Recent Dyalogues in Movies/Film
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Academy Awards review
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CompletedUpdated yesterdayI haven't seen half the movies, but that's not the point. I watch the Oscars for the fashion, the speeches and the upsets. I can't get enough.
2 weeks ago
Paranormal Activity, directed by Oren Peli
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CompletedUpdated on Feb 28, 2010Katie and Micah, two young lovers living the privleged life in modern San Diego, California, become curious about the resurgence of supernatural activity in their home. Though Micah works to intensify the strange events to a level that will make a good YouTube video, Katie only wants to get away. Will they discover the true nature of what haunts their perfect home, in time?
The Blind Side
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CompletedUpdated on Feb 26, 2010Rated: PG-13
Running time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
Directed by: John Lee Hancock
Written by: John Lee Hancock, based on the book by “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” by Michael Lewis
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quentin Aaron, Kathy Bates, Lily Collins, Jae Head
Even though the first thing The Blind Side offers us is an explanation of the game and the importance of the left tackle, the voice over provided by Sandra Bullock lets us know that this film - while about football - is also all about Bullock playing Leigh Anne Tuohy. When the good-hearted spitfire Leigh Anne is driving her brood home from a school event and spots the lumbering Michael Oher sloshing through the rain and finds out he’s as homeless as he looks, she insists he hop in and come home with them. Michael quickly becomes a part of the family, but slowly opens up. He’s bright, but not the best student; so the Tuohy’s hire a tutor, Miss Sue (Kathy Bates). He’s a wall of a guy and fiercely protective, but not an instant natural at football; so Leigh Anne, her son SJ (Jae Head) and Coach Cotton (Ray McKinnon) take turns teaching him skills. His mother’s a crack addict and can’t help him or herself; so the Tuohy’s adopt him. The Blind Side, based on the non-fiction book, “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” by Michael Lewis, is a story of a seemingly saintly rich white family who takes in a homeless African-American teenager who eventually goes onto NFL glory. It’d be a pretty unbelievable story…if it weren’t true.
3 weeks ago
A Serious Man (Coen Brothers)
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CompletedUpdated on Feb 23, 2010Joel & Ethan Coen's most recent movie follows Larry Gopnik, a physics professor obsessed with a feeling of impending doom. The movie is set in early 70s Minnesota.
4 weeks ago
Movie Review: 2012
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CompletedUpdated on Feb 17, 2010Roland Emmerich directs his latest End of the World movie, 2012, a special effects-laden disaster pic heavy on effects, light on the special.
John Cusack leads a superb cast of actors (including Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejifor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt and Woody Harrelson), playing a failed novelist trying to get his estranged family to safety, while the world self-destructs around him. Danny Glover is the esteemed President trying to keep the country calm. And Woody Harrelson plays a crazy environmentalist who fortold the end of the world (natch).
Just as he did in The Day After Tomorrow, Emmerich creates City-crushing earthquakes, texas-sized explosions, volcanic eruptions that would make Krakatoa jealous and Tsunami after mighty Tsunami, for viewers who enjoy watching scenes of urban landscapes and famous landmarks get demolished. All the usual disaster movie cliches are in effect, including: adorable young moppets put in peril, the crying wife, the wacky survivalist who knew all along, the dog that just won't die, the slimy bureacrat who cares only of money and power and not of the people that are dying RIGHT OUTSIDE, doors that won't close in time, last-second rescues, emotional family reunions, unexpected heroism and debris. Lots of debris.
2012 may mark the end of the world, but here it just marks an average special FX blockbuster.
Zombieland, directed by Ruben Fleischer
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CompletedUpdated on Feb 17, 2010After a fast food hamburger contaminated with mutated Mad Cow disease transforms America into a land infested with feverish cannabilistic plague victims, a young World of Warcraft survivor travels the ravaged landscape, battling his way to Columbus, Ohio. Enroute young Jesse develops a booklet of tips for surviving the plague, and bands together with three more strange people who escaped the zombie hordes -- so far.
Valentine's Day (2009)
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CompletedUpdated on Feb 16, 2010Valentine's Day, the commercial holiday, is loaded with high expectations. Valentine's Day, the commercial movie, is loaded with stars. The holiday is all about showing your love. The movie is all about showing off your cast. Could a movie that has so many celebrities be more than hype? Could it actually be a decent romantic comedy with a gooey caramel center?
Feb 2010
The Hangover, directed by Todd Phillips
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CompletedUpdated on Feb 08, 2010Three lifetime pals head off to Vegas for a "boys' night out" bachelor's party, shortly before one of them gets married. Also along for the ride is the brother of the bride, a misfit who thinks of the group as his wolf pack and has a plan for winning big at the casinos. It all seems like the best Vegas vacation ever -- until most of them wake up the next morning with no memory of what happened to their missing buddy. Together they search for the truth among the clues left in the debris of their Las Vegas hotel suite.
Voiceover Narration: The Good, the Bad, and the Unnecessary
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CompletedUpdated on Feb 04, 2010Voiceover narration has long been a key component of movie storytelling, but it seems to be employed more and more frequently by today's filmmakers. Movie reviewers R. Kurt Osenlund and Pete Croatto look into a handful of film voicovers and decide which ones add to, and which ones subtract from, the moviegoing experience.
Jan 2010
Pandorum, directed by Christian Alvert
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CompletedUpdated on Jan 31, 2010Two crewmen aboard a massive sleeper ship enroute to a new planet -- with a cargo of colonists in hibernation pods -- awake to an apparently empty vessel and dying power systems. As memory and skills slowly return, the two battle to resurrect the ship before alien monsters and crazed crewmen destroy the last of the sane human beings aboard.
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