Movies We Watch

Interesting enough, but predictable. Bad big corporation. Everyone is in on something, no one is good…
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In The International, Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, [...]

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Fast moving thriller about a father finding his daughter that was sold into the sex trade.
Suspenseful, with a happy ending, though less happy than one would expect.
It takes a special man to shoot a man’s wife in front of him to make his point.
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Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan [...]

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We watched this film come together on Project Greenlight years ago and coulnd’t find it on cable until recently.
This film was actually pretty fun. The body count was high. The director started taking out cast members about 5 minutes into the film. A lot of the people in the film are people you recognize now [...]

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Based on a true story and set in the 70’s.  This heist film has a group of pretty amateur criminals taking away a huge amount of cash and other items from safe deposit boxes in a London bank. A pretty basic story line, but it had Jason Statham in it, so it was a must [...]

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This film was well acted and did not seem as long as it was, BUT did we really need another good cop, bad cop, loyalty, NYC police movie?
Nothing new, not even a new way to tell the story. The regular one family of cops thing. Bad guys, good guys, loyalty over what is right vs. [...]

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Though I have seen portions of Death Race 2000 (Corman) I have not seen the whole thing. This movie having Jason Statham, the guy that played Manny on General Hospital, Tyrese and Joan Allen (who is lovin’ playing evil) made me want to see this film. Of course, it also looked like a lot of [...]

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I had one of those days where I just wanted a good movie with explosions. Instead I got possibly one of the most boring films based on a violent video game. Slow moving, boring, I personally wanted to shoot the characters who I couldn’t give a crap about.
And who casts Mila Kunis as a “Russian [...]

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Great cast, pretty boring story. Rich architect moves office into “bad area” of town. Gets ripped off multiple times. Tracks down one of the thiefs. Falls for the thief’s mother despite having a long term girlfriend and her daughter at home.
And they all end up doing the right thing.
The acrobatics of the thiefs were the [...]

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