Monthly Archives: December 2009

Gamer

Posted on December 31, 2009 by OGR

We are rapidly approaching critical mass in my movie watching capability. I have and always will maintain that I will never deliberately watch a terrible movie, which puts more onus on me to wade through all the hype and publicity … Continue reading →

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Cache (Hidden)

Posted on December 30, 2009 by OGR

This is not your Daddy’s thriller, unless your Daddy loves sitiing through 2 hours of precious little action only that culminates in an ending that if you don’t pay attention, you wont get. Mine sure wouldn’t. The film opens in … Continue reading →

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Naked Fear

Posted on December 27, 2009 by OGR

When a movie tries to cash in by attempting to add a softcore element to the horror genre, I don’t much feel like talking it up. So this will be a brief outline of a pointless, shitty film that highlights … Continue reading →

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Book Of Blood

Posted on December 26, 2009 by OGR

To my mind Clive Barker creates great characters that look good in a display case of a comic book shop but who all too frequently appear in crappy films. I have seen three or four Hellraisers, Nightbreed, Candyman, Lord of … Continue reading →

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Red Cliff 2

Posted on December 25, 2009 by OGR

Apparently the Red Cliff movies are very skewed towards a more bias “truth” that changes events to the point where it is less an historical drama than it is a reimagining. Even though I did Chinese history in high school … Continue reading →

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Doghouse

Posted on December 24, 2009 by OGR

The first 5 minutes of the film is spent trying to introduce us to “the lads”, and show us that they are each individual guys with differing personalities and issues of their own. I made the mistake at the time … Continue reading →

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9

Posted on December 23, 2009 by OGR

I shouldn’t like this, it is thinly plotted and the plot that does exist is derivative of many other films over the last 20 years, some of them good, others not so much. But I did like it, and I … Continue reading →

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Femme Fatale

Posted on December 22, 2009 by OGR

Brian De Palma hasn’t been critically or commercially for over a decade since Mission Impossible in 1996 (which I hated by the way). His CV since then? Snake Eyes Mission To Mars The Black Dahlia… And this, another middling neither … Continue reading →

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Pandorum

Posted on December 21, 2009 by OGR

Welcome one and all to Event Horizon 2: Pandorum. OK, so it isn’t really, but it does have the director of EH on board and read this synopsis. “Pandorum revolves around some spaceship crew who awake from hypersleep to find … Continue reading →

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Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

Posted on December 20, 2009 by OGR

There’s a new animated movie out almost every week nowadays, The Princess & The Frog, Planet 51, Alvin & the Chipmunks are all out or coming soon right now. Going back a few years there were less, and there was … Continue reading →

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