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Favorite films

  • Amadeus
  • Blade Runner
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Psycho

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  • The Dark Knight Rises

    ★★★

  • The Bourne Legacy

    ★★★

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  • The Dark Knight Rises

    The Dark Knight Rises

    ★★★

    Nolan has a really uncanny way of making a story go full circle. Considering the source material, it doesn't work perfectly for his last go round. Considering that I think The Dark Knight was a masterpiece, it was hard to follow up. But the biggest disappointment for me was after proving he can film a fight scene after Inception, we come back to the close up jangled mess he shot in the last Batman flick. Also, if you have an…

  • The Bourne Legacy

    The Bourne Legacy

    ★★★

    Could have been a stand alone movie. Not as compelling or tense, but not bad in the "One man army with a rolled up newspaper" genre.