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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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Grand Canyon (1991)
The inspiration for Crash (2004)? Pretty well-made, great performances by pretty much everyone. Kasdan does a great job with the all-star, ensemble cast. Kline, Martin, and McDonnell are very impressive. Seems like Martin wanted to make a statement about LA in the early 90’s.
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The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Too theatrical, obvious this was a play. Not very funny or insightful. Ewell has some physical ability, but his incessant monologues are annoying. He’s a poor man’s Jack Lemmon. Monroe is pretty cute but has some sort of speech impediment. It‚Äôs like she‚Äôs trying to sound like Elizabeth Taylor. Whats…
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The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
Amazing performance by Woodward, definitely deserved an Oscar. Eve Black reminds me of Alabama from True Romance. Story and pace are wonderful, but poor lighting in a lot of scenes.
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