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Stand Up for Pain in the Oblivion of Pines
I watch so many movies I often get swept up in the effort to write about all of them in an effective and coherent way. Monday to Wednesday and I’m already behind, by Friday I’ll be right back here scrambling. This time I’m micro-reviewing, a handful of celluloid with the films Oblivion, Pain & Gain, Stand Up Guys and The Place Beyond The Pines. Continue reading
Posted in Blu-ray, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves
Tagged above the line, al pacino, Alan Arkin, blue valentine, Bradley Cooper, Brian De Palma, bucket list, christopher walken, crazy stupid love, Derek Cianfrance, Die Hard, Joseph Ruben, Le Mecanisme de cineaste du jour, limitless, made for TV forgettable, michael bay, Mikael Salomon, miss it, moon, Movie Mechanic, oblivion, Pain & Gain, Paul Verhoeven, practical movie reviews, rory dean, ryan gosling, see it, silent running, stand up guys, the place beyond the pines, tom cruise, Wolfgang Petersen
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Ahora o’ Nunca or “Now or Never” a.k.a The Bucket List (2007)
Life is like a sucker punch, a dupe, and you’re lucky if you get a handful of moments to think about where you’ve been and what you’ve done before the unavoidable collision and the lights go out. A movie like The Bucket List is supposed to catch us off guard about a subject no one really wants to talk about and rarely do before they have to, and for a little while we are forced to face mortality and laugh a little in its face. Continue reading
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