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"What..the..fuck??"

They just can't let go can they? after the success with 'The Hangover' they keep trying and trying to emulate it and they couldn't have gotten lower than 'Project X' the painful pathetic excuse for a film and they still haven't '21 & Over' is a poor film but it doesn't make you want to pull your eyes out and jump in a wood chipper.

There not much to the plot, 'Miller' and 'Casey' ('Miles Teller', 'Skylar Astin') visit their friend 'Jeff Chang' and take him out on his 21st birthday. It's similar to the plot of 'The Hangover' replacing stag party with 21st birthday and 'Las Vegas' with some university campus. i don't think there's anything that could have been done to make this interesting, it really is JUST a retread of 'The Hangover'. It follows the path of 'Jeff' getting too drunk but they don't know where he lives so they go through different things to get him back home. It's a film that i can only see teens liking because i found it a dull boring typical story. With the whole "hey look there's a bunch of people drinking how cool are we" it just wreaked of trying way to hard.

The comedy is where it needed to shine but it didn't i don't even think there even many attempts at jokes never mind landing them. I chuckled a few times but i never really laughed. it seemed to try too hard, forcing situations rather than them feeling like natural progressions in the story. On a positive note there wasn't anything that made me cringe or roll my eyes but there are a lot that don't land. I sort of liked the chief and 'Randy's' ('Jonathan Keltz') friends constant reassuring and repeating of what he says. But other than that it was 1 hour 33 minutes of tired and nothing jokes.

It could have been worse but not much. It's competently acted and doesn't cause any rolling of the eyes but that's a sad thing when that's the only positive. The plot forces its way through different locations and provides barely any comedic moments. Better than 'Project X' but still very weak avoid unless you're a brain dead teen who loved 'Project X' for whatever reason.

"You're the only one i can trust Victor".

Another week another action thriller. Up to now there's been something like 10 action thrillers this year and sheer volume that they come in each year means at least one will succeed when will it come though, there will be one that is great and achieves a fun, action packed-not-so serious plot that still delivers. This is not it but it is decent and probably the best of the lot so far.

From the director of the first 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' films i expected a degree of smart to it, i know he didn't write that but he made it interesting so despite the ok looking trailers i wanted to see it. The plot follows 'Victor' ('Colin Farrell') a member of a crime organization headed by 'Alphonse' ('Terrance Howard') 'Victor' eventually gets caught up with 'Beatrice' ('Noomi Rapace') and some things start to unveil themselves. It's a slow one, it doesn't speed along and to be honest even though i liked the twist it wasn't given much impact. When it came out there seemed to be a stunted reaction it was like the punchline to a joke that the actors didn't get. But there as some good moments whenever there's an action sequence - the roof the house at the end it shines sure it's nothing spectacular but it's shot really well. It is just a shame the story can't quite match the rest.

The acting is fine there's nothing wow but there's nothing terrible either. There is some chemistry between 'Rapace' and 'Farrell' but not a lot possibly with a better script it would have shone but i can't know that for sure. Sometimes there's a problem with being decent because it becomes forgetful - no matter how bad 'Batman & Robin' may be people remember it and unfortunately this won't be - it can be said it's a solid film but in 5 or 6 years time most will forget it existed. Its just missing a well developed script, had it had that then i have no doubt you're looking at a doubling of the 36% it currently holds. Sometimes one element can prevent a film form shining.

'Dead Man Down' is brilliant nor do i think it could have been but it is just shy of good, it could have been this years first good action thriller instead thanks to solid performances, ok chemistry between the two leads and some well directed action sequences it is serviceable and there certainly are worse films to spend your money on.

Strahovski has me interested in this. Yes that simple i loved chuck.

"My Prada's at the cleaners! Along with my hoodie and my 'fuck you' flip-flops, you pretentious douchebag!"

Ever since the critical acclaim this film received (when i finally noticed) i've wanted to see this movie even despite my strong dislike of facebook - a good film is a good film regardless. So when i came across this film on sale i bought it. So now i finally got to see it.

There's a hurdle i had to get over before watching this film the one mentioned in the firs paragraph my strong dislike of facebook - i didn't want to dislike it because of facebook. My view of facebook is that it is ridiculous, causes numerous problems easy to get your identity stolen and a waste of my fucking time it reduces people to pathetic shells who 'have' to check their status. So as you can see from my opinion it wasn't easy. It follows the creator 'Mark Zuckerberg' ('Jesse Eisenberg') during his Harvard years, inception of facebook and the start of the phenomenon it became. All of which is told in bits during court as the Winklevoss' twins ('Armie Hammer'/'Josh Pence') and his former friend 'Eduardo Saverin' (Andrew Garfield') are suing him. I didn't really know what to expect other than a journey through the creation of facebook and i got that to an extent but it felt very lite. It may be because of the subject coding and all but it all felt flat, dull there re times that i was really interested and it certainly is paced very well and the character are engaging but it seemed dull down. Maybe it was my expectations and the high praise it had gotten.

There's a lot of ego in this film and i have no problem believing that, that is how 'Mark' acts an arrogant pig headed person with no concept of equality - so straight from the get go i hated him, i despised that character but he is still an interesting person i wanted to see him fail and it barely came and maybe that was part of what they were trying to do. 'Jesse Eisenberg' delivers a simply brilliant performance and still his best to date i think the great performance he brings just elevates my dislike of the character even more and that's a good thing. But with a film this highly regarded the acting was bound to be great but i didn't expect that great from 'Jesse'. The rest do great job 'Andrew Garfield' is great i what i suspect kick started his carrier of as 'Eduardo' and even 'Justin Timberlake' is really good as the off the rails 'Sean Parker'. There are no weak links in the acting.

I imagine even despite my best efforts my dislike of facebook has hurt the film but i still liked it. The acting is sublime, the pacing is spot on - as is usual for 'Fincher'. I just felt a bit let down by the story a lot of the time engaging and interesting but patches of dullness harm 'The Social Network' and if there's one thing that harm a film it's being flat. Still a worthy film and the fact that someone like me who dislikes the subject it is based on - you can say it is a fine achievement.