Movies We Watch

If only this film had been …. uh, smarter. How many times have we seen the smart people don’t know how to be nice or social thing? Only someone with compassion or who is far less smart can bring them out of their shell and make them able to function in society. Please. Not everyone [...]

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Sometimes you might wonder if the big decisions you make in life could have brought you a whole different life if you had just answered differently.Well, of course, you wouldn’t be on the same path. But having the chance to see the other path might be interesting. As is the case here. Part of you [...]

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I can’t resist a Nicholas Cage film. He brings a certain somewhat predictable intensity to every performance. With this he takes burnt out on his job to a place I don’t think I have seen in any other film. Bringing Out the Dead centers around an EMS medic in Manhattan who appears to be losing [...]

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This film sort of makes me want to open a Cereal Bar. Indy girl tries to motivate indy boy by destroying the place he works by aligning herself with the evil corporate entity. Cute film, happy ending, angsty parts in between as people struggle to “grow, not grow up”. It wasn’t a bad film, it [...]

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In this house this film is known as “Dr. Strangelove or: How the hell did you get through film school without seeing this film?” I guess I was too busy watching Citizen Kane 3000 times and the Battleship Potemkin. I never took a comedy or American political film course in film school, thats how. And [...]

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Yo, why my crib smell like Funyuns, broccoli and ball sweat. Ok, I must confess, I love these movies. Underdog gets out of the hard life through a skill. Usually great dancing, drumming, singing, debating, or something ensues. Step Up 2 had all the elements needed for one of those uplifting underdog films. Down and [...]

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I will now be using the following review for all of these films… [Enter name of Movie] was a [enter descriptive text here] coming of age story about a young privileged man that falls in love with a [choose one] –hooker, dancer, stripper, drug addict– with a heart of gold. He gets into trouble because [...]

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Sometimes you watch a film and you have no idea what to think. I mean, we’ve seen enough films to know a bad film, and this did not meet that criteria. We’ve seen some great films, this isn’t wandering in that pack. We’ve seen films that were just there and this was more than that. [...]

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