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In the Line of Fire (1993)
Slow and safe and formulaic. There’s just not much to it. Typical early 90’s movie. Strange pigeon line to end the movie.
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Godzilla (2014)
I have been waiting for something to erase Roland Emmerich’s horrendous 1998 movie from my head, and we finally have something good. This is what Emmerich’s movie should have been. This is a good monster movie. Edwards delivers some truly beautiful visuals and shows some skill with pacing and suspense.…
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Metal Tornado (2011)
Horribly awful. Poor Lou Diamond Phillips. He was once considered a respectable actor.
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Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Iconic final scene, but rest of the movie is damn boring. The slow and melodic pace, typical of Leone and his westerns, puts you right to sleep. Lots of weird dubbing issues, which makes more sense after learning the entire dialogue track was recorded in post. What language did they…
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Interesting story, great effects, and a few great action sequences. The Marvel formula works, but it’s starting to get repetitive. All of these superhero movies are starting to run together for me. I’m not even sure what they could do to make them better. Stan was intense, intriguing, and cool,…
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Death Proof (2007)
A Tarantino film. Campy 70’s stylistic elements, and he pours it on thick here, with dated angles and framing of shots, film and color treatments, old-time fonts and title graphics, and all the hissing and popping and sloppy editing of a vintage film. Add in profanity-laced, fast-talking dialogue, a glorified…
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Son of Rambow (2007)
The slapstick, offbeat humor, and child innocence comedy make for an unfunny mix. It’s just silly. Poulter is good, though.
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Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
An engaging detective story. A little scripted, staged, and overdramatized at times, but still good. Nice effects, animation, silky dolly shots, lots of good B-roll, and a ready-made soundtrack polish things up quite nicely. It’s got all the qualities that make it trendy to like. The combination of mystery, intrigue,…
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Frozen (2013)
Excellent animation. In the details, you can see a lot of Pixar’s influence. Skin is imperfectly perfect, fingers are wonderfully three-dimensional, blocks of ice refract and reflect light perfectly. All of the ice effects were really great. The story’s pretty good, but a little too much singing and dancing for…
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I'm a photographer, web developer, travel enthusiast, and movie buff living in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.In the summer of 1993, I started writing reviews for every movie I saw and haven't looked back. I'm up to 2,374 reviews now. This makes me cool or a complete dork, depending on your perspective.
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