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AKB48Fan rated The Toys That Made Us

 The Toys That Made Us 7/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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AKB48Fan rated Beauty and the Beast

 Beauty and the Beast 6/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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Some say that this is the definitive version of the Beauty and the Beast tale but I have to disagree with that. Don't get me wrong - it's well done but I don't think the acting is all that good. The relationship between Belle and the Beast isn't well developed as other versions. The movie is interesting in that it acknowledges the Beast's animalistic nature. He hunts wild game, he craves blood, and more than once you wonder whether or not he'd rather eat Belle than court her. There's a definite fairy tale magic to the story and the makeup on the Beast is great. However, I just couldn't get invested in the characters even though I liked some aspects of the movie such as the arms holding the candles in the hallway and the moving faces on the fireplace. I think it all depends on the individual on which version of the story they prefer best. This version is good but it's certainly not the greatest.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Beat the Devil (1953)

 Beat the Devil (1953) 6/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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A group of disreputable rogues try to get rich by attempting to get uranium out of East Africa. This movie had absolutely everything going for it, including Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollabrigida, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley, directed by John Huston with a screenplay by Truman Capote. What more could you ask for? Well it isn't the classic that you think it's going to be. There is a lot of humour in the story - the situation is funny, there is some witty dialogue and there are clever situations that go on during the movie that are amusing. The problem is that nobody cares. The movie is too disjointed, and there are long sections where nothing interesting happens. The movie is still worth seeing but it's hard to keep your attention on it.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Butterfly Sword

 Butterfly Sword 7/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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Sister Ko is a part of the Happy Forest clan led by the dying eunuch Tsao. Before he expires, Tsao orders Ko and her friends to kill the head of the Elite Villa clan, Master Suen, and steal a precious scroll. One of the great wuxia movies from the 90's. It has a fairly basic plot which is delivered with some convoluted storytelling techniques at a frenetic pace and there's a love pentangle going on between Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen, Joey Wong, Tony Leung, and Elsie Yeh. Besides the aforementioned big stars, the reason to watch this one is the ravishing visual style and the typically insane choreography from Ching Siu Tung. The wire-fu is pretty wild. Everyone is swirling and turning and pinwheeling all over the place, and it is glorious. Michelle Yeoh dismembers people with a long purple scarf! The Mortal Combat-like finishing moves in this movie are a highlight, and they are surprisingly gory. This is definitely one of the good wuxia movies from this era so if you like this sort of thing give it a go.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated The House with Laughing Windows

 The House with Laughing Windows 7/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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A young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano, which was painted on the wall of a local church by a mysterious, long-dead artist. This great Italian movie establishes an eeriness from the get go with a highly disturbing opening before throwing us into the fray with dollops of mysterious dread, morbid paintings, deranged townsfolk, terror inducing windows, and diabolical underbelly before it ends perfectly with a seething and unforgettable twist of pure bedlam. It’s really not much like a traditional giallo at all, but it is nonetheless just brilliant, haunting, and impossible to forget. Even the music is beautifully sinister. If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favour and watch it soon.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated The Vanishing

 The Vanishing 8/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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Rex and Saskia are enjoying a bicycling holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he’s still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on television, putting up posters and ruining his new relationship in the process. Eventually an unassuming chemistry teacher, Raymond, approaches Rex, intimating that he knows what happened. This is a fascinating movie with an ingenious plot structure and a black heart that seems to revel in breaking the viewer's own. The story is about a devastating loss, a study of grief and obsession, and an ending that is simply cruel. The pacing and structure work together to keep the plot barreling ahead and the use of alternating perspectives revitalises the final third, specifically when the antagonist describes his side of the story of the gas station encounter. Both leads are fantastic, with Gene Bervoets channeling a primal, tormented grief that personifies Rex's haunted obsession with his lover's fate, and Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu is cool, calm, and terrifying as sociopath Lemorne. This movie does an excellent job of being exciting even if there's not much action to it but most of all this is a movie that delights in kicking the viewer when it's down, and doesn't let up until the credits roll, saving the harshest jab for last. Definitely recommended.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Original Dirty Pair: Project Eden

 Original Dirty Pair: Project Eden 7/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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Sent to the planet Agerna to investigate a feud between two opposing factions, Kei and Yuri must find out why strange creatures are attacking vezorium test plants. Dirty Pair was a popular sci-fi action/comedy anime in the mid 80's about a pair of girls that unexpectedly destroyed things through their actions. Kei and Yuri are its two titular heroines: one a smarter blue haired girl, the other a boy-crazy redhead. They hop around the universe in their ship Lovely Angel, accompanied by a gigantic narcoleptic supercomputer/housecat named Mughi and work for the 3WA organisation. I love 80's anime and Dirty Pair is a firm favourite of mine because of it's humour and all out action. There's plenty of that in this movie and the heroines play off of each other beautifully. If you enjoy comedies and action flicks and fancy a blast from the past from the 80's, then this anime movie is for you.

4 years, 4 months ago

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Bruce Lee has just died, but the BSI is swinging into action to salvage the situation. Aided by the brilliant Professor Lucas, cells from the martial arts master’s body are removed and grown into three adult Bruce Lee clones. After undergoing training to bring their skills up to the level of their ‘father’, the three are sent out to battle crime. One of the more ridiculous Brucesploitation movies you'll ever see! Where else can you see a mad scientist turn normal males into bronze men who are only defeated by digesting poisonous grass!! It's full on batshit crazy this movie. None of the Bruce Lee clones (named Bruce 1, 2 and 3) look like him and one of them is perhaps the laziest fighter I've ever seen. He looks disinterested in being in the whole production and doesn't seem to be making any kind of effort. Bolo Yeung with his mighty muscles twitching turns up in a bit part role to train the 3 clones in the first third and then to fight one of them to the death in the climax. The martial arts fights are decent enough to watch. If you want a truly unreal experience you will never forget then give this bad movie a go.

4 years, 4 months ago

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Duke Togo aka Golgo 13 is assigned to kill Queen Bee, the leader of a South American liberation army, whom he must kill before she can assassinate a popular presidential candidate. While the animation and action in Golgo 13: Queen Bee is decent, the overall movie feels subdued compared to the original. It's not quite as groundbreaking, it's not quite as globetrotting, and the stakes aren't nearly as high or personal for Duke this time, making his already enigmatic nature feel more distant than ever. There is some action sequences but I wouldn't say they're that brilliant. The animation is good but I wasn't happy with the manga-style freeze frames that regularly stopped the action cold. While I found this movie fairly entertaining, it's failure to achieve the classic status of the original is understandable.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Hot Moves

 Hot Moves 5/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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Four friends, annoyed at how almost everyone else they know is having sex but them, agree to do what they can to help each other lose their virginity before the end of the summer. Most of their opportunities are foiled by their inexperience and bad planning. Michael, the most sensible boy of the foursome, really just wants to stay with his long-time girlfriend and take their relationship to an intimate level, but after putting him off for six months he grows impatient and splits up with her to seek his fortune elsewhere. This movie is one of the many "teen sex comedies" from the 80's. Compared to other movies in the genre such as Porky's or American Pie, I felt it was a bit of a let down. It gets off to a bit of a clunky start, but once it gets rolling it's kinda OK. The plot is actually very similar to American Pie but you don't get half the laughs as you did from that movie. It doesn't mean it's all bad though, there are a couple of funny moments to be had. Save for the copious nudity, and there's a bunch (at one point there's a scene on a nude beach where a large group of women recreate the iconic scene from 'Chariots of Fire') it's all harmless fun. Not the best in the genre but there's just about enough to make it entertaining.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Delusion

 Delusion 2/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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AKA The House Where Death Lives. A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered. This is a whodunit slasher movie that spends a little too much time building up the list of red herrings than what it should be doing, which is obviously killing people off. This is also one of those movies that is a little too heavy on telling us everything that's going on instead of showing us. It's one of the most boring movies I've seen. A couple of effective creepy bits aside, the first half is very hard to get through. The second half isn’t much better and it struggles to generate any kind of tension. Don't waste your time on this borefest.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated The Girl Who Knew Too Much (aka The Evil Eye)

 The Girl Who Knew Too Much (aka The Evil Eye) 6/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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Nora Davis is a tourist visiting scenic Rome on vacation, and while staying at a friend's house she witnesses a murder which slowly becomes linked to a string of serial killings. This Italian murder mystery directed by Mario Bava has been touted in some quarters as the first giallo ever made. The movie is atmospheric and it's cool to see the images of Rome in the 60's. Even in black and white it looks wonderful. The story goes at a pretty relaxing pace along where the viewer gets to know every bit of these ABC murders. A few times the viewer is tricked into having a false murderer. In the end the true murderer is found and I must admit I didn't see that coming. The movie is good with interesting ideas but its problem is there is no memorable scenes at all. Leticia Roman makes for a good lead and it's great to see a young John Saxon. Well acted and well shot, this is a good movie to watch.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

 The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires 6/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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Professor Van Helsing has been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all... Count Dracula. But he is not alone - to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors. This is a weird blending of Hammer camp and Shaw Brothers wackiness. It actually works quite well for the most part; though it's not an overly great outing by either studios standards. It's all quite predictable but is kept entertaining through the numerous fight scenes that seem to kick in every ten minutes or so. There's a few decent horror sequences too, although the movie does seem to be slanted more towards Shaw Brothers style fighting than horror. Peter Cushing reprises his role as Van Helsing, though apparently this was a step too far for Christopher Lee who does not appear. Hammer Studios were never afraid to do something a bit different and they deserve some respect for that, even if the result is not a masterpiece. Worth a watch though.

4 years, 4 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Duel to the Death

 Duel to the Death 7/10

4 years, 4 months ago

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The best swordsmen of China and Japan have made it a historical ritual to meet every 10 years for a showdown of fighting skills and powers. The leading fighter of the Japanese ninjas, Hashimoto, and the Chinese chief, Ching Wan, have come to respect each other after years of competition but tradition demands that they lock swords again. Stunt master Ching Siu-Tung makes his directorial debut with this movie that yet again approaches the Japanese/Chinese tensions seen in numerous other movies, but in this case puts a refreshingly human spin to the tale that casts both sides in shades of grey. Norman Chu and Damian Lau are fantastic as the leads, journeying towards the final duel with one another, and wrestling with their personal takes on honour, and what they owe to their countries. You'll see all kinds of ninjas here such as exploding ones, flying ones and even a naked female one! The ninja techniques themselves are brilliant, fantastically choreographed and captured. They use just about every trick in the book to delightful effect, and much of it is downright clever. The outdoor locations selected are stunning, and the use of the environment in fights throughout the movie is great. This movie is a compelling piece of drama, wrapped in jaw dropping action, with a few hearty laughs sprinkled throughout. I was really impressed with it.

4 years, 4 months ago

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