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World Trade Center (2006)
Quality filmmaking by Stone. Emotional, yes, but I felt it was lacking a story. Perhaps the emotion was amplified by the freshness of the subject matter. Who was #20?
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The Brown Bunny (2003)
Does this movie have any qualities? Monumentally boring. Who is this Gallo guy? He’s just not interesting or entertaining enough to just watch. I think he just wanted to get his dick in a film.
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Roll Bounce (2005)
Unassuming, retro performances and average-looking actors make it feel genuine. You don’t find a lot of that in most historical pieces. Story’s OK.
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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005)
Hollywood and IMAX meet somewhere in the middle, and the result is interesting and entertaining. Would have preferred to hear from real astronauts rather than be distracted by celebrity impersonations. Nice effects. The moon dramatizations are pretty good. Where/how did they shoot all that? After repetitive and desperate attempts to…
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Children of Men (2006)
Interesting story and characters, nicely paced, wonderful tension, some marvelously long takes, intense action, and beautifully shot and color-graded. There’s even some subtle, well-placed comedy in there. There are a lot of really good things about this movie. Cuarón is talented.
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The Longest Day (1962)
A bit of sugarcoating (was everyone really raring to go?), but at the same time, it doesn’t pull many punches. Overall, it seems to be a pretty faithful, lengthy, documentary-style look at what went on. Pretty impressive cast. Irina Demick was a hottie. The different languages helps to make it…
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Bachelor Party (1984)
Some good 80’s humor (mostly by Hanks), but a lot of awful 80’s goofball humor. The coke-snorting donkey was pretty funny. Was that the same alley I saw in Return of the Dragon? Hanks used to be very funny, verbally and physically. What happened to him? It’s been years since…
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
The acting is certainly dated. Lots of staunch militry stereotypes. Knotts is a good choice for an animated character. Limpet looks like a cousin of the Starkist tuna.
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Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
Lots of beautiful women naked gives the movie a unique feel, but their intertwining stories are just not interesting enough. If they were as well-developed as Traffic or Magnolia, we’d really have something here. Moderately interesting performances by Hannah and Oh.
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Easy Rider (1969)
Hey, man… Let’s ride across American and do lots of drugs, man. Lame. Idiotic cuts between scenes don’t help. Would I have apreciated this more if I lived in the 60’s? I think this, from IMDB, explains it all: “Hopper and Fonda did not write a full script for the…
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