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New/Rented Movies: Have Mercy on Michael Bay's Soul, He Knows Not What He Does

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Finally saw The Great Escape. It is Good.
 
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duper said:
Finally saw The Great Escape. It is Good.
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Although not in years, I have seen that a few times. It always seemed to be playing on T-Day and my grandparents always had it on post-dinner (on tv, not tape, etc). Great movie. I should dial that one up again.
 
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I just watched Chasing Ghosts which is about many of the same people in King of Kong only it covers the story of all the original record holders and where they are now. Yeah...wow.

BTW Bill Mitchell is a ****** in this one too ;)
 
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Handyman said:
I just watched Chasing Ghosts which is about many of the same people in King of Kong only it covers the story of all the original record holders and where they are now. Yeah...wow.

BTW Bill Mitchell is a ****** in this one too ;)
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Added. Thank you.
 
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Tugs at the heart strings a bit, obviously. It could have been more though. I just can't shake that feeling.

Max Von Sydow still rules.
 
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Moneyball - For some reason I was convinced I wouldn't like this movie but I thought it was fantastic and very worthy of the high praise.

In A Better World - A Danish film that won best Foreign Language Film in 2011 from the Academy and Golden Globe. About two middle-school kids dealing with issues at home (one mother just died of cancer, the other parents going through a separation). One kid a potential trouble-maker, the other a shy nerd. It could nearly be called a foreign language version of American Beauty but not nearly as cynical nor devoid of sympathetic characters.

Osama - Filmed in the Pashtu language and winner of the 2004 Golden Globe for Best Foreign language film. Apparently it is the first movie to be made in a post-Taliban Afghanistan and inspired by a newspaper account about the efforts of a family of women whose men have all been lost to war and are having trouble earning money, so they dress up their 12-year-old girl as a boy so she can work. Heartbreaking with an intelligent ending.
 
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Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance

I liked the first one alot (for what it was) and was looking forward to this one. About all I can say is that minus a couple funny lines, it was similar to Michael J Fox filming an Oliver Stone acid-trip. Don't bother.
 
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Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance

I liked the first one alot (for what it was) and was looking forward to this one. About all I can say is that minus a couple funny lines, it was similar to Michael J Fox filming an Oliver Stone acid-trip. Don't bother.
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Yeah, it was shot pretty, but ick, the whole movie just didn't have any flow or continuation going on with it at all other than Nick Cage rides a bike and has a flaming skull sometimes. Had some potential, but dang, they should have scrapped it and came out with another scripted to shoot for it.
 
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Yeah, it was shot pretty, but ick, the whole movie just didn't have any flow or continuation going on with it at all other than Nick Cage rides a bike and has a flaming skull sometimes. Had some potential, but dang, they should have scrapped it and came out with another scripted to shoot for it.
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Shot pretty? It was shot horrible. And I thought The Blair Witch Project was filmed in a jumpy fashion. And I LIKED that movie.
 
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Shot pretty? It was shot horrible. And I thought The Blair Witch Project was filmed in a jumpy fashion. And I LIKED that movie.
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They got really fancy with the camera for a lot of the action shots, but it was distracting.
 
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They got really fancy with the camera for a lot of the action shots, but it was distracting.
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If fancy means shaky shots, and cutting angles/scenes every 3 seconds, I'll pass. For a movie like "Crank" etc, it works. Not this.
 
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I just watched Stanley Kubrick's Lolita. You can really tell the era in which it was made on a couple accounts. I expected it to be a bit grittier, based upon Kubrick's earlier works that I've seen (Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, and the Shining). Then I thought about it being his second movie and it made more sense. Also, the six-month pregnant Lolita takes a sip from a cup of coffee she had intended to drink in total, and accepts and begins drinking a beer only a couple minutes later.
 
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St. Clown said:
I just watched Stanley Kubrick's Lolita. You can really tell the era in which it was made on a couple accounts. I expected it to be a bit grittier, based upon Kubrick's earlier works that I've seen (Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, and the Shining). Then I thought about it being his second movie and it made more sense. Also, the six-month pregnant Lolita takes a sip from a cup of coffee she had intended to drink in total, and accepts and begins drinking a beer only a couple minutes later.
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One always has to think about the era in which a movie was made. For me, the original "Night Of The Living Dead" was indeed shocking, given when it was made. That was an outstanding movie, and horrific, if you take the era into account.
 
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I recorded the Sergio Leone/Eastwood man with no name trilogy today. I have watched Clint since I can remember (not only is my dad a huge fan but he's a spittin Doppleganger) but we all have classics that we've watched and classics that we've "watched" and there's a distict difference. I am only part-way through "For a Few Dollars More" but I've gained another level of appreciation for the films than I had before if that seems even possible given when they were made. Truly remarkable and they have far more depth than a cheap glance may provide.
 
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I recorded the Sergio Leone/Eastwood man with no name trilogy today. I have watched Clint since I can remember (not only is my dad a huge fan but he's a spittin Doppleganger) but we all have classics that we've watched and classics that we've "watched" and there's a distict difference. I am only part-way through "For a Few Dollars More" but I've gained another level of appreciation for the films than I had before if that seems even possible given when they were made. Truly remarkable and they have far more depth than a cheap glance may provide.
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Ditto, but until I got older, I couldn't appreciate what Eastwood's movies really were, and how good they were. As a little Billy/Johnny, they were just cowboy movies to me.
 
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Ditto, but until I got older, I couldn't appreciate what Eastwood's movies really were, and how good they were. As a little Billy/Johnny, they were just cowboy movies to me.
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Exactly the point I was trying to get at. Great movies and always engaging, but there was more depth than I recognized until fairly recently.
 
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Exactly the point I was trying to get at. Great movies and always engaging, but there was more depth than I recognized until fairly recently.
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Too bad he had to rip off Akira Kirosawa for "A Fistful Of Dollars." ;)
 
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For me, the original "Night Of The Living Dead" was indeed shocking, given when it was made. That was an outstanding movie, and horrific, if you take the era into account.
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That movie completely blew people away. Very few movies have had that sort of effect, where they change minds about what a film can do.

I don't think there's any way to capture just how genuinely horrifying it was for audiences in that period. It may not actually be possible to horrify people anymore -- just shock them (if that's even possible).
 
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