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  • Safe House 2012

    ★★½ Watched 08 Feb, 2012 1

    No comment.

  • Top Gun 1986

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Aug, 2012

    Classic. LOVE this movie. So damn good! One of Tony Scott's (RIP) bests. Everything about it is near perfect, it captures wonderfully and achieves everything it sets out to, with regard to this story about "Top Gun" fighter pilots. Entertaining beyond all, still exciting, fun, enjoyable to watch (I saw it so many times as a kid, too). Good emotion all around, just perfect. Dog fighting scenes are badass, exhilarating, and the editing is outstanding. Plus, I love the sort of unconventional twist (he doesn't get Top Gun!) in the story but that's what makes it great.

  • Blood Diamond 2006

    ★★★★ Rewatched 07 Feb, 2012

    Surprisingly better than I remember, great production values, solid story, some cheesy moments, but overall quite good.

  • Goon 2012

    ★★★½ Watched 24 Feb, 2012

    Solid hockey comedy, but he was just a goon... More F words in this than I've heard in a while, too.

  • Room 237 2013

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 May, 2012

    I LOVE this doc. Such a fun, funny, amusing, entertaining, intriguing, engaging experience, and told in such a unique way - with clips of footage and nothing more (no talking heads). Seeing this for my second time, it's an excellent look at not only the brilliance of Stanley Kubrick as a filmmaker, but the culture/fascination that arises in investigating the depths of a film after it's released. Love it.

  • Senna 2011

    ★★★★★ Watched 09 Apr, 2012 1

    This is an absolutely phenomenal film, wow. Breathtaking, pure beautiful cinema, capturing an honest, riveting, intimate look at the life of a man living his passions to the fullest. I didn't expecting it to be so fascinating, and take me on such an emotional journey. What an incredible man, I am just as honored to learn about who he is and what he believes in than I am to hear his story about how he was one of the great…

  • I Saw The Devil 2011

    ★★★★ Watched 13 Feb, 2012 1

    Some dark, demented, violent, crazy shit, but damn good.

  • Take This Waltz 2012

    ★★½ Watched 02 Jun, 2012

    What a very odd, awkward film. Basically an entire film about adultery, and how hard this young girl tries not to commit it. As much as I wanted to love it, and it has some gorgeous cinematography, the characters felt flimsy and undefined. It's an interesting film, but that's as much as I can say for it. I loved how it ended, that final scene, at least! Yea...

  • The Sessions 2012

    ★★★½ Watched 26 Jan, 2012

    Great film, the structure/style is a bit typical, but the performances are tremendous. John Hawkes is outstanding in this.

  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 2011

    ★★★½ Watched 20 Feb, 2012

    Another good, not great. Emotion was there, that's for sure, just odd moments throughout. Solid, but needed work.

  • The Hunt 2013

    ★★ Watched 19 May, 2012

    Infuriating Danish story about lies and lying. Great performance by Mads Mikkelsen, beautifully shot, but such a frustrating, angering film, I couldn't like it. By the end I was just happy to get out of there. Some will love it, others will hate it, I fell towards the latter.

  • John Dies at the End 2013

    ★★★½ Watched 23 Jan, 2012

    Insanely weird, wild, wacky film from Don Coscarelli.