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Name	Dawn L
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Movie:	Valley Girl, Ed Wood, Zodiac, Dazed and Confused, The Graduate, Saturday Night Fever, Taxi Driver, Gone With the Wind, Hollywoodland
Actor:	Nicolas Cage, Ben Affleck, Kevin Spacey, Johnny Depp, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Izabella Scorupco, Adrien Brody, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director:	Martha Coolidge, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton
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I've been a movie fan all my life. I am VERY HAPPILY MARRIED with three great kids and one incredibly adorable grandson! I am proud to be an elementary educator.

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1. Valley Girl R

My all time favorite movie! Caused me to fall in love with Nicolas Cage. He plays Randy, a punk rocker from Hollywood. Debby Foreman is brilliant as Julie, the Valley Girl he falls in love with. Their fight to be together, despite the disapproval of her shallow friends, makes this a great romance. TOTALLY awesome film, FER SHURR!!!!!!!!

2. Zodiac R

A must see! Excellent movie in every way! Long but never lost my interest. This has got to be one of 2007's best movies. It is intense and keeps you on the edge of your seat. The director also does a brilliant job of recreating the San Francisco of the late 60's. Highly highly recommend it.

3. Ed Wood R

A classic! Funny and brilliantly done by Tim Burton. Johnny Depp is amazing as the angora-wearing worst director of all time. Great supporting parts, too, especially Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi. He is absolutely hysterical in a number of scenes ("Pull da strings!!!" "Karloff? Sidekick? F*@# YOU!!!") and tugs at your heart in others. I love to watch this movie time and time again.

4. Saturday Night Fever PG

How could anyone NOT love Saturday Night Fever? John Travolta is amazing. His dance moves are stellar and his acting is top-notch. Don't forget, he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for this film. Just a classic, and I love the music, too...this was my life in the late 70's!

5. The Graduate PG

What can you say about this movie? It's a classic, pure and simple. My favorite part is the wedding scene...Dustin Hoffman banging on the glass in the church screaming "ELAINE!!!!" It had quite an effect on a 13-year-old girl. ;)

6. Taxi Driver R

One of the best movies ever made. Martin Scorsese's directing is brilliant, and Robert DeNiro is scary as hell but simply amazing in this movie. "You talkin' to me?" GREAT SCENE! This film is very graphically violent at the end, but it is also an incredible look inside a psychopath's mind. DeNiro portrays the disturbed taxi driver, Travis Bickle, in a role that has to be one of the best acting jobs ever. Taxi Driver should have swept the Oscars that year. It remains a brilliant piece of work.

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Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One in)
by Dr Blood

Although "Let the Right One In" may be overlong for those with small brains and no ability to enjoy anything other than the trend of grainy, low-budget, shakycam nasties which we have been subjected to over the past few years, for me it was very nearly perfect. In fact I wish that it was even longer as it is yet another film that you get so caught up in that you really don't want it to end.
Everyone mentions the "beautiful cinematography" but the sad thing is that this is just how films used to be shot and should still be shot to get audiences back into the movie theaters again. There are no bits that are too dark to see and nothing which will leave you with a splitting headache. It's just how a movie ought to be.
The plot is a simple one, not overly original but not too derivative either considering it is really just another vampire story. There is an independent movie by Jay Reel called "Dawn" (available from Tempe) which is pretty much the same thing but I doubt that anyone will have seen it so the best analogy is to say that "Let the Right One In" is like a children's version of "The Hunger" mixed with the kids' scenes from "Near Dark" and "Interview with the Vampire". It also pays a fair bit of homage to a few scenes from "Innocent Blood" as well.
There isn't a lot of humour in this, in spite of some bad CGI cats in a scene straight out of "Sleepwalkers" but it isn't overly scary either. Gore effects are realistic and minimal so think drama rather than horror and you'll be on the right lines. It's a hard film to fit into any genre really as it does tend to straddle quite a few non-horror themes most of which it deals with very effectively.
As far as the acting goes, since this is a Swedish film, it's hard to tell if the performances are anything other than just ok. I've heard from Swedish friends that some of the dialogue is a bit weak, verging on humorous, but, in translation (and with subtitles), this doesn't seem to matter to any English speaking audience. From what I could tell, the boy who played Oskar was a bit expressionless but seemed to have good chemistry with the girl who played Eli.
This is, without doubt, the best vampire film that I've seen for years and is one of my top films from this year alone. Apart from "Teeth" all this year's horror movies have been awful so this was a pleasant surprise at the end of the year.
I recommend "Let the Right One In" to everyone who likes good movies not just good horror movies. There's something here for everyone.

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Watch this as soon as you can. It's great. Ignore the "R" rating as it doesn't deserve it though.

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