Posted by moviegeek916 on August 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – I try to stick to the movie in these articles but I feel I should address something surrounding this movie. I go out to a bar every Thursday night and after getting home I decided to watch The Dark Knight, because I knew that the next day (or technically later … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Batman & Robin (1997) – Sigh… so in the past couple years I have revisited a couple movies that I remember hating and finding out they weren’t quite as awful as they were in my memory (The Phantom Menace was by far the most surprising of these). So I have to admit I went into this … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 26, 2012 · 1 Comment
If you want to know what I felt were the best movies of the year etc. then that’s a different article altogether (one that can be read here). This is about the Oscars. For most categories, I just offer a quick pick for what WILL win and a brief explanation for why I think that. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on December 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Descendants (2011) – George Clooney is one of those actors who has personality that tends to bleed through to whatever role he’s playing. There’s even a sort of charm in him even when he’s playing a cold-blooded CIA assassin (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, or his Oscar-winning role in Syriana) or the single worst … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Ides of March (2011) – I have been in college for a long time, mostly due to dropping out a lot and changing majors. At a certain point I figured I’d just pick a god damn major and stick with it so I could just get a degree and get it the hell over … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The American (2010) — For better or worse this is more the movie I though Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control would be and as such, I liked it rather more than that movie. It has a sort of throwback feel to it, like low-key character driven Eurpoean movies from the 1950s and 1960s. Hell … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Up in the Air (2009) — Like many Americans I lost my job last year. So did my dad. So did everyone I worked with, as a matter of fact. So the downsizing prick that is the protagonist of this film should be subject to my immediate revulsion. Yet as he did for a fast-talking … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009) — Reasonably funny throughout but not stellar. The opening disclaimer “more of this is true than you might expect” kind of says it all in terms of tone. Clooney is great by playing his absurd role with intense sincerity. McGreggor’s American accent sounds not totally convincing and he … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 