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Old 01-17-2015, 10:52 AM
 
Location: Taipei
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Force Majeure and Still Alice. Both were pretty good. I'm glad that Julianne Moore is getting her long overdue Oscar.

 
Old 01-17-2015, 01:06 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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Herbie Fully Loaded it isn't that bad of a movie better of a NASCAR movie than Talladega Nights though not a Days of Thunder.
 
Old 01-17-2015, 01:09 PM
 
Location: Central Maine
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Watched Boyhood last night - good flick.
 
Old 01-17-2015, 02:17 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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I last watched "Someone to watch over me" (1987) on VHS
Back when Mimi Rogers was hot!
 
Old 01-17-2015, 02:26 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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I saw two more last week:

A Most Wanted Man with Philip Seymour Hoffman based on the John LeCarre spy novel. A real basic, slow spy yarn that could be just as appropriate in a Cold War setting. Lots of American actors with bad German accents. A good movie to fall asleep to.

John Wick with America's best actor: Keanu Reeves. Here's the story: Keanu is pissed and he cannot be stopped until he gets his revenge, the end. It sounds bad but it works. It has similarities to my favorite movie of last year, The Drop: Russian mob, beautifully shot, very thin plot but, unlike The Drop, very little character development (surprised?). But the action choreography is very slick (John Wu-like) and it's quite a good popcorn flick for action movie fans.
 
Old 01-17-2015, 03:03 PM
 
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Boyhood. Too long, not very original.
Birdman. Great performances by Keaton and Norton. The story was pretty good.
 
Old 01-17-2015, 04:43 PM
 
Location: Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
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Burden of Dreams (1982)
I'm keeping this Netflix Criterion Collection disc all weekend. There's a short called Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, also directed / shot by Les Blank (Always for Pleasure). "depicts director Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven."

A quote from WH:

If you switch on television it's just ridiculous, destructive - it kills us. And talk shows will kill us, will kill out language. And we have to declare holy war against what we see every single day on television - commercials and I think there should be... there should be real holy war against commercials, real holy war against talk shows, real war against Bonanza, and Rawhide or these things.
 
Old 01-17-2015, 05:21 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Blackhat-Good film for a single viewing. Well acted, Lots of tech stuff, Action scenes were very few and brief but intense. Lots of scenes with no dialogue and a few nice international locations. Not a film i would buy or watch again but was good for a night at the cinema.
 
Old 01-17-2015, 05:23 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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Watchmen while it wouldn't be in my top 10... it is still a really good and different take on the superhero movie. Then again they were original characters in the source material graphic novel in an entire specialty made else-world.

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Old 01-17-2015, 06:53 PM
 
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This evening I watched the Dallas Buyers Club which was difficult to watch but quite informative.
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