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Mobsters (1991)
Just feels so 90’s, with all the proper camera angles, even lighting, and cheesy melodramatic dialogue. Slater is decent, Dempsey is unpolished.
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Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
The story is slightly messy, scenes are slightly predictable, but it’s a pretty good attempt at fusing western and sci-fi. Not an easy thing to do. Craig is cool and engaging, Ford is OK.
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Being There (1979)
Perhaps one of the earliest explorations, or even commentaries, on the effects of television and mass media on people. Aside from that angle, the movie is rather boring. An idiot fools everyone and stumbles his way to national fame, a device used again but in a more fanciful way in…
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The Hurt Locker (2008)
Bigelow makes a boy movie. Wonderful tension in all of the action sequences, though the shaky camera is a bit much at times. Like Three Kings and Green Zone and a lot of Iraq war movies, creative lighting and filters are used to render Iraq the color of parchment. Renner…
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A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008)
A lot of guys have wanted to do something like this. Waitt is deadpan funny and endearing, although sometimes he plays a bit too dumb and some of his scenes are staged. The end, in particular, is scripted and unsatisfyingly fake. Did we need to see his cock so much?…
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King Solomon’s Mines (1985)
Horribly made. Chamberlain’s such a goofball. Stone was lucky to have a career after this. Oh wait, she’s pretty.
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The Sting (1973)
Decent period piece, but a little slow. Most movies from the 70’s were pretty slow. The music is fun, but I’m not really sure it fits. Newman’s pretty cool, and he really does have amazing eyes. Redford was quite athletic, wasn’t he? It’s always interesting watching period pieces from different…
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Auto Focus (2002)
Kinnear is wonderful, but was this a story worth telling? Crane was an interesting guy, but not a very redeeming one.
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