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The 11th Hour (2007) [PG]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $14.75
Review-lite: If you can see The 11th Hour and not want to join the green movement, I would be very surprised. For me, this was a personally life-changing film that has motivated me even further down a path toward focusing on the movement to get everyone on board toward the universal cause of protecting our planet from any further cataclysmic change brought about by our selfish wasting of resources in the name of mass consumerism and away from those things in life that really do bring us pleasure and joy. With great panelists that touch just about every pulse be they a corporate tycoon or a misguided politician assuming the only way to keep themselves in office is to keep corporations happy, The 11th Hour stands as more than a wake up call, it stands as a call to action. We can either sit and watch our world die in front of us, or we can use the great gift of our brain power to live in harmony with it using technology that already exists. We don't have to live in the forest on nuts and berries, we can invent wild and cool new ways to design and build the most incredible things we've ever seen. We simply have to change our mindsets and our goals. In the end, we have everything to gain or everything to lose. They say the choice is ours; but, really, do we have a choice when so many of the planet's organisms live at our whim? (click for full details and complete review)
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The Final Season (2007) [PG]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating:
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As an Iowa high school faces closure, the students playing on the championship baseball team are devastated when their head coach (Powers Boothe) is fired and replaced by his assistant (Sean Astin), an inexperienced leader assumed to be unable to continue the team's winning streak during their last season. The former girl's volleyball coach surprises everyone when he steps up to bat. Based on a true story; Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Arnold co-star. 118 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.
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Lions For Lambs (2007) [R]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $14.50
Review-lite: Three interrelated stories force consideration of the consequences of surrendering democracy to special interests, as Robert Redford directs what amounts to a sophisticated college lecture in how easy it is to lose oneself in the rhetoric of the media, the government, and special interest groups. Matthew Michael Carnahan's flowing dialogues between a GOP Senator and the journalist that defined him, two special ops soldiers stranded on a plateau in a Taliban-controlled region of Afghanistan, and a college professor who works to persuade a student to live up to his potential for really making a difference in the world all sum up to make an outstanding film and the second best film of the year when it comes to the potential to inspire lasting progress. (click for full details and complete review)
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P2 (2007) [R]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $7.25
Review-lite: Were it not for Wes Bentley's better than average performance, P2 wouldn't have been worth watching. Actually, no one would probably want to admit this, but the recently assailed Captivity was a far better film with nearly exactly the same basic premise. While not a terrible way to be introduced to this sub-genre of thrillers, overall, P2 is a simplistic 'thriller' with poorly developed characters and predictable outcomes from rookie director Franck Khalfoun. (click for full details and complete review)
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Reservation Road (2007) [R]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $12.50
Review-lite: Reservation Road explores the aftermath and impact on the intertwining lives of two fathers: one, Dwight (Mark Ruffalo) who has just killed the son of the other, Ethan (Joaquin Phoenix), in a hit and run accident. Coincidence and rules the day as Ethan eventually hires Dwight to represent him in a civil suit should his son's killer be found. Unfortunately, while Ruffalo and Phoenix deliver fine performances in this predictable story, the film never really explains how Dwight is able to live with himself very well. Too much of his past is withheld leading to too much unnecessary speculation. In the end, even the ending is too predictable. Ah yes, Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino are also in the film, sort of, don't blink. Director / co-writer Terry George's film also suffers in that it's the third similarly-themed film of the same fall season. (click for full details and complete review)
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Resurrecting the Champ (2007) [PG-13]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $13.75
Review-lite: Introspection can be a painful thing. Struggling sports journalist, Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) must learn this the hard way as he is forced to confront his habit of projecting his own truth of the world on to the world only to find his world coming apart at the seams. Everything he knows gets turned upside down when a chance encounter with a homeless, former world heavyweight championship boxer, 'the Champ' (Samuel L. Jackson) comes into his life providing him with the story of the century or so he thinks and writes. He fails to uncover the true facts of his own story, however, before it is written and published plunging his personal and professional life into a tailspin. How will he recover the luminous reputation he once held in the eyes of his own son? Jackson delivers one of the best performances of his venerable career. (click for full details and complete review)
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There Will Be Blood (2007) [R]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $13.75
Review-lite: From the opening chord to the final credits roll, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood based on Upton Sinclair's Oil! feels ominous and foreboding. Like a needle in the mind though, something seems off in that which remains in the thoughts after the film's torrential performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview subsides. At it's core, this is one man's particular motivation to reach the top of his game at any cost and his subsequent and singular plunge into the darkness of a lonely, suspicious, and stark raving mad lunatic. Everyone should be able to see the brilliance of Mr. Day-Lewis's performances, but without meaning to offend, most everyone else is not going to enjoy or even like this film--it represents the movie equivalent of high-end sushi—it's just not for everyone. (click for full details and complete review)
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Walk Hard (2007) [R]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $14.25
Review-lite: Nope, I'm sorry, you're going to have to read the full review. What do you think this is, a free ride to the Cliff's Notes® page? Come on, just read the big green quotations if that's all you have time for. Do you know how hard it is to write a review with ghost hands in the first place? So, I go to all that trouble, and then you cannot take 7 minutes, seriously I timed it reading out loud even which takes longer than reading in your head, and it only takes a mere seven minutes. So, come on, go back and read it. I could pare it down here for you like I normally do, and tell you how great John C. Reilly is, but for once, can't you just read the whole thing? Please? For me? (click for full details and complete review)
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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) [PG]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $9.00
Review-lite: While not receiving top-billing in the credits for Jay Russell's The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, the entire picture rests on the shoulders of Alex Etel as Angus MacMorrow, a young Scottish lad who finds an alabaster egg that hatches into the mythical sea creature of Loch Ness. Unfortunately, the role and the chemistry of the story don't offer him much with which to work. The net result is a bit of a cartoonish character portrayed about as well as could be expected. Sadly, Jay Russell's Water Horse is one of those pictures aimed at kids with cute posters that isn't likely to hold their interest very long, and certainly won't entertain their parents or guardians long enough to justify the high cost of going to a movie with the family these days. (click for full details and complete review)
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