Epinions Recent Reviews for flamepillar

This Is Going To Be More Complicated Than We Thought

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:35:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - As any Lost-a-holic can surely attest, the show's third season was one that dished out some its most erratic change-ups. An underground hatch with buttons being pushed to save the world is one thing, but a sonic barrier fence? Male pregnancy?...

The Brave One: The Brave One (2007): Maybe I'm Just Getting Desensitized

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:22:52 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - It seems like the older I get, the darker of a person I become. Whether it's a form of adaptation, being influenced by what I see or just plain old self-indulgence, it's anybody's guess. But much like Jodie Foster's character, I find myself starting to...

Primal Fear: I swear, I never get sick of this film

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:35:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - Primal Fear is just hands down a "classic" movie in every sense of the word. I'm not usually drawn to movies with such morbid subject matter, but I'm a sucker for a good courtroom drama, and they just don't get any better than this. Within the...

Maroon 5 scores with It Won't Be Soon Before Long

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:17:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - Would it be so presumptuous of me to just come right out and say off the bat that this album is every bit as great as Songs About Jane, if not better? Well, either way, I'm sayin' it. So there. A brief history for Maroon 5's new fans...

Elliot Yamin: Find A Way To Get This Album!

Sat, 19 May 2007 20:52:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - I didn't start watching American Idol until just this season (Season 6), so needless to say, when I started snooping around about the show's history, I found myself regretting that I hadn't gotten around to watching a year sooner! Chris Daughtry would...

Spider-Man 3: Spider-Man 3 = A Fast Ride That's A Wee Bit Bumpy

Fri, 4 May 2007 18:22:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - I'll be the first to admit I was somewhat underwhelmed by the similarity in the endings of the first two Spider-Man films, but as time went on, I came to appreciate them for all their action-packed lovey-dovey chewity-chocolatey goodness...

Disturbia: Disturbia = 2007's Rear Window

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:16:47 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - As a huge fan of the Hitchcock classic <
b>Rear
Window, a movie for which 1000 lifetimes of nothing but shouting of its awesomeness from the highest mountaintop still wouldn't be enough, I was more than a little...

Stadium Arcadium Just Might Make You Feel Better

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:34:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - Stadium Arcadium has been my "car CD" for a little over a month, but being a two-disc set, it has carried itself pretty well. The weird thing is that every time I'm listening to one disc, I find myself "missing" the other one. As in thinking "Oh...

Sam's Town by The Killers: It Could Be Worse

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:52:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - So I was one of those people who really got a lot out of <
b>Hot
Fuss, the first album by The Killers. It was the kind of album that is so ridiculously over-the-top that you almost have to just let go of...

The Pursuit of Happyness: There is no "I" in Happyness...

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:47:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - I'm sure somebody else has thought of this by now, but it occurs to me that the deliberate mis-spelling of the word "happiness" in this film's title could be construed a number of ways. One, of course, is that you don't have to have a master's degree...

Adam Sandler: A Total Clickhead

Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:52:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - It seems I can always count on my sister for a good comedy movie recommendation. See, I'm not really into comedies all that much, because most of them are predictable as heck. And when she mentioned Click to me, my expectation that it would be...

Deja Vu: Deja Vu (2006)

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:19:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - This would be my first trip to the theater in about three months now. I don't know what's wrong with me. But I must say, I could not have picked a better film to go to than this one right here, Deja Vu. And I really honest-to-God thought...

Butterfly Effect 2: The Butterfly Effect 2? Wow, talk about Fan-Fic

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:10:59 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - There have been very few movies in the world that have affected me as profoundly as <
b>The
Butterfly Effect. Just by seeing the trailer, I knew that movie was going to blow me away, and that was exactly what it...

Air Supply's Greatest Hits: Still Playing At Weddings Everywhere

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:19:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - God's greatest invention. What do ya say, what is it? The tree, the water, the sun? BZZZZT, sorry, wrong answer. Greatest invention bestowed upon us by the Almighty is the woman. That's the story from us Air Supply fans, and we're stickin' to...

Lost Season 2 on DVD, at last! So is it October 4th yet?

Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:13:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - As someone who didn't start watching Lost until the middle of the second season, I anxiously awaited the 2nd Season DVD set, to catch up on the first few Episodes. I guess this might give me somewhat of a skewed vision as to the true brilliance...

De-Railed: A Little Bit of All That

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:27:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - De-Railed is one of those films that is a jack of all trades but a master of none. It's got the fatal attraction thing going on over here, the criminal mastermind taunting a guy while gaining his family's trust over there, and there are more...

Lady in the Water: M. Night Shyamalan makes quite some comeback! Lady In The Water (2006)

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:31:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - Well I must say. Either M. Night Shyamalan has built one hell of an ego, or people sure like to throw around his name a lot, making a history lesson out of not one, but the last two trailers for his films. Quick, can you tell me the last five...

The Lake House: There's Always Time For The Lake House

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:16:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - It's kind of a drag when you get to that point in your life where you realize you really have given up on love. It's even more of a drag when you realize that it didn't just happen overnight, but has been happening for over a year. But the biggest drag...

Every Man For Himself by Hoobastank. Not Too Shabby!

Wed, 7 Jun 2006 22:20:19 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - Just in time for the Apocalypse that never happened, Hoobastank bestowed upon us the sign. Or should I say, their latest record, entitled Every Man For Himself. As much as I'd just love to lavish your time with a history lesson,...

Here we go again..! Angel - Season 2

Wed, 31 May 2006 20:06:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - Being a person who cites lack of time (or perhaps poor time management skills) as a reason for not watching television shows, one would think that crossover shows would be the last thing in the world for me... But there are always exceptions, though,...

11:14 is an Intertwining Tale of Complete Weirdness

Tue, 16 May 2006 15:58:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - If you love jigsaw puzzles and you love movies, you'll just adore 11:14. This is the kind of film you watch and while your mouth is continually uttering phrases like "Ohh, I get it now!", or "So that's what was XX when YY was ZZ" and other such...

One Thing Remains: That's not my Default

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:02:00 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - Although the winter of 2005-06 was a complete joke weatherwise, it did have its difficult moments. Thankfully, there was always a good song to make things just a wee bit more bearable. Case in point, Default's "Count On Me". My first thought...

How Under The Table And Dreaming Saved My Life

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:37:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - What do you do when it's the middle of summer, you're stuck without a job, sitting around the house all day making movies that nobody will ever watch, you're in love with one of the characters from said movies, and you're consumed by the mother of all...

Metroid Prime meets A Link To The Past

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:49:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - Boy oh boy, you remember back in the days of the first Mega Man games, how every single one of the games looked, felt and played almost identically? Were you to walk in and see someone playing any of the first six Mega Man games on the NES...

The Blunt Truth about Back To Bedlam

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:34:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author flamepillar - The first time I saw James Blunt as a You Oughta Know artist on VH-1, I knew we were in for trouble. Here it is, two months later and they're still touting him as a You Oughta Know artist, hitting us over the head with all that stuff about how his music...