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I love this film so much. It's probably in my top three favorite films of all time. It's definitely one of the very few films where I need to take a walk afterwards to take it all in. The three hour run time for me is a non issue. I sometimes wish it were longer. The acting is top class. The film along with everybody except Tom Cruise really deserved more Oscar credit than it got.

A lot of people either hate it or love it. I get it. It's a hard movie to understand. You really just have to have a personal connection with what happens to these people to really get it. If you have a perfect life and little to no problems then I can see you thinking it's pretentious and boring. I think it's a perfect film. There is literally nothing I would change about the entire movie. It was meticulously made with wonderful shots and like I said before...incredible heart warming/wrenching acting. The ending was also amazing. AMAZING

If you haven't seen this then I suggest you do. You might hate it. You might love it. What you will get though is a world class display of acting and directing and hopefully you'll connect with these characters lives like I had.

11/10

^ That's my favorite PTA film for sure.

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Originally Posted by Exoskeletal (Post 1182663)

Fantastic film for sure. Even Tom Cruise did a pretty great job too though. I agree with your recommendation.

I remember when it first came out I fell in love with the soundtrack too, could not stop playing it for about 3 weeks straight.

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1182661)

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Swamp Thing (1982)

I've always been a fan of the comic and this movie came out right around the time Alan Moore started writing it and taking it in a slightly more complex direction with notions towards humanity, environmentalism, addiction, love, etc. Sadly this movie seems to be more geared towards the simple idea that Swamp Thing is just a monster who happens to be fighting for the good guys and it just doesn't work all that well. He and his female love interest are constantly besieged by the same grunt commandos because all he ever seems to do is knock them into the water. It's weird because Netflix has this rated as PG and I figured it was to make it accessible to kids... until the scene where Adrienne Barbeau swims naked in the swamp and you get to see her tits (they're awesome by the way). By the end it just devolves into a creature feature where enemy Arcane takes the same serum that made Alec Holland into the Swamp Thing and it turns into two guys in rubber suits attempting to fight while in thigh-high water.

I know I really shouldn't have expected much, but I really like Swamp Thing, and while this did come from a time when he was just a silly monster with the depth of a spoon, I do think there was some real potential here. If Marvel Studio's Avengers movie turns into a massive hit and the fear of trying to ape the complex continuity of comic books is banished, I really hope DC get their act together and create their own movie studio. Not only could they do a proper Swamp Thing movie, but they can also right the horrible wrong Warner Bros. did to John Constantine.

I do thoroughly enjoy this movie, cheesy though it may be at times. Dr. Alec Holland is played by one of my absolute favorite actors who fly under most peoples' radars: Mr. Ray Wise.

And yes, WB raped Constantine in the worst way imaginable.

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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio (Post 1182797)

they also pretty much fucked up Green Lantern

that one is irredeemable

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Originally Posted by jackhammer (Post 1182557)

Outside of Maniac, The original Omen still has the best head loss scene in cinema.

The Omen also has the first decapitation scene in a Hollywood movie. First and still best. David Warner losing his head... amazing.

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife (Post 1182770)

Fantastic film for sure. Even Tom Cruise did a pretty great job too though. I agree with your recommendation.

My statement came out wrong about Tom Cruise. Cruise was fantastic. He deserved his nomination. I was trying to say that everybody else deserved one too...except Tom Cruise cause he was already nominated. My bad.

Seriously thought how the **** do you not give Phillip Baker Hall and the woman who played Claudia a goddamn nomination. They were amazing.

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The Ascent

This was a beautifully shot film, the ending was extraordinarily moving and the acting was fantastic. I found myself enthralled the entire way through, it's really one of the better films that I have seen in quite a while.

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Requiem

This one was interesting. The phasing between the main character's epilepsy and possession was fascinating, and the role played by religion in the film and the character's complacency towards her sickness was an intriguing portrait of her persona, albeit a tad bit unrealistic. This movie definitely made me think, and I sense a reviewing in the near future.

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So, so fucked up. The first one was a laugh. This one is just... no.

I love movies about serial killers.

So I watched this yesterday:

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