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Dead Babies (2000)
Don't.
It's possible that you may see this movie on TV. Bear in mind that those two hours of your life can never be brought back. If you see it in a video store, bear in mind that you will be wasting your money AND your life.
This is a badly written, poorly paced and badly shot movie. The characters are nothing you haven't seen before, the sort of badly-characterised 'spoilt rich kid' that appear in all sorts of British movies. The plot - concerning 'internet terrorists' (has Amis been reading a lot of Lynda La Plante lately?) is nothing short of appalling.
Save for a few reasonably good performances, there is absolutely nothing to like about this film. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Ringu (1998)
Superb
Simply the best horror movie ever made, though it's not strictly a horror film as western audiences might understand one to be.
Suffice to say, it's beautifully shot, remarkably written, and wonderfullly acted.
It is the best 'scary movie' (I loathe that term) ever made. I am in constant fear (since I live in England, and have yet to see) of the American remake.
Spider-Man (2002)
Let's not get too serious here.
This is a great movie, just for the both of you yet to see it. It's full of action, laughs, adventure, and brings spidey to the big screen in the best possible style (except for a few fanboys, who could do so much better than Sam Raimi).
It's rarely possible to have more fun than this watching a movie. there are many I would rate higher, but few I've seen more in the cinema. If you're a spidey fan, go see it.
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
just plain wrong
(Minor Spoilers)
This movie has very few features to redeem itself. I'm sorry to all you Ralph Bakshi fans out there, but this is not the superior celluloid version. And yes, I saw it before Peter Jackson's version, and I've read almost anything by Tolkein that has been issued in print since I was born, and many before than.
To anyone who thinks this is superior: Why does Saruman look look like Santa? Why is the voice acting so poorly matched to the animation? (To quote Anthony Daniels "I didn't even know Legolas was Blonde.") Why do the Ringwraiths move like lepers? They barely register as a threat in this movie.
The fight scenes are perhaps the most ridiculous of all. We see the Balrog, which can fly, fall down a pit. We see gargantuan battles between about five orcs and ten men. The point of rotoscoping the battles is surely to achieve more than you could with traditional animation. The only thing it achieves here is to make them look fantastically stupid. The fate of Middle-Earth lies in the hands of about twenty-five people. Boromir fights on his own for a fair old while, with no reference at all to why he should fight on, after betraying Frodo. I know this is obvious to a fan of the books, but not to someone watching for the first time.
Oh, and just to be petty, Aragorn looks like he drinks wine from the very cheapest German supermarket.