Caoimhe and Claire

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The fabulous results of our weekly movie nights
Alternatively titled: Monday night is gay night

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Heat 1995

★★½ Added

This movie was supposed to be great - we found that there were a LOT of unnecessary side-plots and weird scenes that led nowhere. That's a pretty frustrating sin when your movie is three hours long, but they would have been out of place and brought the film down regardless. Al Pacino acted BONKERS, and not in a "he's wild, man, just listen to him!" kind of way, but a "this guy isn't all here right now" kind of way.…
The Phantom of the Opera 2004

½ Added

Somehow, this is literally the worst movie we've ever watched together.
We didn't like it.

The Matrix 1999

★★★★ Added

Hey, this is like a really good action movie? This is another movie we were expecting to be kind of silly, but then we watched it, and were like, oh shit, this is actually really good.
They made a lot of excellent decisions in the storytelling of this movie! The way that the exposition is given with absolutely no chaff, getting as straight into the story as possible when they have a HUGE burden in explaining how the universe even…
Raising Arizona 1987

★★★★★ Added

This is movie is really quite perfect. The exact waltz this movie takes from tone to tone, scene to scene, and insane line of dialogue to insane line of dialogue is bizarre and unique, but one is left with the impression that it has built something really incredible, and couldn't have been done any other way. Launching as many careers as it did, it could only have been a huge gamble, but it paid off so gorgeously, and manages to…