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Tery said:
Ready Player One. The effects were astounding! I figure I'll have to go back and step through most of the film to catch all the pop culture references (yes, I saw the Rush poster ;) ). Pretty good popcorn flick.
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I just watched ready Player one over the weekend. The guys wanted me to see the Shining references.
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I hope to watch this one soon! I just finished the book and I Loved it!!! Tery - if you haven't read it, there is more than just a Rush poster in the book!:cool:
 
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Touch of Evil (1958).

I think this is Orson Welles' most acclaimed film after Citizen Kane. Watching it right after The Stranger from 1946, it's incredible how much Welles has changed. I don't know if any (prosthetic) makeup was used to make him look this way or whether it was all purely how he looked for real, but the change is enormous. He has clearly put on a lot of weight, but his face looks very different too.

The film starts off with the famous scene of a time bomb being put in a car passing the U.S./Mexican border. The car is followed driving through town and across the border in one long take, with the woman in the car saying she hears a ticking noise in her head. After the explosion of the car, drug enforcement official Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) who's in town with his wife Susie (Janet Leigh) takes an interest in the case, and the film is essentially about him dealing with the corrupt (and corpulent) police captain Hank Quinlan (Welles), planting false evidence and implicating Susie, and his close partner Pete Menzies.
The film also has roles for Zsa Zsa Gabor (more of a cameo), Marlene Dietrich and Dennis Weaver as the (rather comical) manager of a motel. The story is relatively simple, but it's more about the characters and the mood. The final scene is strikingly filmed against the backdrop of an oil field, with the drilling rigs and pumpjacks throwing ominous shadows over the characters.
It also has Janet Leigh two years before Psycho caught up in another motel where bad things are happening to her.
 
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The Unsuspected . 1947

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West Side Story

Deemed a masterpiece and a classic, I had never sat and watched this from beginning to end.

While there is iconic music and amazingly choreographed dance sequences, it's so damn hard to be serious watching gang bangers talk muuuuurder in the middle of a pirouette.
 
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Dana Jean said:
West Side Story

Deemed a masterpiece and a classic, I had never sat and watched this from beginning to end.

While there is iconic music and amazingly choreographed dance sequences, it's so damn hard to be serious watching gang bangers talk muuuuurder in the middle of a pirouette.
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My point exactly. I just can't suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy stuff like this.
 
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Right At Your Door (2006)

A low budget movie about a terror attack in LA. Chemical explosives are set off in downtown LA and toxic ash is raining down on the city. The movie is mainly about one couple's experience. The movie is pretty good and very tense but the two main actors (who are husband and wife in the movie) have terrible chemistry together and that hurts the move a little.
 
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Watched this surreal quirky little comedy film called "Dave Made A Maze" last night. A young man builds an epic box fort maze in his apartment and gets lost in it as the labyrinth begins to take on a life of its own, and his girlfriend and a band of filmmakers and hipsters attempt to rescue him.

The first 15 minutes are awkward as the movie struggles to find its comedic tone and establish a very non-real reality, I mean the whole concept of getting lost in a box fort of your own making is ridiculous but fun. If you can get past that, there are many great rewards. The box fort sets are inspired and creative, with a very real handmade non-CGI quality that I loved. And there are elements of comedy horror, although it's hard to call this a horror film, as silly as the concept is. It's hard to take your eyes off this one despite its flaws.

Available on Hulu and Blu Ray.
 
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fljoe0 said:
Right At Your Door (2006)

A low budget movie about a terror attack in LA. Chemical explosives are set off in downtown LA and toxic ash is raining down on the city. The movie is mainly about one couple's experience. The movie is pretty good and very tense but the two main actors (who are husband and wife in the movie) have terrible chemistry together and that hurts the move a little.
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It was unintentional but I just realized that I posted about the bad chemistry between actors in a movie about a chemical attack. :)
 
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