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"Cloverfield" Review
2008-02-16 07:08:00
?Cloverfield ?2008**** out of ****Director: Matt Reeves Cast: Michael Stahl-David, Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller ?Cloverfield? is one of the most extraordinary films that I?ve ever partaken in the theater. Each moment of the film kept me on the edge of my seat and begging for more. Rest assured it never let go of me. I was intrigued with the storyline right from the very beginning, and I?m sure you find it hard to believe when I say that a film that was hyped more than ?Snakes on a Plane? can be that good. Since the unnamed teaser appeared in front of ?Transformers,? I and many other online bloggers and film geeks paid attention to updates of a movie that was then titled ?Untitled J.J. Abrams Project.? Our nickname for it was ?Cloverfield.?I learned earlier this weekend that they weren?t planning on releasing it as ?Cloverfield,? but a different title that would have probably made no sense. We kept asking what the word meant. It was never repeated once in the movie, other than the beginnin...
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"The Signal" Review
2008-02-16 07:05:00
?The Signal ?2007**** out of ****Directors: David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob GentryCast: Anessa Ramsey, A.J. Bowan, Justin Welborn?The Signal ? is full proof of why I?ve been mad at cinema for the entire year so far. With the exception of ?Cloverfield? and that little comedy that every one hated but they all know they truly loved (and when I say ?every one,? I mean twelve people), I never really got much out of 2008 so far. Granted, I still haven?t seen everything that?s came out since the first weekend, but if they weren?t anything like ?The Signal,? I don?t give the shits coming from Jesse Jackson?s mouth. If more movies were like ?The Signal,? I would have turned in my critic badge a looong time ago.I?m pretty sure that all of you guys know where I?m going when I say how good ?The Signal? really is, and it?s not because it?s so different in tone, but it is the way that it describes itself to the viewer. ?Why are these people killing themselves?? we?re left asking throughout the movi...
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"Jumper" Review
2008-02-16 06:42:00
?Jumper ?2008** out of ****Director: Doug LimanCast: Hayden Christensen , Samuel L . Jackson, Rachel Bilson There?s an Anti-Christ living on the Earth and his name is Doug Liman.You may not know this dude, but feel lucky. He will ruin your goddamn life. For the people who worked with him, only you really know what you guys went through. I don?t care about ?Swingers,? ?Go,? or ?The Bourne Identity,? but he ruined the lives of two people with ?Mr. and Mrs. Smith? ? Jennifer Aniston and me. He let Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie get too close. Jennifer Aniston was left to star in ?The Break-Up? with Vince ?Fuck-you-I?m-awake? Vaughn and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been adopting foreign children. And then he ruined my life, from watching ?Mr. and Mrs. Smith,? sitting through Vaughn and Aniston fighting, and hearing about those two bastards adopting children.I was really planning on staying very far away from Liman?s newest film ?Jumper? in theaters, but that was before I found out that ?...
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