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Tag: Movies

  • Smokey and the Bandit

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    I was really expecting not to enjoy watching this — I knew that I loved it as a kid, but I was sure it would feel too corny and probably unfunny to me now. Lo and behold, I had an absolute blast watching it again. Sure, a lot of it is nostalgia — and finding…

  • The Kentucky Fried Movie

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    Look, this was never a good movie, but as a kid, it was a pretty crazy movie to watch, and that’s probably more because of the nudity (boobs galore) than for the comedy. As a kid I loved the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker stuff (Airplane, Top Secret, Naked Gun, etc.) and this is pretty much a proto version of…

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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    When I started watching this I wasn’t really feeling it, and immediately was thinking that it was going to be a bit of a slog to get through. Sure, I had fond memories of enjoying it when I was a kid, but I hadn’t re-watched in ages. Then, after about the first half hour, I…

  • Clive Davis: The Sountrack of Our Lives

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    I’d of course heard of Clive Davis, and knew he was an important figure in the music industry, but I didn’t really know much more than that. Watching this new documentary that was produced for Apple Music, I found myself really enjoying finding out how big an impact he had on the industry, and the…

  • The Beguiled

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    I was looking forward to watching this because I’m a big fan of Sofia Coppola’s films, and it felt like forever since I’d last seen one — looking up IMDB, I see that her last film was The Bling Ring, back in 2013. As for this, I’ll say that I didn’t much like the story,…

  • The Little Hours

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    I was really looking forward to watching this — the trailer they released for this film was one of the funniest things I’d seen. Having watched the full movie, I can’t help but feel disappointed. It was still mostly fun to watch, but the vast majority of the big laughs were all featured in that…

  • Pumping Iron

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    This is it, the film that gave us Arnold Schwarzenegger. As famous/infamous as this documentary is, I’d never seen it, and so didn’t really know much of what to expect (other than the famous scene where you see Arnie smoking a joint after he wins the title). I did enjoy this, although you have to…

  • Exorcist II: The Heretic

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    As I start winding down my 1977 movie marathon (when I started, I immediately picked the 10 movies I was going to watch), this is definitely one of the weirdest of the bunch. The original Exorcist is of course a classic (but to be honest, one that I haven’t revisited in years), and I think…