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cellular...good thriller with william h macy and kim basinger

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

Perhaps if i saw Eraserhead after Tetsuo my favourite may be different, but i just thought that Tetsuo was a lot more fun. I felt Eraserhead was about 20 mintues too long, although i did enjoy the little bits of crazy **** in this one more, they were done a lot more subtly, which is always a bonus.

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It's not exactly a short film and sleep and work and partying have been running my life the past few weeks, so i've had to squeeze it when and ifi can. You dig?

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The Tuxeudo 8/10, kind of cheesy, but entertaining none the less

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Yeah, I dig. Damn intoxication gets in the way of everything except itself...and even then!

Don't feel bad. Just don't belittle my passion.

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"Today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002 - Peter Jackson)

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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.

After Hours
Martin Scorsese, 1985, A-

The Muse
Albert Brooks, 1999, B-


I've seen After Hours quite a few times now, and I still love it. It's funny, surreal and damn good film-making.

The Muse is the first Albert Brooks picture I've seen, and I really enjoyed it. It may not be a masterpiece, but the script and the performances are enjoyable enough. The Martin Scorsese cameo was the highlight for me, though. It was short, fast and hilarious. The best Scorsese cameo ever.

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TOP 100 | "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh YEAH

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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.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - (billionth time) Just keeps getting better.

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"You, me, everyone...we are all made of star stuff." - Neil Degrasse Tyson

https://shawnsmovienight.blogspot.com/

Midnight Cowboy Quite a sad film, Jon Voight's niave character was pretty sympathetic, but the thing i noticed the most was how my compassion built for Rico. Great all round, if occasional a little dated. 5/5

Save the Green Planet (rewatch) I love this film, it's so cool! Even at it's most barmiest, it still remains deadly serious, somehow graphic torture is amusing! Walks a fine line between comedy and disturbing and remains neither. I pity the hero/anit-hero more every time i see it. 5/5

Crash --- god,dam that was a good film. A beautifully shot and surprisingly accurate social commentary about racism in modern society. Some storylines were left unexplored in favour of others which bugged me a lil but i loved it. At some points it was just so real like at the beginning, it made the audience think about whether they should laugh at the jokes. Was it politically correct to laugh or not and it opened up the whole theme of the film beautifully.

"You think you know who you are...you have no idea"

For me this quote from Matt Dillon's character summed up the whole message from the film. All of the characters found out who they really are or who they could be.

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Undercoverlovers 100 REDUX

It runs in the Family, 2003, great movie, very touching, with the whole Douglas' family
Kiss Of Death, 1995, very good N. Cage and i like David Caruso

Sahara (2005, Breck Eisner)

2.5/5

Ho-hum. One of those "I've rented a movie, let's watch it at my place" moments... Sahara ain't terrible, it just isn't very good. Nothing new here - McConaughey still looks like he's nearly going to be a superstar and Penélope Cruz still looks like a constipated ferret.

Bizzare editing during some of the action sequences too.

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

An American Werewolf in London
Pretty dope. I liked the whole transformation from man to werewolf.

Journey to the Center of the Earth
"A key is stuck."
"No way. Which one?"
"This one."
"I don't see it."
"Atleast you can see how happy I am."
*Que dubbed singing*

That guy's a pimp fo' real. The movie's off da' chain too.

I LOVE ME MY HYPNOTIC AND SPRITE

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High and Low
Akira Kurosawa, 1963, A+

Broadcast News
James L. Brooks, 1987, A


So far, High and Low is definitely my favorite Kurosawa film. I was litterally leaning forward on the edge of my seat, waiting for the next scene.

And Broadcast News was great. I just love Holly Hunter.

MASH (Altman, 1970)

I watched the extras as well

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Mon Idole, F 2002, deeper than i thought it would be

The Replacement Killers (1998, Antoine Fuqua)

2.5/5

Mr Typecast himself, Chow Yun Fat, plays - you guessed it - a Hitman! He also looks spactacularly bored in this derivative genre pic though. Miro Sorvino is, as is often the case thesedays, the best thing about the movie. Lord knows why she can't get the roles that her talent, intelligence and beauty warrants.

She deserves far far more...

It's a shame John Woo sold out far better than Chow Yun Fat. Looking forward his role in the new Pirates of the Carribean and a possible upcoming collaboration with Woo.