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I just finished watching this documentary and it was great! It was one of the first documentaries to come out of the great 30 for 30 series produced by ESPN:

Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?

Want the answer to the movie's title: DONALD J. TRUMP.

What a selfish, self-serving narcisist asshole!!!
 

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Sully

I saw Sully this afternoon- another well done film by the 86 year old Clint Eastwood, about the 2009 "Miracle On The Hudson" crash landing of a US Airways jet in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey after a bird strike. The central conflict explored in the movie is between the NTSB investigators who initially conclude that the jet could have been safely landed in either Laguardia Airport in New York or Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, and pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullneberger, who tells the NTSB that there was no way he was going to make it to either airport with two failed engines, low altitude (2800 feet) and insufficient airspeed. Eventually the evidence surfaces that Sully is right, he emerges as a hero and the rest is now part of aviation history.

An interesting aspect of the movie is dramatic computer simulations staged by the NTSB which show the jet could have been landed at either airport - but only if the pilot in the simulation reacted immediately without any time for deliberation or reading of manuals, as is pointed out by Sully.

Another interesting aspect of the film is that the cinematography, which is excellent, manages to make New York City a character in the movie.

Tom Hanks is very good as Sully and the rest of the cast of the film is also very good. I would give the movie an A-
 

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The Magnificent Seven:

Wasn't crazy about the story line. I found it a bit contrived. An interesting lineup in characters, though I thought a woman, Haley Bennett as Emma Cullen was the most interesting. A lot of slick shooting, a lot of nasty killing, not nearly as much style as the original. Denzel was good. The other guys...EH!

What was the point of Attila the Hun-like mass butchery of fleeing unarmed farmers. Ah yes, draw the audience in with as evil a villain as possible. Hmmm, throw an ax in mom's back and gun down toddlers.

If you need a grade: C to C+ grudgingly.

I agree with Phil De Semlyen's review. "Slick but forgettable". Big on stylized weapons handling and slaughter. Story shaky.
 

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Remember (2015)

With help from a fellow Holocaust survivor (Martin Landau), a widower (Christopher Plummer) who struggles with memory loss embarks on a cross-country odyssey to find the former Nazi responsible for the deaths of their family members.

Prior to watching this wonderful movie last night, i remembered it had received critical praise and several nominations a year ago. I've always enjoyed Christopher Plummer's performances and reading the movie's synopsis gave me the impression i'd enjoy watching this movie. But not as much as i did. I found it to be a great movie and i loved the twist at the ending.

It's directed by Atom Egoyan, a Toronto-born director whose movies i've all mostly liked. It stars the great Canadian actor Christopher Plummer as an aging holocaust survivor, on a mission to find and kill the person responsible for wiping out his entire family at Auschwitz. Martin Landau co-stars in the role as his accomplice pulling the strings from the nursing home they live in. Dean Norris (from Breaking Bad) and Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot) also make appearances.

I consider 'Remember' to be the best movie Atom Egoyan ever made. I loved ever bit of this movie! :thumb:
 

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The Interview

Although it's quite silly, this Seth Rogen film about a fictional attempt to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is quite funny and I laughed out loud 4 or 5 times. The assassination scheme, hatched by the CIA after James Franco's TV Talk Show host character, Dave Skylark, manages to score an interview with Kim, briefly goes awry when Skylark finds himself "honeylicked" by Kim, i.e., Kim brainswashes Skylark into believing he and Kim have a lot in common and are just misguided souls who are slaves to their circumstances. Skylark's initial impression of North Korea is also quite positive after he sees a grocery market with apparently fresh produce and a plump young boy in front of the store. Skylark believes Kim when he tells him that North Korean citizens are slightly overweight, something he encourages as a sign of the "prosperity" of North Korean Citizens. Skylark comes to believe Kim's story that starvation in North Korea is propaganda disseminated by American media in an effort to undermine him.

The illusion all comes crashing down when Dave Skylark visits the grocery store and discovers, much to his horror, that the grapefruit - and other produce on display at the store- are fake, merely props staged to create an illusion of plentiful food for his visit. This is one of the funniest scenes in the movie.

The star of the movie is Korean American actor Randall Park, who portrays Kim as a fun loving guy who feels the immense pressure of his family's legacy and recognizes that he has no choice but to behave ruthlessly to remain in power and honor the family legacy. However we learn that Kim is a deeply sensitive and lonely man, qualities that are ultimately exposed to the world in the climactic interview at the end of the movie.

Definitely worth seeing if you enjoy silly comedies or Rogen films and humor.

On another note I thought the film interestingly humanized Kim, and its portrayal for example of his love of basketball is accurate as we know NBA players have gone to North Korea at Kim's invitation to stage clinics. I felt Kim was no more harshly lampooned than was Trump by SNL. I actually felt the movie humanized him in a vet interesting way, albeit on a comical level.
 

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The Acountant

I just watched it yesterday and enjoyed very much. It's worth seeing if you like a combo Thriller-Action. Ben Afleck plays a terrific role of a child with ADHD, who grew up with his army dad and been taught to grow up tough. He is smart enough to be one of the finest account but he likes to get job done till the end and never quits.

Great movie to watch when in the mood for this kind.
 

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Capricorn One (1977)

I watched an old favorite movie of mine yesterday. I bought it on blu-ray recently. It stars James Brolin, Eliott Gould, Sam Waterston, Hal Holbrook and the marvelous (and innocent) OJ Simpson in a movie about three astronauts whom the government pretends landed on Mars. Then the government choses to eliminate them in order to shut them up. Poor OJ. He should have won an Oscar for his performance.

All in all, it's a very entertaining movie and i highly recommend it if you have never seen it.

Free the Juice!!!!
 

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The Accountant

The Acountant

I just watched it yesterday and enjoyed very much. It's worth seeing if you like a combo Thriller-Action. Ben Afleck plays a terrific role of a child with ADHD, who grew up with his army dad and been taught to grow up tough. He is smart enough to be one of the finest account but he likes to get job done till the end and never quits.

Great movie to watch when in the mood for this kind.

This movie The Accountant is excellent, although I should note that the Ben Affleck character has autism, not ADHD. This autistic forensic accountant played by Affleck makes his living uncooking the cooked books of criminal enterprises and develops an industry-wide reputation for his expertise. When his "secretary" urges him to take on a legitimate robotics business as a client due to the Treasury Department's interest in his activities, he finds out that his "legitimate" business client is far dirtier than any of his criminal clients were.

This film is well set up to be a franchise. The plot and characters are well developed in this film, with Anna Kendrick playing an in house accountant who becomes a romantic interest of The Accountant, and she can be expected to have some bedroom scenes with him in future films. Equally attractive to Kendrick in this movie is the stunning black actress, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, who plays the Treasury Agent that is investigating the activities of the Accountant. John Lithgow and JK Simmons are strong as usual in supporting roles.

I would have to say that this role is one of the more interesting parts of Ben Affleck's career. It is not easy to play a character with autism/Asperger's Syndrome but Affleck does so with dignity and intelligence. His character and the background of the character as described by A12B makes him a very original and authentic action hero who is equal parts brain and braun sort of like his buddy Matt Damon has done with Jason Bourne. Perhaps we will even see a Jason Bourne film in which he hires the Accountant for his expertise.

I would give the movie an A in my book.
 

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My Life as a House

This movie was shown on one of the movie channels the other day and i watched it last night. This movie is about 15 years old and lord knows why i don't remember ever hearing about this great movie!

It stars one of my favorite actors, Kevin Kline. I don't recall a movie he's made that i didn't enjoy. Last saw him a year ago in Last Vegas and he was great in it (so were Robert Deniro, Morgan Freeman and Michael Douglas). The movie also stars Kristin Scott Thomas as his ex-wife and a very young Hayden Christiansen, whose acting was absolutely brilliant throughout the movie.

The Kline character is a single divorcee who loses his job and soon after finds out he has terminal cancer with about 4 months to live. He decides he wants to spend his last months building the dream home he's always wanted to have and wants to build it with his estranged (and very weird) son who lives with his ex-wife and family. It takes a while for them to bond and he & and his ex-wife fall in love again and they spend their time building that house together. However, one problem: they don't know about his medical condition. And near the end of the movie when they find out.......

Needless to say, i shed many tears during the last third of the movie. But those are the types of movies i like. Movies that make me smile and cry at the same time. The father-son relationship in the movie hit home for me and those are always movies i enjoy watching. At one time, i saw myself as the Kevin Kline character, and other times as the Hayden Christiansen character.

I strongly recommend this movie and i will likely watch it again sometimes in the future.

Viva Kevin Kline!!! :thumb:
 

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This movie The Accountant is excellent, although I should note that the Ben Affleck character has autism, not ADHD.


Oups, thanks for correcting EB, my bad. Overall, I enjoyed it very much and can't wait for the next sequel (if any) with bedroom scene. Kendrick has a great role in it .. Worth seeing a 2nd time, but my next one is Girl in the train movie, which I've been dying to watch.
 

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I am almost certain there will be a sequel to the Accountant as it was #1 at the box office and is well designed to become a franchise like you mentioned. I also thought Anna Kendrick was well cast in her role. She is good at playing the cute nerdy girl in the office. There was no sex between her and Affleck in this movie but one can envision an awkward sex scene in the next movie based on what happens in this film.

I read The Girl On The Train book and so the only question is will the movie have the same ending as the book. To me it's very similar to Gone Girl and is an example of the unreliable narrator genre of fiction- you find out that what you are being told isn't really true and you are missing important facts learned at the end. I liked Gone Girl book better than Girl On The Train book by a lot. Gone Girl film was good but not as good as the book. Now I want to see the Jack Reacher film because I read the book it's based on and it's my favorite of all the Jack Reacher books. And I read all of them.
 

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Yesterday, I was checking the channel guide and caught something called "Sabotage" with Schwarzenegger from 2014, so maybe some have not seen it yet. A deep cover DEA team very tainted by the life they must work in gets twisted up in it and becomes like those they try to put away. Not a new theme, but with a strong hardcore handling. Something diverting if you are into this type of movie. The acting was good it was pretty well written.

Arnold does look old in it.

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Yesterday, I was checking the channel guide and caught something called "Sabotage" with Schwarzenegger from 2014....

I don't recall ever seeing this movie. I've enjoyed most of his movies in the past. I'll give it a look the next time i see it's on. I think the last 'Arnold' movie i saw was 'End of Days', which i really liked since it wasn't a typical Arnold action movie. I also loved 'The 6th Day', one of his recent ones before he became governor.
 

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Trumpland

I watched this new movie last night. It came out a week or two ago to rave reviews. Surprisingly, it's not really about Donald Trump. Michael Moore is in Trump country in Ohio and making the case for Hillary Clinton to a crowd of Trump supporters. Not much of a fan of Hillary Clinton's, i must admit that Moore made quite a good case and left me impressed. Quite an entertaining movie which all types of voters (conservatives, liberals, etc) should enjoy watching.
 

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Guys.

HACKSAW RIDGE: THE MOST AMAZING STORY OF COURAGE, SELF-SACRIFICE, AND HONOR I'VE EVER READ....OR HEARD OF.

I haven't seen it yet, but I will. Question: could you go into blistering continuous battle fire to save your comrades...without help...without a gun...and bring them all back alive...one at a time.? Then do it over and over for days to come? All that after the same men had persecuted you and beaten you...thinking you're nothing but a coward?

Movie background video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I15k-ZsFZs

Desmond T. Doss - Conscientious Objector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss

DON'T READ BELOW IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THE SUSPENSE! Medal of Honor citation. It will leave you in awe.

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private First Class Desmond Thomas Doss, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty from April 29 - 21 May 1945, while serving with the Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division, in action at Urasoe Mura, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. Private First Class Doss was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machine gun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Pfc. Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying all 75 casualties one-by-one to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On May 2, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and 2 days later he treated 4 men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave's mouth, where he dressed his comrades' wounds before making 4 separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On May 5, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Pfc. Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On May 21, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited 5 hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Pfc. Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter; and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, by a sniper bullet while being carried off the field by a comrade, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions Pfc. Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above and beyond the call of duty.
 

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Chef (2014)

Chef is a must see film for anyone who is a foodie or works in the restaurant business. One of my relatives who works in the restaurant business brought the movie to my attention and I really enjoyed it. It's a small indy film with an all star cast that includes Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, John Leguizamo, Robert Downey Jr., Oliver Platt, Sofia Vergera and Jon Favreau.

The Chef (Favreau), originally from Miami, moves to Los Angeles and becomes head chef at a very popular LA restaurant. Chef and the Owner of the restaurant (Hoffman) clash over the menu; Hoffman favors tired classics, while Chef yearns to cook innovative, nouveau cuisine that blends the higher end ingredients with modern styles. The clash over the menu comes to a head when LA's most important restaurant critic (Platt) comes for dinner. Chef is forced to compromise on the menu, and the result is a harsh, scathingly critical review which bashes Chef's creations. Chef is stunned and hurt by the review, and it leads to an inadvertent public blowout with the restaurant critic when Chef, a new Twitter user, inadvertently tweets what he believes are private messages that then are retweeted to the public by the Critic. This leads to an ugly confrontation and the termination of Chef's employment and career as a high end restaurant Chef.

Depressed, disheartened and broke, Chef returns to his native Miami, where a sympathetic benefactor gifts him an old Food Truck. Chef renovates the food truck with his young son, they start selling Cubano snadwiches, and Chef's food truck become an instant smash success. This leads to an expansion of the menu and more success. Eventually Chef, his son, and his sous Chef (Leguizamo) drive the food truck to New Orleans, the culinary capital of the USA, where Chef eats his beloved beignets at Cafe du Monde, then experiences even more success with his food truck.

The ending is entirely predictable, although very uplifting This movie is a great tribute to Cuisine across the USA, from Miami to New Orleans to LA. Jon Favreau wrote, directed and stars, and this movie deserved a wider release. The movie also features a live performance by the great blues guitarist, Gary Clark Jr.
 

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Dark Shadows 2012

Starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green...appearance by Jonathan Frid of the original tv show. I caught this movie a few days ago. WOW. I'm so sorry I passed on this one in the theater. Directed by the incomparable Tim Burton it was an amazing experience with it's ghoulish quirky humor qualities. Very well written and acted, Eve Green was an especially fun treat as Angelique Bouchard as the jilted witch in love with Barnabas (Depp) and their continuing "love affair, or not" 200 years after she turned him into a vampire. The film may not deliver on every expectation, it does move slowly in stretches, but it's a lot of fun to see.

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Just saw it. Same kind of story line and same kind of deeply underhanded twists as the first movie. Same kind of brutal fights and do or die themes. Solid and enjoyable but not outstanding. If you liked the first you will like the second.
 

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Jack Reacher Never Go Back

I saw the new Jack Reacher film today in IMAX!!!. I enjoyed it more than I did the first one. Although the first Reacher film was a solid action thriller, if you read the novel, the adapated screenplay did a not so great job of capturing some of the dialogue that distinguishes theee books. What makes the book interesting is the snappy, no nonsense dialogue and deadpan humor and sarcasm exchanged between Reacher and his various adversaries.The new movie did a much better job adapting the screenplay from the novel to capture the essence of the Reacher character. The book on which this movie is based was probably my favorite of all of the Reacher books.

The actress who played the role of 15 year old Samantha did an amazing job and stole numerous scenes with Tom Cruise.

I don't Know if anyone recognized the cameo Jack Reacher novelist Lee Child had. He plays the TSA agent with a light British accent at the DC Airport who examines Reacher's stolen fake ID and waves him through security.

Although I think there will be further Reacher movies, Tom Cruise at age 54, despite looking good for his age, is getting a bit long in the tooth. Reacher is supposed to be about 40. If they are looking at another book to turn into a movie, there is one set mostly in NYC, which I really liked. It was written in the late 1990s by Lee Child who married an American woman and moved to NYC in the early to mid 1990s after losing his job as a TV writer in England. When I read that book I was stunned by the ability of this English born man who had only lived in NYC for a few years to so quintessentially capture the City in that book and effectively make it a character in that book. There are a few other Reacher novels that were top notch and could be tapped. Plus Lee Child is still writing them and Never Go Back only came out a few years ago.
 

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Chef is a must see film for anyone who is a foodie or works in the restaurant business. One of my relatives who works in the restaurant business brought the movie to my attention and I really enjoyed it. It's a small indy film with an all star cast that includes Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, John Leguizamo, Robert Downey Jr., Oliver Platt, Sofia Vergera and Jon Favreau.
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I loved the movie but the soundtrack is probably the best of any soundtrack that I have ever heard.
 
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