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Iron Sky (2012)
Great movie!
I read a bunch of the reviews and I'm surprised nobody mentioned the clothing. The outfits were genius! Everything else from the other positive reviews I found spot on and the negative ones saying there were few jokes kind of puzzle me. I can only assume it is because they didn't get the references, and there are a LOT of them. A large number of scenes are making fun of other things, be it media or politics or anything else and I can imagine that if you didn't know what they were making fun of you'd miss the point entirely (Downfall scene, for example).
From the plot idea (nazis on the moon) I really expected an awful movie going in, but this turned out to be one of my favorite movies in a long time.
Doom (2005)
What did this movie have to do with Doom?
This movie is, hands down, the worst movie experience I've ever had. They didn't even use any piece of the plot the Doom 3 game had, despite it being the same time and place as the game. They also destroyed the one untouchable thing in all things Doom; Sarge. The Sarge character was more mangled than a cheeseburger coming out the other end. I can't go into detail unfortunately, you'll see if you have 8 dollars in your pocket that happen to be covered with Anthrax powder and you are forced to give it to the movie ticket salesman to stop him from shipping teenage girls to other countries forcing them to work in brothels and Doom is the only movie showing in the entire theater.
Everything else aside, the movie was quite entertaining. If I hadn't played doom 3, or any other doom movie ever made, I would have loved it. I, however, have far too much loyalty to Doom than to harbor anything but hatred of this movie.
The Marksman (2005)
Fun movie
The movie had all the requirements to be an entertaining special ops/army movie. Decent plot, nefarious Russian villain, lots of guns, and copious amounts of explosions. The movie had a small twist that, fortunately, didn't detract from the action but heightened your sense of not knowing what you should believe. Wesley Snipes plays the Painter; a highly trained master of stealth with a spotted background exuding a subtle hope of redemption from the following mission. Not that much training is required for this mission, however, as all the Russians graduated from the same marksmanship school that the imperial stormtroopers emerged from. I enjoyed it, it reminded me of Mission Impossible if it had been directed by Ted Kotcheff.