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Post by myfavoritegirls on Feb 21, 2017 14:31:54 GMT -8
Lion: 10/10 I was a blubbering fool from 20 minutes in up until the end. Honestly, it's one of my all time favorite movies. And the fact that its a true story only adds to the sob factor. Bring tissues.
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Post by erik on Apr 5, 2017 18:36:40 GMT -8
PASSENGERSJennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt find themselves awoken from hibernation much too soon in their interstellar journey in this well-done 2016 sci-fi opus. Thomas Newman's galactic music score is superb, and there are a few Stanley Kubrick homages, 2001 being among them, and also a scene inside a barroom involving Pratt and an android bartender (Michael Sheen) that is straight out of THE SHINING. 9.5/10.
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Post by Ross on May 10, 2017 4:55:53 GMT -8
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Post by oregonchickfan on May 11, 2017 2:22:29 GMT -8
Hidden Figures 10/10
Great movie! It saddens me that this historical content is not taught in school. I've not even aheard about the women in my college courses.
Trolls 7/10
I thought I'd enjoy this movie, but I was wrong. It was decent, and kiddos seem to like it, and it is a kids movie, so I digress.
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Post by oregonchickfan on May 11, 2017 2:25:44 GMT -8
The Best of Me. 3/10 (this one got 5/5 on Netflix, don't believe Netflix). I liked it. Maybe it was just the mood I was in.
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Post by erik on Aug 4, 2017 16:37:38 GMT -8
Two as of late: DUNKIRKOscar winners Mark Rylance and Kenneth Branagh star in this film about the mass evacuation of the French seaport of Dunkirk in the early months of World War II. The film, written and directed by Christopher Nolan ( INCEPTION; INTERSTELLAR) weaves a number of different stories together in very brilliant fashion. 9/10. AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWERIn following up the Oscar-winning 2006 documentary AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, former vice-president Al Gore lines up the compelling evidence for how much worse the global warming problem has gotten in the past eleven years, as well as the many solutions that are being implemented out there to mitigate the damaging effects. 10/10.
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Post by erik on Oct 6, 2017 20:27:42 GMT -8
MARK FELT: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSELiam Neeson is superb as associate FBI director Mark Felt, who, unbeknownst to a lot of people in the U.S. government, and frustrated by the bureau being forced to prematurely put the kibosh on their investigation of the Watergate break-in, turned whistleblower and thus brought down the administration of Richard Nixon. For those who might not remember (and nobody knew until after Felt's passing in 2005), Mark Felt turned out to be the mysterious figure that Washington Post writer Bob Woodward called "Deep Throat". 10/10.
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Post by erik on Oct 21, 2017 9:56:00 GMT -8
GEOSTORMGerard Butler stars as the creator of "Dutch Boy", a global weather satellite system that has suffered from sabotage and whose collapse is threatening to unleash catastrophic events onto the world--and only he has the wherewithal to find out where it's being sabotaged from. Reasonably good (though scientifically unsupportable) film with spectacular special effects. 7.5/10.
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Post by oregonchickfan on Oct 31, 2017 15:35:54 GMT -8
10/10
Dixie Chicks: MMXVI Live
Thanks to my new Amazon Student Prime subscription, I'm finally watching the movie. I was able to go to one show, but it never gets old watching it. Loved seeing some CRCR peeps in there too. ☺️
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Post by erik on Jan 12, 2018 15:18:49 GMT -8
THE POSTTom Hanks (as Ben Bradlee) and Meryl Streep (as Katharine Graham) are at the heart of this extremely compelling Steven Spielberg film about the decision by the Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers in June 1971 in defiance of an injunction against the New York Times after they ran them first. A film like this couldn't possibly be more timely. 10/10.
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Post by Ross on Jan 17, 2018 13:18:49 GMT -8
Chasing Great 9/10
A documentary on the All Black Legend Richie McCaw.
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Post by erik on Mar 3, 2018 11:21:42 GMT -8
THE 15:17 TO PARISClint Eastwood directed this true-life saga of three young American soldiers who thwarted an attempted massacre by an ISIS militant on a train from Amsterdam to Paris in August 2015. Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone were those three heroes, and they portray themselves here. 8/10. THE GAMBLERJames Caan portrays Axel Freed, a brilliant literature professor who has a problem: he is in debt up to his eyeballs because he just cannot stop gambling! Kenny Rogers, this isn't; in fact, this 1974 film, scripted by James Toback and directed by Karel Reisz, is a very unsettling character study, enhanced by Jerry Fielding's compelling interpolation of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 (Titan) into his score. 9.5/10.
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Post by erik on Mar 17, 2018 10:14:51 GMT -8
7 DAYS IN ENTEBBEFairly good retelling of the 1976 saga of an Air France jet that was hijacked by two German terrorists and forced to fly to Entebbe International Airport, where they demanded that Israel release 52 Palestinian prisoners or they would kill the passengers, and the subsequent Israeli lightning raid known as "Operation Thunderbolt". Rosamund Pike and Daniel Bruhl portray, respectively, Brigitte Kuhlmann and Wilfried Bose, the two "revolutionaries" behind this saga. 8.5/10.
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Post by erik on Apr 6, 2018 15:33:06 GMT -8
READY PLAYER ONEControl of "The Oasis" and $250 billion are what is at stake in director Steven Spielberg's virtual-reality sci-fi thriller, based on the best-selling young adult novel by Ernest Cline. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEYIt is still "The Ultimate Trip", and a film that remains among the most influential of any kind in the history of the form. And it was released fifty years ago this week (April 2, 1968). 10/10.
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Post by erik on May 19, 2018 15:25:28 GMT -8
Two films of recent vintage that had screenplays by Aaron Sorkin (of A FEW GOOD MEN fame): THE SOCIAL NETWORK: Based on Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires and directed by David Fincher ( THE FIGHT CLUB), this film from 2010 stars Jesse Eisenberg as the upstart Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook and gained half a billion friends...and a few enemies in the process. The dialogue comes at a very fast and furious pace here, spiced up with numerous flashback/flash-forward sequences. 9/10. STEVE JOBS: Based on Walter Isaacson's biography, and directed by Danny Boyle ( SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE), this 2015 film focuses on the tortured and oftentimes egomaniacal genius that was Steve Jobs, who co-founded Apple Computers in the late 1970s. Michael Fassbender stars as the titular tech genius. 9/10.
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Post by erik on Jul 10, 2018 5:38:57 GMT -8
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOMThe fifth film in the Jurassic Park franchise, which, by the way, began 25 years ago, sees Isla Nublar destroyed by an active volcano, but most of the dinosaurs located to the mainland...much to everyone's horror, of course. 8/10. THE FIRST PURGEThis is how "The Purge" got started: a psychological experiment allowing people to vent their anger at a society they feel has wronged them is instead turned into a movement by the National Founding Fathers of America to wipe out the impoverished and those who don't look White. Extremely violent and full of street language, but fair enough as it is. 7/10.
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Post by erik on Aug 31, 2018 15:55:12 GMT -8
TRUMBOBryan Cranston stars as Hollywood's most famous blacklisted screenwriter in this compelling 2015 film about the horrible and unconscionable anti-Commie hysteria that infected Hollywood in the decade and a half following World War II. Helen Mirren co-stars as Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, and David James Elliott (star of CBS's 1990s military drama JAG) makes for a "strapping" John Wayne (a known rabid anti-Commie and, not coincidentally, a draft dodger). 10/10. TRUTHRobert Redford and Cate Blanchett star as, respectively, Dan Rather and CBS producer Mary Mapes in this compelling story of how CBS's efforts in 2004 to obtain documents proving that then-President George W. Bush went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard in the early 1970s backfired scandalously on them, resulting in Rather stepping down as CBS's news anchor after 24 years. Bruce Greenwood, Topher Grace, Elizabeth Moss, Stacy Keach, and Dennis Quaid co-star. 10/10.
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Post by erik on Sept 18, 2018 6:44:07 GMT -8
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVENThe classic 1960 sagebrush remake of the 1954 Japanese classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI stars Yul Brynner as an experienced gun hand who hires six other men to help him protect a Mexican border village from a ruthless bandido (Eli Wallach) and his gang. Brynner at the time was the only "star" in the cast, but four of the actors among the "Mag-7", to wit Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and Robert Vaughn, became household names thereafter. Elmer Bernstein's classic score caps off this film, the first masterpiece of the Western genre in the 1960s. 10/10.
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Post by erik on Sept 22, 2018 17:46:43 GMT -8
FAHRENHEIT 11/9The world's favorite cinematic provocateur Michael Moore is back, with an extensive (at 128 minutes) and enraging look at an America that could produce an absolutely horrid bastard of a president such as Donald Trump. The title is in reference to the fact that Trump was declared by the Associated Press to be the "winner" of the 2016 election at 2:29 AM on the morning of November 9, 2016 (hence 11/9). Well worth seeing, but you are likely to feel like you have been steamrolled at the end. 10/10.
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Post by erik on Nov 12, 2018 17:39:02 GMT -8
BULLITTRevisiting this 1968 crime classic, in which Steve McQueen plays a San Francisco cop investigating the murder of a mob witness who was under his watch. This film, which won an Oscar for Film Editing, has the first truly great high-speed car chase sequence in Hollywood history, and it still remains one of the most intense ever. 10/10. COOL HAND LUKEPaul Newman is sentenced to two years on a chain gang in the South for decapitating parking meters while intoxicated, and he proves to be a genuine Hard Case in this 1967 classic. George Kennedy won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as the leader of the chain gang; and who can forget the immortal line uttered by Strother Martin (as The Captain): " What we've got here is...failure to communicate." 10/10.
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Post by erik on Jan 3, 2019 17:55:33 GMT -8
THE MULEThe latest film from Clint Eastwood, both in front of and behind the camera, finds him as a Korean war veteran, horticulturist, and neglectful father forced to run illegal drugs through the Midwest for a Mexican drug cartel, all the while frequently having guns pointed at him (as opposed to the other way around). Eastwood is brilliant in both roles of actor and director, and Bradley Cooper co-stars as the sympathetic FBI special agent on his (and his handlers') trail. 10/10.
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Post by oregonchickfan on Jan 4, 2019 22:50:57 GMT -8
A Star is Born Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper.
I'm giving it a 7/10. I liked the music, but way too many f bombs for my taste.
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Post by erik on Mar 11, 2019 16:04:48 GMT -8
APOLLO 11Director Todd Douglas Miller's riveting and, at times, downright poignant 93-minute documentary of one of the greatest moments in human history: the nine-day saga of Apollo 11 that culminated on the night of July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first human being to walk on a heavenly body other than the Earth. 10/10.
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Post by erik on May 22, 2019 15:58:24 GMT -8
FIRST MANRyan Gossling portrays Neil Armstrong in this sometimes cold and detached but still extremely worthwhile look at how much the road to becoming the first person to walk somewhere in the Universe other than Earth took on him and his family. Well directed by Damien Chazelle ( LA LA LAND), with a screenplay by Josh Singer ( SPOTLIGHT; THE POST), based on the book by James R. Hansen. 9.5/10.
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Post by Kent67b on May 23, 2019 14:43:04 GMT -8
FIRST MANRyan Gossling portrays Neil Armstrong in this sometimes cold and detached but still extremely worthwhile look at how much the road to becoming the first person to walk somewhere in the Universe other than Earth took on him and his family. Well directed by Damien Chazelle ( LA LA LAND), with a screenplay by Josh Singer ( SPOTLIGHT; THE POST), based on the book by James R. Hansen. 9.5/10.
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