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Red Rock West - 1993 - 7/10
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Choose life!
Drifter Nicholas Cage rolls into Red Rock, Wyoming, looking for any sort of work.
He is mistaken for hitman, Lyle from Dallas, and paid to whack someone.
Payouts - double crosses - then the real Lyle appears.
Dennis Hopper unforgettable as Lyle. Cage, a reminder, once upon a time was a great actor.
Dark, moody neo noir.
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Choose life!
Drifter Nicholas Cage rolls into Red Rock, Wyoming, looking for any sort of work.
He is mistaken for hitman, Lyle from Dallas, and paid to whack someone.
Payouts - double crosses - then the real Lyle appears.
Dennis Hopper unforgettable as Lyle. Cage, a reminder, once upon a time was a great actor.
Dark, moody neo noir.
I remember this one. Great flick. Wasn't it an HBO original production? Or maybe I just saw it originally on HBO?
Either way, a good movie worth looking up and watching again.
"... let's go exploring!" -- CALVIN.
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Snaked Fear - 2011 - 3/10
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Yeah, looked awful, grabbed it anyway. Muffin head.
Film opens with a drug or gangsta betrayal at copter crash site.
Fake fire and fake smoke were tipoff alerts to production values.
Main plot follows blonde and daughter as they veer off the main road into Arizona desert.
She runs over a snake, which causes dozens of snakes to start hunting her.
An old desert man tells her that. Snakes will come for a 100 miles.
Echoey sound mix. Like the boom was too far or the automatic gain picked up wind.
Everyone sounded like they were inside a steel drum. Couldnât hear half the whining dialogue.
Snake POV shots were low on ground, through a purple or violet piece of plastic.
Movie budget must have matched my IQ for watching this spuge.
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Gantz - 2010 - 6/10
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Japanese Sci-Fi action film based on popular manga.
Recently deceased souls were revived by Gantz, a large black sphere, to eliminate aliens among us.
These aliens are damn strange (reference photo). If combatants succeed, points are awarded. 100 points = return to living. Dead combatants stay dead.
Followed by a sequel.
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Gantz: Perfect Answer - 2011 - 6/10
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Not nearly as strange or inventive as the first film, but it reveals who was killing those "recently deceased," and why.
And what happened to combatants who were slain in battles.
More full on conflicts, highlight occurring in a high speed subway.
Sequel that provides resolution to the first movie. Ought to be viewed as a pair.
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Unfinished Song - 2012 - 5/10
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Sappy, feel-good, old people movie.
Buncha old coots and fossils meets Glee.
Sound awful, Bob?
Terence Stamp plays angry curmudgeon married to Vanessa Redgrave.
Will his character thaw? Warm, or even sing?
Songs were either frivolous, or cynically chosen to yank heartstrings.
One of the films that begs the question, “Are we dead yet?”
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The Bukowski Tapes - 1987 - 5/10
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Accurate rating if you are going Buko -- wha?
If you are a hardcore Bukowski fan, however, then bump this to a 7.
Long series of interviews by director Barbet Schroder done around the time he filmed Barfly, ostensibly by and about the skid row poet of Los Angeles.
Bukowski rambles at length on varying topics: inferior peers, smog, alcohol versus marijuana, the horses, crazy women, his gradual fame, the meaningless of life, ugly people, shallow people, futility. At times insightful, other times nonsense, drunkard warbling.
Favorite bit was watching him drive about the old neighborhood in an open convertible, pointing out landmarks, telling stories.
Most infamous bit was him getting physically violent with girlfriend (later wife), Linda, and cameras turning off.
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Open Grave - 2013 - 6/10
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Excellent thriller, with one of those “must-not-disclose” plots.
I will just jot the opening five minutes.
Man wakes up deep down in a pit.
Climbs out, goes to a house filled with five others.
No one knows why they are there. Or who they are. Or what they are supposed to do.
From there, film sets off into several rabbit holes.
Viewer only gets clues as the characters discover them.
Definitely worth a look.
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Candy - 2006 - 6/10
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A hero, a heroine, and heroin.
Typically sad story of a young couple's slide into addiction.
Predictable narrative,
but reminder how powerful Heath Ledger could be.
Co-starring Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish.
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Never Let Me Go - 2010 - 7/10
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Cloning becomes reality in the 1950's.
Replicas are created as organ donors. By the 70's and 90's, most are expected to survive four procedures before "completion."
Keira Knightly, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling lead a strong cast in this parallel universe tale of identity and being. Ruminations on whether clones possess souls.
A melancholy, rainy afternoon film. Most definitely not stereotyped Sci-Fi.
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