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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
Without a Doubt The Best Game Ever!
I didnt play Metal Gear Solid for the PSone but I played demos foe MGS2 and I was so impressed by both the graphics and gameplay I went and bought it on the release date. This is without a doubt the best ever game to be release on any game console! The story line is excellent, the graphic is a benchmark for future releases and the sounding matches every part of the game.It's a shame where you don't get to play as Snake full out the game but the character Raiden is a good replacement (especially that cartwheel stunt) but he crys to much!
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Guns, Choppers, Carnage!
First of all, I have not read the book. My mates wanted to see a Brit horror flick 'Long Time Dead', I wanted to see Black Hawk Down. I won the battle to see what movie to pick. After 144 minutes, I came out of the picture - SHOCKED! I'm shocked for to things. One of them is, the carnage and the second one is how great the film was!
Ridley Scott's Gladiator was great. But this was alot better! Josh Hartnett gave the performance of his career so far (I'm sure there will be more). Tom Sizemore was even better in Black Hawk Down than Saving Private Ryan (but not alot).
Any Good?
Anyone who do not like war films, might not like this. Anyway Black Hawk Down is a anti-war movie and in my opinion it's better than Saving Private Ryan and Platoon (I have not seen Apocalypse Now). Ridley Scott deverse the Best Director Award at the Oscars, now as for Best Picture, I think it does but Lord Of The Rings was excellent, so there will be a another war between The Lord Of The Rings and Black Hawk Down! Rating-10
Here on Earth (2000)
another Strong Performance From Josh Hartnett But Not Enough To Save This S**t!!
This picture is the worst love movie that i'av ever seen. The car race was excellent, Josh Hartnett was excellent, the rest was crap! Every time that Josh Hartnett was in it, he was either having a fight, starting a fight or sweet talking Sam. After Sam was in hospital i just gived up on this movie. I never hoped to see the credits on a movie before until i saw this.
FINAL THOUGHTS Josh Hartnett should quit the love films and go onto action, thrillers and horrors. ratings: 5/10
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Best film of the year!
"War", as someone once trilled "What is it good for?" Well huge summer blockbuster, apparently. At least, that's what scourge of the arthouse crowd and best bud of the muiltplex mob, Jerry Brunkheimer, was betting when he decided to plough $135 million of Disney's money into Pearl Harbor. A risky proposition when you realise that it's not only a story about the invincible American military being caught with its pants down-climaxing in an ending that everybody knows-but has a cast, that while not by any means likely to turn down Lily Savage's Blankety Blank in a hurry, are certainly no guarantee of financial success. The question, then, is have Brunkheimer and his buddy Michael Bay (Armageddon) pulled it off? The answer is that, as usual, the Brunkheimer brand has delivered an almost dead-cert hit. Whilst a bit on the anoexic side in the dramatic weight department, it's a natural born blockbuster that ratchets the action bar up dozens of notches and represents the final coming of the age of CGI. Quite simply, you have never seen anything like it. Story-wise we're somewhere between Rolf Harris' Two Little Boys and Tora! Tora! Tora!, with best pals flying aces Affleck and Hartnett rowing over the affections of Kate Beckinsale, after she accidentally f***s the latter when the former is supposed to have been shot over Europe. Not Bay's determination to shoot everything by what appears to be a permanent sunset (and a pleasing sense of humour from Affeck vanishes far too quickly.) Bay's pre-war America looks like it emerged from a beer ad-little boys soapbox Sopwiths, while real-life biplanes zoom over amber waves of grains; trains rumble into stations in slo-mo amid billiowing clouds of steam; lovers curl in each others arms and say stuff like, "Do you think the war will ever reach us?" (for $135 million it'd better, baby!) But it is the bombing itself that always what this movie was going to live and die on, and here Bay really delivers, from an astonishing first 'bomb's eye view' shot that sees the camera follow a falling munition through the decks of the USS Arizona. Then comes perfectly timed detonation, using fantastically detailed long shots of hundreds of Japanease Zeroes buzzing around the exploding fleet. It's an amazing, visceral experience. ILM's CGI is, for the first time, indistinguishable from reailty. Torpedoes hiss under the thrashes feet of drowning soliders, men are blown through upturned ship's propellers towards the camera, and fighting plough into each other . It's an astounding, nerve-shredding experience that leaves the mealy-mouthed whining about flatpacked characterisation bobbing in the wreakage. And amongst the cliches, there's even a dog in the middle of the carnage.
TEN OUT OF TEN.
Memento (2000)
A Movie Making You Wonder How It Will Began
This movie is excellent. Guy Pearce is even better than he was in L.A Confidential! If you are thinking which to rent out of Memento and Gladiator. Pick this! This movie have also got a twist that will make you think! I'm telling you to watch this and do not miss 5 minutes because you will miss a important part! 10/10