{"id":11033,"date":"2008-02-03T05:22:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T02:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/03\/recent-movies\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T05:22:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T02:22:43","slug":"recent-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/03\/recent-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I have watched a few movies recently.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a quick overview, since I don&#8217;t feel like writing a complete separate review of each.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0462499\/\">Rambo<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw it in the cinema, on the big screen. And I have to say that I was impressed.\u00c2\u00a0 Really.\u00c2\u00a0 It couldn&#8217;t have been better than the &#8220;First Blood&#8221; by definition, but it was definitely better than the third part, and arguably better than the second part.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the scenes reminds the beach take over in &#8220;Saving Private Ryan&#8221;, while there are a couple of other pretty good fights.\u00c2\u00a0 John Rambo is still the same &#8211; quiet veteran, who is not so easily pissed off, but when he is, you better be on the other side of the planet.\u00c2\u00a0 In short: lots of blood, great body count, and an absolutely &#8220;must see&#8221; for the fans.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0454848\/\">Inside Man<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I am totally biased here, as someone who enjoys heist movies.\u00c2\u00a0 But even if there was no heist, it would have still be an excellent movie.\u00c2\u00a0 The story is interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 The cast is excellent.\u00c2\u00a0 The directing is brilliant. And so is every other part of the film &#8211; from music through costumes and make-up to operators.\u00c2\u00a0 This is how I think movies should be: a little bit of everything &#8211; humor, sadness, food for thought, visual pleasure, and acting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0409182\/\">Poseidon<\/a>. It was a good try at a bad movie.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, there was plenty of effort in trying to make this film good.\u00c2\u00a0 Some good actors are in.\u00c2\u00a0 There are some expensive scenes.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least some of them looked expensive.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a little bit of suspense at times.\u00c2\u00a0 But this film was bad by idea, not by implementation.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, there is this Titanic story which can be tolled from a thousand perspectives.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet, in this film it was told from a perspective of a really cheap &#8220;end of the world&#8221; flick.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and the physics really sucked &#8211; from beginning to end.\u00c2\u00a0 But that is sort of expected in the really cheap &#8220;end of the world&#8221; flicks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I have watched a few movies recently.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a quick overview, since I don&#8217;t feel like writing a complete separate review of each. Rambo.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw it in the cinema, on the big screen. And I have to say that I was impressed.\u00c2\u00a0 Really.\u00c2\u00a0 It couldn&#8217;t have been better than the &#8220;First Blood&#8221; by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/03\/recent-movies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recent movies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24,2],"tags":[944,572],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies","category-personal","tag-entertainment","tag-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8463,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/11\/azumi\/","url_meta":{"origin":11033,"position":0},"title":"Azumi","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the good things that come out of having a DVD club as a neighboor is that a good relationship can be established between the club owner and its customers. 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