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Swapping Lives
2007-07-18 19:58:00
Vicky Townsley is single, solvent, and seriously successful. Features director of the hugely successful Poise! magazine, she has an amazing flat, good friends, a fantastic wardrobe. Pretty much, everything! Except the life she wants by all means, marriage, children, and a house in the country.On the other side of the Atlantic, Amber Winslow has a stone mansion in Connecticut, two kids and a full-time nanny, the requisite golden retriever, and a busy charitable commitment for the local Women's League. But she hasn't quite found the fulfillment she had expected from being a wife and mother. When she spots an intriguing contest in Poise!, Amber never expects to be picked.This is about story of 2 women, both thinking that the grass would be greener on the other side, which is what all of us always think to ourselves from time to time. And when Vicky and Amber swap life, both realize what they’ve been missing and learn about themselves in a way neither of them thought what they would...
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Bookends by Jane Green
2007-07-18 18:55:00
Catherine Warner and Simon Nelson are best friends: total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatterbrained, messy, and–since she had her heart broken a few years back–emotionally closed off. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. They live in London’s West Hampstead along with their lifelong friends, Josh and Lucy, who are happily married with a devil-spawn child and a terrifying Swedish nanny, Ingrid.All is well until the sudden come back of a college friend–the stunningly beautiful Portia, who’s known for breaking hearts. Though they’ve grown up and grown apart from Portia, the four friends welcome her back into the fold. But does Portia have a hidden agenda or is she merely looking to reconnect with old friends? Her reappearance soon unleashes a rollicking series of events that tests the foursome’s friendships to the limit and leaves them wondering if a happy ending is in store.Bookends basically is about frien...
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Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix
2007-07-18 12:26:00
The casts are all grown up except, well, the grown ups themselves. And for some reason, the Harry Potter movie suddenly began to feel like a grown up movie which is a turn around considering that it started as a kid’s thing. Right?There was just too little in the movie. Probably they should extend the movie into a 3 hours one because 2 and a half hour just simply isn’t enough. Plus, I remembered the other 4 movies gave me this excitement when watching them, but this one doesn’t have that same effect.I think this movie is too depressing compare to the other 4. Although I do get why, since it was about Harry Potter’s mind being in contact with the Lord Voldermort himself, whom not a happy dude. However, there’s depressing and there’s too depressing. And this one is to level of disturbing. Not that it’s bad, only I’m assuming it wouldn’t go well with the little children. I bet this movie will be hard for them to understand and some might find it boring.3 star...
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Transformers by Michael Bay
2007-07-18 12:25:00
I was born in the 80’s and I took pride to be the generation that watches Tran sformers everyday. So, when I heard that they’re making the Transformers’ movie, I couldn’t contain myself. What took them so long is the first thing that came to mind.The movie was grand, I give you that. Very! But I wish they would show a bit more of Megatron. I’m the kind of person whom treasure a good villain’s role in a movie, and to my disappointment, Megatron came out a too late and it kind of give people the impression that he’s not that big of deal anyway. I mean, he was supposed to be the biggest villain in Transformers, right? Then how come there’s so little of him in the movie? Another thing is, they sort of portrayed the good Autobots to be cute. Like when they’re hiding from the parents scene. Other than bumblebee, Transformers aren’t suppose to be cute!There’s a lot of funny dialogues in this movie which wasn’t so bad if it’s not too much. I have nothing ag...
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Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007-07-18 12:24:00
Let me start with the Silver Surfer himself. I like him. He’s one of the not-so-bad-guy that look good and he definitely got style. And the way he handled Johnny Storm was so cool.Ok, compare to the first Fantastic 4 movie, I’d say this one is way better. Which is forgivable for the first one because I always think that for movies like this, the prequel is always harder to make because it is when you have to introduce the main character to the world, you know what I mean?However, I do feel that the Rise of the Silver Surfer is a bit lame. No. not the concept, god forbid, I don’t dare go around and say anything out of the legendary Marvel is lame! I mean, how the movie went. I couldn’t really put my finger on what’s wrong, but there’s something about the movie that didn’t make ‘wow’ enough.Oh well, I give this movie a 3 stars out of 5 anyway because despite the lameness that I couldn’t really put my finger on, they do entertained me and most importantly, the...

Spiderman 3
2007-07-18 12:23:00
The thing that I hate so much with this Spiderman movie is how helpless and annoying Mary Jane is. I mean, after the third movie and after being kidnapped for the third time you’d expect her to at least take some self defense class or something instead of just screaming helplessly with that annoying girly shrill. All she does is screams and get in everybody’s way of saving the world!And what’s with the American flag scene? Oh my god! That was just too cliché and totally unnecessary. Not that I have anything against the American flag or something, but I can’t help rolling my eyes during this scene.Spiderman 3 is a disappointment, I tell you that. For me personally, it’s not about the story itself, because pretty much we all know what’s going to happened from the comics. Although I do think that all of the villains are all a bit ‘soft’ and not as ‘villainish’ as they’re suppose to be. You know what I mean?Venom’s role was too little for my satisfaction. I...

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2007-07-18 12:22:00
I don’t really like Nicholas Cage because of his sleepy retarded look. But I guess, in certain movie, I could tolerate him such as this one. Although I like this movie, for some reason, I don’t have much to say about it. Probably because it is a good action movie but nothing more. The whole movie was about the FBI trying to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack and Nicholas Cage, using his ability to foreseen the future eventually agreed to help them. And off they go, scouring around town and some shootings involved, but then, that’s about it. Like I said, it was a good action movie, period. Nothing more. How much would I give? Well, hmm.. 3 out of 5? Yeah, whatever.