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  • The Goonies 1985

    ★★★½ Watched 08 May, 2013 1

    I didn't grow up with it, so I had no idea what to expect. Thankfully this is not one of those movies that's been ruined by those who love it unabashedly. It has its laughs, its quirks, its fun, its adventure. The cheese is endearing and, overall, a whole better than I expected.

  • Jurassic Park III 2001

    ★★½ Rewatched 03 May, 2013

    Even though Spielberg's sequel was middling, this is a step below that. Still, it's cheesy and fun... at least for the kid in me

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  • Cloud Atlas 2012

    ★★★★½ Watched 03 Nov, 2012 4

    "A half finished book is, after all, a half-finished love affair." - Robert Frobisher

    Cloud Atlas is itself a half-finished love affair - to life, love, birth, death, the soul. It does not neatly come together, nor does it contain any true, solid arcs of story. Piecemeal, it is strung together, just like this existence of ours, and it is only half-finished until it is eclipsed by its ending, death.
    All these stories come and go, intertwined, ever-connected by the…

  • The Master 2012

    ★★★★★ Watched 21 Sep, 2012 4

    I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but above all I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man just like you." – Lancaster Dodd


    Much like his character Mr. Dodd, Paul Thomas Anderson seems to be hopelessly inquisitive, and thus a confounding, enigmatic auteur and artist… which makes it hard to believe he is a big name Hollywood director. Take away Terrence Malick, and he’s probably the closest director Hollywood has that has not…