Air America

This movie is a blast. It holds up really well for an early 90's film, mostly because a young Robert Downey Jr and Mel Gibson work so well together. I love the style of those films, so blatantly innocent and one sided all following the same easy to keep track of story arc, with a few comedic suprises thrown in there and some 'spolsions and gun fights.

I enjoyed it way more than I should have, thought the underlying morality 'read between the lines stuff' was a bit stupid, and totally loved the chemistry between Robert Downey Jr and Mel Gibson .. although Roberts eyes were looking damn glassed over for most of the film .. he was definitely into his drugs by this point in time. All in all worth checking out again.

SCORE: 6/10

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Star Wars: Phantom Menace - The Phantom Cut

Another fan edit, this time of the Phantom Menace. This was actually much more enjoyable than the original movie was. The cutting was less jumpy than the Matrix one and the movie was just so much more enjoyable. A lot of the silly useless enragagingly bad scenes and dialogue were cut out and the movie was just tighter. How this movie ever got made in its original form is beyond me. This one is definitely worth checking out .. apparently there is another fan edit of Episodes 1-3 cut into one 2.5 hour movie that Im really keen to see that one and will keep hunting for it.

SCORE: 5/10

The Matrix Dezionized

This is a fan edit of the last two Matrix films combined. Basically he took the two films, cut out all the scenes and has tied them together into one less flashy and over the top movie. Its pretty interesting and I definitely liked what he tried to do, but as with anything like this there are some really sharp jumps between cuts that you know what he was trying to do, but without the ability to go back and film those missing pieces does grate on you a bit. I only got about halfway through but the film had a noticeably different feel than the actual last two movies. It was a lot darker and succinct. Some of the ideas even took on a new meaning so I definitely plan on finishing it up one day, interesting to check out.

SCORE: 6/10

Project X

Wow ... compare this to Cant Hardly Wait and how cool I thought all those guys were and how badly I wanted to be at that party in the 90's and they look like little kiddies in the park watching all the big kids get naked, take drugs, drive cars into pools and go totally ape shit next door!

If this is the standard for an awesome freaking party nowadays all I can say is that Im worried for when Bay is a teenager. Holy crap is this party rediculous and over the top but I actually really liked the film and its style, its a really good use of the found footage format. In a funny way it just represents the total anarchy of teen parties to the max and while I totally understand its just a fake party for a film that will likely never happen, its crazy to see it play out.

SCORE: 7/10

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Fire In The Sky

Alien abduction movie back from 1993, based on a true story. Not too bad for an early 90’s. The thing I found interesting about this film is in real life the 5 guys involved all took lie detector tests and passed. Movie has some great squeamish scenes on the alien ‘probe table’ but is let down a bit with some pretty average acting (reminiscent of a Steven King film) and some draggy bits.

6/10
 
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A Dangerous Method

If you're not familiar with David Cronenberg's work then you're missing out.  He's been making unique films about all sorts of crazy subjects for decades.  Just to give a few examples:

The Brood
Videodrome
The Fly
Dead Ringers  (how creepy was THAT!)
Existenz
Eastern Promises

The man is a genius and I always look forward to his movies.. they always have something... special.

A Dangerous Method is a very interesting piece. The story focuses on Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung during the beginnings of psycho therapy and analysis. It’s a very well scripted film , great dialogue and beautifully shot.

The 3 main characters are the biggest strength though – Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley all play just engrossing characters. Keira especially plays a neurotic sex & pain obsessed character, very different from her usual beauty role.

Guy is a massive Keria fan so he will definitely enjoy some of the more erotic moments.  :)

I recommend this to anyone who doesn't mind sinking their teeth into a bit of think piece.

SCORE: 8/10
 
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