CLUB: The Movie Reviewers Society (TML app.)

[Drago]

Awww what the?? The C in PCG stands for club now, does it?? Not especially, since we've had three non-adopted Pogey clubs in the last three years; two of those being such stellar efforts as the May/Haruka Fan Club and the Molly Hale Fan Club. So here's the dealio: I want to start a club in which it's the duty of the members to go out and review movies. Sound simple? Too simple, I say; so here's the way it works...

1. There will be one review per week.
2. The member who was last nominated to review nominates any member of their choosing for the next review.
3. The nominating party offers three movies (new, old, whatever; just as long as at least one of them is easily accessible) for the nominee to choose from.
4. The nominee selects one of these films, watches it, and reviews it. I'm not too fussed about the structure of the review at this point, just as long as it covers enough information for the rest of us to get a good idea of how the movie is.
5. The cycle repeats for the next review.

Bummed that your other film nominations go unloved? The two films that were not selected will go into a 'movie graveyard'; a listing of each nominated movie that was never reviewed. If it's your turn to review, and you're really not digging any of the three films nominated for you, you may select a movie from the graveyard to review instead (reviewing a movie you yourself had nominated at one point is frowned upon).

And of course, I'm a lenient man; if you just plain old can't see a movie but still want to offer your review, then maybe, just maybe, we'll allow you to just review the most recent movie you saw. Try to limit the amount of times you do that though.

I'm intending for there to be rewards for this as well; based on how good your reviews are, whether the movies you choose to review are obscure or challenging, and how little you dip into the graveyard. I haven't decided on the rewards just yet, but I'm sure I'll come up with something.

So yeah. Who's in?? Expand your mind, TPMers!! Delve into the world of cinematic brilliance, influence the viewings of your peers and wow us with your intellect. Movie Reviewers Society is GO!!

The Panel
A listing of the witty and verbose analytical minds currently with us, as well as the amount of reviews they've done.
DragoKnight (1), Dark-San (1), firepokemon (1), Heald (1), Green Lanturn (1), Weasel Overlord
With reviews from OutSource Magazine's Andrew! (1)

The Gallery
Where you'll find each of our glorious reviews!
Big Stan, Iron Man, Edward Scissorhands, Saw, The Lion King
OSM ~ How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

The Movie Graveyard
Those poor souls that went without review... Here they rest...
Spiderman 3, Batman - The Dark Knight, Wall-E, Step Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Scream 1 through 3, Disney's Aladdin, Disney's The Jungle Book

[Andrew]

You can use my reviews that get published in OutSource Magazine if you want :)

[mr_pikachu]

So, just to clarify, others choose the movies that reviewers have to review? (Yes, I noticed the fact that there are choices.)

And hey, that May/Haruka Club rocked. The best club of the year.

[Dark-San]

@Brian~ The president of that club is a sicko.

Anyway I will be going off to the movies tomorrow to catch a movie. Not very sure on what I would watched yet since I am not the person that is in charge of arranging this movie outing but I will get the details and post it here tomorrow.

If you need me, I will do the review as well.

[firepokemon]

Sign me up. I'll likely resort to illegal downloading but we can all ignore that. Well done too Dracoknight for introducing a club again.

There was something special about clubs back in 2000 and 2001 though I actually never joined one. I use to laugh at how stupid it was. But now I feel I missed out on something.

[Drago]

Oz: I would, but I fear for copyright infringement. I don't want my testicles removed by the scary bigwigs at publishing.

Bri: Yup, someone else selects the movie: the reason I had it this way is with the intention of people going out and finding movies that they wouldn't have otherwise seen; thanks to my girlfriend I've seen a lot of films I wouldn't have thought of touching otherwise; ie. Penelope. Recommended!!

Dark: A nice start-up review would go appreciated, actually - from there, would you like to get the ball rolling and nominate the next member for review? At this point it'd be either me or fp, I guess.

fp: Thanks fp, glad to have you onboard. Yours is an opinion I'm especially looking forward to hearing!

I was kind of hoping more of an interest would have been generated at this point (is the lack of clubs just due to interest??), but we've got enough to get us started. Andy, Bri, Dark... are y'all onboard too to join the team?

[Dark-San]

Well, I was expecting to watch 20th Century Boys the movie that was based off from a Japanese manga. However sadly, the opening screening was scheduled on the 16th October instead. I guessed one of my friend did mixed up on the date of release for that. Putting this aside instead of heading home after we realized the date mix up, we went to watch another movie instead. This time round, it was a comedy. Trust me, I do not waste my cash on comedies usually. But, the main character of this comedy is Rob Schneider. The same funny man that acted in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and The Hot Chick. I had watched both movies on television before and I must say that the two previous movies he acted in was pretty well done.

However, the verdict is yet to be out for his latest movie, Big Stan.


** ~ **

Movie Review: Big Stan

Plot Summary: In this movie, Rob plays a nasty real estate agent that convicted of fraud. He schemes and cheats the old ladies out of their pension. As a result of this, he was caught and pronounced guilty by the jury and sentenced to three years in prison. Thankfully, he got himself a another lawyer that promptly delayed his sentence for another six months.

In that period of his misery, he overheard a rumour that people like him that undergo the prison gets raped. And in fear, he tries to take up martial arts but got kicked out of a karate school. Later, he chanced upon a master, played by David Carradine. Stan, the character Rob plays, invited the Master to his apartment. In that six months, he endured tough training under the Master and neglected his wife, played Jennifer Morrison. Feeling upset about her husband changed in attitude, his wife left the mansion in a fit, leaving poor Stan behind.

After that torturous six months, he was brought to prison where he made his mark by assaulting the biggest sex mania in the prison. From there, he unite the entire prison mates and got his point of banishing prison inmate rape across to them. But in the midst of that, he uncovered a plot by the prison warden to instigate a riot in order to sell of the prison plot for a hefty sum. No surprise though, when Stan played the big hero by foiling the plot even though he was tempted of an early release by the warden himself.

Everything wrapped up nicely when Stan got released from prison and reunited with his wife and master after three long years of imprisonment.

General movie performance: It is a pretty decent comedy movie. You will have lots of scenes that you cannot get off your head after probably watching it. These scenes includes,

- Stan's table fight with the scorpion
- Stan's attempt at consuming the grass snake
- Stan's butt virginity got taken away by the dildo
- His first assault on the sex mania
- His usage of his finger of death on the Master's first disciple

The only bad points I can see from the movie itself would be the fighting scenes angle. Although this movie is a comedy to begin with, but I am pretty sure they could have done more improvement on it. If you guys have watched Jackie Chan's or Jet Li's movies, you will notice a lot of differences in terms of camera positioning. The movie, Big Stan, camera positioning for the fighting scenes were just bad. At one point, I could see the prison inmates 'parading' in the back scenes when Stan tackles a brawl. If I am not wrong, I saw the same mistake twice. Well, I supposed an ordinary movie audience would not have noticed it but as a action movie enthusiast, these mistakes are noticeable.

Also the movie was rated M18 here. That means only audience above the age of 18 gets to watch the movie. I have no reason on understanding on why this sort of rating was given. Firstly, the only explicit scene I came across was the baring of an old lady's breast when Stan's lawyer was making out with her. Also, there are also crude jokes made regarding racism and homosexuality. If the media watchdogs here could just cut off the old lady's breast baring scene, they could easily pass it off as an NC-16 category movie.

Generally for the overall movie rating, I will give only three popcorns out of five to it. Like I mentioned earlier, I am not a movie comedy fan. Furthermore, I believed this movie will only suit to be a DVD release.


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*Note: My ratings are as followed -

1 popcorn - Just forget about the movie!
2 popcorns - Think twice before forking out your money only to regret it.
3 popcorns - Forget about the movie, just wait for the DVD release.
4 popcorns - Entertaining, but well it could be better.
5 popcorns - Superb theater performance, simply first class!

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Well, I was about to go further and give my judgment on the character development for each main lead but I guess, it would get rather lengthy. So let's keep it short for the first one. If it happens that the rotations get to me again, I would be doing a review this time round on the movie, 20th Century Boys. Trust me, the review on this one will have more juicy stuffs.

And of course, the next person to do the next review would be ... DragoKnight.

The movies that this secret character would reviewed would be as followed,

Spiderman 3
Batman - The Dark Knight
Iron man

Of course, an array of superhero related movie to cover!

[Green Lanturn]

I'll partake! As my roommate works at a Theatre, I often see many movies at no charge, so I get to see plenty,lol.

Watching movies for me has taken the place of watching TV.....

~GL

[Drago]

Green Lanturn: Welcome on-board! Glad to have you with us; bitterly jealous as I may be of your free movies. ;)

Anyhow, the deadline for my review is Sunday the 19th of October. Spiderman 3 was the easy option of the three for me, so I'm contemplating whether to choose The Dark Knight because it's the biggest film of the year and really doesn't deserve to go un-noted, or Iron Man because I haven't seen it yet... Hmm.

[Drago]

Alrighty, I can't be bothered waiting until tomorrow, so I'll post my review for Iron Man now. Be warned, I'm never particularly lenient when reviewing movies, so y'all may have some disagreements...

Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. stars as Tony Stark, a wealthy weapons engineer who winds up in the clutches of terrorists, fashioning a metallic suit to escape, and then upon his return home advancing this idea as a way of protecting all the innocent folk.
Hoo yeah, it’s a riveting bit of prose there; we’ll forgive it its trespasses however, seeing how it is a comic book character and campy hero beginnings is their thing. Stan Lee certainly came up with some better ideas along the way, but considering his probable intention with the character back in the 60s was as a vehicle for themes pertaining to the Cold War, it makes sense. (I’ve been doing my homework!) my homework can be found on Wikipedia.

The film is what you’d expect from something of its genre; it’s sleek and exciting. It introduces your general superhero film concepts; morality gained from tragedy, the close yet distant love interest, your hip hero, your jealous villain who can’t quite seem to figure out what makes them tick and your two hours of fun and adventure. On these bases, the film is definitely successful. I most certainly enjoyed it; it was entertaining and gave you everything you would have expected.
…And of course, that’d be its problem, too. The film is formulaic in the strongest sense; if there’s a superhero movie cliché, you can be sure it adheres to it. The film doesn’t break any creative boundaries and absolutely won’t get you pondering about anything. And I guess, why should it? It’s a system that works, and gives you a box office hit. After all, who wants to make movies anymore, we’re all here for the money…

Anyhow, I digress. The film is worth seeing on the merit of Robert Downey Jr. alone. Tony Stark is pretty well-written, but the real triumph lies in Downey’s delivery – he is that playboy millionaire we’d all love to be, who drives the fast cars and gambles away at casinos; it’s similar to the façade that we’ve seen Bruce Wayne put on in the new Batman films, but in Tony’s case, it’s all real, and we love him for it. It’s great to see an arrogant superhero where everyone else out there is simply dutiful and heroic, or brooding and bitter.

Viewers may be surprised to see that unlike the Spider-man films, Downey actually doesn’t spend a great deal of time all decked out in his suit – there’s plenty of scenes involving his tinkering with it, but full Iron Man only happens a couple of times. On the one hand, this is a blessing, as we miss out on Downey’s brilliance when he’s in there, he goes from Stark to the far less charismatic Iron Man to viewers, but on the other hand, we don’t see a great deal of what the suit has to offer. For this reason, there’s less suspense surrounding the final battle, as we haven’t had much of a chance to establish just how kickass this suit is; we know it’s cool, and he does a little bit of smacking the baddies around, but somehow I didn’t feel the same power struggle between him and his enemy in the last scene.

The rest of the cast doesn’t offer much… Jeff Bridges is acceptable as business partner/mentor Obadiah Stane, but is largely dwarfed by Downey. Terrence Howard does his role well, but the character doesn’t have a great deal of material to work with. And Gwyneth Paltrow as executive secretary Pepper Potts? …Frankly, I can’t stand Paltrow in any role, and in this instance she offers more of her vacant take on acting, injecting a vulnerability into Pepper that I put down to the fact that she has no presence whatsoever. Her take on the character is very Paltrow, and that certainly isn’t a good thing. It isn’t the worst thing she’s ever done, but she’d have to do a pretty good job of mediocrity to return to that level.

Anyhow, I recommend anyone see the movie; the reason these superhero flicks succeed is because they’re just as advertised; hip and exciting. But just because it’s enjoyable doesn’t make it a good movie. No, I can definitely enjoy a bad movie, and while this movie certainly wasn’t bad, it was definitely a lot less unique than I had expected. When there are other films out there that are trying to challenge us, or give us something of its own, this one can just be slotted into an overflowing catalogue of its genre, and when it’s all said and done and you’re asked, what did they have that all the others didn’t, all you can tell them is Robert Downey Jr. That’s a good start, but let’s see them try and throw something out there to really get us talking.

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Two and a half ROTTEN PIRATES out of five.

Stiff! Alrighty then, the nominee for next review will be firepokemon! Your options are...

1. Wall-e
2. Step Brothers
3. Edward Scissorhands

Something of an ecclectic mix, no doubt. Anyhow, your review is due on Sunday, October 26th!

[Heald]

This sounds like fun. Since it's my fellow Misc mod buddy, I can't refuse. Count me in.

[firepokemon]

Ooh good a nice one to start off with.

It will be Edward Scissorhands. I've seen the film many times and I love it. Review will be up 2-3 days unless I get lazy again :(

[Drago]

Well I'm happy to hear that I found one you liked there fp. I thought that might be an interesting one to throw in there - I'll save my obscure foreign films for later! Mwa! And Heald my boy, glad to have you in on the party! Business may indeed start to pick up!

And I'm trying to contemplate how the schedule might work from here on - I may adjust it later so that people don't have to wait a week for the next review if they really want to do it earlier. Some tinkering will take place!

[firepokemon]

Edward Scissorhands

I had the misfortune of watching Edward Scissorhands in English back in high school. The movie itself was certainly fine, but whenever I have to review something suddenly there seems to be nothing but empty words. It would appear this is the same now. Though at least one will not be marked on this review so I guess I can just call it as I see it.

The intriguing world of Tim Burton is strange and hallucinatory. On one hand the film is a visual delight. Your literally like a kid in a candy store seeing lollies everywhere. Burton did well in his remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with the delightful scenes of strange and terrifying candy and chocolate. Here in Edward Scissorhands, Burton combines the gothic look, dark and haunting with the arousing pastel colours of Suburbia. Delicious in his approach, the film can almost be seen silently.

Tim Burton however is more than just a mere expertise in the visual. Burton is able to plot films well but he can also bring the uncanny in people’s performances. These performances are rarely played straight. That isn’t how Burtons films work. His films are pure theatre, over-the-top yet utterly delightful.

Sure there is a plot to this film, but you either know Edward Scissorhands and have seen Edward Scissorhands or you haven’t. Think Frankenstein but a man with scissors isolated for years and then introduced to suburban life and women. In a nutshell that describes Edward Scissorhands.

Johnny Depp plays Edward the main character and nails the character. Winona Ryder who now days has disappeared after embarrassingly stealing designer clothing plays Kim Boggs. She’s the love interest but this isn’t a romantic movie. These two could never be together its not that type of film. Being a major movie watcher at this time, it always surprised me that Ryder did not enjoy bigger success. Ryder is a strange actor, on one hand her serious rules seem iffy and yet here she is at her best. In what can be a dark comedy. Ryder and Depp and the other actors are brilliant. And its thanks to the direction of Burton that all the actors in the film play their roles appropriately.

This film ages well and is a superb film to watch and watch and watch again. Fabulous all round, just an excellent movie.

(I do apologise for the lousy review. Has been a strange week and didn't have time to write something proper)

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Anyway Heald. Your turn. Since its Halloween.

Your choices are:

1. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
2. Any of the Saw films
3. Any of the Scream films.

[Heald]

Haha. I cannot stand horror films; they're predictable and everyone in them annoys me. However, I will endeavour to try and watch one of those before the end of this week.

[Heald]

Sorry this has taken so long, but here it is.


SAW
THE MOVIE REVIEWERS SOCIETY REVIEW
BY HEALD ESQ.

I ought to point out before I begin that I loathe horror and gore films. They never scare me, and I don't find them interesting, funny or engaging at any level. I make exceptions only if the villain is so stupid it's funny, such as a clown (Stephen King's IT) and the Aussie from Wolf Creek. So when the villain in this is mostly unseen for the entirety of the film, usually conveyed through a creepy puppet, I wasn't too impressed.

I'll concede SAW is watchable, but perhaps in the same way a car-wreck at the side of a highway is watchable, the kind you slow down to watch. First of all, the two guys you start off with, two of the most annoying, mediocre chumps I've had the displeasure of watching, don't exactly immerse you. After stumbling their way through some of the most mindless dialogue known to man, they finally reach a conclusion most viewers had reached 10 minutes before. Then, about as seamlessly as a shoe stitched by a four-fingered leper, the back-story.

There are a couple of cops and a handy replay of all of Jigsaw's previous victims. Hang on, it's just occured to me that despite half of the film revolving around these cops, they actually provided nothing of merit.

They both die, and without doing anything meaningful, unless you count failing to catch a guy who uses very large abandoned warehouses as his hide-outs as something meaningful.

Anyway, I'll dispense with the pleasantries. Basically Jigsaw is this psycho who thinks people should stop ruining their lives, so he finds and tortures people who are ruining their lives e.g. drug-addicts, self-harmers, attention-seekers etc. What horrible things have our two heroes been doing? One is a photographer and the other was accused of being Jigsaw on a hunch, but there we go.

The thing that sucked was the ending. There is actually a pretty decent twist at the end, which I shan't ruin, but I will ruin the rest of the ending. After a couple of hours of some psycho brutally torturing and murdering a bunch of misfits and idiots, you'd think there'd be some sort of resolution. After all, Jigsaw does actually give his victims a chance of escaping. However, the main character, who is actually completely innocent, had no chance of escaping as his only means of escape was flushed down a drain if he moved in the slighest, and considering he wakes up left underwater in a bath, that's a pretty stupid thing. So either the movie sucks or Jigsaw is actually just a rubbish villain.

To be honest, it's not as bad as other horror films. Gothika is a lot worse than this. I'd imagine if you're into good horror films, or really bad porn, this is your cup of tea.

I'm going to give this

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Two Blobbys Out Of Five

Green Lanturn, your shout. Here are three films to choose from:

Disney's Aladdin
Disney's The Lion King
Disney's The Jungle Book

Enjoy.

[Andrew]

Well my magazine I write for has gone bankrupt. Great.

So no more movie previews.

How To Lose Friends and Alienate People.

I have a love/hate relationship with Simon Pegg. At times he’s hilariously witty, insightful and scathing. But the next moment, he’s far too smug and meta for his own good. After reading absolutely no hype about this latest movie starring our British friend, I had no idea of what to expect.

The basic plot involves independent UK magazine editor Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), who spends his time trying to get into celebrity gigs, getting thrown out and subsequently writing bitter pieces on fame and celebrity. Somehow he scores a job in New York (Where else?) working at glitzy Sharpes Magazine.

From there, apart from constantly offending and irritating co-workers at Sharpes (Kirsten Dunst & Jeff Bridges notably), Young is thrown into the American world of fame. A world where celebrity and media have a symbiotic relationship, everyone using each other for their own ends. In this world, Young finds himself drawn to the irresistible “Hot Young Thing,” (Megan Fox) and spends a good deal of the movie thinking with his pants and how to get into hers.

Young is an abrasive and daft character, and you’ll start off initially repulsed by him, and irritated by his chauvinistic, buffoonish behaviour. But somewhere along the line, he matures into a character you find yourself rooting for. Pegg has this knack for making these initially unlikable outcasts of society into mainstream heroes when he takes on these roles. So, I must recognize his acting chops for that. Even if the entire performance is littered with painful/amusing faux pas.

Ashley Olsen, Kirsten Dunst’s character is initially the most likable person in this entire film. But apart from her lovelife issues and pained reactions, she doesn’t have that much to do in this movie carried by Pegg. She’s still pleasant and a welcome addition. However it must be mentioned. Dunst cannot act “Drunk.” At best she’s like a six-year-old attempting to be drunk.

Gillian Anderson’s role must also be mentioned as the cutthroat publicist. She does such a brilliant job in this role. There’s also a number of celebrity cameos you can have fun pointing out as well. The music is also appropriate, but ultimately forgettable fluff.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is a movie based on the memoirs of the same name by Tony Young. Having not read the book, I cannot attest for how faithfully it stays to the source material. But what I can tell you, is that if you can tolerate the first half-hour, you may be charmed over by this mannerless, unobservant and socially backward twat. So much so, that by the end of the movie, you’ll be firmly on his side. Not to mention, slightly confused as to how it happened. But hopefully you’ll have enjoyed the heady ride of fame, celebrities and transsexuals along the way.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People starts screening October 23.

[Green Lanturn]

Hmm, interesting choices....Disney, hmmm....

Well, let's see, I guess I will go ahead and do "The Lion King".


It'll be up as soon as i can watch that again,lol.

~GL

[Green Lanturn]

Ok, my review will be up tomorrow by this time (as i just finished the movie)


But i do want to give the next person a head start:



DArk-san!

Your movie selections will be as follows:
1.The Phantom of the Opera
2.The Phantom of the Paradise
3.The Phantom



^<^ Enjoy!

~GL

[Dark-San]

Very interesting choice of list you gave there, GL. Problem is none of which I had seen before. Another problem is that none of which I believe can be accessible on my side. I will given things out eventually but I would most likely to go for Phantom of the Opera (If I can get it!).

[Green Lanturn]

OK, here we go!



Movie Review:


Disney's The Lion King


Before I even begin to review this movie, I feel it is essential to explain my history with the movie. I essentially grew up with the Lion King as a child; the Day-Care I went to played this movie almost daily, for about a year...I admit there was even a time when I got rather sick of it and just went to sleep on one of the mats. Following that episode, I have seen this movie maybe twice more in my life, until now. I have seen the broadway production, as well as a small show at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, FL...so I am not unfamiliar with this topic, heck, I have even seen all the sequels (I loved Wal-Mart's electronics department).

The Lion King follows the story of a young cub named Simba. Destined by birth to be the next King of Pride Rock, he encounters a setback in life when his father, Moufasa, is killed in an accident Simba is led to believe he caused. This causes him to run away and abdicate his position. After a bit of maturing thanks to the help of an unlikely duo (Timon, a meerkat, and Pumba, a pestulant Warthog), and the rekindling of a small love interest (a female cub/lioness name Nala), Simba returns home to deal with not only his personal demons, but those now in charge.

Now, the thing that most attracts me to this film is the music. With such songs as "I just can't wait to be king" and "Hakunna Matata", it is hard not to be humming along to a couple of the tunes following the movie. With a fabulous soundtrack, a movie is only as good as the characters who sing it. And that's one thing this movie is not short of...

Simba, our bold hero;
Nala, the romance and friend;
Mufasa, the inspirational father;
Sarabi, the caring and proud mother;
Scar, the dirty villain;
Zazu, the loyal servant;
Timon, the quirky sidekick;
Pumba, the clumsy sidekick;
The Hyenas, stupid lackeys;
Rafiki, the ever-present mystic,....

This setup often describes most a successful play or production, so why not a film!

I must admit though, there is one thing more that drew me back to this film, and that is the urban legend of a subliminal message imbedded in the film, a cloud revealing the word "sex," and you know what, it's absolutely brilliant.

So overall, with a wonderful set of characters, a complete of catchy soundtrack, and all the makings of a disney movie, this is definitely one to film to see if you haven't already, and even if you have, see it again!

3.5 out of 5 paws!


~GL

[Weasel Overlord]

LATECOMER IS ME. Hallo, I'd like to be part of the reviewers! Although I've gotta say... if someone makes me watch horror I will cry and/or refuse. Weasie is not good with horror.

[Drago]

Woo! Loving the reviews people, I'm really quite fond of people seeing films they wouldn't have selected otherwise... Welcome to the crew, Weas! (Mental note, make her watch horror movies. Mwa)

[Dark-San]

Bear with me for a moment. I will have my review up within the next two days. The only available online video streaming I can find for Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 version. Damn, it is a sure bet that I am going to fall asleep watching this one. >.<

[Drago]

...That's fantastic. :D
Somehow, I don't think I could have hoped for a better scenario - it's so easy to watch a clean and pretty modern version, but tackling the classic movie should make for an interesting experience. ...Though I don't think anyone has yet really been won over by any of the movies they've been forced to watch, it's bound to happen eventually.

When I next get the chance to nominate movies, the recipient may just have to watch something similar... Hehehe...

[Dark-San]

The movie tested my sanity. I watched like thirty minutes into the movie and almost threw my entire laptop outside the window. I figured out that I would completed it by tomorrow. If it has a lousy review, don't blame me. You can point all your fingers at Green Lanturn. =)

[Green Lanturn]

^.^ your welcome!

~GL

[Drago]

Righto. I've concluded that Dark is in fact... not going to post that review within two days. Not two standard days, anyway. As I hadn't quite anticipated such an early snag, I leave the challenge open for anyone (other than GL) to review Phantom... If nobody else will, I will. Er-hem. Any takers? ^^;