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Isn’t it interesting that people have such a soft spot for bank robbers? Forcing a grandmother to hand over all her savings and shooting her right in the head would not make a good story. But robbing a bank does not stir peoples’ indignation. The impersonal bank is not perceived to be a real victim. And if clients are scared to death during the robbery, does this upset the public? Well, if no one gets hurt during the action that’s just the cost of an exciting robbery. It requires some brinkmanship and the clients should be grateful for being part of such a coup! Buch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) make a living robbing trains and banks in the waning days of Wild West. The tolerance for such a line of work is clearly on the decline out West. Butch and the Kid find it harder and harder to make ends meet. The movie starts slow but it turns out to be a very special Western.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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How would you feel if you suddenly found out that you were a totally different person until a few years ago and if you did not remember anything about your previous life? (My fear is that I might discover out that I was George Bush. ) For two installments Jason Bourne has been trying to recover his personal history. So far his enemies have prevented him for finding out who is really was before he lost his memory. In this third episode Bourne pulls out all the stops to discover his identity. This is the best action movie of the summer. Paul Greengrass directs the film with a sure hand, changing the pace frequently enough for the viewer to breath before the next action sequence glues you back into your seat.The Bourne Ultimatum
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Sandra Bullocks plays a good-looking mother who is visited by the most awful kind of deja vu experiences you can imagine. She no longer knows what is real and what is simply a hallucination. I was moved by the film because it artfully highlights how we can quickly fall apart when our brains are no longer able to provide one coherent take on reality in which earlier events happen earlier and later event happen later—where we can remember things in the right order. Speaking of deja vu moments. The other day I sat next to a lady at dinner and I thought I had seen her many times. My brain is now scanning memories for her Doppelgaenger. She agreed to meet her if I can find the twin. I am curious to see their reactions when they first meet because they look eerily alike. Twins separated at birth without them knowing it? Uhhh.Premonition
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This is probably the most inane movie I have seen in a long time. The characters are fake; the story is shallow. But here comes the real shocker: the viewing public made the film the bestselling DVD in month of September. Famous actors (Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta, Marisa Tomei) seem to be able to sell stupid movies!Wild Hogs
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It is difficult to put this film into standard categories. I would call it a tragic comedy. Set in Texas and Iowa in the 1960s, the film wonderfully captures the life and transformation of middle class America. The constant bickering between the mother (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter (Debra Winger) reminded me of A Streetcar Named Desire with Marlon Brando. But unlike the later film, Terms of Endearment does not feel out of date. It covers about 30 years in the life of tough-minded mother and strong-willed daughter. It has moments of great beauty. Jack Nicolson plays the mother’s austronaut neigbour, who not only chases young girls, but also develops a taste for the mother after she has her first grandchild.Terms of Endearment
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Terrible, terrible, even for an airplane movie! The movie is lame, cheesy and uninspired. Carter gets dumped by his famous L.A. girlfriend. Next he moves in with his ailing grandmother to write a novel about his high school time he has not been able to write for the past 8 years. Confirming that location is as important for romantic success as it is in retailing, Carter’s grandmother lives next door to a gorgeous mother (Meg Ryan) and her even more beautiful 16-year-old-daugther. This love triangle leads to predictable conflict. At the end grandma is dead, the mother continues her suburban life, and the daughter realizes that she loves the best friend of her former boyfriend, and not Carter. As far Carter is concerned, he returns home with a solid manuscript, but is not longer with any woman.In the Land of Women
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Eddie Murphy latest comic film brings Cinderella into the hood. Little Norbit grows up in an orphanage. His bliss comes to end when his buddy Kate gets adopted. Norbit is not the smartest fellow in the universe. But who says that Cinderella was a genius. This film has very funny scenes and at times is even moving. Murphy wrote, and directed the film, in addition to playing three different people, adult Norbit, his fat wife, and the Chinese owner of the orphanage.Norbit
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