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Also the name of an underground, fetish porno. There is not a single genre of film out there that results in more abysmal failures than the spoof. For every Shaun of the Dead, there are a dozen movies, Epic Movie, Date Movie and Meet the Spartans to name a few, to offset it. For every Airplane!, you get at least five Scary Movie sequels. Especially recently, the spoof has become an easy way for

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Welcome to Sweden, rape capitol of the world. In a move that is probably more cliche than simply reviewing the most recent film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's immensely popular novel, I've taken a step back in time to catch up on the original Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I'm not entirely unfamiliar with the movies and their source material, but I have never read the

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I'm not comfortable with Charles Xavier getting laid. 7/10

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I always knew something evil was living in Mexico. 6/10

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Bad things happen when a crossbow is involved. 5/10

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Alien monsters make bad parenting OK. 8/10

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I see nothing wrong with just putting this plan into motion. 6/10

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There's a twelve year old in me that remembers when it was cool to shoot people while reciting bible verses. 5/10

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Apparently, the qualifications for being an antarctic scientist are that you like to wander off alone and smoke copious amounts of weed. 7/10

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Kurosawa must have really liked Clint Eastwood movies. 8/10

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Important guy stutters. 6/10

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Fuck the space time continuum. 7/10

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There's something queer happening here. 5/10

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Definitely the most complicated animated movie about owls out there. 4/10

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I think Detroit's future looks pretty bright. 4/10

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An old guy likes his cute dog. 6/10

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He never pooped. 7/10

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I guess I can take Dolphin off my list of animals to eat. 8/10

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Nothing in the 80's was cool. 7/10

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The character that deserves to get laid dies a virgin. 10/10

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Two huge, black shafts versus the world. 10/10

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Nine dudes in the woods playing with jewelry. 10/10

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Three hours of dudes. 9/10

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People who don't pay bookies get shot in the neck. 6/10

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Jack Nicholson bangs many chicks, but remains sad. 6/10

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Sigourney Weaver wears the pants yet again. 10/10

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All you need to do to look Asian is to squint and smoke a lot of opium. 7/10

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I'd feel bad for the girl, but she is kind of a whore. 3/10

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Two hours of sweaty, shirtless men and 3 minutes of women. 7/10

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Who hasn't done something wacky to help their lover get a sex change operation? 7/10

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The French really will eat anything. 7/10

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The little guy is mean. 7/10

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A sexy, person-melting robot almost disguises the communist propaganda. 6/10

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Sets a new standard for films to nap while watching. 4/10

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At least he bought the children something nice before he strangled them. 8/10

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Godzilla smashes a lot of new, shiny stuff. 6/10

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Horrible people feel sad sometimes. 6/10

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If you con a con-man in France, does anyone watch it? 7/10

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The faster people talk, the more annoying they become. 7/10

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Well that went about how it was expected to go. 6/10

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The movie is longer than the title. 9/10

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Like an episode of Springer without the fun stuff. 8/10

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Now that's a busted faced amputee. 8/10

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The story of Christ, rave edition. 5/10

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Viggo Mortensen's penis co-stars and Naomi Watts doesn't get naked. 6/10

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Natalie Portman has sex with the chick from That 70's Show. 8/10

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There's no sound. 8/10

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When trannies travel, hilarity ensues. 7/10

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Comes out favorable on the lesbian to gay scale. 6/10

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Army dudes frolic in their undies and the Indian gets drunk. 5/10

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Army guy hits on chubby chick, might have gotten laid. 5/10

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It's about rugby, so nobody cares. 5/10

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Spry young man has a serious GILF fetish. 8/10

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Dorky guy scores with the ladies. 8/10

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At least he got laid. 7/10

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Can I say she's hot if she only looks like a pre-pubescent girl? 7/10

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Adding sexy cyborgs into a Godzilla movie seemed like such a good idea. 3/10

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If my life followed the rules of a video game, I'd be awesome too. 8/10

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Sherlock Holmes is a mouse, but he's still not interesting. 6/10

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In East Berlin, movie watches you. 8/10

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It has nothing to do with yodeling. 5/10

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They're all just hiding the threesome gone horribly awry. 7/10

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It's harder to please your toys than it is to please your woman. 8/10

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Actresses are crazy bitches. 8/10

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Limey's spend three hours building a bridge and then it gets blown up. 7/10

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Old people get sad, then die. 6/10

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People go to the moon and kill everything they find. Watching films from the silent era can be hard enough, but the earliest stabs at film-making can be really exhausting. In the same way the directors struggled to create with new technology, today's audiences struggle to appreciate what was, at the time, a herculean accomplishment. A Trip to the Moon represents that kind of achievement and

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Hitler doesn't die. Unlike the other movie about trying to assassinate Hitler that come out recently, this one doesn't end the way you want it to. I not exactly a stickler for historical accuracy, especially if it ends with Hitler being machine gunned to death ala Inglourious Basterds, but Valkyrie does do a nice job with the historical details. The production design is one of the things that

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Sandra Bullock helps black people, but remains a bitch. You may have noticed that I don't really like inspirational movies. Every now and then, something comes along that truly inspires or impresses, but the vast majority of based on a true story, against all odds movies really irritate me. The Blind Side certainly irritated me. Bullock isn't great in it, if the Academy Awards meant anything I

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Poor kids get screwed and teacher's unions are evil. The latest in a long line of subtly biased, but ultimately compelling documentaries has arrived with force. Waiting for Superman attempts to tackle the problems with the American education system, but ultimately shows that the problem is far too great to be fixed quickly. What makes the documentary work is that the kids that the movie follows

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People get replaced with midgets made out of burlap sacks. Thanks to Tim Burton, there's a market for slightly dark animated movies with heavy themes. 9 was a movie that intrigued me from the get-go, but I never got around to seeing. After finally getting the opportunity, I must say that it does not disappoint. It doesn't pull any punches and comes off as a compelling, intriguing and sometimes

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Incest is kind of hot. Sometimes movies get a reputation. Even before you see Oldboy, you probably hear about it. People talk in hushed whispers out the ending and a scene so disturbing that they dare not even say what happens. As my time living in South Korea was winding down, I finally got around to viewing what most people consider to be the quintessential film from that country. Oldboy is

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Marlon Brando isn't fat. It seems like turning a play into a movie would be an easy thing to do. The script is already written and all you have to do is film it. Most of us realize how totally untrue that is, but every once in awhile the transition can be made with positive results. A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those fortunate examples of when a good play becomes and equally good film. A

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Hollywood puts aside any doubts that they aren't lazy. The similarities between the A-Team and my last reviewed movie, The Karate Kid, are pretty surprising. Both are rehashes of something old, both drip of mediocrity and both prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that Hollywood is running out of ideas. The big difference is that the A-Team doesn't even try.  If you're familiar with the 1980's

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A documented case of jungle fever in the far east. Some things just don't need to exist. The newest addition to the list of useless things is a remake of a movie that is less than 30 years old. Many of us have fond memories of the original Karate Kid, but, unfortunately, the 2010 remake resembles it only in passing. The changes to the film are pretty hefty, but ultimately the work out for the

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The origin of an entire generation's vampire rape fantasies.  There aren't a lot of characters that have been re-imagined on screen as many times as Dracula. Ranging from the classic, to the comic, to the downright weird, filmmakers have done pretty much everything imaginable to the undead count of Transylvania. Enter Bram Stoker's Dracula, an all-star affair that should have been a slam dunk

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Yes, he actually said "Die you space faggot". When I was a young man, I enjoyed few movies more than Predator. The film packed more men per square inch than probably any other and, despite the overtly homosexual tones, the movie broadcasted testosterone filled action to any pubescent boy watching. As I grow older, the movie remains a cult favorite of mine but the lackluster sequels and Alien

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Japan's answer to Planet of the Apes. The word mediocre fails to describe some of the Godzilla movies made in the 1970's. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla is another feeble attempt at making an entertaining movie out of really nothing good and it does a great job of summing up the problems the Godzilla movies of the era had. It's easy to see where the film goes wrong and watching Godzilla vs.

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Zeus blesses his son with beautiful hair. The 1980's were a beautiful time that I'm certain most of us would like forget. More than any other time in film-making, the 80's seemed to permeate every element of the process. Clash of the Titans is, really, a wonderful expression of early 1980's culture. There's the beautiful hair, the excessive, yet unremarkable, special effects and a general sense

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Korean priest becomes a vampire and develops a foot fetish somewhere along the way. Being a resident of South Korea has done some strange things to me. Other than wildly altering my sleep schedule, making me a certified alcoholic and giving me first hand knowledge of a legitimately racist country, my time in this place has given me insight into a foreign film industry that is severely

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Wooden boy gets taken to fantasy land by a fat, old pedophile. There is something downright impressive about traditional animation. In a time when most animators were struggling to make short, simple animated pieces, Disney was crafting full-length epics with all the bells and whistles. The original Disney films, the ones made in the 30's and 40's were leaps and bounds ahead of anything else

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It's Huck Finn with killing and twice as many black people. Some movies are such a part of the modern cultural identity that they seem cliche the first time you watch them. I was a little bit ashamed to admit that I had never seen Apocalypse Now before recently, but, after watching it, I was struck with a strange sense of familiarity with the film. Apocalypse Now has become something of a

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He is creepy and she still goes to Oxford. Hopefully my one sentence review of An Education is enough to keep you from trudging through it. When I scrolled through the list of Best Picture nominees from 2009, this was one of the films that stuck out as a dark horse in my mind. It has top billing for an underrated actor and it seemed to have just the right thematic elements to make it a winner.

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A whole new generation of pedophiles has their muse. Controversy is, often times, a really good thing for a movie. It's especially good when your movie is a fairly low-profile adaptation of a comic book. It's hard to tell if the controversy helped Kick-Ass, but it certainly didn't hurt. The movie has some things going for it, but the one word I would use to describe it is forgettable. Kick-Ass

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It's like that movie you wrote in high school only, you know, good. Let's face it. On college campuses around the world, hundreds on drunk, aspiring writers have pitched their crazy idea about the heist movie set in people's dreams. The other simple truth is that movie idea was a bad one. Christopher Nolan has, somehow, made that really bad movie that your friend came up with into a insanely

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Butts. Sometimes the basic facts surrounding a movie can be off-putting. When Apocalypto came out in 2006, it had that stigma attached to it. I'm sure that I wasn't the only person who thought that Mel Gibson directing a foreign language film about the fall of the Mayan civilization was doomed to failure. I feel like I have said this a lot in the last few months, but the best thing about

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Apparently Austria is the one country in the world without an emergency number. In a recent years, American filmmakers have decided that it's a great idea to take obscure European horror films and remake them nearly shot for shot. Other than my fundamental problem with doing this, the complete lack of originality, there is another major problem. Why bother remaking a movie that isn't any good?

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Mel Gibson hates Turks too. When I say that I watched an Australian war movie, the same question always gets asked; When was Australia in a war? Sarcasm aside, I know little about the Australian's participation during World War I and, to be fair, I know little about Australia. Gallipoli is an interesting look at both rural Australian life during the early 1900's and a interesting look at how

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Magic Jack Nicholson bot to the rescue! When I was a young man, I owned a VHS tape that had, confusingly, a picture of Godzilla fighting some strange insect monster on top of the World Trade Center buildings. While I still haven't figured out the World Trade Center thing, I have come to terms with the movie. Godzilla vs. Megalon, A.K.A. the best episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, is an

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Clint Eastwood rapes stuff. There is a surprising amount of variety in the genre that is the western. There are classic westerns, John Ford westerns, Spaghetti Westerns and a fistful of other, less renowned, members of the family. High Plains Drifter is the genesis for one of these subfamilies, a western directed by and staring Clint Eastwood. Eastwood's westerns, generally categorized as

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Kill every cockroach you see. I'm finding it harder and harder to give objective scores to Godzilla films. The simple truth is that most of them sit somewhere around the same level of respective quality. Godzilla vs. Gigan is another film in the series that falls somewhere between mediocre and entertaining, but that's about as good as you can hope for with the original set of Godzilla films.

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In case you haven't heard, Iraq is a dump. Each an every year a single movie jumps from the ranks of all the other films that year and becomes the one that is forever remembered regardless of it's quality. Whichever film wins the Academy Award for best picture is a movie that will never be forgotten, even if it's terrible. For the year 2009, despite it being dubbed, in my mind at least, the

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Is that plutonium in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? Sometimes you're just sitting around, watching a perfectly normal movie when something absolutely bizarre happens. Kiss Me Deadly has a moment that seriously punches you upside the head with confusion. From that moment on, the movie is a frantic, confusing journey towards a, literally, explosive finish. Kiss Me Deadly is a total 

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Zombies have overrun the world, but the power is still on. When Shaun of the Dead came out in 2004, most people probably wrote it off as a lone entry into the zombie/comedy genre. Little did we know that the movie would reinvigorate the world's love from zombies and send them back, close to, the Hollywood mainstream. Shaun of the Dead wasn't the first time zombies and laughs had been put

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Godzilla jet pack powers activate! Godzilla vs. Hedorah, A.K.A Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster,  is something of an anomaly as far as Godzilla movies go. By 1971, the franchise was more than ten years old and the last time that a Godzilla film had an overt agenda was Mothra vs. Godzilla in 1954. At this point, the series was also declining in popularity and quality. Godzilla vs. Hedorah signaled a

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The spiritual prequel to From Justin to Kelly. Blah Blah Blah The Beatles. Blah Blah Blah they were popular or something. The simple fact is that I don't really care about The Beatles. I understand their influence and such, but I just don't get excited for their music in the same way that others do. I certainly enjoy some of their songs, but a lot of their music, especially their early work, is

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The short shorts on a prepubescent boys was apparently a huge problem in Japan. When I embarked on my mission to watch every Godzilla film, I knew there would be moments that it became difficult. They can't all be winners right? All Monsters Attack might be the biggest looser in the entire series. The movie is clearly aimed at children, but not in a tactful or appealing way, which makes it an

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Never trust a nun. Living in the land between classic and complete obscurity, it's hard to know what to expect from Papillon. It stars a pair of bona-fied stars, but that's not a guarantee of quality. Like the film itself, watching Papillon is kind of an adventure. What you'll find in the movie are some very good performances and a generally exciting movie that, at times, feels more like an

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Old fashion kissing was more akin to a head butt than a smooch. Film Noir is a genre that, like it's darkly lit scenes, is shrouded in mystery. Somewhere between the cinephile's elitism, the common man's ignorance and the scholar's overly complex definition lies the truth. While I may not be an expert on the subject, I feel like Double Indemnity might be the right place to start looking. I have

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There's nothing funny about the midlife crisis of a Jew. The Coen brothers have been pumping out movies rather quickly since they won an Oscar for No Country for Old Men. For the third year in a row, the Coen's had a movie in 2009 and, since it was nominated for Best Picture, it seemed it might be a return to classic form after the somewhat disappointing Burn After Reading. What I found in A

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