Topic: My Blu-Ray Reviews

[Piffi]

Title: House of the Rising Sun
Year: 2011
Director:
Rating: 15 years
Length: 88 Min.
Video: Widescreen :1
Audio: English
Subtitles: English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish




Plot:
Ray, an ex-con, is starting a new life looking to stay out of trouble. One evening, on Ray's watch, the nightclub he works for is robbed and the owner's son is shot dead. As his criminal past is exposed Ray hunts for the person responsible for this crime in an effort to clear his own name. Ray must get to the bottom of this as both the mob and cops start to close in on him as their target suspect.




Extras:
None




My Review:
Well, it looked like an interesting movie. A few ok actors in it aswell, and Dave Bautista had the lead role in the movie. (he's a former WWE superstar. And since i'm a big fan of WWE, it got my attention.) But what can i say about this 'action flick' as they called it. Well, It started of ok, but it went downhill very quick. The storyline wasnt interesting enough for me, its been a million times before. And they didnt pull it off. The movie was very slow aswell, and you kinda knew after 15minutes in the movie who was the real bad guy in the movie. (boring) And i hoped with all the known actors they would do something good with it. And i hoped Batista would impress me too, but for me they dropped the ball on this one!
For me, i didnt enjoy this. And i wouldnt recommand to watch it either. (Sorry)




My Rating:
2/6

[Achim]

This was my 50th review in this forum

Awesome!

Keep 'em coming

[Piffi]

Thanks! I'll do my best

[samuelrichardscott]

Well done. I watched House of the Rising Sun a few weeks back and come to a similar conclusion. I scored it slightly better (2.5/5) but thought it was nothing new, below average cast but some good set pieces. I do like Amy Smart though.

[Piffi]

Thanks yeah, some of the reason i wanted to watch the movie was beacuse of Dave Bautista (a former wwe superstar) since i'm a huge WWE fan! But nothing that impressed me about him in the movie. But i too like Amy Smart, i specially liked her in the Crank movies!
(I hoped we would see more of Danny Trejo in the movie)

[Piffi]

Title: Seeking Justice
Year: 2011
Director: Roger Donaldson
Rating: 15 år
Length: 105 Min.
Video: Widescreen 2.35:1
Audio: Engelsk: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1
Subtitles: Dansk, Finsk, Norsk, Svensk




Stars:
Nicolas Cage
January Jones
Guy Pearce
Jennifer Carpenter
Harold Perrineau
Xander Berkeley (1955)




Plot:
In New Orleans, English teacher of the high school Rampart High, Will Gerard, and his wife, musician Laura Gerard, are in love with each other. One night, Laura leaves a rehearsal and is assaulted, while Will is playing chess with his friend Jimmy. Will is visiting her in hospital when, out of the blue, a stranger named Simon tells him that he belongs to an organization of vigilantes and offers to eliminate the assailant. In return, the organisation would want a favor from Will in the future. Will agrees, and the criminal is murdered. Six months later, Simon collects his debt with Will. He demands that Will kill Alan Marsh, a pedophile. Will accidentally kills Alan and soon he learns that the victim was an awarded journalist that was investigating the organization. Now he seeks evidences to prove his innocence but the network of the organization is powerful and is seeking Will out to eliminate him.




Extras:
None





My Review:
Yeah, well.. Didnt know what i was expect going in to this movie, heard a bit different things about it. Both that Mr.Cage did a great job as the lead, and that he did a bad job as the lead. Boring movie, great movie. Perfect! So my expectations was at a 0 this time. I wanted to see this movie beacuse different reasons, one of them is that i am a big fan of the oldschool Nic Cage. Hoped i would see him in this one, but not really. But the movie in itself was quite nice actually. A good mix between suspence and thriller IMO. The story was interesting for me aswell. And they had you guessing trough-out the movie, and there was a few twists in the movie (wich i always like!) The movie was slow at times, but it moved kinda steady too. (if steady is a word) And i have to say that i liked Nic Cage in the lead, i think he did a good job. And i think January Jones did a good job aswell. And it was nice to see Jennifer Carpenter (even tho she had a tiny role in this one)
A movie that i would recommand for almost everyone! I could find myself watching it again




My Rating:
4/6

[samuelrichardscott]

Agree, better than expected and I enjoyed the way the vigilante aspect is 'paid' back. I gave it a 3.5/5.
http://www.dvdcollectorsonline.com/index.php/topic,6328.msg154167/topicseen.html#msg154167

[Piffi]

Agree, better than expected and I enjoyed the way the vigilante aspect is 'paid' back. I gave it a 3.5/5.

Gotta agree as you see, and specially with the bolded part

[Piffi]

The next stuff by Nicolas Cage i want to watch is the National Treasure series.(and maby face\off after that) And  I remember i watched them back when they came out on dvd. So it will be nice to check them out on bluray again. Dont remember much about those. I read somewhere that there will be a National Treasure 3 in the future. That would be interesting.

[Piffi]

Title: Black Swan
Year: 2010
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Rating: 15 år
Length: 108 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1
Audio: Engelsk: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spansk: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spansk: DTS: 5.1, Portugisisk: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Tysk: DTS: 5.1, Italiensk: DTS: 5.1
Subtitles: Dansk, Engelsk, Finsk, Greek, Italiensk, Kinesisk, Norsk, Portugisisk, Romanian, Spansk, Svensk, Turkish, Tysk




Stars:
Natalie Portman
Mila Kunis
Vincent Cassel
Barbara Hershey
Winona Ryder
Benjamin Millepied



Plot:
Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.



Extras:
Scenevalg
Feature Trailers
Dokumentar
BD-Live
Digital Copy




My Review:
Well, going in to this movie i didnt really know what to think or expect. And i am not a fan of dancing movies at all! But when it comes to this movie. I've heard so much about it, how great it is and how much more it is then just ballet. And its been alot of fuzz about the movie, beacuse of the much talked about love scene between Nat Portman and Mila Kunis. And the people i've spoken to just loved Nat Portman in the movie. And going in to the movie i was a bit sceptical about it. But i got positivly suprised by the movie. Even though its a movie about ballet, its so much more. In the movie we are following a girls dream to go to the top, and how she's willing to pay for it. I liked the story of the movie. Its a strong movie in many ways. And the Natalie Portmans role, wow.. The Oscar she got for it, very well deserved! (IMO) And i gotta admit, both Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis is very hot!
Its a movie i recommand you guys to check out! Even though you dont like dance movies. (i dont like dance movies) and i liked this one alot.
And you would never get me to watch Dirty Dancing or Billy Elliot f.ex





My Rating:
4.5/6

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

And you would never get me to watch Dirty Dancing or Ghost f.ex

To put "Ghost" in a row with "Dirty Dancing" is a bit like comparing "Pulp Fiction" to "Battlefield Earth".
Ghost is definitely no Dance-flick, one might discuss if it's worth seeing though.

[Piffi]

Sorry about that! My bad.
I've just edited it now. Hope this is better
But i really liked Black Swan, even though i dont like the "typical dance flicks" , and i think this one did what Dirty Dancing and Billy Elliot did not manage to do. IMO anyways =)

[samuelrichardscott]

Love Black Swan. I've so far given out two 5/5's for 2010. This is one of them. Glad you enjoyed it! (other is Inception btw)

[Piffi]

Nice! Both are real good movies!
I gave Inception a 5/6 A little hard sometimes (IMO) to keep track where they was etc. Other than that, i would give a perfect 6/6! But then again i like most of Leonardo Dicaprio's work tho.

[DSig]

Sorry about that! My bad.
I've just edited it now. Hope this is better
But i really liked Black Swan, even though i dont like the "typical dance flicks" , and i think this one did what Dirty Dancing and Billy Elliot did not manage to do. IMO anyways =)

Aw .. you shouldn't have changed it ..

You are right about this movie though.  It is great.  A strong recommend on my part.  And Barbara Hershey was brilliant.

I do like Natalie Portman, but in this film I think it is a combination of all the player that make it so stunning.  Not bad direction and filming also