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  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★★

  • Gone with the Wind

    ★★★★½

  • Driving Miss Daisy

    ★★★★

  • Stagecoach

    ★★★★★

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  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★★

    Went on for way too long and it's one of the few YA genre movies that would have been better off split into two movies.

    Most of the acting was really clunky and I cannot stand Rachel Ziegler, but Jason Schwartzman saved the movie and he's a gem in every scene.

    The pacing was also kind of awkward and the characters are written so that they make stupid decisions that no rational person would make.

    The only 10/10 aspect was…

  • Gone with the Wind

    Gone with the Wind

    ★★★★½

    Have seen this movie a few times but it was on TCM today so I watched again.

    What a technical achievement - made in the 1930s but still looks great, the colors pop and the sets are astounding, and every costume is stunning. Compared to its peers, it was 40 years ahead of its time.

    1939 was a pretty great year for film overall, with the Wizard of Oz and Stagecoach also coming out this year.

    The only reason I…

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  • Driving Miss Daisy

    Driving Miss Daisy

    ★★★★

    Forrest Gump, but all civil rights scenes

    I can't take Dan Aykroyd - a Canadian comedian - seriously as a southerner in a period drama film, but other than that it was alright

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