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Urban Legend (1998)
I really like it
Slashers are never "good". OK maybe the first Scream but slashers are never "a good movie". But there is a good slasher and bad slashers. Prom Night, a very bad slasher. The sequel to this, a very bad slasher. But I really like this one. I absolutely love the plot. The deaths are awesome I still jump up in my seat when the principal is killed. I didn't expect Brenda as killer when I saw it first. The plot works. The death works. I didn't know who the killer was. I LIKED IT.
As a movie it not that great I mean. Critics are not gonna like it. Movie fans are not gonna like it. Unless you watch with it in mind that it is a slasher. As a slasher Urban Legend is perfect.
xXx: State of the Union (2005)
Nothing wrong with that
Now the first Triple X was great it had everything awesome action, cool villains and Vin Diesel. Fun!
Now I heard that they were making a sequel without Vin and I was not happy at all and thought it was going to be terrible. So I read some info about the new movie. I am from Iceland so I saw a name I had never seen before Ice Cube and I found out that he was a rapper and then I got more frustrated, a rapper replacing Vin Diesel,horrible!. But then I saw the trailer and I felt a little bit better I saw this guy Cube and he looked good as a loose cannon, I saw a pretty girl, Willem Dafoe as the villain and a plot which had something to do with minister using his power, interesting. Then two days ago I bought the film when I was looking through the DVD section of a local store and yesterday I watched it and....
... I loved it!!!! Ice Cube bring this mean look to the Triple X and the history between him and Gibbons gives the plot a hate driven power. I was also surprised by the humor which I thought was great, Stone giving these one-line jokes much like 007 and then a few just kind of comedy scenes like Reverend Billy Bob Baker and hijacking a tank (Hilarious). I will admit that much of the film is very, very, very unreal but let's not forget that this is a movie so I go with it. Only thing that I feel this movie is missing that the first one had is death scenes I was expecting a cooler death scenes like in the first one but hey nobody is perfect. And after seeing this movie a came here on IMDb and I saw people complaining about this movie and I was so surprised that the first thing I did was watching the movie again with the complains I read in the back of my head and honestly I couldn't see anything wrong. But hey people are different (I just didn't realize how different).
Signed, Karl