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Misery (1990)
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"After a second-half career slump, director Rob Reiner has taken great pains to critic-proof his latest film, “The Bucket List.” “I'll pair two of America's best-loved elder actors, give them oddly endearing eccentricities, saddle them with a terminal illness, but show how they learn to LOVE LIFE!!!” he says (exclamation marks are a necessity here).So when a critic attempts to lay into the film for being rote and pandering, he or she will be derided for besmirching the actors' good names and callously drubbing those dealing with cancer.Well, bring on the hate mail. This is “Wild Hogs for the septuagenarian set (“Mild Hogs?” “Terminal Hogs?”), and it is a TV dinner of a film – everything spooned out in carefully measured proportions, pre-packaged and cold, without a hint of spice or surprise.The two ailing leads are a cantankerous old wisecracking coot and a gentle, grounded guru who are both diagnosed with the b ... "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entryMiseryI heard this was pretty famous for being torturous and hard to watch. The hard to watch part is mostly probably because of the "hobbling" scene. The hardest part for me to watch actually was when she made him burn his book. But otherwise I found the movie to be more exciting than frightening.But I didn't find it that frightening overall. Actually it was a bit goofy at times. I almost thought some of the acting and especially the camera directing and choreography was inspired by Evil Dead II. Is was silly and I was laughing at times. And it was hard to tell if that was intentional or not. Yes Anne Wilkes is supposed to say and do silly stuff, but it's supposed to ultimately reveal how frightening she is. Certainly the silliness did contribute to the horror at times, but many other times it diffused it.Then again, I think i ... "
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"Here’s the dilemma. I have a list of well over three thousand movies I want to see saved on IMDB. I have a subscription to Netflix and recently every time I return a DVD it has been an extremely arduous task to make the decision as to which movie I should see next. In an effort to narrow down my choices and make the process of choosing slightly less overwhelming I have devised a system, almost a bit of a game for me. Here’s how it goes.For my first film selection, I have narrowed the options down to only films that were released in the year 2006. Then after I have watched that movie, my next selection would have to be a film released in 2005. Then I would see a film from 2004, then 2003, etc. The process of deciding is still laborious, but actually quite a bit more exciting. (I'm going by IMDB as my source for release years)I have already been making a list and have also already begun watching the films. I decided this might be a good time to start fooling ... "
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