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I'm enjoying your reviews Masterman. I don't respond as much as some but I will throw in my two cents every once in a while, and I will certainly be around your thread. I didn't enjoy Warrior as much as you but I did think it did a decent job with the genre. A lot of what your writing is the same exact way I respond to Rocky which has always been one of my faves. Sometimes a movie just clicks for us emotionally, I wish it happened more often.
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I'm enjoying your reviews Masterman. I don't respond as much as some but I will throw in my two cents every once in a while, and I will certainly be around your thread. I didn't enjoy Warrior as much as you but I did think it did a decent job with the genre. A lot of what your writing is the same exact way I respond to Rocky which has always been one of my faves. Sometimes a movie just clicks for us emotionally, I wish it happened more often.
Glad to see someone else has watched Warrior , Sexy did a nice review on it while ago so there are few members who have seen it. I agree, ime a big fan of Rocky aswell, but warrior was alot more warming, and emotional for me.

Thanks for reading my reviews aswell.



I put this at the top of my to see list after seeing it was your favorite movie. I'll be getting it within 2 weeks and I'm looking forward to it.



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well, you definitely got me interested in Warrior, having a few others post in favor of it. Big fan of Hardy as well. Will have to check it out sometime soon and let ya know what i thought. Another great review, by the way



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well, masterman, just finished watching this a short time ago and let's put it this way, the end? . . . I got teary-eyed. What an amazing movie!!
Glad to see you enjoyed it. I was also teary-eyed watching the ending.



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Basic Instinct
Directed By: Paul Verhoeven





Plot: Former rock star and San Francisco nightclub owner Johnny Boz is found murdered in his bed. Detective Nick Curran is assigned to the case; he has a history of alcoholism and drug abuse although he is clean now. The prime suspect is Catherine Tramell, an attractive and manipulative novelist who had been seeing Boz for a while. Police psychiatrist Beth Gardner (who happens to be Nick's ex-girlfriend) is brought in on the case when it is discovered that Boz's murder was copied directly from one of Catherine's novels. Nick starts to get too involved and everyone seems to be a suspect.

Well I was flicking through the television last night and seen that Basic Instict was on, now ime not going to lie, I have had Basic Instict sitting in my dvd collection for years and I've actually never seen the full movie. I say it's in my dvd collection, but it's basically my happy time collection. My collection has movies like Show Girls, Basic Instict, Striptease.... You get the idea. Damn this review is going to make me sound like a bad pervert. Here's the thing, I've always had a little thing for Sharon Stone. Ive always considered her a milf, i think it's the older woman attraction.... I have Basic Instict 2 aswell, and The Specialist... Haha.

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Alison Doody, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney Love, Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder, Ally Sheedy, Bridget Fonda, Joan Allen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Clarkson, Heather Graham, Geena Davis, Linda Fiorentino, Madeleine Stowe, Elisabeth Shue, Kelly Preston, Laura Dern, Theresa Russell, Demi Moore, Linda Hamilton, Daryl Hannah, Uma Thurman, Nancy Allen, Kim Basinger, Anjelica Huston, Nicole Kidman, Diane Lane, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Heather Locklear, Courteney Cox, Andie MacDowell, Madonna, Virginia Madsen, Ione Skye, Rebecca De Mornay, Kim Cattrall, Gina Gershon, Jennifer Connelly, Robin Wright, Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tatum O'Neal, Elizabeth Berkley, Kathleen Turner, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Barkin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette O'Toole, Greta Scacchi, Julia Roberts, Lara Flynn Boyle, Annette Bening, Mimi Rogers, Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Cybill Shepherd, and Drew Barrymore, were considered for the role of Catherine Tramell. Kelly Lynch was reportedly offered the role, and Mariel Hemingway, Catherine O'Hara and Kelly McGillis auditioned for it. Lena Olin reportedly wanted the role, but refused to work with Paul Verhoeven.
Basic Instict is a pretty average movie. There was nothing that really stuck out for me, and the best bits of the movie I'd actually already seen. Ime not saying this is a bad movie, it's thrilling, its clever, and it does have it's entertaining moments, but nothing unique, or nothing that really stands out. Ime not really a fan of Paul Verhoeven anyway, i loved Starship Troopers, and I enjoyed Total Recall, but that's about it. I actually think he's a very overrated director.

Trivia:
Paul Verhoeven was on record when he first signed to do the film as saying that he wanted to make it the first Hollywood mainstream film with an erect penis in it. He didn't get his wish. But he did get a limp penis on screen - on Boz's cadaver when the police examine his body.
Basic Instict is a very sexual movie, Sharon Stone looks hot, and Michael Douglas looks like a foot. I've never took to Michael Douglas as an actor, most of his movies I find him annoying, and creepy. Plus.. he always seems to play the same character, but in different movie. Sharon Stone is great, she's probably the reason I didn't turn the movie off. This is probably the hottest I've ever seen her, and the sex scenes are great . This movie isn't all bad, ime actually making it sound worse than it is. Ime just not really a fan of movies like Basic Instinct, I can see why people may enjoy it, but it's not really a movie for me.

Overall pretty average movie, I won't be watching it again any time soon (well not the full movie anyway), but i may watch it again in time to come. I've heard Basic Instinct 2 is terrible compared to this movie..... so ime staying well clear of that.




Some really good films/reviews here, but I especially like that your a big fan of From Dusk Till Dawn, like you for me it's one of those bad films that I just love to watch. A real guilty pleasure and I am annoyed with myself now for forgetting to include it on my 90s list.
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Basic Instinct is great as it is, but I'd have killed to have Drew playing Cathrine Tramell.
Wouldn't she of only been about 17.



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The Avengers
Directed By: Joss Whedon





Plot: Nick Fury is director of S.H.I.E.L.D, an international peace keeping agency. The agency is a who's who of Marvel Super Heroes, with Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When global security is threatened by Loki and his cohorts, Nick Fury and his team will need all their powers to save the world from disaster..

Well lets start of by saying this is a movie long over due a re watch. The first time I seen The Avengers i was not impressed at all, i had waited so long for its release that I felt very disappointed when i actually seen it. Iron was fantastic, it was one of the best comic book movies I've ever seen. Iron man 2 sucked. Captain America pretty much sucked aswell. Thor and The Incredible Hulk I enjoyed, I thought they were very entertaining, and very enjoyable to watch. So why wouldn't I like The Avengers?, what went wrong?,..........Everything.

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Edward Norton was originally set to reprise his role from "The Incredible Hulk" but negotiations between him and Marvel Studios broke down. Norton was replaced with Mark Ruffalo.
The Avengers was just one big mess. Now I know there are alot of fans of this movies on here, and I know this review probably won't go down well, but ill explain anyway. For me The Avengers just didn't work on so many levels. I felt the story was very weak, I mean Thor managed to deal with Loki all by him self in Thor, yet now we need 5 other super hero's in on it this time around.? Loki for me just wasn't a strong enough villain for this movie, I didn't feel he was menacing enough, or powerful enough.

Other problems I have:

. I don't think the characters fit together well in the avengers world. Iron man was a very grounded movie, it was quite realistic in ways. Thor was obvisouly a bit far fetched, it was abit more out there. So for me, they didn't feel right together, they didn't gel well, and they all looked out of sorts.

. The Avengers lost alot of the humour, and spark that previous movies brought. They especially toned down Tony Stark, and yet he still managed to steal the show.

. The movie feels to crammed together. I felt left behind in places with way to much going on.


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Chris Hemsworth had to increase and expand his dietary/food intake in order to maintain the physique he built up for "Thor", consisting of chicken breasts, fish, steak and eggs every day (Hemsworth said he had to consume "his body weight in protein.").
Overall The Avengers isn't a terrible movie, it looks great, and some of the action sequences look amazing. But I have major problems with it, and it should of been a whole lot better. Weak story, and character problems make this a struggle for me to really get into. All that's really left to say is ...... Big Let Down.



When I watched the film I thought it was decent, what I expected and knew some people would love it. However thinking now I don't really care for you much and I share a lot of the same concerns for you. I didn't like Thor too much either, and Loki I thought was a pathetic stupid villain just thrown in there without much real thought for the sake of it, even though its a superhero film and you're meant to suspend your disbelief for the film I didn't like the sci-fi/alien element that they brought in to it.

On a positive note, as well as Downey Jr. I quite enjoyed Ruffalo (both are good in Zodiac too) as the new Hulk.