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Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland._

The Basics:

A grown-up teenage Alice returns to Wonderland and allies herself with the Mad Hatter in order to help him and his fellow friends face-off against the Queen of Hearts, who, in her absence, has waged ruin upon the dreamworld from her childhood.

One line, one point:

Visually, this is Tim Burton’s greatest achievement and ranks up there with Avatar in terms of amazing artistic detail, but the story lags horribly behind, the script doesn’t do the characters justice and Tim making the Mad Hatter such a central character, just to give more screentime to his star Johnny Depp, doesn’t help things. Despite the heart it lacks, everyone's gotta love that this is essentially....

...or to put it simply:
Every awesome eyecandy wallpaper brought to life...
The Math:

 


The Crazies._

The Basics:

A sheriff of a small town discovers the local drinking water has become contaminated by an unknown toxin shortly after several townfolk turn into homicidal zombies. Instantly, the rest of the town becomes hopelessly infected as the military moves in to contain the epidemic, at all costs, leaving the few left sane with the impossible chance of escaping alive. Remake of the George A. Romero’s 1973 original.

One line, one point:

As far as remakes go, it’s up there a notch above recents like The Hills Have Eyes, but performs a balancing act between delivering the crowd-pleasing outrageous action horror which gives the memorable splatterflicks like Dawn of the Dead their DVD replay value, and the typical drawn out and now predictable “jumping” scenes, which are something the genre is destined to evolve away from.

...or to put it simply:
The suspense really IS killing us.
The Math:

 


Daybreakers._

The Basics:

Set in the future where a decade-old vampire outbreak has done the inevitable: resulted in a world almost completely populated by vampire with very few humans left to feed on. One hematologist (Ethan Hawke) searching for a solution of the worldwide blood shortage threatening to rip society as they know it apart, senses the eventual extinction and is recruited by a band of surviving humans who have stumbled upon an unconventional cure… 

One line, one point:

Gory, violent, and entertaining enough but the problem with such a huge and original idea is no movie does it justice because you'll wind up lusting more for excursions deeper into this post-apocalyptic world dominated by vampires and the struggle between them and the human rebels. Really, this should have been a whole HBO series.

...or to put it simply:
Vampires + social commentary = The REAL future.
The Math:

 

So this movie might wind up beating Avatar for Best Picture.


The Hurt Locker._

The Basics:

A month in the life of Sergeant First Class William James (Jeremy Renner) who joins Bravo Company in post-invasion Iraq to do what he does best: neutralizing the primary method of attack by insurgents on US soldiers and civilians known as Improvised Explosive Devices or IEDs. James has top skills and honors when it comes to disarming bombs amidst the urban combat but it doesn’t do much when dealing with all the aspects of hellish war that surround him constantly.

One line, one point:

A powerful honest look into war that goes on in Iraq without all the politics we see in such past films like Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, or Generation Kill. What it lacks in entertaining action it makes up for in grittiness and intricate detail when it comes to describing daily military life in the most controversial historical event of our days, making it one of the most relevant movies of the decade.

...or to put it simply:
The reigning Modern Warfare movie champion.
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