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  The Face of Another 1966

  ★★½ Watched 15 Jul 2014

  I went into this with high hopes and...well it never really came together. It's an interesting take on the idea of losing one's identity which then leads to temptation and corruption (similar to Jeckyl and Hyde, or The Invisible Man); I just found it too slow paced, included a superfluous side story, and ultimately didn't go far enough for me. There's a number of similar themed movies that I far prefer, Eyes Without A Face, The Skin I Live In,…

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  Turkey Shoot 1982

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jul 2014

  An exploitation riff on The Most Dangerous Game wearing dystopian trappings. This film is insane, bloody and bleakly comedic. If you're in the mood for that it will scratch your itch.

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  Geronimo: An American Legend 1993

  ★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jun 2014

  When I first saw this I was too young to appreciate it, though I was familiar with Geronimo's life. Walter Hill directs a great cast--Wes Studi, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Jason Patric and a very young Matt Damon--with a script from king of the macho men John Milius. Hill made a cool looking film--washed out tans, reds, oranges, and you can taste the dust. The action scenes, though not a lot of them, are excellent, in fact almost Peckinpah-esque with…

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  If You Were Young: Rage 1970

  ★★★½ Watched 27 May 2014

  A very sharp and stylish film, Fukasaku uses his bag of tricks throughout, though it is not an action film. Basically this is a melodrama about a group of 5 friends that move to Tokyo full of optimism, but instead fall on hard times. Great sense of nostalgia, great sense of sympathy for disaffected youth. Fukasaku considered it a bit of a spiritual precursor to Battle Royale in that it's about the youth who struggle against the fate forced upon them by a cold establishment.

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