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The Stranger 1946
I'm surprised this Orson Welles-directed noir isn't better known than it is, because it is one solid suspenser. Edward G. Robinson is a "sort of detective" working to track down Nazi war criminals, and he thinks he's found one in small-town USA. We know he's right pretty much from the beginning (so that's not a spoiler), but how it plays out keeps the suspense high. It's very similar to Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (maybe that's why it's a bit…
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957
How it entered my Flickchart:
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral > Benji
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral > The Stratton Story
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral < National Velvet
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral < Little Rural Riding Hood
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral > This is Not a Film
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral > Haywire
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral > Born to Kill
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral < Sleeping Beauty
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral > Monsieur Verdoux
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral < Rooty Toot Toot
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral > GattacaFinal ranking: #434
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Iron Man 2 2010
I figured I'd go ahead and watch this before The Avengers comes out, since I had missed it in theatres the year it came out. "Missed" isn't the right word. I heard bad things about it and opted not to go. And yeah, this movie is pretty boring, especially for an action movie. There are only like two and a half actual action scenes in it.
The first hour or so I was kind of bored stiff - there were…
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The Raid: Redemption 2012
For a little while I was afraid I'd misheard and it was gonna be all guns, which would've been boring and just needlessly violent (in a boring way). But then the hand-to-hand stuff started, and all of that was awesome. So yeah. Just enough story to string a nearly 100-minute long fight scene on, and that was enough. Also, it was surprisingly well-paced for basically being a long fight scene, with some breather sections in there at just the right times. Definitely had fun with this.
