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I've owned all of the Vacation movies for around a decade and i only watched some of them last year. I liked Christmas Vacation more than you, not a favourite or anything but i thought it was pretty fun and liked it better than the first, not seen the other two. Like Force Awakens a bit more than you, i think i have just let go of my childhood star wars fanboy so my expectations going in aren't what they used to be and i think it's entertaining.

Sicko is something i'll never watch, i personally hate Michael Moore and i'm not good with medical stuff.



Sorry if I'm rude but I'm right
Make sure number one is some really kinky/sick/edgy stuff.
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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.



Make sure number one is some really kinky/sick/edgy stuff.
Well, since I'm reviewing movies I already watched two years ago, I can't really change the next review as I wish.

I guess it depends on how kinky you think Big Hero 6 is? I mean, it's not too far off being a potential porn title actually.

And the plot centers around a boy and his blow-up doll.



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MovieMeditation presents...
HIS FILM DIARY 2015
The year is no spelling mistake

total movie count ........... viewing day count
303 316 .......................... 361

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December 28th

—— 2014 ——
BIG
HERO
6
—— animation ——
DISNEY CLASSIC no.54

REWATCH
With ‘Big Hero 6’, Disney brings forward their duplicate effort
to the adopted sister studio, Pixar, and their major superhero success, The Incredibles’.


The two films are fairly different, but not drastically so, because they both deal with some of the same subjects, like family and individual differences, despite doing so in their own distinctive ways. The main reason why I think the comparison is credible, is because they both seem to aim for adventure, action and entertainment more so than previous films from the studios…

‘Big Hero 6’ doesn’t brake much new ground, yet the action-heavy and color-amplified cinema experience awards the audience with something fresh even so. I found the visuals and effects to create quite the ride, but even for all the action, the heart of the story was still very well drawn and felt rewarded and substantial. That has a lot to do with Baymax, where Disney once again succeeds in creating a character that is simple on paper but complex in personality, not unlike that of EVE, from ‘WALL·E’. The inflatable Baymax fills the room with a breeze of fresh air and expands upon the thematic beats of the story, which then collimates in the climax of the movie, where all the story elements merge together, like the microbots from the film. ‘Big Hero 6’ hails individualism, perhaps almost too openly, but thankfully the mystery plot keeps things a little more exciting throughout so the film doesn’t lose its breath completely.

I don’t know, to me this movie is just so easily accessible and with a character like Baymax to keep things afloat and my attention away from blatant story beats and generic character actions, I find this movie to be just fine – not too sappy and not too overblown. Because it is very much a Marvel flick in Disney clothing, so you kind of know what to expect already. It is more or less exactly how I would imagine a Marvel film would be, if Disney had their hands on it, so it was hard to be disappointed – especially since my expectations were rather low before watching it.






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THE END
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movies can be okay...
That's the only one of his films i like at all. Still have to see Polytechnique and Arrival though.
Late reply haha.

But I'm surprised you feel that way, since I like to believe he is one of the few currently working directors who are consistently good, I have pretty much seen all of his films except his directorial debut, and I wouldn't call any of them bad. I'm interested in knowing your thoughts on the films of his you dislike.
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"A film has to be a dialogue, not a monologue — a dialogue to provoke in the viewer his own thoughts, his own feelings. And if a film is a dialogue, then it’s a good film; if it’s not a dialogue, it’s a bad film."
- Michael "Gloomy Old Fart" Haneke



The end has come.

For anyone interested, I've updated my entire diary overview in the first post, which I quote here... You can click on the individual movie titles and see the review and rating for the given film.

I hope you enjoyed this. Thank you for following me on this journey!


FEATURING MOVIEMEDITATION IN...
"HIS FILM DIARY 2015"
or: HOW HE LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING
AND ONLY MAYBE WATCH ONE MOVIE PER DAY
BUT DEFINITELY MOST LIKELY WATCH A WHOLE LOT OF THEM
AND THEN POST ALL OF HIS THOUGHTS IN HOPE OF MOFOS
ACTUALLY WANTING TO CHECK IN ONCE IN A WHILE
AND MAKE MOVIEMEDITATION VERY HAPPY INSIDE

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CHAPTER ONE: IN WHICH MOVIEMEDITATION SURRENDERS

Okay, so after a rather inventive but eventually utterly failed attempt in creating a virtual singe-post-orientated movie diary, I have now surrendered at last, and given myself a proper thread to post in. I will most likely not be able to update this thread every single day, but more like once a week, and I will indeed also make a little overview in this post, so you will all be able to look back on my viewing habits and at what date I saw a specific film.

I aim to actually watch 1 movie per day, at the least, but it is not a total necessity as of yet. When I ultimately get deeper into it all as time passes by, then maybe I will realize that I have simply come too far to break the habit, without being a complete idiot. But as of right now, this is nothing but a simple, and yet rather awesomely applicable and passion-filled in-the-dark-glowingly stunningly classy and all-but-classified sensation of a true movie-lovingly film diary…
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CHAPTER TWO: IN WHICH HE POSTS HIS OVERVIEW

So here it finally is, ladies and gentlemen (or at least how it looks as of right now. I do wish I could predict the future and just write it all out for y’all, but you know...). Unfortunately, my original plan on watching one movie per day fell to pieces on Wednesday of July 16th. I never actually expected to finish the year, but I wanted to see how far I could get, and apparently that was the end of the line... Anyways, if you please, you can view all of the movies I watch and have already watched, simply slammed in there, right here right now, or you can also click on the individual links to look for in-depth thoughts and stuff. Everything will progress in here, and I promise that each update will be even more detailed, more passionate, and of course… more breathtakingly awesome than the last!

click links for reviews // * indicates rewatch

JANUARY

1. The Party (1968)*
1. Beauty and the Beast (1991)*
1. Predestination (2014)
2. Area 407 (2012)
3. Hellraiser (1987)
3. Rocky III (1982)
4. You’re Next (2011)*
5. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
6. Whiplash (2014)
7. Garden of Words (2013)
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)*
9. Whiplash (2014)*
10. Suspiria (1977)*
11. Pale Rider (1985)
12. Fury (2014)
13. Nightwatch (1994)
14. Birdman (2014)
14. Possession (1981)
15. The Night Stalker (1972)
16. Birdman (2014)*
17. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
18. The General (1926)
19. Boyhood (2014)*
20. Foxcatcher (2014)
21. Toy Story (1995)*
22. Toy Story 2 (1999)*
23. American Sniper (2014)
24. Toy Story 3 (2010)*
25. Zero Day (2003)
26. Audition (1999)
27. WALL·E (2008)*
28. Bad Boys (1995)*
29. Up (2009)*
29. Bad Boys II (2003)*
30. Nightcrawler (2014)*
31. The Haunting (1963)


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FEBRUARY

1. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
2. Cars (2006)*
3. Adam's Apples (2005)*
4. Klown (2010)*
5. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
6. Taken 3 (2014)
7. The Theory of Everything (2014)
8. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)*
9. Inherent Vice (2014)
10. Dances with Wolves (1990)
11. Crank (2006)*
12. Cars 2 (2011)
12. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
13. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
14. A Few Good Men (1992)
15. The Tree of Life (2011)*
16. Alyce Kills (2011)
17. Jackass: The Movie (2002)*
18. Jackass Number Two (2006)*
19. Jackass 3D (2010)*
20. Crank 2: High Voltage (2009)*
20. The Fast and the Furious (2001)*
21. Fargo (1996)*
22. Big Hero 6 (2014)
23. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)*
24. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)*
25. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
26. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)*
27. John Wick (2014)
28. Ivan's Childhood (1962)


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MARCH

1. Fast & Furious (2009)*
2. The Apartment (1960)
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
4. Fast Five (2011)*
5. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
5. Thank You for Smoking (2005)
6. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)*
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. Primer (2004)
9. The Imitation Game (2014)
10. Inherent Vice (2014)*
11. Batman Returns (1992)
12. The Kid with a Bike (2011)
13. Top Five (2014)
14. The Dark Knight (2008)*
15. Escape from L.A. (1996)
16. I Origins (2014)
16. Interstellar (2014)*
17. Bambi (1942)*
18. Superbad (2007)*
19. Winter Sleep (2014)
20. Alien (1979)*
20. The New World (2005)*
21. Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
22. Aliens (1986)*
23. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
24. Spirited Away (2001)*
25. Notorious (1946)
26. The Absent One (2014)
27. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
28. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
29. Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
30. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
31. The Shining (1980)*


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APRIL

1. The Virgin Spring (1960)
2. Furious 7 (2015)
3. Running Scared (2006)*
4. High and Low (1963)
5. Oculus (2013)*
6. Fantasia (1940)
7. Triangle (2009)*
8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)*
9. The Crow(1994)
10. Pinocchio (1940)*
11. Rocky IV (1985)
12. Dumbo (1941)*
13. Rocky V (1990)
14. Saludos Amigos (1942)
15. It Follows (2014)
16. The Avengers (2012)*
17. The Three Caballeros (1944)
18. Rocky Balboa (2006)*
19. First Blood (1982)
20. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
21. The Ruins (2008)
22. Wait Until Dark (1967)
23. Thir13en Ghosts (2001)*
24. The Equalizer (2014)
25. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
26. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)*
27. Starship Troopers (1997)*
28. Make Mine Music (1946)
29. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
30. Planet of the Apes (1968)


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MAY

1. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
2. Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)*
4. Rambo III (1988)
5. Time After Time (1979)
6. Children of Men (2006)*
7. Blade Runner (1982)*
8. Rambo (2008)*
9. Persona (1966)
10. Melody Time (1948)
11. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
12. Cinderella (1950)*
13. Death Proof (2007)*
14. Seven Chances (1925)
15. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
16. Monster (2003)
17. Paddington (2014)
18. Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003)*
19. Harakiri (1962)
20. Kill vol. 2 (2004)*
21. Basic (2003)
22. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
23. The Caller (2011)*
24. The Tree of Life (2011)*
25. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
25. Sinister (2012)*
26. Paths of Glory (1957)
27. Brazil (1985)
28. Peter Pan (1953)*
29. Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
30. Jacob's Ladder (1990)*
31. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)*


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JUNE

1. Snowpiercer (2013)*
2. Ashes and Snow (2005)
3. In Bruges (2008)
4. The Face of Another (1966)
5. Le Samouraď (1967)
6. Lady and the Tramp (1955)*
7. Still Alice (2014)
8. 1408 (2007)*
9. Paprika (2006)*
10. Jurassic World (2015)
11. Sleeping Beauty (1959)*
12. Gunbuster (1988)
13. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)*
14. Hugo (2011)*
15. The Sword in the Stone (1963)*
16. The Usual Suspects (1995)*

— END OF ONE MOVIE PER DAY —

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JULY

5. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)*

8. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
9. Before Sunrise (1995)*
10. Home (2015)
11. Live and Let Die (1973)
12. The Rock (1996)*
13. 21 Jump Street (2012)*
14. Face/Off (1997)*

17. Con Air (1997)*
18. 22 Jump Street (2014)*
19. Final Destination (2000)*
20. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
21. The Third Man (1949)
22. Furious 7 (2015)*
23. Before Sunset (2004)*

25. Killer Joe (2011)
26. Before Midnight (2013)*
27. The Blues Brothers (1980)
28. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
29. The Poker House (2008)
29. Drag Me to Hell (2009)*
30. Life of Pi (2012)*
31. The Killer (1989)


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AUGUST

1. The Beyond (1981)

4. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
5. Rush Hour (1998)*
5. Rush Hour 2 (2001)*
6. Rush Hour 3 (2007)*

8. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)*
9. The Fly (1986)*
9. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)*

11. The The Hustler (1961)
11. The Jungle Book (1967)*
12. Birdman (2014)*
13. Freaks (1932)
14. The Outsiders (1983)
14. Corpse Bride (2005)*
15. Backcountry (2014)
16. National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

19. [·REC] (2007)*
20. Ghost World (2001)
21. Wolf Children (2012)*
21. Quarantine (2008)*

24. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)*

28. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)*
29. Bob le Flambeur (1956)
29. The AristoCats (1970)*

31. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)*


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SEPTEMBER

1. Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)*

4. Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)*

6. Django Unchained (2012)*

8. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
9. Wrong Turn (2003)*
10. Take Shelter (2011)*
11. Daredevil (2003)*
12. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

14. Everest (2015)

16. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
17. Boulevard (2014)
18. Magnolia (1999)*
19. Robin Hood (1973)*

21. San Andreas (2015)
22. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)*

24. Platform (2000)

26. Terminator: Genisys (2015)
27. Inherent Vice (2015)*
28. Ted (2012)*
29. Baraka (1992)


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OCTOBER

1. The Rescuers (1977)*
1. Maggie (2015)
1. The Gold Rush (1942)*

3. Insidious Chapter 3 (2015)
4. Jurassic World (2015)*
4. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
5. The Fox and the Hound (1981)
6. Southpaw (2015)
7. The Black Cauldron (1985)

9. Black Mass (2015)
9. The Great Mouse Detective (1986)*
10. Duel (1971)

12. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)*
13. Oliver & Company (1988)
14. The Little Mermaid (1989)*

16. Mr. Turner (2014)*
17. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)*
17. Vacation (2015)
18. The Rescuers Down Under (1990)*
19. Sicario (2015)
20. Inside Out (2015)
21. Back to the Future (1985)*
21. Back to the Future Part II (1989)*

23. Back to the Future Part III (1990)*
23. Shame (2011)*

25. Beauty and the Beast (1991)*

27. The Raid (2011)*
28. The Raid 2 (2014)*

31. Fright Night (1985)


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NOVEMBER

5. Aladdin (1992)*


7. The Lion King (1994)*

10. Pocahontas (1995)*

12. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

15. Spy (2015)
16. Hercules (1997)*
17. The Rescuers (1998)*

19. When Marnie Was There (2014)
20. Tarzan (1999)*

22. Fantasia 2000 (1999)
22. Dinosaur (2000)*
23. The Searchers (1956)
24. Ant-Man (2015)
25. Knock Knock (2015)
26. The Emperor's New Groove (2000)*

29. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)


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DECEMBER

1. Lilo & Stitch (2002)*

3. Treasure Planet (2002)

6. American Splendor (2003)
6. Summer '92 (2016)
6. Brother Bear (2003)*

8. Home on the Range (2003)
9. Chicken Little (2005)

11. Meet the Robinsons (2007)*

14. Reservoir Dogs (1992)*
14. Jackie Brown (1997)*
14. Bolt (2008)*
15. The Princess and the Frog (2009)*

17. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
18. Tangled (2010)*
19. Winnie the Pooh (2011)*
19. Sicario (2015)*
20. Ćkte Vare (Flow) (2014)
21. Wreck-It Ralph (2012)*

23. Edward Scissorhands (1990)*

25. Frozen (2013)*
25. Christmas Vacation (1989)
25. Klovn Forever (2015)
26. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)*
27. Sicko (2007)
28. Big Hero 6 (2014)*


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CHAPTER THREE: IN WHICH HE SAYS GOODBYE

So this is it, ladies and gentlemen... the burden is gone. My entire year of 2015 in film has been reviewed in this nice little thread. I hope you had fun and enjoyed this as much as myself. Thank you all for joining in and leaving your comments and reps I endlessly appreciate it. Forever.
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it's gonna be the realest movie diary experience you ever had...




Late reply haha.

But I'm surprised you feel that way, since I like to believe he is one of the few currently working directors who are consistently good, I have pretty much seen all of his films except his directorial debut, and I wouldn't call any of them bad. I'm interested in knowing your thoughts on the films of his you dislike.
I'll probably give you a late reply to this too haha coz can't be bothered right now.

Sad to see the thread end but great work MM You have another review thread, right? Are you going to use that from now on?



"EPILOGUE"
MovieMeditation presents...
HIS REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS 2015
Help me please my ego...

total movie count ........... viewing day count
316 .......................... 361

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This is some my personal favourite review segments
in this thread throughout the years



1. Birdman run-on sentence


Because of Birdman's one-take approach, I decided to make the visual segment of my review the same thing, in which I made an attempt to make as long a sentence as possible in the vein of the movie.

The Technical Aspect
One of the most applauded and not the least excellent characteristics of the movie 'Birdman', is the rather impressive fact, that almost the entire approximately two hour long running time is captured in a visually stunning and ultra-ambitious manner, that shockingly presents the entire multi-layered course of action as one long unbroken continuity-clip, in which the characters in the story comes and goes on perfectly timed occasions and locations, the action and its focus shifts from various destinations over a longer period of time, the characters undergo a monumental and deeply personal development in just a few short days, and last but not least the audiences experience how it all comes crashing down in the final climax of the film, when multiple critics and all the citizens of New York are living witnesses to Riggan Thomson’s crazy attempt to widen out his talent, in his hugely ambitious and very personal Broadway adaption entitled "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love ".
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2. Corpse Bride poem paragraph


I decided to describe what passage I liked best about Corpse Bride in doing so in the vein of the movie: with a song. I decided to do the rhyme scheme almost exactly after the actual song in the film, According to Plan... After a while I decided just to go with it and ended up doing quite a lengthy little addition to the song in the movie...


Scoring a soaring piece of artistic beauty is one thing, but Elfman also wrote and composed each and every song, which happens to be some of my favorite musical makings ever in an already constantly creative film. Starting from the creative cross-cutting intro piece that…

describes the plot while our guests reach the spot; not giving anything away but just enough to clearly say – it’s a beautiful and terrible day for a wedding. We see them crossing the street in a carriage, but only so to ensure the marriage. When one family leaves another one grieves; one is broke beyond belief the other in social mischief – but both make profit from this glorious wedding. Soon they set feet in a place where they rehearse for days, but the groom somehow cannot get it. He walks for hours to practice his vowels, but he seems to be completely out of luck. But all of a sudden there’s change, he stumbles slightly but finds his pace; his words come fluent and he starts to dance, he bows down faintly and put the ring on a branch. He did it all well, no more need to rehearse, but little did he know he just lifted a curse. While Victor was in trance he proposed to a branch, but I can tell you it was worse than you think; with some vowels and a dance, there was a change of plans and his bride became a corpse in a blink. Once a bride now a corpse, left for dead but of course; now she walks in the land of the living. The groom turned practice to mistake, left the dead wide awake – this is a terrible day for a wedding.
Read the full review here: https://www.movieforums.com/communit...34#post1394434
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3. (Aristo)Cat metaphors!


This review contains a bunch of unapologetic cat metaphors...
and it's kind of fun.


The plot feels far from hairy, but the cute and consistent Disney is also a joy to watch. I do like how they blended the story of the movie with a more modernized musical direction, which makes it feel less flat and more furbished. You could say that like a cat, Disney does something quite elegant here, but is kind of also licking its own a**hole one too many times…
The review in all it's glory: https://www.movieforums.com/communit...57#post1418257
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3. Dog puns!


I am a dog person myself, so this had to happen...
Anyways, the review is more than just dog metaphors though; I did end up being quite satisfied with the way that this review turned out.


But there is also a wolf in sheep’s clothing among us, who is anything but tradition, which is of course, Cruella De Vil. What a character! This furious fur collector is so extremely intimidating, and when she tries to sound sweet she comes off as too sugary, with that oozing cigarette just adding to the bitter aftertaste of her presence. Her appearance is so perfectly designed, a woman dressed to kill in the finest of fur clothing, carrying her character on the outside, while underneath she is actually this empty soul who can break like a stick if she doesn’t wear her fake costume or drive her fancy car. When wanting to have “the cape of a superwoman”, she sets out on a mission to collect fur from little innocent puppies, but little does she know that those who are in fact suited to fit the fur like the tight glove on her skeletal hand, has the power to completely overrule her. Her black and white personality is ultimately fooled by dogs with a black and white perception, but it is just enough to cloud her judgment.

‘101 Dalmatians’ is a fun flick from Disney, which may not stand as the strongest of the bunch, but it has plenty of charm and heartwarming themes to satisfy the everyday viewer. It is nice and furry on the outside and even warmer on the inside, which may leave it without much depth, but this film doesn’t really need it nor does it aim for it. I can definitely find some flaws here and there, but I can also provide you with one hundred and two reasons to watch this film – it has one hundred and one charming Dalmatians and one hell of a crazy bitch. Enough said.
The review in all it's glory: https://www.movieforums.com/communit...29#post1368429
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4. Home on the ROAST


I absolutely hated the God awful Disney flick that is Home on the Range and decided that a review just didn't work. It needed to be roasted to pieces...

The animation is half-assed and lazy, and the story is so straightforward, that the two of them are battling each other for the “most simple outline ever” award… This is an out-and-out insult of a movie, that should have just stayed out… out of production, out of even being thought up, if there was even any thought involved at all to begin with. This stupid “cow movie” doesn’t even deserve a review, but it needs a proper ROAST, that’s for sure – and I’ll take that well-done, please, I want to make sure it’s completely dead. But then again, the characters are so thin and empty in this movie, I don’t even know if you could cut a decent steak out of it… I would sure love to slice into it though with a blunt butter knife – but that’s probably the producers that needs cutting more than anything. They better have their paycheck cut off immediately, at the least, before I step in and do the cutting for them… and I’m not talking about paychecks.
The roast in all it's glory: https://www.movieforums.com/communit...03#post1747103
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ADDITIONAL FAVORITE REVIEWS:
Wolf Children - https://www.movieforums.com/communit...74#post1414174 (plot walk-through)
Mad Max: Fury Road - https://www.movieforums.com/communit...53#post1323953 (motor metaphors)
Lady and the Tramp - https://www.movieforums.com/communit...24#post1360524 (more dog puns)
Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2 - http://www.movieforums.com/community...84#post1334484 // http://www.movieforums.com/community...51#post1339051 (I just like them a lot)
Jacob's Ladder - https://www.movieforums.com/communit...96#post1354796 (the mood of the film/review)
Still Alice - https://www.movieforums.com/communit...66#post1361266 (Alzheimer's review angle)


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HELL YES



Stop pleasuring yourself to your reviews man! I'm reading them!