I finally got round to watching the Evil Dead Trilogy last week. I enjoyed the series immensley.

     The first film, Evil Dead, scared the hell out of me. I didn't expect it to do so considering the low budget, etcetera; however, it certainly seems that low budget horror flicks are the way to go.

    The sequel / remake, Evil Dead 2, took a turn which I did not predict. Prior to watching the second film I accidentally read what was going to happen at the end of the film / start of Army of Darkness; to be specific, that Ash would travel back in time to 1300AD. The Ash presented in the first film doesn't seem like an epic hero who travels through time fighting evil. I am sure that my confusion can be understood. Therefore, upon seeing the second film in the series I began to understand why people idolize Ash and the mighty chin of Bruce Campbell -- the comedic approach to the horror didn't clash with the first film at all. Unlike previous horror flicks which have reduced themselves to comedy (eg. the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise), Evil Dead pulls it off to perfection.

    The third Evil Dead installment, Army of Darkness, wasn't quite as good as its predecessors. Regardless, the film was enjoyable and interesting -- especially the way in which Ash's madness continues to manifest. It makes me wonder whether the whole series is a hallucination from Ash, in which he makes himself the hero: the progression from II to III is also a huge jump, considering Ash's now veteran approach to the Deadites when he's only been combatting the hoardes of evil for a day or two. Perhaps Ash makes himself the hero within his chaotic dream. Who knows -- roll on Evil Dead 4, which appears to be a possibility if Sam Raimi's comments are anything to go by.

Last film I watched was Oldboy, a Korean feature about revenge and romances. I was very amazed by the quality of the film, as the director managed to capture Dae-su's intentions and obsession on screen perfectly. My favorite scenes include: the famous video game-like scroll fight in the corridors of the building, which was very creative; the flashback explaining the reason for everything that has been happening in the film; finally, the conclusion. I won't go into much details, as I'd rather you watch it and not hear it from me (although I doubt any of you cinephiles haven't seen it yet). Kudos to the composer, as well, for a great soundtrack.

10/10.

Once Upon a Time in the West

I enjoyed it immensely. It wasn't slow in any scene, despite it being somewhat of a long film, and I loved the use of "delayed" opening credits in the initial train station sequence. Everything I was asking myself as the film went on was answered by the end of it, along with it an amazing revelation. This is another example of why Ennio Morricone is such a superb composer, as I found myself humming the themes whenever they were featured in the background. As for the cast, I thought the acting was great, and Claudia Cardinale was absolutely beautiful. The ending with her character giving the workers water was a nice way to close this feature.

10/10.

Happy Go Lucky  

Mike Leigh has such an interesting way of making a movie.  Instead of starting off with a finished screenplay, through rehearsals he and his cast improvise with ideas until the script emerges. This gives the film a wonderful immediacy and "realness".  This is the story of Poppy, an elementary school teacher full of optimism, compassion, caring, and silliness.  For the first 20 minutes or so, you might wonder if you can watch a full movie with what appears to be an airhead and her friends.  But keep watching.  What unfolds is a moving story of the growth of Poppy as she encounters intolerance, racism, child abuse, & mental illness.  Wonderful views of London, full of color, great performances (especially from Eddie Marsan, who plays Poppy's hateful driving instructor.)  Poppy is an inspiring character. and this is a fine movie.

Reversal of Fortune

I never knew until recently that Alexandra Isles was Claus von Bulow's mistress.  Sad that she was involved in this mess, as she was one of my earliest crushes.

Somewhat interesting - if dated - film.  It does have the feel of a tv movie of the week.  I was never a Glenn Close fan, but she gives a strong performance here.  Jeremy Irons took the Best Actor award for his role as Claus.

Rear Window

My third Hitchcok film and also the third one to get a 10/10 score. I geniunely feared for the characters whenever they were in peril, and I even yelled at them to get the fuck out of a tight spot, something I never do while watching a movie.

Casino

Wow, was Robert DeNiro's acting in this one something! This was like a Goodfellas but set in Las Vegas, only that Casino had a more messed up ending. I despised how Sharon Stone's character, Ginger, got away with any attempt of demoralizing Sam, which means she gave a good performance, as well. I kept waiting for Sam to die in a car explosion throughout the film, but everything turned out just fine. Another great Martin Scorsese film I've watched.

Last Year at Marienbad

I enjoyed it a lot, it and its dream-like cinematography (it kinda remember me of Lynch-esque styles). The way the narration shifted from voice-over to actually being spoken by the characters in the scene was amazing, and the filming techniques employed during the statue scene were delicious.

I give it a generous 8.5/10.

Sure, I'm just OCD enough to do that.
 

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Fireproof - This was better than I thought it would be.

The Thing - I have not seen this one in years.  I forgot how good it was!

The Cave - It was okay.  It was kind of like Alien in a cave.

Milk - It was okay.  Sean Penn did a great job.  It was slow in parts.

Public Enemy - It was okay Johhny Depp did a great job.  It was slow in parts. 

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Adam's Apples (2)
Airheads (13)
Alice (3)
Aliens (4)
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2)
All Quiet On The Western Front (8)
An American Haunting (7)
Apocalypse Now (2,13)
Apocalypto (14,15)
Are we there yet? (12)
Art School Confidential (5)
The Aviator (2)
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Babel (11,13,14)
Barton Fink (2,12)
Batman Begins (12)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (13)
Batman Returns (5)
Beauty Shop (11)
The Best Years of Our Life (12)
Big Trouble in Little China (13)
Black CHristmas (12)
Blood Diamond (11)
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (13)
The Blues Brothers (11)
Bobby (11)
Boogeyman (1)
Borat (7,13)
Bound (8)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (13)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (15)
The Breakfast Club (2)
Brick (6)
Bringing Out the Dead (12)
Broken Flowers (2)
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Casablanca (3)
Casanova (15)
Casino Royale (8)
The Cat's Meow (1)
Cavite (2)
Children of Men (3,13)
Chinatown (13)
Christmas with the Kranks (11)
Clay Pigeons (13)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (3)
Crank (3,13)
El Crimen Perfecto (3)
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The DaVinci Code (11,14)
Day of the Dead (2)
Dead Heat (1)
Dead Man's Shoes (8)
Dead Poets Society (14)
Death of an American President (7)
The Departed (4,13)
Dexter: Pilot (14)
Dexter: Episode 2 (15)
Domino (5)
Double Indemnity (3)
Down in the Valley (4)
Dr. Strangelove (7,8)
Drop Dead Sexy (8)
Dune (2)
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Elephant (9)
Elvis Has Left the Building (4)
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Escape from New York (11)
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Fahrenheit 9/11 (4)
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Fat Girl (5)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (7)
Following  (8)
Forbidden Zone (5)
The 40-Year Old Virgin (12)
For Your Consideration (8)
The Fountain (9)
The 400 Blows (1,4)
From Here to Eternity (7)
Full frontal (1)
Fun With Dick and Jane (8)
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Garden State (11)
The Godfather (11)
The Godfather, Part Two (11)
Good Night, And Good Luck (5)
The Golden door (3)
Gozu (1)
The Great Escape (9)
Guns of Navarone (8)
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La Haine (14)
Halloween (1,7)
Hard Candy (3)
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Hearts of Darkness (2)
Hercules Against The Moon Men (1)
Hide and Seek (8)
Hitch (4)
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Hostel (3)
House of Wax (9)
Howl's Moving Castle (13)
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I Am a Sex Addict (3)
Idiocracy (15)
I Heart Huckabees (5)
The Illusionist (3)
In a Lonely Place (3)
In America (1)
Inland Empire (15)
Inside Man (14)
Invincible (11)
L'Ivresse du Puvoir (5)
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Jarhead (2)
JFK (6)
Jigoku (6)
Jingle all the way (12)
Jour de fête (13)
The Junky's Christmas (12)
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Kenny (15)
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L.A. Confidential (1)
Land of the dead (15)
Laura (5)
Legally Blonde (6)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (6,7)
Little Children (7,8)
Little Miss Sunshine (13)
The Lost Boys (13)
Lost Highway (7)
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The Machinist (5)
Magnolia (12)
Man on the Moon (6)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (9)
Marie Antoinette (7,8,12)
The Masque of the Red Death (10)
Masters of Horror Episode 1 (5)
Masters of Horror episode 2 (6)
Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns (10)
Masters of Horror: Deer Woman (9)
Masters of Horror: Sick Girl (11)
The Matador (15)
Match point (1)
Mean Creek (14)
Meet the Fockers (13)
Memento (6,13)
Million Dollar Baby (5)
Mission Impossible 3 (14)
Mon Oncle (14)
Monsieur Ibrahim (14)
Monster Squad (7)
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (11)
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Naked Lunch (15)
Network (4)
Neverwas (11)
Night of the Living Dead (7)
Nightwatch (1)
Ninotchka (1)
The Notorious Bettie Page (12)
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Oldboy (4)
One from the Heart (11)
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The Pacifier (11)
Pan's Labyrinth (11)
Peggie Sue Got Married (11)
Pennies from Heaven (11)
Perfume: Story of a Murderer (15)
Picture Perfect (2)
Planet of the Vampires (2)
Playtime (14)
The Prestige (6,7,13)
The Producers (2)
Proof (13)
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1,5)
Random Harvest (8)
Rear window (2)
Remember the Night (11)
The Ring Two (1)
River's Edge (7)
Road To Perdition (11)
Romance and Cigarettes (3)
Rope (1)
Rosemary's Baby (4)
The Royal Tenenbaums (3)
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Sabrina (4)
A Scanner Darkly (12)
Scarface (2,15)
The Science of Sleep (5)
Scoop  (5)
Seabiscuit (3,15)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (15)
The Short Films of David Lynch (13)
Shrek (11)
Shut Up & Sing (9)
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Sin City (6)
Slither (7)
Soul Plane (5)
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Stalag 17 (4)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (3,5)
State and Main (12)
Stella Dallas (6)
Strangers With Candy (8)
The Stupids (12)
Summer of Sam (7)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1)
Syriana (3)
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Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (15)
Taxi (2)
10th & Wolf (4)
The Terminator (11)
Thank You For Smoking (4,8,14)
The Thing (1)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (8)
This Is Spïnal Tap (7)
The Three Amigos (13)
Three Burials (13)
Tideland (2,7,8)
Touch of Evil (4)
Train of Life (4)
Tristram Shandy : A Cock and Bull Story (8)
Troy  (8)
12 and Holding (5)
24 Hour Party People (6)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (3)
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V For Vendetta (7,14)
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War of the worlds (15)
The Wendell Baker Story (3)
Whatever happened to Baby Jane? (9)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2)
Where The Buffalo Roam (4)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (5)
Where the Truth Lies (9)
White Heat (6)
Wicker Man (13)
Wishing Stairs (14)
Witness for the Prosecution (10)
Wordplay (8)
World Trade Center (13)
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The X-Files: Fight the Future (13)
X-men 3 (4)
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A Zed & Two Noughts (1)

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The Age of Innocence (24)
Apt Pupil (27)
Auto Focus (29)
Awakenings (20)
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Baby Face (19)
Babel (19, 27)
Barton Fink (30)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (30)
The Big Lebowski (22)
Black Snake Moan (19)
Blood Diamond (17)
Blood Simple (30)
The Blue Angel (24)
Borat (21, 22, 30)
Brazil (17)
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Casablanca (19)
Casino Royale 2006 (25, 27)
Children Of Men (18, 23, 27)
Christmas Tree Upside Down (28)
Clerks 2 (16)
Closer (23)
Color Me Kubrick (27)
Crank (17)
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Curtains (27)
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Dancer in the Dark (24)
Dead Girl (27)
The Departed (23)
The Devil Wears Prada (17)
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The Elephant Man (20)
The Empire Strikes Back (28)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (19)
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Farce of the Penguins (18)
Faster Pussycat! Kill Kill! (26)
The Fisher King (23)
Flags of Our Fathers (25)
For Your Consideration (20)
1408 (30)
Friends with Money (16)
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (27)
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Ghost Rider (20)
Gosford Park (30)
Grindhouse (24, 25)
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A Hard Day's Night (18, 19, 20)
Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban (18)
Heathers (22)
A History of Violence (21)
The Hoax (25)
Hollywoodland (30)
The Holy Mountain (23)
House! (27)
House of Sand and Fog (16)
Hot Fuzz (26)
Howard the Duck (28)
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The Ice Harvest (17)
Idiocracy (22)
I Got the Hookup (20)
The Illusionist (17, 20)
Inland Empire (25)
Inside Deep Throat (19)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (29)
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Jackass Number Two (23)
Jarhead (29)
The Jerk (30)
Jesus Camp (24)
Jindabyne (28)
Joe Strummer - The Future's Unwritten (29)
Johnny Mnemonic (20)
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Kidnapped [TV] (29, 30)
Kingdom of Heaven director's cut (26)
Kinky Boots (30)
Kissed (29)
Knocked Up (29)
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Lady in the Lake (27)
The Last King of Scotland (25)
The Last Samurai (26)
Lawrence of Arabia (28)
Little Children (27)
Little Miss Sunshine (17, 20)
Love & Sex (17)
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Magical Mystery Tour (20)
The Man Who Wasn't There (27)
The Man With Two Brains (30)
Marie Antoinette (26)
Masters of Horror: Imprint (17)
Match Point (24)
Minority Report (26)
Mirrormask (20, 30)
The Mission (21, 23, 31)
Moby Dick (25)
Mon Oncle (24)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (25)
Mudhoney (26)
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The Namesake (21)
The Night Listener (24)
Notes on a Scandal (17, 18)
Notting Hill (17)
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Ocean's 13 (29)
Old Boy (16)
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Pan's Labyrinth (18, 27, 29)
Paprika (29, 30)
Pearl Harbor (24)
Performance (21)
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (28)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (28)
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (28)
The Player (30)
The Prestige (26)
The Prisoner [TV] (26, 27)
Private Resort (29)
Pulp Fiction (16)
The Pursuit of Happyness (17)
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The Queen (29)
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Rabid (22)
Red Eye (22)
Repo Man (20)
Return of the Jedi (28)
Ride With The Devil (20)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (30)
Rocky Balboa (18)
Room With a View (26)
Running With Scissors (20)
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Saw (29)
A Scanner Darkly (27)
Scary Movie 2 (18)
The Science of Sleep (29)
Scream (16)
Sense and Sensibility (28)
Serenity (29)
Sex and Death 101 (29)
Shortbus (20)
Sideways (17)
Signs (18)
Sleeping Dogs Lie (24)
Slither (28)
Snow Dogs (16)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (25)
Spiderman 3 (26, 27)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (24)
Stay (24)
Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot! (29)
Stranger Than Fiction (25)
Sudden Fear (20)
Sunshine (23, 25)
Sweet Bird of Youth (28)
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Talk to Her (30)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (23)
10 Canoes (25)
The Thin Red Line (16)
The Three Burials of Melquides Estrada (18)
300 (20, 22, 26)
Tideland (20, 29)
Tron (30)
28 Days Later (26)
28 Weeks Later (27)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (26)
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The Untouchables (28)
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Vacancy (26)
Valley of the Wolves Iraq (18)
Vanity Fair (22)
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Wages of Fear (16)
Waitress (29)
Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (23)
We Don't Live Here Anymore (26)
World Trade Center (17)
Y
Year of The Dog (25)
Yellow Submarine (20)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (26)
X
The X-Files Season 6 (30)
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Zodiac (23)

Whew. My obessive compulsive disorder needs a cigarette after this.

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