December 2009
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Sherlock Holmes (2009)
I watched this with my father because we both liked Snatch and therefore Guy Ritchie, the director of this film and Snatch. I also happen to like Jude Law’s face.
Too bad it didn’t live up to his name much. The only really Ritchie-like points were the marvelous presentation of credits at the end of the film (personally my favourite part of the movie), the slow-mo bare fisted...
Dead Man Walking
Borrowed this because 1) Sean Penn is in it and 2) It won Susan Sarandon her Best Actress Oscar. Didn’t really know what it was about except that it involves a nun and a man on death row. (Hence the title)
This movie felt extremely long to me, and at first, it was super hard to know what they were saying as there were no English subtitles on the DVD and the characters all had a clipped...
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Rain Man
Finally watched this movie that I had been wanting for watch forever, and it didn’t disappoint IN THE LEAST. It’s amazing because my expectations for this was exceptionally high, but this still managed to meet them. Also worth noting that despite being from 1988, and there are a lot of fashions from that time, the movie still manages to make me forget its age because it’s just...
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Milk
Was really looking forward to this for two reasons: 1) Sean Penn and 2) It got Sean Penn an Oscar for Best Actor.
However, I found this difficult to watch because I was watching the beginning of it during dinner, because my sibling insisted that we “get the movie over with as quickly as possible” so he can use the TV to play his stupid crappy MMO, and the beginning of this movie...
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Ocean's Eleven
lol My dad asked me why I borrowed this from the library when it’s always being played on TV. I answered that there are no commercial breaks in the DVD version, and I know when it’s starts/is on if I borrow the thing.
Anyways, finally decided to watch this 2001 remake since a friend said it was pretty good and that I should watch it. I wasn’t about to decline that...
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Good Night, and Good Luck
George Clooney’s the director here, and is a film set entirely in black and white. Wanted to watch this because I was in love with the title, and I have a bias towards Clooney’s appeance. Had no idea what it was about, but thought that it was about a radio show host.
Except I was wrong about that, and it’s actually about a television show host who’s countering a...
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Lost in Translation
Watched this because I heard “everyone” praise it. Was expecting to like it, and was really looking forward to watching it, but not only disappointed me, it also bored me out of my mind.
I understand that a lot of people who like this movie will say that there’s a lot of “underlying meaning” and is pretty realistic in that you can kind of relate to it, but I was...