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127 Hours 9/10. Franco deserved an Oscar.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact - Meh. Now, I didn't go into this thinking it would live up to the visual and auditory experience of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but this was very disappointing. I think the idea of an expedition to study the remains of the first film was interesting. However, this film failed to capitalize on the mystery left behind by the events of 2001, and instead turned into something else. The ending in particular left me with a "WTF?" look on my face.Comment
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The Adjustment Bureau
For such an interesting premise, The Adjustment Bureau doesn't come close to milking its ideas for what they're really worth. Although it can be highlight that this film stooped to the level of becoming nothing more than a predictable romantic voyage, The Adjustment Bureau suffers from other faults.
Firstly, the film spends way too much time setting up for what is an abrupt and weak climax. Its sci-fi schemes contrast other successes like Inception, but whereas Inception created the world of the dream in a complex and dense structure while leaving just the right amount of mystery, the world of The Adjustment Bureau is simplistic to the point where not only can it be explained in less than five minutes, but it can be mastered even quicker. Any intrigue behind The Adjustment Bureau is negated its world's perfect understanding. Not just a story of fate, the film acts as an old age love at first site tale with a new age twist. Certainly fate is an enthralling enough subject, but the dialogue leaves both a lot to be desired while also leaving very little. Complexion is expected in material such as covered in The Adjustment Bureau, yet the dialogue is rarely more than the bare essentials and reveals practically everything behind the curtain of the bureau and its works.
Still, the film had potential even as a love story; however the film's surprisngly short time length rushes both the sci-fi elements and the human elements such as the love between the two main characters. Damon and Blunt have no problem creating chemistry, but their subjection to the audience is never more than what absolutely needs to be known. Sure, love at first sight can be argued, but ultimately the growth of their relationship is hidden and swept under the rug. Instead, a series of sarcastic conversations and make-out sessions combined with a sex scene attempt to act as building blocks to this troubled affair.
The film didn't come without positives as it offers a message against fate and in favor of being in control of your own destiny. Simply, it preaches that if you want something bad enough, it's yours to take or to lose.
Otherwise, The Adjustment Bureau is the first disappointment of 2011 with rushed developments, lack of any mystique behind its curious characters and never quite capture the sense of foreboding that was surely overtaking its lead from the moment following his unexpected discovery to the very end.
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One of the most suspenseful movies I've seen in awhile, plus alot of it was relatable IMO.Comment
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I saw Take Me Home Tonight. It would be a cool rental. It had some laughs, and if you're old enough to remember the old sound track you might find it really nostalgic. My sister would have loved the movie, she's 6 years older than me, but some of the 80's style was beyond my time. All in all it was ok.sigpic
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watched the sting. classic con movie
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I don't know why but they are starting to show a lot of sneak previews here on base. In two weeks they are doing a preview of The Conspirator. It stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Justin Long, and Alexis Bledel and it's about the only woman who was charged in the assassination of Lincoln. I'll probably go because it's freeComment
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Terrible movie is terrible.
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Goodfellas
still one of the greatest of all timeComment
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Paranormal Activity 2
Better than the first.
Got Daybreakers on Blu Ray. Stoked to watch Isabel Lucas try to act.
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That's my buddy, Barry! He used to be down the street from me.
Honestly, PA1 was my big break. I'd done mostly indie stuff before that.
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Wait, who the fuck are you?Comment
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