Mark reviews Rescue Dawn

This movie was amazing. Christian Bale goes above and beyond yet again. It's no secret he's by far one of my favorite actors, but I mean look at how he dives into movies with a level of devotion to character that surpasses EVERYTHING.

Still one of my favorite stories is how Christian didn't want people to be think that he was some brit coming in to play the American classic super-hero batman, so for all interviews he remained in his American accent. Now, this is just to set the stage of a man who never seems to lose hope after crashing his plane in Laos and becoming a POW. Based upon the true story of Lt. Dieter Dengler, a German American citizen pilot in the US Navy who's plane goes down and who is held captive in a Laotian camp for several months, and who devised one of the greatest escapes ever. Steve Zahn steps up huge as well. For some reason I can never get the image of him as the guitarist from the One-ders, so seeing him in a role like this was outstanding. Werner Herzog brings an amazing cast together with an outstanding story to create something truly inspiring. We see Dieter's fascination for the little things while captured, and his struggle (along with the other prisoners) for survival. You can literally see the effects it has on the prisoners' minds and bodies, yet Dieter never seems to lose his spirit.

I never want to get lost in the Laotian jungle.

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Mark's Movie Review: The Invisible

So yeah, I didn't go out and actually see a movie, I just watched my netflix... a great service by a wonderful easy to use website... (can i have money for saying that?)

Alright, over all, I guess I enjoyed this movie? No, no actually I didn't. Justin Chatwin wasn't bad as the protaganist... but it just was a circular plot that resembled in my mind a toilet bowl... it just got worse and worse. We get it... you're almost dead... we get it, she can hear you... we get it, you're pissed. If you want to sit through a painful movie featuring some little dark poetry writing emo-kid smoking cloves... go rent Spider-Man 3. Only upside to this movie was a scene where Justin's character is trying to confirm his suspicion that he's kind of like a living ghost by taking a shotgun off the wall... walking out of the frame then we hear a gun shot... and "shit". Laughed a fair amount at that... otherwise the plot just didn't grab me, that characters all seemed to have this deep backstories that never really got looked into beyond, "her father was a cop". It just was bad. Probably would be alright to watch in a group of friends and mock the hell out of it.

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Kyp's Movie Review: August Rush

I should not have enjoyed this movie. But I did. Why? The power of music. Freddie Highmore did a great American accent... I think. He didn't talk a lot. Keri Russell, who I love, is good, but just good. Jonathan Rhys Meyers I'll give extra props to because he did his own singing, which is cool. Robin Williams I'd say was the best part, just because it was something different for him. The movie was boring, a bit long and too grounded in reality to justify the wild coincidences that I would, normally, be totally willing to believe. But the music is awesome. Can I recommend this movie? Not really. Buy the soundtrack instead.