Iron Man 3

Posted in Reviews by - Apr 29, 2013
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Iron Man 3

“They say a man creates his own demons…”

After the lacklustre sequel that was Iron Man 2, we were absolutely over the proverbial moon when we heard that Shane Black was writing and directing the next installment. Word on the street was that Iron Man 3 was going to be more of a techno-thriller, something in the vein of Tom Clancy. Hey, even better we thought. Maybe it’s just us but the whole ‘Iron Man versus some other guy in a robot suit’ shtick from the previous two movies had grown stale. Of course, you are probably sitting there wondering who the hell Shane Black is? Depending on your movie-going orientation, when it came to the action genre during the 90′s, Shane Black was hot property. Maybe even the …

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Oblivion

Posted in Reviews by - Apr 16, 2013
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Oblivion

“Are we an effective team?”

Ordinarily we’d open our review with a few acerbic remarks about the movie we’re reviewing, its particular genre, or possibly even one of the actors involved. This time we’re not even going to bother. As far as we’re concerned, both Mr. Tom Cruise and the science-fiction genre as a whole have comprehensively had the piss taken out of them over the years by individuals far more intelligent and clever than ourselves. No quips about Cling-ons. No cheap shots about a certain quasi-religion. No references to that infamous South Park episode. We’re better than that. What we will say is that sci-fi can be incredibly difficult to get right at the best of times and even more difficult to market to the …

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A Good Day to Die Hard

Posted in Reviews by - Apr 03, 2013
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A Good Day to Die Hard

“The franchise has died hard… in the arse.”

As it stands, the Die Hard franchise is the cinematic equivalent to the bible story of Samson and Delilah: the Box Office drawcard lost all of its strength right around the time John McClane lost all of his hair. That’s not to cast aspersions on Bruce Willis’ follicle shortcomings, rather it’s more of a general statement on how our collective enthusiasm has nosedived spectacularly since the release of Die Hard With a Vengeance. We will never be able to say this enough – the original Die Hard rates as one of the greatest action movies of all time. It was smart. It was witty. John McClane was a relatable everyman who just happened to be in the right place at the wrong time. …

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Killing Them Softly

Posted in Reviews by - Mar 20, 2013
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Killing Them Softly

“Killing them softly with his talky talky.”

We like a good gangster movie here at YouSeenThat. Actually that’s quite possibly one of the greatest understatements we have ever cast out onto the Internets – we don’t like them, we love them! It’s a truth that is self-evident once you realise that the highest accolade on our patented YouSeenThat Popcorn Rating carries the ‘Goodfellas Good’ moniker, obviously in honour of Martin Scorsese’s most excellent 1990 Mafia crime drama. While we’re at it, let’s rattle off a few more classics: Casino, Donnie Brasco, Miller’s Crossing, Carlito’s Way, and A Bronx Tale. Actually if that list is anything to go by, the 90′s may just have been the halcyon days of the organised crime caper. Sorry Godfather, yes, we …

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Room 237

Posted in Reviews by - Mar 08, 2013
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Room 237

“Room 237? How about a padded room?”

We’re going to try something a little different this time around. Rather than limiting ourselves to reviewing only the latest movies, how about we review a documentary? Of course that was a completely rhetorical question given the fact that you are participating in the medium of the written word, so too bad. To get into the spirit we figured that we wouldn’t review just some random documentary, rather it happens to be a documentary about one of our all-time favourite directors – the one and only Stanley Kubrick. It also just happens to be about one of our favourite movies – The Shining. That’s right, Kubrick and The Shining. It doesn’t get much better than that. So folks, time …

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Sinister

Posted in Reviews by - Mar 05, 2013
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Sinister

“Maybe more suspect than sinister.”

The ‘found footage’ horror genre has seemingly been all the rage since The Blair Witch Project became a low-budget smash hit back in 1999. Sure, it didn’t give birth to the genre, we’d have to rewind to Ruggero Deodato’s infamous 1980 Italian cannibal flick Cannibal Holocaust to find the true source, but you all know what we’re getting at – some extremely fortuitous documentary-maker just happens to stumble across a few reels of ‘scary’ footage in some spooky forest and splices it together into a semi-coherent feature. Cue the sounds of video store cash registers ca-chinging! Maybe that’s a tad specific but we think you kind of get the idea. Take a stroll through the Horror isle of your local video store – movies like Paranormal Activity, The …

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Skyfall

Posted in Reviews by - Mar 02, 2013
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Skyfall

“Dial M for murder. Literally.”

Akin to our reviews here on YouSeenThat, the James Bond franchise has often been accused of growing progressively stale, camp and predictable as time has lurched on. Example: open with an out of context introduction to grab the audience’s attention, reveal a glimpse of the plot, string together some nonsense until the audience receives mild brain damage, paint-by-numbers until you reach the inevitable conclusion, then finish off with something cool in the hope the audience comes back for the next installment. And the Bond movies aren’t much better. To be entirely fair though, after nearly fifty years and twenty-odd outings for the suave English spy one would have to expect a little franchise-dementia to have crept in, although when someone figured it was …

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Our 85th Academy Awards Predictions

Posted in Articles by - Feb 24, 2013
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Our 85th Academy Awards Predictions

Another year rolls on and another awards season is upon us. Yes folks, the 85th Academy Awards are almost here.

After all of these years of acting as a beacon for honest opinion, we figured it was about time that YouSeenThat.com waded-in and gave our predictions on who may just win some of these stupid little gold statues. We don’t employ any scientific methods or statistical analysis to pick the winners, we mostly work on gut feeling and how much we loved the finished product.

Obviously we tried to do our best to watch and review as many of nominees as humanly possible leading up to the awards, although unless you have a cushy job reviewing films all day long, you can only catch so many. Regalrdess we did our best to bring you our list. So here goes nothing…

 

Best Motion Picture of …

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Lincoln

Posted in Reviews by - Feb 21, 2013
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Lincoln

 ”Not one for the Tammany Hall hucksters.”

We aren’t Yanks. We aren’t US history buffs. Heck, we haven’t even possessed a passing interest in purchasing an M60 machine gun and screaming “Yippiekiyay!” as we gun down a bunch of innocent college students milling around their lockers. Honestly, we couldn’t tell you the ins or outs of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency in any great detail, aside from what we’ve seen in popular culture and the occasional documentary. From what we’ve managed to piece together: Lincoln was well-revered, he abolished slavery, he’s on the penny, and his brain-matter got sprayed across the seats at Ford’s Theatre. So it’s safe to assume we know as much about US politics as your average Republican. With that in mind, we don’t want …

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Flight

Posted in Reviews by - Feb 18, 2013
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Flight

“Cocaine is one hell of a drug.”

If you’re a bigshot Hollywood type and you’re looking for an Oscar nomination, throw your name into the hat for a black and white movie about the Holocaust, or maybe a gritty drama about some loser battling substance addiction. The Academy just eats that stuff up. Of course the Holocaust isn’t something we here at YouSeenThat would ever poke fun at – Mel Gibson already sucked all the comedy gold out of that subject years ago. Substance abuse on the other hand can be funny, assuming it’s happening to a clown, or Lindsay Lohan. Or a clown that looks like Lindsay Lohan. As long as it’s happening to pretty much anyone but us. Okay, how about Denzel Washington? Clearly the …

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