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That's also why I don't have anyone on ignore. No, not even - now you didn't really expect me to name anyone, did you, or maybe you did!
Oh i wouldve!!! 
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"....rumour has it that he shoots a lot of people in the head. Sorry, I should have put a spoiler on that..."
Damn cinemascope you have utterly destroyed my enjoyment of the 3rd film now!  ha ha
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"....rumour has it that he shoots a lot of people in the head."
Every damn night? ON THE TELEPHONE???
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THE LAST MOVIE
2-10
Yet another "movie I always wanted to see"AND wish I had not.
brm
p.s.does anybody think
really think Dennis Hopper is a good actor?
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Now, if it was directed by an italian chap, TG would have been all over it with his 8 and 9 ratings.
Or Spanish, or Japanese, or Swedish....
In which case it might have had some DEPTH, or some LAYERS, or even some MEANING. And there are also some Hollywood directors who would have given it a third dimension.
(And yes I know you were taking the mickey)
I don't know if you like football, but you'd have loved a manager called Allardyci.
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Feb 24, 2019 - 4:01 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (2019) - 7/10
Rosa Salazar plays "Alita," a deactivated female cyborg who is revived by "Dr. Dyson Ido" (Christoph Waltz), but cannot remember anything of her past life. She goes on a quest to find out who she is. As you might expect from something co-produced and co-written by James Cameron, CGI is the order of the day, and it is spectacularly detailed. The main action set pieces consist of cyborg-on-cyborg combat, and except for a few shots during a couple of "motorball" sporting tournaments, the action is easy to follow. ("Motorball" is pretty much a cyborg version of "Rollerball.")
This is a fairly decent start to what I'm sure the film-makers hope will be a franchise. As such, it needs to spend a lot of time setting up its world of the terrestrial "Iron City" and "Zalem," the city hovering in the sky holding society’s upper class over the heads of the poor below. Alita also has various flashbacks, as her past comes into focus. There seem to be plenty of directions for subsequent films to go, since the world of Zalem is scarcely seen during this film, except for its prime villain, who for reasons yet to be revealed desires the destruction of Alita.
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TRANSPORTER REFUELLED
2015
So bad it hasnt even got jason statham in it!
Action nonsense. Couple heists quite slick but car chases and fight scenes had that false choeography that looks like dance steps!
6 out of 10.
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BLACKKKLANSMAN
7-10
I have to laugh at the , predictable, complaints of "historical inaccuracy'!
Director Lee directs (and writes)in a highly stylized , personal, style that lets the audience know he is not making a gritty documentary of a real life event. If you don't get that, don't blame the filmmakers.
(just one example: all the girls at the rally have huge Afros and are gorgeous!)
An off-beat approach to the subject that works just fine!
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Sin City (USA 2005, Robert Rodriquez/Frank Miller) 6/10
Stylish and slavishly faithful adaptation of Frank Miller's collection of graphic novelettes (which describes it more correctly than "graphic novel", I'd day). The movie is certainly interesting and captures the look and style of Miller's comic book -- er, well, -- to the letter (and to the graphic imagery). Perhaps too slavishly, because what works great in a panel of a comic book seems excessively violent in live action scenes. Wisely, the style of the picture tones down the violence (blood at times is white, some of it is in silhouette... still, this ain't no Archie comic book).
Also, since the mind is allowed to linger over panels of a comic book, but the film keeps moving along at a zipping speed, the characters betray their comic book origin and feel more one dimensional, whereas ironically they seemed more "fleshed out" when they were confined to the black ink of the comic book page.
If you can stomach the violence, it's still worth seeing for the impressive visuals, which really nail the tone of Frank Miller's (who co-directed) comic book, and some great performances, particularly an over-the-top Mickey Rourke as a tough street thug determined to avenge the death of a prostitute, and an unassuming, quiet Elijah Wood as your ultra-creepy next door serial killer.
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