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40 year old virgin - It had some laughs. I don't think real people act this way but rarely do movies depict 'real world' behavior. 40 years is a long time to avoid getting laid and from what I've seen in this day and age you can't help but get laid unless your a total underwear stain. That being said this is a worthy rental even though it runs about a half hour too long. The ending is the kind that's usually reserved for movies that KNOW they were comedy royality (like There's something about mary) before being released in the theaters. It was kind of out of place for this flick. Rent.

Transporter 2 - Should have been a FOX network exclusive movie instead of a theater release. I liked the first one. This one was way to short and way to stupid. The action sequences (non hand to hand combat) are ridiculous, wait till you see how he removes a bomb from a car LOL. The hand to hand combat however was outstanding. Love the grappling style. Rent it if you must.

Arrested Development seasons 1 & 2 - I know this isn't a movie but I had to give props to what is the funniest tv show I've seen in a long time. Everything I read about this show stems from their problems with staying on the air. It's sad that a high quality show like this will end pre-maturely, but it seems in this day and age of "skating with the stars" & "nanny 911" all the great one's do. If you enjoy laughing and stories that just defy explanation then you should pick up these season DVD's next time you see them. I got both of mine for under $25.

note: season 3 was amazing!

Underworld Evolution - Finally a movie to get me into the theater. Best way to describe this is to parallel it with Blade 1 & Blade 2. Blade 1 is a classic. Blade 2 is a classic sequel. Underworld (for me) is a classic. Underworld 2 is a classic sequel. They kept things simple while at the same time upping the wow factor. The vampires were ramped up, the lycons are given more to tear up, the romance isn't force fed down your throat. It's rated R for a good reason. Dig that Selene. Please ignore the critics telling you it doesn't have any 'Godfather' or 'Shakesphere in Love' moments. That's not the kind of genre this is. I can't remember too many sci fi movies that got high marks from reviewers. They seem to be looking for the menacing of life in every movie. Too bad. Great flick. Can't wait for the dvd release.

King Kong - AFter seeing Underworld Evolution and being in the theater for the first time in many months I decided to have a change of mind on seeing king kong. Glad I did. It's a spectacular movie, and those who would complain about anything in this movie simply love to complain period. 3 hours went by pretty fast, and that's the length the movie had to be. It builds up and a leisurely pace to set up getting to the island and after Kong steps in everything is updated and spectacularly done from then on. Considering the 2 leads, Kong and the blonde, have no real dialog you get performances you can feel. They should give the gorilla an oscar. I know on paper the gigantic gorilla being mesmerized by a beautiful blonde girl sounds crazy, but dude that island sucks man. Bad people, bad karma, bad neighbors, creepy crawly things...no wonder the big guy got a soft spot for the girl. Peter JAckson must have had a lot of fun building the creatures for this film. You get some real terrifying and creepy stuff. You can tell Kong was his reason for making movies. In short see this movie twice while it's in the theater. Great film. I wish that School of Rock guy would have got stomped a few times. Maybe they will have that on the 20 disc dvd special directors cut edition. One things for sure. If your blonde and cute they will never leave you behind, and there is nothing you cannot tame. No doubt.

The Departed - Good. Not Goodfellas or Casino Good. Just good. I prefer the hong kong original "Internal Affairs". It's mostly due to DiCaprio, he's just not leading man material. He was great in Titanic (and Catch me if you Can), but in these type of roles you need someone with some bass in their tone. Mark Walberg usually is about as interesting as watching bread mold, but Scorcese got a great performance out of him. The rest of the cast are veterans and ate up the screen time they had. Of course the real stars of the film are Scocese and the amazing Thelma Schoonmaker, his editor. The way she cuts a film is truly art in motion. Overall it's a solid flick, but nothing I need to see agian.

Borat - very nice..... What a freaky movie. Very funny. I never saw the Ali G Show so this is my first veiwing of Sacha Barron Cohen's comedy. He'll do ANYTHING for a laugh. THere are parts in Borat that make you cringe while you are laughing. In a way the movie is too short. Look forward to the sequel. I don't want to give anything away, lets just say that he will do ANYTHING for a laugh and will go for laughs in places that are rather taboo. See it.

Fantastic 4 - For a $2.50 rental I can't complain. "How they became" stories usually take some time to get going and the villain is usually kind of weak but when it came to tearing a lot of stuff up they came thru. That's all I really ask with superhero movies. You can't take these flicks to seriously, they can't take themselves to seriously, and please non none of that depressing Spiderman 2 shyt (tell me you don't fast forward thru the mary jane self loathing crap to get to the doc ock fights IF you want to watch it again). Recommended. note: Directed by Tim Story, who did Taxi & Barbershop (had no interest in either one of those). Nice to see another brother directing a movie that doesn't involve basketball, hustlin', or sassy stereotypical black folk.

Stealth - One of the cheesiest movies I've seen in awhile. Jamie Foxx did himself a favor in this one. Rent if you have a nice dolby digital system cuz the sound is incredible (as always in rob choen films). Beyond that you have another silly flick stretched out to a 2 dvd set. For what?

Xmen 3 - Here's another big comic book franchise that has a long his troy and plenty of source material to draw from. Hollywood feels it's better to re-write what's already been laid out and screw everything up yet again. Again like ALL hollywood movies it looks great and sounds good, but take away today's technology and what do you have? One of the biggest draws for me to the xmen comic books was Professor X's relationship with Wolverine. The second part was the fact of how powerful and badass Xavier is. The third was the conflict the Mutants had with the world and each other. Onl 1 of these elements I like showed up in this film. There are parts of this movie that work, especially the build up to the middle minus the dum ass death that occurs. Then after the that you get another dum ass death, in fact it's a series crusher. Then you get a video game level to end the flick. It's really ashame how creativity gets thrown out the window in light of opening weekend profits. But if people still flock to the mivoes in record numbers they will keep making stuff like this. Fans deserved much better.

The Last Samaurai - I know your thinking the same thing I did when I first heard of this movie. Well it is a great film. You won't notice "the Cruise factor' in this film. It's the story of a war and arms expert in the 1870's who is captured by samurai in japan on a bad military escapade and is forced to live amoung them for months. He then adapt to their culture and finds some clarity in his life. It's nicely done, and it's a beautiful film to simply look at. It's violent and also very gentle at the same time. Good flick. Check it out.

Million Dollar Baby - Well, that was a lot of fun. IF you like them slow and manipulating then you'll love Million Dolar Baby. IT's a bittersweet film about a female boxer who wants a chance to shine. She tries to win over Clint's boxer trainer character and eventually does that. That's all I'll say cuz this is one of the 'twist' flicks. It's dark and depressing in the way it was shot but it's Clint Eastwood. Say what you want about some of his shortcomings (like making a 'accurate' War movie about the battle of Iwo Jima without including 1 single african american on the screen, way to go jazz lover clint), but he's a icon who continues to make interesting movies. Check it out.

Wedding Crashers - I THis is one of those movies where midway thru it you wonder if maybe they only wrote 20 minutes od the film and decided to ad lib the rest of the way. It's funny but not "paid to see it in a theater" funny. Rent it and don't expect million dollar writing. You could have wrote this movie without your writing hand.

Casino Royale - I love the Bond franchise so this review will be a bit long winded. This is the first theater movie I've been to in 2006. Movies have been pretty shyyt-tayy to me over the past couple years. THis one was penciled in as a must see just because I read the producers wanted to give a fresh spin o bond. I think they realised what a live action cartoon it has become and decided they better do something quick to instill some kind of level headed progression in this long running series before it was too late. The Jason Bourne movies are classics for me (I've grown to love the Bourne supremecy depsite it's terrible camera work with the action sequences) and what's even more remarkable about them is that they are better than the books they are based on (at least to me). This new Bond is actualy the way Bond was suppose to be. The Best bonds in my opinion were Sean Connery and Timithy Dalton. The best bond movies in my opinion are dr. no, from russia with love, goldfinger, thunderball, on her majestys secret service, live and let die, both dalton films and goldeneye. I like stripped down bond as it was written in the original books. Casino Royale is a movei I look forward to owning. It's a great Bond movie and a great movie that non-bond fans will enjoy as well. Daniel Craig was perfectly cast, and the supporting cast was fun to watch. I really enjoyed the non-action parts of this film. That's when you know you have something special. Without giving anything away about the movie, I can say you'll see a more human Bond but at the same time the concept that the double 00's are very dangerous men dedicated to taking out a subject in the most violent way possible and then going to dinner to relax and unwind. It's about time this aspect of the character was put on film again. I liked Peirce Bronsan but he really should have had a cluase in his contract that stated he didn't have to do a bond film until they got better writers or something. No lasers from the sky, ocean secret lairs, or any of the other nonsense that has tarnished the series. I was a little woried becasue they used the same guy who directed Bronsans Goldeneye. Goldeneye was a great Bond film but when you have heavyweights like Tarrintino or John Woo offering there services, it was strange they went back to Cambell to do this kind of re-telling of the Bond character. WEll it worked. Bond is a lot like Doctor WHo. Many actors have portrayed the lead role, so the show is only as good as it's lead. I'll be seeing it a couple more times before its out of the theater.

Doctor Who season 28 (2006) - I liked this Season a lot just because they removed the personal agenda elements (the bi-sexual nature that was forced in every other episode in season 27). As I stated before sex was not something Doctor Who got into. It was the science and the fiction, and there was no longer the hidden 'romance agenda' between the doctor and rose. It's all out there but it's not the focus of the show anymore. Just great stories. While Eccleston is a stronger presence as the Doctor (he lacked a bit in the storied in regard to him being the all knowing scientist) . There's a new Doctor David Tennet and for the most part he's a likeable Doctor. He's been given more sci-fi type stories where his vast knowledge of all things really gets a chance to shine. Standouts were "Tooth and Claw", "School Reunion" (Elizabeth Sladen was so good in this, and you got Giles n K9 too!), "The Girl in the Fireplace" (didn't know doctor Who could be this sweet), "Impossible Planet" + "The Satin Pit" 2 parter, and of course the dalek vs cybermen 2 parter "Army of Ghosts" + "Doomsday". The last episode of the season saw Rose (Billie Piper) leave the Tardis in for the first time the Doctor shows emotion in the loss of a companion which he......loved. Great acting in the final part of this episode between David Tennant and Billie Piper. Now that the Doctor doesn't have to visit the tylers 5 times a season I'm looking forwrd to seeing a more space bound who. It is a time machine that can travel anywhere in the known fictional universe. Season 29 has the doctor's first black companion ever (and she won't get killed off like black characters do american television all the time). Cute and Charming Freema Agyeman who had a bit part in season 28's episode 12. looking forward to the christmas episode and I really enjoyed season 28 a lot. So glad Doctor WHo is back on television, and god bless the web!

House - Quite simply the best show on television right now. Seasons 1 and 2 are really better than it should be. WIth the premise of the show you would think things would get stale kind of quickly (as they did with CSI las vegas for me), but these characters and stories are so well written I can see the show going strong for another 3 seasons. None of these characters really like each other which makes the show work so good. I also like the fact that if something isn't working in the season story arc they put it out quickly. Also having Massive Attack's Teardrop as your theme song is a stroke of genius as well (big props to Massive Attack). If you haven't given House a chance check it cot but I recommend season 1 dvd first then go into season 2. great stuff.

Bones - First episode was less than average, but it really picked up starting with episode 2. THe last few episodes had too much posing in it and not enough story. Of course Angel n Bones should just get a room and get it over with but I guess we americans need forced romance all the time. They do have good chemistry but it gets in the dynamic of the show. I hope they resolve it. An interesting fake science fiction show.

Napoleon Dynamite - Glad I finally watched this one. You will either get the humor and tone of this movie or you won't. I did and I enjoyed it alot. I love how it was like everyone was asleep while awake in this movie. IT's a comedy classic. See it. And remember, vote for pedro...

Miami Vice - Pretty good movie. Nothing like the TV show, but all too familiar once you get into the story.The shoot outs are hardcore and the tone is very very serious. These "get the druglord" movies always end the same though. I wonder why anyone would become a narc when the drug game is very much a part of the USA economy. Why get shot and killed over something that will be until the end of days. EVERYBODY KNOWS WHERE TO BUY DRUGS. That will never change because they get to the neighborhood just as regular as sundays paper. Anyway back to the movie, I'm changing in my liking on Jamie Foxx. He was really good in this movie (and Collateral .....also from Mann). I didn't think I was looking at Jamie Foxx mugging over the screen. He was Ricardo Tubbs and had a great screen presence. I could have done with another Sonny though. Colin didn't do it for me and neither did his love interest....that alone with the lack of action was the thing that brought this movie down a couple notches for me. Could have used a couple more action sequences but Mann's movies ar usually character studies. Needed more plot. Get it right if theere's going to be a next time. I'd like to see another Miami Vice, but these days R rated movies don't get it doe for investors. Check it out.

Mission Impossible 3 - When I heard the creator of ALIAS was doing the 3rd Mission Impossible I thought it was going to go in the order 1st one excellent, next on e OK, 3rd one suckass. I was wrong. I really enjoyed it, in fact I liked everything about it. The action work was well done and the story moved pretty quickly. You forget Tom Cruise and his recent antics. No matter what he makes great movies, and he really played himself down for this role.None of the extended "look at me" fight scenes from the second film (What happened to you John Woo) Phillip Semour Hoffman was everything a bad guy shouddl be, and the story and direction of the movie was really well done. I'll be watching this a few more times in 2007.

SUPERMAN RETURNS - Critics love it to death, Ain't it Cool News is gushing (except for Mor) over it. Me? Well, the best way to sum up this flick is......lacking. It's rumored that more than $2oo million was spent on this film. That's all fine and dandy but what did they spend it on? It's a romance novel / "someone love me" drama with a little action thrown in. It certainly wasn't the script and THAT's where money should be well spent. Just like xmen 3 and Spiderman 2 I find myself wondering when did our super heroes become so sappy? Remember the joy you felt watching Spidey battle Doc OC (even though they had that bullshit "where are my powers", "i'm no longer spiderman" "mary jane may I condition and highlight your hair" nonsense) and remember how long it took to get to those wonderful sequences. What was in between them was not much fun. I remember much of what I liked about the matrix (and movies like this) was watching the story unfold right in front of you, whether there was action or dialog it was top notch. You paid attention and want wanted to see more. With Superman Returns you already know how this is going to turn out. There is no clever writing (superman spends a lot of time using his powers to spy on lois in STALK mode and listen in to people's conversations..creepy kind of), there is no even-matched villain for superman to battle (I'm sorry Lex just comes up with some dum as plots), no surprises, and too much time is spent on creating 'love conflicts' in a movie where the main subject can shoot laser beams from his eyes. Plus on top of this you think about the salary you make and wonder what you could do with $250 million lol. Like ALL hollywood movies these days it looks great and sounds wonderful, but it seems you have serviceable directors who feel they must not add anything new to a concept. Superman Returns is really the original Superman story told again. What a waste of all that money. The cast was great. Brandon Routh is a great Superman. It's like Smallville. Great cast, repetitive stories and lack of moving forward, but damn if they don't have some nice FX sequences. In fact the FX in Smalville impress way more than what I saw in Superman Returns. He moved to slow for my tastes in this film and he barely got to show off all those wonderful powers you wish you had. If you don't mind seeing a repeat of Supuerman 1 with some elements of superman 2 then by all means see it. There is no excuse to me with all that money they have at their disposal and all those original comic book series to draw from to make a retread like this. By the time anyone has figured this out it will have made it's money back. Lets hope they spring for a different director for the sequels, I mean who watches xmen 1 & 2 multiple times? Once was enough for each. Same here.

Bourne Ultimatum -This series of films rank among my favorites for trilogies (Terminator, Back to the Future), and out of all of them they are the one's I watch the most. There's something about the tone of these Bourne movies I find so refreshing. Bourne Ultimatum, the third in the series, is so entertaining and worthwhile that it makes the rest of the 2007 movie offerings seem like cheap gags. I didn't care for Matt Damon before the Bourne movies. I always thought he was more the type of guy you see working at LOWES or JIffy Lube rather than leading actor dude. I'm a fan now. I can't see anyone else as Bourne. I read this is the last of the movies with him as the lead. IF so they ended the series on a high note. Each Bourne movie is better than the last. This third one takes all the great elements of the first 2, throws away things that didn't work (the non-believable 3 story drop ending of the first one, the jerky quick cut editing of the action in the second one) and gives you mo' betta Bourne. Everything is there....the backpack assassins (assets LOL), synista government spooks, google maps on steroids, lots of unconscious bodies....and there even more kids! Hats off to Paul Greengrass (who could film someone taking a piss and brushing their teeth look exciting) and his editor. I listen to all 3 soundtracks on the regular, also a great job by John Powell (Supremacy is my favorite soundtrack) & Oliver Wood who makes these movies look so fresh. It's amazing in this day an age of CGI masters that a film can totally be the ass opposite and hold you attention like the Bourne films do. Part 3 is top notch and if your a Bourne fan you'll be seeing this at least 3 times while it's in the theaters. Counting the days till the DVD release.

The Transformers - Kids have it good today. In my day the toys sucked, there were no video games, and lord knows there were not movies where planes transformed into robots and then struck a pose. The majority of today's movies geared towards adults are really geared towards 13 year olds. They are not well written considering the budgets and amount of people each project gets. But even 13 year olds aren't dumb enough to see crap twice which is why the majority of them make their money within the first 2 weekends. The Transformers is a hard movie to fault as an adult because this is strictly for kids 13 and under, and for that crowd you have something that probably drove a lot of parents by force to toy r us afterwards to get the toys for the brats. Michaea Bay made shit transform. Cars, trucks, even cell phones. There was some kind of story attached to it, but all in all....shit transformed. If you loved the cartoon the movie was based on then you had to have a smile on your face. No, it was not a well rounded spectacle like Jurassic Park or the first Spiderman, but it did entertain and give you plenty of things to wonder at. Special Effect students will be studying the techniques of this flick for years to come. I read a lot of special effects articles and buy cinefex whenever it shows up in Borders, but screw trying to figure out how they did what they did in Transformers. It's truly an amazing spectacle. IF we could do this sort of thing for real people human problems I doubt anyone would ever catch a cold again, there would be no aids, and cancer would be cured with a pill. Funny thing is that I never had the desire to see the Transformers a second time in the theater. What does that mean? Don't know. It was certainly better than that junk ass Spiderman 3, made for a 13 year old Die Hard 4, or made for 4 year old Fantastic Four 4, but it still wasn't good enough to warrant a second viewing in the theater. I'll get it on DVD when it comes out, but as amazing as the special effects are, once is enough if your over 13.

John Carpenters 'The Thing' - You know, I forgot how awesome this movie was. I happened to get my hands on a copy and watched it twice. The atmosphere was so cool, no music in some of the intense scenes. The gore was over the top just like it should be in a r rated molvie called the thing. They don't make flicks like this any more. I mean they butcher the human body pretty good in films (Hostell, Saw, ect), but you never get something you've never seen before. Most horror and shock films are more implied, like M Night Shamalyan's Signs. That sucks. I go to movies to SEE shit. SHow me something I've never seen before. Hat's off to John Carpenter who has done such classics as Halloween, They Live, Prince of Darkness, Vampires. Big Trouble in Little China, Christtine, The Thing (which is a remake of the classic 1951 film from diretor Christian Nyby The Thing from another World) is my favorite out of his series. See it. It's amazing to look and see at 1 point in his career he was doing a movie every year. Wow.

Hostel 2 - Ewwwwww gross. They call this toture porn. I can kind of see that. The movie is basically about sick folks with a lot of money who can set up a place where they can get their gaga's off toruring people for fun. Not for the sqeumish. Wasn't fun watching the "Welcome to the dollhouse" chick get all sliced and.......yuck. Well if your into this sort of thing then enjoy, I'll pass on Hostel 3.

Hot Fuzz - IF you can get thru the first hour n ten minutes of this then you'll be rewarded with a hilarious sendup of most of your buddie cop movies along with the nuttiest shoot outs I've seen in awhile. Done by the Shaun of the Dead guys. Cool Flick.

Shoot em up - For a $5 Matine flick you really can't complain. As a $10 or more flick you might be a little let down. Lots of r-rated violence, but the cheezy dialog will subtract from any weight you might put into the film. It doesn't take itself seriously and it's to the point where you mos def won't. Paul Giamatti is good as the bad guy (his facial expressions and way of dialog is a special effect in itself), but he shouldn't have done this part for laughs and forced creep factor. Monica Bellucci is living art no doubt. Stunning woman. Why she continues to play these kind of demeaning roles is beyond me (I know $$$$). That being as it may, she has good chemistry with the death dealer Clive Owen and does what she can with her 'role'. Clive is one of those guys I wanted to see as Bond so I really wanted this movie to be good in a serious way. Today's new directors have a problem balancing the flash with the creativity. John Woo's films were an obvious influence, but Woo's films are all about details and character development. Every bullet is accounted for whether it hits a bad guy or hits a book shelf. In this movie the rat tat tat tat tat is there in abundance, but there is no detail to the action. What you basically have here is a video game character running around in god mode. SOmeone at least please ALMOST hit him. It seems the director Michael Davis (I liked his Monster man) gave up on the notion of telling a real story where you'll care about what's going on with the character and went for a circus act instead. Pity, he had a great cast. Who knows, if there is a sequel maybe he'll actually fix what's wrong. Bottom line, see it before 6pm.

simpsons movie - It was basically 3 episodes of the tv show except everyone had shadowing in their animations. It was good enough for a rental, but as a movie I'l glad I didn't pay to see it. The best years of the simpsons were like the first 6, especially when Conan O Brian wrote for the show. Since then it's been one of those untouchable shows that will be on television as long as there is a FOX. The movie does show though, they shoudln't take that long to do another cuz it made a boatload of cash.

1408 - Nicely drirected. Dum ass plot. A Guy who makes a living writing books about so called haunted hotel and motel gets an invitation to room 1408 in a big hotel building. Samuel "keep the checks coming" Jackson plays the Hotel manager who begs this guy not to stay in the room because there is a long history of people dying overnight. Our hero ignores the warning and insists on the key and proceeds to stay overnight in the room. No one will go near the room and you have the rest of the movie. Despite the ridiculous premise there are some pretty cool creep moments. Overall another movie you'll forget as soon as you eject from your dvd player or walk out the theater. Is it me or does John Cusack in anything else but a Grosse Point Blank sequel seem like a let down?

300 - Nothing but big bad ass balls up there on the screen with this one. What I really liked about it is how highly regarded women were, as equals to the leaders. The film was shot with this faded stock look with heavy saturation on blood and gore. Cool. Great story, great direction and beleive me if your out of shape, watching this movie will want to make you start working out again. This one is highly recommended, an adult movie made for adults instead of 13 year olds.

Grindhouse - I paid $5 to see this in the afternoon. Money well spent. For those of you who do not need big deep human drama in your movies then this will be a lot of fun. It's s seperate movies along with special trailers packed in with 70's throwback vibe in full effect. I won't go into either of the stories in detail because it's Rodriquez and Tarrintino. Nuff said. 3 hours of a couple guys giving you what you want to see without apologizing.

Spiderman 3 - Best way to sum up this one is that once is enough. I have no desire to see this again, which is worse than the last one becasue at least I wanted to fast forward thru all the "I'm Spiderman no more" and "maaarrryyy Jaaannnee"garbage to get to the top notch Spidey vs Doc Ock action. There's nothing in this film that really shows off what Spidey can do other that hit various hard surfaces at high impact over and over again. For $300 million you get a nice fx demo real for particle animation and a whole lot of Spidey out of costume (He might as well leave the mask off), group crying, phone tag, and 'out of no where' plot devices. This movie will make boat loads of cash no doubt, I mean it is Spiderman. I just thing truly great movies warrant repeated viewings. I could have done without the 1 time I saw it. sidenote.........the new Spiderman 2.1 dvd has some nice action sequences that were put back in. They should have never left them out. We could have done without watching Peter Parker eat cake for 10 minutes.

live free or die hard - pretty soon every movie is going to be pg-13. especially considering it's all about the first 2 weeks of box office anyway. bruce willis should be ashamed of himself. either do it the right way or don'tdo it at all, I mean he already has more money than some of the smaller countries out there. The flying cars and traffic mayhem was ok, but even bruce looked bored in this film. Len Wiseman is a better director than this (loved the first 2 Underworld movies). He kows how to do r rated action flicks. Near the end of the movie it was almost like Bruce was phoning it in, even when another of his family was taken hostage by the bad guys. You can actually see lines of dialog being overdubbed to get the pg-13, watch their lips. If you go with low expectations you'll enjoy die hard 4. Worse has been done this summer. Its not really a die hard movie, more like your cop buddy movie except the cop has been replaced by that mac dude. See it before 6pm.

Fantastic 4 rise of the silver surfer - Well on one hand you have a character that in comic books was very interesting, and fully realized on the big screen looks awesome. Then on the other hand you have script writing that in reality I think anyone with a copy of MS Word could have done a better job with. I mean the money they spend on these movies now equals the GNP of a lot of small countries. You would think some of that chedda would get you some decent script writers. Hell in the case of comic book adaptations you don't need to write a damn thing. Just put what on the pages on the screen and update it to the times. Marvel comics were always college written, so watching these MAavel comic characters get transformed into drama queens is pretty sad. Fantastic 4 II showed you everything it had in the trailers basically. The movie itself is so silly that you don't beleive for a second the characters take anything that's happening serious....ever. But one thing Hollywood knows how to do is make money so fast that by the time you realise something stinks you've already contributed to the $150 million in 1 weekend gross they targeted. The F4 series should be way better than this, but who cares when your counting the money in increments of millions right?


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