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- Review count90
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- First reviewJune 2, 2008
- Last reviewAugust 2, 2012
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- Average rating3.9
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really fine biopics
PostedOctober 16, 2010
This is a really enjoyable movie about the personalities behind Facebook. Briskly paced, interesting characters, all the acting is really good, the revelations are interesting, very good screenplay. Hotshot techies don't necessarily have people skills, and may be a**holes, but their stories can be fascinating, and they can succeed in spite of being jerks. Fictional but based on facts. Well, I guess this is the way the world can work. Very enjoyable movie!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Confusing and toothless
PostedOctober 7, 2010
Gordon Gekko is out of prison and itching ... for money, for influence, for reconciliation with his daughter. If you are well attuned to money matters, you may enjoy following the financial cat and mouse that goes on in the movie. But I found it all a bit confusing. Beyond that, certain events are improbable, and the happy ending is out of character. This movie is surprisingly toothless, for director Oliver Stone; it doesn't have much bite. But the principal actors are enjoyable to watch.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Surprisingly good
PostedSeptember 18, 2010
I really enjoyed all this movie, up to the end, which did not entirely satisfy me for some reason. All the performers, Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Sissy Spacek, Bill Cobbs and Gerald McRaney, are very fine. I had been afraid this would be another pat crotchety curmudgeon role for Duvall, but he steered clear of that by avoiding shtick. A very nice period piece, with an offbeat story. Well worth viewing.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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A good, gentle, sweet movie about young people
PostedSeptember 16, 2010
This is a very nice movie about junior-high aged young people. She turns ga-ga about him when a new boy's family moves in across the street. He hates her pursuit and back-peddles away as best he can. The years pass. Family issues intrude. The young people are intelligent and the movie avoids cutesiness. It is serious without being heavy. A gentle sweet movie about youngsters, akin in spirit to director Rob Reiner's earlier movie "Stand By Me." Very enjoyable.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Vey slow
PostedSeptember 2, 2010
This is a very slow movie, the opposite of an action flick. The American of the title is a tense, edgy man in the killing professions who is trying to make himself scarce in small hill towns in Italy. Is he crossing his handlers? Is the love interest genuine? You are kept guessing about whose motives are what. It's not a bad movie; it's just a very slow one, with not a whole lot going on.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Draggy, draggy
PostedAugust 26, 2010
The leads are nice, and there are some funny wisecracks. But this movie is really slow and draggy. The movie would be over a lot quicker if the Jason Bateman character would take the obvious step to solving the core problem. You wanna give him a push! Or a slap. <Yawn> Not much entertainment here, for the time spent.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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A fine intelligent movie
PostedAugust 12, 2010
This is the first intelligent movie of the summer. It's about time! This is a good story, with interesting personalities, not all of them likable, mixing and mingling in sometimes clumsy ways. An intelligent screenplay, with a story that is not pat and predictable. This is a movie about families. A lesbian couple has birthed and raised two teenage children. The older child, a daughter, is just about to leave to start college. Into this mix comes the biological father, albeit a formerly anonymous sperm donor, of both children. All the characters are rather interesting, with the exception of the son, who is given little to do. There is humor here, too; the wives can be so stilted and feel-good, sweety-goody. This movie is a treat, after all the mindless FX movies. Movie makers, give us a good story, not a CGI sensory assault!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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imaginative and too confusing
PostedJuly 29, 2010
This movie shows plenty of imagination in its story line and special effects. But the plot, of achieving a dream within a dream within a dream, for nefarious purposes, was one I could not begin to follow. I kept looking at my watch.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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5
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Another charmer but maybe not for the smallest fry
PostedJuly 5, 2010
This is another charmer from Pixar. This carries the sequence to the time the toys' owner has grown to the point of just leaving for college. What to do with those beloved toys?! I didn't think this story had quite the cleverness and whimsy of the first two, but it's still a charmer. But there are new mean toys, and toy perfidy, which may unsettle the youngest movie goers.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Not really enjoyable
PostedJuly 1, 2010
Kirk Douglas's character is a real heel. He is somewhat charming, and rascally, but his womanizing goes so far overboard that in a short amount of time he is turning his life into a train wreck. He offends, deeply, all those around him, those he needs and those who care about him. Actually, the acting in this movie if very fine, from all parties. But don't expect an epiphany and a feelgood ending. Too negative for me. No real fun here.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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