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Not side-splittingly funny, nor slasher flick gory, but this was still a fun movie.
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The first and only film of director Hu Bo, who committed suicide after finishing it. It's just shy of four hours long, but uses it's runtime well. My biggest complaint is that it seems to spend an ungodly amount of time using camera angles that following the characters from behind, leaving regular views of people's backs. Confused
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This has to be one of the biggest steaming piles of crap I've ever seen. My gut instinct was to switch it off before even twenty minutes had elapsed. I should have trusted my gut. 



I wouldn't call it great either, but Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the star and makes it watchable. 



Okay I guess. Wouldn't recommend it, but I at least didn't see the plot twist coming, even though in hindsight there were obvious hints. 



Haunted house malarkey. Again watchable, but not recommendable. Even as this type of movie goes, it struggles to be believable not because there are ghosts, but how readily the general community accepts that there are ghosts there. 



This was good. Based on actual events and quite eye opening.
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There's nothing like a 70s car chase movie.
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Ray Harryhausen's monsters steal the show here, quite easily.
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What? Not exactly sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.
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This was fucking good! I might have seen it many years ago, but don't really remember it. Still holds up reasonably well 40 years on. A lot of people are critical of the actors' accents, but putting on fake Russian accents would have been cringeworthy.
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Well that was terminally bloody boring. This movie was a flop when it came out, and I'm not surprised, when about a third of it was dedicated to a surgical procedure.
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I really enjoyed this for what it is, a big budget B-movie. There's some excellent underwater shots and effects, and the scientifically impossible shark is bloody brilliant too. Also love it that Cliff Curtis was able to use his normal Kiwi accent.
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Saw this at the movies when I was 10 or 11, and haven't seen it again since. OK, the story is silly, as it invariably has to be for a movie like this, but it still looks fucking amazing! Love it.
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The first talkie to win a best picture Oscar. Also the lowest rated best picture, but I really think Cimarron is far worse. Anyway, there's a bit of pre-Hays Code raunch, drunkenness, and overtly gay characters. The small-town-girls-in-the-big-city story is a bit tired now, but would have been a relevant issue at the time due to rapid urbanisation in the US.
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After a slow start, this really gets going. It shows a small slice of life of an English family during World War II. The Axis were still in the ascendancy when this was made, and the end result of the war was still unknown. However, even propaganda master Goebbels himself recognised the value of this movie and used it as an example to German film makers of "how to do it right".
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Not seen this in about 30 years, but it still holds up.
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Based on a true story. All I can say is fuck being on a Russian sub for a joke!
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Good stoopid Roger Corman/Ramones fun!
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Solid enough but a step down for a Taylor Sheridan production - the mind that brought us the New American Frontier trilogy (Sicario, Hell or High Water & Wind River) along with the Yellowstone TV universe. 



Bloody weird. Maybe not as arty as it thinks it is, just bloody weird. Kinda enjoyed it but definitely the weakest output so far by Alex Garland. 



Stars Steven Spielberg's son, Sawyer, which got this one a little attention. Kinda poor horror outing though. 



Interesting with some genuinely creepy visuals, but I found the overall execution let it down. It needed to reel me in more. 
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You always expect quirky and a bit weird from Wes Anderson. This was both. Not his best, but entertaining enough.
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^ That's one Eastwood film I've never managed to actually see. 
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Wow, fuck! Great movie! The boxing scenes are great. And even after all these years since it's release, this ended up somewhere I never expected.
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