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Death Proof
Boring boring boring. About 95% of the dialogue (and there was alot) was completely irrelevant which was exceptionally tedious and theres nowhere near enough payoff to reward the patience of the viewer. QT knows how to make great film, this wasnt it.
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Waltz With Bashir (2008)
A wholly unique aesthetic experience- documentary interviews with animated visual re-enactments. What is beautiful about the picture is that what is shown on screen always follows exactly what is learned through the interviews, even when the recounts contain elements of surrealism, distortion or haziness. Because the story is told in memory patches (and because, admitedly, I went in knowing nothing about the subject) I found myself lost in a series of images with no grip on reality; mostly this was intentional but I would have liked something more solid to have grasped onto. But when the ending came it hit me like a ton of bricks: poetic, haunting, sickening. The Gold Rush (1925) I like when friends haven't seen Chaplin films; it gives me a chance to see them again with a pair of fresh eyes- it's like Christmas morning. This one's a heartbreaker, a thrilling adventure, a work of comic genious. It's a totally unique work of art in which Chaplin poured every ounce of his heart and soul and the result is nothing short of stunning. The Tramp stumbles into the far North in search of gold, but success can never come easily; life lessons, often tragic, come to this stranger in the form of love-sickness and loneliness, and we come to pity this poor character so much that every disappointment he faces hits us square in the gut as well. Wonderfully colorful characters enter The Tramp's life as he makes his way through the treacherous snow- the men are always bigger, stronger and angrier than our little protagonist, and the women are hardly interested in little strangers with canes. The film is a visual treat, every scene enshrouded in the blank white atmosphere; sight gags including bears, mobile cabins, man-sized chicken hallucinations and boot-meals are sprinkled evenly throughout. Most special, though, is the amount of love Charlie brought to his character, a man who began as a simple comic dummy and over several decades became Chaplin's closest friend; the artist cares for his subject, and our emotional connection follows naturally. The movie's aura is frigid cold, but The Tramp keeps us warm with a welcome ease.
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Die Hard
As das as it is, I haven't seen this before. At least, not all the way through. It just strengthened my love of Alan Rickman's acting.
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(MAJOR SPOILERS) The movie kicks ass too...the name is referred to the amazing gun the hero uses. He makes it from assembling various guns together to make one, single motherfucking ass-kicking gun. You gotta see it to believe it, bud. ;) (END OF SPOILERS)
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Time Crimes. Pretty decent flick. The main character's motivtions are a little hard to believe at first, but it all comes together nicely in the end. Not as good as Primer, though, IMHO. Ashe.
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That's all fine and dandy, but can the dude KICK ass? Or can he only shoot em up?
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Really enjoyed it. Maybe too many characters were given too little air time but it pretty much did exactly what it said on the tin.
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