Final Quick Reviews of the Year

Well here are the last of the movie reviews for this year. I didn't really get to watch as many as I had hoped during my break because I spent most of my viewing hours watching The Wonder Years Marathon...

There are too many to give full reviews...So keeping them as short as possible.
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MOVIE RATING SYSTEM

Total Movies Rated - 507
Current Average - 5.5
Go Check It Out (6.5-10)
Simply Okay (5.1-6.4)
Not Missin' Much...But Not Horrible (4-5)
Avoid! (3.9 and Below)
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Lucky You (2007) - (6/10) - Cool cast of characters...Movies about poker, gambling, and Vegas are always enjoyable to watch. The biggest issue with this one is that it is way too predictable. There are NO surprises...And therefore very little excitement.


Graduation Day (1981) - (6/10) - Contains all the elements of an 80's teen horror slasher flicks. If you consider yourself an 80's horror fan then you need to make sure you've seen it.


Vampire Hunter D (2000) - (6/10) - I am not a fan of anime...But I have always been drawn to Vampire Hunter D for some reason...Probably just the title. I did end up enjoying it because of the cool horror elements....But still a bit iffy on the whole anime thing - too perverse.


Devour (2005) - (5.9/10) - Finally a movie starring Jensen Ackles! His friends signs him up for a computer game which ends up causing violence and death to the people around him..


Movin' Too Fast (2005) - (5.9/10) - Two women are chased by a killer highway patrolman.


The Dream Team (1989) - (5.2/10) - A group of guys from a mental institute get lost on their own in the city. Michael Keaton and Christopher Loyd star so you get some great acting even though the movie itself falls flat in the plot department.
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Doctor Strange (2007) - (6.7/10) - I am even more surprised than you with the score I gave this little animated comic book movie.
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Fade To Black (1980) - (5.8/10) - A really good movie premise about a young man who is obsessed with classic cinema and more specifically Marilyn Monroe. After getting stood up by a Marilyn look alike he loses it and kills people.


The Curse of Pirate Death (2006) - (1.5/10) - This movie was BAD.

Mustang Sally's Horror House (2006) - (4.9/10) - Bunch of twentysomethings go to a whore house that's really a horror house. Get it? Ha. So clever? No.


Double Dragon: The Movie (1994) - (5/10)


Revenge of Billy The Kid (1991) - (4.8/10) - A western horror film about billy the kid? No. A movie that takes place after a farmer takes advantage of goat and goat has a baby with a human body and goat head who grows up to have serious issues with the locals? Yes. Didn't see that coming now did ya??

Initial D (2005) - (7.9/10) - A great movie about competitive drifting in Japan. Fun characters and great racing = great flick.


Nosferatu (1922) - (4/10) - I've seen it before...And for some reason I still can't enjoy or even appreciate this horror classic.

The Lookout (2007) - (5/10)

Surf's Up (2007) - (6.9/10) - I rarely enjoy these CGI animal features....But it's documentary style was just so well done.

Mortuary (2005) - (7/10) - A really fun campy B-horror about a teenage boy dealing with the troubles of living at a mortuary.
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Invasion of the Pod People (2007) - (2.5/10) - To all those people who slammed The Invasion this past summer...I guarantee this one is at least 10x worse.


True True Lie (2006) - (4.9/10)


Mummy an' the Armadillo (2004) - (6/10)
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It Happened At Nightmare Inn (1970) - (4.8/10)

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) - (6/10) - Alba..Pregnant....oh why??

Murder Mansion (1972) - (4.9/10)

Tourist Trapp (1979) - (7/10)


Hoosiers (1986) - (6.5/10)


Everything is Illuminated (2005) - (5/10)


Stage Fright (1987) - (3.5/10)

I Am Legend (2007) - (5.6/10) - I recommend seeing The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price before seeing this remake.


Vertigo (1958) - Hitchcock continues to amaze.


Birds (1963) - See above.


Blood Car (2007) - (6/10) - Gas prices get really high...like $30/gallon...Kindergarden teacher builds a car that runs on blood.


The Poseidon Adventure (2005 TV) - (5.2/10)