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The Deer Hunter (1978)
Excellent War Time Movie
This movie is defiantly one of the best war time depictions that I have ever seen. I found the acting excellent. Christopher Walken's performance was superb and really brought the viewer to feel his melancholy emotions brought on by Russian roulette torture. Robert Di Niro so too played his part brilliantly showing the rapid pace of change in his characters life brought about by the Vietnam War. I found that the movie itself had an excellent build up and really provided an insight to the emotional strain that the Vietnam War had on such towns as the one featured in the film. Though the movie sometimes felt as "slow" at times it was not so, the movie provided an in-depth background into the comradeship of the friends. This camaraderie was shown greatest when escaping from the Vietcong and returning to Saigon at the end of the film. The cinematography was outstanding, the movie portrayed years of friendship and misfortune in just 180minutes. I particularly enjoyed the fact that original Vietnam War film footage was inserted into the movie. This brought you back to fact that this actually did happen so too that peoples lives were ruined and others left to clean up the pieces of it. The ending would also have to be one of, if not the best endings of any movie that I have viewed. All central characters are brought together and sing an American Ballad, this I believe symbolized the fact that unity was achieved through the end of a life and/or the war. Although an Australian citizen myself this movie appeals to all who had ties to the war and gives and accurate and descriptive depiction of what was the Vietnam war. I would strongly recommend this film and give it 9 and 1/2 stars.
xXx: State of the Union (2005)
The Worst Movie Ever
I went to the cinema last night and much to my disgust my friends wanted to watch xxx2. I had tried to talk them out of it by saying it will have no decent acting and/or a very poor storyline. THAT WAS AN UNDERSTATEMENT! This is by far the worst movie i have ever seen, It sucked and i want 2hours of my life back. The storyline (if thats what you call it) was very, very, very poor. It was a "B" no i would say "C" grade movie with an "A" grade budget. The hero was a fat African American who thought he was Lord Of The Earth and did not even fit the stereotypical action star genre that i had expected. I swear this guy has no self esteem problems, he is so much up himself i laughed my way through the entire movie. I cannot believe the extreme stupidity of this film. As i sit there in the cinema person after person was walking out, not to mention the laughing at of corny and serious lines. I would never recommend this movie and i believe that it would not even be suitable for Midday Television.