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  • Fresh Prince?

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    Stomp the Yard  (2007)

    There are two points that make this a fantastic film.

    1: Dissect it while watching and be appalled at all the similarities to The Fresh Price of Bal Air.

    2: Laugh, and laugh a lot.  This is a hysterical movie.  And it gets even better if you turn the volume down and speak for the characters.


  • One of my favorite of Hitchcock's

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    Rope  (1948)

    This is one of my favorites for very simple reasons.  Even tho it is in color AH did a great job of giving the same feel as his B&W.  The cuts, 9 in all and almost all blended into objects so you cant tell the cut was made.  It gives you the feel of being right in the room at the party.  Because of the few takes, they managed to pull of filming in under 2 weeks.  This is unheard of now.  Here we have a film with a great plot, great art, and efficiently produced to boot.  Fantastic.

  • An instant classic... for me.

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    Brick  (2005)

    I have been a mild fan of classic noir.  Before seeing this, it did seem to have an interesting premis and a good cast.  It's about high school students and some of the cast members are actually high school age... what a novel idea.  Little did i know that it would immediately delve into 1920s style detective speak.  I have always been a fan of film that puts a new spin on a classic idea.  You can pick out which students are cops, detectives, drug runners and crooks (which is very obvious here).  Brick takes the classic detective mystery and applies it to 2000s high school students in much the same way Romeo & Juliet was adapted to modern times.  Perfect score.  I will be buying this film.

 

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