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Movie Thread: Grab Some Popcorn, Enjoy The Show

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I watched that a few months back and would agree with the assessment. The girl is played by Saoirse Ronan, who looks like she's going to break out have a good career. I watched the movie because she was in it, after seeing her in another movie called Hanna, playing a girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin - a fairly straight forward movie but she played her part very well.

Heard about Hanna...might have to check that out on a lazy afternoon. Agreed on her having a chance to hit it big. The brunette, Gemma something...what a smokeshow. ;)
 
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Hanna was a great movie, and that actress was terrific.
 
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Hanna was a great movie, and that actress was terrific.

Tara Lynne Barr (God Bless America; great movie) has a shot, too, IMO. Reminded me of Portman in Leon: The Professional.
 
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Rocky IV on IONTV. Awesome. One of the greatest bad movies ever.
 
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Page Eight. 'Spy' story in which a long-standing MI5 agent (Bill Nighy) discovers the PM had information that could save lives from terrorists but held onto for political reasons. If you're a fan of Le Carre books this is the film they should have become. Smart, completely lacking in violence and yet always managing to convey a subtle backdrop of foreboding doom, I'm really glad I accidentally stumbled upon this tonight.
 
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Picked up Home, The Lego Movie, and Big Hero 6 from Amazon. I saw parts of them at work, heard good things about all of them, and now I want to see the rest of them, especially the Lego Movie.
 
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Well, I was more just talking about the feel and aesthetics of the actual decade, not its movies. Generally speaking, the decade reminds me of junior high school. I don't think anybody has good associations with that.

Seriously, most decades style does not develop immediately at the turn of the decade. It's usually something like 3, or even five years in, before you really see the styles, trends and fashions that everyone comes to associate with that decade.

So the 60's ran a bit over in the 70's, probably till about '72-73. The 70's held on pretty strongly through the early 80's. I found my old college yearbooks online, and was looking through the senior portraits and such for old friends of mine and stuff. Now I graduated in 1983, but you really didn't see the typical '80's haircuts and clothes on people until about 1985 or even '86. And even then, mostly the girls and not the guys. Now granted, this was the backwoods of Maine, but there were enough kids there from the civilized states like Mass and NY.

But the kids from 1980-1983 looked just like the kids in my high school yearbooks from the late '70's.
 
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Seriously, most decades style does not develop immediately at the turn of the decade. It's usually something like 3, or even five years in, before you really see the styles, trends and fashions that everyone comes to associate with that decade.

So the 60's ran a bit over in the 70's, probably till about '72-73. The 70's held on pretty strongly through the early 80's. I found my old college yearbooks online, and was looking through the senior portraits and such for old friends of mine and stuff. Now I graduated in 1983, but you really didn't see the typical '80's haircuts and clothes on people until about 1985 or even '86. And even then, mostly the girls and not the guys. Now granted, this was the backwoods of Maine, but there were enough kids there from the civilized states like Mass and NY.

But the kids from 1980-1983 looked just like the kids in my high school yearbooks from the late '70's.
The 90s changed pretty quick in style, thanks to the massive difference in hair rock and grunge styles, IMO.
 
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Sleepy Hollow:

Eh, it was ok. A little out there for me with the supernatural and such, even if it was just a legend. Kind of overdid it.


Focus:

I like a good con-man movie, this bordered between good and "Oh Jesus, really? Come on, you can do better than that!" Worth a watch, but I've seen much better. It went a bit downhill starting with the cliched "xx years later" transition. A major fault in this genre.
 
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I'll tell you something that's AWESOME!!! And I hope most of you are one step ahead of me and have already seen this movie, but tonight I watched Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. I can't believe I waited 57+ years to watch this film. Very good from start to finish. Inspiration for Lucas's Star Wars. Must see. Enjoy!

The life of man
Burn it with the fire
The life of an insect
Throw it into the fire
Ponder and you'll see
The world is dark
And this floating world
Is a dream.
 
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