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I had a movie marathon this weekend but just got around to posting this...
Sum of All Fears -- 8/10
Men of Honor -- 9/10
An Unfinished Life -- 10/10
The Seventh Sign -- 5/10
The Green Zone -- 10/10
50 First Dates -- 9/10
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Inception -- 12/10
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Salt -- 10/10
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Aug 7, 2010 - 10:14 AM
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TominAtl
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TOY STORY 3.
After finding INCEPTION to be a technical marvel, but an emotional void, the animated toys from this film had me brimming over with emotion.
Although a tad too long, and a bit draggy in the middle, the final half hour or so had me wiped out emotionally. Talk about being put through the wringer!
A fantastic, fitting conclusion for these characters, it certainly gave HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON some competition for fave cartoon of the year.
Randy Newman's score, also during the last third, was amongst the best stuff I've heard from him for some time. That music as the characters were trundling towards the furnace was quite amazing.
I'm beginning to think Pixar may never go wrong.
I've thought that for years now. Even their weakest efforts (Cars for examples) are miles ahead of many other heavily touted efforts.
And yes, this is one of the years best films too. right along with How to Train Your Dragon.
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Are We Done Yet -- 7/10
A breezy, pleasant way to spend 90 minutes. Pretty formulaic and unoriginal, but that's not always a terrible thing. John C. McGinley easily steals the show as an eccentric, over-the-top contractor with really inspired gesticulations and line delivery. He could have easily rehashed his comic approach that he played to perfection as Dr. Cox on Scrubs, but here he comes up with a new, fresh comic character creation, and has a lot of fun with it. I enjoy some Ice Cube movies just for their silly sense of fun (Trespass, xXx2: State of the Union, Barbershop), and in this one he, like McGinley, just has a good time with the role of a continually bumbling family man trying to put his new dream home together. Sort of a modern Money Pit, without the star magnetism of Tom Hanks, but still enjoyable. Cube is surprisingly committed and skilled at physical comedy, too. And Nia Long is hah-hot!!! Finally, Jonathan Katz makes an appearance as his neighbor.
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The Birds (1963) 8/10. I still find this fascinating even with its flaws because I love the whole way way Hitchcock slowly builds things up in the beginning. The moment of the gull crashing into the house and the observation that it couldn't have become lost because there's a full moon captures perfectly an air of dead calm before some calamitous tornado about to strike and the fact that there's no score further supports that atmosphere. Smart move on Hitchcock's part.
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Appaloosa -- 7/10
Better than average western. Directing duties capably handled by star Ed Harris. A little uneven and the female lead (Renee Zellweger) is shockingly unlikeable. The best part of the movie is Viggo Mortensen, and a roster of some of my favorite actors: Harris, Jeremy Irons, Rex Linn, Lance Henriksen, James Gammon, Tom Bower. Definitely a very unpredictable movie, too, which can be hard to pull off.
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The Other Guys -- 8/10
When Will Ferrell is hot, he's hot. Mark Wahlberg was very funny, and I loved Michael Keaton showing up in a comedy again! Haven't seen him in awhile. He keeps quoting lines from TLC songs ("Don't go chasing waterfalls!" / "I don't want no scrubs") but is completely oblivious to the fact that they are lines from a song. "Captain, you keep quoting lines from TLC!" "I really have no idea what you're talking about." Michael Keaton's character not only is the police captain; he also has a part time job at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.  "The new bath mats are in!"
Eva Mendes...whoa!
A couple great insults by Mark Wahlberg about Ferrell:
"When your piss hits the urinal, it sounds feminine!"
"You can't even fart like a man. When you fart it sounds like a baby blowing out the candles on his birthday cake...phhhh..."
And..."He wants to do sexual things to you that include a mannequin hand and an electric razor taped to a golf club."
Very funny movie!
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