I read about this movie and forgot about it again until it turned up on a list of the most uncomfortable movie to watch so that it, I had to watch it. It is indeed a very very uncomfortable movie. It's about a young girl played by Ellen Page (Juno and the Trailer Park Boys of course) who hooks up with this older guy she met on the internet. It starts out pretty straight forward and you expect it to go the way of the typical Degrassi episode but things pick up and get very very twisted and torturous. This isn't Lolita either. I hate reviews that give away the movie so all I'll say is that Ellen Page really kicks ass in this flick.

The Verdict:
If you're at all squeamish, you might not make it to the end of this movie but if you can handle a little torture involving human genitalia, this one's a must see. I went in with an idea of what happens but it turned out I had no idea. It's not another Hostel either.
This is one of the best movies I've seen in a very long time.

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I'm still not sure why they used the term Requiem in the title of this movie. I've even checked the definition and the wiki and nothing really hits me. Maybe I'm just an idiot tonight.

The Good
I'm a bit of an Aliens fanboy here to mind my bias. The action sequences in this movie are great. The violence and gore also make this movie worth watching. It is very very violent by the way.
This movie brings the Aliens to Earth but unlike the last movie, this isn't somewhere in the middle of nowhere North Pole. It's a medium sized town in what looks like Colorado. It reminded me a little of the town that that Rambo: First Blood was set in.

The Bad
The underlying storyline involving the human "cannon fodder" is terribly predictable and pretty much pointless. The obvious attempts at paying tribute to Aliens didn't help much either.
AVP:R is a very very dark movie, literally. I had to adjust the tint on my TV just to figure out what was going on a lot of the time. Maybe that's just my ghetto TV telling me it's time to put it out to pasture.
There was just too many liberties taken towards the Aliens and the the way the creatures worked. Granted there's no easy way to slap a queen alien into this movie, changing the whole way these creatures reproduce is going a little far. (Aliens fanboy ranting here)

The Verdict
If you're a fan of either Aliens or Predator then watch this one. Specially if you're a fan of Predator cause those guys were awesome in this. Other than that, you can probably skip this one.

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The Good:
Great giant monster movie. A little silly how invulnerable the giant monster was but that's giant monsters for ya.

The Bad:
If I watch it again, I'm fast-forwarding through the obligatory sequence where they try to make you care about the characters cause all it did for me was make me think every one of them was a douche bag in one form or another.

I haven't looked at the rest of the DVD but I'd say rent this one.

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Contrary to my post on Playground Love, this little entry shows some of the scariest images to ever be taken in a Playground.
I give you Nightmare Playgrounds

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I once noticed a girl pass me in the mall while i was using my laptop. My laptop noticed her own laptop's open wifi signal came and went at the same time. It was oddly poetic.

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I love stories where all shit is breaking loose everywhere and everyone's dieing yet the real monsters are the few savage humans left alive who fuck up what ever bit of civilization is left. Combine that with Half-Life (minus Gordon) and you've got The Mist in a nutshell without spoilers.

Besides I'm a sucker for Stephen King stories. It runs in the family, I think.

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