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The Pirate City.org – Busted!
by admin on Jul.04, 2010, under Movies and reviews
Well it appears that Thepiratecity.org has been busted.
The Doman has been Bagged and Tagged, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is proudly displaying the graphic below where thepiratecity.org home page once resided.
MovieFather.com and MovieSister.com will likely be next.
There are many other sites doing the same, thepiratecity was just the first to go down. This must have the other big players that are actually, copying, distributing by allowing downloads and selling memberships ect…well they must be shaking in their boots.
But suprisingly enough most of them appear to be conducting business as usual. That is just insane…can you say prison?
I would definitely expect to see some more warrants executed in the comming weeks.
IRON MAN2
by admin on May.25, 2010, under Movies and reviews
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Iron Man2 Kick’n butt
by admin on May.10, 2010, under Movies and reviews
Robert Downey Jr. is Kick’n but with his “Iron Man2″ movie.
Watch the movie trailer here.
“Iron Man 2″ reportedly took in $52.4 million domestically on its opening day Friday. That’s nearly a 50 percent increase over the first day of the original “Iron Man” .
That puts this release some where in the $125 million to $140 million range for opening weekend, which would put it in the top five for opening weekend on the box-office charts.
The first “Iron Man” movie had a $98.6 million debut weekend.
“Iron Man 2″ has taken in nearly $150 million overseas. It opened in many international markets last week. Worldwide, the movie has reportedly climbed to a $200 million total.
X-Men Origins
by admin on May.17, 2009, under Movies and reviews
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Score ( 3 of 5)Â * * *Â
Seen 6 May 2009
I’m not against giving Wolverine an origin story as some fans may be.   I think making him mysterious while using bits of Marvel history reaches a pivotal point.  The story is kind of disappointing. It goes past most of history as nothing more than a continuous string of wars that Logan & Creed as soldiers fight in, then turns our attention to another story about mutant superheroes fighting mutant villains to protect the mutants.
The part that was promised to be good has about ten minutes of Ryan Reynolds as proto-Deadpool.
Labels: 3-D, animation, Boston Fantastic Film Festival, crime, drama, sci-fi
By; M. Moore - Sunday - May/17/2009
Star Trek
by admin on May.17, 2009, under Movies and reviews
Sunday, May 17, 2009 – Star Trek
I’m no fanboy on the subject of Star Trek – I didn’t care for Voyager but loved Enterprise, the latter brought me back – but this really is the first time Star Trek has felt right in years, if not decades.
Star Trek
Scored (4 of 5) * * * * Seen 10 May 2009
Talking with fellow fans, I thought that a fun thing for Paramount to do for Star Trek’s thirtieth anniversary would be to make a new movie, with new people playing the familiar characters but a modern production. Many people believe that there shouldn’t be any more than that, because The Original Series was by far the best.
They have gone back to the beginning to tell a first chapter which had never appeared on film, and focused on the things that made these worlds appealing in the first place. And as good as those other two movies are, the process is especially revelatory for Star Trek: Batman and James Bond have been kept in an enforced stasis, but Star Trek had allowed forty years of details to accumulate, and it achieved a astounding level of solemnity that was not in the original. Aside from how the sequel series converted ideals into dogma, there is in retrospect, something very wrong about how the features made a show about boldly going forward into aging, death and obsolescence.
Writters and director J.J. Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman Opened with the moments leading to James T. Kirk’s birth as a Romulan ship emerges from an anomaly with its captain, Nero (Eric Bana), demanding to speak to “Ambassador Spock”. The U.S.S. Kelvin and its first officer George Kirk, hold Nero back. We’re then see scenes of Kirk’s son James and the half-human, half-Vulcan Spock as children and adolesents, taking their paths to the Starfleet Academy, where Kirk makes friends with Dr. Leonard McCoy (Karl Urban). Word of a crisis on Spock’s home planet forces Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) and Commander Spock to crew the newley completed starship Enterprise with junior officers and cadets, including Kirk, McCoy, Helmsman Sulu (John Cho), 17-year-old whiz kid Pavel Chekov (Anton Yelchin), and xenolinguist Uhura (Zoe Saldana). When they arrive they discover that Nero is back and the stakes are high.
At this point they announce that the familiar future history of Star Trek is no longer set in stone. This will definitely annoy some fans, but it gets the franchise back to where it started in the 60’s when Gene Roddenberry and crew were making it up as they went. Abrams and crew restore that sense of recklessness and it pairs a good match to their main character.
Chris Pine captures that part of Kirk. His Kirk isn’t the same as William Shatner’s – but he’s still young and headstrong, overestimating himself, a cocky yet mature man. Whether he’s being cunning or foolhardy Kirk is decisive, but can afford to be because he’s got the brains and charisma. Zachary Quinto’s Spock is the same way, although overt self-examination to him. He does what’s expected, keeping his emotions in check, as the Vulcans favor logic above all else, he also has Spock’s dry sarcasm right (others playing Vulcans have had a hard time with the just short of smug part).
The cast does a good job of recreating the characters. Karl Urban’s McCoy is by far the closest to his predecessor. For all Urban’s McCoy complaining, he’s also excited about his fresh start and the potential for adventure. Yelchin and Saldana perhaps make characters who mainly were seat warmers in the 60’s more memorable this time around, although John Cho seems to have been left in the background. Simon Pegg adds a good late boost as Scotty, and Bruce Greenwood a mentor figure as Pike. Eric Bana is sort of all over the map as Nero and it’s not just that much of his backstory has been off-loaded into a comic book tie-in, but Bana sometimes seems unsure of Nero’s role as fierce or laid-back, a working-class guy thrown into super villainy by circumstance.
The original series star Leonard Nimoy is here, as an aged Spock, lending a little more legitimacy. It’s clear that, although they are aiming for new and modern, the filmmakers are being careful not to mess with the formula too much, which has worked for forty plus years. They keep things moving along at a brisk enough pace.
This is the first bit of Star Trek filmed in my lifetime that feels like the original. It’s fast-paced, sexy, funny, full of excitement and adventure. The various incarnations of Star Trek have some good and bad things, but it’s been a while since it’s been this unpredictable.
Labels: action, sci-fi, Star Trek
The Escapist
by admin on May.17, 2009, under Movies and reviews
The Escapist
Scored (3 of 5) * * *
Seen 27 April 2009
The Escapist takes off running.
The movie starts off with the sound of alarms, as four cons scramble to remove a grate from the floor, while another injured lifer, Frank Perry (Brian Cox), brings up the rear. The film then jumps back in time, showing us how this came about. Perry was no trouble maker, until he hears that his daughter has been hospitalized. Unable to see her, he plans to escape with boxer Lenny Drake (Joseph Fiennes) and near release Brodie (Liam Cunningham), who knows the sewer systems they’ll be navigating. It gets more complicated when Frank gets a new cellmate, Lacey (Dominic Cooper). Sociopath Tony (Steven Mackintosh) has taken a fancy to Lacey, which is bad enough, but Tony’s brother is Rizza (Damian Lewis), a crime kingpin who has a hand in everything that goes on inside. Avoiding his attention means making a deal with Viv Batista (Seu Jorge), an incarcerated chemist who deals in the jail’s drug trade.
Director Rupert Wyatt and co-writer Daniel Hardy spend their time between between the jail and the tunnels. The story being told inside the prison is about Frank confronting his decisions to go along when he could stand, the movie seemed to undergo a big shift midway through. With the two halves of the story standing somewhat separate, the first half does a nice job of hiding just how the second winds up with the set-up it has until the last minute.
By; M. Moore - Sunday -  May 17/2009
