Leaving Las Vegas is a movie about what would happen if someone hired Nicolas Cage to pretend to be a drunk. Elisabeth Shue half redeems the movie.
This is a strange Subtitle Goof — it’s not a goof. The goof is with the caption, an English translation from the Latvian pimp patrol. The subtitle actually corrects the caption.
Sometimes you’ll see a movie or read a book, and you’ll think, “Man! I wish I had written that!” This is one of ‘em. The key to a good movie is to be able to empathize with the protagonist. Have you seen “Basic Instinct 2?” What a spiteful piece of crap. You don’t care if Sharon Stone’s character kills them, or if she gets killed, or if everyone dies. JUST EVERYONE DIE AND GET THE MOVIE OVER WITH!
Now, really good movies let you empathize with more than the protagonist. Like A Simple Plan. You don’t have to like the character, but you have to care about what happens to them.
All of the major characters in The Lives of Others are sympathetic. Even the scummiest of them I could understand. This is the best movie I’ve seen this year.
Should be “Looks like a 50th.”
He’s actually saying [from "The Raven"]: “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming….”
An inspiring story, to be sure.
I hadn’t seen Two Moon Junction in 15 years, and I don’t remember it being such a dorky movie. Couldn’t make it all the way through.
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I was very surprised with Lucky Slevin – it’s now one of my favorite movies.
Black Narcissus was
The Bourne Supremacy and its predecessor The Bourne Identity are required viewing. Watch them if you haven’t.
Here (“I’m gonna ask you some some simple questions.”) is a form of parablepsis called dittography — the unintentional repetition of characters. See a Biblical example (II Samuel 6:3-4). Or another at Leviticus 20:10.
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My kind of movie.
“You said money was is no object.”
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Memento is another excellent movie and is one of the few I own.
The Usual Suspects is the greatest movie of all time.
Hudson Hawk is one of the greatest movies of all time. Bunny, ball ball.
