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A Few Good Men. More like A Few Good Scenes!

Kidding. It's good. Solid, well-crafted middlebrow courtroom drama with some great performances and Aaron Sorkin's least annoying writing. Tom Cruise has a "drunk scene" that's hilarious because he looks like a person who's never had a drop of alcohol in his life doing an impression of a belligerent drunk. Pretty funny
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Warcraft

Was surprised that I like this a few years ago. Second time seeing it today.
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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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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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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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Green Room


Ok. The villains were suppose to seem rational but really weren’t and it got distracting
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I really enjoyed the movie, but do agree with that.
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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:Also Kevin Pollock is such a lifeless actor
You take that back you sonuvvabitch!!!
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Jorge wrote:A Few Good Men. More like A Few Good Scenes!

Kidding. It's good. Solid, well-crafted middlebrow courtroom drama with some great performances and Aaron Sorkin's least annoying writing. Tom Cruise has a "drunk scene" that's hilarious because he looks like a person who's never had a drop of alcohol in his life doing an impression of a belligerent drunk. Pretty funny
Rewatchables made the same comment on that drunk seen. I agree it’s Sorkin’s best work.
I still love it. One of my favorites.
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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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Hail, Caesar!

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Second time watching this. Thought it was just ok the first time.
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Watching Knightriders. It's a George Romero movie about a group of motorcycle riding jousters led by Ed Harris.

I'm really enjoying it so far.
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JuanHamm wrote:Watching Knightriders. It's a George Romero movie about a group of motorcycle riding jousters led by Ed Harris.

I'm really enjoying it so far.

This was really good. A fun movie with a lot of heart and some cool motorcycle stunts. A very good Sunday afternoon movie.
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Hell yes, that movie is great. Top five Romero for sure
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tragabigzanda wrote:
wease wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Also Kevin Pollock is such a lifeless actor
You take that back you sonuvvabitch!!!
I don’t think it’s bad, per se; there’s a need for cool, confident characters in lots of stories, and he delivers that well. I just can’t think of a time he’s ever registered any sort of energy or charisma.
He’s great in Mrs Maisel
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spike wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
wease wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Also Kevin Pollock is such a lifeless actor
You take that back you sonuvvabitch!!!
I don’t think it’s bad, per se; there’s a need for cool, confident characters in lots of stories, and he delivers that well. I just can’t think of a time he’s ever registered any sort of energy or charisma.
He’s great in Mrs Maisel
Yup, potentially his best character
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I just watched a British crime/revenge movie called Avengement. It was a very simple story executed very well. They packed an unbelievable amount of action into 90 minutes.
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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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