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Well, have you? I have, I saw Traffic, definately one of the best films I have ever had the good fortune to see. Much better Soderbergh than Erin Brokovich.
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American Psycho, Wonder Boys, Virgin Suicides and The Replacements are other recent favorites of mine.
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I saw Saving Silverman with a couple of buddies on Friday. Man that's a funny flick!
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You actually LIKED American Psycho? Wow........ I work in a movie store, and we got more complaints from that movie alone than any other movie before and since. Huh.
I liked What Lies Beneath..... and also, I still love Gone In 60 Seconds, though it's not NEARLY as cool since MY car got stolen.....
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I don't rent videos, as I'm sure you recall from a minor rant about them. Recently I've seen Traffic in the cinema, and Unbreakable before that. I'm going to see Hannibal on Wednesday. On Sky Cinema (satellite) recently I've watched In Dreams, The Siege and. . . lots of other things, many of them shite.
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Saw Quills the other day. Not bad save that it turned the Marquis de Sade into an advocate for the first amendment rather than a wacked out, um, wacko.
That AND I could have gone sooooooooo much longer without seeing Geoffrey Rush in full frontal nudity!
Scared for life I am.
Snatch was ok. Better than not, but a bit too cute for it's own good.
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I much enjoyed American Psycho ... mind you, I was quite scared when Christian Bale goes on about all the crap he puts on his face in the beginning of the movie, but except for Dafoe's wasted character, it was a really great flick. Even the style it was shot in is reminiscent of the boring camera-angles and styles which characterized many '80's flicks. Hell, even Ronald Reagan has a cameo (well, sorta).
Did it seem to anyone besides me that Bateman spent just a tad too much time killing people and returning videotapes?
I appreciated it even more after VH1 aired "Behind The Music: The Huey Lewis And The News Story"
Are you 100% sure that Dogma didn't get more complaints? That flick made fun of the platypus. Well, Catholics too, but mostly the platypuses. Honestly, if my grandma ever saw that movie, she'd blow a gasket (or forty).
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As far as recent movies go, I agree that Traffic was really good.
As for movies I've seen recently, but that aren't new, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I now no longer think only of Edward Scissorhands when someone mentions Johnny Depp. :-)
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A movie getting complaints isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'm sure "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is very scary, and as such, a good 'scary movie'. But the swedish moral guardians, in their ignorance, associated all VCR-titles, and even the machine itself, with "T.C.M" and there was puritanian Crusade. Videos are baaad. You have a VCR at home? You will go to hell! It's not as if you can store OTHER things on a tape.
I liked "American Psycho" but the ending left me wanting. Something more should've happened, no just seeing him calming down and getting tired...
Dogma was great, and they did apologize beforehand, so if people take it personally it's because they're so bored that they have to have something to mutually 'hate'.
I liked 'Meet Joe Black'. My christian halfbrother avoided it because he thought Pitt played the devil, but I filled him in.
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Is there something in the bible that prohibits Brad Pitt from playing Satan? Does it allow that guy who does "Him" on the PPG to play, er, him?
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Oh yeah, I also saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, that was really good too (and nuts to anyone who didn't like the flying). I'm quite impressed with this year's Oscar Best picture nominees. Not like '97 with that crap movie about the silly boat.
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Yeah, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is probably one of the best I've seen for a while. I've seen plenty of other films but I can't remember what they were so they mustn't have been great.
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