Looking for a Moderator on our Forum..

Yep, we're looking for a new mod. Right now I do most of the work but I have 3 reviewers and one mod who get one as often as possible. I'd like someone to primarily focus on our forum.

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The Role

- Delete Dupliacte Posts where neccessary
- Welcome New Members
- Fix any noticable grammer errors
- Report any conflict
- Delete Spam

Requirments

- Must be 16+
- Have good Grammer (Unlike me!)
- Have some experince of forum use / moderating

Desired but not absolutely neccessary

- Be a movie fan so can engage on site related content- Post Daily (At least as often as possible!)

Interested / Questions ?

Just let me know what kind of experience you've had at frazzle@roughcutreviews.com

The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008)

I’m almost embarrassed for saying this, me liking Sci-Fi and all but it has been so very long since I watched the original THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. I intended to buy the movie and watch it long before I got to eventually see this remake however when I thought about it I decided it would be a better idea to watch this modern day re-telling and review it objectively. So very often people are willing to write a movie off just because the original was superior when most directors don’t intend to better the original. Instead I see these remakes of classic films as homage of some of our greatest movies.

The movie itself starts quite suddenly and gets right into the story instead of messing around. A giant sphere lands in central park in New York and a life form emerges which takes human form. It is accidentally shot by a trigger-happy soldier and so emerges GORT, A huge android-like-being which acts as a bodyguard to the life form and is only activated by any threat of violence. It deactivates the militaries weapons before they can take any further action. The wounded being is taken to a base and later introduced as Klattu (Keanu Reeves). It asks to speak to the world’s leaders however the president has already been hidden away safe and the secretary of defence Regina Jackson (Kathy Bates), has other ideas. She wants to question Klattu and find out the alien race’s intentions on Earth. Scientist, Helen Benson (Jennifer Connolly) quickly takes to Klattu and helps him escape. It emerges that Klattu’s mission on Earth is to destroy the human race as they are harming the planet. As it’s one of the few words, which is capable of inhabiting life, it comes down to “If The Earth dies, humans die but if human’s die, the earth lives”.

All in all despite a few problems THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL was a decent attempt at a re-imagining of a classic Sci-Fi movie. The biggest negative for me was the story. It promises so much and falls just ever so slightly short. The climax was a little lacking and could have done with a little more ‘oomph’. The effects whilst not been terrible weren’t great either and the image of GORT with the sphere behind him looked a little dodgy. On the positive side I felt that Keanu Reeves actually played the role well contrary to what a lot of other reviewers have said so far. I have never been a fan of his acting abilities and up until now only THE MATRIX movies and CONSTANTINE leap to mind as movie were I didn’t mind him as much. In THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL he played the role in a mono-toned manner but I believe that’s exactly what this particular role needed. I was just waiting for him to scream out a ‘Cowabunga’ or something to that effect though.

When compared to what we would class as classic sci-fi THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL falls way short but as a separate movie, it’s pretty decent and much better than Steven Spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS remake. I think this one will definitely appeal to the mainstream audience but will ultimately fall short to the Sci-Fi geeks out there. I like to call myself a geek but when I sit back and think about the one’s I still need to see then I’m a long way off. For me, it was well worth watching and a good way to spend my Sunday night.

Date: 15/12/2008

Rating: 3.5/5

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Wim Elf Bowling: The Movie on DVD (Region 2)

We're giving away 1 copy of ELF BOWLING: THE MOVIE on DVD now at Rough Cut Reviews. Click the link below to answer the simple question and be in with a chance to win the DVD,

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Craig
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Lack Of New Members

I have tried every trick in the book in order to get new members to join our forum but I'm left continually frustrated as either no ones signs up or those who do either don't post or spam for their own site. Is there some kind of secret I'm misiing. I know it helps to have an active forum in the first place and I think ours isn't too bad but the only way to make it more active is to get more sign ups... I'll keep on trying and post my findings. Until then if anyone is interested in signing up go to http://www.websitetoolbox.com/mb/frazzle_f

Win Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer on DVD (Region 2)

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Craig
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Getting more traffic....

This is my first blog in here and it will be brief. Trying to get our website: http://www.roughcutreviews recognized. Please if you haven't already have a look around a let me know what you think. Even if its negative still lemme know, as long as it's constructive - Not just a 'I hate this website'.
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