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  • The Purge: Anarchy

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    Sure, it’s a crazy-ass premise – one night a year, killing is allowed – but I did enjoy watching the first one, and this was good too. Whereas the first one gets you to experience the night in tight quarters and in the form of a home invasion, this one reveals the larger chaos that…

  • 22 Jump Street

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    This movie was so incredibly unfunny. I actually liked the first one, it had a bunch of good laughs, but this one just falls flat. The biggest – and ongoing – joke throughout the movie is that they act like they are a gay couple. Ha, ha. The only thing I enjoyed was the sequel…

  • The Zero Theorem

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    This movie is weird, interesting, fascinating, and oh-so Gilliam. The future depicted is just crazy – in a good way, think Brazil – and the actual plot is, well, that’s not really important. And I so enjoyed the performance by Mélanie Thierry – and her lovely accent. So glad Gilliam is still making movies like…

  • Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

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    I really don’t get why this bombed at the box office, while the first one made a decent amount. I’d say it’s just as good as the first one, with the added bonus of Eva Green, who is fantastic (and yes, incredibly sexy). I doubt they’ll get to make another one, which is a shame.

  • Divergent

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    I have tepid interest in all of these YA movies – even for The Hunger Games, I find it OK, but it doesn’t really grab me – but I did want to check Divergent out because of the sci-fi setting, and because I like Shailene Woodley. I liked this. Sure, the premise is kinda hokey –…

  • The Party

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    OK, you’ll need to get past the fact that Peter Sellers is basically doing “blackface” – portraying an actor from India – but I so loved this film when I was a kid, and watching it again now, I’m still in love. At the core is of course the wacky/zany performance by Sellers, but what…

  • Edge of Tomorrow

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    I sure enjoyed this. I love me some sci-fi, I love me some mech suits, and I love me some interesting storytelling, and this movie had it all. And I still enjoy watching Tom Cruise in a movie, still think he’s good at what he does – hey, I even liked Oblivion – and thought…

  • X-Men: Days of Future Past

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    Why is it that the X-Men movies have absolutely the worst character designs in the super-hero filmscape – I mean, just awful. I could barely stand looking at the screen anytime Quicksilver was on, even though he is the main part of the only 3 things I liked in this movie: the sequence where he…

  • The Black Hole

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    It’s always scary revisiting media that you loved as a kid, because most often than not, it hasn’t aged well. I have very fond memories of watching The Black Hole, and I’m happy to say that I still liked it when I watched it last night. The story is still creepy, and I like the…

  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2

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    I didn’t like this much. I’m trying to figure out what it is that I really didn’t like about it, and I think it’s just a combination of things. The story is uninteresting, Green Goblin looks ridiculous, Electro gets out of jail and suddenly has a uniform with logo… The worse though is that there’s…