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The Godfather : Part 3



+ al pacino is great

- horrible stories
- isntead of being done at amazing pace like the first , the stories are performed at suspensefull pace
- throws away all the classic characters and introduces new ones
- scenes that do nothing are way too long

D- on par with battle royale 2 for being a ton worse than the original
Roger Ebert's got nothing on you.
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Pauly Shore is Dead




+ ben stiller part
- HORRIBLE acting
- movie is filmed at 60fps which looks really crappy with the horrible visuals and acting
- even if the story was good , the acting totally throws the entire concept away

F one of the worst movies your able to watch without shooting yourself
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The Host




+ good story
+ a couple of funny parts
+ great looking action
+ first scene with the monster at the lake is amazing
+ good ending
- characters are pretty shallow
- some major story spikes are played out like jokes
- plot is thing

B+ the best monster movie i've seen



Suicide Club





+ suicide scenes are both gross and cool - also funny sometimes
- the story dosen't come close to making any sense
- dumb plot
- crappy ending

D- just because of the few suicide scenes it wasn't completly unenjoyable , but the story was one of the worst



American Physco




+ original story
+ chainsaw throw ftw
+ the totally messed up looking apartment
+ the painted white version of it
+ buisness card scene
- the whole movie is ironic in how the main character is not explored at all
- ends out of nowhere
- some really pointless scenes

B like barton fink it almost digs into the thought provoking and self inducing style of fight club , but it ends out of nowhere and does not explore the character



Requiem For a Dream




+ amazing visuals dominate the movie
+ lots of cool scenes
- characters are worthless
- ends in the middle of nothing

C+ the coolest looking anti-drug thing ever



The Godfather : Part 2




+ tells great stories like the first
+ great music
+ characters are deep
- movie is dominated by close up shots
- a few of the stories are soul-less

A- defintly not in the same leauge as the first , but a great movie anyway



Barton Fink




+ great visuals throughout
+ john goodman is amazing
+ you could go on for hours about the symbols and their meanings
+ cool typewriter scenes
+ dialouge is meant to mean a ton but ,
- the ending sells the whole story short , and cuts it off from doing anything
- no plot


B+ it teases you with tons of small plots that lead nowhere



Requiem For a Dream


+ amazing visuals dominate the movie
+ lots of cool scenes
- characters are worthless
- ends in the middle of nothing

C+ the coolest looking anti-drug thing ever

WHERE DO I BEGIN?!



Rush Hour 2




+ j'mon lee
+ i'll be right back
+ cheap suits
+ cool action scenes
+ tons of hillarious quotes again
+ great music
+ fasion guy
+ out-takes
- story is pretty thin

A- funny with cool action , but like the first one really no story



Pi




+ a few cool scenes (very short though)
- movie happens in a very crappy way and draws away from the actuall story of the movie with it's crazy off the wall visuals and audio
- the film quality is very old and crappy
- anoying music

F so many bad ideas thrown into what could have been a good story



Rush Hour




+ tons of hillarious quotes
+ soo yung
+ cool action scenes
+ great music (also "war")
+ out-takes
- thin story

A an action/comedy classic



Rush Hour gets a better rating than Requiem For a Dream? Am I in hell?
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Battle Royale 2




+ some really great action scenes
+ returning characters from the first one
+ really beutifull shots at the end
- the entire movie is just shooting with nothing ever happening
- not like the original battle royale story just shooting : and no real conflict
- almost no music

D- really big letdown from the first one



Zodiac




+ robert downey is amazing
+ zodiac kills someone scenes are cool
+ gigantic scale scenes of the city
+ clues and evidence suck you into the movie
+ gigantic ammounts of time that go by in the movie
+ great music
- the horrible text ending , that dosen't even look right on a t.v (defintly should have been done visually)

A an almost perfect crime movie , even though the movie is 3 hours long the ending feels extremly rushed and could have been made to actally be in the movie



Good Will Hunting




+ some interesting story parts
- the entire movie is talking and lots of the dialouge is meaningless
- bad ending
- majority of the story is generic


D- after the major hype for this movie it disapoints in a big way



Transformers




+ really amazing looking cgi
+ some amazing shots
+ the building intertior shots at the end
+ furby truck
- no story

D+ another Micheal Bay movie that dosen't have a story



Magnolia




+ amazing performances from every actor in the movie and the movie features a ton of big actors
+ the majority of the movie moves at amazing speed
+ incredibly original , not similar to any movie
+ the tons of great characters keep the story from ever getting dull
+ great ending
+ loved all the music
+ "not going to stop" part

A+ right when you get familiar with the movie it changes



Battle Royale




+ amazing plot
+ lots of great twist
+ good cinemetography but some of the gigantic shots obviously suffered from not having good enough cameras (fixed on new dvd)
+ awesome action
+ ending lives up to the rest of the movie

A+ a great plot executed amazingly , if you see one foreign movie : make this it



Dueces Wild




+ a few good story parts
- mostly horrible cinemetography
- dumb fight scenes
- even dumber music during the fight scenes
- mostly horrible acting

D+ a very failed effort , espicially being made in 2002 makes it look worse