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Slept through most of American Hustle the other day. It was ok.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Slept through most of American Hustle the other day. It was ok.
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Yep, this is exactly how I felt. The love for that movie was largely overrated imo and I'd guess stemmed from Hollywood's love affair with Lawrence, Adams, and Cooper.

It was ashamed. It was an interesting story and the first minute of it was hilarious and I thought a sign of things to come. But it felt like two hours of flatness absent of the spirit and strong soundtrack of Russell's other flicks.
 
The Wind Rises
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A Hayao Miyazaki movie. All I got to say is it didn't disappoint. %89 on RT but **** that I give it 10/10.
 
I saw "Tammy". It was meh.

Melissa mccarthy was the supossed star of the movie but susan sarandon stole the show and was the best thing about the movie
 
Dang, y'all are super wrong about American Hustle. One of the best and funniest movies I've seen in forever.

Dat Science Oven Doe.
 
cowhide said:
Just saw planet of the apes today.
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Gonna see that next week. Looks awesome and got great reviews.

What did you think of it?
 
QuinSnydersHair said:
If you like foreign films, I highly recommend this. Great detective film but it's really more one about discovery. I would hope Hekate and some other Turks would have seen this already and I'd like their thoughts on it. It is long and methodically slow but it works. For some it didn't, hence the lower user ratings on RT. 93%/73% RT. 7.8 imdb.
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Hmmm, sounds like a solid reco. Will definitely watch.

LogGrad98 said:
Slept through most of American Hustle the other day. It was ok.
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Duder, that movie is not all that, to be sure, but I think you've got a mild case of narcolepsy. Seriously.

QuinSnydersHair said:
It was ashamed.
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An American teacher at his best.

UGLI baby said:
Dang, y'all are super wrong about American Hustle. One of the best and funniest movies I've seen in forever.
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Oof.

HighlandHomie said:
The Man Who Knew Too Little
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fishonjazz said:
With bill murray?
funny *** movie
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Nah, poster was talking to UGLI regarding his previous post.
 
I recently saw this in the theater.

Ida (2014)

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What a stunning piece of work. An absolutely beautiful movie. I mean, you watch it and you think you're seeing a moving photography exhibit. Shot in 1:33 (4:3) it's images were more photographs than they were cinematic film. The sound was impeccable. The movie just blew my mind. Man. I can still see some of the images in my mind.

Anyway...

Poland 1962. Anna is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her mother's sister Wanda. Her aunt, she learns, is not only a former hard-line Communist state prosecutor notorious for sentencing priests and others to death, but also a Jew. Anna learns from her aunt that she too is Jewish - and that her real name is Ida. This revelation sets Anna, now Ida, on a journey to uncover her roots and confront the truth about her family. Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery of each other and their past. Ida has to choose between her birth identity and the religion that saved her from the massacres of the Nazi occupation of Poland. And Wanda must confront decisions she made during the War when she chose loyalty to the cause before family.
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94% on RT


I also watched at home the following 2 films.

Badlands (1973)

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I had never seen this but made a note of it a few months back to watch it. I'm glad I did. The pace of the movie was different but the movie was very American if that even makes sense. The acting was almost detached in my opinion but I guess that plays to the psyche of the characters. I can see why Sheen went onto be who he is. He was addicting in this movie.

Shots were beautifully composed but I thought the sound was horrific. Maybe it was my copy, which surprisingly was Criterion. I would definitely see it to see how far Mr. Malick has come.

98% on RT

Badlands is a 1973 American crime film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri are also featured. Malick has a small speaking part, although he does not receive an acting credit. The story, though fictional, is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958, though such a basis was not acknowledged when the film was released. It was the feature film debut of Charlie Sheen.
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Sleeper (1973)

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Also from 1973. Absolutely ****ing loved it. The acting, the references, set design, Keaton. All of it. It's not a fall over your seat laughing movie, but it was super ****ing funny. The content was not as meta as it was in that other Allen movie I posted about. Love and Death.

In 1973, health-food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) enters the hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. When he expires on the operating table, Miles' sister requests permission to cryogenically freeze her brother's body. After 200 years, Miles is unwrapped by a group of scientists and awakens to a brave new world of deadening conformity, ruled with an iron fist by a never-seen leader. Miles is forced to flee for his life when the scientists -- actually a group of revolutionary activists -- are overpowered by the leader's police. He eludes the cops by pretending to be an android, and in this guise is sent to work at the home of Luna (Diane Keaton), a composer of greeting cards who thinks that the world of the future is perfect as it stands. There's more, but why spoil your fun? Sleeper is the most visual of Woody Allen's earlier films, and demonstrated a more pronounced rapport between Allen and his off- and onscreen leading lady Diane Keaton than had previously existed. The Dixieland score is performed by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
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ONE HUNDRED PRECENT on RT
 
Saw Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Very good movie
 
VINYLONE said:
Sleeper (1973)

Also from 1973. Absolutely ****ing loved it. The acting, the references, set design, Keaton. All of it. It's not a fall over your seat laughing movie, but it was super ****ing funny. The content was not as meta as it was in that other Allen movie I posted about. Love and Death.
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I saw Ida last week. It is magnificent.

Yes, everyone should watch Badlands at some point. Terrific movie, been a while since I've seen it, but it's easy to picture Sheen in my mind. Doesn't seem like it should be such a unique movie looking from the outside-in, but I remember being highly original. For that reason, I could see some people hating it, I reckon.

I have not seen Sleeper, I will watch that one soon.
 
Planet of the Apes. If you liked the first one you will like this one. Very good minus 2 characters that were really dumb and created conflict just so the plot could progress a certain way. Still loved it.
 
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Solid movie that had me intrigued. I still don't know what the hell happened exactly though. I really liked Rourke in it and it made me think what his career could've been if he wasn't so experimental. Deniro looked cool but wasn't in it much and was hot and cold acting-wise imo. Bonet was hot. I remember when the film came out, they almost rated it X, I believe, but then went with R. Not sure which version I even saw last night (I would imagine the R) but it definitely had some graphic sex and sacrifice scenes.
 
I saw Neighbors. Pretty damn funny
 
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I just finished Kubrick's The Killing from 1956. Great, great film. 97%/92% RT. 8.1 imdb. It's a race track robbery movie and it feels like Reservoir Dogs and something else I can't quite place, a bit. It's crazy how old this movie feels (DO NOT let that scare you) and how just twelve years later, this same director did something as magnificent as 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'd give it a 9/10.
 
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