What movies are you watching?

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Anders wrote:
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BULLET TRAIN IS SO BAD HOLY SHIT
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Jorge wrote:BULLET TRAIN IS SO BAD HOLY SHIT
I tried to warn you. I tried to warn you all
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I'm going to see it now.
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Sharp Stick

well, i couldnt even finish it. Jeez what a incredible piece of shit movie. Ill finish it just for the kicks, but lena dunham please do not try to make another feature again.

It also seems the main character had some mental disability or something? well, pretty much every character to be honest.
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Seen Eastern Promises, now Michael Clayton.

Only two 2007 movies left after this one.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Anders wrote:Seen Eastern Promises, now Michael Clayton.

Only two 2007 movies left after this one.
Review them
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I need to watch that one again. It’s been a long time
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Have you ever Eastern Promised anyone, Burt?
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Eastern Promises is a brutal and original movie, about Russian and Chechen gangsters clashing in London. It’s sly and darkly comedic, and after a quick start, it slows down to a steady pace. Viggo Mortensen does perhaps his best role, and Cronenberg really shines as well. Carefully designing a story, a cinematography and a film that fully delivers, both in quiet moments and in full action scenes.

Michael Clayton could have been a five star movie, it’s not quite there, but still a solid movie, worth rewatching. It’s prime Clooney, at the peak of his career. The setting is moody and stylish, the entire film shot during winter. The story builds slowly, as the plot goes from one setup to another. There is no action or humor, instead a slow building of suspense, showing corporate greed. Michael Clayton (Clooney) is a fixer, a lawyer whose job it is to make clients’ problems disappear. He also has a huge problem with his personal finances. His company is now representing a chemical company, and he’s in the middle of it all. It starts with his car exploding, without him in it, and then jumps back four days. I won’t spoil it further.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Anders wrote: Michael Clayton could have been a five star movie, it’s not quite there, but still a solid movie, worth rewatching. It’s prime Clooney, at the peak of his career. The setting is moody and stylish, the entire film shot during winter. The story builds slowly, as the plot goes from one setup to another. There is no action or humor, instead a slow building of suspense, showing corporate greed. Michael Clayton (Clooney) is a fixer, a lawyer whose job it is to make clients’ problems disappear. He also has a huge problem with his personal finances. His company is now representing a chemical company, and he’s in the middle of it all. It starts with his car exploding, without him in it, and then jumps back four days. I won’t spoil it further.
I love Michael Clayton because it feels like a real 70s post-Nixon movie: The China Syndrome, Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, The Conversation, Klute, etc.
It does have a little of that feeling, although doesn’t go as far in the full on conspiracy direction. Rather is feels more real and plausible, with a more sensible government.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I love Michael Clayton. Could be my favorite Clooney role.
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I love Michael Clayton. Could be my favorite Clooney role.
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Never saw it. Clooney doesn’t do it for me
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I love Michael Clooney. Could be my favorite Clayton role.
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