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Circle of Iron (1978)
No hi"flute"in about it
I can't really add much to this movie that others have already discussed in detail. This movie just happen to catch my eye on netflix . I am often willing to give odd or forgotten movies a chance hoping to see something original and worth while. I have no former knowledge of this movie and its relation to Bruce lee , so that's not even a factor as to why I watched it, so I'm strictly reviewing without any bias towards that . I do like some martial arts movies but I'm not a huge fan of the genre.For this being a martial arts movie though , it did lack in this area greatly. Not in quantity ,but quality. They could have found some "real" M.A. Who were willing to be apart of this movie . Instead of the clowns they hired.,
I did dig the whole philosophical side of the movie . I know little to nothing on eastern or zen philosophy , but was interesting to listen to .
To sum up the movie into what made it a 5 star "watchable" movie was its weak choreography in M.A. ,cheap costume design and shallow creativity.
World War Z (2013)
Not as bad as i thought , but not as good as i'd hoped
First off , I am a Zombie movie fan. I've seen a lot of Zombie movies and i'm a big fan of The Walking Dead. I've never read the book to this movie , so i don't have anything to compare in that regard. After watching the trailer to this movie , i have to say i wasn't entirely excited about it. The whole running/ant-like movement of these zombies didn't seem to fit what i like about zombie movies. This movie just looked like it was going to be just another action movie with zombies inserted in as the antagonist. I wasn't to thrilled about Brad Pitt playing the lead role either. I like Brad Pitt , he is a good actor , but just hard to see him in this role. So as you can see i had some mixed feelings going into this movie. Well after finally seeing the movie, there was one word that best described this movie for me - "incomplete". I felt like this was the beginning of a story (and perhaps it is). If i knew for certain that this movie was a part 1 of ? then the movie would have given me more closure. Overall still worth a watch in my opinion
Scouts Honor (2009)
Camp kattan
I usually get sucked into watching movies that people claim are the "worst movie ever" . guess cause i have to see for myself. most the time people are right , but they got it mostly wrong with this one. Is it low budget? , yes. Is it silly ? , yes. But it isn't the worst movie ever. Chris kattan made this movie for me. It reminded me of his old snl days, just a lot of ad lib non nonsense stuff that he is good at. His scenes with his girl friend are hilarious and are my favorite parts of the movie . Without him though, I would have stopped this movie way short. The other notables in this film didn't add much and could have been utilized a lot better. It's worth a watch if you like Chris kattan and have some time to kill.
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Honest Abe
After seeing the modern movie versions of Abe Lincoln I was curious to see what this one was like. Personally when it comes to movies portraying historical characters I'm most concerned with the facts then with anything else. In that regard the movie didn't seem to run away with an artistic license , but did manage to focus on what Lincoln was trying to achieve " to preserve the union". A line repeated several times through out the the movie. The movie was more like a snap-shot of the life of Lincoln piecing together highlights of Lincoln's life. And maybe it was better this way , filling in the gaps with fiction doesn't serve history very well. Sure you cant be 100% factual when trying to make a movie but have some kind integrity. The film is defiantly a product of its time- film quality , acting , but if you can over look that it isn't that terrible.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Fact : This movie truly disappointed me
I didn't read the book, so that's not why I was disappointed. I had to try really hard to ignore the " fact" that this movie was trying to remotely use any credible history of Abraham Lincoln. I think it did a better job convincing me of the possibility of real life vampires . I guess connecting a story about vampires to a very well know historical character helped bring needed curiosity to sell the movie, but they just didn't pull it off for me. The movie fell way too short for me on being either entertaining or enlightening . So if history means anything to you, this movie might get under your skin a bit. But of course when it comes to Hollywood history happens the way they write it.