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Road to Perdition

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Tom Hanks continues to amaze me with how he can take a role that is totally different from anything that he has ever done and completely knock it out. I thought that this movie was excellent, even though it does not take you for many twists it sticks to its plot very well and when the movie all comes to an end it is very fulfilling and totally fitting. It just continues to amaze me how the comedian in The Money Pit can actually have you believing that he is a gangster in this movie.

The House of Mirth

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I thought that this movie was just utterly boring. The only reason that I kept watching it was that sometimes in a movie like this something surprising happens and can completely turn the entire movie around. It was long and it could be summed up by a spoiled girl who got herself into some trouble financially and didn't do what she had to to survive. The thing about the whole thing is that when she finally does pay off what she owes she kills herself. I guess it is because she cannot live the life that she is living. This life wasn't that bad.

Quills

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I thought that this movie was not that bad. It takes place in an insane asylum but you don't really get much of the feeling that the people are really insane. They sort of seem like normal people most of the time. They could have done a better job with that. Other than that this is a story about love and writing and how writing can set you free from the real world. This movie is sort of rediculous because the abbey is the one who goes insane but not because he is not the man who forces the marquis to stop writing. It is just a movie filled with irony about an author who is creating trouble.

Steal this Movie

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I thought that the first hour of this movie sort of dragged along and I found myself not really interested except for the music. But I thought that the movie concluded pretty well and helped turn this movie into a pretty good movie. It is about a man who is forced by the government to go underground and the effects that the underground has on him is when the movie starts to turn for the good. I couldn't help but to watch this movie and picture the main characters striking resemblance to John Malkovich.

Insomnia

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I was sort of disappointed in this movie. I thought that it was sort of a different role for Robin Williams but he did okay. It was the fact that the character he was forced to play was a pathetic excuse for a murderer. I thought that the idea of the movie was good having a cop forced to play his career against the crime of another. In this movie Pacino makes the wrong choice for a while but then makes the right one. Williams comparison to Pacino was not even close and even though they both made mistakes they are not even close to being the same. This movie could have used much more blackmail and suspense.

High Crimes

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I thought this movie was a lot different than I thought that it was going to be. I sort of thought that it was going to be a little more suspenseful but it was just a court movie. It sort of seemed to me like it was a twist of a couple of different successful movies from the past. The one that comes to mind off the top of my head is Primal Fear because you find out that the person you trust in the movie really did do the crime.

A Beautiful Mind

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This movie was totally different than I was expecting it to be. I thought it was going to be about a guy who loses his mind from pressures in his life not someone who wasn't even having those pressures. I thought that Russell Crowe was magnificent in a great role for him. I think that Jennifer Connelley compliments him perfectly in this movie. I thought it was slow for a little while but I never lost interest because you are never sure how the movie is going to turn out, and I like how it turned out.

John Q

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I thought that this movie was okay except the things just ended up too perfect for Denzel at the end. I thought that if he would have killed himself for his son that would have been the most interesting ending but since that did not happen they could have at least made him spend a lot of time in jail. I mean what he did is something that we feel we may do ourselves but that doesn't mean that we would not get in trouble for doing it.

In the Bedroom

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I thought that this movie sort of dragged a little in the middle. I liked the way that it ended and I like the way that it began but somewhere after the killing the sorrow sort of drug on for too long. I think that if maybe they would have had maybe a couple of more court cases or confrontations in the middle it wouldn't have seemed so boring. But I think that the writers were trying to show just how much this incident really tore this family apart.

Gosford Park

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I thought that this movie was almost the same movie as the movie clue except on a more serious note. I had a hard time keeping track of what characters were who and their were too many names to remember for characters that all pretty much looked the same. I thought that the movie started off slow and then didn't really have a great ending. I mean the mystery is solved to the watcher but nobody else. There were a couple of funny parts but it is like the murder is a joke but they try to make the ending serious

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Blood Work

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I wasnt too impressed with the killers motive in this movie. I think that their have been so many movies about serial killers that the motive is really the key nowadays. That and how everything ties together. It was just totally ironic that the one case that Eastwood comes back to work on is the exact case that will lead him to the killer he has been searching for for so long. You know what else I think is funny in these movies is that as soon as the detective finds the killer, it is the same time that the killer is revealing himself.

Happiness

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I thought this movie was a very creative idea and had some American Beauty type qualities but it may have taken the sickness just a little bit too far. I think that the movie doesn't really have much of an impact ending either. The movie can sort of make you laugh with the outrageousness of some of the things that happen but when it all comes down to it nothing really happens. The whacker and the fat lady sort of get together but not really. Nobody is really happy. But the characters are unique and gives the movie an interesting quality.

Chocolat

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I thought that this was a pretty good movie. I don't know if it should have been a finalist for movie of the year but it was still enjoyable. This is a movie about the conflicts between the church and a woman who does not go to church and serves chocolate. By the end of the movie a revelation has occured. The townspeople learn that what god wants is for more people to be kind to everyone like the owner of the chocolate shop and not judge them so harshly. God wants people to act as he acted and not persecute others as he was.

13 Conversations about One Thing

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I thought that this movie for the most part was terrible. It was boring and the only character that I really cared about was McCoughnahay and his character sort of faded out after the beginning of the movie. The point behind the movie was not that bad. It showed how unpredictable life was and that when things start to go good then can always go bad. Things dont always stay the same and luck can always change for the good and for the bad. It talks about how a simple deed or courtesy of other people can change an attitude or lifestyle of another person. This movie just doesnt really come together until too late and spends too much time being boring.

Steel Magnolias

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I thought that this was a pretty sad movie. It is about a small town group of friends who spend all of their time over the one person's house getting their hair done. Each of them has an interesting story with their family and the main story centers around a diabetic daughter who decides to have a baby which eventually kills her. This movie is very sad but is also about new life and continue to live your life happy. A movie about how life goes on. I would also like to add that Dolly Parton's amazing cheerfulness continues to be annoying as always.

The Killing Fields

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I thought that this movie was alright but it was nothing special. It has some good dramatic scenes that really get you but if it wanted to get the point across about how bad it was over there than it should have shown a little more about how people were getting killed for no reason. I thought that this movie could have done a little better job describing what really was going on over there because I had some trouble following who was who and what was actually happening.

Changing Lanes

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I thought that this movie was pretty good. I had heard that it was just okay but I really liked how it all tied together. The movie is about how the choices you make in life can affect everything around you. It is a movie about how a single event can make you change your ways and how the path you take down every road could lead you to an entirely different life. Ben Affleck's speech at the end of the movie about a girl on a beach sums up the story perfectly. A movie worth seeing.

Mulholland Drive

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If you love movies that will make you think this is one of them. In fact it may make you go so crazy trying to figure it out that you hate the movie. I am not really sure what I think. I think that all three girls may be the same person. But at the same time I think that they may be just two different people. Even if everything that I think is right there still may be some parts that I have no clue how they fit in. Definitely the sort of movie that you will not completely get the first time.

Mystery, Alaska

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I liked this movie a lot. I thought that it was going to be your typical type of small town hero story that has been played over and over. Instead it is a David and Goliath story where Goliath actually wins. But to the satisfaction of the town it is an experience that they will never forget. Russell Crowe gives a wonderful performance and the cameo by Mike Myers is hysterical. This is definitely worth seeing.

Interview with a Vampire

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I thought that this movie was pretty slow for awhile and then when it started to pick it I found myself getting really interested. But then as the ending came around I found that nothing was really going to happen. Just like the story that Brad Pitt tells there is no great finale to the movie. This movie basically shows vampires as people who go around drinking blood just to stay alive and have no sort of pleasure to there life, it is kind of depressing.