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Great movie indeed^^

Rating: + 8.5 / 10

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

This film falls in the category of Disney movies which just never lifts off. It stays on this weird middle ground, with a beginning and an end, and a fine message, but it just never seem to develop properly or change its pace or characters much. It relies heavily on atmosphere and intimacy, and it somehow succeeds; but to me, this will in the end just stand as forgettable, whicy might also be the reason why I remembered nothing about it since watching it a few years back.

Stitch is pretty awesome though, the animation is nice and fresh from Disney, but that's about it. Rest is too thinly drawn to get my attention and this movie probably will stand as "the odd one out" in the Disney crowd...

Laputa: Castle in the Sky -

Watching Laputa felt like I was watching a sort of highlight reel of Miyazaki concepts and picking apart what he'd reuse and refine in later films. While that is a little distracting at times, this is otherwise a solid work with a typically fantastic and charming story full of cartoonish comedy, impressive action sequences (naturally involving a lot of flying and being in the air), poignant drama and a great background score. While it's ultimately not one of Miyazaki's better films, it's definitely worth a shot.

Also, I do have to wonder if the makers of Futurama were inspired to base the character of Mom off the grouchy old female pirate whose henchmen all refer to her as Mom.

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 6/10

Decent popcorn flick but I was underwhelmed given the amount of hype I'd seen for it. I'd rank it among the better of the Marvel Cinematic films; the fight scenes were definitely cool, though despite the film being 135 minutes long you didn't get to see a whole lot of action, and I feel that too much of the screen-time was devoted to pretty predictable exposition and plot twists.

Horrible Bosses 2

Hilarious movie. I don't often say this about movies, if it makes me laugh I'm happy. What makes the two Horrible Bosses movies great, is that you have the main trio who have decent chemistry, but the movie is filled with fantastic actors who play cameo roles and blow you away. Perfect example here is Chris Pine, whom in this film blew me away. Jennifer Aniston is absolutely amazing in every way, and I look forward to every scene she appears in for multiple reasons

8/10

Went The Day Well? (1942)

British war movie telling the story of an English village threatened with a nazi invasion. I found surprisingly hard-hitting with unexpected violence and at times quite chilling. Quite heavy on propaganda but this was a hidden gem for me.

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Rio Conchos (1964)

With a little more style and a better musical score, this could've been great. It's entertaining and the cast does a great job. From the top 100 Westerns list; I would recommend this to fans of the genre.

Being There (Ashby) - 6/10 - I've always been a fan of Hal, and seeing someone else recommend this film gave me that extra motivation to watch this before my queue of a hundred films.

This film started out great, but the novelty wore off the further it got, as everything worked so perfectly. Still a movie to watch. It's hard to describe it without giving spoilers..

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Rock 'n' Roll High School - (Camp rating: )

A very loose throwback to the teenage rebel kind of exploitation movie where a Ramones fangirl butts heads with an extremely strict high school principal who's working to ban music like the Ramones. Naturally, the Ramones themselves show up before too long and, well, plot's not terribly important here. As a comedy it's pretty hit-and-miss - there's a lot of absurd humour on display, especially involving the Nazi-like principal and her underlings, but then there are some gags that don't really pan out (such as the whole sub-plot involving the main character's geeky best friend and the socially inept jock). The Ramones' musical numbers are also of debatable quality, though it'll depend on how much you like them to begin with.

It was a re-watch kind of day. Not often I get to watch three movies in one day, let alone on a Tuesday, let alone that I decide to do all re-watches. Besides my American Hustle commentary with Raul. I did a double feature that I have been wanting to do for a while. The first movie I have only seen once, and it was at least fifteen years ago. I wanted to re-watch it to confirm its place on my 60's list. The second I saw a bunch in High School. It is in my 100, but deserved a long over due re-watch. Never watched these together. Very different movies despite having one central character. I enjoy both but one is just a little more in my wheel house due to Cruise's character and the sharp dialogue.

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I had a very different reaction to those 2 movies. I'd give
The Hustler which I consider one of the greastest films I've seen on personal relationships and what a person must give to win

The Color of Money and that's generous. The film didn't work for me at all. It was just Tom Cruise hamming it up.

I love that the movie is about both of them. Their relationship is great. One of the first things that struck me watching them together is in the The Color Of Money when Eddie states that Vincent reminds him of him. I thought to myself, really, because I didn't get that at all in The Hustler. I would have liked to see more of that. Its great, don't get me wrong, I just didn't get enough of the character.

Watching Eddie see how it feels to be on the other side of the con in The Color Of Money is fantastic. Starting with the scene with Whitaker which is my favorite of the movie.

That's what makes movies so personal. One person can find a connection in a movie that others did not.

What I really connected with was the storyline of the dysfunctional relationship between Paul Newman and Piper Laurie. To me that was more important the pool playing part. Of course the crux of The Hustler was what Newman sacrificed to win, which ultimately involved the relationship story.

I should really add The Hustler to my top favorite 10.

I was all in the second half. When Newman, Piper, and Scott are all together. It dragged a bit for me through the first half though. All in all real good movie. I will be shocked if I end up with 25 better than it for my 60's list.

X-Men: Days of Future Past -

Eh, it's a slightly above-average superhero movie. Now time to look up the film's questionable developments and massive plot holes. Imagine how annoyed I'd have been if I'd actually watched any of the X-Men films between X2 and First Class.

Don't Say a Word 2001

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It's an amazingly well directed film, though. Even though Scorsese made the film mainly for the money, you can see that he had a lot of fun with it.


(the shot starting at 1:44 is simply awesome!)

Admittedly, the film is not as intense as The Hustler (which almost certainly will be on my '60s list), but it's a whole lot of fun to watch, in my opinion!

Also, Newman is awesome!

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I had seen them all and was nothing but relieved that they undid all of the terrible, God-aweful plot and character decisions that they decided on in those movies (especially in 3).

Also, Firat Class' content was left unaltered, so that would never have been an issue.

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The Two Jakes (1990)



Making a sequal to Chinatown was always going to be a difficult task and unfortunately proved too much for this. Nicholson will always be a great actor and great to watch but i really couldn't get into this. It felt too slow and started to drag in places. I still feel i have rated this too high but due to it's predecessor being an all time great, i'll give it some slack.