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  • INFERNAL AFFAIRS

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    Bad Boys  (1995)

    Infernal Affairs  (2002)

    Infernal Affairs [Film Series]  Production Year

    The Departed  (2006)

    Miami Vice  (2006)

    Ok, I'm probably the only retard who forgot Infernal Affairs 1-3 was the basis for the Departed.  That aside, this movie was fantastic.  I've seen Departed - enjoyed it.  But Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai have acting chops galore.  Actually, the entire cast is 100% believable.  It's an amazing crime drama exploring moral shades of gray in the context of undercover police work.  Michael Mann's Miami Vice did that very effectively, also.  But Infernal Affairs is the best undercover drama I recall seeing on DVD -- ever.  (I will admit that I'm still a sucker for the undercover action flicks like Bad Boys).

    If you haven't had the priviledge of picking up this DVD, don't watch the trailer yet!!!  I haven't seen parts 2 & 3 (which I assume won't be as good as 1), but I can't pass up buying the 3-pack DVD box from Amazon for $30. 


  • UNDERWORLD BEAUTY

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    I may have to have words with Puhner over this one.  I'm not sure, but I think I saw he rated Underworld Beauty "loved it" which made me queue it up with Blockbuster Online.  I love film noir, and I'm a sucker with Asian cops & robbers flicks -- so I was intrigued by this DVD.  But in the end, I've got to say the only thing that really captivated me was the Asian kids bopping around a dance hall to American 1950s swing music, complete with bobby socks and black leather jackets.

  • 3:10 TO YUMA

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    Unforgiven  (1992)

    3:10 to Yuma  (2007)

    I hate when DVD boxes say things like "best western since Unforgiven".  But 3:10 To Yuma is one of the best westerns since Unforgiven.

  • SUNSHINE

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    Sunshine  (2007)

    I'm not going to complain too heavily about Sunshine, because it was a free rental.  But I wasn't thrilled with it. 

    Stylish, yes.  Interesting spin on some potentially standard sci-fi subject matter, yes.  But there were so many moments you had to suspend your disbelief even within this film's universe.  I love sci-fi so it's no problem for me to accept that the entire premise of a ship flying into the sun to deliver a massive payload is plausable.  But along the way, there are ridiculous plot devices that occur only to move Alex Garland's story forward. 

    Actually, let me qualify that "acceptance" statement.  I can accept that we could develop such a ship and associated hardware.  I cannot accept the idiotic idea that the end result -- an increased sun -- would benefit mankind.  It would wipe out earth.  That's part of nature's beauty -- any closer to the sun and we'd burn up... further away and we'd freeze.  It's perfect.  If the sun dies, it dies... and so do we.


 


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