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Directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Jake Gyllenhaal & Hugh Jackman. Good, suspenseful, but a watch-once sort of movie. I enjoyed the "war on terror" allusions and metaphors, and was drawn in somewhat by the plot - but - could have as well found something a little richer.
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In full Apocalypse mode, watching the trailer and select scene from the old Dustin Hoffman film "Outbreak". Which was overall a pretty bad movie, but what's curious is how every character has their own agenda, plan, scheme...
As the reality unfolds we discover how optomistic - literally - those predictions were - even for the Villains.
And, after that "12 Monkeys" - which is grotesquely brilliant, Brad Pitt - Bruce Willis - both well outside their typecast roles, and both turning in amazingly relevant performances. Still a 5 star movie, and it hasn't aged badly, not a bit...
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Quite enjoyed this, the aesthetic, look, feel, animation, but on that note Wes Anderson commits the sin of having the "American Savior". By this point it should be obvious that they can't even save themselves. So - all in all, a very good film diminished by the gratuitous presence of an American.
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I downloaded this for the daughter, and as she's been away have been dipping into it a little myself. 36 episodes, approximately 25 minutes each - amazing - when was the last time a season of anything ran 36 episodes? And - no corners cut, all filmed with practical effects, each episode self contained, recognizing the hauntingly familiar faces of actors from my childhood, most long since dead. The "Twilight Zone" launched an awful lot of actors.
Only a few episodes in, in no particular order, you can usually guess the outcome - the intersection of "The Twilight Zone" - but this, largely, is because so much of what has followed has been reworked and redone in more contemporary films.
The "The Hitch Hiker" foreshadowing "Carnival of Souls", and I'm pretty sure it had some influence on "The Sixth Sense", there are others. 60 years later and it's still worth-while.
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Dumb, but I watched it for the scene where they do the advert that interrupts the Carter Presidential Address, and that was funny. Kurt Russell is a stylish clotheshorse for the era, and it's a bit of a blast-from-the-past to see all the big junker cars (which withstood a hell of a lot more abuse than our new modern ones), 70's technology - answering machines, telephones, big TV Cameras - and - there's a scene with a CB where they say "10-4" and any movie that has that can't be ALL bad (actually, it can). Meh. Sometimes it's good to watch something a bit dumb. On that note, surprising how sexy those go-go girls were - and how attitudes have shifted with the plethora of cheap pornography.