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  Chocolat 2000

  ★ Watched 09 Aug 2014 1

  Like Footloose but with chocolate and arson. Who put the sticks up their butts? The screenwriters, that's who. Anyway, offensively boring.

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  Waltz with Bashir 2008

  ★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2013

  Waltz with Bashir feels a bit like Platoon, only devoid of any nostalgia and glorification that the 60s/70s setting imbued.

  The soundtrack and visuals are both superb, though at times what happens and how it is conveyed seems almost surreal to the point of facetiousness given the subject matter. Throughout the documentary no express reason for the Lebanese conflict is given (as far as I recall), which I feel works to emphasize how dehumanizing the events depicted were and are.…

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  The Transformers: The Movie 1986

  ★ Watched 24 Feb 2013

  Holy deus ex machina, Batman!

  I'd say this film could benefit from 10-20 minutes more of exposition in order to justify what's going on (maybe that was in the series?) but that would mean watching 10-20 more minutes of this schlock. Aside from an unexplained and unjustified victory against an unmotivated antagonist the plot further suffers from massive pacing issues. Break neck speed one minute, segues into irrelevant situations the next and to top it all off the action comes…

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