You know you really like a movie when you're willing to watch it for the umpteenth time. Such is the case with me and "The Matrix". It seems like every time I watch, there's at least one thing I see that I didn't in any of the previous viewings. There aren't many movies like that.
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If you've seen both Short Circuit (the first one) and WALL-E, then you can't help but notice how WALL-E resembles Number 5 (also self-proclaimed as "Johnny Five"). That's not exactly where the similarity ends, as I'll point out, but there is so much that's different that it's easy to point that out too.
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When Twilight came out in the theaters, I avoided it like the plague. It wasn't because it wasn't a good movie; it was because it was touted as a "chick flick" and most of the females who had already seen it seemed to confirm it.
I almost made a mistake in not watching this movie. It isn't the best movie about vampires in the world and it isn't the worst and it IS a romance story.
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Eureka is a Syfy channel (formerly Sci Fi Channel, or just SciFi) television series about a fictional town in Oregon and airing in its third season. The latest report indicates it will be picked up for a 22-episode fourth season.
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I'm not a horror movie fan, but Slither is not really a horror movie. It's part comedy, part horror, part science fiction. The characters act in a way people in the real world would act, not the way you'd expect movie characters to act.
The movie pays homage to other horror and science fiction movies from the 1980s you would recognize almost immediately.
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