Salty Popcorn

Welcome to Salty Popcorn - my site dedicated to expressing my opinion on films. Most of the reviews I read in the paper make me angry that they are either all so negative or I completely disagree with them. So now it's my turn. I hope you enjoy it and if you do sign up for updates on the left hand side. Thanks for stopping in!! PLEASE NOTE: My scoring of films is now based on an "Out of 10" score. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

The Hurt Locker, winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival SIGNIS Grand Prize, is a riveting and suspenseful portrait of the elite members of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad, soldiers who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the world's most dangerous jobs. Three EOD me...

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If you don't know who Taylor Lautner is by now you live in Antarctica or have not seen popular culture in the last year. Taylor Lautner is the latest uberspunk from the Twilight series who plays Jacob. This one pic (above) and the film it was taken from, added with Taylor's dedication to incr...

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A personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So...

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I have my fingers crossed on this one - the first is a brilliant film and this one needs to match. I think they have done really well using Shia - he is an incredible young actor and can do this film justice. It is a Fox film though and they have been making lots of crap lately - Avatar excluded. Bu...

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The Road (710) I wanted to see this one desperately on the big screen and caught my break this week after work. I love apocolypse films, the whole end of the world, struggle for survival tale really engrosses me. Sean had seen it and told me to take my tissues. I have been known to cry quite fre...

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A Perfect Getaway (510) Upon seeing this trailer months ago I was very excited to see the film. It had a feeling similar to The Beach but with more action in it and a little bit more insanity and suspense. And what starts out looking like a brilliant piece of supsense set in one of the most b...

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The time has come for me to succumb to a more suitable scoring technique for my film reviews. This has been a long time coming and has been nibbling at my mind for weeks. The prices of film tickets are constantly fluctuating and with the release of DIGITAL 3D the general price of a movie tick...

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The 82nd Academy Award nominees were announced earlier this morning, officially starting the countdown for the culmination of awards season! Lots of familiar faces peppered the nominees, with films like "Avatar" and "Up in the Air" and "The Hurt Locker" receiving multiple nominations. "Avatar" and "...

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This is one I have been waiting to see and post on since I first heard of it being made from one of my work colleagues who shares a house with one of the stars. To me Australian movies are like flipping a coin, they are either amazing and get international recognition or they are absolute shite....

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Below is listed the Top 50 highest grossing films of all time in unadjusted figures. It should be noted that Avatar is only about 50mil away from taking the lead from longstanding James Cameron film Titanic. Not only does this make James Cameron the most bankable director on the planet but means the...

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Well this was a surprise - gratz to Harry Potter - the worst in the series :) IT is very surprising that Avatar makes number 3 after ONLY 3 weeks of figures - that is phenomonal. It should be noted Avatar has now grossed more than $75MIL in Australia and it is now the highest grossing film in Aust...

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This film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he...

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After prompting from Lady Morgan I jumped on board and decided to write my Top 20 Films of the last 10yrs. I wanted mine to be somehow different so thought it best to allow every year to have a standout or two - so from the Year 2000 to 2009 I have chosen two films from each year to make up my list....

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A big congratulations to James Cameron, Toni Collette, Avatar and Alec Baldwin. Totally rocked. Gratz to the others except for Glee - it gets a total BOOOOOO for being so crap :) Best Motion Picture - Drama WINNER Avatar (2009) Other Nominees:The Hurt Locker (2008) Inglourious Basterd...

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Yay - Sequels confirmed today!! After muttering about how an AVATAR franchise would make sense and hinting that there could be a trilogy of AVATAR films, James Cameron has confirmed that there will be an AVATAR sequel, fueling speculation about how it might top the original. Things we do ...

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Rotten Tomatoes announces this morning as does The Today Show! While it may still be chasing his sinking ship (haha, great pun) in worldwide grosses and sitting at number 7 in the US all-time top 10, James Cameron's Avatar has officially passed his own Titanic to become the highest grossing film ...

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Beastly Boys ($3-) This is quite possibly the worst movie ever produced and put to film. Filmed on 16mm by David Decoteau who is known for his trashy films back in 2006 I was told I would like this film, someone is about to receive an E-Slap. I did like it for one reason alone, having a constant...

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Daybreakers ($7-) This film had so much going for it but just fell on it's arse. The critics screening I was in had people laughing at the movie and definately not with it. I took Sammy to this screening and our initial thoughts on it were basically "close to worst film ever". After thinking furt...

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Hahahaha - I actually love this trailer. At first I completely wrote off that this film could be good. But it actually looks great. Here we have Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, Wedding Crashers) as Face and looking damn fine; former UFC champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson as B.A. Baracus; Liam Neeso...

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SORRY THIS WAS DELETED BY WARNER BROS - BUT IT IS BACK UP AND HENCE REPOSTED. HAVE A GOOD DAY! And so begins the marketing bonanza for the next Potter film. This last one is being split into two and I hope it was better than the last one. It looks better and I cannot wait - I am a total sucker an...

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The Hurt Locker (9/10)	Sex Sells: The Astronomical Rise of Taylor Lautner	From Paris With Love (5/10)	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps TRL
The Road (7/10)	A Perfect Getaway (5/10)	My Scoring is Changing!!!	82nd Academy Award Nominations Are In
Beneath Hill 60 Trailer	Titanic will sink in the Next 2 Weeks - the Top 50 Highest Grossing Films of All Time	Highest Grossing Films in Australia for 2009	Invictus ($16-)
Salty's Top 20 Films of the Last 10yrs	Complete Golden Globe Winners List	Avatar Sequels Confirmed	Congratulations to Avatar: The Highest Grossing Film in Australian History
Beastly Boys ($3-) A Trashy Gay Horror Flick	Daybreakers ($7-)	The A Team Trailer	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Teaser Trailer

82nd Academy Award Nominations Are In

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Beneath Hill 60 Trailer

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Titanic will sink in the Next 2 Weeks - the Top 50 Highest Grossing Films of All Time

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