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mrjminer

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Snowpiercer: 5/10 - A dystopian train story; an ice age hits and the last of the populace lives on a train where the farther the car is from the front, the lower you are on the food chain. The movie is about the people in the farthest car making their way up to the front of the train. Not a bad movie, but it was pretty disjointed and could have been a lot better. One of those movies where you watch it thinking it's going to get better the entire time, yet remains mediocre.
 

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Imitation Game - 9.5/10

Most excellent film and subject matter. Very relevant to modern issues about LGBT treatment and even state security, cryptography, covert warfare, etc. Excellent acting, editing, and pacing. An overall poignant yet fun movie that a community of 'nerds' should see! Really comes together in the final scenes about where this math genius is coming from.
 
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Star Wars - The Last Turn to the Dark Side - Episodes 1-3 recut

I have yet to watch this. But thought I'd mention it since it has recently reappeared online.

There are two recuts of episodes 1-3 that are very popular where they made them into one shorter movie. Those are:
Star Wars - A Last Hope - Episodes 1-3 recut
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Star Wars - Turn to the Dark Side - Episodes 1-3 recut

The online communities love these and many say what would be best is combining them using certain changes. Well, someone took the challenge and took the most common change requests to create Star Wars - The Last Turn to the Dark Side - Episodes 1-3. You can find it online. Total Runtime: 162 Minutes. The down side is that it is not seemingly available in 1080p. Better than DVD resolution though.
 

zerocool84

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Expendables 3 - 7/10 Good fun popcorn movie. Great action sequences.

Just saw this. Loved the first two movies, this one just fell flat me. Maybe it's because this was the only one that was PG13 so everything was toned down but I was just bored with the 3rd. Everything about it was generic, basic, everything was recycled from every action movie from the past 30yrs with zero variation. I'm sure they are making another one and hope they go back to the first two.
 

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Runner runner – 5.5/10 OK. Not bad, could be better, bit rushed, a lot of details were missing and plot was way too far fetched to be believable.

Chef - 8.5/10 Great, heartwarming movie. This was my rent one get one free filler, glad I picked this movie. Sofia Vergara's character was great!
 

smackababy

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Haha, good point on Costner, though I kind of like the absurdity of Waterworld. :hmm:

Was not a big fan of the original True Grit; I found John Wayne kind of awful sorry to say. I liked the Coen Brothers remake though. I've not seen the other two you listed. Really the only other Westerns I enjoyed were most of the Leone films. The Leone films have a certain flair I find lacking in most other Westerns.

Ok, I guarantee to watch Dances With Wolves this month, I just need to watch The Battle of Algiers and Once Upon A Time In Anatolia first.

KT

Waterworld isn't a bad movie. Costner, despite what a lot of people say, is actually a phenomenal actor. Unfortunately, he doesn't always pick the best movies (the Postman). Mr. Brooks was absolutely amazing and he was easily the best part of Man of Steel. He has done some questionable work, but when he is in the right role, he is perfect.
 

CZroe

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Waterworld isn't a bad movie. Costner, despite what a lot of people say, is actually a phenomenal actor. Unfortunately, he doesn't always pick the best movies (the Postman). Mr. Brooks was absolutely amazing and he was easily the best part of Man of Steel. He has done some questionable work, but when he is in the right role, he is perfect.

He didn't just "pick" "The Postman," he MADE that turd. I will admit that I was naive and loved "The Postman" the first time I saw it.
 

Thebobo

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Waterworld isn't a bad movie. Costner, despite what a lot of people say, is actually a phenomenal actor. Unfortunately, he doesn't always pick the best movies (the Postman). Mr. Brooks was absolutely amazing and he was easily the best part of Man of Steel. He has done some questionable work, but when he is in the right role, he is perfect.

I liked waterworld (7.5) and the postman (7.5.)
 

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Waterworld isn't a bad movie. Costner, despite what a lot of people say, is actually a phenomenal actor. Unfortunately, he doesn't always pick the best movies (the Postman). Mr. Brooks was absolutely amazing and he was easily the best part of Man of Steel. He has done some questionable work, but when he is in the right role, he is perfect.

The Guardian is underrated. i think people avoided it because of kutcher but i thought the movie as a whole was entertaining.
 

smackababy

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Wow, that review was just a bit homophobic, don't you think? Their big complaint is that the actors looked gay?

Any review that uses "gay as hell" to describe anything is pretty much worthless. I mean, I didn't watch Peter Pan live, but I dislike musicals, the idea of a Peter Pan without Rufio, and had much better things to watch last night (the Cowboys stomping the Teddy Bears). It just looked overall, bad. And apparently, it was.
 
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smackababy

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^Is that a man??? Looks like a man to me. Peter Man!

Well, they cast a female as Peter Pan because he is supposed to be a teenage or childlike. And, since children are the fucking bane of good acting, they have to do the next best thing: cast a women who looks close enough to a man when her hair is cut short.
 

Muse

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Wristcutters: A Love Story 6/10 (2007)

It's 88 minutes. Honestly, I was quite anxious for it to end, although it was only 6:30PM when it did. Episodic, sort of a road movie. The premise, absurd of course, is that the protagonist from the start has a dark moment, it isn't working out with his SO, she's a beaut, his apartment's an entire mess. They do a kind of time jumping thing with the camera on a tripod and he cleans up his room, from utter and complete mess to very tidy indeed. Then he goes in the bathroom and slits his wrists and apparently dies, collapsed on the floor. You then see them burying the guy, but he's still narrating this and you're going WTF. Turns out he's dead but in a place where suicides go, presumably all suicides go. Everyone there committed suicide. It's kind of a comedy, very much so, but has romantic overtones. The people there have strange lives, they aren't happy, there's one chick that the protagonist and his new buddy (with strong Russian accent), pick up, she's hitchhiking. She's intent on finding the PIC (people in charge), insistent that she doesn't belong there, there's been a mistake. Way later you finally find out it's because she OD'd, presumably shooting heroin.

Well, there's a chemistry between her and the protagonist, although it's hinted at, not explicit, presumably he's obsessed with finding his former SO, who committed suicide a month after he did (jumping off building, evidently), and the hitchhiker chick's only goal is to find the PIC. There's a ton of little skits, the director wrote the thing, you get the feeling they improvised along the way, maybe a lot. It feels like a really low budget movie, although there are some decent production values, it was Lionsgate after all. You have the feeling they were given their lines at the last minute, that the actors didn't bother to read, much less memorize their parts. There's no real drama, everything is for quirky comic effect and for me it mostly didn't really work. In the end the real cute hitchhiker chick with the pixie hairdo, who actually OD'd (didn't "off" herself), gets her weird ticket back to planet earth proper and somehow the protagonist gets to go back there too, and they wake up in the same room, different beds, in the hospital, his wrists are taped up, they smile at each other broadly across the room and the end credits start (i.e. they are great lovers from then on out.). Eh.
 
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