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TBH, I wasn't impressed. Very much less than the sum of its parts. A lot of great effort is wasted in another Nolan clunker. And I'm not sure what Nolan is trying to say. The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer? All glory is fleeting? Nuclear weapons are… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

You could always abandon the car. It will be towed. You shouldn't be on the hook unless you want it back. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The part where Kimball confronts Zack's dad and then has to go to the principal's office is the movie for me. Schwarzenegger socking an abuser in the gut is wish fulfillment for a lot of people. And then Arnold and Linda Hunt have a great scene… [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

Mixed feelings. I caught up yesterday. So I'm very much, "it's over already?" But I very much like that ending. If I want a battle, I'll load up Shogun: Total War. [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

One of my top three samurai movies. The story, writing, production, acting, everything is superb. I can't say enough, so I won't try! [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

Not really a favorite movie. But it is one I like to watch from time to time. If only for the beginning. Don Pedro and Friends riding up to the villa! Raising their fists in glory! The Household excited for visitors! Everyone getting cleaned up… [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

Inception is half-baked in my opinion. If the time had been taken to really think about the world they were creating, some of the dreamstuff could have been more than just cool plot filler, but really really out there and mind blowing. But… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by St. Peepsburg, The corpse in the library, litleozy, Sockin'inthefreeworld, eckeric, Cannon Fodder, whir, Popular Ethics, BungaDunga, iamkimiam, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, Tehhund, DirtyOldTown
FanFare comment - 9 months ago

While I do like CaPD better since it is more Go Team America!, I consider PG to be a far better movie. It's got a great plot that is well executed. The cast is loaded. And Harrison is more 80s-action than 90s-everyman. [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

Tonight On...
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Ask MeFi post - Last year

I live in a university town. The only men I see shirtless in a public setting anymore are joggers, and those are either the hardcore runners or the men with sculpted bodies. [more]
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What's difference between spray pain relievers?
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Yes. I find watching a movie or a couple episodes of a favorite show is an excellent time-suck in the late evening. [more]
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I can't speak to your other issues. But you went to a "teaching school." Of course the doctor is going talk to his student during the procedure. He's teaching. I go to a teaching hospital for all of my heathcare needs and I regularly deal… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I'm wondering, how much do you need to say for a toast? Just a few words along the lines of how you know the bride and how happy you are that the groom has made her an honest woman (hint hint) should suffice. Conclude with the actual toast. [more]
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A good GPA is something to point at. But I will go to my grave believing I was accepted to my B1G school solely for my ACT score. I was a pathetic student in high school with middling grades. I sucked at math and science. I dropped out of the… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

A metaphor for life in the form of post-apocalyptic thriller. I liked it. But I will never read again. [more]
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Wrap yourself in a sheet and go as Julius Caesar. [more]
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I watched The American President often back in the day. And while I have issues with some of its politics, I remember enjoying it as a decent enough movie. But I mostly remember it for being the inspiration for The West Wing. [more]
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Between this, TRON, and Time After Time, David Warner had an excellent villain run there on the cusp of the decade. Bookended by playing Heydrich in Holocaust (1978) and Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985) on television. [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

What driving game was I playing?
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Ask MeFi post - Last year

Two things stand out to me in Eastwood's masterpiece. 1) The English Bob sub-plot and how it ties into the William Munny mystique. Bob talks about how an assassin is unable to shoot the Queen because she is majestic. And then at the end of the movie,… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

A classic from my childhood. I rewatch it from time to time. There are no weak links in the acting and Robert Preston is spectacular. The effects, yeah, this is nascent CGI. But it looks cool and they did a fine job merging it with the live action. [more]
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Fire in the Sky (1993) [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I've never seen Primal Fear from start to finish and I've never felt the need to. Edward Norton's performance during the denouement is the movie for me. [more]
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I rewatched Taps last night. And I got more out of it than I ever have in the past. The movie is buoyed by its performances and production values. George C. Scott is excellent in what is basically the Patton character in another time and… [more]
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Taxi Driver has one of the best shots in any movie I have ever seen. When Travis is on the phone with Betsy, pleading for a date, the camera slowly pans right until Travis is out of the frame. It was almost like I was looking away because I… [more]
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I've only seen Dick Tracy once, in the theater when it came out. Nothing, absolutely nothing, from the movie sticks out in my memory. Utterly forgettable is all I can say about it. It doesn't help that DT is kind of lost in the shuffle among… [more]
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The most basic way countries communicate is through embassies. For instance, if the U.S. wants to communicate with Russia, the ambassador to Russia delivers a message to the Russian foreign minister. Or the State Department summons the Russian… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I rewatched School Ties the other night. This is not a bad movie at all. It doesn't have the starpower or the iconic moments that Dead Poets Society has. But the story is good and the acting is solid. Plus, I enjoyed seeing Brendan,… [more]
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Movie: School Ties
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I have seen Munich just once, years ago. I would say that the movie is even-handed in the sense that neither side is particularly lionized. The story is more the main character's emotional journey along the way rather than a straight… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

I agree with GenjiandProust. I would also add, Amistad suffers from the fact that Lincoln follows many of the same beats, which kind of diminishes each movie's impact in retrospect. [more]
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ToD is the Indiana Jones of my childhood. It's the Indiana Jones we had taped off of Cinemax (right alongside Goonies and Return of the Jedi, IIRC) and that I watched again and again with my brother. Raiders is the superior movie,… [more]
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The beginning of TGoW blew me away the first time I saw it. The movie did an excellent job of creating atmosphere: Tom roaming around a desolate and oppressive OK countryside. [more]
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I will third The Duellists. There is a sword fight every... half an hour maybe? They fight at least four times, IIRC. Once even on horseback! [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Brooklyn is excellent. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

A staple of my adolescence, absolutely. This is not a bad movie at all. The part that I remember best is Swell and Kenny having a domestic argument, Swell noticing that Kenny fluffed the cushions on the couch and complimenting him on it, and then… [more]
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Is there a non-emergency number for the police? If I were you, I would call and say something like, "I saw something going on in the park. I don't need the details, but is there a danger to the public, so I can take appropriate precautions?… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I think its because of the fact that Kate and William were boyfriend-girlfriend for so long before they got married. To a lot of people, she is simply Kate Middleton. With Diana, there was only six months from engagement to wedding, and then fifteen… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

A specialist, you're not going to hurt their feelings if you move on. Because you are just one more patient in a neverending line of patients. I understand your father's point of view. But remember, he is speaking as a family doctor who sees the same… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I agree with everyone who is saying that you should go. I lost my brother in July and I remember who came, who didn't, and those who didn't bother to reach out at all. BUT! If you are deadset against going... I suggest you inquire about if the… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

If you really do want to make it easier on yourself to discard this part of your life (and believe me, I know it's hard), you might try asking yourself, "who am keeping these papers for? What will happen to these papers when I'm gone? What do I… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I like what you're doing so far. But I would also recommend prayer. Context: member of the CC. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Satan's Alley was a masterpiece. Even better than Hamlet starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

For me, Lex Luthor's best moment in Superman is the end, when he whips off his wig, scowls up at the warden, and declares himself "Lex Luthor, the greatest criminal mind of our time." For one brief shining moment, we see the… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I have fond memories of the days when I could watch The Beastmaster once a week (at least, sometimes even more than once a day) on TBS (I miss watching the Braves every night too). More recently, I finally watched Beastmaster for… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Oh, you almost had me. I even looked up S1 to refresh my memory so that I could say something intelligent. But nope, I am not getting sucked in to TWD. :D [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Speaking as someone with a medical condition that has destroyed my quality of life, will kill me one way or another, sooner rather than later, and has already taken my twin brother before me, please, please, please understand, there is helping and… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

Deep Impact is a favorite, for no other reason than Thomas Beck is my favorite fictional POTUS. Morgan Freeman oozes confidence and competence in the role. As for the movie itself, I have dreamed about it having been made as a TV miniseries… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Now that my brain has been cooking on it, I realize Braveheart's biggest problem for me is that it's about the wrong people. Longshanks, his son, and the princess are all far more interesting than Wallace and his collection of Alpha Male… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

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