Can we please keep the thread on topic :roll:
A precocious 17 year old pupil at a Catholic boarding school falls in love with her English teacher and pursues her relentlessly. Inspired by the 1931 German film 'Maedchen In Uniform', the film brings a modern take on the controversial subject of relationships between teachers and pupils.
Unfortunately the interesting premise is wasted here with an uneven script and an extremely abrupt ending.
Are you prepared for AWESOMENESS? Well not really as its just very good. It was a little boring until Tai Lung came into it and then it kicked off. Overall it's very good effort from Dreamworks but still not a patch on Pixar efforts
7/10
No idea why I bought or watched this...
7/10
Zachariah (1971), the only film of it's kind, an Electric Western, made on the tail end of the psychedelic era. It has wannabe gunfighter Zachariah (John Rubinstein) teaming up with his blacksmith friend Matthew (Don Johnson), to join up with the Crackers, (played by Country Joe and the Fish), a band of robbers, (quite literally a band!!) Soon after though, they drift apart, which leads to rivalry. It's easy to see why this is the only film of it's kind, but it was a good idea, at the time!! But, it does feature good music from Country Joe and the Fish, The James Gang, White Lightnin' and New York Rock Ensemble. More of an extended rock video than a proper film, could have been better. :P 3/5
Across 110th Street (1972), one of the most powerful and famous Blaxploitation films of the 1970's, best known for it's theme song by Bobby Womack. This has two New York cops, the biggoted Mattelli (Anthony Quinn), and black Lt. Pope (Yaphet Kotto) teaming up to stop an all out war breaking out in Harlem between the Mafia, led by Nicky D'Salvio (Anthony Franciosa) and the black gang who stole $300,000 from them, it comes down to 3 crooks who conducted the theft. Across 110th Street is a very gritty film, and it doesn't fall into the cliches that alot of blaxploitation films of the time did. It's very violent, and there is alot of racial tension on display, which adds to it's tense mood. Oh, and look out for Huggy Bear in the film!! ;) 4/5
The Jungle Book (1967), an extremely strong contender for Walt Disney's best film, (it was also the last film he oversaw before his death.) Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's books, it had man-cub Mowgli, brought up since he was a baby by wolves, who is to be sent back to the man village by panther Bagheera to escape certain death from tiger Shere Khan. But, Mowgli doesn't want to go to the man village, especially when he meets care-free bear Baloo. :P The Jungle Book is an upbeat and extremely enjoyable film, with some of the best animation Disney had very done. It brought the old fashioned Disney format finally kicking and screaming into the 1960's, helped by superb songs like The Bare Necessities and I Wanna Be Like You. Disney has never been this good since then. 5/5
I was very surprised by this. The story takes place somewhere between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith and revolves around the rescuing of Jabba the Hutts kidnapped son. I went in expecting a cheap money making ploy but it turned out to be pretty good. The story was full of action with great little comedy moments like Clonetroopers doing Roundhouse kicks on the always funny Battle Droids. The dynamic between Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano was a great addition to the plot. The animation is not great and some of the voicework is bad like the addition of Zero the Hutt whom sounded like Eric Cartman from SouthPark. Overall though I found it very enjoyable and a lot better than Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.
7/10