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| Name | Melissa Doucette |
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| Gender | Female |
| I'm From | Alberta, Canada |
| Member For | 445 days |
| Last Login | Sat. Jul 26 |
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| Age | 15 |
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| Movie: | Secret Window, V for Vendetta, The Prestige, Potc2, Potc3, Red Eye |
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| Actor: | James Woods, Johnny Depp, Christopher Lee, Tom Hollander |
| Director: | Tim Burton, Gore Verbinski, Wes Craven, Quentin Taratino |
| Quote: | "All the world is a stage, the men and women merely players." - William Shakespeare |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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OMG. This was SO amazing. I cannot wait to see it again, and again - or to get the soundtrack! This is a MUST SEE. The best of 2007. Too bad the tale isn't true, that'd be cool... **Got my copy! The special features are fantastic!
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Secret Window
PG-13
I loved this movie so much. I thought it was brilliantly crafted and stayed true to the Novella. Johnny Depp gave his usual stunning performance, and made me truly believe the whole thing. John Turturro gave a fantastic performance as Shooter.
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Dead Poets Society
PG
Absolutely amazing. Funny, sad, so well crafted. This is a fantastic movie.
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Finding Neverland
PG
A very well-done film. Fantastic music, composition and acting. Depp does the accent flawlessly, and the story is gripping and deep. It's touching to the last. I thought it wouldn't be very good, I thought I wouldn't like it - I loved it.
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V for Vendetta
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This movie was fantastically crafted and Natalie Portman gave a strong performance. I loved the whole thing and it really made me think about how our Government works.
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Walking Tall
by Misterposted 1 day ago -
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Daniel
by MisterOne of the few underrated films of the early 1980's that went unnoticed. This one,among the rarest that a major studio release that enthusiastically portrays America's Old Left,though in this particular story,gloom naturally trumps the enthusiasm. Inspired by the controversial 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for allegedly passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets,director Sidney Lumet's 1983 movie of E.L. Doctorow's fictionalized The Book of Daniel(screenplay by the author),deals primarity with the effect of family notoriety on children. One offspring(Amanda Plummer) is institutionalized,while the other(Timothy Hutton) is a less obvious head case prone to caustic outbursts. With powerful childhood flashbacks,an ill-received(which got mixed reviews for the critics at the height of its release) movie that Lumet,himself regarded as one his best as weathered a quarter-century well remains a bonafide 80's masterpiece of briliant cinema.
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Framed
by MisterNext to the pre-Dirty Harry Don Siegel,and not to mention pre-Wild Bunch director Sam Peckinpah,Phil Karlson was Hollywood's best director of low-budget toughies of classic "B" grade films of the 1950's and 1960's. It wasn't until the early 1970's though this career swan song doesn't offer much support for assertion. It wasn't until 1973,when Karlson made a low-budget action flick about a county sheriff who comes in and dismantled the baddies and bigots in a corrupt sleepy Southern town. The film was called "Walking Tall",and it became not only a vigilante brutal display of one man getting back at the system,but it became a call for something else. The film became one of the top ten highest grossing films of that year and it made a unknown actor by the name of Joe Don Baker into a huge star and it spawned two theatrical sequels(that starred Bo Svenson)not to mention a short-lived TV series under the same title.
After the tremendous and runaway boxoffice success of "Walking Tall",actor Joe Don Baker and director Phil Karlson reteamed again in 1975 for this expose of rampant political corruption and low-down dirtness in a sleepy Southern town,not to mention acts of revenge and envy in corrupt Southern state. "Framed" was just as good as it gets with Joe Don Baker, John Marley,and Brock Peters. Only this time around the graphic violence and strong language is ante up for maximum pleasure.Hey, you should really see this!
Buford Pusser is BACK with a VENGEANCE!!!posted 1 day ago -
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The True Blue Harry Potter Quizposted 2 days ago -
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Hey, you should really see this! An underrated classic from director-producer Tim Reid about growing up in the South during the 1950's. Excellent performances from Al Freeman,Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon
and Bernie Casey.posted 3 days ago -
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The Dark Knight Quiz (Revised)posted 3 days ago -
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Hey, you should really see this! This is a masterpiece of black cinema. Not to mention the supreme music of Motown that was astounding during the height of the 1960's.
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Hey, you should really see this! One of the first major films to deal with the subject of interracial romance and also the subject of someone with a disability at the outcome of the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
Very rare and sometimes controversial for its release in 1965,this was a huge hit at the boxoffice and with it some harrowing and riveting performances especially from Sidney Poitier and Shelley Winters(who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress). The real star of this film comes from the screen debut of a unknown actress named Elizabeth Hartman,who became an overnight success because of this movie...her performance is stunning to behold. Also catch supporting performances from actor Wallace Ford,and also from the great Ivan Dixon. The real experience comes from the moving theme score from legendary Hollywood composer Jerry Goldsmith(who was Oscar nomination for original musical score).posted 4 days ago -
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The Longest Day
by MisterBoth timely and timeless at the height of its release in 1962. It was the sort of achievement that was to be marveled.
Darryl F. Zanuck's production of "The Longest Day" was the most authentic depiction of the Invasion of Normandy during World War II ever seen in the history of cinema. Brilliant production values and fantastic action sequences and with an international cast of stars,this was absolutely astounding piece of grand entertainment.Hey, you should really see this! Better yet,experience this movie in 70mm!!!
Seeing this on a huge ultrawide screen is worth it!!! An international cast of stars that features Henry Fonda,Richard Widmark,
John Wayne,Robert Mitchum,and Richard Burton. The running time for this movie is clocked at 179 minutes,plus intermission.posted 8 days ago -
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The Dark Knight
by MisterThe thrill ride of the summer. This is to let you know that the Joker is more than wild which brings the testament of Heath Ledger's performance in the second prequel to Batman. Only this time around,Ledger does this with more style and pure evil than Jack Nicholson or even Cesar Romero ever did. "The Dark Knight" brings to light the rattled and transfixation of the character's diabolical menace,blocking out thoughts of the actor's untimely death. It's a career making portrayal and a sadly a career-making one as well. To go from the tacitrum ranch hand in "Brokeback Mountain" to the embodiment of comic-book evil is a stunning trajectory. With his cracked white-pancake makeup,smeared lipstick and greasy hair,the Joker bears no resemblance to the actor that plays him but in fact,the character is like nothing we've seen or heard before. There is however a hint of Malcolm McDowell in "A Clockwork Orange",but Ledger has made this maniac his own singularly unhinged villain. From the repellent way he darts his tongue around to his sneering,nasal voice,he is a peerless eccentric.
Though this is clearly Ledger's movie,that does not diminish the accomplishments of other key cast members. Just as he was in "Batman Begins",Christian Bale is a suave Bruce Wayne and a heroic caped crusader defending Gotham City from the forces of evil.
Gary Oldman is excellent in the returning role as police Lt. Gordon.while Maggie Gyllenhaul replaces Katie Holmes,adding more depth to her character than Holmes ever did in the last installment. Even Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman lend terrific support while Aaron Eckhart is brilliant as disrict attorney Harvey Dent(the man who will transform later on in the prequel series as Batman arch nemesis Two Face).
Again,director and screenwriter Christoper Nolan has crafted "The Dark Knight" into a thrilling,morally,complex and masterfully entertaining piece of a summer blockbuster and it works or all levels. Though it clocks in at 154 minutes,the film is tautly edited with an economy of great storytelling(which goes heavily by the origins of the DC Comics Book and the comic graphic novels). The action scenes are worth the price of admission and they include amazing feats of technical virtuousity. Nolan has done it again and this time brings this second installment as one of the darkest ever in the series. It has the requisite jolts and twists. But it surprises in profound ways and gives us a
maliciously witty villain who gives a performance that is out of the ordinary.Hey, you should really see this! Better yet,see this in an IMAX Theatre!!! It will blow you to the back of the theater!!!!
Also,in selected theatres,"The Dark Knight" is presented in 70mm-6 Track Dobly Stereo/Digital,and you haven't experience it went you see this on a huge widescreen. I have,last night!!!!posted 8 days ago -
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The French Connection II
by MisterReleased in the summer of 1975,Gene Hackman returns as hard-boiled NY Cop Popeye Doyle in the sequel to one of the greatest cop movies of all time.
"French Connection II",has Hackman again as Popeye Doyle trailing and going after the notorious heroin drug kingpin from the streets of New York all the way to dangerous towns of France. And this time around Popeye is not only out for revenge,but to settle a score once and for all. And he does.
Action galore and non-stop suspense.
Directed by John Frankenheimer.Hey, you should really see this!
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Penitentiary
by MisterAs a second wave of blaxploitation flicks that emerge out of the 1970's,the movie Penitentiary is still bedeviled by the uncomfortable contradictions of its macho forebearers,which made it a huge boxoffice hit when it was released in 1979. It's basically the servicable yarn of a young stranger on a bum rap,sentenced to an institutional hell-hole,and eventually bucking the terror regime with two righteous fists. And daubed onto the screen with the vitality of all around excess,teetering craziliy between heavy amounts of gore,rough language and all outright farce. But its assumptions for the better of its sake,either worked beyond the comprehendsion of some of its scenes which were very honest and sometimes brutal. This was a grand film that looked into the life of a penal institional system as seen through the eyes of his character,played by Leon Issac Kennedy.
Another example of black cimema that was still standing at the end of the decade with some of the most replusive stereotyping ever imagine while the audience cheers on the victor who must fight in a system to stay alive at all costs. Done on a low budget,it was consciousness. A sequel followed in 1982 with Leon Issac Kennedy reprising the role.Hey, you should really see this!
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Bobby
by ReynaldoAmazing Movie.. Americans must watch and distribute this movie even more than studies dare to do, this is not a movie about your past but about your present and above all about your future
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Are You A Arnold Schwarzenegger Fanposted 17 days ago -
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Hey, you should really see this! Classic Fred Williamson in the greatest role of his career and really cemented his status as one of the top male blaxploitation star of the 1970's. By the way,check out the soundtrack composed,arranged and sung by the Godfather of Soul himself James Brown which is a classic within itself!!!
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