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Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

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As a Juilliard professor is interviewed by a woman and her husband for her dissertation on the history of dance in 1960s New York, it becomes increasingly clear that there are ulterior motives to the couple's visit.

I'm a big fan of Patrick Stewart and Matthew Lillard. Both acted the HELL out of this movie. Intense drama, and so much worth watching. Both actors just chew their scenes like someone who has starved for a week and was then served a fine steak.
 
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netflix has godfather 1 and 2 available. may be a double feature tomorrow. to late for that today.
 
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The Debt:

Not the Nazi one. This one, it involves a landowner, a buyer of land, and a nurse, whose lives intertwine during a bad land deal. Based in Peru. Pretty good drama, not outstanding. Took a while to put all the connections together, and it was worth the wait. A bit of a moral drama.
 
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mookie1995 said:
netflix has godfather 1 and 2 available. may be a double feature tomorrow. to late for that today.
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Good choice for back to back. I have all 3 on DVD only because the 3rd was force fed into the package deal.
 
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I'm rerunning West Wing. Kind of remember most of it and don't exactly know why I would want to waste time rewatching something more than a couple hours long. But it's so dam good. Still.
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Hey Sconnie Whioux...wrong thread ;)
 
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Watch Central Intelligence over the weekend.

I laughed... a lot.


Deal with it. :p
 
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I, Olga Hepnarova:

Slavic movie, based on the true story of Olga Hepnarova who decided to drive her vehicle through a crowd of people because of the way she was treated in the past by her family/etc.

A little artsy with the extended shots of nothing happening, but that could be a cultural thing. Lots of lesbian scenes. Lots of them. They didn't really add anything to the plot itself. Again, could be a cultural thing. It was okay. It was about 90 minutes long, and they could have trimmed 30 minutes off of it, and not missed a thing.
 
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Oblivion was... bad.

I do not understand the appeal of the short-legged Scientologist, but this was bad even for him.

Also: don't have a three actor set piece when all three of your actors can't act.
 
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Kepler said:
Oblivion was... bad.

I do not understand the appeal of the short-legged Scientologist, but this was bad even for him.

Also: don't have a three actor set piece when all three of your actors can't act.
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I liked Cruise in Collateral (was that it? With Jamie Foxx as the cab driver).

Paper Man:

A frustrated novelist finds new zest in life with the help of his imaginary superhero friend and a local teenage girl (no, not in THAT way).

It's about an hour and a half of awkwardness with a decent final 20 minutes. Overall, I liked the movie, I thought it was well done. The cast definitely helped: Lisa Kudrow, Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds.
 
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Brenthoven said:
A frustrated novelist finds new zest in life with the help of his imaginary superhero friend and a local teenage girl (no, not in THAT way).
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Gotta admit though, it does give one a zest for life.
 
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This list reinforces two things for me.

1. "Greatest" lists should not include anything released in the last 20 years. Half the movies since 1997 on that list will drop off it by that rule.

2. Some Like it Hot still fools critics on pure inter-generational momentum. It's a good comedy, sure, a perfectly cromulent comedy. But for f-ck's sake it doesn't even belong in the top 50, and I LOVE Billy Wilder.

Annie Hall is also grossly overrated because it's a movie essentially made for film critics. It's good and my god that ending but again, not even top 50.
 
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Kepler said:
This list reinforces two things for me.

1. "Greatest" lists should not include anything released in the last 20 years. Half the movies since 1997 on that list will drop off it by that rule.

2. Some Like it Hot still fools critics on pure inter-generational momentum. It's a good comedy, sure, a perfectly cromulent comedy. But for f-ck's sake it doesn't even belong in the top 50, and I LOVE Billy Wilder.

Annie Hall is also grossly overrated because it's a movie essentially made for film critics. It's good and my god that ending but again, not even top 50.
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I'd put City Lights ahead of The Great Dictator and close to Modern Times.
 
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Kepler said:
This list reinforces two things for me.

1. "Greatest" lists should not include anything released in the last 20 years. Half the movies since 1997 on that list will drop off it by that rule.

2. Some Like it Hot still fools critics on pure inter-generational momentum. It's a good comedy, sure, a perfectly cromulent comedy. But for f-ck's sake it doesn't even belong in the top 50, and I LOVE Billy Wilder.

Annie Hall is also grossly overrated because it's a movie essentially made for film critics. It's good and my god that ending but again, not even top 50.
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Leave it to you to rip two of the greatest films ever made. They both belong on the list. Whatever list it is. And Dumb and Dumber belongs on the list so that's the major flaw.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Leave it to you to rip two of the greatest films ever made. They both belong on the list. Whatever list it is. And Dumb and Dumber belongs on the list so that's the major flaw.
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FFS. It's not a "rip" to say a 7 is not a 10.
 
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