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The Shining

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This movie lived up to be the classic that it is. Jack Nicholson plays the perfect crazy person and the setting fits perfect. The questions I have are why Jack Nicholson is in the picture at the end? Another question is what is the point of the little boy's secret friend. The man has no secret friend so why does the boy and why does it take him over? I believe that everyone becomes crazy not just Nicholson. This movie is much more in depth than many modern day movies. I think Jack Nicholson being in the picture symbolizes that he is part of the hotel now.  Overall Rating: 9.2

Gone With the Wind

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I just simply felt that the only thing really wrong with this movie is that it was too long. All the characters were wonderful and you get to know them all very well. What caught me by surprise was that it didn't have the happy ending that I was expecting. Instead it ended on a different note, although still positive. I was hoping that for once Scarlet would not wait until tomorrow and go after Rhett that day, but that is just not Scarlet O'Hara.  Overall Rating: 9.3

A Streetcar Named Desire

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I really liked this movie, I wasnt really sure what Blanche was hiding until the movie was almost over but when you do you think she is a dirty person. But then you find that she is sincere and just made a mistake. Marlon Brando ends up making this sweet girl who lives in a fantasyland have a breakdown. She just wants everything to be perfect and get married but Marlon wont let her be happy.  Overall Rating: 8.5

Sweet Smell of Success

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I thought that this movie had a pretty good plot. A man's ambition to be successful turns out to ruin his life. He is scandalous and deceptive in his way that he gets information. These ways that he deceives people ends up getting him caught by the cops. His boss loses his sister because of his manipulation to break up her marriage. This movie could have had a different ending which may not have been any better.  Overall Rating: 7.8

The West Point Story

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This movie about a choreographer from Broadway is trying to shape up a show at West Point Academy. To do this he must become a cadet. He must persuade one of the cadets to become a star. When the time comes the choreographer has a change of heart and develops into someone who is worried about the show only and what's best for his new friends.  Overall Rating 4.5

The Sound of Music

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This is a great musical about how a lady moves into a house to take care of a family of kids as their nanny. At first it is hard for her but she eventually became friends with them. This movie takes place during World War II and that becomes relevant later in the movie. The best part of this movie is the music and that is what makes this movie a classic.  Overall Rating: 9.0

The Wizard of Oz

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This is the classic movie where color and black and white meet. Judy Garland stars in this story of a land far away. By the end you find that she was only dreaming. This movie has been made extra famous as people watch it with the Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon album. It goes perfectly the
first time through the CD.  Overall Rating: 7.6

The Family Jewels

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This Jerry Lewis comedy is about a little girl whose father dies. She has to choose one of her uncles to be her new father. Jerry Lewis plays eight different roles in this movie including all the girl's uncles. This movie is funny especially the uncle that is the photographer and the uncle that is the pilot. All the uncles are humorous.  Overall Rating: 6.3

The Madwoman of Chaillot

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This movie had a good moral but was not that impressive as a movie. The story moral is that happiness is not judged by money. There are many things that are more important than money and the world is falling to pieces because of people that get too caught up in greed. The madwoman could have been a little more mad. They would be mad about one thing and then perfectly genius about something else. This is the major flaw of this movie.  Overall Rating: 4.0

Hombre

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This is a movie about a white apache indian who is traveling on a stagecoach and the stagecoach gets taken over by a couple of thieves. The indian and the other passenger on board must come together to get back there carriage so they do not die in the dessert. The only way to do that is to kill the other. This high class of citizens may not be up to that. The indian must help them even though they did not even want him coming along.  Overall Rating: 6.1

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Raging Bull

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This movie was very slow for awhile but I thought that the boxing and the quest for the title was very interesting. The thing that I didn't like was that everyone always yells at their wives, it seems like a bad life. I don't understand why he let Robinson beat him in the one fight. I guess it was to prove a point. There was no reason to show the part of the movie when he is older. The ending was one of the worst ever and the quote and the end doesn't go with the movie. Just when it got interesting it got stupid.  Overall Rating: 7.9

Taxi Driver

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Taxi Driver was very slow moving for the first hour. Nothing really happens except for his romantic trip to the movies with his date. It isn't until the guns get involved that you even wonder what is going to happen. When you find out what happens you are disappointed. How could this be one of the top movies ever? In the seventies the killing scene may have been revolutionary but nowadays that is seen everyday. It had some parts that I didn't understand.  Overall Rating: 9.0

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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This movie was very interesting and amusing to watch but I didn't like how it ended. The movie shows how being fun and out of control can be considered insane. This free loose cannon becomes attached to the other patients and decides to stay with them. His carefree behavior leads to him becoming one of the dependant patients. The chief can not see him like that so he kills him. His desire to break the rules keeps him in the hospital while the chief plays it calm and escapes.  Overall Rating: 8.7

A Maltese Falcon

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I thought this was a great classic. The falcon as mysterious and was left open to expectation about what it was. This falcon causes murder and betrayal. Humphrey Bogart is sensational and he is between the cops and the villains. The search for this falcon makes you wonder if the falcon is worth it. You never really can get a good feel on any of the characters.  Overall Rating: 8.3

Vertigo

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This is an Alfred Hitchcock movie that is very bizarre. Jimmy Stewart has gotten involved in a plot
of another man to kill his wife. He uses Stewarts fear of heights to pull off this crime. At the end of
the movie Stewart defeats his fear of heights and makes this woman feel guilty for what she has done. Then when the nun comes up the steps the girl couldnt live with herself for what she had done and killed herself. This movie does a great job of not revealing itself until the end.  Overall Rating: 9.2

Cabaret

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A great story about a singer who falls in love with her gay best friend. He in turn falls for her. This movie goes through the trials of their relationship as well as another relationship during the time of the Nazi's. The story takes place in Germany and one of the couples is Jewish and it effects their
relationship. This is a story about a girl who cannot give up her freedom. This story and the story conflict about the Nazi's and the Jews are the theme for this movie.  Overall Rating: 7.7

North By Northwest

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An Alfred Hitchcock classic that is a good mystery movie. This is one of the better Hitchcock classics. I thought it was good that the girl is the special agent and I like how they keep it hidden from you like they keep it hidden from Cary Grant. I thought that the ending was good. This movie kept you watching and was very unpredictable.  Overall Rating: 8.6

Psycho

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An amazing movie by Alfred Hitchcock about a girl who goes to a hotel and finds a schizonphrenic man who owns the hotel. This story is way before it's time. Probably one of the greatest plots ever written. The effects are outdated but Hitchcock shows his genius. The great kind of scary movie
with not much killing and a great deal of suspense. This movie has one of the most historic killing scenes ever.  Overall Rating: 9.4

The Godfather

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One of the classic mob films and overall films ever. It is long and boring for the first 45 minutes. It then becomes a killing spree where you are scared someone will killed in every scene. In this movie you can never be sure who will get killed and when. The best thing about this movie is that it doesn't
build up to an ending. You know that there will be more of this story to come. By far the best of the Godfather movies.  Overall Rating: 9.5

The Flame of the Barbury Coast

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This John Wayne movie is a little different than most John Wayne movies in that it takes place in a city. John Wayne still plays the same sort of role but he has traveled to San Francisco to win over a girl and set up a business. You find out that the girl is really the flame of the barbury coast and everyone loves her. When the real flame strikes she is injured and the two men that care for her most are there for her. This movie had a couple of good gambling scenes and a decent love story but the bad guy just did not seem so bad.  Overall Rating: 5.3

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