Saints and Soldiers (2003)
The movie is based on actual historic events.
The plot: Middle of December, 1994. A unit of American soldiers is captured in Ardennes forest in Belgium. When one of the American soldiers tries to wrestle out a weapon from a German soldier, the Germans open fire on the prisoners. This event has later become known [...]
Tags: Action · Adventure · DVD · Drama · Epics/Historical · Movies · War
Battleship Potemkin (1925/2005)
I got the latest (or one of the most recent ones) Pet Shop Boys album, “Battleship Potemkin“. I was interested because I am a big fan of the movie. Sergei Eisenstein directed this silent movie in 1925 – just a few months after Stalin came to power. Since he was a Jew he [...]
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Bridge To Terabithia (2007)
Warning: this is Disney. This is a good sweet movie, but it’s a fairy tale for kids.
The plot: a 10-year old boy Jess from a poor family wants to be the fastest runner in his class, but he is outran by a new girl, Leslie, in Jess’ school, although the race was called a [...]
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A.k.a. “Divorce Italian Style” (USA). I saw this movie when I was a kid. Starring Marcello Mastroianni (my mom is still in love with him) and Stefania Sandrelli. Enough had been said about this movie in the past 46 years. Just wanted to see again this beloved movie. And by the way, some movies [...]
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Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
In 1964, Nelson Mandela, along with several other members of his party and political detainees, were convicted for treason (technically they were charged with capital crimes of sabotage, which Mandela admitted – the charges were easier for the government to prove then treason) against South Africa, and sentenced to life in prison. [...]
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Knocked Up (2006)
This is the only movie in the past 10 years that I came back to the theater to watch again a week after the first viewing. And both times I laughted so hard my face hurt. Best movie of the summer!
The plot is simple: Ben, an unemployed pot-head who lives on money [...]
Epic Movie (2007)
In spring there weren’t that many good movies, and I was nagging for several weeks to go to see this movie in the local movie theater, and, boy, am I glad I didn’t! What a turd! I started to watch it on DVD and it was clear the movie was lame from [...]
Sony PlayStation 3 (60GB)
I have a nice 46″ Sharp Aquos, but no player to play DVDs in 1080p. I’ve done quite a bit of research, looked at stand-alone players, different formats (HD-DVD and BD), and it appeared that the best value is buying not a player, but a game console: either XBox 360 with HD [...]
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Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix (2007)
We saw it on Saturday.
Highlights:
Cho Chang (Elena calls her Chow Ming for some reason) was cute when she was 11 in the “H.P. and the Saucerer’s Stone” (intentionally misspelled), but now she’s just “third world ugly” (borrowed that phrase from Chris Tucker from “Rush Hour” – 3rd installment coming [...]
Tags: Drama · Fantasy · Movies
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Seen it on July 7th, 2007.It may be the worst of Die Hard movies, but ironically, what makes the movie entertaining is all the ways the filmmakers are trying to insult my intelligence. Well, that may be an overstatement. Let’s just say, “all the unbelievable ways they are trying [...]
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Transformers (2007)
Saw ”Transformers” on the 4th of July. My rating is A++. Would’ve been A++++, but I knocked out two stars for
a) some robots still talk like in the 80s: “NUMBER FIVE – ALIVE - NO DISASSEMBLE”
b) uhm.. ok, great movie. A+++.
As always in Spielberg’s movies (”Poltergeist” being the only exception I can think of), kids under 5 [...]
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