There's one huge clump of reviews together, so it is a clump. I'm not questioning on the legitimacy of your clump, just saying that it is a huge clump of reviews.


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There's one huge clump of reviews together, so it is a clump. I'm not questioning on the legitimacy of your clump, just saying that it is a huge clump of reviews.

No, you asked "did I rake up 1/100 of my reviews and dump them here," and the answer is, no.


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That is 1/100 of your reviews in one post. That's what I meant. Unless we're including your mixtape underground reviews.


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Se7en - 5+/5

The world is a dark and grim place, and people turn their head the other way whenever crime arises. "There are sins on every street corner, and we accept it," says Kevin Spacey right before the film's climax. This is what David Fincher's Se7en teaches us, and what a gloriously grotesque masterpiece it is. Other, more recent movies like Zodiac, also by Fincher, The Dark Knight and No Country for Old Men, have explored similar themes, but this was the original all the fucking way, and it won't let you forget that.

The movie starts out with a crime scene, where our two main characters, Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman are introduced, and we're faced with a plethora of things: for instance, the scenes in this movie are all very detailed, darkly lit and grimy. You won't see a lot of sunshine and brightness here - at least not until the gripping climax, which I will touch upon later. Scenes pass by you quickly and without much warning, and there are multiple little nuances and gems that you'll miss if you turn your head for a second - like in the middle of the movie, when you see a picture of the next victim inside John Doe's home; took me quite a few viewings to catch that. And yet, even despite the complex and demanding nature of the film, it still remains quite memorable and sticky, letting each scene have its impact and weigh in on you as the film moves on. The dialogue is very good, too, which is an additional plus - very realistic and comfortably addressed, and done so by great talents like Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. Gwyneth Paltrow also does a great job here, playing the very convincing wife, and Kevin Spacey, whose role I can't spoil, is also seminal in his grim portrayal.

Now, the plot here is a tad more out-there, telling a story about a retiring detective (Freeman) and his newly assigned partner (Pitt), handed a murder case that erupts into a full on investigation as it is quickly revealed that the killer is going to do it again - seven times, one for each deadly sin. Some of the traps here are just insane, meticulously planned and ridiculously sinister, such as one of them, detailing a drug dealer strapped to a bed for a year and left to his elements as he is slowly tortured to depravity. How did the killer stop anyone from coming to visit? He simply paid the rent every month, to which the apartment manager comments later, "He was the best tenant I ever had." How quaint!

But we love it, and there is no stopping Fincher and writer Andrew Kevin Walker as they trudge down into the depths of human sin and ignorance and corruption throughout the over two hour duration of this movie. Everything is carried out with the utmost sincerity and realism, no matter how over the top or gory it is, and by the end of the second act, you can see the weight of the world coming down on our two protagonists. And by the time the finale rolls around, the whole thing coalesces into a bit more than a movie - a massive, stately message about the world, in which Brad Pitt, previously so cocky and callous, is made into a symbol of sorts; the valiant hero brought down to size with the rest of us. We all have our sins, this movie reminds us, and has it really ever been any different? That is Se7en.


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Se7en is a tragedy, in theatre terms.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.


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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 5/5

Ah, an American classic, this one. While this was shamefully my first viewing, it did reveal some very polished and lasting gems. Jack Nicholson and a host of others playing people at a mental ward apparently provides for a lot of fun. The movie starts off a bit slow, just setting the tone, but it does suck you into the humdrum, routinely life of the hospital - so much that it becomes odd to think of there being anything beyond it!

But there is, isn't there? After a good fifteen minutes or so of opening, the movie kicks it up a notch and becomes truly great and engrossing, whether it is in the confines of the hospital life or in the larger schemes of Nicholson's boisterous character. It moves along at a very fast pace at this point, not letting you slow down to breath but simultaneously allowing for a lot of breadth in the massive and good-natured way of the story.

Things take a darker tone toward the end, but not without some of the film's greatest moments in the form of a very entertaining "paying off the guards" sort of Christmas party. I admittedly did not like the falling action of the film, as it was very rushed (moreso than the rest of the movie, that is) and made little sense, but with the powerful final scene, how can I really give this less than a 5/5? In fact, why not, even that falling action sequence, with its dire outcome, was well done.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is more than a movie about a rapist and a brawler rebelling against prison authority. It is a tale of freedom and how people treat it, a story about the human strength and will, and how it manifests itself. There is a beauty here, and if you are like me, one of the rare few who hadn't seen this, rectify it immediately.



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O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 4.5/5

Now this is my kind of movie. Directed by the always-entertaining Coens brothers, O Brother... is a furiously creative, weird and extravagant little comedy flick that I think the movie world could definitely use more of.

Watching this movie, it's kind of hard to believe what you're watching. You don't really think of it as strange when it's on, but then after it's over, you're like, holy shit, did I just watch a movie that combined Dumb & Dumber, George Clooney, The Odyssey and the KKK all in one? Fuck, I need tranquilizers, I must be going batty!

But yeah, this movie just rules. It's pretty much always got something cool going on, the characters are entertaining, the dialogue is witty and hilarious, and the story is fast paced and exciting. It even gets pretty touching and poignant in some spots, adding to the depth. Do you want a good movie? Watch the Coens' stuff, bitches.

Now, why didn't this get a 5/5 if it's so good? Well, they made the odd decision to use a bunch of songs in there, and while the songs themselves might not be bad or anything...THEY JUST KEEP GOING. They're hypnotic! The repetition was lulling me right to sleep every time, and I think the movie would've been better without them. Although one of them had the benefit of being sung by three gorgeous women in wet clothes, so...that one can stay.


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Dr. Universe wrote:

Although one of them had the benefit of being sung by three gorgeous women in wet clothes, so...that one can stay.

That song is about a wife being left by her husband and her having to kill her child.

Just pointing that out.

O' Brother's music was strongly tied into the thematic traits of the movie, and that made it all the better.


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Wirekittin the Nefarious wrote:

Dr. Universe wrote:

Although one of them had the benefit of being sung by three gorgeous women in wet clothes, so...that one can stay.

That song is about a wife being left by her husband and her having to kill her child.

Just pointing that out.

O' Brother's music was strongly tied into the thematic traits of the movie, and that made it all the better.

Well yeah, but the point was I did not know it, as the songs hypnotized me to sleep, so that made it a bit hard.


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Martyrs – 0/5

This is probably the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I mean…really? OK, fine, you put out a movie that is gratuitously violent and highly disturbing, but that’s really all it is; not much real horror at all, besides the slight horror I felt when I looked at the time of the movie and saw that I still had a half hour left.

Half the time this isn’t even really gross so much as just fucking annoying and unpleasant. So what, we get an hour of shit with this psychotic lesbian tormenting her caring, nurturing friend, who is quite visibly torn between her loyalty and the fact that, I don’t know, her friend just murdered a whole house of people (!!!!), then another half hour of a poor innocent girl locked in a basement being beaten, force-fed and finally fucking skinned alive, before an uninspired and uncreative ending that left me feeling pretty empty. I guess the best part of the movie is the first part, because it is genuinely pretty suspenseful and tense, but it drags on for waaaay too long and loses whatever suspense it was building up to, replacing it instead with…well, annoyance at the Lucie character, really.

The rest is just dung. Can anyone explain how that family went so long without the kids finding out about the huge underground torture chamber their parents had in the basement? Surely there must have been at least one day where one of them was home sick from school and must have gotten the gist that something was awry. That’s a plot hole that needs tending to immediately.

The religious and Nazi implications here, as vague and off-kilter as they may be, are disturbing and highly objectionable, and bring down any enjoyment one could ever derive from this mediocre piece of crap. Not only do they shave the girl’s head in the third act during her torture, they also bury the bodies of the dead unceremoniously in a giant hole…gee, does that sound familiar at all to you?

…It’s really one thing to watch a movie about a teenage girl holding a rapist and pedophile hostage and threatening to castrate him, and it’s one thing to watch a movie where a psychotic, rejected lesbian wreaks havoc on her unsuspecting lover’s family with a chainsaw, but a movie like this…it goes too far. The other stuff is there for a reason, for some purpose that is general and unbiased, but this doesn’t work. It inspires nothing in the listener but the question of whether or not he or she should really be watching the movie. No disgust, no horror, just a quiet, disapproving shake of the head and a move of the hand towards the remote. Hostel II had a point compared to this pigshit, and that is frightening, considering how bad that movie was.

And let’s talk about meanings, here, too, why not? This movie is supposedly deep and meaningful, but really it’s just retarded. The ending sucks, completely contrived and hollow. Ooh, let’s be all philosophical and spiritual, that justifies the hour and a half of ridiculous torture pornography, terrible directing and The Unborn-rejected ghost scenes we stuck in there before! I also really love how they call this movie Martyrs, because a martyr was always a poor, screaming, skinny French girl who was forced to be where she was, rather than choosing it, right? God, this sucks; just forget this trash ever existed. It isn’t scary, it isn’t meaningful and it isn’t compelling even one bit. Absolutely worthless.


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Last movie I saw was 'The Last Sin Eater'.

It wasn't horrible, wasn't wonderful...5/10.

I have seen it too, but more like the book


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