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No no... I can't make a review on "The lord of the rings". The only thing I can say is that it's the first movie that comes on my mind when someone ask me what's my favorite movie.
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I love this movie!! I love Tim Robins in this movie!
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I LOVE Jean Reno!!!( I don't know why I just do)And this is my favorite movie that he plays in...Of course Natalie Portman is great too... Watching this movie you understand why she became a fine actress.
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It's the only movie I cried watching it... I mean I didn't even cry watching Titanic or any other movie that people think you should cry
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An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression
Tyler Durden: People do it everyday, they talk to themselves... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it.
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Great movie,great point, great performances and it's a favorite but I have to admit that something is missing...I don't know what!
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A great performance from Owen(as always)
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At his son's wedding party, Edward Bloom tells the same tale he's told many times over the years: on the day Will was born, he was out catching an enormous uncatchable fish, using his wedding ring as bait. Will is annoyed rather than pleased by this tale-telling; he explains to his wife, Josephine, that because his father never told the straight truth on anything but insisted on embellishing it with tales, he felt that he could not trust him. He is troubled to think that he might have a similarly difficult relationship with his future children.
Will becomes a journalist in Paris, and his relationship with his father becomes so strained that they do not talk for three years. But when his father's health starts to fail, Will and his pregnant wife Josephine return to Alabama. On the plane, Will recalls his father's tale of how he braved a swamp as a child, and met a witch who showed him his death in her glass eye. With this knowledge, Edward knows there are no odds he cannot face.
Edward still has a knack for tall tales. As he tells it, he spent three years confined to a bed as a child, with his body growing incredibly fast. He became a successful sports player but found the town of Ashton too small for his ambition. Finding a kindred spirit in the misunderstood giant Karl, they set off. Edward takes an abandoned path down a supposedly haunted forest. He discovers the tiny hidden town of Spectre, where the missing poet Norther Winslow has settled with people so friendly that no one ever leaves, and everyone comfortably walks around barefoot. Edward still feels he does not want to settle anywhere yet and leaves, but promises to the young girl Jenny that he will return.
At the circus Karl signs up with Amos Calloway, and time stops as Edward sees the love of his life. As time resumes and speeds up to compensate for the time lost, she moves out of sight. He promises Calloway to work for the circus day and night without pay to learn who she is. Every month for three years Bloom is told something new about the girl, but it is mostly useless trivial information (such as "she likes music"). One night Edward discovers Amos is a fierce werewolf, but manages to calm him down by playing fetch: In thanks for Edward's kindness, Amos tells him the girl's name is Sandra Templeton and she studies at Auburn University.
Edward learns from Sandra that she is engaged to Don Price, also from Ashton. He makes many attempts to show his love for her, including collecting all of the daffodils (her favorite flowers) from five states. Don appears and beats up Edward, who refuses to fight back, having given Sandra his word that he wouldn't hit Don. Disgusted by Don's behavior, Sandra gives up her engagement ring and falls for Edward. During his recovery in the hospital, Edward is conscripted by the army and sent to Korea. Instead of taking his assigned mission, he instead parachutes into a theater entertaining troops, steals important documents, and convinces Siamese twins dancers Ping and Jing to help him get back to America, where he will make them stars. Bloom is unable to contact anyone on his long journey home, so the army mistakenly declares him dead. They deliver Sandra the death notice, plunging her into grief, so it shocks her when Edward later arrives home alive and well. Being legally dead means that his work choices are limited, so he becomes a traveling salesman. Meeting Norther Winslow again, he unwittingly helps him rob a bank, which is already bankrupt. Edward suggests Winslow work on Wall Street, and Winslow later sends Edward $10,000 from his first million as his "career adviser." Edward uses it to buy his family's dream house.
Still unimpressed by his father's stories, Will demands to know the truth. Edward tries to explain who he is: a storyteller. While looking through Edward's old office, Will finds a suspicious letter from Spectre. Going there, Will meets an older Jenny. She explains that Spectre eventually went bankrupt, but Edward bought the entire town at an auction and rebuilt the town with financial help from many of his previous acquaintances, although it evidently decayed again. She also explains that she loved Edward, but Sandra was the only woman for him.
Coming home, Will discovers his father has had a stroke and is at the hospital. He goes to visit him there and finds him only partly conscious, and unable to speak at length. Since Edward can no longer tell stories, he asks Will to tell him the story of how it all ends: escaping from the hospital, they go to the river where everybody in Edward's life shows up to greet him on his last journey. Will carries his father into the river where he becomes a big fish. Although his story is clumsy compared to his father's practiced tale-telling style, it shows that for the first time Will understands why storytelling was so important to his father. Edward peacefully remarks "exactly" before passing away.
At his funeral, Will sees many of his father's more unusual friends, confirming at least a grain of truth from many of his tales. He sees Amos, Karl, Ping and Jing and Norther Winslow amongst others, although they are not entirely the same as in the stories, (for example, Ping and Jing were Siamese not as in conjoined, but as in "from Siam"?i.e. Thailand, also, Karl turned out to be just a tall man, not an ogre). When his own son is born, Will passes on his father's stories, remarking that his father became his stories, allowing him to live forever
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Tom Hanks all the money!
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Seven boys, Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke), Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles), Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen), Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman), Steven Meeks (Allelon Ruggiero) and Gerard Pitts (James Waterston) attend the prestigious Welton Academy prep school, which is based on four principles: Tradition, Honor, Discipline and Excellence.
On the first day of class, the students are introduced to their overwhelming and extraordinary curriculum by sullen headmaster Gale Nolan (Norman Lloyd). However, their new English teacher John Keating (Robin Williams) tells the students that they can call him "O Captain! My Captain!" (the title of a Walt Whitman poem) if they feel daring. His first lesson is unorthodox by Welton standards, whistling the 1812 Overture and taking them out of the classroom to focus on the idea of carpe diem (Latin for 'seize the day') by looking at the pictures of former Welton students in a trophy case. In a later class Keating has Neil read the introduction to their poetry textbook, a staid, dry essay entitled "Understanding Poetry" by the fictional academic Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph. D., which describes how to place the quality of a poem on a scale, and rate it with a number. Keating finds the idea of such mathematical literary criticism ridiculous (calling it "excrement") and encourages his pupils to rip the introductory essay out of their textbooks. After a brief reaction of disbelief, they do so gleefully as Keating congratulates them with the memorable line "Begone, J. Evans Pritchard, Ph. D" (much to the surprise and disbelief of one of Keating's colleagues). He later has the students stand on his desk as a reminder to look at the world in a different way, just as Henry David Thoreau intended when he wrote, "The universe is wider than our views of it" (Walden).
The rest of the movie is a process of awakening, in which the boys (and the audience) discover that authority can and must always act as a guide, but the only place where one can find out one's true identity is within oneself. To that end, the boys secretly revive an old literary club in which Keating had been a member, called the Dead Poets Society. Todd experiences a particular transformation when, out of a severe episode of self-consciousness, he fails to complete a creative writing assignment and is subsequently taken through an exercise of uncharacteristic self-expression, realizing the creative potential he truly possesses. One of the boys, Charlie Dalton, takes his new personal freedom too far and publishes a profane and unauthorized article in the school flyer. In this article, Charlie states that he wants to have girls allowed at Welton. To the amusement of the other boys, he fakes a phonecall from God saying that girls should be allowed at Welton. Dean Nolan paddles and interrogates Charlie about the others involved. Charlie says he acted alone.
Neil, without his father's permission, tries out for a local production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He desperately wants to be an actor, but knows his father (Kurtwood Smith) will disapprove. One day when Neil walks into his dorm room, he finds his father waiting for him. He orders Neil to withdraw from the play, but Neil goes against his wishes and delivers a sterling performance as Puck. Infuriated by this affront to his authority, Neil's father plans to pull him out of Welton and to enroll him in Braden Military School to prepare him for Harvard University and a career in medicine. Unable to cope with the future that awaited him and equally unable to make his father understand his passion for acting, Neil commits suicide with his father's revolver.
By the request of Neil's parents, the headmaster, holds an investigation into the tragedy. Nolan gets help from one of the students, Richard Cameron. When Charlie Dalton finds out that Cameron has not only squealed on them, but also blamed Keating, he furiously attacks his former friend, and is expelled from Welton.
Neil's father takes no responsibility for his son's death and instead holds Keating responsible. In Nolan's office, Todd is forced to regretfully sign a written confession casting blame on his former teacher. It is implied that the other students who are still faithful to Keating were similarly forced. Keating is accused of inciting the boys to restart the Dead Poets Society, and is fired, even though they recreated it themselves.
In the film's dramatic conclusion, the boys return to English class following Keating's termination. The class is now being temporarily taught by Nolan, who has the boys read from the very Pritchard essay they had ripped out at the start of the semester. As the lesson drones on, Keating enters the room to retrieve a few belongings. On his way out, Todd apologizes to Keating for having signed the confession, citing the force exercised by the Academy. Keating acknowledges this. Nolan sternly orders Todd to be quiet and demands that Keating leave at once. As he exits the door, Keating is startled to hear "O Captain! My Captain!" being called out by Todd, who has stood on his desk as Keating bid him to do earlier, demonstrating the new perspective Keating has taught him. Enraged, Nolan warns Todd to sit down immediately or face expulsion, only to be defied. Then, one after another, the members of the Dead Poet's Society (except Cameron) climb onto their desks and call out "O Captain! My Captain!" as a form of salute. The furious Nolan is defeated; he cannot expel half the class without compromising the school's image, and with it his reputation. Keating is touched and thanks the boys. He then leaves Welton for good, satisfied that the life lessons he has imparted to them have left their marks.
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Remember, remember the 5th of November, the gun powder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.
Brilliant
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I don't get surprised often with movies. like I did with this one. I believe everyone understand what I say...
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A bittersweet movie, one of Tim Burton's most memorable films. Great performances from Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder.
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Loved Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg.
Great twist.
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When Leo is gonna get that oscar!?!?!?! :(
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The best superhero ever is back!
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Great soundtrack and awesome performances!
Nicole Kidman hasn't been more beautiful.
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Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale were awesome together. I prefered Jackman than Bale though. One of Hugh's best performances.
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Carl Brashear (Gooding Jr.) decides to leave his lifestyle in native Kentucky in 1948 and the life of a sharecropper by way of joining the United States Navy. As a crew member of the salvage ship USS Hoist (ARS-40), where he is assigned to the galley, he is inspired by the bravery of one of the divers, Master Chief Petty Officer Leslie William "Billy" Sunday (De Niro). He is determined to overcome racism and become the first ever African American Navy diver, even proclaiming that he will become a Master Diver. He eventually is selected to attend Diving and Salvage School in Bayonne, New Jersey where he arrives as a Boatswain's Mate Second Class. However, he finds that Master Chief Sunday is the Leading Chief Petty Officer and head instructor, who is under orders from the school's eccentric commanding officer to ensure that Brashear fails.
Brashear struggles to overcome his educational shortcomings, a result of him leaving school in the 7th grade in order to help his family's failing farm. He receives educational assistance from his future wife, an aspiring doctor, who works part time in the Harlem (New York City) Public Library. Brashear proves himself as a diver by rescuing a fellow student whose dive buddy abandoned him during a salvage evaluation that turns into a near disaster. Unfortunately, due to the prevailing racism of the commanding officer, the student who fled in the face of danger is awarded a medal for Brashear's heroic actions. After many more challenges ? both mental and physical, including an underwater assembling task where each student had to assemble a flange underwater using a bag of tools, but Carl's bag is cut open. Yet, Carl, determined and confident, completes his challenge and successfully completes the diving school earning the quiet and suppressed admiration of Master Chief Sunday.
The paths and careers of both Brashear and Sunday sharply diverge as the former rises quickly through the ranks, even becoming a national hero in recovering a missing atomic bomb and for saving the life of a Navy crew, while the latter becomes a brooding alcoholic and is reduced in rank from Master Chief to Chief Petty Officer. The two eventually meet again after Brashear loses his left leg in the atomic bomb incident and must fight the US Navy in order to return to full active duty and fulfill his dream of becoming a master diver. They are successful and Carl becomes a master diver.
Tagline: History is made by those who break the rules.
Great movie, touching from the beggining till the end. This man's (Karl, played by Cuba Gooding) strenght is inspiring. I will remember him everytime I am feeling that I am having difficulties.
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A must see for those who like vampires! In my opinion Brad Pitt is is so BEAUTIFUL in this movie like in no other movie he has played in...
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Signs
(2002, PG-13)
i think mell gibson and joaquin phoenix were great together
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Extraordinary.My favorite thriller!
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Awesome
Fantastic
Great
My Will Smith's favorite movie!!!
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One of the kind sci-fi movie
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Aaaah Hayden...Episode 2 was the best.
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Jamie Bell was great as Billy Elliot an Gary Lewis awesome as his father!
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That was a scary and one of a kind thriller!
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A great word to describe this movie ; cool!!
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Thriller or drama I don't know(propably both).
A great movie with great acting especially from Belen Rueda as Laura and Roger Princep as little and lovable Simon.
Wow what a mother can do for her child and how much she suffers if something bad happens!?
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loved it!!
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Best animation ever!
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I realised thatI liked "Batman Begins" more than "The dark night" ....
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I watched this movie because I had an obsession with Orlando Bloom, but finally I am so happy that I watched it because of the GREAT performance Heath Ledger
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NO WORDS FOR NIGHT WATCH!
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Day watch(Dnevnoy dozor) is the sequel to Night watch, a Russian fantasy action blockbuster.
The never-ending battle between Good and Evil is the subject of Night watch and Day watch.In the second movie Anton Gorodetsky(the protagonist, played by Konstantin Khabensky-WOW that guy was AWESOME!!) has to save the world from the "Dark Others". In order to do that he has to correct a mistake he has made a long time ago...
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Unbelievably great!
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Love the Back to the future series!!!
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Great movie!
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A good animation..Adorable!
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My favorite shark movie. Yes my favorite!!! I was so happy that LL Cool J's character survived in the end!!!!
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Great movie! Didn't expect to be that good!
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No words!
So cool!!!
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Soooo COOL movie!!! Because of Clive Owen of course!!!
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LOVE RESIDENT EVIL SERIES!!!SO COOL!!!!!!
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I love Resident evil !!
One of the coolest zombie movies ever!
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I absolutely love The Resident Evil trilogy!!!!! I just didn't want this one to end!!!!!!
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Great movie with great performances.
My favorite war film...
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Awesome! So cool!
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Great
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Clever and kinda stupid at the same time, funny and hysterical!!!
"Shaun of the dead" is a British parody of the zombie movies...
I LOVED IT!!
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"Never forget who you are and where you're from."
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Adrien Broby totally deserved the oscar
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Genre; Drama
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A faded professional wrestler(Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson) must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
(I have to emphasize that I am not a wrestling fan)
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There is one thing you understand at the minute you begin to watch this movie.The Wrestler" is one powerful movie. Something makes that film one unique drama. Is it the director (Darren Aronofsky) who does a great job? Is it the unbelievable performances? I go for the performances.I can finally answer to the question which are my favorite performances so far! Hell yeah Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei at the Wrestler! You will feel what the characters feel, you will sympathise, you will feel sorry for them, you will cry for them! This movie is an emotional experience.
My favorite part of the movie;
Randy says to his daughter; "I am an old broken down piece of meat and I am alone, and I deserve to be alone. I just don't want you to hate me"
Did I mention that Mickey Rourke's performance was AMAZING?
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One of the few movies that becomes better and better everytime I watch it.
I loved the plot and the atmosphere.
The performances were decent. Especially Richard Gere's performance was pretty good.
This movie is like a wine, which you have to taste many times until you decide if you like it or not and in the end becomes one of your favorites.
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Genre; Drama(yes drama indeed!), thriller, horror.
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Determined to elude a deadly virus, Danny (Lou Taylor Pucci), his brother Brian (Chris Pine), his girlfriend Bobby (Piper Perabo) and Danny's school friend Kate(Emily VanCamp) speed across U.S.A. to reach a beach, a place of possible safety.
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Interesting...very interesting I have to say... Very satisfying performances from every single member of the cast which kinda turned this one to a drama rather than a horror movie (not that I have a problem with horror movies, I WANTED ZOMBIES!! lol). So although it's another "a virus will kill us all, run to save your life!!" movie, it's different because it emphasizes to the feelings of the heroes. It is a little slow, but don't worry I insure you that you won't get bored (you won't even notice it lol). The good atmosphere will make u feel that you are part of the movie, that may cause u some chills (or it was just the stupid air-conditioner of the cinema- why do they use "cold wind" at winter!? Uug I go to my cave make fire). Yes definately worths the watch. It reminded me a little bit of "28 days later" (which means only one thing; GOOOOOD).
PS. I loved the little girl's dad...Aaaww he was so nice :-( You will understand when u see the movie...
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