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Das Boot (1981)
A noble attempt to make a real movie during an otherwise awkward and unsatisfying few years in film history. But there’s not much going on. These guys spend days on end looking for other boats and picking at each others pubic lice, and it feels like we’re watching it all…
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Mary and Max (2009)
Funny writing and great animation. Pretty cool how everything form Australia was brown and everything from New York was gray. All the dark humor is fun but is so excessive that it prevents any real drama. Lots of farting and random animal suffering. Death is whimsical. The main theme is…
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Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger – London, New York, Johannesburg (2008)
Chris Rock’s got it. Good stuff. Your standard Rock material, topical and on point. Amazing how seamlessly it’s all woven together. Rock seems to be pretty good about staying on script.
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The Switch (2010)
Not much to it. Bateman’s easygoing humor works when he’s got funny people and a good story around him, but he doesn’t have that here.
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Friends with Benefits (2011)
Risque story line and sex scenes from a couple of today’s hot, young stars. Trendy backdrops of New York and LA. Disabled father figure provides drama. Too easy. Patricia Clarkson was funny.
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Prometheus (2012)
A film epic in scale is reduced to a mediocre action flick by sloppy execution. How realistic is this high-priced scientific expedition? To begin with, there’s no way a long-term expedition into space would be comprised of characters so antagonistic towards each other for no particular reason. Think about how…
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White Chicks (2004)
The Wayans brothers are funny. This one’s goofy, bit not too goofy. There’s actually some good comedy here.
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Downfall (2004)
Lots of research went into the proper sequencing of events and the impressively reconstructed sets. The same authentic treatment for other German stories from war in subsequent films would be epic. Authentic performances all around. Kudos to Ganz for pulling it off. Discounting the argument that Hitler should never be…
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