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[wofford29]

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Saw Doomsday on Cinemax yesterday. Not half as bad as I was expecting. I give it a 1.5 out of 10.

 

[Ben]

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Predator - 10/10

 

[kinqcuonq]

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I absolutely love this movie . . I read a really good take on the film on imdb that I will post here:

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Leon
A lot depends on a realization that the film is a tragicomic fantasy with lots of intentionally off-the-wall nonsense. This has nothing to do with Besson not knowing how to create a realistic script. He changed his own very realistic script to include deliberately over-the-top comic nonsense at which the audience was supposed to laugh. For instance:

The original script shows a Léon very much like the character Victor in Nikita. The older Mathilda in it is equally cold-blooded. In an early scene, he is showing Mathilda how to open a locked door. A curious bystander walks up and Léon casually shoots him dead. There are no paint balls or grand rescues from the EPB building.

He teaches Mathilda how to estimate distance with the scope on the rifle and she practices by firing live rounds at an old man on a park bench who sits bewildered by the noise from her misses until her third shot hits and kills him. She has her own hand gun with live rounds that she knows how to use. The Russian Roulette scene in the original is a real test that Léon requires to prove that Mathilda is not afraid of dying. There is no pretense of pulling the gun away. When Mathilda does pull the trigger that happens to be on an empty chamber, the original Léon is overjoyed and covers her face with kisses.

The original older Mathilda was not only a cold-blooded killer but an older and knowledgeable seductress. She asks for a kiss with some tongue in it, arranges for Léon to see her naked in the bathroom and actively seduces him by straddling his legs while he is sitting in a chair. Instead of an attack on the EPB building, the original Mathilda takes revenge on a kid who mocked her by killing him in a game of Russian Roulette. Léon's "rescue" involves killing a few policemen questioning Mathilda about the killing at the apartment building and it is quickly followed by Léon being found and killed. Mathilda dies herself after killing several policemen. She is wearing Léon's overcoat, kisses the dead hitman, tosses a grenade pin to Stansfield and then smiles at him as she reveals a cluster of grenades hidden under the coat.

In the filmed version, Besson transformed Léon into a caricature of knightly attributes, hence the milk symbolizing spiritual innocence and his regression into childhood, the meekness and humility, and the extraordinary feats of skill. Mathilda is transformed into a child/helpless princess who thinks that she knows about sex and violence, but actually knows nothing, is constantly making unreasonable demands, and forever getting herself in trouble from which she has to be rescued. Her purpose in the script is to force Léon through one trial after another. His knightly code keeps him from being able to kill her or let her come to harm in any way, or to compromise her honor/chastity.

The success of the film depends on the audience recognizing and thinking about the layers of artifice, just as the original medieval audiences recognized that real knights were often anything but paragons of virtue and that the chaste spiritual story lines were very tongue in cheek. You get not only the surface tragicomedy, but visual commentary about what is real and what is false in the myths we accept regarding sex, spiritual growth, rationales for "noble" behavior and bloody violence. Mathilda cannot barter for Léon's love with sex or maid service or money. What is there comes with no strings or expectations attached.

WOW! Thank you for sharing. I'm glad Besson took the route he did with the filmed version. It certainly did portray Reno's knightly attributes, I just couldn't put my tongue on the correct adjective. This movie is simply amazing!

 

[Batty]

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 8/10

I've only seen it twice, but I think I liked it even more the second time.

 

[uscmhicks]

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Saw Doomsday on Cinemax yesterday. Not half as bad as I was expecting. I give it a 1.5 out of 10.

 

[Voorhees27]

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 8/10

I've only seen it twice, but I think I liked it even more the second time.

I also liked this film, just don't tell my wife I think so ..................

an easy 8/10 for me too. Oh yeah it was also filmed in part about 10 mins from my house.

 

[LOTRFan]

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 8/10

I've only seen it twice, but I think I liked it even more the second time.

I have been wanting to see this, and it is actually part of the Amazon Blu Ray sale; but I haven't heard too much either way. Is it worth a purchase?

 

[karamazov80]

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I don't think "The Assassination. . ." is worth buying. I mean that, I can't see myself watching it multiple times, though it is a pretty good movie that is certainly worth a rental. There is something intrinsically creepy about Ben Affleck's (superior actor of a) brother. So, he really worked in that role for me. Similar to the way that Owen Wilson has a weird, distant look in his eyes, that really worked in the "Minus Man," to me. I think that Wilson is much more believable as a serial killer than the lead in a romantic comedy.

Anyway,

Burn After Reading: 7/10

Good, not great. Maybe it will grow on me the way that Lebowski has, though (I thought it was only "good" when I saw it in the theaters, now it is one of my all-time favorite comedies). Sometimes I have to watch a Coen Brothers movie a few times before I really start to "get" most of the jokes, etc.

 

[Batty]

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I have been wanting to see this, and it is actually part of the Amazon Blu Ray sale; but I haven't heard too much either way. Is it worth a purchase?

You might want to rent it first. Casey Affleck did a hell of an acting job and it looks beautiful, but it's a long movie that can test the patience of some people.

The Proposition, on the other hand, was a must buy for me. An excellent Western written by Nick Cave. And he did the music for both films.

 

[The Tuggernaut]

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Batman Begins -9/10

 

[MrStayPuft]

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Fistful of Dollars - 8/10

Not really a western fan, but it's hard not to like the "Dollars" trilogy

 

[SovereignStudio]

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'The Happening'
Did not like this one in the least. Sometimes a story is more effective with little to no explanation (i.e; HALLOWEEN) but it didn't work here. If you're going to introduce a complex scientific theory, it needs a lot more meat on its bones then M. Night offered here. I felt the story was weak and ineffective. I fell asleep watching it and had to watch the missed portion the next day. Turns out I missed 20 minutes, and it also turned out I did not need the last 20 minutes to have the complete story. There's a news guy at the end that lays out what the "happening" really was, which was useless. They had already divulged every bit of that info over the course of the story. I really like Night's work, even the movies others didn't like. But this one really dropped the ball. I like the theory put forth; it was actually pretty creepy.But in the "meat" department, this was just a naked bone.

 

[darkchylde80]

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Insanitarium 7/10

Good gore factor, story is ok. Feels alittle like a modern B movie IMO. Worth a watch but wouldn't buy it.

 

[Ben]

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Alien - 10/10

 

[agonistes86]

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Vicky Christina Barcelona 8/10

 

[EVILFACE]

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Gran Torino - 9/10

80 years old and the guy can still stare you down and then beat the ^^^^ out of you.

 

[Voorhees27]

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Gran Torino - 9/10

80 years old and the guy can still stare you down and then beat the ^^^^ out of you.

Yup and its because Eastwood is the freaking man!

 

[DinoLast]

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10 out of 10

 

[Ben]

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Aliens - 10/10

 

[uscmhicks]

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Aliens - 10/10