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Fury has to be one of the most underrated movies of the year. soooooo damn good

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go birds wrote:Fury has to be one of the most underrated movies of the year. soooooo damn good
Brad Pitt has to have one of the best filmographies of all active leading men in all of hollywood, he has very few duds. He has so many really good movies that have a darker tone to them like this movie, Kalifornia, Seven, Twelve Monkeys, Fight Club and so on.

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Dumb action movie kick here.

John Wick and The Equalizer in the last week.

Oddly similar movies. Retired hitmen who you already know are just gonna kick all the Russian mafia bad guys' asses very violently until the movie ends happy. Goofy and cheesy and both very entertaining. Equalizer would have been terrible if it had been any other actor, I think. Denzel has enough swagger to make watchers roll their eyes during all the totally absurd plot elements. Pretty much the same for Keanu, although John Wick never takes itself seriously at all, a la Crank or Scott Pilgrim.

Lucy was pretty damn stupid. I didn't have any smoke to make all of Luc Besson's neon-light philosophy come off as anything but corny as [expletive].

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Watched The Voices with Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick last night.

What i thought was going to be a (dark) comedy actually ended up being something completely different--a chilling look at mental illness.

It was actually really good and i recommend.

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I enjoyed John Wick quite a bit. It revels in the clichés, even winks at them from time to time. It's a lot of fun.

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So this Kingsman thing, it's rated R, but I thought from the first few trailers it was an Agent Cody Banks kind of thing. Hmm.

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JL21 wrote:I enjoyed John Wick quite a bit. It revels in the clichés, even winks at them from time to time. It's a lot of fun.
I had a thoroughly good time watching it too.

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MrSaigon wrote:So this Kingsman thing, it's rated R, but I thought from the first few trailers it was an Agent Cody Banks kind of thing. Hmm.
Why is Russell Simmons in it? That's what I want to know. Has he been labeled as a hip hop mogul all been to deflect that he worked for some undercover agency?

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Watched "The Judge" over the weekend and while it was a decent movie I was hoping for better.

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cardinalkarp wrote:Watched "The Judge" over the weekend and while it was a decent movie I was hoping for better.
I was disappointed. Incredibly predictable. Didn't really deliver either.

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