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well, we have all seem it but her is the standard issue tralier to start
Well i went ans saw this and i knew i had to a review. i wont go into the back story as we all know it
In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team Ok so this has been updated to the Iraq war.
The films starts with how the all meet which is nicely done without bogging the film down in exposition. How they do get screwed over and then how the go about exacting revenge While at the same time staying on step ahead of the military who are trying haul them back to prison
Being a kid of the 80s myself this had to deliver (same as what transformers had to) and boy did it delivery! The film is great! its over the top crazy action, "specializing in the ridiculous" is the key phrase (we have all seem the bit where they jump from a plane in a tank), but it gets away with it because its the A Team man!!!
The film tips its hat to the TV show as well as adding its own flavour. Liam Neeson as Hannibal is just too awesome, the smoke from his cigar becomes part of him. Bradley Cooper is great as "Face", Sharlto "District 9" Copley is a great HM Murdock. Rampage Jackson does seems to struggle with BA (granted there are some big shoes to fill), there is a bit where he finds peace in prison and he refuses to kill (Boring!!) which doesnt help him and it would have been nice to see him kicking some more ass
There are some nice twists and turns in the film with an almost "oceans 11" sleight of hand. I did get a bit confused toward the end as the were enemies within enemies and i was like "well who's the bad guy(s) here?" (bit like Casino Royale), but by that time you are a 12yr again just enjoying the ride
The Film is excellent, the only downside is the end action scene does seem to be over shadowed but the airplane/tank escape sequence and its obvious its all there is a plan within the plan in the final show down and the original music isnt used WTF?!
All in all I loved this, go see it, leave you brain at the door and relive one of the best reboot franchises of the 80s 8.5 Skintoxications out of 10. Bluray: probably. DVD Definitely!!!
So i went and saw Inception and i thought i should do a review Concept of the film is DiCaprio is part of a team that employed to go into people dreams to usually steal ideas/codes/concepts etc. This time, they are "sent in" to plant an idea into someones mind to split up his Fathers company (who he is about to inherit due to his dads poor health). The challenge is is to make "the mark" think he has come up with that idea by them self which is much harder than just stealing what they know. Dicaprio plays a really solid lead role as per usual (i didnt used to like him but he has been roles late and i have to tip my hat). He is kinda damaged as he's subconscious is riddled with guilt over the death of his wife and she is personified as the kinda saboteur in his jobs
I cant really go into the film as it will give things away as the film is very tight alot of things were very well explained without it getting bogged down with heavy exposition (dying in dream, dream within dreams, 5 mins in realtime is about an hr in a dream).
You do have to be switched on as it is a really good concept with lots of layers. I would recommend this film. I reckons i will treat myself to this on DVD
so last week i went and saw Iron man2, so we open with the standard issue trailer
So Tony Stark is lapping it up, not only is he an international playboy megastar he is also a super hero and has single handedly brought peace to America.
But behind the scenes Tony is falling apart. the palladium in his arc reactor that is keeping him alive is poisoning his blood and is killing him at the same time in and he is having no luck find a replacement. The government want the Iron Man suit, but i wont let them have it and just bats them away with is charisma. so a guy called Justin Hammer (a rival weapons developer) is trying to woo the Government with his efforts (which are pretty crap), But Col Rhodes (Don Cheadle, who i think was crap and i liked the other guy) manages to steal one of Tonys suits (and hands it to the government for modification) when Tony makes a complete prat of himself and (what he thinks will be his last) birthday
Mickey Rouke plays Ivan Vanko, a guy that used to work with Tonys father, Howard but was sent back to Russia and stews in his own pot of revenge for 30 odd yrs after been found out he was feeding intel back to the Russians (dam those Ruskies!!). He builds his own arc reactor and tries (and fails) to kills Stark at a Monaco race, he is then scooped up by Hammer to build them with their own Iron man weapon development project
I wont go any further than that, i will move on to my opinion:
The films kicks off really well and its laying IM1 to waste, but after the Monaco fight with with Vanko, the action stops and they try to build this emotional story and its more driven by Tony's internal downfall. My view is this doesnt really work as we hold Stark in such hi regard we don't really believe he is dying, it then picks up again in the final act but it almost turns into transformers and goes a bit to mad. Sam Jackson (Nick Fury) pops his head round along with Scarlet Johanson, but they are so underused you do kinda think "whats the point?"
The film aint bad, but I can see why it i came out in Apr/May rather than the jun/jul window with the "proper" summer blockbusters. This film feels this over whelming urge that is has to trounce the first film and i feel it damages itself in the process
All in all, I didnt come away saying it was crap, but i didnt walk away saying, "man that was awesome, blew me away" either 6 Skintoxications out of 10. Bluray? only if i have the money
Oh BTW Orph, that pic where RDjr is in the suit with the shades on "chillin" that is film pic and not a behind the scene shots
Are we gazing onto the cusp of a new horizon, one where our Xbox 360 storage needs aren't shackled to overpriced proprietary hard drives? Probably not quite. Our best friends at Joystiq have managed to obtain documents (corroborated with multiple sources) showing that the folks in Redmond are mulling over an option to enable USB mass storage support for its game machine. To elaborate, that means downloaded Xbox Live and Arcade games, DLC, other associated game files, and even installed disc-based games can be saved to an external HDD of your choosing. The documents further elaborate that the storage device itself must be 1GB or more; a system partition of 512MB is required, and by default beyond that the consumer partition (i.e. your games and the like) will occupy the remainder of the drive or 16GB, whichever is smaller -- and unfortunately, that's as much as you're gonna get. This could be another way for Microsoft to, alongside the rumored Valhalla motherboard, trim some fat for a slimmer future... but given the size constraints, we're guessing it's more likely to be a more spacious alternative to Memory Units than the main HDD itself. Word has it the feature will be rolled out in a Spring 2010 firmware update -- that is, if Microsoft keeps to its paperwork here. Excited? We are. Read the full documentation over at Joystiq.
looks pretty good. Looks like its for us 30 somethings that grew up on the A Team in the 80s, rather than a re imagined/re hash Liam Nesson look like he is having to much fun a Hannibal. After him in Taken, he can do no wrong by me
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