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Nice picks. I've not seen Richard Dawson in forever.


I saw Red 2. Decent enough, not quite as good as the first, but it had Anthony Hopkins doing a great job of being a loony loony.



The Jedi Master

Bad Day At Black Rock.

Throne of Blood


One of the absolute best film adaptations of Shakespeare EVER.

Duel at Diablo (1966): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060355/


Wheels

A Single Shot (2013)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540741/

Dark, brooding, movie about a man and the consequences of his actions.

The ominous soundtrack and the gloomy grayish filmography of a landscape devoid of colors adds to the dark mood of this violent and haunting psychological thriller.

It's a shame this film was not even anywhere on the Academy Awards' radar as Sam Rockwell turns in a great performance as a man living in the backwoods whose poverty ridden life doesn't give him many choices and opportunities and how one unexpected tragic event changes his life.

4.5/5

Rewatching "The Wire". Up towards the end of Season 3 now.

What a great show.

You have been and always shall be my friend.

Watched the Sleepy Hollow finale. I didn't see it coming. Bravo for that.




The Jedi Master

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/

Should had been titled The Boring Hunger Games sequel: Catching Zzzz's!

I thought the first one was bad, this is even worse!

On February 2012, I rated the first film a 0.5/5.

I will rate this stinker:

0.1/5

Maybe you didn't like it because you're not a 16 year old girl?

I have 2 daughters who are age 6.

Even if they were 16 right now, I wouldn't want them to waste almost 2 1/2 hours of their lives watching this junk!

There are 2 more Hunger Games movies in the work?

Spare Us All!

I mean, maybe if Jennifer Lawrence was completely naked then I might watch the Hunger Games movies. Maybe....

She didn't even look good in here.

They had her made up to look very conservative and her face looked real puffy.

She was hot and sexy in House At The End Of The Street.

American Hustle (2013)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/

Not impressed by it.

David O. Russell's direction lately has been too much by the number and linear.

Jennifer Lawrence is wasted in this film.

The dialogue (albeit most of it was improvised by the actors and actresses without a script) was awful.

This is what the Academy is picking nowadays for Best Picture?

Inside Llewyn Davis is another much better film than any of this year's Best Picture nominations and yet the Academy totally passed it by.

I think the Academy succumbed once again to Political Correctness and Special Interest.

They picked a movie for Best Picture because they didn't want to offend the Gay and Lesbian community and they picked another movie for Best Picture because they didn't want to be accused of Racial Discrimination.

Then they picked Gravity for Best Picture because it was commercially popular.

1/5

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

I went with a friend and saw this because it was the only one we both could agree on so I wasn't expecting much. Chris Pine's Jack Ryan was the best Jack Ryan since Alec Baldwin. Kenneth Brannaugh played and directed the movie and his work was well done.

A few plot conveniences made some things too predictable but on a whole I liked it. I enjoyed the characters. Keira Knightly looks beautiful and is used to good effect. I haven't read a Tom Clancey book in a while but wasn't there a back story in one of the books where Jack meets his wife because she was his physical therapist or doctor? That's where the movie starts and I felt the telling of that relayed the relationship without too much mellow-drama or unnecessary fluff.

As far as the CIA portion of the movie goes it was tight and in places heart poundingly good. A few quibbles like the conveniences I alluded to before bring it down a notch but over all a good re-imagining of the Jack Ryan story.

3.5/5

Rush (2013)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1979320/

Here's another movie that was snubbed by this year's Academy Awards nominations.

I've seen Dallas Buyers Club and 12 Years A Slave and Captain Philips and The Wolf Of Wall Street and Gravity and American Hustle, 6 of the 10 Best Picture nominees of this year.

None of them moved me.

None of them made me shed any tears.

Not only did "Rush" moved me:

I had a few tears streaming down during several of the scenes.

So why is this movie overlooked by the Academy?

No Best Picture. No Best Director. No Best Actor.

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

Ron Howard is showing why he is getting better and better as a director whenever he directs a dramatic movie.

He is in the same league as Clint Eastwood now as director.

I give this film a 5/5, not only it's a perfect score, I am also rating it .25 higher than my previous rating for 12 Years A Slave and 1.25 higher than my previous ratings for Dallas Buyers Club and The Wolf Of Wall Street.

Out of the Furnace (2013)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543

Terrible! Absolutely Terrible!

The 2 and 1/2 minute trailer was better than the sum of the entire 2 hour movie put together.

The writers had a good idea but they just couldn't deliver with a script that just kept dragging on and on!

Furthermore, you are supposed to feel compassion for the characters and frankly me dear, after almost 1 hr into the film, I didn't give a damn anymore what, if anything, happened to any of them.

1/5

Species - Natasha, oh baby.

The Prestige

Scarlett Johansson in "The Prestige" - Oh baby!