What is the point of it all?

Just watched this movie (this year’s best foreign film Oscar winner) in the theater. Absolutely amazing acting, directing, and cinematography. There’s some really cool hand-held camera work. Who knew the Argentinians were such amazing filmmakers? Wow.

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I’ve recently become a huge Kurosawa fan. The movies I’ve seen of his always tell some interesting story about the human experience. I just watched RASHOMON, the movie about a rape/murder told from the different perspectives of the people involved. There are parts in it where it’s like “well, you’re supposed to kill yourself because [...]

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Directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz. Wow, great directing, perfect casting, superb acting. Exciting, dangerous, and funny. Brad Pitt was hilarious. Christoph Waltz was brilliant. A movie like this makes me appreciate the art of casting. Tarantino is amazing, the way he tells a story like this with so much style [...]

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Directed by Pierre Morel, starring Liam Neeson. Liam Neeson kicks ass and the movie is exciting, but someone (probably with the job of marketing to middle America) ruined the ending. Sorry Liam Neeson had to be a part of that last scene, which just about negated everything that happened earlier.

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Directed by Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell. I saw MOON a couple of weeks ago at the Arclight in Hollywood. Great performance by Rockwell. I was absorbed, asking questions about the human condition, the need to interact with other people, and the past as an illusion. What would I do if I encountered another [...]

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