the imaginarium of doctor parnassus.

A Poo Poo Production. SOLD! What a weird movie. I don't even know. It was really good, yet really weird. Visuals were awesome. Characters were awesome as well...minus Colin Farrell. Not like he was bad in this particular movie, he's just bad in every movie so it doesn't really matter. I think I might need to watch this movie one more time to grasp all the meaning behind it. I know a pretty good idea of what's going on, but there's so many hidden meanings in this movie that I need/want to figure out...before my head explodes.

Heath Ledger...*sigh* What a guy. He's one of my favorite actors, well was, but I'm going to talk as if he's still alive. I bought a plant the day he died and named it after him and it's still alive, so technically he is too. I'm not crazy, really. Anyways, I love the guy, he's such a great actor. He makes any movie automatically awesome. Even if it was a Nicolas Cage or Brendan Fraser movie, it would instantly make it a good movie somehow. Okay, so seriously, I think Terry Gilliam did an awesome job filling in Heath's character roll. Why he chose Colin Farrell, I do not know.

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I love how this whole movie was kind of like a game. I found it a little weird how they saved Tony (Heath Ledger) and when he woke up from his mini coma he suddenly fit in with their little sideshow crew. No questions nothing, just cuts to a scene of him dressing up and all lah-dee-dah. I guess there wasn't much for him to think about considering he had no idea who and where he was. The girl in the movie was pretty cute, had a super tiny face. I think she's related to John Cusack. Ha! She was a good character too. I just didn't fancy the part where her and Tony were all lovey dovey. I was secretly raging with jealousy in my black little sole. Steen didn't even know that I was sitting next to her about to explode into million little angry pieces. I would have probably exploded the popcorn along with me. At least in the scene where they were getting it on it was Colin Farrell doing the deed.

You know what? I think the movie was amazing. All up until Dr. Gandolf was sitting in VANCOUVER...right in front of the giant colosseum looking library. Why did it go downhill from there? Well, since Steen and I live in Vancouver, It just seemed really cheap and familiar. We've been to that library, so we recognized all that stuff. I'm not sure how to explain it. It was just cool how it all took place in England and all far away from reality...for us, and then, oh look! It's where we hung out! It just ruined movie mode for me and got really fake. Sure it's a movie and it's all fake, but when your in a cinematic adventure it feels like your there. You know what? I'm done explaining this, If you don't know what I'm talking about yet then go watch "Not Another Teen Movie" because your the worst.

So anyways. This is a great movie and if you haven't seen it yet, go see it. It's very different and requires quite a bit of thought. The imagination land place is beautiful and pretty cartoony, so you'd enjoy that. Hooray for awesome movies. I sleep now.

cloudy with a chance of meatballs.

This movie has so much awesome in it, I don't even know where to begin. It's visually entertaining, colorful, and the dialog is just silly. I love everything about this movie. The animation is super cartoony! All the characters have that squash and stretch, and the movements are just so zippy and fluid. And the way they push the character poses. It's great! And don't forget about the expressions! Wow! It's as if they told the animators, the whole crew even, to do whatever the hell they wanted with this movie and this is what they came up with. It's clever and I love it!

Flint as a little boy...soo cute! He has the lovable puppy eyes and cute expressions. The dad's character design is pretty cool too. He kinda reminds me of the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. Steve is one of my favorite characters. Just random and weird.

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I was uber jealous of the people and their awesome food rain. The pancake part was awesome. I love pancakes and every time I see that part I get hungry. The burgers looked pretty good too! I was thinking...if their town depended on sardines so much, wouldn't they smell like it? I mean it's all they eat and they're around it a lot! Like the movie said, "Sardines are super gross!"

Another thing I enjoyed about this movie was the textures. If you look at Flints hair. It looks awesome! It's cartoony yet a bit life like. The docks and the water as well. They were so well done. I just love looking at everything in this movie. There's a lot to take in and thats one of the things that keeps people interested.

This movie had a lot of randomness to it, and I like that in a movie. Of course if it's appropriate. For this movie, it sky was the limit for sure!

brothers.

Though I have not seen the Danish version of this film, which I've heard is amazing, I thought this film did a great job at what it set out to do. Upon first viewing the trailer during theatre previews, I remembered thinking, "Oh, this looks like a heartfelt husband dies in war, wife moves on and continues life cute, but sad, type of story"... Until it was revealed that the husband comes home, experiences mental turmoil, and all hell breaks loose. At that point, I knew I had to see it.

There was a lot of emotion, detail, and intense moments throughout the course of this movie. There were significant character arcs, and the actors' performances were great. If anything, Jake Gyllenhaal was slightly underused in his role as the brother. It might be interesting to see his and Toby Maguire's roles reversed. I didn't even notice Natalie Portman was the wife at first, she was a great choice as she's an exceptional actress and has great range with her facial expressions. The only part I didn't buy so much, was the relationship between Maguire's character and his daughters, it seemed a little forced, and awkward. I'm not sure if I'm just picturing him as Spider-Man a little too much or not. The eldest daughter may have overacted a little bit too.

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In terms of the story, the relationship between Portman and Gyllenhaal made sense, but happened way too fast. Same goes for Gyllenhaal's character realization and change- how could one go from bad ass, to prison, to home remodelling, supportive, father-like figure in what seemed like a week? I'm just glad the movie didn't turn into a chick flick during these sequences, and held it's integrity. The pairing between Maguire and Gyllenhaal was unique, but it wasn't as natural or entirely believable for them to be brothers, as it should've been or as one might hope.

The war segments of the movie were very effective, and intimidating. You want to know what will happen next, but at the same time are aware that the more the story progresses, the closer someone is to getting brutally hurt or murdered. What Maguire's character had to go through in order to survive, was insane.

The tension, and insecurities in this movie made it impossible to stop watching. Maguire, a once friendly father, was now an emotionless, scary looking shell of who he once was. He did an amazing job with this roll. Maguire made it seem as if he'd actually endured the same devastating experiences as his character. The scene to remember was when he was entirely too suspicious of his wife and his brother, that he took a gun and almost shot himself in the head, in the middle of the front lawn. The close-up on his face was so intensely enticing; I couldn't stop watching though I feared something horrible would happen.

"Brothers"- a water balloon of emotion thrown at a brick wall. I recommend it to everyone, and hope this movie aids in spreading the message that there is no excuse for war, and that family and love is what matters.

mamma mia!

*Sigh* Okay. I'm not too sure what to think. I like ABBA. Go ahead laugh. I don't care. My parents listened to them a lot as I was growing up, so you know what? I grew found of them. So I thought I'd give this movie a chance. It's an alright movie. It's a musical, so if musicals aren't your cup of tea then whatever. I on the other hand don't mind them. But anyways, it's not that bad of a movie. It has a lot of girly parts. Meaning several girls giggling and jumping up and down going, "eee!!" Those parts make me feel a little uncomfortable. The singing parts are very cheesy. VERY cheesy. It almost made me not want to look. The music was fine, because I enjoy it. But the acting during the music...oh boy! It's just something that gives you a little unsettling feeling inside.

If Meryl Streep wasn't in this movie, I'm not sure I would have been able to get through it. I love that woman. Every movie she's played in, she was amazing. She's so energetic and full of life and she pulls you right into the movie. The other characters, uber cheesy. Pierce Brosnan was good. Stellan Skarsgard just kept making me think about Pirates of the Caribbean, and I guess that's why he was cool too.

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The story in general was good. Just about a girl wanting to be given away at her wedding, but she had three possible fathers. I like movies with weddings. It makes me a little teary eyed. But on the other hand, it was a little different in this movie. Wedding was cancelled and the mom got married instead, oh and what do you know? Married to one of the possible fathers.

While watching this movie I had a feeling the mom's sisters were going to end up hooking up with the possible dads. What a surprise! The mom gets one, the sister gets one...and I believe the other dad is gay because he disappeared with some guy. Whatever makes him happy.

The blue screen played a big role in this movie as well. Although it wasn't abused like it was in "Australia". I just don't like when blue screen is obvious, it looks cheap and boring.

Oh, can I just say. The guy that was going to marry the main chick...sucha prick. He seemed like a cool guy, but then he gets mad at her for contacting the three guys who could be her father?! What the hell is all that about? He was stupid, I didn't like him at all. Just looked like a douche. You know those people that you see and you don't even need to know them, but you automatically hate their guts? He's one of them. Oh and back to Pierce Brosnan, he can't sing.

Overall, I think this movie was, meh. Too predictable, too cheesy, and too blue screeny. It's definitely not a movie for guys. Girls...a selected few. If it weren't for Meryl Streep and ABBA, I'd scrap this movie.

youth in revolt.

I just came back from watching this movie and I must say, well done! It reminded me a little of "Juno", and that's a wicked awesome movie too. Just the style, the acting, the actors, it was all very simple and very effective. It's basically about a 16 year old kid going through great lengths to be with a twat. Basically.

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One of my favorite parts of that movie was the title sequence. Stop motion FTW! I loved it! Michael Cera is super creepy in stop motion mode, but it was still pretty cool. They did that several times throughout the movie, but different styles. They had picture cut out animation at one point. At another where he's totally tripping balls, they had a cool 2D animated porno sequence. That was a good scene. Not because of the porno. Then at the end credits they had another, really short and sweet piece. The animations we're great. Overall, it just gave the movie a really good feel.

I didn't know Justin Long was in that movie, so that was a big surprise. He definitely added a bit of awesome to it. Another surprise, Steve Buscemi! He played the dad with the slutty girlfriend. Pretty gross, she wasn't all that great looking herself. Either way she ran away with Paul (Justin Long) so they can create knarly looking children together. Cera's Francois Dillinger character was amazing. A little creepy looking with the mustache and colored lenses and all, but SO FUNNY! It's also a little mind blowing thinking that Cera totally pulled off that kind of character. I'm always used to him playing the same kind of guy in every movie, so this was a major difference and very awesome!

In all honesty I thought that Sheeni girl that Cera's character was obsessed with was a total nincompoop. It makes me glad that I'm not 16 anymore. First of all, pretending you have a boyfriend is just sad. Same goes for the other side. Just don't do it. It's lame and it makes you look like an idiot. Second, her taste in dogs is horrendous. There's a little black dog that Cera get's her and you know what? I'm not going to get into that. It was unfortunate looking, just take my word for it.

Anyways, I loved this movie. I can't wait until it comes out on bluray. I'm all over it. The story was hilarious and by the time the movie ended, in my head there was a soft, disappointed "noooo..." I definitely recommend it to everyone. It's funny. Who doesn't love funny movies. If you don't think it's funny go watch "The Fast and the Furious".

the hurt locker.

I would just like to say that if it weren't for the Wall.E looking robot at the beginning I probably wouldn't have given this movie a chance. I'm glad I did though because this movie was intense. It's a war movie, and I like war movies. It's just not your typical war movie where the soldiers go in and shoot a load of people and get shot back and killed and there's this whole emotional process. Okay well it has SOME of that, but this was based on the soldiers that go in and disarm bombs. That may sound boring and I thought it might be, but like I said, it's INTENSE!

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Watching this movie made me realize how savage the human race is, I mean really, we're fuct. The things we do to each other makes me really hope that 2012 really does happen and John Cusack just randomly appears. Of course, I feel this way after watching any war film, John Cusack just pops into my head and I start thinking of 2012. But no really, the things the Iraqis do to each other totally blows my mind. There was this little boy in the movie trying to sell DVDs to the soldiers, and the sergeant buys a few and gets all buddy buddy with the kid. Which I thought, oh how nice, even if their Countries are in battle, he still has a little love for their people. So blah blah blah movie goes on, and they find this old building that's pretty much used as a bomb factory. They're going around investigating and behind the curtains there's a body. THE KID'S BODY! He looked like he had the snot beaten out of him. What they did was cut up his chest and hid a bomb in there. A KID! Just for seeing him talking to the sergeant. Some people need to be punched in the face.

Iraq is definitely not on my list of must see places. Maybe it's just a movie, maybe everyone is holding hands dancing in a field of daisies. I don't know, but so far what I've gotten out of movies and the news that place and the people are sketchy as hell. You can't trust anyone. Your taxi driver could be a suicide bomber and you don't even know! You could be sitting in the back enjoying your animal crackers and watching all the amazing things out the window, like kids playing soccer in the dirt or what not or flying kites and BOOM! Your dead. Your so dead, you don't even know. You think your still eating animal crackers, but your not. They're all scattered around in bits just like you are. People might even mistake you for an animal cracker crumb.

Here's a question I asked myself while watching this movie. Why is it when you have 500 riffles pointing right at you, and they're just yelling for you to get down on the ground, and your just standing there? At times your probably just saying, "oh no, I'm just going for a walk, it's ok!" But why!? Just get the hell on the ground! The sooner you do that, the sooner they will let you get back up and go for your stupid walk! If your going to stand there just starring at them, maybe it's me, but that's totally a red flag. JUST GET DOWN ON THE GROUND BEFORE I THROW MY HOT BOILING CUP OF TEA AT YOU!!

Anyways, I think this movie was great. The dialogue was very funny and witty. For the most part. Obviously in serious parts you want serious people. The actors were great. Them + witty dialogue = AWESOME. You can tell this movie had a good director. A pat on the back to Kathryn Bigelow. Only thing that I wasn't a great fan of was the visual effects, for the most part it was pretty cool, but in some parts it just looked totally fake and that bugs me. The explosions we're awesome! I can't wait until 2012!

2012.

Is it me or does John Cusack have a really weird looking face. It's almost as if his facial features didn't quite grow into his giant man head. Anyhoo, let's get on with the end of the world...again. Don't get me wrong, this movie was intense! Even my little brother with ADD was hooked. It was a good movie, and I'd totally watch it again. But what I would like to know is, how many more end of the world movies are there going to be until some producer out there just says, "okay, stop!" We all know we're killing the world and pissing off the universe. "The Day After Tomorrow" made it pretty clear we screwed ourselves over. That movie, is a whole different story, which I'm not going to get into right now.

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I would just like to start out by saying thank you to our world leaders who think that in our time of need, they're the important ones. Or sorry, anyone who has 1 billion dollars to piss away on a ticket to live. This movie pretty much told me that me and the people in MY life, wont survive, unless I get up right now and start building my own ark because let's get serious people. I don't have a billion dollars. I was not fortunate enough to have a billion dollars, as well as most of the world. So, just to let you all know...you wont survive either, so go build an arc, we have 2 years left and times tickin'! Even the families in the movie who HAD that kind of money didn't get a ticket for the whole family. How messed up is that?! If I didn't have enough, I just wouldn't go. What kind of new life would it be if Steen wasn't there hanging out with me talking shenanigans over a cup of tea. Not awesome in my opinion.

Enough about the arks that are clearly too good for us. Did you see the visual effects!? Whoa. I don't know about you people, but if I was driving along and the street started breaking up and bursting out flames all over the place, I would think, "HOLY SHIT! THIS IS AWESOME!" and then I'd shit a brick. It's crazy! And here you are hearing about people killing themselves when they hear about there being an end of the world. If your going to die you might as well see your world fall apart. It would be an amazing sight, but still not so fun because your going to die.

I like John Cusack, but something about the way his character and lifestyle was in this movie made me think of the character he played in "1408". It seems like they took the guy from that movie and plugged him into "2012". That's all I could think about. Maybe that's the only character John Cusack knows how to play, because he's just like Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves. Don't get me started about those two. That's a completely different evening. And those kids of his! His son, I'm sorry, but he's a little shit! How could you be so cold to your dad? He's taking you camping for God sakes! He's taking time out of his super exciting life to take his little brat of a son camping. If you didn't want to go, then just don't go. Stop wasting his time and yours, but your already wasting your time playing video games and texting your nerd bomber step-dad who is obviously the weak character and ends up getting crushed by giant ark gears and dies! You are dubbed the worst kid in the world.

You know how you go see a movie and then the next day at work you go to your friends and start review the movie with them. Well I did that and this is what one BONEHEAD of a guy said to me, "2012 was basically part comedy movie, part romance, and part action..." Okay, fair enough! But what I'd like to say is, what movie isn't part comedy, part romance, and part action!? Isn't that pretty much every movie in existence!? Sure, every movie uses a different recipe, but I believe, I could be wrong, but I believe that they all have some sort of comedy, romance, and action. And what the hell was your opinion about anyways? You pretty much told all of us what we already knew! Your stupid get out of my face! Did I mention he's one of those guys who likes "Not Another Teen Movie" and "The Fast and the Furious"? Well he is, so that explains a lot!

Anyways, If you haven't seen "2012" yet, you need to go see it. Yes, it's just like any other disaster movie, but you know what if you like shit blowing up and people running for their lives and most of them failing, then your on the right track.