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Guy takes family through dark alley: "I know where I'm going". Pretty much sums up the movie in the first scene. I didn't mind its silliness though.

Are you sure that you want every film about drugs and fraudulent practices become some kind of obvious moralizing lesson? That would be awfully repetitive, wouldn't it?

Sometimes it's stronger to let the audience draw its own conclusions.

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Yeah, I see what you mean, but I just saw the potential to be a movie almost like Network that criticise society like a satire. I still loved the film !

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I agree but my students all thought Scarface was so cool because they wanted to be Tony Montana. They made up their own minds, such as they were.

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The Wolf of Wall Street viewed to me like a celebration of excess. Yeah these guys were ripping people off, but they were getting rich off of duping rich people. They weren't violent. They were just a bunch of little boys with too much money having too much fun and we the audience get to have fun vicariously by watching the spectacle of it. I think any kind of preaching would have been very much out of place and would've taken me out of the movie.

I see it as very much being escapist cinema, and damn good escapist cinema.

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Yeah, I can agree with that I just have a certain discuss toward drugs so this is my fault ^^

It is a very good film for those of use who were born in the 80's. Before that movie all I had were some old 70's cartoons, Adam West (who I still like by the way) and a few comics with the lines read by video cassettes. Then this movie came out and gave to us what was at the time a dark and serious Batman movie. Then again this was the days before Batman the Animated Series and the Nolan Batman movies. So someone who goes from Nolan to Burton, I admit will be left wanting more. But to us who saw Burton first, we still have a nostalgic love for it.

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I actually saw Wolf of Wall Street again today. Still laughed my ass off! I felt Marty earned another viewing. Probably going to wait until I can buy it on DVD to see it again. If I watch a comedy too many times the jokes become too familiar and loose the edge.

Also just watched this.

Topic-wise it is like The Fly, but the atmosphere couldn't be further away from it. American Werewolf in London has a cooler, freshly comic way of dealing with things, while The Fly is more dramatic and shocking. I like them both very much, but in a different way. I would probably give it about the same rating as you gave it.

I also agree about the nurse. She was beyond charming.

If there was ever a short-story, or entertainment medium that so eloquently summarized a lot of my thoughts, fears, and worries, it'd be the Secret Life of Walter. I remember whenever I first read it in high-school, and honestly, there's a lot of books that don't mean anything to me that you read in school. I don't care about To Kill a Mocking Bird, I respect it, but I think Atticus is extremely likable, but I don't think it's one of the greatest stories out-there. The Great Gatsby is decent, Romeo & Juliet is one of the best tales ever thought of, in my opinion, but it was written by one of the most irritating authors in history. (Poetic brilliance is real easy to fake when doth thy sentence no ****ing sense make.)

And really, it isn't a matter of how well-written they are, or what they teach you, but the Secret Life of Walter Mitty meant a lot to me. A tale about a guy whose life may not have gone the way he wanted, but he still dreams and yearns for something more. It's sad and kind-of beautiful, but I really related. I'm the type of person who is extremely spacey, eccentric, and bizarre, I have had social-anxiety my entire life, and really, I feel like I've missed out on a lot of great things as a result. It pisses me off, but I always imagined different, imagined what would have happened if I would have done this or this, and I hope for something more.

That's why I love the short-story, and when I found out about the movie, I was excited. I saw it was Ben Stiller. Ehh, .... No, I'm still excited! Negative critic reviews? Still excited.

I saw it. I loved it.

You can dissect a movie until it means nothing, you can throw around witty terms like commercialism or phoniness, or you can talk about symbolism, foreshadowing, or other literary terms, but those people can also go **** themselves, because an opinion is only worth the individual. There are movies we like, movies we don't like, and there are different reasons for all of them. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was cheesy, spectacular, over-the-top, and there's a lot of things that I would have done differently. However, it's what they did right which made me like the movie, the cinematography was absolutely amazing, it's seriously some of the finest visuals around, but Ben Stiller plays his character with a certain charm that I appreciated. An awkwardness that remains awkward through and through, even when the time comes to be something, it doesn't unravel like an uncanny transformation, because there is no transformation, he finds a way to live life. A lot of people mocked it for being motivational, which isn't even a bad thing. I liked it. It was funny, over-the-top, but had heart, which were some of the main-elements in the short-story, and was what I related to.

@McConnaughay, that was a great review man and I can definitely relate to what you are saying. Glad to hear that you really enjoyed the film, I'm definitely going to check it out later on as flawed as it might end up being.Cheers

I've had the hots for that chick for years; probably my first celebrity crush; I was 10 when I saw it in 1981.

The Godfather Part 3-as imperfect The Godfather part 3 is I still think it is an absolutely incredible film and I am very happy that I finally watched it. I think its a brilliant conclusion to The Godfather saga.yes, sophia coppola's performance is bad, yes the film's plot is a bit convoluted...but i dont care.Its always extremely hard for the final part of a series to wrap everything up neatly and The Godfather 3 tries and succeeds.I can understand the criticism, but honestly it is a great film. +++

As much as I enjoy Jack Nicholson, I thought that his performance in this movie, along with the story itself crippled the film. They ruined almost everything that I appreciated in the comic, and honestly, I feel like Jack Nicholson could have taken a little more liberties, because when he does, we usually get something special. Instead, it felt like he played a clown, and not The Joker. I liked Michael Keaton though, he seemed antisocial, which is Batman, he's quiet and mysterious not because he chooses to be, but because it seems to happen naturally. This isn't my way of justifying the lack of depth to the Batman character in the movies, in-fact, that's one of the terrible blasphemies in film. The first time that Batman demonstrated emotion in a movie was Batman Begins, vocally, I mean. He had emotion in The Dark Knight, but it was more symbolism, and facial-features. The best speech that I ever saw from Batman in an entertainment medium was in Batman: Arkham Origins for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Simply because he got pissed off, which isn't something you usually see.

I went to see Hobbit II. It was long. Like Return of the King, it was just too much. Peter Jackson has no concept of Less is More. When I first saw Return of the King, in the theater, I fell asleep. I didn't do this in Hobbit II - but if I had, that would have been okay. A nap is okay in Hobbit II. I mean, fantastic production is one thing, but running on and on and so far from the source material - tiresome.

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I thought I was the only one who felt that way about the nurse in American Werewolf.

Yesterday I saw both American History X and Candyman for the first time.

I thoroughly enjoyed American History X and thought it was a powerful story, although the only thing I would criticise is that a lot of the characters feel forgotten about as the film goes on and I felt the story was left somewhat incomplete because of this. Nevertheless, I liked it and would recommend you see it if you haven't already done so.

As for Candyman, I'd heard good things about this film and I know many people consider it a "classic' of its era. My personal opinion is that it is a very bland film. I thought there were a lot of plot holes and I have genuinely seen films meant for children that I've found more unnerving than this film. Now I am not one who just lists the negatives without backing it up with some possitive criticism, but I just didn't like this movie at all.

American History X - 7.5/10

Candyman - 2/10


Andy

I liked Candyman better than X but whatever. Belated welcome to the site.

Each to their own. And thanks

Disaster Movie




Pretty apt title.

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