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Dunk Films - by Christopher Waldeck

My personal Awards for 2009. Not the Oscars.

March 8th 2010 23:04

Best film of the year:
The Hurt Locker

Best Actor of the Year:
Colin Firth (A single Man)

Best Supporting Actor:
Christoph Waltz
Inglorious Basterds

Best supporting Actress:
Monique
Precious

Best Actress:
Meryl Streep
Julie and Julia

Best Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air

Best Original screenplay
The Hurt Locker

Best Director
Katheryn Bigelow
The hurt Locker

Worst Director:
Michael Bay
Transformers 2

Worst Film
All About steve

Worst screenplay
Transformers 2

Wait did this even have a screenplay?

Worst Actor
Twilight stars equal this award

Worst Actress
Sandra Bullock
Bullocks!

Most Underrated movie
500 Days of Summer

Most Underrated Actor
Joseph Gordon Lewitt

Most Underrated actress
Anna Kendrick
Seriously give her more light she is too good to be stuck in the Twilight Saga.

Worst movie adaptation
GI Joe the Rise of Cobra

Best visual effects, art direction, cinematography
Avatar
Seriously who else honestly deserves these awards.

Best Animated Film
Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Shutter Island review

February 21st 2010 16:41

Finally another reunion of Leornado Dicaprio and Martin Scorsese has arrived. Is it as good as the departed? Hell No, but it is still a damn good movie from the greatest current American director alive. This film stars Dicaprio as Teddy Daniels, and Mark Ruffalo as Chuck his partner who are going to shutter island in order to investigate the missing patient known as Rachel Solando. Strange things start to happen as all the employees at the Island all seem very dangerous and hiding something. it gets weirder when when Teddy Daniels starts having bizarre hallucinations of his dead wife who died in a fire.

This film works very well when you take into account the artistic and terrifying yet beautiful cinematography of shutter island and all the flashbacks of WW2. You truly feel pulled in by this true Scorsese style. He continues to show his artistic touch as his movies grow more commercial. The cast is phenomenal as all of there parts are relatively short yet meaningful due to how professional they act and show all their talents. That is where one of the big problems is. The acting is so good that the screenplay doesn't live up all the way to the acting. Now I loved the book. The story is amazing, and the ending is brilliant as well and surprising to many people who haven't read the book and they see the movie first. While the screenplay has smart and well written dialogue it sadly drags the story on longer than it needs to be. This movie would have worked better if it was a half an hour shorter

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Valentine's Day sucks, but honestly were you expecting it to not?

February 15th 2010 01:09

If you watched the trailer than this should have been a no brainer. We have Gary marshall who hasn''t directed a decent film since Pretty Women with a cast of talented and untalented actors mostly in it just for a paycheck. Welcome to the sellout league Jamie Foxx. We have the two Taylors both Lautner and Shit I mean Swift trying to act, but really they should have just read their lines and known that they were only cast because of their current item status and were never meant to be taken seriously for anything except for a commodity.

The film is basically a giant cliche with not funny dialogue and really boring scenes with predictable endings. The only emotion that I got was the surging pain that talented actors and actresses would sell themselves out to bad dialogue and if you saw how high this film's budget was then it shouldn't surprise you that big bucks were shelled out simply to get the name recognition in order to sell the film. You can't help but imagine why Lindsay Lohan wasn't in this Gary marshall film after georgia Rule. Well gary needed to have a hit of a film in order for him to prove that he could still direct a hit film whether it was absolute garbage or an overrated classic like Pretty women. It's actually just garbage to spoil the suspense, but sadly because it is on Valentine's Day and it's a PG-13 film rather than a R film ill show that tweens will flock for Lautner and Swift. Their boyfriends will be dragged along. The audience just seeing it because it has Jessica Alba in it, and the movie audience who are a bunch of sheep following everybody else. This is how this film will take the number one spot at the box office

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Dear John finally tops Avatar.

February 8th 2010 14:58

I'll agreee that it's about time a movie topped Avatar, but seriously Dear John. You couldn't have spent your money more wisely on the Wolfman and make it an epic dethroning? Oh well another sappy teen love fest spoils the fun, and another dud from Lassee Hallstrom. John Travolta had one of his worst openings with From Paris with Love, but sadly he was going up against Avatar and Dear John. Even though the movie really wasn't very good I still would have preferred that over Dear John.

Anyway here is the box office round up for this week

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Avatar is still on top for the Seventh week in a row.

February 1st 2010 15:09

Mel Gibson looks pissed because he just read the box office results on dunk films.

For the seventh week in a row, Avatar remains on top of the box office world as it managed to beat Mel Gibson's return film in Edge of Darkness. While edge of darkness was a perfectly decent film despite mixed reviews from critics, i was honestly expecting it to gross a little more if not beat Avatar. However, the popularity of Avatar continues to shoo through the roof and more box office gold goes to James Cameron as well as a greater chance of winning the best picture at the Academy Awards. Sorry Hurt Locker. Hopefully Hurt locker actually wins the best picture, but I'll be perfectly fine with Avatar winning if it does. For once the academy actually has some good choices for best picture as long as Inglorious Basterds doesn't win best Picture. I wonder what the ten films will be that are nominated for best picture. We already know about most of them from the Golden Globes, and the critics choice awards

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Avatar is still number one and it has beaten the mighty sunken Titanic.

January 28th 2010 12:49

Yes that's right Titanic has finally lost it's record at the hands of it's own creator james Cameron. I'm sure this will give it a huge advantage at the Oscars. Even though James Cameron deserves recognition for this film and especially it's technology since he made it basically, but I'm still betting that the Hurt Locker will pull through as best picture. Even if you don't give The hurt locker best picture despite the clear and obvious fact that it is best picture, at least have enough courtesy to honor Kathryn Bigelow with the best director award. She truly deserves this honor.

Anyway, it seems that Avatar is still the king of the box office and James cameron is still the king of the world in terms of film.

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Legion is god awful! Here's my review of this horrible film.

January 24th 2010 15:09

When you see a trailer that was as well crafted as Legion's was, it's very hard to doubt the quality of the film. It looked like it could be an epic religious action horror thriller with some decent stars, and an overall fun movie. Then you see the movie and you realize that this film suffered as much as GI Joe from a decent budget with a horrible script. I was ashamed by the crappy quality of this film.

Let me start with the script. How in the hell did the actors keep a straight face when they were reading this dialogue. They gave the angel Michael some decent dialogue, but everyone else had lame monologues throughout the film. Yes I'm serious, they go from shootout to slow 20 minutes of nothing but monologues that should have been edited and screened better instead of just shoved before and after every action scene. Most of the monologues had no feeling or true backstory so they literally did nothing for the film. I'll give Tyrese Gibson credit for putting up with some of the terrible and stereotypical dialogue he had to read. His opening dialogue for a movie was "When I was a Shawty,". Yes that's how lame the dialogue was for this film

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The Road review

January 21st 2010 02:35

In terms of great apocalyptic films this is a must see. that's right another great adaptation of a classic novel from Cormac Mcarthy. Why these are almost as good as the odds of Orble not counting the amount of readers and writers that you have and instead displaying both of them as zero. Anyway this film is about a man who has lost his wife during an apocalypse and he now attempts to guide his son through the devastated world as they battle cannibals, and other dangers in order to survive.

Viggo Mortensen is absolutely amazing in his role as the father trying to help his son and teach him the ways of true humanity while in a dangerous and not human in character world. He is truly believable and grisly with his long messy, and dirty appearance. Charlize Theron is also just as excellent as his wife. despite the fact, that she is in longer than she is in the book, I still feel that she added a bleaker and more emotional resonance with the audience

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Avatar continues to dominate.

January 19th 2010 13:59

The Lovely bones and the Book of Eli failed to take down Avatar at the box office. Eli beat it on friday, but quickly lost momentum and Avatar continues it's winning streak. The Lovely bones was in theird place after being delayed for a long time due to mixed and generally negative reviews. It's budget in my opinion is the main reason for it's failure as the film was too overproduced which sucks for Peter jackson. Anyway as good as the trailer for Eli looked, Denzel couldn't beat out Avatar

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Hollywood is setting up Sandra Bullock to win the Oscar.

January 16th 2010 17:30

In the old tradition of Hollywood handing awards to those who serve it well with plenty of cash then look no further than Sandra Bullock. Her films have made millions and she is an audience favorite with her appeal of America's favorite sweetheart. however, with all the recent buzz over the Blind Side performance, I decided to see it for myself. It's more shocking than my punctuation error on my last blog on incorrectly spelling Spiderman. I will be changing this very soon. The shocking truth is that the performance is far from extraordinary, and while the feeling of the movie's inspiration may be able to fuel her performance. It is highly overrated to say the least.

I'll give Sandra Bullock some credit. She is a talented actress, and she has been in some great films, and entertaining popcorn films, but in my opinion she has not shown any performance that anybody else could have performed. Sure you can say that she starred in crash, but that was one of the worst best picture movies of all time. Somebody told me that she proved her oscar worthiness by out acting a major star named Keanu Reeves in speed. Well honestly who can't out act Keanu Reeves

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