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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Prometheus


David: Big things have small beginnings.

Prometheus
Starring Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender
Written by Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof
Directed by Ridley Scott
Plot: Explorers search for the origins of mankind and discover the same beings that created them, may just want to kill them.

"Nowhere near as good as Ridley's original Alien masterpiece. It has the potential to be so much more, but just comes off like a lower grade prequel."

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Aliens


Ripley: Get away from her, you *bitch!*


Aliens
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn
Written by James Cameron
Directed by James Cameron
Plot: The planet from Alien has been colonized, but once contact is lost with it, Ripley and a rescue team are sent once again to take on the badass alien creatures.

"The tone has definitely been amped up from the original, but that is not necessarily a good thing... Or a bad thing."

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Alien



Ripley: Mother! I've turned the cooling unit back on. Mother!
Mother: The ship will automatically destruct in "T" minus five minutes.
Ripley: You... BITCH!

Alien
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Written by Dan O'Bannon
Directed by Ridley Scott
Plot: A mining ship on an expedition ends up on a distant planet and ends up running into some badass alien creatures.

"The definition and standard of sci-fi horror."

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Tooth Fairy



Derek Thompson: You can't handle the Tooth! And that's the Tooth, the whole Tooth and nothing but the Tooth! I pledge allegiance to the Tooth.

Tooth Fairy
Starring Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews
Written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia, Randi Mayem Singer, Jim Piddock
Directed by Michael Lembeck     
Plot: A tough and jaded hockey player is sentenced to a week of tooth fairy duty to help him believe in dreams again.

"A questionable family movie that makes you raise an eyebrow. I love it because it features the Los Angeles Kings..."

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Wednesday, June 06, 2012

The Last Picture Show



Ruth Popper: Never you mind, honey. Never you mind.


The Last Picture Show
Starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
Written by Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Plot: A look into the lives of a group of high schoolers in the 50's who are coming to age in an atrophying small West Texas town.

"An interesting coming-of-age story... Definitely cutting edge for its time."

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