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Robs Movie Ratings Movie Clapper

I have had this page on www.robanddara.com for many years and there have been times when I updated it a lot and other times I've just let it be.

I do like to keep this list online for my own purposes but also for anyone that might just happen to surf by and wants to see what I thought of some particular movies. This is the most useful when you know someone has similar tastes in movies as you do. (or maybe if you are doing an FBI search into someones personality :-))

Anyway, the whole purpose of my update today is to add the My Favorite Movies Page that I just compiled. This page has a long list of movies with the ratings that I gave them but I never had a Favorites List. I made a first pass at this a few days ago so here is a link to:

My Favorite Movies Page

I also just created a new TV Series Ratings page (6/11/2019) for the on-going TV Series that I have seen.

I am totally changing the format of the Movie Ratings page (3/12/2013) so I can just cut and paste the info that I have in my NotePad file that I use to keep track of the movies that I've seen so the format will now be pretty basic without the fancy colors and star images, etc.

FYI: Here's the format that I have been using in case anyone (other than me) ever makes it out here and checks this page out.

When I get new movies (from the library, redbox, etc) I just type in the name - then I lookup the movie online (usually in IMDB.com) and include the year of the movie - , the user rating - , the style - (i.e. comedy, drama...) and the short description of the movie (also usually from IMDB). I may also include comments about where I heard about the movie (like from Dale, Larry, etc.).

After I watch the movie, I usually include my own rating (out of 5 stars) in front of the title (sometimes right after the title).

I've moved the one's that I didn't see or rejected to the bottom now.

So there you have it... Here's my latest list pasted from my Notepad Document

 

Seen and Rated by RC

My rating is in front - Some that I saw I did not rate (xx in front)

----- Updated: 10/31/2021

3.0 - Lawless - Pretty good bootlegger action movie. Kind of violent but I liked the 1920, 30s timeframe portrail.
2.5 - The Forgotton Battle - Another WW2 movie. This one was post d-day in the Netherlands. They tricked me and I didn't realize it was a foriegn movie with subtitles. They also had English voice over so it was not too bad with both.
3.0 - House of games - Old (1987) - Con-man games show Joe Mantegna (crim minds)
4.0 - Frozen Ground - Nick Cage, Based on true story, Alaska serial killer, Dark but interesting.
3.25 If I leave here tomorrow - Skynard
3.5 - Wind River - Excellent scenery and natural views about life. Dark story though.
2.25 - Girl with the Dragon tattoo (Hulu) - Good story and all but way too complicated and hard to follow. Even though I focused on the movie (no distractions) could not keep track of all the people and events. Could probably understand better after watching a few times but - I do not want to work that hard for a movie that is supposed to be entertaining ***
4.25 - Jexi - Really funny! (stupid funny) - About a smart ass phone app that takes over a guys life.
2.5 - Human Nature - Educational, Documentary (not so much a movie). Good info and delimas about DNA and genetic engineering.
3.0 - Inventing David Geffen. Interesting history of Self made Music and movie mogul that represented many huge rock stars
4.25 - The Polka King, Different and really entertaining. Yea, Polka! (and ponzi)
3.75 - The Railway Man. Good docu-drama,romance about a WW2 veteran and his memories about being a Jap prisoner.
4.0 - Unfit, The Psychology of Trump (Prime) (4.0 Rating for the content really), educational and I believe it completely
2.25 - Charlie Says - Another Charlie Manson movie. This had a different twist to me so it was interesting and entertaining.
4.0 - Tread (Netflix) Really entertaining and captivating movie really just based on a true story. I did not remember the news stories but looked them up later. This guy Marv Heemeyer had a grudge with a bunch of people and went wacko with an armored bulldozer!
2.0 - The Hunt, Goofy people hunting stuff. Some weird political references
4.25 - The Judge 2014 (Hulu) - Robert Duvall, Downy jr. Billy Bob T - Good movie, small town family, friends, Judge and slick lawyer son
2.5 - The Little Things - Coupla cops (bad in the end) lookin into serial killer
3.0 - The Intrepreter, UN intrepreter and African leaders corruption
Primal Fear update -Previous gave it 3.0 - Comments OK, mentiuon say it again 6/15/2021 (approx)
3.25 - World trade center, About a few cops getting trapped in WTC during 9/11. Focuses on individuals not the entire event.
4.0 - The Dig - Nice pre-WW2 years England story about an archeologist and a dying rich woman.
4.25 - Trial Of the Chicago Seven - Docudrama, I think they took a lot of liberties for dramatic effect but it was entertaining and a little edcuational.
3.25 - Age of Adeline - Mostly just a romance but with a sci-fi touch about a woman not aging that was interesting. (Prime)
3.75 - State of Play, Lots of big actors (Russell Crowe, Ben Affer, Rachael McAdams...) Decent crime (action) drama
3.75 - I don’t feel at home in this world anymore, - Kind of an odd crime dramady (on Netflix)
3.5 - Captain Fantastic - Interesting movie about a nature-fanatic and his family
4.0 - Big fish - Different and a little wierd but funny at times and touching at times. (saw on HBO)

------ Next 3 Seen a long time ago but missed from my lists:

3.75 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall - I really liked this one, mostly I liked the rock star guy character - Funny and entertaining
3.5 - 51 First Dates - Pretty good, light Adam Sandler movie
4.5 - 13 going on 30 - One of my favorites that might just qualify for the Favorite Movies List in the Comedy, Chick-flick category

3.5 - Lee Daniels the Butler, Bio-Drama
2.5 - Crip Club (ccc) - The Crip is for cripples. Good docu-movie about the start of the ADA
3.25 - The Last Blockbuster - Interesting and Nostolgic docu-movie about BlockBuster. I saw it on Netflix, lol!
2.75 - I Care a Lot - Interesting scam (fictional (I hope!)) about locking up old people.
2.5 - Proscecuting Evil - Nuremburg Trial Lawyer Documentary (Netflix)
3.75 - The Wizard of Lies - Really good movie about Bernie Madoff and his Ponzi scheme.

2.5 - A Bridge too Far - Pretty good 70s WW2 movie, lots of big stars, but pretty corny in places and not sure how accurate the events were played out.
2.25 - Minimalism - Interesting ideas but really kind of like a revival of the old hippie non-materialistic ideas
3.0 - Minimalism Less is Now - Documentary on "minimalism" that I could really relate to. Many excellent ideas (especially in the beginning). Got a little too "self-helpie" towards the end.
3.25 - My Octopus Teacher - Interesting nature, animal documentary
4.0 - Death to 2020 - This was really funny but you had to be there (in 2020 that is). Kind of goofy funny like Airplane. LMAO was my overall summary.
4.0 - American Beauty - Good mid-life crises movie with interesting sequence of events
3.75 - Self/less - Slightly different body switch movie. Had some good moments (action and emotional), good ending
3.0 - The Client - Old movie that I just rewatched. OK, 90s crime, murder flick with trailer trash family.
4.25 Becoming Warren Buffet - Excellent documentary about multi-billionaire WB.
3.0 - Miles Davis, birth of the cool
3.0 - The Invisable Man - Slow (corny) start but got good later
4.0 - Laundromat Four stars or more - Has an agenda but still great.
Limitless - Old movies I saw add to list
3.0 - Hillbilly Elegy - Good Po Folk struggling story.
3.2 - Another time - I like time travel movies, even rom-com ones
2.75 - Dallas buyers club - Rugged homophobe cowboy gets HIV/AIDS and starts up a meds biz
3.5 - The Death of Stalin, Entertaining Stalin movie (some interesting history too)
3.5 - Cookies fortune, Interesting story with a nice old southern feel.
3.5 - Madonna and the Breakfast club - I learned a lot about Madonnas beginings, interesting to me.
2.5 - A Serious Man - I usually like Cohen movies more but this one was just weird mostly
3.5 - Absolute Power - Another good Clint Eastwood action drama
3.5 - Far From the Tree - Really interesting look at, and perspectives of, people who are "different" (from ther parents and others).
2.5 - Carol - kinda interesting girl, girl relationship
2.25 - Frida - Mecican artist, pretty boring
4.5 - Saving Mr. Banks the story behind the Mary Poppins book and Disney movie
2.75 - The Family, Dinero, entertaining mafia comedy
3.5 - Frost/Nixon - Good post-Nixon presidency movie
2.5 - A Life on This Planet - David Atenburough - Netflix, Interesting and enlightening but pretty sad and depressing too. Some good ideas about how to reverse the damage that we have done to the planet but short on incentives to get all humans to agree to something (outside of disasters and extinction).
2.0 - Capital in the 21st century - Semi-interesting documentary with a foggy agenda
2.5 - The Master - Scientology-like Cult leader and messed up WW2 vet. Interesting at first but stayed the same, got boring and went nowhere (for me). Got me interested in what Scientology was though and I looked that up.
4.5 - /The Social Dilemma - Netflix documentary (/drama), Really good doc on social media and how the main software cos are using AI tools and our behavior data to manipulate us naive humans. It mixes real world interviews with major software people, that have worked at the companies, with some related goofy enactments to lighten it up and to emphasize what they are talking about.
- Some lines from the movie: Only 2 industries call their customers "users", Illegal drugs and Software - If you aren't paying for the product then you ARE the product - We are now trading in human futures.
3.5 - An education - Good drama about an English schoolgirl "coming of age".
4.5 - Clive Davis, the soundtrack of our lives - Great music documentary about a famous record company guy.

----- Updated: 9/6/2020 (and before)

3.5 - Knives Out - Good murder mystery
3.0 - The Queen, The royal story behind when Princess Diana died. I've kinda liked some of the royal stuff lately.
2.5 - Being John Malkovich - Weird
2.5 - Murder Mystery, Entertaining RomCom mystery (watched 8/2020)
4.25 - The Founder, Really good story about Ray Kroc, the self-proclaimed founder of MacDonalds. RK made MacDonalds what it became but was not really the original founder. He was uber successful, of course, but the show portrayed him as sleazy too. The show says "based on a true story" like many movies claim. The "based on" part is where movie makers take a lot of liberties but it seemed like a pretty accurate movie. (watched 8/2020)
4.0 - Safety Not Guaranteed - Good, entertaining time-travel RomCom.
2.5 - Pet Detective - Jim Carey - Just goofy funny
4.0 - Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind - Jim Carey, Titanic Rose actress, Weird sci-fiish romanc Erasing people from other peoples memory memory.
3.5 - Man on a Ledge - Great, intense cops and diamond robbers suspense
3.5 - A Most Violent Year - An immagrant biz man trying to make it legit in corrupt biz world
3.0 - Bad Education - About public school embezzlemen in New Youk
2.5 - Requiem for a Dream - druggies spiraling downhill.
4.0 - Ford Vs Ferrari - Great racing in the 60s show. Lots of car and racing history.
4.0 - The Art of Racing in the Rain - Good Rom-Com tear maker. Dog and Race car guy
3.0 - Hanna - OK Action movie. Girl brought up in the forest.
3.0 - The Recruit - Pretty good CIA spyish mystery. 2003, Al Pacino
3.0 - Lights Out - Good thriller, scary movie. Im not totally into scary but I would say 3.5 in that category
3.0 - The Island - Sci-Fi action movie about cloning people. Thought provoking but goofy action scenes.
3.0 - Flags of Our Fathers - WW2, Iwo Jima flag rasing and back story of 3 suvivors
3.5 - Megan Leavy - Soldier and bomb sniffin dog, happy ending.
3.5 - Dressed to kill. Michael Caine, good mystery from 1980.
4.0 - Once Were Brothers, Robbie Robertson and the Band. Great rocumentary with one of my fav musicians and songwriters, Robbie (the other one).
3.0 - The Last Emperor. Three stars good Chinese history
3.0 - Affliction - Nick Nolte, messed up old cop.
4.0 - Nocturnal Animals, Amy Adams - Good mystery with intense road scene with family and antagonists
4.0 - Mr. Hollands Opus four stars probably - Crier
3.5 - Blood Simple 3 - Murder mystery with lots of twists. Kept me interested.
3.5 - Enemy at the Gates Ruski sharp shooters Battle of Stalengrad
2.5 - The sunset limited - White suicidal intellect debates with black religious guy for 1 1/2 hours. Tedious but it kept me watchin till the end.
4.0 - Citizen X - Ruski Serial Killer, good late Russian/communist bureaucracy stuff.
3.4 - Love Gilda - Great Gilda and SNL background. Sad cancer stuff later.
3.0  - Love and Mercy, Beach boys movie pretty good BB stuff but a little depressing and felt it was missing stuff.
2.5 - Operation Finale - a Nazi in S.America hunted down and brought to Isreal
3.5 - Lady Bird - Teenager growing up in Cali, relatable life scenes and events
2.5  - Sharp edges - Another Tonya Harding story that I got interested in after seeing I, Tonya. This one pretty much sucked though. Interesting add-on though.
2.5 - Three identical strangers. Story of 3 identical triplets seperated at birth. Fun at first then story got darker.
3.25 - The Beatles, Eight Days a week. Good Beatles info and concert footage.
4.25 - I Tonya - I really liked this one. Nothing like a good redneck making good (then losing it) story. Very interesting (and entertaining) production too.
3.0 - The Adjustment Bureau, cute fantacy, romance story.
2.0 - Uncut Gems - Alan Sandler in serious role as jeweler with loans and problems. noisy dialog and bad ending.
3.5 - Cadillac records - Story of Record Label studio in Chicago with Muddy, Howlin, Chuck Berry...
3.0 - Public enemies, new make of john dilligenger, babyface adventures
3.0 - Conspiracy - Different slant and Nazis and Holocaust planning.
3.5 - Soul Surfer started really corny but inspirational near the end (I'm a sucker for that stuff)
3.0 - Joker - Interesting but really just another dark psyco killer movie
2.0 - When Cary Grant introduced Timothy Leary to LSD, short, just odd
4.0 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - I really liked this different fantacy, romance like movie 1.5 - The Russian Revolution - I like learning about RR stuff but this was a terrible presentation.
3.0 - 2012 - Disaster movies are still doing well. Nice end-of-world, Noahs arc kinda movie with lots of action.
where a guy (Brad Pitt) is born physically old then gets younger and dies as a baby. It was a really cool idea but some stuff didn't fit the fantacy and story as well as I would like.
3.5 - Have a good trip, adventures in psychedelics - light yet heavy (of course!)
2.5 - The Killing of a Sacred Deer - Weird Doctor and family and psycho guy. Too weird and dark for me.
4.0 - Silver Linings Playbook - Crazy people doing some crazy stuff. Bradley Cooper as bipolar guy, Robert Deniro as his dad.
3.5 - Eric Clapton Life in 12 bars - Great start then depressing - Showtime

4.0 - The Florida Project - Interesting movie about a flakey young mom, her kid and friends living in a hotel by Disney World.
3.0 - The Punisher - John Travolta - Revenge movie, good action but sad theme. At least the bad guys lose.
2.5 - Keith Richards under the influence - Good back story about the Rolling Stones guitar player
3.0 - 20 feet from Stardom - Good documentary about background singers
2.5 - 1922 - A dark murder story (man kills his wife) that takes place in 1922. Too depressing for me.
3.5  - Yesterday - Good sci-fi or fantacy movie about a loser singer-songwriter that makes Beatles songs popular in a fantacy place where noone knows about the Beatles.
3.5  - The Up Side (on shotime) Really funny movie with an interesting story.
3.5 The Last Samurai - A pretty good west meets east movie in Japan with Tom Cruise.
2.5 The Iron Lady - About Margaret Thatcher. Meryl is a good actress but she could not save this one from being boring.
4.0 Now More Than Ever: The history of Chicago - This is a documentarty about the history of the band (not the city) great background information.
3.5 ZZtop That Little Ol Band from Texas - Documentay about the band. another excellent band documentary
4.5 - Akeelah and the Bee - Excellent inspirational movie! The impoverished underdog getting ahead. The only thing that was a little disappointing (that I looked up after I saw the movie) is that it is a fictional movie (just wish it was true).
4.0 - 2 Popes - Really good movie with good theological discussions and history of some of the latest Popes. Even being a "Recovering Catholic" I did not know a lot about the history behind the Popes or about all the Catholic rituals, etc.
3.0 - The Quiet One (2019)- Documentary of Bill Wyman of the Stones
3.5 - The Theory of Everything - Story about Steven Hawkins, handicapped physicist, nerd, genius.
3.5 - The Irishman - Lots of big actors in Jimmy Hoffa mafia movie
4.0   - Hitler, Circle of Evil - Yea, I know most of the big WW2 events and who won and all but this one was about the people closest to Hitler and had a lot of stuff that I had never seen in any of the other WW2 shows, movies
3.5 - They Shall Not Return - Pretty decent WW1 movie
3.0 - Spitfire - Documentary about the British WW2 fighter plane, the Spitfire. Once again some stuff that I did not know about WW2 history.
3.5 - My Friend Dahmer - A slightly different view of Dahmer. Showed what he was link in HS (bland ending)
3.5 - How the Beatles Changed the World - Good Beatles history and the social changes taking place and that they influenced (on Netflix).
3.0 - Zodiak - Movie about the Zodiak Killer. I had heard about him but didn't know the details before. I didn't really like the ending because I didn't realize that they never caught him (just have the likely suspect who died).
3.0 - Tolkein - Good movie about the Lord of the Rings author. I loved the trilogy so I found it interesting and had no idea about his background and that he was in WW1.

4.0 - El Camino - Really similar to 2 more Breaking Bad episodes - What happened to Jessie
5.0 - Bohemian Rhapsody - Excellent movie! I loved it and learned quite a bit about Queen too. I liked the story and the music was excellent.
3.5 - My Friend Dahmer - A slightly different view of Dahmer. Showed what he was link in HS (bland ending)
3.5 - Hostiles - pretty good turn-of-the century Indian movie, a little sad in general but interesting
3.9 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Really weird old west stuff from the writers of Fargo (5 seperate stories). I originally rated this one 3.0 but I had thought about the various stories and scenes a lot since then (and just re-watched it) so I upgrated it to 3.9. Might have made it 4.0 but since it was so odd I gave it an odd number!
4.0 - Django (saw most (missed a little in beginning), censored version)
2.2 Our kind of Traitor - Russian mafia spy thing
2.8 - Last Flag Flying - Walter White and Michael Scott, VietNam vets dealing with the loss of a son in Iraq
4.0 - Hell or High Water - Texas cowboy bank robbers, Jeff Bridges
4.0 - Goodwill Hunting, Kinda (1997), kinda classic. I liked it pretty much.
4.0 Downsizing, Not rated very well on IMDB (like 5.7 of 10 stars) but I really liked the concept and thought it was pretty interesting and a little funny at times.
3.0 - Highwaymen - Kind of like the same old Bonnie and Clyde story. Pretty interesting capture of the time period though.
4.0 - Sixth Sense - Bruce Wills, Good ghost story mostly.
4.0 - Glass Castle - Weird white trashy, alcholic stuff. Good and relatable but dark undertone.
2.5 - Joe - Nick Cage, OK but on the depressing side
4.0 - Black Panther - Good SUper hero movie with a much different perspective.
3.0 - Deadpool - Super hero movie that I just realized that I missed on this lsit - Pretty entertaining
3.0 - Lincoln - Kind of interesting and seemed like it captured the time period well
3.0 - Sherlock Holmes (2009) - This was an action, kind of Kung-Fu Sherlock. I liked the capture of the time period and the movie was OK but not what I expect for a Sherlock Holmes movie.
3.0 - The Post - Washington Post and Vietnam scandals
2.5 - I saw American Ultra - Action movie - Stoner is highly trained by gov and fights back
2.5 - Begin Again - RomCom mucicians recording outside around the city
3.75 - I saw Lakehouse - Confusing Future/Past time travel movie
3.75 - Woman in Gold - Jewish woman trying to recover artwork stolen by Nazis
3.5 - Secretariat (2010) The 1970s horse -Triple crown winner
2.5 - Bird Box (2018) - Saw on Netflix, scary at times but overall premise kinda goofy
2.5 - Pitch Pertect 3 - Same ideas as 1st 2, just OK though
2.5 - Unbroken - WW2 POW PTSD story then born again
2.5 - One Buck - Dark and depressing but interesting
2.75 - Crazy Rich Asians - entertaining rom/com/dram
4.5 - 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
4.0 - "Only the Brave" True story about fire fighters in California, very sad ending
3.5 - Shape of Water - Won all the awards but just seemed OK to me
4.0 - A Dog's Purpose - About a dog being reincarnated over and over - funny and emotional
3.5 - Churchill, About WC and D-Day
4.0 - Wakefield - A guy lives in his garage attic watching his family - Walter White, and the "13 GoingOn 30" credit card commercial actress (Jeffifer Gardner)
4.0 - Suburbicon (per Dale) It was about the perfect 50's suburb with Matt Damon and Julianne Moore. Dara gave it 1.5
4.0 - Sideways - wine country road trip 2004 - rom, dramedy (imdb 7.5) OD-A 6/2018
3.5 - Disaster Artist (from Corinne) - Home made movie, rich artsy guys - cultish
4.0 - Moonrise Kingdom - Quirky indie movie, 12 year old boy and girl in love and run away.

3.5 - Mudbound (Seen in Door County - Blacks and Whites in the 1940s
2.5 - FARENHEIGHT 451 Seen ON HBO. - From Corinne - SciFi

4.5 - Cinderella Man - 2005 - Fighter movie from depression era
3.0 - Spotlight - Journalist, church sex scandal crime, dram 2016 - Mark Ruf (imdb 8.1)
2.5 - Crazy Heart - Jeff Bridges old alcoholic country star
4.0 Man Called Ove - Sweedish, subtitles - Grumpy old man, his life past and present
4.0 Patriots Day - Boston marathon terrorist movie
3.5 Scent of a Women - 1992 (8.0 on IMDB) - No on Comcast or Netflix - Library
3.5 Gifted - Little girl genius

2.5 Leon: The Professional - Hit Man 1994 (imdb 8.6)
3.0 Alone in Berlin - negative Hitler comments on note cards
3.5 Light between oceans - Baby in row boat
3.0 Girl on the train
4.0 Three Kings - Gold in Iraq
4.0 The Hitman's Bodyguard - Lots of action mixed with some funny scenes
3.5 Proof - Crazy math people
2.5 The thin red line - not that great 2 1/2 stars introspective and confusing
3.5 Dunkirk
2.5 Darkest Hour - Winston Churchill movie - Won awards and was good but more political than war stuff
4.0 Gone Girl - Crime, drama, 2014 (8.1 IMDB) - Really good but sad/bad

3.5 Going in style - Good - Old guy bank robbers - Saw it 1/19/18
3.0 Freaky Friday (is cute per Dara) - Saw it 1/19/18

3.0 Blue Jasmine - Saw on phone on plane to/from Florida - Crazy lady and blue collar, white collar class thing
2.0 Don't Breathe - Saw on phone on plane to/from Florida - Blind guy house robbery
2.5 Inside Man - Bank Robbery action, mystery

2.5 Deep Water Horizon - Oil rig explosion
2.5 Zookeepers Wife - Nazis and Zookeeper
2.0 Cold July - Saw New years eve 2018 with Dale - Robber shot then tracked down really bad people
2.5 War for the Planet of the Apes
4.0 LA LA Land
4.0 Hidden Figures - Black ladies, math wizes at NASA
(State of Play - Dara says I saw it)
xx Side Effects - New Drug Rxs
4.0 - The Martian
3.5 - The Minority Report
3.0 - Open Water - Divers get left out in the ocean
xx Charlie Wilsons War - Arms Dealers - Tom Hanks
xx Sideways - (Dara says I saw it)
xx We were Soldiers - Viet Nam war story - I think I saw it)
xx Grey Gardens - (Dara says I saw it - Old lady - Drew Barrymore)

xx Me Before You - 2016, Dram Rom
xx Demolition - 2015, 7 drama - OK 3.5
xx Whiskey Tango Fox - 2016, Com
xx Train Wreck - 2015, Dramadey
xx See Post Cards from the Edge (looked interesting from Carrie Fisher shows)
xx Get Out - Movie, CCC
xx Sully - Airliner lands on Hudson, behind the scenes Sullys issues
xx Philomena - OK Netflix
xx Almost Famous - saw it...
xx Whiplash - NoNetflix = Saw it, insane music teacher and drummer
4.5 Ordinary People - Saw on On Demand - Good drama, Mary Tyler Moore very good role
4.0 The Big Lebowski - I gave 4.0 in 2013
4.0 Mud last weekend, 4*. pretty good.
3.5 Trading Places - Old Eddie Murphy - Commodity traders
5.0 - Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood and the gooks
xx Dirty Pretty Things - NoNetflix Saw it - Blackmarket Kidneys
xx Coming to America - Old Eddie Murphy
xx Vannila Sky - Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz - Love story and car accident

xx Zero Dark Thirty - 2012 - 7.5 - A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011.

4.5 Blood Diamond - Very good

5.0 Rudy - Excellent, inspirational underdog story.

4/28/2013 ---

3.5 - Invictus - 2009 - 7.4 - Bio, Drama, Hist - Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President,

2.5 - The Dancer Upstairs - 2002 - 6.8 - Drama, Thrill, Crime - A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

3.5 - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - 2011 - 6.8 - Adv, Drama, Myst - A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
(Per larry) (Dale didn't like)

2.5 - Take This Waltz - 2011 - 6.5 - Com, Dram - A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.

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4/27/2013

2.5 - Saw it before too - The Yards - 2000 - 6.3 - crime, drama, rom - In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he

2.5 - Insight - 2011 - 4.7 - Dram, Myst, Thrill - Kaitlyn, an ER nurse who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that is used in an effort to save the woman's life. Almost immediately ...

 

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4/16/2013

4.0 - Argo - 2012 - 8.3 - Per Dale (4.5) email 10/13 and Dara - As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

2.0 - Traffic - 2000 - 7.7 - Crim, Drama, Thril - A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is an addict.

3.5 - In Time 6.6 - 2011 - In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. (Dale 8/5 2.75 stars)

3.0 - Scott Pilgrim vs the World - 2010 - 7.5 - Action, com, fant - Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.

2.0 - (was on TV too) Out of Sight - 1998 - 7.0 - Act, Com, Crime - A career bank robber breaks out of jail and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a US Marshall he has kidnapped.

3.5 - A Late Quartet - 2012 - 6.8 - drama Music - Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust.

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3.0 - Red Lights - 2012 - 6.1 - Dram, Myst Thril - Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away.

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4/13/2013

2.0 - Mona Lisa - 1986 - 7.3 - Crime Drama Rom - George, after getting out of prison, begins looking for a job, but his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for

2.0 - Robot and Frank - 2012 - 7.1 - Comedy, crime, drama - Set in the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team.

3.0 - Adam - 2009 - 7.1 - Drama, Rom - Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth

3.5 - Oranges & Sunshine - 2010 - 6.9 - Drama History - Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunite the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

2.5 - Tower Heist - 2011 - 6.2 - Action Comedy - When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.

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4/4/2013

4.5 - Pitch Perfect - 2012 - 7.2 - Com, Music, Romance - Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.

2.5 - Desert Flower - 2009 - 7.1 - BioDrama - The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN ...

2.0 - Carnage - 2011 - 7.1 - Dramedy - Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the evening into chaos.

 

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4/11/13

2.5 - The English Patient - Saw it on Comcast On Demand and check it out since I never saw it and the Sienfeld episode had me interested.

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3/29/2013

4.0 - Erin Brokovitch - 2000 - 7.2 - An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

2.5 - Sleep Walk with Me - 2012 - 6.7 - Comedy - A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.

3.0 - The Letter Writer - TV 2011 - 6.2 - Family - When a teenager receives a mysterious letter in the mail, she sets out to find the author. It's a journey that will change her life forever.

3.0 - Peace Love and Misunderstanding - 2011 - 5.4 - dramaedy - An uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.

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3/21/2013

 

3.5 - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - 2011 - 7.2 - Dramady - British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.

4.0 - The First Grader - 2010 - 7.1 - BioDrama - The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

2.5 - Henry Fool - 1997 - 7.1 - Dramady - Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talent-less novelist. Henry opens a magical world of literature to Simon who turns his hand to writing the...

1.5 - Heights - 2005 - 6.9 - Drama - Spanning twenty-four hours, Heights follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.

2.0 - weird - Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story - 2005 - 6.8 - Dramady - Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."

2.0 - Holly - 2006 - 6.8 - Drama - In Cambodia, Holly, a 12 year old Vietnamese girl, encounters Patrick, an American stolen artifacts dealer. The story follows their strong connection and her unrelenting efforts to escape her fate.

3.0 - Map of the Human Heart - 1992 - 6.8 - Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his ...

3.0 - (at Dales) SkyFall - 2012 - 7.8 - Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. Whilst MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

3.0 Doubt - 2008 - 7.5 - Saw on TV

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3/18/2013

3.0 - Shallow Grave - 1994 - 7.3 - crime, thrill, - Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.

0 - in Spanish/subtitles and crappy - El Mariachi - 1992 - 6.9 - action, crime, drama - A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.

3.5 - Your Sister's Sister - 2011 - 6.7 - dramady - Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.

2.5 - Flawless -1999 - 6.2 - dramady, crime - An ultraconservative police officer (DeNiro) suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.

3.5 - The River Wild - saw on On Demand

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3/14/2013

4.0 - (saw it a second time) Sarah's Key - 2010 - 7.3 - Drama, War - In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.

3.0 (almost 3.50 - The Unbelievable Truth - 1989 - 7.2 - Dramady, Rom - After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where me meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did, but they are all wary of him, especially Audry's ...

3.0 Seeking a Friend for the End of the World - 2012 - 6.7 - Drama, Rom, SciFi - As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

2.0 - Under Suspicion - 1991 - 6.3 - Crime, Drama, Thrill - In 1959 Brighton, disgraced cop turned private detective Tony Aaron works largely on falsifying adulteries for use as evidence in divorce cases. He involves his wife as the fictional ...

2.5 - The Giant Mechanical Man - 2012 - 6.3 - Dramady, Rom - An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.

Painted Lady - TV 1997 - 7.3 - Crime, Drama, Thrill - From the Irish countryside to London to New York and back again, Maggie reenters the world as a countess and shady art dealer. With her panache and charisma, she finds more than an auction,...

2.0 - People I know - 2002 - 5.5 - Crime, Drama - A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

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3/6/2013

3.0 - Flight - 2012 - 7.3 - got from Redbox - eDale 3/5 - I forgot to tell you about "Flight". Solid 3. Denzel was great as usual. John goodman also was great as a hip drug dealer.

3.0 Good Draction - The Town - 2010 - 7.6 - Crime, drama, thrill - As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down.

3.0 - Sweet and Lowdown - 1999 - 7.2 - dramady - In the 1930s, fictional jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute.

3.0 - People Like Us - 2012 - 7.0 - drama - While settling his recently deceased father's estate, a salesman discovers he has a sister whom he never knew about, leading both siblings to re-examine their perceptions about family and life choices.

2.0 - Too stuffy and feminist - Hysteria - 2011 - 6.7 - comedy, rom - The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.

2.5 - Last Ride - 2009 - 6.5 - drama - A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law for committing a violent crime.

 

3.0 - Taken 2 - 2012 - 6.2 - Corinne got from Redbox

3.5 - Coal Miners Daughter - 1980 - 7.3 - (Saw on OnDemand) Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

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2/24/2013

 

2.0 - The Sunset Limited - 2011 - 7.3 - Drama - Two men in an apartment with their opposing beliefs. Says it's a TV movie.

2.5 - Martha Marcy May Marlene - 2011 - 7.0 - Drama - Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

3.5 - The Lady La Dame - 6.8 - 2011 - DramaBioHist - The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

3.0 - Quantum of Solace - 2008 - 6.7 - Action... - Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's valuable resource.

3.0 - Octoberbaby - 6.0 - 2011 - Drama - A college freshman's world is rocked when she learns she is the adopted survivor of an attempted foeticide.

1.5 - Rampart - 2011 - 5.9 - crimedrama - Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.

3.0 - 360 - 2011 - 5.9 - Drama, Rom - A dramatic thriller that weaves together the stories of an array of people from disparate social backgrounds through their intersecting relationships.

 

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4.0 - Bottle Shock - 2008 - 6.8 - Dramady - The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris".

3.0 (low) Magic of Belle Isle - 2012 - 6.7 - Dramady - In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing. - Dale 2.5 (12/16) Saw "Magic of Belle Isle" last night. 2-3/4 *. Too PG schmaltzy for me. You might like it better than I did.

 

2.5 (high) Damsels in Distress - 2011 - 5.9 - Dramady Rom - A trio of girls set out to change the male-dominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus, and to rescue their fellow students from depression, grunge and low standards of every kind.

2.0 - Hick - 2011 - 5.4 - Dramady - A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas.

3.0 - Love Ranch - 2010 - 5.4 - Dramady Rom - A drama centered around a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada.

 

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2/9/2013

3.0 - Wanderlust From Larry email 12/19 - 2012 - 5.6 - Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.

3.0 - We need to talk about Kevin - Dale 3 stars 11/4 email - 2011 - 7.5 - (Drama Thrill) Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.

3.0 (low 3) Bernie - 2011 - 6.8 - (Dramady, crime) - In small-town Texas, the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when he kills her, he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she's alive. - Dale email 12/31/12 - Also saw a movie called "Bernie" last night. Jack Black as a mortician who is very well loved in his town and befriends and old rich widow and kills her. Didn't realize it was a true story. A weak 3 stars

 

3.0 - The Brothers Bloom - 2008 - 6.8 - (Adventure Dramady) - The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

2.5 - The Invisible - 2001 - 6.7 - (Crime,Drama, Fantacy) - After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able to help him, is his attacker.

2.5 - The Sisters - 2005 - 6.0 - Drama - Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.

3.0 (low) Possession - 2002 - 6.3 - (Rom/drama/myst) - A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.

1.5 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 2003 - 5.6 - (action, advent, fantacy) - In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, SF and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.

 

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2/6/2013

 

4.0 - The Blind Side - 2009 - 7.6 - The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family

1.5 & 2.5 - Inception 2010 - 8.8 - Saw it 2 times. It's the weird dream in a dream in a dream movie. probably saw it but don't remember all of it In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.

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2/1/2013

3.5 - Safety Not Guaranteed - 2012 - 7.1 - Com/Rom/Scifi - Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

2.5 - Down to the Bone - 2004 - 6.5 - Drama - A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.

3.5 - Burning Man - 2011 - 6.3 - Drama/Rom - An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.

 

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1/25/2013

 

3.0 (low 3) Children of Men - 2006 - 7.9 - Adventure/Drama/SciFi - In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

3.5 - In Darkness - 2011 - 7.1 - FOREIGN (jew in the sewer) per Dale. - A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov.

2.5 - AMU - 2005 - 7.1 - Drama - Amu is the story of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family and discover the place where she was born...

4.0 - Puncture - 2011 - 6.8 - A David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.

3.0 (low 3) - The Burning Plain - 2008 - 6.7 - (Crime/drama/rom) A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.

2.5 - Copycat - 1995 - 6.5 - Crime/Drama/Myst - An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

3.0 - I Love You to Death - 1990 - 6.2 - Comedy/crime - Joey owns a pizza parlor, and is married to Rosalee, and is a major womanizer. Rosalee goes to extremes when she finds he has been cheating.

2.0 - Good - 2008 - 6.1 - The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.

2.0 - 8:46 - 2011 - 6.0 - drama - A glimpse into the lives of an ensemble of characters leading up to the moment the world changed forever - 8:46 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 2001.

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1/12/2013

4.0 - Marley - Saw it from Netflix (partially on bike) - 2012 - 7.8 - A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.

 

4.0 (low) Gandhi - 1982 - 8.1 - Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of non-violent protest.

3.5 - Animal Kingdom - 2010 - 7.3 - crime/drama/thrill - Tells the story of seventeen year-old J (Josh) as he navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him

4.0 - Grey Gardens - 2009 - 7.3 - biog/drama - In 1973, documentary filmmaking brothers Albert Maysles and David Maysles decide to change the focus of their latest project from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to her aunt and older cousin...

4.25 - Doctor Zhivago - 2002 (version) - 7.2 - Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution

3.0 - Eyes Wide Shut - 1999 - 7.2 - drama/thrill - A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.

2.5 - Going the Distance - 2010 - 6.3 - dramady - A romantic comedy centered on a guy and a gal who try to keep their love alive as they shuttle back and forth between New York and San Francisco to see one another

1.5 - The Lucky One - 2012 - 6.2 - drama - A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.

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1/5/2013

Margin Call - 2011 - 7.1 Saw it

3.0 - Memento - 2000 - 8.6 - (mystery) A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.

3.0 - The Vow - 2012 - 6.7 - (romance/drama) A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.

low 3.0 - (very English) High Hopes - 1988 - 7.2 - (Dramady) Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful...

2.5 - Love and Other Disastors - 2006 - 6.1 - (comedy/romance) An American intern at U.K. Vogue helps her friends find love.

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12/28/2012

3.0 - Adaptation - 2002 - 7.8 - A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.
Dale 5 stars - I forgot to answer your "Adaptation" question. I only saw parts of it, but I saw the whole thing when it first came out on DVD. Haven't you seen it? Nicholas Cage playing 2 roles.

 

2.0 - Haywire - 2011 - 5.9 - A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission.

2.5 - Cavedwller - 2004 - 5.6 - - interesting but bad ending - no point - A traumatic event sends a musician (Sedgwick) back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abusive ex-husband (Quinn), from whom she fled years ago.

2.5 - Really Gay - I love you phillip Morris - 2009 - 6.6 - Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life...

 

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12/23/2012

3.0 - Safehouse - 2012 - 6.8 - A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.

4.0 - Man on the Moon - 1999 - 7.4 - A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
From Dale: "Man in the Moon", the movie with Jim Carry as Andy Kaufman. Saw it again last week. 3½*.

2.5 - The Goodheart - 2009 - 6.7 - A bartender takes a young homeless man in under his wing.

 

3.0 - Roadie - 2011 - 5.6 - After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he falls for an old friend, who is now married to his longtime nemesis.
Dale 3 stars - Saw a movie called "Roadie" last weekend. About a 46 yr old roadie for BOC (Blue Oyster Cult) that gets fired and has to go home. He's emotionally stunted and has no other skills.

2.5 - Dramedy - The Perfect Family - 2011 - 5.3 - A devoutly Catholic wife and mother has been nominated for one of the church's top awards. She then goes about trying to prove she has the "perfect" family, refusing to accept them for who they are.

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12/10/2012

3.0 - The Joneses - 2009 - 6.5 - (dramedy) A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.

zz The Guilty - 2000 - 6.1 - (crime thriller) A young person gets hired to kill someone completely unknown, by someone equally unknown. Or is that true? Nothing is what it seems.

3.5 - My Sisters Keeper - 2009 - 7.3 - (dramady) Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive.

3.0 - War Horse - 2011 - 7.2 - (war drama) Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.

3.0 - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - 2011 - 6.8 - (dramady) A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

3.0 - Paperman - 2009 - 6.6 - (dramady) A washed-up writer forms an unlikely friendship with a teenager from Long Island.

3.0 - Albert Nobbs - 2011 - 6.6 - (drama) Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

 

3.0 - saw at Dales 12/22 Rise of the Planet of the Apes 7.6 - A substance, designed to help the brain repair itself, gives rise to a super-intelligent chimp who leads an ape uprising.
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11/25/2012

4.0 The Artist - 2011 - 8.1 - A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

3.5 - Sophie Scholl - 7.7 - 2005 - A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

0.5 Tyrannosaur - 2011 - 7.5 - Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.

3.5 - We Bought a Zoo - 2011 - 7.2 - Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

2.5 - The Grey - 2011 - 6.9 - After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

 

3.0 - Australia - 2008 - 6.6 - Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

1.0 Vatel - 2000 - 6.5 - In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly...

3.0 - According to Greta - 2009 - 6.2 - A young suicidal and rebellious teen gets sent to her Grandparents for the summer where life takes an unexpected turn.

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11/16/2012

3.0 - Meanwhile - 2011 - 7.4 - No description

2.5 - Copying Beethoven - 2006 - 6.7 - A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethoven's life.

2.5 - Breaking and Entering - 2006 - 6.5 - A landscape architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.

2.5 - The Aryan Couple - 2004 - 6.1 - A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.

0 - The Last Wave - 1977 - 7.1 - A Sydney lawyer defends five Aborigines in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself.

 

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11/2/2012

3.5 - Deep Water - (docu) - 2006 - 7.8 - A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race.

2.5 - Hugo - 2011 - 7.7 - Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

0.0 - Looking for Richard - 1996 - 7.2 - Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."

2.5 - Foxfire - 1987 - 6.9 - Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.

4.5 - Simon Birch - 1998 - 6.7 - A young boy with stunted growth is convinced that God has a great purpose for him.

2.5 The Runaways - 2010 - 6.5 - A coming-of-age biopic about '70s teenage band The Runaways.

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2.5 - A Dangerous Method - 2011 - 6.5 - A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.

3.0 The Answer Man - 2009 - 6.5 - A reclusive author of spiritual books, is pursued for advice by a single mother and a man fresh out of rehab.

2.0 The Elephant King - 2006 - 6.4 - The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand..

3.5 - 30 Minutes or Less - 2011 - 6.2 - Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else...

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2.5 - Brake - 2012 - 6.0 - A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract information for their plot against the President of the United States.

2.5 - Documentary - Garbo the Spy - 2009 - 7.4 - A compelling account of Juan Pujol, an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of history.

3.5 - Snow Angles - 2007 - 7.0 - A drama that interweaves the life of a teenager, with his old baby sitter, her estranged husband, and their daughter.

2.5 - The Beach - 2000 - 6.4 - Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

2.5 - Cyrus - 2010 - 6.4 - A recently divorced guy meets the woman of his dreams. Then he meets her son.

The Art of Getting By - 2011 - 6.4 - George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.

2012 - 2009 - 5.8 - An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

 

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10/19/2012

3.0 - The Guard - 2011 - 7.3 - An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.

2.0 - Like Crazy - 2011 - 6.7 - A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

2.0 - Fireflies in the Garden - 2008 - 6.5 - The Taylor family is devastated by an accident that takes place on the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college -- decades after leaving to raise her children

3.0 - Casanova - 2005 - 6.5 - Heath Ledger plays the fabled romantic as a man who, after failing to win the affection of a particular Venetian woman, strives to discover the real meaning of love.

3.5 - The Iron Lady - 2011 - 6.4 - An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.

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4.0 - Crash - Per KC - Saw via Netflix - IMDB 2004 - 7.9 - Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

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10/5/2012

4.0 - The Pianist looked good (old maybe 2002) - saw 1/2 of it on tv 2002 - 8.5 - A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

1.0 - Mean Streets - 1973 - 7.5 - A small-time hood struggles to succeed on the "mean streets" of Little Italy.

1.5 - Shame - 2011 - 7.4 - In New York City, Brandon's carefully cultivated private life -- which allows him to indulge his sexual addiction -- is disrupted when his sister Sissy arrives unannounced for an indefinite stay.

2.0 - Buried - 2010 - 7.1 - Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

3.5 - Bridesmaids (maybe) Dale 8/18 2.5 - 2011 - 6.9 - Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

2.0 - The Village Barber Shop - 2008 - 6.8 - A fading smalltime barber is forced to hire the last person on earth he'd want working in his shop - a woman.

2.5 - One Day - 2011 - 6.8 - After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.

3.0 - Cedar Rapids - (comedy) per Dale 10/4. 2011 - 6.3 - Tim Lippe has no idea what he's in for when he's sent to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to represent his company at an annual insurance convention, where he soon finds himself under the "guidance" of three convention veterans.

 

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9/18/2012

3.5 - Drive - 2011 - 7.9 - A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour

4.0 - Moneyball - 2011 - 7.7 - Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players

3.5 - You Can Count on Me - 2000 - 7.6 - A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town

2.0 - Pirate Radio - 2009 - 7.4 - A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s

2.5 - Local Color - 2006 - 6.9 - A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974

2.5 - Restless - 2011 - 6.6 - The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII

4.0 Cinemaverite - 2011 - 6.4 - A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the first American family to be the subjects of a reality TV show.

 

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9/18/2012

3.0 - Hanna - 2011 - 6.9 - A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.

4.0 - Transsiberian - 2008 - 6.7 - A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.

2.0 - Invincible - 2001 - 6.6 - A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

4.0 - Trucker - 2008 - 6.6 - A trucker, leading a life free of depth and on the way to nowhere, is forced to make a decision about her aggressive loner 11-year-old son whom she openly deserted ten years previously.

0 - never finished - The Duel - 2010 - 6.1 - (no info)

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9/15/2012

4.0 Hunger Games - Saw at Dales

3.5 - The Words - 2012 - 6.6 Saw at theater (Elk Grove) for our anniversary.

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9/7/2012

3.5 - 3:10 to Yuma - 2007 - 7.8 - A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

3.5 - Precious - 7.4 - 2009 - In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. - (saw preview)

4.0 - The Conspirator - 2010 - 6.9 - Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

4.0 - The Young Adult 2011 - 6.5 - Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter. (Dale 7/28)

1.5 - LoveLorn - 2010 - 6.0 - Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London, the deserted afterlife and a mysterious dreamscape...

2.5 - Who Loves The Sun - 2006 - 6.0 - A troubled young man's sudden return after a mysterious five-year disappearance reunites him with his wife and his best friend.

2.5 - DOA - 1988 - 6.0 - Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him

4.0 - Grown Ups - 2010 - 5.8 - After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

3.5 - Bad Teacher - 2011 - 5.7 - A comedy centered around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague -- a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher.

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0 - SUBTITLES - A Separation - 2011 - 8.6 - A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

4.0 - The Flowers of War - 2011 - 7.6 - A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

3.5 - Margaret - 2011 - 6.6 - A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.

3.0 - already saw it (maybe on tv?) The Client List - 2012 - 6.1 - Riley is a single mother living in a small Texas town and leading a shocking double life.

2.5 - Act of Valor - 2012 - 6.5 - An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.
Project X - 2011 - 6.7 - 3 high school seniors throw a birthday party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.

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9/1/12

3.5 - (redbox) My Week with Marilyn 2011 - 7.1 - Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl. (Dale 8/18 3.5)

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8/20/12

Whistle Blower - at Dales - 3.5

The Ride - at Dales - 3.75 - Phil Keogahn (Amazing race) - Bike accross america - 2011 -

3.5 - Capote - 2005 - 7.5 - Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers. (guy from Along came Polly)

2.5 - The Way - 2010 - 7.3 - M Sheen - A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the "El camino de Santiago," and decides to take the pilgrimage himself

4.0 - Everybody's Fine - 2009 - Dinero - 7.1 - A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.

2.5 - Goya's Ghosts - 2006 - 6.9 - Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

3.0 - pretty good action - The Italian Job - 2003 - 6.9 - After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.

2.5 - The Unsaid - 2001 - 6.5 - A seemingly-untroubled adolescent carries disturbing secrets that compel a psychiatrist to unearth the patient's gruesome past.

2.0 - No real ending - The Minus Man - 1999 - 6.2 - A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed...

3.0 - The Switch - 2010 - 5.9 - Seven years after the fact, a man comes to the realization that he was the sperm donor for his best friend's boy.

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2.0 interesting mtn biking too much religion - The Potential Inside - 2010 - 5.9 - Reeling with grief in the wake of a tragic automobile accident, retired veteran cyclist, Chris Carmik...

3.0 - There Be Dragons - 2011 - 5.7 - Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.

 

2.0 - Tenderness - 2009 - 5.5 - A policeman works to figure out whether a violent teen murdered his family.

 

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2.5 One For the Money - 2012 - 5.1 (Dara got from Redbox)
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8/6/12

zz TV - Frontier House - 2002 - 8.3 - The Year: 1883. The Place: The Montana Territory. The Challenge: Blizzards, hunger, scorching sun, forest fires, the neighbors, and more ...

4.0 - The Help - 2011 - 8.1 - An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

2.5 The Descendants - 2011 - 7.5 - A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.

2.5 Sunshine - 1999 - 7.3 - The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

3.0 - J edgar - 2011 - 6.8 - J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the FBI for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

3.0 - The Riddle - 2007 - 5.2 - A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub. Gradually he becomes obsessed with unraveling a century-old murder in the pages of the manuscript

 

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7/22/12

3.0 In the Bedroom - 7.5 - 2001 - A New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman with two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband. Then something terrible occurs in this wrenching, emotional drama.

2.75 Broken Flowers - 7.2 - 2005 - (Bill Murray) As the intensely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.

2.0 Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy - 7.2 - 2011 - In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6

3.5 - Imaginary Heros - 7.1 - 2004 - The Travis family façade is destroyed by an event incomprehensible to them -- an event which will open locked doors and finally reveal the secrets that have haunted them for decades.

2.5 The Trip - 7.0 - 2010 - Steve Coogan has been asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, but after his girlfriend backs out on him he must take his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

2.5 I capture the Castle - 7.0 - 2003 - A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.

2.5 - Emilie - 6.3 - 2003 - In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.

3.5 - In His Life, the story of John Lennon - 5.9 - 2000 - A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.

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7/20/12

4.0 Saint Misbehavin - Wavy Gravy

3.5 - The Ultimate Gift - 2006 - 7.3 - Jason thought his inheritance was going to be the gift of money and lots of it. Was he ever in for a big surprise

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6/30/12

0 - bad In the Loop - 2009 - 7.5 - Comedy - The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing

2.5 - Win Win 2011 - 7.3 - ComedyDrama - A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he's double-crossed comes into his life.

Footloose - 2011 - 5.4 -

 

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6/22/12

2.5 - Bad Lieutenant - 2009 - 6.8 - Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

2.5 - too cutesy and a little weird Vanilla Sky - 2001 - 6.8 - A successful publisher finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jaded lover

2.0 - Assited Living - 2003 - 6.6 - "Assisted Living" chronicles a day in the life of Todd, a janitor who "Assisted Living" is shot and staged in a real nursing home and gains

 

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6/11/12

2.0 - Brick - 2005 - 7.5 - A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

3.0 - Max - 2002 - 6.5 - A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler

3.5 - The Rum Diary - 2011 - 6.3 - American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.

1.5 - only interest that there are holy rollers - Higher Ground - 2011 - 6.2 - A chronicle of one woman's lifelong struggle with her faith

3.0 - The Jackal - 1997 - 6.1 An imprisoned IRA sniper is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

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2.5 Possesion - 2009 - 5.9 - A woman's life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas. Thrills arrive after the brother-in-law wakes up, thinking he's his brother.

3.5 - No Turning Back - 2001 - 5.7 - Mexican English teacher Pablo Fernandez seeks a better life for himself and his spoiled daughter Christina (5) after losing his wife in a hurricane...

3.0 Elsewhere - 2009 - 5.5 - A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.

3.5 - The Lazarus project 2008 - 6.0 - A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.

Extreme Limits - 2000 - (5) 2.5 of 5 (Yahoo) - When a plane containing a shipment of the world's most dangerous chemical is hijacked and crashes in the remote mountains of Alaska, only a fearless government agent (Treat Williams) will risk his life to save the world.

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Horrible Bosses - Saw it - 2011 - 7.0 - Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.

Contagion - 2011 - 6.8 - Saw it.

 

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5/17/12

3.0 - Off the Map - 2003 - 7.1 - An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.

2.5 - Charlie Bartlett - 2007 - 7.0 - A rich kid becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school

3.5 - Julia & Julia - 2009 - 7.0 - Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.

2.5 - The Debt - 2010 - 6.9 - 1965, three Mossad agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the agents share come back to haunt them.

2.75 - Flawless - 2007 - 6.7 - caine, demi - A crime/drama set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire janitor convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.

3.0 - The Great Gatsby 1974 - 6.2 - Redford - Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor.

The Great Gatsby - 2006 - 5.6 - Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.

2.0 - Birthday Girl - Nicole - 2001 - 6.0 - A thirtysomething bank clerk from St Albans has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his Russian mail-order bride.

2.5 - Perfect Stranger - 2007 - 5.5 - A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her childhood friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

 

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5/17/12

2.5 - The Last Station - 2009 - 7.0 - A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.

3.0 - Lovely Still - 2008 - 6.9 - (Dale) A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.

2.0 - Dakota Skue - 2008 - 6.4 - For as long as she could remember, Dakota Skye has been cursed with a super power. She has the ability to see the truth in any lie she hears

2.5 - Is Anybody There - 2008 - 6.6 - Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents...

3.0 - Last Call - 2012 - not rated - Underachieving siblings Phil and Danny O'Donnell are forced to run the family pub to save their eccentric uncle from jail time and financial ruin.

2.5 - Irresistible - 2006 - 5.7 - A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.

 

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5/7/12

3.5 - Ides of March - Coriine got from Redbox - had Miami scenes

4.5 - Babel - 2006 - 7.5 - Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

0.5 - The Fountain - 2006 - 7.3 - Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

2.5 - Super 8 - 2011 - 7.2 - During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

2.5 - The Weight of Water - 2000 - 5.9 - A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder...

2.5 Charolette Gray - 2001 - 6.3 - A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.

 

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4/29/12

4.0 - Evening - 2007 - 6.4 - A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the 1950s and never forgets.

4.0 - Morning Glory - 6.5 - An upstart television producer accepts the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program with warring co-hosts.

3.0 - Gods Must Be Crazy 2 - 6.3 - 1989 - Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck...

2.5 - The Fixer - 5.6 - Jack Killoran is a lawyer who can 'fix' any situation for his wealthy clients, usually by bribing or blackmailing corrupt officials...

In The Blink of an Eye - 2009 - 3.8 -

1.5 - The Human Contract - 2008 - 5.0 - A successful corporate type harboring a deep, dark secret befriends a free-spirited stranger who encourages him to ditch his stuffy lifestyle and live life in reckless abandon

3.0 Probably seen - Tuskegee Airmen - 7.1 - 1995 -

 

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4/24/12

3.5 - 16 Blocks - 2006 - 6.6 - Bruse Willis - An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse. There are however forces at work trying to stop prevent them from making it.

 

3.0 - Missing - 1982 - 7.7 When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and American businessman father try to find him.

3.0 Cracks - 2009 - 6.6 - A look at the lives and relationships among girls at an elite British boarding school.

3.0 Everything Must Go - 2010 - 6.5 - When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form

4.0 - Awake - 2007 - 6.5 - The story focuses on a man who suffers "anesthetic awareness" and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery.
2012 movie with same name is 8.3

2.0 - Deception - 2008 - 5.9 - An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.

2.0 - Rust - 2010 - 5.5 One man loses his faith, but is called to help another - preacher guy movie.

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4/13/12

Dogville - 2008 - 8.0 - A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado town. In exchange, she agrees to work for them. As a search visits town, she finds out that their support has a price. Yet her dangerous secret is never far away...

2.0 - Dark Days - 2000 - 7.7 - A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

- 0 - BAD The Science of Sleep - 2006 - 7.3 - A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

2.5 House of Games - 1987 - 7.4 - A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led my a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.

4.0 Levity - 2003 - 6.4 - The film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley..

4.0 The Wronged Man - 2010 - 6.2 - Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis...

(May have seen) Two for the Money - 2005 - 6.1 - After suffering a career-ending injury, a former college football star aligns himself with one of the most renowned touts in the sports-gambling business.

1.0 - Synecdoche, New York - 2008 - 7.2 * Looks Weird * - A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play

1.0 - Land of the Blind - 2008 - 6.4 - A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.

3.0 - Columbus Circle - 2012 - 5.8 - An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.

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4/2/12

2.0 - Days of Heaven - 1978 - 8.0 - A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

2 3/4 - One Week - 2008 - 7.1 - Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.

xx That Evening Sun - 2009 - 7.1 - An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.

2.5 - Jolene - 2008 - 6.5 - A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak. Based on E.L. Doctorow's story, "Jolene: A Life."

2.0 - Purple Violets - 2007 - 6.5 - Patti Petalson (Blair) struggles with the pressure of becoming the next important American writer.

4.0 Funny! The Invention of Lying - 2009 - 6.4 - A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.

 

2.75 - Janie Jones - 2010 - 6.2 - A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

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3/22/12

3.5 - too much femi-nazi bad men - North Country 7.2 - 2005 - A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

4.0 - The Russell Girl - 2008 6.4 - Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her family to share some important news but instead finds herself confronting a difficult period from her past.

2.0 Little Fish - 2005 - 6.3 - Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman (Blanchett) trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

 

3.0 True Colors - 1991 - 6.1 - Best friends from law school to election night, their friendship is sorely tested when one learns of another's betrayal.

3.0 - Lucky You - 2007 - 5.8 - A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.

2.0 - P.S. - 2004 - 6.3 - An unfulfilled divorced woman gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who appears to be her high school sweetheart who died many years before.

2.0 (gay) Night Listener - 5.9 - 2006 - In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.

Rejects:
Saw it - The Negotiator
TV Mini Series - Ana Karenina
Lying - 2006 - 5.3 - A long weekend brings four women together in the countryside. Virtual strangers, the women are forced to navigate the depths of social interaction. On the surface all seems placid. But the atmosphere of calm is a facade.

 

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3/11/12

bad - 2.5S - Pieces of April - 2003 - 7.1 - A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.

bad - Road to Nowhere (Monty Hellmans) - 5.8 - A young filmmaker gets wrapped up in a crime while shooting his new project on location.

 

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3/4/2012

3s- Knight and Day 2010 - 6.3 - A story of a girl who gets mixed up with a spy trying to clear his name.

4s- Beautiful Boy - 2010 - 6.5 - A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.

4s- Buck - 2011 - 7.3 - An examination of the life of acclaimed 'horse whisperer' Buck Brannaman, who recovered from years of child abuse to become a well-known expert in the interactions between horses and people.

3s- The Adjustment Bureau - 2011 - 7.1 - The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.

4s- A simple Plan - 1998 - 7.6 - Two brothers and a friend find $4 million in the cockpit of a downed plane. The pilot is dead. No one is looking for the money. To keep it, all they have to do is wait. IT ALL SOUNDED SO SIMPLE...

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2.5 - Adoration 2008 - 6.3 - For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

1.0 - Sorry Haters 2005 - 6.2 - Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.

 

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2/2012

xx King of California
- 2007 - 6.7 - An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia.

 

 

xx Eagle Eye - 2008 - 6.6 - Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family...

The Zodiac - 2005 - 5.4 - An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s...

zz would not play - 25th Hour - 2002 - 7.8 - Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.

xx Mr. Brooks - 2007 - 7.4 - A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

xx Memphis Bell - 1990 6.7

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xx House of Sand and Fog - 2003 - 7.7 - An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.

zz The Life of David Gale - 2003 - 7.3 - A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

xx Enigma - 2001 - 6.4 - A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.

xx The Hole - 2001 - 6.3 - Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.

xx Cold Weather - 2010 - 6.1 - A guy who moves back to Portland, Oregon becomes involved in the mystery of his ex-girlfriend's disappearance

xx Day Zero - 2007 - 5.9 - The military draft is back. Three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they're forced to confront everything they believe about courage

xx Few Options - 2011 - 5.7 When a convicted drug smuggler leaves prison after 22 years for one youthful mistake, he just wants to start over and obey the law

xx True Crime 1999 - 6.4 - Clint E

xx Drop Zone - 1994 - 5.3 - A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Busey specialize in
landing on police roofs and

xx Dinner for Schmucks - 2010 - 5.9 Dinner for Schmucks - Steve Carell

Stolen ??
IRT Deadliest Roads - TV

 

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Blood Simple - 1984 7.8
Fracture - 2007 7.1
Syriana - 2005 - 7.0
The Company Men - 2010 6.8
Frozen - 2010 - 6.3

Confidence - 2003 - 6.7
At Close Range - 1986 - 6.9

Rebel - 1985 - 4.3
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Flyboys 2006 - 6.3
good war 2002 - 6.3
Winston 8.7 1981 - tv series
Source Code 2011 - 7.5

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On demand

Invictus - 2009 - 7.4 - mandella
Narc 2002 -7.3 -
Winter In Wartime - 7.0 - 2008 - WW2
About Schmidtt - 2002 - 7.2 Jack N

The Time Travelers wife 2009 - 7.1 - A rare disorder causes a librarian to travel through time during periods of extreme stress

The Mechanic - 2011 - 6.5 hit men, action d sutherland
Lies and Alibis - 2006 - 6.4

After Life - 2010 - 6.0 - Anna awakens in a morgue after a car crash and learns she may be trapped between life and death,
The Runaways 2010 - 6.6 - girl rock stars
Prince of Persia - 2010 - 6.6 Disney time thing
Peaches - 2004 - 6.5 - orphan
The Other Woman - 2009 - 6.3
Letters to Juliet - 2010 - 6.3 (check flick)

The Race - 2009 - 6.1 - Irish girl go cart race
The Missing Person 2008 - 6.0
Karate Kid - 6.2 dale liked
Legands of Flight 5.5
The Losers - 2010 - 6.3

The Roommate - 2011 - 4.6 - scary
Meltdown - 2007 ????

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Cold Weather - 2010 - 6.1 - A guy who moves back to Portland, Oregon becomes involved in the mystery of his ex-girlfriend's disappearance
Deep Impact 1998 - 6.0 - Unless a comet can be destroyed before colliding with Earth, only those allowed into shelters will survive. Which people will survive?
Libertine - 2004 - 6.4 - The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
InsideOut - 2009 - Amazon 3 of 5 - This story has an interesting premise. A rather eccentric African-American psychologist moves into a typical American suburb and immediately arouses the suspicions of the old-guard residents there. As these residents start to peer and pry into the psychologist's life, they begin to suspect him of terrible crimes. However at the same time, each of the nosy residents is engaging in some soul-destroying behavior within the privacy of his own home.
Wetherby - 1985 - 6.8 - The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Role Models - 2008 - 7.0 - Wild behavior forces a pair of energy drink reps to enroll in a Big Brother program.
Ask the dust - 2005 - 5.7 - Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American.

Rejects:
Helen - 2009 6.1 - A talented professor is forced to come to terms with her clinical depression.
Living Will - 2010 - 4.2 (dumb comedy)
Bordertown - 1995 - 7.2 (new life in Australia)
The Rector's Wife - 1994 TV Series
Reckless - 1997 - 7.3 TV series Young doctor Owen Springer returns to Manchester to care for his ailing father and proceeds to fall in love with an older woman, who just happens to be married to his boss.

 

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Man on Wire - 2008 7.9 - *Docu* A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."
Prodigal Sons - 2008 - 7.4 - transgender woman

Prisoner of Paradise - 2002 - 7.8 - A true story of Kurt Gerron, a well-known and successful German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star, who was sent to a concentration camp and ...
Reversible Errors - TV 2004 - 6.4 A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.

Prisoner of her Past - 2010 - 8.0 - *Docu Sonia Reich- who survived the Holocaust as a child by running and hiding - suddenly believes that she is being hunted again

Finding Home 2003 - 5.3 - Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.

Powder - 1995 - 6.2 - A young bald albino boy with unique powers
The Legend of Zorro

 

This is the original webpage format that I used before the newer streamlined version.

12/9/11 - Just a Note (this isn't a movie) With all the library movies that we have been getting, I'm having a hard time keeping up on this (it's taking too much time). I doubt that many of you come out here and I was trying to use this as a listing for myself to remember what I've seen. I may end up putting this in a spreadsheet.

Well, for now here's some more.

Saw it - There Be Dragons

Note: In the section below, MY RATING is just after the date.

12/7/11 - 3.0 - Glorious 39

12/6/11 - 3.0 - The Guitar - Very different kind of movie but a stupid ending (almost gave it 2.5 cause of the ending).

Date? - 3.0 - Men Who Talk To Goats -

Date? - 3.0 - The Long Walk -

12/7/11 - 3.0 - The Greatest It was better than I thought even if the overall theme was grief and was depressing.

12/4/11 - 3.5 - Lonely Hearts I liked this one pretty well. I’ll give it

12/5/11 - 2.5 - Goodbye Solo. I’ll give it I considered 3 stars but it just didn’t seem that good to me and I didn’t like the ending

12/2/11 - 4.0 - Bella T- he last movie that I saw surprised me and was way better than I expected. I think I like movies that generate emotion (more so than just thought – both is good though) and this one generated emotion (with me anyway).

12/1/11 - 2.5 - The Illusionist I gave it

Date? - 3.0 - The Door in the Floor I gave that

11/30/11 - 4.0 - Dolores I wasn’t spectin it to be that good but I was surprised. Yea, I loved Misery too.

11/26/11 - 4.0 - Frozen River. I really liked it. It had a lot of potential bad crap and most of it came out OK. Like I said, I like happy endings (even though it wasn’t totally happy).

11/25/11 - 3.0 - The Clearing

11/25/11 - 0 - The Girfriend Experience - Boring and bad. Didn't even watch it all.

11/23/11 - 3.0 - Saint - This was kind of like that old Saint movie. not a major movie but entertaining.

11/21/11 - 2.5 - Stop Loss - Iraq war and milatary movie. I didn' care for it all that much.

11/21/11 - 3.0 - The Resident - Nice Psyco thriller.

11/19/11 - 4.0 - The Way Back - I am a sucker for happy endings (plus it was a nice life struggle). I was going to suggest that we watch it at the same time so it would be like we were watching it together.  I guess that may not happen.

11/19/11 – 3.5 - Unthinkable - I didn’t like the torture theme too much but it was a pretty intense movie that totally kept my interest and kept me involved.

11/16/11 – 2.5 - Green Zone - I didn’t like it that much. Too political and negative. Even if they had a point, I didn’t like the way it was presented.

11/16/11 - 2.5 - –Blue State - This was a pretty good movie. It was about this bleeding heart liberal pussy that said he would move to Canada if “Dubya” (that’s that they call Bush) won the election. He won, so he decided to move to Canada and there was lots of Bush bashing. Then later you meet his father and he is a total stereo type overly pigheaded conservative and all they do is argue politics (in that part of the movie).

11/13/11 - 3.5 – Get Him to the Greek - Pretty funny.

11/13/11 - 2.5 - Dillinger - I guess I gotta get a little more particular as I see more movies or they will all be 3 and 4 stars. Dillinger was a pretty typical 30s ganster kind of movie. Some interesting scenes of the times but nothing else was that new or citin.

11/12/11 – 3.5 Beneath Hill 60 - Entertaining WW1 movie.

11/5/11 - 3.0 A Difficult Woman - Pretty good but not much better than a regular TV movie. It was an Aussi movie and some of the phrases that they used were interesting (like they always called flashlights torches, etc.).

11/5/11 - 3.0 - Primal Fear - It was OK but I didn’t like the ending

11/5/11 - 4.0 - Sweet Land - It was a simple movie about immigrants moving to rural areas in around the 20s. Not much of a plot, just followed a few people’s lives a little. Not sure why I liked it but I did.

9/11/11 - 4.5 - Meet Joe Black - AI just saw a few old movies this weekend including Meet Joe (from 1998). This movie was a little weird but I actually like it a lot (as you can see from my rating). It's probably not for everyone but I liked it.

11/4/11 - 4.0 - The Storm - It was about Winston Churchill. Not sure if the movie was great but I like movies about the war and that time frame so it was good for me.

11/1/11 - 3.0 - American, the Bill Hicks Story - I didn’t really realize that it was mostly a documentary/biography of a comedian (not like a regular movie). I liked it OK for that kind of a thing. Bill was kind of a self-righteous, opinionated comedian but he could also be funny.

10/31/11 - 2.0 - True Romance - I thought the story was pretty basic (people find some of the mob’s drugs and it gets them in trouble) and there was a shitload of violence. Yea, the Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper part was good.

10/30/11 - 4.0 - Little Children - had a lot of good romantic suspense mixed in with another suspenseful neighborhood pervert theme, some steamy sex scenes, and a few sort of funny scenes.

10/30/11 - 3.5 - Chicago Cab - was all about a day in the life of this Cab driver and the lives of the weirdo people that he picked up.

10/29/11 - 3.0 - Abandon- It was pretty good.

10/16/11 - 3.5 - The Wrestler - Comcast On-Demand movie (2008 with Micky Rourke) It was pretty good.

9/11/11 - 2.0 - The Constant Gardner - This is the other one that I saw this weekend (so far). I thought that it was pretty boring.

9/5/11 - 4.0 - The Changeling - Another Angelina Jolie movie but this one was really good. I liked the 1920s backgroundand the story was really good (they say it was true).

9/3/11 – 2.0 - Salt - This was a action movie with Angelina Jolie. I know action movies are not always very realistic but I found most of the action in this one way too hard to believe and it was hard to follow the plot (for me anyway).

8/30/11 - 4.0 - Flash of Genius - This was a great movie about the inventor of intermittent windshielf wipers (or the blinking eye!).

District 9 - 4.0 - I thought this was a real different kind of alien movie.

Social Network - 4.0 - The Mark Zuckerburg / Facebook story. I really liked this and I could totally relate to the famous internet website part :-) . Actually, I could relate to a lot of it even though my bike site is not quire as popular as facebook. I don't have the date that I saw this but it was somwhere areound this time frame.

Middle Men - 4.0 This was like the x-rated version of Social Network. Not that the movie was x-rated but it was about some guys starting x-rated websites and accepting credit card payments over the internet. I have to thank them for getting that goiing! I don't have the date that I saw this but it was somwhere areound this time frame.

6/25/11 - 4.0 - The River
I saw The River last night with Mel G and Sissy. I really liked how they got jobs as scabs for like $4.50 an hour for heavy labor in a steel plant for 10 hours a day or something like that. That made me really appreciate programming and website work and makes me inspired to do more work and work harder. Lots of other good themes and scenes too.

6/24/11 – 3.5 - Sling Blade - This is a really good movie about a retarded guy that was locked up for 20 years or something for killing his mom and boyfriend. It is not really what you expect when he gets out into the world – or is it?

6/22/11 3.5 - Year One – (older movie from library) – Just dumb/funny. Made me laugh outloud a few times so it did it’s job!

6/21/11 – 4.0 - Hurt Locker – (older movie from library) – This is a really good war movie about a bomb squad company in Iraq. It seemed very realistic. Good action.

6/2/11 - 4.0 - Unstoppable – This runaway train movie was fairly predictable but still excellent. The action just keeps coming and its hard not to stay interested.

6/1/11 - 3.0 - Country Strong – A little bit of different twist for this kind of movie.

5/14/11 – 3.5 - Kings Speech
I am officially giving The Kings Speech but I think I may have underrated it a little because my expectations were so high. If the movie was not popular and I just randomly found it, I might have gone to 4. Hard to say but I think that the psychology behind that idea is interesting.

5/8/11 - 4.5 - Black Swan:

6/8/11 - 3.5 - Fighter:

4/30/11 – 3.5 - Love and Other Drugs
I just watched Love and OD. Unfortunately, I didn’t finish in time so we will get charged $2 now. I was actually thinking about my rating while I was watchin in and I’m going to give it 3.5 of 5 stars It’s interesting that the more good current movies that you watch, the more critical you get.

4/24/11 - 4.5 - Inglorious Bastards
OK, I would rate the basterds as 3.5 of 5 stars. I could have used less of the real bloody crap. Lots of other things that I really liked though.

4/23/11 – 4.0 - Winters Bone
I rented Winter Bone last night. I’ll have to give that . I really liked the back country lifestyle scenes. A lot of it reminded me of my niece and family in Wisco (except without all the murder and crime stuff). The drug stuff seemed a little too heavy but I also liked that it had a semi-happy ending.

4/17/11 - 4.0 - Conviction
Well, I watched Conviction and I thought it was really good. I’ll say She also had this movie called Hereafter which didn’t work in my dvd player. I never made it to KK3 (or is that KKK?) I only saw 1 and 2.

2/20/11 - 4.0 - One False Move
I saw the rest of the movie. It was a really good movie but I didn’t care for the ending too much. I like happier endings even though this one was better than many movies but I didn't care for the ending and I was waiting for the big fight between the black broad and the wife that he cheated on. Still very good but I’d say

2/6/11 - The Wall Street movie (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) was pretty good but I’m only giving it a cause it was kind of hard to follow to theme. This is like the sequel to the original Wall Street Movie which I would rate as 5.0

Some Classics -Not previously listed

3.5 - Lawrence of Arabia - A big screen "epic" that I remember from way back and still think about sometimes. Saw it in the not too distant past too.

 

Move and TV Related page on this website:

Rob's Movie Ratings - This page has a long listing of most of the movies that I have seen over the years - with my ratings of them.

My Favorite Movies Page - This page has a listing of my favorite movies.

TV Series Ratings page - For the on-going TV Series that I have seen.

 

 

 



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