Film Noir: DOA 1949 7 out of 10

D.O.A. from 1949  is a solid Film Noir movie that follows an Accountant's search to find out who poisioned him before he dies.  The pacing of the film and its dialogue matches the main characters urgency to solve the puzzle quickly.   The movie starts with the main character stumbling down the hall of a police station   where he is revealed to report a murder.....His own murder.

The film then backtracks over the past day to unfold how it happened.  As each piece of the puzzle is revealed he gets closer and more desperate to solve the crime as time is his enemy.

The film was later remade in the 1980's with Dennis Quaid. 

It can be found on this set of Film Noir movies.

Shutter 2008 7 out of 10

1. Shutter 2008  7 out 10...was a good Japanese style horror movie starring Joshua Jackson.   From the producers of The Ring and The Grudge it had that same creepy vibe to it.   The movies plot follows a newly married couple  as they travel overseas to Japan for his photography job.    An car accident happens and they start seeing these ghostly images in all their photos.   Things are quite what they seem at firs.  I personally partially figured out part of one of the twists of the film fairly early on  (just not the exact details)- yet it didn't ruin the movie for me.  If you liked The Ring and The Grudge you will probably enjoy this film as well.

Here is the trailer for it.

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Shark Week 2012 3 out of 10 (Another really bad shark movie)

Assylum strikes again....With another terrible low budget bad sci-fi movie.   Shark Week---no not the week of shark footage on Discovery channel.  This one stars a guy dressed like The Most Interesting Man in the world on a bad bender.  (Apparantly the writers of the movie were drunk as well--because this movie is a mess).   A lot of boring bad dialogue in between so dark you can't see anything shark attacks.   The plot: (if you can call it a plot) --was a groupl of complete strangers that of course have a link to the Most uninteresting  man in the world.  He kidnaps them and brings them to his island where he forces them through a series of boring shark attacks and caves--and sitting on the beach yelling at each other.  With each stage of this silly death game the drunken madman (who doesn't even seem interesting the game at all as he sits smoking his cigar and stroking his strand of pearls  (i guess they couldn't afford a cat)....gives them a bunch of dull details about sharks before they are attacked by more and more dangerous species.......

I love me some bad shark movies ---but this one really stunk...

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I Recall seeing this movie a before.........A remake

I'm conflicted......Total Recall with Arnold is one of my top 25 movies of all-time.

A Phillip K Dick adapted sci-fi story as a kick ass action movie at the height of Arnold's career.

It was so good, not only because of the story and the action and the three boobed mutants....but also because Sharon Stone was a hottie at the time and Arnold was just an action movie beast.

Classic Arnold lines---like  "Screw you Benny"  and "Consider that a Divorce" delivered in half English like only Arnold can deliver them.  A 10 out of 10.  So seeing a new Total Recall come out is weird.....Why are they messing with a classic action film.??  Sure it a a good thing for fans of 3 boobed hookers.  The new Total Recall looks like a scene for scene remake of the old film.  Even the trailers show the same scenes..   Special effects have evolved since the original so it will probably look great.  I'm curious to see how they do it....but maybe not enough to get me to see it in the theater.

For one thing they aren't even getting their ass to Mars this time around.....and Colin Farell is just no Arnold.

If the Rock was in it I would be lined up right now to see it.....I just don't know if I can like a Colin Farell version of a movie that is already a 10 out of 10 for me.

Quote from my friend Scott....."Why are they remaking Total Recall?" 

I have a feeling the box office results are going to say the same thing.

Here are the trailers ...

 I  think I will wait for DVD and just watch the original this week if I need my Total Recall fix

Brad's Top 10 movies of 2009

Coming in at number 10

Surrogates 8 out of 10 

Right up my alley…Interesting …..Mystery ….Sci-Fi…..I love flicks like this ---from Bladerunner to Total Recall--- a movie that entertains and makes you think about things ----my kind of film……It takes Virtual reality….The Internet Real life Simms…..Like the kind of books that I read……Bruce Willis was great and the plot twists although not surprising were good….Really liked the ending..

Coming in at number 9

Adventureland 8 out of 10 2009
A great cast and a fun coming of age movie

Number 8

Ice Age 3:Dawn of the Dinosaurs 8 out of 10
The franchise steps it up a notch with a good solid story and some Exciting action and visuals

Number 7

Drag me to Hell 8 out of 10 

Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots.....The car parking lot scene alone is worth the ride

Number 6

Avatar 2009 8 out of 10
A Visual Treat---soon to be a Disney land in animal Kingdom.. The story was basically Pocahontas with Blue people...but the visuals were stunning.

Number 5

Angels and Demons 2009 9 out of 10
A thrilling sequel that is bettter than the Da Vinci Code. Much more in the class of the National Treausre flicks.

Number 4

District 9 2009 9 out of 10
A really cool Sci-Fi movie about a segregation.

Number 3

Taken 2009 9 out of 10

Liam Nesson goes all Mel Gibson and kicks some ass

Number 2

The Hangover 2009 9 out of 10
What happened in Vegas stays there---because they had a pact...

Number 1

UP 2009 9 out of 10
Pixar at the top of their game as usual.....in this uplifting story about how it is never too late for an adventure

Mr Popper's Penguins 2011 5 out of 10 (Family film review #2)

Mr Popper's Perfectly Predictable Penguins....  Jim Carrey doing his same old act--throwing in some random moments that could have been straight out of Ace Ventura.  The Penquins were cute....(even though they pooped on Mr Popper)   The kids laughed because all kids movies seem to have the fart joke or poop joke this days.  This story has been done before (without Penguins) it is basically the same old  Dad who is out of touch with his kids that learns a life lesson when his life is suddenly changes movie  (see Game Plan, or the Tooth Fairy ---or half a dozen other  family films).  And yes the Penguins are cute....(I get that) at least these Penguins don't bust out in a rap song like the dreadful looking Happy Feet 2 Trailer.   Penquins being cute is not enough to entertain me for an hour and a half though (I actually feel asleep watching it with the kids and had to finish it the next day).  

 Mr Popper inherits some Penguins from his out of touch with him father and the Penguins end up making him go a little nutty as he turns his New York apartment (that doesn't allow pets) into a Penquin playground.  He reconnects with his kids and his ex wife and everyone is happy.  The trailer pretty much perfectly sums up this predictable penguin movie.....And yes aren't they cute.  Awwww!

Animated Movies: Movie #2 Despicable Me 2010 6 out 10

Despicable Me is a decent Animated movie starring Steve Carell of The Office fame as Gru a Super Villian and isn't as Super as he used to be. The movie definitely has its moments --but many of the best of them like the Willie Coyote style attempts to get into a competing Super Villains lair were already in the trailers. The little unexplained yellow Miniions of his delight children every time they are on screen with comic relief. It has a very similiar theme to Megamind (imagine that--because similiar animated movies never come out around the same time coughs under his breath....A Bug's Life and Ants). The movie is good but not great, the animation decent but not excellent, the story okay but not wonderful. I can't put my finger on what is missing -but once it ended I wasn't thinking about it at all really. Maybe it was because I had seen a Pixar movie the same week, or that I was still thinking about how I enjoy Tangled a little bit more my step daughter watches it. I can't see myself watching Despicable Me again. It just didn't have that magic that a Pixar or Disney Classic does. If you haven't seen it your kids will like it....But your kids are probably already trying to drag you out to that Smurfs movie too..... And like i always say..."What do I know?---NOT SO MUCH apparently since a Sequel is already in the works because of how much money it made. So in summary enjoyable but not memorable

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