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- Review count8
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- First reviewJanuary 3, 2009
- Last reviewDecember 24, 2011
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edge of seat holiday stress relief
PostedDecember 24, 2011
i think its healthy to be on the edge of your seat an entire movie, burns up the holiday anxiety safely, good therapy to watch twists and turns in a plot, especially satisfying to know that TC does all his own stunts and is in magnificent shape doing them, entertaining, fun and has the good grace to make fun of itself, the beginning of the movie's burning fuse to the mission impossible theme song is very Bond like...Go, it's fun.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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converted sci fi hater
PostedJanuary 11, 2010
I resisted going to this movie as long as I could since (with the exception of Star Trek and Wars which are classics)...I generally dislike sci fi movies....and in the first few minutes of the movie I wondered why I fell for the hype, until Jake got his new Avatar "legs".....so moved by the beauty of this story I'm going to paint myself blue! Well done on so many levels, no wonder it took 12 years to make it! Perfection.
I recommend you go without knowing the story line, it's better that way, just sit back and enjoy it.
I recommend you go without knowing the story line, it's better that way, just sit back and enjoy it.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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it's complicated?
PostedJanuary 9, 2010
The past 2 years Meryl & Amy have been moving side by side & neck and neck thru various movie genres, even together as nuns & cooks, so I can't help compare their 2 romantic comedies out side by side: If you've seen "It's Complicated" a VERY funny movie well acted with NO chemistry between Meryl and Alec (blame that on Alec). In Leap Year, funny moments are more slapstick (flying shoes) compared to the brilliantly funny acting in It's Complicated. But the romantic chemistry in LY is classic and wins hands down over IC. The outcome in LY is more predictable but it feels good. It's the wry and twisted Irish humor that makes this special, a brand of wit that will put a crinkle in your smilin' eyes. Bring a date, married or not.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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underrated!
PostedJanuary 6, 2010
U see rugby & a politico on billboard as not compelling-poor marketing- a shame. Clint doesn't tell a cheap story. It's powerful & the most uplifting movie & I've seen 'em all. GO!
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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It's NOT Complicated
PostedJanuary 4, 2010
Nope, it's not complicated at all, it's just pure and simple, you WILL laugh at some point in this movie no matter who you are, a real tickler, funny is all you need to know.
You don't need to know the plot (twists) or the actors (top of the heap), just go and LOL.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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not for the unemployed
PostedJanuary 2, 2010
If you are feeling a little low from the holidays facing it bravely with no job and gasping for much needed cheap recreation, do not add this movie to your list of escapes. The fact that it hits home is a testament to its wry and dry capture of corporate culture and the systematic and rather cold severing of employees from their livelihoods and lifelines. On top of that throw in the looking glass of family dysfunctionality and grim existences and you will not leave feeling comfort and joy. The twist of events is not expected but is the right conclusion to send yet another moral message among the many in this very well told story. Clooney, Farmiga and Kendrick all nail it.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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not forest gump
PostedJanuary 4, 2009
This movie is just ok. It is most like Forest Gump than anything else, but not as well acted. In fact, there is no acting to speak of, just movement through the contrivances of time lived backwards. Brad Pitt offers nothing...if you compare to Tom Hanks in FG.
F Scott Fitzgerald would not have recognized the plot, but the changes made were to turn it on a positive spin since the book is less forgiving.
It is not an engrossing film but important to know its out there culturally or for talking movie trivia.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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KW is stunning
PostedJanuary 3, 2009
A simple ordinary housewife of the 50's bares to reveal true complexities of living the rules --for free spirits. A prison of apron strings and napkin folds build suspense.
Kate is brilliant in keeping questions alive, in shifting gears and persona faster than predictable.
Compare to Changeling where AJ delivers intensely provoked by obvious dark external forces. Admirable acting, but it feels like acting.
In RR, Kate spans an intense range. The dark forces are less obvious but spring from within. She doesn't act it:. She breathes the story.
None of it works without Leo's match range of counterpoint exchanges that dance throughout.
Segue: Her brief & fierce dance scene with "Shep" rivals Travolta's turn in PF.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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