Category: Action
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Cool Papa E Reviews The Chronicles of Narnia Series
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – 2005 Directed by Andrew Adamson Starring William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Liam Neeson (v), Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Ray Winstone (v), Dawn French (v) Written by Ann Peacock, Andrew Adamson, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Review: Much pressure was applied upon the makers of The Lion,…
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The Eagle sees Channing Tatum fighting people with wild hair
The Eagle – 2011 Director Kevin Macdonald Starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Mark Strong Written by Jeremy Brock based upon The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff It’s hard to tell whether Channing Tatum is a good actor or a meat head who has been given some decent material to work with.…
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Unknown: Take my life, please
Unknown – 2011 Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra Starring Liam Neeson, January Jones, Diane Kruger, Aidan Quinn, Frank Langella, Bruno Ganz and the “Can You Hear Me Now?” guy Written by Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell based on Out of My Head by Didier Van Cauwelaert If you’d ever seen him run, you’d think Liam Neeson is an old…
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon obliterated by edits
Transformers: Dark of the Moon – 2011 Directed by Michael Bay Starring Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, John Turturro, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, Peter Cullen (voice), Hugo Weaving (voice), Leonard Nimoy (voice), Alan Tudyk Written by Ehren Krueger About 45 minutes into Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Optimus…
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Drive Angry gives me a few good reasons I shouldn’t shoot it in the face
Drive Angry – 2011 Directed by Patrick Lussier Starring Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Katy Mixon, David Morse, Billy Burke, Tom Atkins Written by Lussier and Todd Farmer This film is bad in the most glorious way possible. It is offensive, crude, dumb, overly violent and wholly unbelievable. What else can one expect, though,…
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Battle: Los Angeles fights a valiant war with the power of cliche
Battle: Los Angeles – 2011 Director Jonathan Liebsman Starring Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Ramón Rodríguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo, Michael Peña Written by Chris Bertolini Rule#31 – Whenever a movie about an alien invasion starts mid-battle, and you know we have to go back to the beginning, the beginning needs to be exciting. Rule#548 – It’s never…
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X-Men: First Class is the pinnacle of the series
X-Men: First Class – 2011 Directed by Matthew Vaughn Starring Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon Written by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stenz, Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn Somewhere along the way, they decided to step it up a notch. The last couple of X-Men films, while…
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Cool Papa E Reviews Marvel’s The X-Men / Wolverine Movies
Many are hailing this coming week’s X-Men: First Class as the best Marvel movie ever. Everything I have seen so far looks fantastic. Now is as good a time as any to check what we’ve seen so far from the X-Men Series of films. This list will be comprehensive within the next couple of weeks,…
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Faster: In which The Rock is really pissed at a minimal rate of speed.
Faster – 2010 Directed by George Tillman, Jr. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thorton, Carla Gugino, Tom Berenger, Moon Bloodgood, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Maggie Grace, Mike Epps Written by Joe and Tony Gayton There is a prologue to the movie Faster in which Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is getting out of prison. He looks real hard…
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Cool Papa E Reviews The Marvel Cinematic Universe (The Avengers Movies) Phase One
When Captain America: The First Avenger is released July 22, 2012, it will mark the last movie to be released ramping up to the May 4, 2012 arrival of the first superhero team movie, The Avengers. At this point, everyone is aware of the team that has been assembled: Iron Man, Captain America, The Incredible…
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