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Run Fatboy, Run
A cliche-filled rom-com/sports-com with cheap sit-com beats, gross-out gags, sappy crap and odd bits here and there. It is 100% predictable, but is saved by the perormances and the weird little bits of writing. Simon Pegg is simply charming. Thandie Newton is a stunner, Hank Azaria is a douchebag and Dylan Moran is awesome as the "kooky friend". No where near great, but a fun little film. 6.9/10 (not quite a full 7)
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Blindness (2008)
Perhaps the most under-appreciated film of the year, and it just opened last night. A majority of the reviews are scathingly negative, and with no real reason behind them. The directing is superb; the camera work and cinematography are masterful. The soundtrack is simple, yet highly effective. The acting, while not entirely award-caliber, is very close to it. And the social relevance and messages backing this film? Incredible. Just incredible. I loved every second of it. As disturbing, and disgusting, and vile, and rotten, and inhumane, and immoral, and every other adjective and word like these, as it is... I loved it. I think the fact that it was so disturbing turned off a lot of critics. But that was the point. It moved me. I really do think it's a modern Salo: 120 Days of Sodom. |
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Los Tres Entierros de Melquiades Estrada
I could just write the English title, but for some reason I like it better in Spanish. Beautiful movie too.
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Um...Nick? Norah? Yeah, I think your Juno is showing. Might want to get that looked at guys. I didn't go into this expecting much, but my girlfriend wanted to see and and I thought it could be kind of cute - it isn't. The leads have zero chemistry, the humor relies pretty much solely on stale, running gags and the plot was just an absolute mess. It's like they had 2-3 different stories to tell and didn't know where to go with any f them...but shot the movie anyway. Not a good movie in any way. It really, really wants to be Juno, but fails miserably.
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Dead and Gone (2008)
>>: D Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) My most favorite Kubric film. >>: A+ Subterano (2002) >>: C- Death on the Nile (1978) >>: B
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