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13th Warrior

The story of Ibn Fahdlan (ANTONIO BANDERAS), an important emissary who is banished from his homeland, the nomadic outcast comes across a band of Norse warriors who coerce him into joining them when they are summoned to fight mysterious creatures legendary for consuming every living thing in their path.

Eventually surrounded by the frightening and ferocious foe, Ibn must conquer his personal fears and help battle the illusive invaders—who emerge out of the shroud of fog in the black of night.

Been There Done that, good cinematography and not much else

 

American Beauty

Mid life crisis, disintigration of the family, suburbia falls apart, all of the above. Kevin Spacey hits his mid life crises and returns to his adolescence when he becomes obsessed with his daughters friend.. His wife responds by having an affair and his daughter gets involed with the drug dealer son of a marine officer next door. funny, poignent touching story that leaves you sitting in your seat at the end of the movie. This should definetely be a contender for an oscar this year.

 

Bone Collector

Denzel Washington as renowned forensic investigator Lincoln Rhyme, is permanently paralyzed while working a case. He is brought into a case where the murderer seems to be taunting the police forensics team. Lincoln feels completely helpless until young cop Amelia Sachs (Angelina Jolie) is recruited to go out and snoop where he cannot. A very good movie, it is brutal and if you disliked seven you will probably dislike this one also, although it is not as overdone as seven was.

Bringing out the dead

What if your a burnt out paramedic in new york and your played by Nicolas Cage. You haven't saved anybody in six months and your obsessed with saving a life. Somewhat surreal film, but good. How he finally saves himself is a little bit of a surprise.

End Of Days

Arnold Schwartznegger is back after a two year absence. An action adventure about the end of the millennium and Satan is released in New York to try and get laid, if he succeeds we're all in the pits. Good action, good special effects, interesting, if you are looking for acting then you shouldn't be at any arnold movie.

Fight Club

A very strange movie, surrealistic, violent and riveting.

Ed Norton stars as a modern drudge who is so utterly benumbed by modern consumer society that he can only find solace in catalogue shopping and support group meetings for people suffering various illnesses and traumas. When even that can't save him and he is on the verge of leaving this plane of existence, he runs into Brad Pitt, who through violence of constant fights finds a reason to live and even to feel good. As good as a psychotic manic depressive can feel anyhow.

For Love of the Game

Billy Chapel, a legendary baseball pitcher nearing the end of his career who is forced to re-examine his priorities when confronted with unexpected circumstances: Not only is he about to be traded after 20 years with the same team, but the woman he has been with for several years, Jane Aubrey, is leaving him. In the midst of pitching a perfect game against the New York Yankees, Chapel, who has been the heart and soul of the Detroit Tigers, thinks back upon his long career and his tempestuous relationship with Jane. Aware that the stakes in his life have increased dramatically, the veteran ballplayer knows that he has some serious decisions to make by the bottom of the ninth inning. Nothing groundbreaking here but worth going to see.

Girl Interrupted

After a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, Susanna Kaysen was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder-an affliction with symptoms so ambiguous almost any adolescent girl might qualify-and sent to a renowned New England psychiatric hospital where she spent the next two years in a ward for teenage girls. There, Susanna loses herself in an world of seductive and disturbed young women: among them Lisa, a charming sociopath who stages a disastrous escape with Susanna, Daisy, a pampered girl with a predilection for rotisserie chicken, and Polly, a remarkably kind burn victim. Ultimately, assisted by the hospital's head psychiatrist, Dr. Wick, and a no-nonsense ward nurse, Valerie, Susanna, like Dorothy, resolves to leave this Oz and reclaim her life.  Great Movie, I highly reccommend it

The Haunting

A remake of the classic 1963 movie "The Haunting" about a team of paranormal experts who look into strange occurrences in an ill-fated house. Through the course of the night some will unravel, some will question, and all will fight for their lives as the house fights back. After getting so tired of Hollywood thinking that a lot of gore is scary it was kind of nice to get to a scary movie that was in fact scary and not stomach turning. If you want to see a scary movie this one is recommended.

House on Haunted Hill

Unspeakable things happened at the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane- experiments that brought human torture to new depths of depravity... secrets that died with their victims and the practitioners of the demonic acts that masqueraded as medicine. Now there are no living witnesses. Nothing survived Dr. Vannacutt's excesses; nothing endures except the building in which they occurred. But that building holds all the secrets of its terrible past. Decades after the Vannacutt Insititute was shuttered, five strangers are invited to spend a night there. Their reward is a million dollars each. All they have to do is stay alive. The original House on Haunted hill was scary, this House is Bloody, The movie starts with a grunge opening and deteriorates from there. You can pass on this one unless vats of blood are your cup of tea.

Insider

On the edge of exposing one of the decade's most incendiary public health issues, "60 Minutes" television producer Al Pacino must convince a former tobacco industry insider to reveal the truth about the practices of cigarette companies, although the consequences to his career and family may be ruinous.  Although I think that probably not all of the tobacco industry are inherently evil, I enjoyed this movie.