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Advantages: Interesting story, good acting
Disadvantages: Too darn long

...documentary about this film and the life of Howard Hughes just before Christmas and thought it looked like an interesting film, although Leonardo di Caprio seemed like an odd choice for the main character. The length of the film also put me off. Then one evening with absolutely nothing to watch on TV, I got it out. It would be hard to make a bad film about a man with a life like Howard Hughes', but even so, I was more impressed that I had expected ...
...with his own aeroplanes as the stars of the show. His sense of perfection led him to plough millions of dollars into the film and it was many years before the film was finally seen by the public. It was a huge success and solidified Hughes' career as a playboy film maker. He had a series of affairs, two of which with well-known actresses, Katherine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. At the same time, Hughes was battling with mental illness - obsessive compulsive ... Read review

Advantages: entertaining and thought provoking
Disadvantages: a little too truthful about human behaviour

I had never seen this film before last night and it touched a nerve with me about how human beings are and what they stand for. It is a film based in the 21st century and is about a time when robots are made to serve human needs, such as for doing menial tasks; and even sophisticated enough to be able to give sexul pleasure, although the one thing lacking in the creation of these robots is the mystery of love and all that goes with it: The inventor ...
...to make a child that loves although other scientists ask whether the human race merit this; and whether it would make mankind love them in return. A child is created called David. He has no mallice, no conception of hate, although until he is imprinted or accepted by his parent; he is just a robot like any other: There is a ceremony which makes this child love, and the way in which the ceremony takes place is believeable and real all at the same ... Read review

Advantages: Made me read the book before hand which was a wonderful read.
Disadvantages: Very disappointing film that has nothing on the book.

I saw the ads for this film early on and ordered the book from Play.com It may possibly have been the best desicion I have made in a long while. The book was so brilliant that I kind of new what I was letting myslef in for at the cinema. It was a luke warm film, very sparse in it's storyline and frankly not great. It jumped large sections of the book, even skipping year in a matter of minutes. The story of the other Boleyn girl revolves around a ...
...Anne Boleyn. Her journey through the gossiping English court and the whooing of a rich king at the height of his powers. A compelling storyline, however this does not come across this film adapition of Phillipa Gregory's masterpiece. I sat there crying at the end, and my friend couldn't understand the fuss, she having not read the book did not have the emotional connection to the characters as I did. The fact that I had already read the book, made ... Read review

Advantages: Good for girly nights in to watch when you may be abit down
Disadvantages: Theyre film making mistakes

...killed by Juliets cousin and Romeo goes to take revenge on the capulet, once he has dies and falls into the lake and romeo turns around to get into his get away car, you should notice that the window of the car as he gets in is not real glass - it wobbles as the door shakes as it is made from cling film!! Another part of the film which rather makes me and my friend laugh quite alot is when Juliet is set up to marry another man and the first nigth ...
...be stood with him but Romeo takes her hand, just watch the guys face as he turns around whilst clapping!! It truly is absoloutely hilarious we just get stomach cramps every time we watch that scene. If you're not even interested in these types of films.. you simply must watch it just for those scenes! You'll be in bits! ... Read review

Advantages: Compelling, great build-up of suspense
Disadvantages: Some will be disturbed by the rape scene

When quiet American mathematician David Sumner and his wife Amy return to her native Cornwall, they are expecting a quiet life. And initially, it seems that they will get their own way. But David has a job to do, Amy feels neglected and bored, and flirting with an ex-boyfriend and his friends, who are helping to repair their delapidated home, seems an obvious way out. It soon becomes apparent that the locals have not taken to David - they go out ...
...the Sumner's cat and raping Amy. Then a girl is killed by a local man, who ends up at the Sumners' home, shortly followed by a gang of men baying for his blood. Before long, their home is under siege. Will the Sumners manage to get out alive? This film was a complete surprise to me. I have heard of it, and its director, Sam Peckinpah, but I had no idea what it was about, or that it was so old - it was made way back in 1971. It is apparently known ... Read review