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Circle (2017) The main problem I see with this movie is that it doesn’t hit the evilness and fascist tendencies of “progressives” who rule the tech world, and by extension, especially according to this movie, the rest of us. There’s a scene where two bright young wokers harangue her, but in a nice way, always smiling, like Mormons, saying disgusting things while acting like your best friend. They passive/agress bitch at her for not getting involved on social media enough.

That, and the company’s new product, a small processor/camera that can be stuck up anywhere and immediately send live video, facial recognition, etc etc. to a satellite. Not one person in this Apple-like mass meeting with Tom Hanks’ Steve Jobs brings up the fact that the government would love this.

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Hangman (2017) Arg. Another artificially contrived murder mystery where they killer has time, finances, intelligence enough insanity to stage multiple complicated murder scenes. As any real cop knows, it’s tough to set up a common garden variety murder without making a million mistakes, this guy does one ever 24 hours in succession and the cops can’t find him, even knowing he’s going to do one with a string of clues left behind. But even that isn’t as contrived as a few other plot points, like Pacino (what’s he doing, that fake Southern accent he thinks he can do?) as an old cop with a younger partner, plus a reporter tagging along as female relief.
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I take my valuable time to fix the fucked up plot Wikipedia had for Predators and some fucking powerprick editor deletes it with a smarmy note telling me to read the rules or something. Eventually, Wales will have to sell WIki because no way contributions will be able to pay for bandwidth. In the meantime, here’s the plot to Predators the pricks wouldn’t post:
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UPDATE Some of the videos are dead, unfortunately. A big drawback to YouTube is that vids go dead. Eventually that will kill it, just not soon enough for me.

The first LP I ever bought was Son of Schmilsson by Harry Nilsson which was an answer, I guess to his smash hit Nilsson Schmilsson, and a play on the name of course as a sequel.
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Sad, bitter news today. I am behind the times, as I have just heard an American company is remaking one of the favorite movies, made from an even better book, the Swedish film Let the Right One In. BUY IT on Amazon

Of course, because of the mad success of the brainless, poorly made and worse acted Twilight series, every ignorant fuck who sees this new American version will think, “oh, another rip-off movie for Twilight, with young vampires”, but they will be, as they always are in everything they say, think and do, wrong.
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Saw Toy Story 3 just now.
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Quick thoughts: another caper movie. It’s good to see and hear all the old gang back together, but the plot is just not up to Pixar’s standards. TS2 was much better, much more organic. This is another escape and journey back home, basically the same as the first 2. Something’s got to give, or you’re just doing “direct to video” but releasing theatrically based on Pixar and TS’s rep.
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Torrented Inglourious Basterds the other day and watched it last night. The link goes to a good cam copy with hard-coded subs. Until very recently, the only copy available had Russian (in cyrillic) subs, while the audio was in the original’s French, German, Italian and English languages (depending on the script, different speakers speak different languages, their own and other languages used for plot points) and the movie was virtually impossible to follow unless you knew those languages.

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Went to see this in March, wrote this, then ‘drafted’ it and forgot it. Back from the dead.

Some movies include stupid characters. The Bank Job includes a universe where everyone is stupid, and their stupidity is calculated and necessary to keep the plot going.

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If any one group involved: the robbers, the criminals who are after them, the British Secret Service, the cops, the by-standers, everyone. weren’t so stupid the caper and the movie would be finished. Its lazy writing and very annoying. You can suspend disbelief, you don’t have to suffer lame ass scripting though.
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