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A Japanese sci-fi/fantasy flick with futuristic submarines, heroes and villains. I found a bootleg DVD of this one for $6 (USD) and took a chance and bought it. Turned out to be top-notch quality video and audio. This movie is different from most Japanese sci-fi/fantasy films that I've seen, because the dialog was originally recorded in English and most of the cast were American actors. It reminded me of some of the 60's TV shows by Irwin Allen like 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' and 'Lost in Space.' Sort of like a cross between those two made into a full-length film. The special effects ranged between very good to goofy but even the ridiculous effects didn't make the story any less entertaining.

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jadis

Sold the Wicker Man to my Israeli fiancé, billing it as the ultimate "the buildup could be a bit slow but the third act is worth it" film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-tD...lassicTrailers

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"In postwar Europe, on the whole, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and equally absurd hatreds rooted in ancient religious texts became a disgraced and dead relic buried in the ruins of the Third Reich. But in the postwar Middle East, these notions persisted in elements of radical nationalist and Isl?mist politics."

Psy-Fi

Silent B&W German sci-fi film by Fritz Lang, with a love story within the plot. The video I saw looked very good considering the age of the movie. I watched a version with English subtitles added because my German is rudimentary at best. The directing was as good as I expected, the acting was fairly typical of films of the era, and I thought the special effects were good for the time. Supposedly, the countdown sequence for the rocket launch was the first time that a countdown was ever used to depict a rocket launch. The story had some ridiculous and scientifically wrong aspects to it but it was fairly entertaining and managed to keep me interested despite the rather long running time of 166 minutes.

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catadams

Pretty Woman

Buckeye Randy

Dogman

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Billy Don't Be A Porter

BassoonPlatoon

X-Men Apocalypse.
Avengers 2: Age of Ultron.

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Snowy owls bark like dogs.

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Early 50's B&W crime flick disaster. A rookie patrol cop crosses paths with a couple of ex-cons and their two cohorts during a heist. The idea of the plot isn't bad but the script is. Mediocre acting, bad script, incompetent directing, the only good thing about the movie was its short running time of 59 minutes.

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Psy-Fi

B&W WWII war movie about an American destroyer assigned to a formation of ships around the island of Okinawa, to help protect the supply ships and American troops from Kamikaze attacks. The story mainly focuses on several crew members assigned to operate one of the main guns on the ship. A lot of stock combat film footage of Kamikaze attacks against American ships is used throughout the film, all of which I've seen countless times before, but it fit in well with the story so I didn't mind seeing it yet again. The running time of the movie was rather short at just over 1 hour. Not what I would consider an essential WWII flick, but fairly realistic and watchable.

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Psy-Fi

Another film from 1952. This one is a crime noir thriller about a city prosecutor trying to root out a major crime syndicate operating in his city. His girlfriend is working as his secretary, his best friend is a reporter for a local newspaper, his father is a city cop, there's a love triangle, and moral dilemmas and corruption galore.

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