Movie Review Thread

**PanzerJaeger** · 02-13-2010, 02:05

Originally Posted by Beirut

Precious.

Read a review and had to see it. It was excellent but hard to watch at times. The story is about a (very) overweight girl living in the ghetto in Harlem who is physically and psychologically abused by her mother and sexually abused by her father. Its focus on her in school and how she finds a way to have a better life.

Top notch acting from start to finish and all very true to life. Not a happy movie but a very good one.

Agreed. I particularly liked that it wasn't your typical "strong black character overcomes racist white society" movie.

The Blind Side... on the other hand... could not be more eloquently described than through the words of Peter Griffin - shallow and pedantic.

**Strike For The South** · 02-13-2010, 02:15

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

The Blind Side... on the other hand... could not be more eloquently described than through the words of Peter Griffin - shallow and pedantic.

It seems like me and you are the only two people in the world who saw through that movie, Rich ol'Miss boosters take large black child in out of the goodness of there heart....lol.

Oher isn't nearly as stupid as they portray him.

The whole thing is a crock for the left coast to feel better about the south, buncha crap.

If people knew how SEC football worked, they would realize they Tuhoys were saving an investment.

**Fragony** · 02-14-2010, 11:07

Irreversible. Tried again, turned it off again, I can't watch that. I am sure it is a good movie and every art-form needs it's extremes, but such ugliness makes me sick.

**Hooahguy** · 02-14-2010, 16:11

Angels & Demons
i thought it was ok. since im not catholic i couldnt tell if any of that was true, but i did look into it afterwards and found it to be false.

**Prussian to the Iron** · 02-14-2010, 23:11

The Wolfman

meh. there wasnt really a plot, but the gore was pretty cool. watching werewolves go on bloody rampages is always cool.

i found the leading actor to be sort of.....blank. he never expressed any sort of emotion other than sad it seemed, and he didnt seem like the character i wanted: a bad guy who just mauled random people as a werewolf throughout.
thats one thing about using actors: known actors its always "oh we've seen it before" and unknown actors its always a hit or miss. in this case it was a miss, though Hugo Weaving certainly impressed, as always.

**Centurion1** · 02-15-2010, 02:15

Angels & Demons
i thought it was ok. since im not catholic i couldnt tell if any of that was true, but i did look into it afterwards and found it to be false.

Thank God, you checked.

**Beefy187** · 02-17-2010, 07:13

Invictus 8/10

Watching the All Blacks perform Haka was probably the best part...
But all in all, the movie was fairly moving.

Only problem was the tempo of the movie, but I'll still give it a 8.