Category: Movies

I am a huge movies fan. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I don’t get much free time to enjoy watching movies. But when I do, I try to share my thoughts about the movies that I’ve seen. Movie reviews, celebrity news, trailers of upcoming flicks, etc – are all in this category.

King Kong

King Kong (2005)There’s been a lot of crap released by Hollywood recently. It’s been a while since I watched any movie at all – the motivation is gone. And I don’t even want to go to the cinema no more. No, actually I want to go. It’s just that there isn’t anything to watch there at the moment. Except for “King Kong” of course.

Directed by: Peter Jackson
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell, Lobo Chan, John Sumner, Craig Hall, Kyle Chandler, Mark Hadlow, Geraldine Brophy, David Denis
IMDB raintg: 8.3
My rating: 8.0

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All good things come to an end

Martin has closed doors of his DVD club. It wasn’t a surprise as things were slowing down a lot lately.

People’s perspective on movies has changed a lot. With all the piracy going on, people want to rent DVDs at the same time as movies are in the cinema. This alone pretty much means that you can’t be legid. You either have to cheat. Or break the though. Or both. Or you have to work really really hard (like finding new angles on the whole entertainment thing), which arent’ worth it anyway.

DVD prices are outragous. Check Amazon, for example. The DVDs are $15 USD on average. That’s about 6 CYP. With regular DVD rental prices at 1 CYP, it meas that each DVD has to be rented at least to 6 people to cover its own cost. Then some more to pay the office bills and then some to earn something for the owner.

But DVDs are also an extremely fragile media. After 6 people have watched the disk, it is all scratched and bent, so it needs to be replaced. Which is how much? Oh, yeah, right…

As much as I am saddenned by the news, I do understand the reasons behind the decision.

Mulan II

Mulan II (2004)I was surprised to learn that “Mulan II” exists. As successful as the original animation was, I thought it would be followed by a sequel, but everything was pretty quiet. It turns out that sequel came out six years later.

Directed by: Darrell Rooney, Lynne Southerland
Genres: Family, Animation, Comedy, Musical
Cast: Ming-Na, B.D. Wong, Mark Moseley, Lucy Liu, Harvey Fierstein, Sandra Oh, Gedde Watanabe, Lauren Tom, Jerry Tondo, Pat Morita, George Takei, June Foray, Freda Foh Shen, Soon-Tek Oh, Frank Welker
IMDB raintg: 5.8
My rating: 5.0

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The 40 Year Old Virgin

The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)I don’t know about you, but when I first heard the title of the film “The 40 Year Old Virgin” I knew that I didn’t want to see it in about quarter of a second. It just shouts “cliche” in every word and then some more. I immediately knew that it would be a romantic comedy about a somewhat old loser that never got laid. And that his truth will come out and some guys will act upon it and will try to get him laid. And by the end of the movie he will fall in love and yada yada yada. The only minor question was if they would use a guy or a girl for the main character, and all those cliche shouts were suggesting that it would be a guy. That was later confirmed by the poster.

So why did I change my mind and went to see it? Well, just out of curiousity I checked the film’s rating at IMDB and was surprised to find a whole 7.5! I mean I know there are a lot of kids, losers, people who never got laid, and those three types combined into one, but I could never imagine that there were more than 10,000 of those using IMDB.

Directed by: Judd Apatow
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Cast: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Gerry Bednob, Shelley Malil, Kat Dennings, Jordy Masterson, Chelsea Smith, Jonah Hill, Erica Vittina Phillips
IMDB raintg: 7.5
My rating: 6.5 [rate 6.5]

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Mulan

Mulan (1998)I’ve seen “Mulan” back in last millenium when it was going through the movies. I liked it a lot and bought the DVD among the few things for Maxim’s near future. Watched it again today.

Directed by: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Cast: Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Fierstein, Freda Foh Shen, June Foray, James Hong, Miriam Margolyes, Pat Morita, Eddie Murphy, Marni Nixon, Soon-Tek Oh, Donny Osmond, Lea Salonga, James Shigeta, George Takei, Jerry Tondo
IMDB raintg: 7.2
My rating: 9.0 [rate 9.0]

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