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  Passengers 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  "That's murder"

  I've seen this movie several times. I love movies that give the viewer a moral dilemma. That is the core of this movie.
  5,000 passengers are aboard a spaceship that is traveling 120 light years to Homestead II, a planet that is being newly inhabited. Due to an unprecedented mechanical failure, Jim's (Chris Pratt) hyper-sleep pod opens 90 years too soon.
  Alone, Jim tries to learn everything he can about the ship to see if there is a…

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  Buck Privates 1941

  ★★★★ Added

  "A Little Joe!"

  When I was a pre-teen, every Friday night channel 4 out of Milwaukee would play a different Abbott and Costello movie. One of my friends and I would talk about it at church the following Sunday morning.

  Oddly, this is not an Abbott and Costello movie. Yes, they are in a lot of it. Yes, they take top billing. Yes, it wouldn't have been made without them. But the real story follows a rich playboy and his…

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  Trapped in Paradise 1994

  ★★★½ Added

  "Same Time Next Year!"

  Other than Samuel L. Jackson, has anyone else been in a greater variety of movies that Nicholas Cage?
  This movie was made just before he joined the ranks of Oscar winners and is one of several hidden gems of his catalog like Amos & Andrew and Guarding Tess.
  Cage is joined by Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz who are just beginning to cash in on their Saturday Night Live fame.

  The premise is simple, Bill Firpo (Cage)…

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