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Boy Wonder – (2010 movie)

2016-01-03

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456060/
was boywonderthemovie.com (Flash)

A kid goes mad and then vigilante after witnessing the murder of his mother.

This is nothing like batman, honest. This is an awkward movie that would have been better off cut-down and presented as a series pilot. A series made of this would, of course, have failed. While this movie does present a better angle for the insanity behind vigilanteism, it’s lacking overall. I don’t empathise with the character at all, which I think is the entire point of this angle of movie.

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Stupidity – (2003 movie)

2016-01-02

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399704/

About stupidity. For some reason.

I don’t see a point to watching this. At best it’ll probably go into events or trends or whatever that reveals stupidity. It’s telling me the things I live as though I’m not aware of them.

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Assassin’s Creed – Lineage – (2009 movie)

2016-01-01

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Assassin's Creed - Lineage (2009) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587390/
was assassinscreedlineage.uk.ubi.com (Flash)

An assassin, that everyone knows, does some assassiny things but everyone knows him.

This is basically a long intro to a video game. While not bad, it’s not good. It is rife with over-acting and it felt confused to me. I didn’t stay interested.

I see there are other shorts, but I’m not going to watch them.

This is a series of three short films.
This is the actual series, not the CGI one.
The CGI series is:
Properly titled Assassin’s Creed: Lineage.

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Alien Strain – (2014 movie)

2015-12-31

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2854692/

The schizophrenic perspective of a man regarding his girlfriend.

This is one of those movies whose accurate description would spoil it. Overall I liked this movie, but I can easily see how others would not like this style of story telling. I strongly disliked the overall pacing and resolution. They seemed mistimed and more and more rushed toward the end.

While I liked it well enough, this isn’t a movie I’d re-watch and isn’t something I’d generally recommend. Lovers of a certain topic or flavour of movie would probably like this one, but it would be impossible to know how to match those people with this movie.

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House of Lies – (2012 show)

2015-12-31

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Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1797404/
https://www.sho.com/house-of-lies

Following a womanising business consultant.

Supposedly comedy. It’s not.

I find this really strongly uncomfortable. It has a whole lot of immoral or awkward assholishness. Maybe this would develop later, but there’s no way I’m going to get through this show’s growing pains if it’s full of more of what I’ve already seen.

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Hitman – (2007 movie)

2015-12-29

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465494/

I’m not sure how to describe this movie. It’s .. it doesn’t have the sort of consistency that makes it stick in memory enough to try.

It both feels like it has a plot line and that it’s all over the place. Overall it neither crafts a “feeling” nor has memorable characters. It was watchable enough to get through it all without really cringing, but it’s definitely not re-watchable and I wouldn’t recommend it even as bubblegum viewing. It’s successor, Hitman – Agent 47 (2015)[doesn’t exist], is way better.