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*frinspar* 
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 Posted: January 20 2015 at 15:25 |
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Buddy's TV. I assumed it was DVD.
Of course, now that I look I see that it's not being released until the 3rd, so I'm guessing he acquired it through shadier channels. I don't buy many Blu-rays, but that one is on my short list. It had very little in the way of plot, but entertained me greatly throughout. |
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TeleStrat
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 16:02 |
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Retired Extremely Dangerous I enjoyed it mainly for the great cast - you gotta love Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich). I have also liked Mary-Louise Parker (R.I.P.D.) since the cable series Weeds even though I stopped watching after season four. Red 2 was slightly less entertaining and my son told me there might be a Red 3. I believe this may have been Ernest Borgnine's last film role.
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Atavachron
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 20:28 |
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^ the cast was great to see together, always nice to see Mirren, Borgnine was a neat surprise and yeah, Malkie was completely awesome-- "Old man my ass".
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Atavachron
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 04:15 |
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Lucy
Writer/director Luc Besson brings us his take on the Ten Percent of Brain Myth combining elements of Carrie and The Bionic Woman with Scarlett Johansson the unwilling recipient of a super-drug that allows her high mental function including time travel, mind reading, matter manipulation and all number of cosmic insights. If the rest of the movie didn't look like a John Woo flick we might've had something really good, but as it is, Lucy is as much about body count as it is effective storytelling. |
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Walton Street
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 07:11 |
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I really enjoyed it ... a long time fan of Besson, and he does threaten to lose me at times in some of his later movies but then manages to reel me back in every time. I know he's overly stylistic but i'm a sucker for 95% of it. I saw it as more of a high tech Altered States
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TeleStrat
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 10:24 |
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) starring Liam Neeson, written and directed by Scott Frank.
The movie takes place in late 1999 with Neeson playing Matt Scudder, a former alcoholic New York detective turned unlicensed private investigator ("I sometimes do favors for people and they reward me with gifts"). Scudder is asked by a fellow alcoholic to look into the kidnapping of his brother's wife. When he finds out the brother is a heroin trafficker he declines the case but changes his mind after hearing a tape of the woman's torture and murder. Scudder soon learns that the kidnappers have targeted other drug dealer's families and brutally murdered the victims even after receiving the ransom. This is not an action movie but a dark thriller. Most scenes are at night but even during the few daytime scenes it is grey, overcast and raining. To me, the excellent cinematography, writing and directing keeps this movie from becoming just another typical crime drama. |
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 13:02 |
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The Occidental debut of Park Chan-wook, best known for the Vengeance Trilogy, represents a somewhat modernized take on the American gothic horror story with its tale of a hopelessly dysfunctional upper-class family in the Southeastern US. It manages to hit just the right balance between psychological realism and nightmarish surrealism, with a well-constructed constantly twisted plot that gets pretty damn disturbing despite not containing anything as extreme as what Park used to direct back on his Korean home turf. The visual style seems to be channelling Hitchcock at his finest, with some odd stylized flourishes that remind me a bit of not just Park's previous work in Oldboy and Lady Vengeance but also his countryman Kim Ki-duk.
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TeleStrat
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 13:51 |
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Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick - 1987
I hadn't watched this movie in quite awhile until I saw it on the cable guide last night. I liked the idea of making the movie's first half about basic training in the states and the second half about Vietnam during the 1968 Tet offensive. I think that gave the viewer a fuller perspective of being draft age in the mid sixties. I wasn't crazy about the soundtrack but knowing Kubrick I'm sure he chose those songs for a reason. The exceptions were Hello Vietnam opening the film and Paint It Black during the closing credits.
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Walton Street
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Posted: January 23 2015 at 07:05 |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
slowly working my way through the series
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presdoug
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Posted: January 23 2015 at 08:47 |
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Star Wars, the original film. Quality entertainment, and ahead of it's time. I'd only seen it once before, and that was a long, long time ago, in a theatre far, far away.
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Posted: January 23 2015 at 09:44 |
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Walton Street
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Posted: January 24 2015 at 11:49 |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I've arched the series a few times with my kid. 1st as they were in the theatre and then again at least twice on DVD. Each time I had a tough time liking this one of the series... it was radically different in style from the first two made under Chris Columbus and i guess i couldn't adjust to the edgier feel. This time however, i quite liked it. I guess i just had to get the expectations out of the way and accept this as it was. Just surprised it took so long.
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Posted: January 25 2015 at 02:07 |
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Went to see Ex Machina a few days ago. The screenplay was written by Alex Garland who also wrote/adapted 28 Days Later and The Beach as well as the very underrated film Never Let Me Go. Very interesting film that plays a little bit on the legacy of Blade Runner but then does very much its own thing. Slow moving film it never gathers any great pace but the beauty of it lies in not knowing where its going. Enjoyable and a bit different.
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Posted: January 25 2015 at 19:13 |
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been laid up with a bad back since noon saturday so i did a marathon and finished the last 4 Harry Potter films
Then i watched A Walk Among the Tombstones. good film
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Posted: January 25 2015 at 19:20 |
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Posted: January 25 2015 at 19:23 |
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I watched it a few days ago. I liked the fact that Liam Neeson's character was not a highly skilled former CIA operative like his character in the Taken films. Scudder was a down and out former cop living alone and going to AA. He was vulnerable and operating outside the law.
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Posted: January 25 2015 at 20:18 |
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Posted: January 25 2015 at 22:39 |
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Posted: January 25 2015 at 23:55 |
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^I've seen all of the Jesse Stone movies and I follow Blue Bloods.
He never breaks into a big toothy smile but occasionally the corners of his mouth curl up.
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