Selected Films

saw llast night. ido had wanted to see sccoby doo video!

I can barely understand their “language of Miami,” but did not help the fact the 2 main players muttered throughout the film. is it just me or are these guys supercops, i mean the drive supercars, planes can fly, you can navigate in the ocean freight, and it seems like the pros do a beter job in the swats Takedown (THW guess SWAT team in Miami may retire or better yet join the team of Miami Vice) are good points of armed struggle, but that lasted only 5-10 minutes of 2 hours throughout the show!

it agrees with the previous review of the sex scene that have no relevance whatsoever to the story

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Quiet simply the best film I have ever seen. Beautiful, lyrical, sad and happy at once.

It also contains my all time favorite piece of movie dialogue I wont give it away, but the exchange between mother and child when the older Salvatore finally returns to Sicily and her mother wants to know whether you need a break. Heartbreaking. If you get the chance, try to find the original version (on VHS?) The tenor of the entire history of the changes between two versions, and I find the directors cut much sadder.

Ignore those who have less than 5 stars I do not know what they are talking about, trust me!

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I still Bullitt again, thinking that if you have a great reputation to be worth seeing, and this time really to their liking. Never again.

The prosecution is of course excellent. This movie might teach the recent James Bond films a thing or two. The thrill of a chase from the amount of action that involves not the speed with which the cuts, how much you can squeeze CGI or how confusing.

That said, the plot is achingly slow, cool characters and impossible to sympathize with the dialogue is indistinct, and when you can do what he is saying, irrelevant and boring and the end is an anticlimax pondoerous.

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I did not know what was around before you hire than it was a little surprised by the topic. It tells the story of a freedom peadophile trying to return to society while struggling with his “urges”. This film has a high “squirm” factor and makes it very uncomfortable for the visualization of fact.

The story is said the offenders point of view and torture centers on a character played by Kevin Bacon. Gives a good, understated performance by itself and this is my reason for the three stars. Frankly, I do not really want to see films, saying such harsh reality.

But then again, maybe that point is increasing ..

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Wow. Just having spent a night in the firm grip of Amin and friends, I am drained and exhausted!

What an amazing film about an inhuman, insane dictator and mayhem and torture inflicted on their own species, as well as a naive young Scottish doctor, who believed he had found a job in his 4-star sabbatical. I will not go into details, but one scene in particular, will make my stomach heave in mind that in the coming years. Two scenes actually.

So make sure you have a cushion handy to hide behind if you’re like me - squeamish! Do not miss though.

Excellent film worthy of Oscar.

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The Billy Wilder masterpiece, a corrosive black comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, stars William Holden as young, down and out screenwriter Joe Gillis. Narrated in flashbacks by the now-deceased scribe, the film unwinds the series of events that left him lying facedown in a pool. Unable to sell his most recent chef-d’oeuvre, and in hock up to his eyes, Joe stash your car in the path of a seemingly abandoned mansion on Sunset Boulevard, while trying to evade the persistence of the men of the assignment.

Closer inspection reveals the decrepit property to be inhabited by grandiose former silent movie goddess Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) and her zombie-like manservant Max (Erich von Stroheim). Upon learning that he is a writer, the lonely but still wealthy woman offers to pay him generously to stay at home and work on his “return” script on the life of Salome.

Although spook by the people and surroundings, in desperate straits, Joe takes the job, little suspecting the madness of the netherworld have entered. Wilder’s merciless portrait of the dangers of a profession that trades in fantasy, couples the cynical amorality of the cagily that he was never with the almost psychotic narcissism of the has-been to reveal the vacuity of wealth and the transience of fame.

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Seen this before in the movies is the best place for such great films out loud if you want the full effect. The performance is good, the effects are good, the impact is real and it was instead of Hanks.

The only thing I was not happy with ‘good Americans and Germans were all evil “cliche but living in the states during the first Gulf War that I can see that this lie every day to feed and not know any better. Who have benefited from cameos by ‘German’, but maybe thats the soldiers wait too self-obsessed in this country.

Politics aside, this is a must see film that is moving in the right direction.

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A blistering, unsentimental portrait of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh in Robert Altman VINCENT AND THEO focuses on the deeply neurotic relationship between the unstable, impoverished Vincent (Tim Roth) and his brother, an art dealer, Theo (Paul Rhys). Specifically, the film investigates the role Theo played in providing the normal and the connection to the outside world that Vincent lacked - Vicente, while, in turn, acted as the personification of Theo unfulfilled artistic aspirations.

In the end, Theo’s inability to secure his brother’s financial independence and help him achieve a sense of self-worth by selling his paintings caused him a misery almost as profound as Vincent. As the introverted Vincent, Roth offers an intensely passionate performance, and Rhys is as mobile as the more reserved Theo.

Altman decided to concentrate on the artist himself, may offer a deeper insight into the individual scenes of him painting ever could. VINCENT AND THEO remains an unflinching and powerful interpretation of the life of one of the most famous artists.

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I read the novel by Anne Holm as a child and have always remembered with affection, so I was intrigued to watch this film. Unfortunately, this is quite meritless, a floundering mess of implausibilities, inanities and the type of attitudes that stupid and no one had hoped had disappeared from the English-language films in the early sixties. The story of a Bulgarian child escape a concentration camp and make their way to Denmark, where a surprise awaits you stop, it must be exciting, but there is no context, no characterization, no explanations, and it is a fact that episodic manner that it is as if the film is always up to date by playing with herself.

Very wrong.

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this was a truly brilliant film, one of the best films of any genre I’ve ever seen. gives a real vision of what life was like for Jews in ww2, but some parts of the film is distressing that shows really horrible actions, but at the same time oblige to see, especially in black and white, with two major parties, which really gives you a feeling of horror as it was for them.

if you like war movies, real life or historical movies, then I recommend adding to your list.

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Midway through Miami Vice I had to limit my almost physically to ensure they do not stand up and down “for the love of Christ, do something.” Michael Mann clearly want to explore the territory in the heat, but not miserably. The plot sees Crockett (Colin Farrell, with quite tragic tache combo) and Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) go undercover in a massive drug trafficking.

Gong Li is also wrapped the man’s girlfriend at the top of the drug trade union (Spanish actor Luis Tosar, in his debut in the English language) are Crockett and Tubbs in touch and, of course, she and Crockett enter into a relationship . Thereafter, it becomes increasingly murky plotwise. It seems that people are talking weeks.

Tubbs Crokett and sell themselves as criminals to drug traffickers, Crockett and Isabella (Li), speak, and then nap, and speak a little, and then some more fuzz. Finally, in the last half hour, we reach the merits of the two scenes. First is an attack on a suspenseful trailer where Tubbs girlfriend (Naomie Harris) is being Evol prisoner in a time of action with a strong pace final.

Then, of course, the big gun battle. Starts well, but unfortunately, unlike the centerpiece of the whole heat degenerates into confusion. However, until now and is a horribly boring movie.

The friend will look completely out of the window as soon as it appears as Li Foxx is then completely sideways so you wonder if he has simply disappeared. The script gives Farrell and Foxx little to work with them and seems bored by his duties. Gong Li is an exceptional actress …

in Chinese. Here is working so hard in English speaking who can not put emotion into one of its lines and its role is so totally holding you wonder why it would have taken it.

The look is key in a Michael Mann film. Fans can be sure that, like his others this is a very, very blue. Unfortunately it is also shot in Hi Def digital cameras and looks so grainy (especially in night scenes) that appers that half of the film was shot using a teabag.

Torturously over almost 150 minutes in Miami should drop most of the summer madness. Mann clearly wants to start a franchise here, the final open only screams next event, please.

However, so poor is the opening of this chapter that I think killed the brand.

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Exceptional. A word of warning, however, the scenes are very graphic, violent and sexual.

Without spoiling the movie the scenes were like watching a car crash, you know you shouldn’t, but …….. There have been no such scenes in movies before, but never so graphic and brutal. We do not realize that when a woman is attacked, ie what is an attack.

The film is a masterpiece just the realization of 1 / 4 in the film what happened. You already know the conclusion, but you know something bad will happen. I hope that Americans are stupid not to try to make a Hollywood version of it.

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