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Cape Fear(1991) - havent seen this original but this version is great. it felt like a modern Hitchcock movie very creepy with really good acting

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"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theater admission and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock

Lady in the Lake
1947 - Robert Montgomery


See Ride the Pink Horse instead.

(By the way, does anyone know of any other films shot in the first-person POV? I'm pretty sure there's a Bogart picture that did, but I can't think of the name right now. It's on the tip of my tongue. Holden?)

Dark Passage (1947 - Delmer Daves), starring Bogart & Bacall, utilizes that device for the first section of the film. Then the protagonist, his face shown in a couple mirrors and a newspaper headlines when he is the first-person camera perspective, gets cosmetic surgery, and when the bandages are removed he looks like Bogie for the rest of the film.

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

Interesting. Is there some strange reason behind this? Were they unable to get him do the whole film?

Anyway:
Panic Room
2002 - David Fincher

A Boy and His Dog, B+
1975 - L.Q. Jones

The Front, B
1976 - Martin Ritt

No. It's a storytelling technique.

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) 5/5

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Shaun of the Dead, UK, 2004, gosh, is that movie funny! good for the morale of the troups, like we say.

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We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.

Fight Club -- love this film so much and i love looking at it from different perspectives; sociological, philisophical etc. because there are so many levels and factorsa to consider about this film and the characters. I love the style, the dialogue and the themes of this film. Fantastic.

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Undercoverlovers 100 REDUX

All the President's Men
1976 - Alan J. Pakula


Zatoichi
2003 - Takeshi Kitano

A Lot Like Love A lot better than I thought it would be. 3/5

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"Like all dreamers, Steven mistook disenchantment for truth."

spanglish...surprisingly well acted and well written story about a troubled marriage and a housekeeper and her daughter who come into their lives....

Fantastic Voyage
The opening credits are awesome. The whole movie is awesome. All around awesome-ness.

Is Tora! Tora! Tora! any good?

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, C
2005 - Garth Jennings


I was planning to go see Kung Fu Hustle, but the ticket cutter wouldn't let me in because of the "R" rating, and I, being fifteen. What has the world come too these days...


F*cking MPAA.

I watched Primer again, this time with the commentary on. It is still a very good film only this time it made a lot more sense.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 - Garth Jennings

I wrote a worthless little review of it over in the reviews section.

It's any good but a bit dry. I think it would have gained from being either more drama or more drama-documentary, to me it's a bit caught somewhere in between.

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

It's got a groovy name but I don't think I'll be seeing it. Thanks.

Kikujiro
1999 - Takeshi Kitano


Sonatine
1993 - Takeshi Kitano

Jason X so bad that it was funny. everything about this movie was horrible. how could somebody make a movie this crappy