austin. A waste all around actually.
Knight & Day - Cheesy, not so cheesy its good cheesy, more processed cheesy.
Invictus - I like Eastwood, ergo I like anything he presents regardless of merit.
Shrek 4 - Give it up Shrek, you're getting ri-donk-ulous now.
Salt - Passable.
Jonah Hex - No comment.
 
A Prophet (2010) :star4:
French mafia drama set in a prison. Echoes both 70s New Hollywood and French realism, which is to say it looks good, takes its time (perhaps a little too much time at 150 minutes), delivers solid characters and doesn't rub your face in a moral at the end. Quite lovely.

Fish Tank (2010) :star4:
Between this and last year's An Education, I'm starting to sense a pattern... still, very well-made, building slowly to a climax that skirts just this way of melodrama, and if you're into social porn you could do a lot worse.

I Saw The Devil (2010) :star4:
Kim Ji-woon (A Tale Of Two Sisters) serves up a somewhat grim response to Park Chan-wook's Vengeance trilogy; a man's fiancee is murdered by a serial killer, so he decides to take revenge by visiting "a thousand... no, ten thousand times the pain" on the psycho in question. Turns out that has repercussions, both for himself and for others, expecially when the psycho realises what's going on and starts playing his own game. Beautifully done, and a great performance by the guy playing the psycho, but I find myself wishing he'd just given it one more turn of the screw.

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) :star1:
Seriously... Milla Jovovich is good-looking and all, but this story is really running on nothing but outright theft from Romero and Wachowski at this point. Which would be OK-ish if they at least knew what to do with the bits they steal. Needs braaaains.

The Conqueror (1956) :star1:
I can't stop laughing anytime the actors have to deliver a line and you can just see on their faces, that brief nonplussed pause before they speak, "Really? THAT'S what you want me to say? You're serious? I'm a proper actor, you know, why the hell am I poncing around Utah dressed up in furs and a Fu Manchu mustache? And WHO IN THE EVERLOVING **** cast John Wayne as Genghis Khan? This is a joke, right? Where's my agent?" Fortunately, there's plenty of drawn-out scenes of people riding horses back and forth for me to catch my breath in.
 
A-Team - Great action and a lot better than I thought. A great popcorn flick for sure. Rampage was okay in it. 8/10

Salt - Great action but the story is a little flat and very predictable. 7/10

Step Up 3 - Very predictable but the dancing was cool. 5/10
 
I watched Eight Legged Freaks Saturday night. Comedy-horror action flick in the vein of the 1950s mutant insect invasion-type movies. Funny and silly popcorn flick. 7/10

Then I caught Slither last night on TV when I was about to crash and ended up watching it. Very funny, equally silly horror movie like the movie above. Kind of an amusing way to end one's week. 7/10
 
beer good said:
A Prophet (2010) :star4:
French mafia drama set in a prison. Echoes both 70s New Hollywood and French realism, which is to say it looks good, takes its time (perhaps a little too much time at 150 minutes), delivers solid characters and doesn't rub your face in a moral at the end. Quite lovely.
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I just watched this too, After always seeing good reviews of it. I really enjoyed it, even though I didn't know what some of the slang they were using meant...ohwell.
 
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