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An error has ocurred. Please try againI won't be including the episodes of Tales From The Crypt he reviewed as it is a Tv series, not a movie.
Thanks for the entertainment Chuck!
listed below are my favorites (in mostly alphabetical order) along with what I personally feel is their most enjoyable & entertaining score... enjoy!
also included in the set was a movie named The Shadow: International Crime (1937) which has no existing page on youtube
...also included in this list is Ninja Heat (1988) which evidently doesn't exist in the world of IMDB
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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Close,but no cigar.
*Spoilers abound*
I've been waiting for this for a while and I was glad I finally saw it. however as someone who actually liked the first movie and Dark Of The Moon (let's not get started on what I thought of the travesty that was Revenge Of The Fallen), I felt it was majorly lacking in a sense of plot while the visuals are hands down the best in the series (especially in 3D). but all the visuals in the world can't help the fact that the script is a major jumbled mess.
Mark Wahlberg plays Cade Yeager, a failed scientist who finds Optimus Prime hiding out in an old movie theater and repairs him. meanwhile a scientist (Stanley Tucci) is working on mastering the metal of the transformers called Transformium (not even kidding about that) so he can build a transformer army of his own who apparently is working with a cia agent(Kelsey Grammar)who wants to destroy all Transformers but are working together with a mega transformer who is a bounty hunter looking for optimus prime, but is willing to let the humans do it in exchange for a space seed...which Stanley Tucci wants because apparently the mind of Megatron tells him so, so Megatron (now re-branded as Galvatron) can destroy humanity.
If that synopsis made sense to you, It's because I've deciphered it the best I could. there are plot holes abound leaving a very non-sensical plot that left me scratching my head more than a David Lynch film...and this is for a Transformers film. (for instance, it's never explained how the humans know to contact the bounty hunter who just happens to have what they want...or the fact that they were lucky enough to find said bounty hunter and not be killed in the first place.)There are also huge gaps in editing where Optimus Prime will be driving not that far away from mark wahlberg. we'll see him several minutes later on top of a roof beating up some decepticon without a clue as to how he got there. Maybe you could have cut the numerous scenes of the boyfriend being smug towards Mark Wahlberg or the numerous lectures of how humanity has changed and Optimus Prime not caring about humanity anymore to fit in that little bit. or maybe you could have cut the revealtion that the CIA killed Ratchet TWICE! (no seriously, Cade hooks up some weird surveillance drone to his car and is able to project what the drone has seen. you see Ratchet's death and Optimus doesn't bat a freaking eye. Later you see Ratchet being melted down for Transformium and Optimus goes "they killed Ratchet" and then freaks out and rampages into a factory)
...but this was overkill. running at 2 Hours and 45 minutes, you start to lose patience quick especially when it adds up to nothing but a 3 hour TV pilot as the movie is left deliberately open for a sequel. hopefully, the 5th movie has a better written script
47 Ronin (2013)
This Movie lives In a Bizarre Land....
where I can't say I hate it, I can't say I love it and i can't even go the lazy route and just say "it was O.K." It was just kinda there on the screen
It felt like a lot of this movie hit the cutting room floor. if I was told there's a much longer cut of this somewhere, I'd be inclined to believe them. You barely get any chance to know these characters or connect with them in any fashion. you get a minor form of this Keanu Reeve's character with the love interest but they are barely on screen. It cuts backs every so often to her, but rarely almost as if the movie forgot and had to remind itself. This almost non-connection to these characters causes a bit of a problem when you have to feel for them avenging their master...who you also don't get to know that well.
secondly, the villain... what was his reasoning for trying to kill the master? I assumed it was for land control to fill in some semblance of a story because it is never explained... and what the flying hell was the motive of the witch? she's just there as an assassin and then she just sticks around to move plot sometimes or look mildly threatening.
I don't feel like much of a story happened at all and the action sequences themselves barely last a minute or two which aren't even that well shot or edited together. (I kid you not there is a scene her where the cinematographer pushes the camera down to get Keanu Reeves in frame and a couple seconds later pushes it further to the right almost as if he forgot)
which is also kind of a odd, for a movie that cost $176 million to make and lasts two hours long. It doesn't look anywhere near as expensive as it appears to be. this could have been easily done with 60 million tops but it passed the time well and it had it's problems, but nothing that angered me, just kinda threw me off (I was actually more angered watching the trailer for Transcendence than i was this). I could see myself watching this again, but I can definitely see why people had it's problems with it