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 JCVD is JCVD! 
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JCVD is JCVD!

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Meta-movie downtown,
and she done said to me:
I'm my surface and I'm my depths.
So I nodded furiously.


It's nice to see a meta-movie now and again - - it's an under-visited genre to be sure. So with the theatrical release of JCVD we surely must rejoice!

...and this is only the second Jean-Claude Van Damme film I've ever seen (after the under-rated B-flick Timecop which I caught at the drive-in).

Very nicely constructed and argued - - it's a visual doctoral thesis on the subject of self-reference.

JCVD outdoes himself...



∑∂∆ out of 5.


Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:55 am
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i'll be seeing this on the weekend. :)


Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:46 pm
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Bell wrote:
i'll be seeing this on the weekend. :)

Yee-Haw!!!!!

(Finally, some company... :yes: )


Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:16 pm
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I'll see this today or tomorrow.


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be.redy wrote:
I'll see this today or tomorrow.

Two's company, three's a crowd...


Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:34 am
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Posting this from Everyone's a critic.

be.redy wrote:
9/10 -> A-

Surprisingly one hell of a movie. All of Van Damme's "career" paid off just for this movie.

My only problem was that the main story was unnecesarily cut and reshuffled ala Memento-style. That's the case especially with the first and second part of the main story, as there is no suspension of did he or didn't he do it (we all know he didn't do it) and considering that the second part is much better and 80% repeats everything that happened, the first one then comes as a 20 minute waste of time.

Besides that I can't really say how much enjoyable this movie was.


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