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Beetlejuice
COME ON DOWN, I'll CHEW ON A DOG!!
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"Among other things, Beetlejuice is, to a large extent, a statement on the pitfalls of opposing interior decoration aesthetics brought together under one roof, although all within the overarching umbrella of late 80's yuppie chic. Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin, the couple who dies after driving through the side of a barn in their buttercreme volvo wagon which was acceptable back then, represent the Connecticut Laura Ashley Turtleneck team, whereas Catherine O'Hara and Ed Rooney from Ferris Bueller represent the Desperate-To-Be-Huge-In-The- Chelsea-District team. As you can well imagine, Tim Burton's prediction of how this battle turns out is illustrated in a myriad of striking color palette, textures and unexpected angular objects all within this big house that looks like a church. Geena and Alec can't leave the house because if they go outside then they end up in a big Dali painting which is no good, and Ed and Catherine O'Hara can't leave because they' ... "
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A Mighty Heart
Ugh...SAVE IT, Jolie.
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"I can't and I WON'T see this movie, because the thought of Angelina Jolie playing the role of some kind of Mary Magdelene Martyr on YET ANOTHER MORAL AND SPIRITUAL CRUSADE make me wish I could spit acid rain straight into her Dolce cabana. She is so utterly full of it with her mosquito nets and linen shirts and her ever-increasing bounty of crestfallen multinational children in their urban-casual attire. What's next, Angelina, are you gonna fly into outer space to adopt some starving martians? Yeah, well, I DON'T BUY IT I DON'T BUY IT I DON'T I DO NOT!!!! Your aim is the eat hearts of all men before their very begging eyes!!!! TAKE OFF THOSE BIG HUGE SUNGLASSES!!! This review's key point: HOMEWRECKER! SOCIOPATH!! "
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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"I had to watch the first half of this movie twice (so that's - mathwise - 15 hours total?) because the first time I was like "Ok, so those dudes are cousins, but that one's brother hates his brother and then the wife won't talk to that dude and then those cousins got shot because and then the brothers that went into the woods with the cousins and the horses and the....start over....alright here we go...ok, they're staying at that place because they're gonna hide, but those guys are gettin sent to kill that dude who ended up living by himself in filth for some reason...and this is all over a period of 2 days? a month? 5 years? Who's lost - show of hands!" When the narrator came in with some information, I was like, "Yeah Buddy! Where ya been??" Movies are tough on those of us with attention consistency problems, so when major plot turns are tied up in one sentence of heavy, dated vernacular of the Old West from a character whose presence i ... "
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No Country for Old Men
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"One of the most interesting things about this movie is that there's a lot of footage of people doing things, but not talking. That is different from all of the Coen Bros other movies which lean pretty heavily on dialogue to get their characters across. But that's cool, change is good, I learned a lot about how to hide things and follow things and look for things, etc. Tentpoles, right...gotta write that one down. I will say that I felt that the Coen Bros APPROPRIATELY tipped their hat frequently throughout to Raising Arizona, the cornerstone movie of my generation, in all kinds of ways. The plot (obvee - man fights within himself between good and evil), a lot of scenes (crawling around under cars?), a character who is a total badass but also seems to lack any conscience, etc etc and there you go. Anyways, you don't need me to tell you to see it, everyone else has already told you so there it is. This review's KEY POINT: I haven't thought about this too hard, but ... "
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Raising Arizona
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"Yeah, that's right. If you think that No Country For Old Men is layered, well then I'd rather light a candle then curse your darkness. Layered-wise, NCFOM is perhaps a delicate tiramisu - perfected yet tiny. Raising Arizona on the other hand would be more like the 25-tier wedding cake at Liza Minelli's wedding (any of them). It's flashier and quirkier and all that, perhaps not as sophisticated as NCFOM, but for Raising Arizona, the flowering tree of slapstick comedy drawing one's attention above ground is yet equaled or surpassed by its biblical roots below. I have watched this movie AT LEAST 6 million times and everytime it digs deeper. Masterpiece isn't the word to be used here. Nay, to me, Raising Arizona is a cornerstone. I don't know who you are, or you think you are...but if you saw this movie and didn't like it, then you obviously don't live in this country or in any country. Your capacity for any kind of human observation has completely ... "
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