Opinion Battles Year 4 Round 12 Worst Animated Sequel

Its the final round of Year 4 of Opinion Battles! We’re wrapping up the year looking at the worst animated sequel. I always have one choice on my mind whenever we talk about this and it goes to Cars 2.

Head over to check out all the other choices and drop a vote for who you agree with.

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Opinion Battles Year 4 Round

Worst Animated Sequel

With the final round we are returning to the worst of, this time in animated movies, we seem to get a lot of sequels that just don’t work, this is going to give us a chance to vent about the animated cash ins we didn’t want to see.

Next Round – This is going to be the final Opinion Battles in its current form, I would like to thank everyone for playing and voting along.

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Atlantis: Milo’s Return

I wasn’t a fan of the first Atlantis, this sequel brings the character back in three separate stories as it was meant to be a pilot for a television series, which only make things worse. The mysterious are not interesting and by the end of the mini adventure we are left wondering just what was the point.

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Opinion Battles Year 4 Round 9 Favourite Martin Scorsese

Its time for Round 9 of Opinion Battles! This time we are choosing our Favorite Martin Scorsese Film. Mine was a no-brainer. Hugo all the way! Its such a leap from the usual and so fantastical and awesome.

Head on over to Movie Reviews 101 to check out the other choices from the participants and remember to drop a vote for the choice you agree with the most!

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Opinion Battles Year 4 Round 9

Favourite Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest directors of all time, his latest film ‘The Irishman’ will be coming out soon and we will be looking at the films we enjoy from this legend who has given as a excellent collections of classic movies.

Next Round Worst Horror Franchise (5 Movies minimum) – Closing Date Friday 5^th October 2018

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Shutter Island

When it comes of Martin Scorsese, I know and respect he is one of the greatest of all the directors in the world, however I am not a fane of gangster films, which takes a couple of titles of the table for me, when picking the favourite of his career. I have gone with Shutter Island because I love a good mystery thriller and watching the pieces of this puzzle unfold is one of…

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Opinion Battles Year 3 Round 3 – Favourite Film From 2015

Round 3 of Opinion Battles (Year 3) is here! We’re looking at our favorite 2015 film. 2015 was a year of many many great movies. I’d be lying if Ex Machina didn’t sneak in there somewhere but then got pushed down with my final choice of Spotlight. Its great to see Ex Machina having a mention along with some other great titles.

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Opinion Battles Year 3 Round 3

Favourite Film From 2015

Hitting the year 2017 we can now start looking back at films from 2015 and think what was our favourite without solely looking at the most recent watch. We had a brilliant list of Oscar contenders, the return of classic franchises with nearly all being great or better in their own way but just what do we call our favourite from this year?

If you want to join Opinion Battles our next question is returning to the Oscar winners as we pick our LEAST Favourite Oscar Winning Performance from an Actor in Leading or Supporting Role. To enter send your choices to moviereviews101@yahoo.co.ukby 19^th February 2017.

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Mad Max Fury Road

Mad Max Fury Road came from nowhere because nobody thought we were going to get too much from this sequel with such a…

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Opinion Battles Year 3 Round 2 Favourite Oscar Winning Performance from an Actor in Leading or Supporting Role

This year’s Round 2 of Opinion Battles is all about our Favorite Oscar-winning Performance from an Actor in a Leading or Supporting Role. Just in time for the awards season, right? With the announcement of the 2017 nominees for the Academy Awards, we’re talking about the right stuff. I’m not exactly a huge follower of Academy Awards, Maybe when I was younger, then took a big break and only got back into it because of the blog, so as I looked at the names, one role stood out to me and that’s Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs! There are some great choices here!

Head on over and check it out! See which you like and drop a vote!

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Opinion Battles Year 3 Round 2

Favourite Oscar Winning Performance from an Actor in Leading or Supporting Role

The Oscars are around the corner and we all know that people either love or hate the Oscars committee decisions. We have had the best or the best winning Oscars but today we are looking at what we think is the favourite Oscar Winning performance.

If you want to take part in the next round of Opinion Battles we are going to be answer the question of What is your Favourite Film from 2015? To enter send your choices to moviereviews101@yahoo.co.ukby 5^th February 2017.

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Christopher Waltz – Col Hans Landa – Inglorious Basterds

Col Hans Landa is one of the best characters ever created by Quentin Tarantino, he is pure evil known as the ‘Jew Killer’ for his ruthless ability to track down any Jews…

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Opinion Battles Year Three Round One Favourite Nicolas Cage Role

Opinion Battles is in Year Three! The first round of 2017 is choosing our favorite Nicolas Cage role. Mine was a fair fight between Moonstruck and National Treasure but seeing as I love the latter so much more, it had to go to that role! A lot of fantastic choices here from everyone!

Head over and drop a vote for which role you like.

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Opinion Battles Year Three Round One

Favourite Nicolas Cage Role

Nicolas Cage has had one of the most fascinating careers in Hollywood today with one Oscar win to his name. his career started in 1981 has seen him take the strange roles, the brilliant roles, become the action hero of the 90s before tackling those bees in The Wicker Man remake before becoming somewhat of a parody of himself in recent years. It will be fair to say everyone will be remember Cage as an actor for a range of different reasons but today we are going to pick our favourite character of his career.

If you want to take part in the next round we are going to be picking our Favourite Oscar Winning Actor Performance in a Leading or Supporting Role, if you want to join email moviereviews101@yahoo.co.ukby 22^nd January 2017.

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Opinion Battles Round 26 – Favourite Christmas Movie

Round 26 of Opinion Battles is featuring favorite Christmas Movies! While not exactly a full on Christmas movie, my favorite is The Holiday. However, there are some other fantastic choice. I have to say that I’m a little shocked one title isn’t there.

Remember to head over and check out the other choices and drop a vote! And if you want to join in also for 2017, drop an email at Movie Reviews 101. All the details are there.

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Opinion Battles Round 26

Favourite Christmas Movie

It is Christmas and Merry Christmas to you all, we have seen plenty of Christmas movies over the year and it is fair to say we have had good and bad ones, but which is your favourite.

We will be back for Opinion Battles next year with the new rounds which have been announced with our first round be Favourite Nicolas Cage Role, email you choices to moviereviews101@yahoo.co.ukby 7^th January 2017.

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Gremlins

Gremlins is one of my favourite Christmas movies because we have a perfect mix of horror, comedy and Christmas spirit. Just remember the rules and you will have a good simple Christmas but if you break them you will be paying for them for the rest of the holiday. Gizmo could easily have been the biggest selling present at the time too because he…

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Opinion Battles Round 23 – Favourite Guilty Pleasure

Round 23 of Opinion Battles is here! This time, its all about our favorite guilty pleasure. I have so many that it was kind of hard to decide but Sharknado was the first to pop in my head! I just love it for all its badness! Seems like someone else agrees with me, which is awesome. Some great picks that you should check out.
Head over to see what everyone else chose and drop a vote on who you agree with most!

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Opinion Battles Round 23

Favourite Guilty Pleasure

We all have that one film that people slam that we all love to watch for our own pleasure and that is what we are going to be looking at this time around.

If you want to take part in the next round we are going to look at European Subtitles film and you will need your entries sent to moviereviews101@yahoo.co.uk by 27^th November 2016.

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Speed Racer

I do love playing racing games, well I did when I was growing up as we get plenty of racing action that is way over the top and actually feels like a video game, I never saw the anime so anything the film did wrong in honouring the show I didn’t lose. The characters are clearly fictional and the race scenes are at times breath-taking set pieces with the final…

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Opinion Battles Round 22 – Favourite Franchise Serial Killer

Right in time for Halloween, Opinion Battles Round 22 is here with our choices of our favorite Franchise Serial Killer. I think we have it covered. Head on over and see who you agree with. My choice is none other than Michael Myers from Halloween franchise.

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Opinion Battles Round 22

Favourite Franchise Serial Killer

It is Halloween today and what better choice for a subject that looking at our favourite franchise serial killer. We have had many franchises in horror come in with a bang only to fizzle out with mindless sequels but then we have a few that stand the test of time.

If you want to take part in the next round of opinion battles we will be picking our favourite Guilty Pleasure and you will need to send your entries to moviereviews101@yahoo.co.ukby 13^th November 2016.

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Freddy Krueger – Nightmare on Elm Street

One, Two Freddy’s coming for you, three, four better lock your door, five, six grab your crucifix, seven, eight better stay up late, nine, ten never sleep again. How many serial killers can haunt your dreams? How many serial killers have their own rhyme?…

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Opinion Battles Round 21 – Favourite Tom Cruise Role

The next round of Opinion Battles is here! Round 21 is all about sharing our favorite Tom Cruise roles! This one wasn’t hard to find since I’m not exactly a Tom Cruise fan but I do love him a whole lot as Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible franchise and the recent ones have just been totally awesome!
The other choices are pretty great also. I’d have to say that his role in Collateral crossed my mind for a split second. 😉
Which Tom Cruise role do you like?
Head over to see the other selections and drop your vote on who you agree with most!

P.S. I realized that I forgot to reblog the last round on our favorite Clive Owen roles and you can head over and check that out on Movie Reviews 101 sidebar and drop your vote as well! The poll should still be running!

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Opinion Battles Round 21

Favourite Tom Cruise Role

Tom Cruise is arguable the biggest movie star in the business today and over his 30 plus career he has become one of the most popular choices for a range of different films. Nearly always the leading man and his willingness to take on the most dangerous stunts. While he will always be surrounded by controversy because of his attachment to Scientology no one can question his ability as an actor.

If you want to take part in the next round of Opinion Battles we will be taking on our Favourite Franchise Serial Killer and you will need to have your entries sent to moviereviews101@yahoo.co.ukby 30^th October 2016.

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Vincent – Collateral

Vincent is a hitman who has come to Los Angeles to kill a certain number of people, he hires a taxi to drive him…

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Opinion Battles Round 19 – Favourite Romantic Comedy

Its time for the next round of Opinion Battles! This time is one of my absolutely fave genres: Favorite Romantic Comedies! The issue here is that I love tons of them. This round had tons of great choices! I went with one that I could watch over and over again and it was While You Were Sleeping! Sandra Bullock is just fantastic…Its a holiday movie and romantic comedy, so tons of reasons to watch it over and over again in the year (not that I really need one).

Head over to Movie Reviews 101 and check out everyone’s choices and vote for who you agree with most! 🙂

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Opinion Battles Round 19

Favourite Romantic Comedy

Romantic Comedies have become the go to date movie where we get to see how people go about getting into relationships. We have had some of the most iconic storylines in recent years and decades with people being able to relate to certain characters involved in the films and this is why they are so popular. Today we are going to be picking our favourites out there, so let’s see what we got.

If you want to take part in the next round of Opinion Battles the subject will be Favourite Clive Owen role which I know is a very small selection but we could get some strange choices. The deadline for this choice is 1st October 2016 and email your choices to moviereviews101@yahoo.co.uk.

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500 Days of Summer

500 Days of Summer is not a love story…

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