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- Review count11
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- First reviewDecember 29, 2009
- Last reviewJune 8, 2012
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Please Stop Talking
PostedJune 8, 2012
garybeac
from Chapel Hill, NC
Age:55 to 64
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
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This was a sorry jumble of half-baked plot devices and hack writing. It would have been better as a silent movie because the imagination of a 10-year-old could have come up with a better story for the excellent cinematography and special effects.
Cons bad acting, too complex, slow, scientifically dumb, too much exposition
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Evolution
PostedFebruary 11, 2012
We promote Darwin as a means of enlightening the religiously intolerant, but evolution per se is a chronologically and geologically vast reality that cannot easily be comprehended, especially not by the willfully ignorant. In contrast, Freud and Jung proposed evolutionary models of human consciousness that can be demonstrated and experienced in real time. Young people should be taught psychology as well as evolutionary biology. (But never sociology. Fire all sociologists!)
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Not Again!
PostedOctober 14, 2011
Hollywood gives birth to yet another political conspiracy story in which the bad guys are corporations and bankers. They make up stories that affirm the views of the 22% of our population that just can't accept the fact that free-market capitalism works. I'm staying home until Hollywood makes a political conspiracy movie in which urban community organizers and union bosses who control Hollywood and TV get a moron elected president and then use him to fleece the country with bogus healthcare schemes and so-called environmentalist pork-barrel projects.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Those who forget history...
PostedSeptember 10, 2011
This is a disturbing fictionalization of history, because the truth would have afforded real insight. In fact, the Butcher of Birkenau (Josef Mengele) eluded both capture and justice and died of natural causes, surrounded by family and friends. This movie is a fantasy intended to re-dedicate older American and European audiences to the cause of Israel as a Jewish homeland, a fervor which is waning in the face of a two-front war in the Middle East. The unintended value of this movie is as a view into the Baby Boomers' desperate last grasps at validation.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Sophomoric
PostedJune 13, 2011
Like most fully adult film buffs, we long ago quit going to Allen movies. We were suckered into seeing this stinker by the user reviews stars, because people who still go to Allen movies obviously have no discernment. It is harder to say which is worse, his film-school writing or his made-for-TV directing. It is an existential crisis in a thimble, and it is hard to know which is more pathetic, Allen's cliched jokes or anyone who still laughs at them. Like all Allen's work of the past two decades, this film will be free on cable in less than a year, so save your money and don't watch it then.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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As Bad As You Suspect
PostedFebruary 12, 2011
Some might think this film is dreamlike. They must have really boring dreams. I took three 10-year-old girls, and they wanted to leave after 15 minutes. Finally, two of them fell asleep and the third, my daughter, just sat there glaring at me.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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A Mormon Tale
PostedDecember 27, 2010
This is a story about humility and leadership. A call to authority is nothing more than a call. If the called merely accepts it, he or she will never be more than a space holder and, very likely, become an arrogant fool to boot. It's in the nature of all who are called to authority. If, however, the called has the humility to struggle against his or her nature in order to rise to that calling, then he or she may become the Lord's Anointed.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Liberal Fantasy
PostedSeptember 25, 2010
According to an urban legend, a tire company bought and then suppressed the formula for a tire that never wears out so that they could keep selling us new tires. This movie hinges on an updated version of that myth, retreaded as fusion energy suppressed by big-oil investors. Paranoid liberals will love this film. They can sit in the dark (literally) and watch capitalism confess its sins and then commit suicide (literally). This film ends up being the best argument against the bailouts. You really want to see these guys go broke; not because of who they are but because they're such lousy actors. Don't worry if you can't follow the incessant stream of calculations and rationales; like the directing, they don't add up. Borrrrrrrring!
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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BORRRRRRRRRRRRING
PostedApril 9, 2010
This is a made-for-TV movie that you'd walk out on in your own home. The people who made this movie are so full of themselves that there's no room left in there for an insight, and much less for wit.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Get Over It
PostedApril 9, 2010
Liberal Brits just can't accept that Labour PM Blair agreed with George Bush's assessment of the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan--WMD's were never why we went in. Now Brown and Obama are also following Bush's lead, so there's nowhere for liberals to go except B-grade fantasies like this to see a history that they want to believe. GET OVER IT LOSERS!
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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