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Yeah, it kinda became more about them instead of the "studies".. They both seemed like narcissists. Guy Talese had many pictures of himself in his office, but didn't even check things available to public record. Even when he says "How do I know how much a baseball card is worth" - a simple check on eBay could give him a ballpark estimate, and with his experience, he could easily find someone to appraise it.

I got the book, skimmed a bit. The one good thing about e-books is how I love to CTRL-F to find certain words used in subversive writings (sexual, drugs, or even the word money), as well as "Conclusion" which you could see was Gerald's summation of each event.

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I was thinking for a while that I wished the movie would be more serious, but I guess there's really no point with such a silly concept. Accepting it for what it is, it's a reasonably entertaining 90 minutes.

Remind me, he had broken English since it wasn't his first language and he used to say something like "Bring out the empty horses!" or something to that nature.

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I may have seen this twice in the theater, and I may have loved it both times. It's a great big screen, crowd laughing/screaming/gasping movie. And the fabulously over the top finale really seals the deal.

I can understand that and I did like the ending.

PSA ya'll: Multiple lovely people have informed me that Pulse/Kairo is on Tubi. So now I/we have no excuses.

No excuses.

Literally my only complaint on a second viewing was the long exposition sequence (where the dad was telling the family history and the legend of the box thing).

It was a minor annoyance the first time, but the second time I was like "Hurry up old man! Let's get to the killing!! "

I've never heard of this, but it sounds interesting. (Let me know if you find out the answer to the Star Trek reference.)

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Rugrats In Paris: 10/10


This was one of my favorite movies when I was a child and I decided to rewatch it for the nostalgia factor.


And wow. What a bizarre, joyous, and entertaining affair. Despite having not seen the film in over 15 years, every scene was still ingrained in my mind. What I did not expect was the multitude of cultural references and adult gags scattered throughout. One gets the sense that the creators had a blast writing and animating it.


Weird and wonderful.

Tonight's gore fest is Gladiator. Having spent 5 years of my youthful life learning to speak Latin, much of this movie is familiar to me, almost as though I had been there. Yeah, it's a fictionalized story and yeah, they completely got the degraded emperor Commodus wrong as a character. He was not the inadequate, insecure person portrayed by Phoenix, but a raging macho man who fought hobbled opponents in the arena. Marcus was not murdered by Commodus, but died naturally. When he did die, he was completely dispirited (as portrayed in the movie) by all the war he had seen and the Empire began to decline after him. Nevertheless so much of the look and attitude of the movie really works.

Unlike the usual perception, many people who fought in gladiatorial combat were not killed, but submitted. It was too expensive to kill them all. In spite of the dubious history, the look is great, costumes excel, combat scenes are engaging and even the strange types of armor the gladiators use are pretty close to the real thing. The Coliseum in Rome is great recreation, including the sunscreens that were in the movie's digital recreation. The opening battle against the Germani in the Marcommanic War is epic, the best ancient world battle ever staged. Te Morituri Salutamus.

That one wasn't in the movie but they did show the famous 'poodle' misunderstanding.

I looked on the internet but couldn't find anything about it. I want to know too! I thought maybe the extra was suppose to be Gene Rodenberry but the guy who drew the Star Trek sketches was named Lucas. And Rodenberry at the time would've been in the Navy.

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I had a lot of fun with this film. I really dig the whole "finding party members to defeat a boss"-type aesthetic. The film played out quite a bit like a video game in that regard, but that is okay in my book. Definitely a keeper and will return to this again soon.

Recently, I watched "Greyhound", it is about a: U.S. Navy Cmdr. Ernest Krause is assigned to lead an Allied convoy across the Atlantic during World War II. His convoy, however, is pursued by German U-boats.

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I wish they had used a correct destroyer. As far as I know, no Fletcher destroyers were deployed to the Atlantic, and almost certainly not to the USCG. If they were trying to remake “The Enemy Below, (a kind of true story) they should have used an Edsall class destroyer escort.
3Star out of 5.

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)

A typically charming Lubitsch, with a lovely Greta Garbo and some great moments (Garbo bursting out laughing in that restaurant scene, for example, was magical), though I thought Ninotchka's "liberation" and transformation from a grotesquely robotic, emotionless Soviet "cog" into a fun-loving, West-enamored charmer was way too abrupt. Plus, I found Melvyn Douglas' character slightly annoying (35 years old, really?).

M.F.A. (2017)



Covers very, very old ground...

Very watchable horror story about two world class cellists, one the "old" prodigy the other, her replacement at the School for Hot, Gifted Musicians. Co stars Steven Weber as the girls "teacher" which probably tells you more about what you getting into than I ever could. Eventually it does go down a road that may be uncomfortable for some (one of the many twists) and has some pretty good fx especially in the second (body horror) and final movement.