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Posts Tagged ‘Thriller’

Quantum of Solace

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Look­ing back on the film I have no idea how we got from point A to point B – let alone to point C – but appar­ently the plot line was lit­tle more than a vehi­cle to allow Bond to get into brawls and gun fights in dif­fer­ent loca­tions, and appar­ently I loved every sec­ond of it.

Old Boy (Oldeuboi)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

There were many times I felt so dis­gusted I almost turned the movie off, but some­how couldn’t rip my eyes away from the screen. I’m not sure whether to clas­sify it as a cin­ema mas­ter­piece or some­thing akin to a solar eclipse that will leave per­ma­nent scars on my retinas.

Tokyo Transporter Express

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

The sus­pi­cion that every­one who had rec­om­mended this movie to me had been absolutely baked while view­ing it grew from a small tin­gling in the back of my neck dur­ing the first few min­utes to a throb­ing cer­tainty located deep within the cen­ter of my fore­head by the time we reached the thirty minute mark.

The Incredible Hulk

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Now I know this is The Incred­i­ble Hulk and there­fore was expect­ing all sorts of over the top action, but I became spoiled by the movie’s restraint through the early part of the film, so when the last thirty min­utes arrived and it appeared as though Louis Leter­rier had sud­denly real­ized there was a sig­nif­i­cant amount of money left in the com­puter graph­ics bud­get, I must con­fess I was slightly disappointed.