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Guy’s Review...

This movie is super Hitchcocky. Not only the apparent parallel between this film and “Psycho”. There’s a mood that comes with those old thrillers that are very well replicated here. Cillian Murphy is a great, great actor. In this movie he plays two parts. That of a tortured man (John) that got severely abused by his strict mother. The other part is his alter ego, a personality he developed during the abuse, a woman named Emma that is close to what his mother was.

He has lived with this psychosis as a secret for a year since his mother died. One day a train derails and ends up on his property. This event brings the whole time to his house. The people of the town meets Emma and thinks that she’s John’s wife (I don’t know how they all got tricked, they’re clearly the same person). Emma slowly startstaking over more and more and John fears for other peoples safety. There’s more subplots in this twisted tale but I won’t go into them because I actually think people should see this movie.

Guy’s Rating: Surprisingly scary and thrilling, well worth a watch.

Girl’s ditto...

SUPERHERO Hitchcocky you could say.

I loooveeee Cillian Murphy, so much so I wanted to name my firstborn after him. I say wanted because after watching this movie that want died. He just creeped me out and forever ruined how I look at him. Murphy pulls off woman too well by far. Plus! He is a method actor, so just think of how it was to work on set with him during shooting this film (after you watched it of course)... Creepy.

The one downfall to this movie? Ellen Paige. After watching her performance in this, I cannot agree that was worthy of an oscar nomination so young. As the young hooker mother to a child from Murphy she was unconvincing. Everything she said and did didn’t feel natural, so her performance was stiff. Maybe, compared to the genius of Murphy, someone as young and non-methody (new word) as Paige just couldn’t fill the screen.

Girl’s Rating: I’m not sure if I can honestly recommend this movie.

KING KONG

Guy’s Review...

I have to say that I was one of those people that gave this movie a bunch of shit when it came out. I guess most people expected way too much after the LOTR trilogy. Then they got this which is similar but way off from what he did with Tolkien’s books.

We sat down and watched the extended edition in HD. I barely remembered any off the movie, just some scenes like the end and the fight with the T-rexes. While watching this time around I found myself feeling very entertained. I loved the freaky insect pit, the dinosaurs, the weird river creatures (new in this edition) and Kong’s manhandling of poor Naomi Watts. I mean he throws her around like a rag doll. Every bone in her body should have shattered and broken.

Peter Jackson know how to make a entertaining movie that’s for sure. He filled this one with action and even the dramatic scenes all tough cheesy are fun to watch.

Guy’s Rating: Give it another chance, come on.

Girl’s review...

I think I was one of the few people that enjoyed this movie the first time I saw it in theaters. I remember that my date shook his head and rolled his eyes when he saw I was tearing up when King Kong died. It was just so sad! You all can shove it, I don’t care.

Despite the cheesy one-liners (Jack Black killed the movie at the end when he said that stupid “It was Beauty that killed the Beast”) and poor acting (some of the crew members were slapstick and unnecessary), I think that Watts and Brody pull off some great chemistry amongst the others’ debauchery. When Brody says “Isn’t it obvious?”... Sigh. I love that line. It was different and touching. The shinning good moment of the movie.

Girl’s Rating: If you are one of the haters, then you are no friend of mine.

WHEN IN ROME

Guy’s Review...

Kristen Bell works as a curator of a museum. One weekend she goes to her sisters wedding in Rome. There she meet the perfect guy and is willing try for love again even though she’s been burned a bunch of times before. The wedding goes as planned and she dances with the guy and everything seems fine. Later she spots him with another girl outside. Sad she jumps in to a fountain that grants love if you throw a coin into it. She steals some coins and all the owners fall in love with her. Then she spends most of the time running around dodging the people who are madly in love with her only to find out who she truly loves...gah!

Guy’s Rating: Well, if you read my synopsis then you know what you need to do.

Girl’s wtf...

How can movies like these still be made? There are a million of them, mostly starring Katherine Heigl, and ALL BAD. For fuck sake’s, can someone please bring back the good romantic comedies that movies like 27 Dresses and When In Rome disgrace?

The only bright light is that the main guy in this movie (the same guy that starred in the new Crazies) was actually kind of charming. Get rid of his crazy bad luck streak, and I would have enjoyed this movie more.

Girl’s Rating: Third no in a row and I don’t care. This was shit.

DEAR JOHN

Guy’s what is Lasse doing?

As a swede I have to support our talent that has made it overseas. Lasse Hallstrom is one of those people. He did a great job with “The Cider House Rules” and “Chocolate”. Ever since then the quality of his movies have steadily decreased and have come to an all time low.

To make this quick. “Dear John” is like “The Notebook”. You know boy meets girl and all that stuff. Here they just tried to cram in as much heartbreak as they could within 90 minutes. I mean, a dad that’s autistic, separation by war duty, cancer, sick kids and a bunch of other bullshit.

Guy’s Rating: Don’t bother. This is stupidity at its worst.

Girl’s bah!

No, thank you! And saying it is like The Notebook is an insult to one of the best romantic dramas I’ve ever seen. Shame on you, Guy.

The only good thing about this movie was the father, played by Richard Jenkins. His part was small, but well played and he was in the only moment that truly played on my heartstrings instead of just the annoyed ones.

Girls’ Rating: Avoid. There are way better romantic dramas out there without Channing Tatum.

FROM PARIS WITH LOVE

Guy’s Review...

I like the fact that Luc Besson can just show up with an idea or a just with some sort of outline and the movie companies will make it into a movie. On this he has a “story by” credit. This means that he probably just floated an idea past someone. This movie is directed by the same guy that did “Taken”. I like that movie because it’s so simple. Simple in the way that “Die Hard” was. A guy that can take care of shit.

In this movie they casted Travolta to be that guy. The difference here though is that he is way to over the top. He can take on an army by himself. He’s smart, strong and vey bald. I just didn’t like his character at all.

When it comes to the movie it’s pretty basic action stuff. A pencil pusher gets a partner that is fucking crazy and they make the most unmatched couple ever. Well, they find some common ground and start helping each other to take down the baddies. The add some twists and voila there you have an action movie.

Guy’s Rating: Entertaining and full of explosive action. I guess that’s all you need from a movie like this. Don’t expect more!

Girl’s when did Guy watch this movie?

I don't think I watched this movie, but I don't like the guy from Tudors.

LOST IN TRANSLATION

Guy’s ...nice...

We watched this cause we wanted to see something with Bill Murray. It also helped that Girl hadn’t seen this movie either. I think Murray is one of the funniest people alive. Sometimes people get duller with age (Akroyd, Carrey). Not Murray. Wes Anderson knows this and puts him in about everything. Here in in this movie he shows that he’s a master of balancing serious acting and a phenomenal comedian. When it comes to Scarlett, I feel that this is her best part to date and she’ll probably not do anything better. She’s just natural and great.

Sofia Coppola, I envy her career and the fact that she gets to do these these types of films. I think she would have had to start somewhere else if Francis wasn’t her daddy. Luckily for both of them she can deliver.

“Lost in Translation” gives you a good feeling all over, even the second and third viewing. It’s just a great story about two people that are lost and finds a person that can shine a light into their dark little world.

Guy’s Rating: A gem.

Girl’s just okay...

I think this movie had been built up from all the praise that my expectations were just too high. Although I agree with Guy that Scarlett and Murray both create outstanding performances in this film, somehow I wasn’t as riveted as everyone said I would be when I watched it.

I think this was because in the end I still wondered whether or not these two characters were rejuvenated enough from the small encounter with this other person to carry on with their ordinary lives in a happy manner. The ending was definitely appropriate - I didn’t want them to run away together - but it still left me wondering with a bad feeling that the small happiness they gained in Japan would eventually go out and they’d become lost again. It just seemed inevitable.

Girl’s rating: I went without watching it for seven years and I was fine.

THE CELL

Guy’s Review...

We sat down and watched this again. I haven’t seen it since it got released. A time where JLo made two movies a year.Thank god that doesn’t happen anymore. Tarem (the director) is amazing with visuals, he shows that much in his later movie “The Fall” but some of it here as well. This movie is stunning for lack of a better word, but that is also all that this movie has to offer.

It’s a pretty decent idea too. I mean a therapist that can actually walk around inside of their patients head. I would like to see how the landscape in my head looks like. It’s probably a bunch of bunnies running around with chainsaws killing Howard Stern impersinators.

Guy’s Rating: Better now than then.

Girl’s childhood nightmares...

I watched this movie when it came out back in 2000. I was 14 and already suffered from crazy dreams - this movie did not help. I only watched it that once before a week ago and it had always stuck with me. The evil version of the murdering psychopath was fucked up, and when he tortures Vince Vaughn by pulling out his intestines? Gross.

Watching it again, it still lived up to the horror and the suspense that I remembered. The visuals were crazy. That dog slowly shaking off the blood from the bathtub full of it? That was weird.

Girl’s Rating: As good now as then.