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Nights in Rodanthe

Nothing more than a simple digest form of a middle-aged couple refinding love, I would suggest not seeing this unless you enjoy the safety of cliche and prediction. This movie has no depth to it. The actors are famous (Diane Lane, Richard Gere), but I think the movie wants to float on the actors' reputations alone, and it does not work.
Rating: 
4/10

Milk

We've seen this movie two or three times, and plan to own it when it comes to video. This is a fascinating story about Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay government offical. With looks at the awkward politics and religious aspirations of the 1970s and onward, when trying to define and control civil rights, this film makes most people cringe, and often for completely different reasons.

Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, and others are outstanding.
Rating: 
10/10

Young at Heart

I loved this documentary about senior citizens who get together to perform some classic rock ballads plus some Coldplay, which I don't think is really along the lines of Jimi Hendrix and Sonic Youth, but was beautifully and inspirationally sung. The gut of the elderly singing and moving along with some rock n roll was really wonderful and left me in awe.
Rating: 
7/10

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

Ewe Boll must be smokin' a lot to come up with this stuff. We never laughed so hard at a movie, and I mean at -- not with. There were tears in our eyes. I thought at one point Morgan, Ross, and Wayne were going to tumble out of their theater chairs and roll down the aisle quiet literally rolling on the floor laughing.

I am not even sure of most video game lore, or why Ewe Boll thinks games would make good movies, but let's start with the first problem. Dungeon Siege is really a terrible video game. I sort of liked the first part of it but always got lost in the ice cave.
Rating: 
9/10

Epic Movie

I'm sure it has been said plenty of times, but this movie should've been called Epic Failure. We walked out after 15 minutes, or maybe it was 2 minutes. It doesn't matter. We saw what we needed to see in the first 30 seconds of the film, enough to know that this movie was the worst attempt at movie making ever.
Rating: 
0/10

The House Bunny

EYES ARE THE NIPPLES OF THE FACE

This was about the funniest line in the movie, and my mom -- who is quite conservative and finds most things "crude" -- even burst out laughing at that line.

I don't know what else to say about this movie. But here we go. It's awful enough to laugh at. One of the main characters (Emma Stone) was also in Superbad, which I actually liked quite a bit. I wondered why she had dipped below the level of Superbad to do this movie.
Rating: 
4/10

Cyborg Soldier

A movie about some kind of cyborg running around staring some UFC fighter and that chick from Saved By The Bell?  How bad could it be?  Right?  ...Right?

Not only was the plot so thin and uninteresting that I can hardly remember what happened but the action was so bad and so sparse as to make this a real sleeper (and not the hit kind).  On the up side we did get to hear the NOT wilhelm scream a few times which is good for a laugh but the movie itself was just terribly boring.  
Rating: 
2/10

Mamma Mia

This is a girl movie. As a chick flick, you can't get any better. It has wonderful cheesy lines, is set on a remote Greek island, and has campy ABBA songs.

Based off the musical, this movie has Meryl Streep and some other people I've seen before here and there. I've read bad reviews of the film, but geesh, how can you go to a movie that is supposed to not be serious but fun and take it seriously!?
Rating: 
10/10

Chapter 27

This film is meant to be an inside look at Mark David Chapman's thought processes and life in the 3 days leading up to his shooting of John Lennon. Jared Leto, who plays Chapman, does do a pretty remarkable job with this role in that he is so believably disturbing as a demented killer would be. He even gained 60 something pounds to fit the role. So in that case, the film seems pretty genuine.
Rating: 
5/10

P.S. I Love You

Fun movie with great chemistry between hot Scottish hunk Gerard Butler and cute Hilary Swank. Probably one of the coolest romance/love flicks ever.

There are some scenes tittering on embarassment -- Harry Connick Jr.'s character, though unique, was just too tangential and unneeded . Also, Kathy Bates? When did she stop acting? What about her old days like in Misery, where she was crucially frightening? The last few movies I've seen her in have cast her in a plastic role, and she doesn't do much.
Rating: 
8/10
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