Absolutely outstanding. Hackman vs. Denzel: two of the greatest ever actors facing off in a film about…submarine protocol? It defies logic how this film can be as entertaining as it is. But it is. Two characters that start out as being the #1 & #2 on a sub and then due to the threat of nuclear attack, they become at odds after an important message from home base is cut off after they’d already gotten the order to preemptively strike. So…
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Hoosiers 1986
Really has no right to be as good as it kind of is. It looks like some cheap hallmark film, and it’s syrupy in that way where an outsider redeems himself to lead a local sports team to victory. Yawn right? And to be fair, if it didn’t have Gene Hackman in the lead then I can’t imagine why anyone would watch it. But then again I can’t imagine why anyone would watch a basketball game in real life so…
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Return to Seoul 2022
"You're a very sad person"
The film sort of had me in the first half and then just left me stranded in the second half. I didn't really care for this main character. I thought the screenwriter must not have been too aware that having an aggressively off-putting person to focus on makes for a very difficult protagonist. Were we supposed to be rooting for this young woman that doesn't care about her family or friends and just seems to…
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Mommy Dead and Dearest 2017
"Do you think she got what she deserved?"
There is a fundamental flaw to a documentary that seemingly hides its' main attraction from the viewer. The interviewer sits down with the real Gypsy Rose from prison who proudly declares at the beginning that this interview is the first time she has ever been completely honest about this event, "even with my lawyers". That is quite a statement. In the end, however, the amount of footage from that interview that is…
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