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Reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter from The Enemy Within) is shadowing the LAFD for the night when the station gets a call from a apartment complex. Unfortunately, Vidal's employers picked the wrong time to send her in, as they realize that contained inside the building is a fatal strain of rabies that slowly devolves the residents into bloodthirsty killing machines. The worst part? The government won't let any of the survivors out.

The film is supposedly a remake of the Spanish film REC. In fact, that movie's producer stated that Quarantine helped the former film come to attention. Anyway, when i saw the trailer, i thought it was gonna be some average virus horror film, BUT! the third act literally startled me. You see, the infection was started when a chemical weapon got stolen by a doomsday cult. A CULT. Like, "we believe our world's gonna end and we should embrace it" cult. And if you listen to a tape recording during the scene with Vidal and her faithful cameraman Scott (Steve Harris), it sounds like something you'd hear out of...

A demon.

Is Quarantine a Rapture film? Who knows, maybe i'm wrong. But a man can theorize, right? Other than this, Quarantine was an enjoyable film, if you can get pass the gross parts. I was on the edge of my seat. Maybe the sequel, Terminal, is any good. (It probably won't)

P.S I was watching Quarantine DURING my quarantine! You see the irony in that?

Out of all the movies from Revolution, The Forgotten was the most ingenious. (???) Julianne Moore is Telly Paretta, a devoted mom whose son, Sam has died in a plane crash. She can't seem to move on, even after her son is mysteriously removed from their pictures; even when their home videos turn blank; not even when her husband and psychiatrist (Gary Sinise) say she never had a child. It seems as if she's the only one who knows of her dead son's existence. She gathers the help of Ash (Dominic West), an acquaintance and fellow parent who doesn't remember his child, Laura either. But one bout of wallpaper destruction later, he remembers her. And then the plot goes into the toilet.

There's NSA agents after them. Eventually, Telly's husband can't directly remember HER. And it keeps hinting (And revealing later on) that aliens are responsible for this madness. Why!?

Yes, The Forgotten is bad, but it's entertaining too. The parts where people were flung literally to the sky made me laugh hysterically while my mom yelled at me to be quiet. And Moore is such an excellent actress. She always looks tired.

I wish i could find this on Blu-Ray, but apparently they didn't make one.

I've mentioned The Core a few times, but one might noticed i never actually reviewed it. Well, I DID review it, but i got taken down because i forgot to answer whether it contained spoilers or not. I think the same went to A Series Of Unfortunate Events.

So consider this my re-review.

All around the world, strange things have been happening: people with pacemakers have been dropping dead, flocks of birds in london have gone Hitchcock, and a strange-looking cloud has appeared. Boring old college professor Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) has attributed them to one thing: the core of the earth has literally stopped spinning. And if we don't do something fast, within a year our planet will burn to death by the sun's rays. The best solution is to build a ship to- and this is no joke- drill to the earth's core and hopefully kickstart it with nuclear weapons. Yeah, because it worked in Deep Impact. The team assigned to the task is Keyes, egotistical scientist Dr. Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci), the ship's creator and frenemy to Zimsky, "Brazz" Brazzleton (Delroy Lindo), French arms expert and friend of Josh's Serge Levesque (Tcheky Karyo), Army lady Rebecca "Beck" Childs (2-TIME OSCAR WINNER Hilary Swank) and her supervisor, Bob Iverson (Bruce Greenwood). Assisting them on the surface is expert hacker Rat (D.J Qualls).

There's something in there about what really happened to stop the core but this summary's getting too long.

So many bad things about this movie: Nothing makes any scientific sense; They literally call the ship's material "Unobtanium", which isn't even a real term; The acting was pretty mediocre; They tried to imbue some drama, but didn't work, they kill off 80% of the main cast, INCLUDING the African-American; and they gave Alfre Woodard a non-significant role.

It's almost as if they made this movie just for me.

Yes, at the end of the day, even with all those flaws, i still enjoyed The Core. It's so bad it's good greatness from Paramount.

A note before i start: I just found that Andrew Francis, a noted voice actor, has a role in The Invisible. What's even scarier is that the movie came out the same year as the premiere of Sushi Pack- a now-forgotten cartoon which ALSO stars Francis.

White Noise centers around Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton), whose wife just died in an accident. Then, a man guides him to the world of E.V.P- Electronic Voice Phenomenon, apparently a way to communicate with the dead via static on electronic devices. Unlike in real life, it actually works, and Rivers finds himself seeing his wife again. Then things take a turn- Mrs. Rivers is guiding him to people about to die at the hands of malevolent spirits. What?

Sounds fun, right? NO! This movie did not scare me in any way. In fact, i think most of the film is either talking about death or Keaton staring at the computer for hours on end. Not even his own death at the end at the hands of the spirits was plausible enough. I can tell you this though-it was watchable, at the least.

After War of the Worlds, it seemed that Justin Chatwin was open for star business, but what could have been a career full of movies people actually like turned into an effort that only gave us 2 movies- this and Dragonball Evolution. *shudders* So, what is The Invisible? Chatwin portrays Nick Powell, a student who is excellent at writing (unlike me) and is looking to joining a writer's course in London to start his bright future. But his mommy (Marcia Gay Harden, who was also the religious fanatic who ordered to kill Thomas Jane's son in The Mist IN THE SAME YEAR) won't allow it. After bringing the ire of Annie, a girl whose boyfriend presumably needs her to steal so he can make money, she orders his goons to attack him while his friend Pete watches over helplessly. JUST attack him. She never planned on hitting him so hard that she actually kills him. They bury him in what i think is a sewer. Then Nick wakes up the next morning (Remember, he died yesterday)- only to find that no one can see or hear him. Then he makes the fast realization that he's ded. And he knows Annie, who feels really bad for him, is the culprit. If he's ever to become alive again, he has to find his own body before he ascends to heaven. BUT! there's a problem- his body got taken out of the sewer!!!

What follows is a mystery adventure where Nick needs to look into what's really happening, with the help of Annie, who, during the course of this film, is becoming the only person who knows he's there. Annie is the best thing about Invisible. At first glance, you might think she's some bad girl who's really hard to feel terrible for, but as he learns more about who Nick really is, you find that she has feelings too and can actually grieve. This is evident in the climax, where Nick's body is in the hospital and she risks the wrath of Harden to cry over him. And that tear brings Nick back into consciousness.

Other than that, it's a pretty mediocre movie, but what followed 2 years later is a different story...

First it was spirits. Then superheroes. Then aliens. Then came a village and a lady in the water. And now, in 2008 at least, the man himself, M. Night killed a ton of people with plants. PLANTS.

I usually start films with a certain expectation and end them with exactly that. I knew that The Happening would be bad, but not like this. The plot itself is dumb enough, but then you got poorly-thought-out death scenes, characters too easy to forget about, and let's not forget the scene in where Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg starts talking to a (fake) plant.

And yet- i actually enjoyed for how horrible it was. That's what Shyamalan fims do to you- they disgust, yet satisfy you, making for an experience like no other. Thank you, Manoj, for making such a horrendous piece of garbage.

In what could be described as one of cinema's best coincidences, Warner Bros cooked up a found footage tornado movie in 2014, just 17 years after the masterpiece known as... Twister. Of course, there is a notable difference but still. This movie was not bad, but it isn't a classic either. Everything other than the filming style and the visuals were average. The acting was average. The pacing (which honestly, is something i overlook) was average. But that doesn't make it not a heckuva good ride though. Oh, and Freddie from iCarly was in it too, so that got me intrigued.

This movie was OK. An adaptation of the famous H.G Wells book, War of the Worlds stars Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier, a dockworker just asked by his ex-wife, Miranda Otto, to watch over their two kids, Robbie (Justin Chatwin, the world's most forgettable child actor) and Rachel (Dakota Fanning). Why does his children's first names start with R's like their father? Maybe it's either a coincidence or lazy writing. Speaking of coincidences, that same day, aliens attack. Then the movie turns to Ray trying to get his family to Otto's parent's house in Boston. This is the point where WOTW flashes its main flaw: Ray is a bit of an horrible father. Like, when your youngest child is scared and crying, you shouldn't yell at them to shut up. He redeems himself later on though via a scene where the ETs kidnap Rachel and he purposely gets himself captured so he blow up the alien ship and rattle free the cage he, Rachel and other people are in. Also, there's a scene where Robbie, who wants to help the military fight the aliens despite having no weapons or experience whatsoever, puts himself in the middle of a battle just before a huge explosion happens. I thought he was dead, but at the end of film where father and daughter arrive in Boston, all of a sudden Robbie comes out... with every part of his body still working. How in the heck did he survive? The movie doesn't explain. But other than that, War of the worlds is watchable.