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Cashback - movie quotes:

“It takes approximately 500 pounds to crush a human skull… the human emotion is far more delicate.”

“Love is there if you want it to be. You just have to see that it’s wrapped in beauty and hidden away in between the seconds of your life. If you don’t stop for a minute, you might miss it. ” (somehow I keep hearing this in Matthew Broderick’s voice)

Are you and Matt seeing each other?
No. We went to the cinema the other night, but just as friends. Why? What has Matt said?
He said he slept with you.So you didn’t?
No, of course not! What do you take me for?
Sorry
Did he say if I was any good?

Movie lines from Cashback

Writer/Director: Sean Ellis

Starring: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Shaun Evans, Michelle Ryan, Stuart Goodwin, Michael Dixon

What if you Had the ablility stop any moment in time and be able to really see the world for what it is. It’s beauty, it’s chaos. British Writer/Director Sean Ellis explores that exact idea in this indy work and unlike the Adam Sandler effort “Click” that had a somewhat similar premise, Cashback is original, funny and entertaining.

Ben Willis is an aspiring artist with no other real marketable trade. After a ugly break up with his girlfriend Suzy, he developes a nasty bout of insomnia. Having a hardtime filling the extra 8 hours a day he decides to start working at a 24 hour grocery store as a stock boy to pass the time. During his tenure of trading time for money, he meets a motley crew of characters that all have their own unique and often very humourous way of passing the time and boredom at work. It is here that he also realizes his undiscovere skill of being able to “freeze time” at any second and explore the world in that exact moment. It allows him to appreciate the true beauty of all things and all people in any frozen moment. The beauty he realizes most often is his co-worker and suspended animation muse Sharon. Ben developes the true depth of his talent for drawing in these captured moments.

Cashback is a refreshing story with a truely unique look at love and beauty. It is filled with clever dialogue and interesting characters and a clear message that the world is filled with beauty at all times, most of us just don’t take the time to see it. As with many good English indy films,the characters are interesting and fun to watch interact. Because of the backdrop of the late night supermarket and the eclectic cast of characters and the introspective lead character, this movie plays like a cross between Career Opportunities, Snatch and Garden State. If you liked any combination of those three you are sure to enjoy this one. If you have not seen those…..it looks like a four movie weekend for you!

Hancock - movie quotes:

“Call me an asshole one more time.”

“Did you shove a man’s head up another man’s ass?”

Movie lines from Hancock

Director: Peter Berg

Starring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Jae Head, Eddie Marsan

What if a super-hero was also a hard drinker with anger management issues and nonexistent social skills whose crime-fighting choices often lead to heavy property damage and courtroom subpoenas? Director Peter Berg answers this original question in an action/drama/comedy starring box office hero, Will Smith who flexes his money-making muscles in an entertaining story with several laughs and a couple of innovative twists.

Will Smith is Hancock, a sullen alcoholic nursing hidden pain who would have been ignored as he slipped through the cracks like all too many of our unfortunate fellow citizens, except Mr. Hancock also happens to have Superman-like abilities and a reluctant but consistent habit of fighting crime and rescuing people, on his terms. This leads to an image problem that Ray Embry, played by a well-cast Jason Bateman, offers to help him with, as a thank you for saving his life. As he helps Hancock to try to get control of his life, he also invites the socially awkward Things may sound funny, simple and fun and they are, but the plot takes a couple sharp turns that while catching the viewers unawares, they are also a little hard to buy, but the whole thing is still fun.

Hancock is an interesting twist on the recent popular genre of comic book hero movies. Smith and Bateman show their considerable acting skill, as well as good chemistry, and do a commendable job with a creative script that packs one of the few real cinematic surprises of 2008.

My Winnipeg - movie quotes:
“The forks, the lap, the fur.” MMM - What? I saw this movie and still have no idea what he’s talking about.
Movie lines from My Winnipeg

Director: Guy Maddin

Starring: Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage,

Art house, and film festival sweetheart, writer/director Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in The World) has put out a visual poem about his hometown and one of the coldest cities in the world, Winnipeg. It has a pretentious and surreal black and white dream-like style, and elevated language that reminded me of the works I had to read for University English classes, but soon the film shows a playful and damn funny side that lightens up after its ostentatious opening.

There is no plot here, to speak of and the film is alternately ridiculous and repetitive, but also becomes increasingly funny. Guy Maddin wants to have some fun as he tells us about his memories of Winnipeg, both past and present. He talks about his quirky family before moving on to touch on hockey, the railroad, back lanes and plays with little snippets of history, some of which is partially true and others are just little Maddin jokes. In the end he comes back to his family and his own ideas and light-hearted opinions of Winnipeg. The film is often repetitive and there is a painful dance segment that made m want a nap, but still the charming narrative and tongue in cheek humor makes up for it.

My Winnipeg is an unusual film that is more of a mockumentary than anything else, and has found some support on the North American art house circuit, and with critics. As for me, it was better than I had expected. It is a poem set to film and if Robert Frost were alive today and decided to allow a movie to be made about one of his poems, I have no doubt that he would choose Guy Maddin to make the film and that it would look and sound like My Winnipeg. It’s not for everyone, but then, neither is Robert Frost.

Get Smart - movie quotes:

“How about Chuck Norris with a BB gun.?”

“Missed it by that much!”

Movie lines from Get Smart

Director: Peter Seagal

Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, Terry Crews, David Koechner

As a kid, I loved the old re-runs of Get Smart with its repetitive jokes and situations as we watched agent 86 bumble his way into battle with the forces of Kaos. Steve Carell looks the part, and deadpans (Don Adams style) his way through this action comedy as a smarter, but no less bumbling update of Maxwell Smart. There are several old jokes from the series like ‘Would you believe…’ and the Cone of Silence. There are some laughs, some entertaining characters, cool cameos and better action than I expected, but not as many laughs as I had hoped for.

In this film, Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is an ace analyst for the spy agency, Control, but Max really dreams of being an agent and the Chief (Alan Arkin) gives him his chance when almost all of Control’s agents have their ID revealed. Soon Max, encouraged by Control’s sidelined superstar, Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson), is paired with the beautiful, experienced and very reluctant Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) to foil the nefarious plans of Kaos general, Seigfried. Seigfried is played by Terence Stamp, but look for series original Bernie Kopell in a cameo.

It seems like every action movie Hollywood puts out these days, is made with an eye to becoming a multi-movie franchise and Get Smart is no exception. Hopefully future installments will more upon past gags, go a little more slapstick and tone down the action a bit, but all in all, this isn’t a bad film and will get probably get the world’s worst secret agent a few more fans.