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[garbon]

Chose to go along? She had just received a promotion at a civilian job. She ran away because she was embarrassed that she didn't actually no how to read and thus wouldn't be able to handle the promotion...but the bitch isn't embarrassed at all about what she did to the Jews?!  She made the choice to go and seek out the SS.  While it is nice of Ebert to envisage a moralizing message, he should pick one that is actually appropriate to the events of the film.

[syk]

Død snø Fun trash movie.

*edited screwed url

[CountDeMoney]

Breaker Morant.  As far as military courtroom dramas go, it smokes A Few Good Men.  End of story.

[Ed Anger]

Last night...

Spies Like Us

Remember, watch out for the Tajik highway patrol.

[Syt]

History is showing the 90 minute documentary about Verdun again. Most of it is play scenes, based on letters from French and German soldiers - one pro and one anti war each, plus a few select characters, like the Kronprinz, Joffre, the commander of a French fort, a German Jewish doctor ...

[The Brain]

Starship Troopers. Yet again.

[Admiral Yi]

Did you guys know there's a Starship Troopers *three*?

Saw Zohan last night.  It was OK.  One thing about Adam Sandler movies you know the female lead is going to be easy on the eyes.

[The Brain]

Did you guys know there's a Starship Troopers *three*?

[Savonarola]

Kekko Kamen, Surprise!

This is one of a series of Japanese films following the adventures of Kekko Kamen.  In this film there is a girl's conservatory on a remote island where the girls are subject to bondage and humiliation as training to become high priced call girls for classical music fans.  They are saved by Kekko Kamen, a nunchuka wielding super heroine who's costume is a red mask, red boots, a long scarf and nothing else.

Despite the premise the movie delivers a surprisingly sensitive portrayal.  While you feel sympathy for the girls you can also understand the motives of the villains...

Okay, I'm lying.  The movie alternates between toilet humor, torture scenes and Kekko Kamen's bare breasts.  The budget is below an episode of The Land of the Lost.  Kekko Kamen moves her arms when she talks like a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger. 

In action scenes, when the scarf is insufficient to cover Kekko Kamen's pudenda a bright white light shines forth from her crotch.  I thought that was a handy power; she'd never need a night light and if she held the book far enough away she could read in bed.

[Habsburg]

Breaker Morant.  As far as military courtroom dramas go, it smokes A Few Good Men.  End of story.

OMG... ....I love this film.

[vinraith]

Got talked into seeing Star Trek (for free) with a group of friends. It was not at all the experience I expected.

The Good: Simon Pegg's a brilliant Scotty, Chris Pine manages to do a reasonably entertaining/cocky Kirk without doing a Shatner impression. Pike's great. There are some genuinely funny moments, some genuinely good space battle SFX, and some decent action sequences. In general, the actors do pretty well with the material they're given. Overall not the disaster I was expecting.

The Bad: A completely incoherent and nonsensical plot (even by Star Trek standards), dozens of groan-inducing "homage" moments involving lines from other contexts, the entire first 45 minutes is cringe inducing sap and painful fan service back story, Zachary Quinto sucks, a peculiar abundance of out-of-place and unfunny screwball humor, and a general lack of any kind of technological, scientific, or narrative sense in pretty much everything (again, even by Star Trek standards).

Overall I couldn't call it good, but it does leave open a certain hope that everything wrong with this movie (with the probable exception of Quinto) could be corrected in the sequels. In other words, it's not impossible this rebooted franchise could turn into something entertaining after all, and that's a pleasant surprise IMO.

4.5 red paintballs of death out of 10

[katmai]

There Will be Blood

It was alright, but probably my least favorite of Paul Thomas Anderson's work, but yet 10 times better than Paul W.S. Anderson has ever done.

[Queequeg]

There Will be Blood

It was alright, but probably my least favorite of Paul Thomas Anderson's work, but yet 10 times better than Paul W.S. Anderson has ever done.

How dare you mention their names together!  Infidel! 

Its also as good as anything Wes Anderson ever did.  And PT Anderson is better than Wes.   

[Caliga]

4.5 red paintballs of death out of 10

IOW you actually liked it, but because you earlier proclaimed it would have to be garbage, and your stubborn nature refuses to allow you to admit that you could have been mistaken, this is the highest score you could give it.

[jimmy olsen]

IOW?