Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 6.5/10 - At once iconic and empty, this is an undeniably classic buddy film. Paul Newman and Robert Redford always play well off of one another, but the script lacked the nerve to make this more than a simple joyride, enjoyable though it is.
Shutter Island -...
If it wasn't clear, Salatheon was probably referring to a small piezoelectric PC speaker that can be plugged in directly to the SPEAKER pins on the motherboard, not audio output from a soundcard.
True Grit - 7.5/10 - Reviews of high-profile films feel trite to write, so I won't delve deeply. I liked True Grit very much, and Rooster Cogburn can be added to the list of recent great performances by Jeff Bridges. As others have said, this straight-shooter of a film is a departure for the...
A 7 is not a negative review by any means. It seems like a lot of people here use a 1-10 rating scale, but really treat 5 as the starting point and anything less than an 8 barely worth watching. If I were using a 5-point scale, I might round up for The Fighter. On a thumbs-up/thumbs-down basis...
The Fighter - 7/10 - The downtrodden-boxer-finds-success flick feels old-hat at this point; it seems like Cinderella Man was the last movie to get away with it. The Fighter bores in this regard, and Mark Wahlberg, though more than passable, feels disappointingly one-dimensional -- perhaps more...
Hunger is excellent. Fassbender's physical transformation invokes easy comparisons to Bale's in The Machinist, and his performance is fantastic. There's a long, uncut conversation scene in the middle of the film that's breathtaking.
I was very confused reading your review until I realized you were talking about the TV movie, not Sidney Lumet's masterpiece from 1957. I'm assuming you watched this version because you liked the original; if you haven't seen the old one, you should make it a priority.
Let Me In - 7.5/10 - Nearly a shot-for-shot English remake of Let the Right One In, which is a contender for my favorite vampire movie of all time. Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee are more than passable in this one, but I still felt like some of the power of the original was lost in the...
A movie about which you have nothing positive to say gets a 6/10? :\
Anyway, I'm with you on your apathy toward it, but I thought the sets were generally quite good. The acting was laughably horrendous.
It wasn't my intention to imply that The Sting wouldn't be enjoyable to watch again, only that a big part of the intrigue will be gone. Some movies feel more rewarding on each viewing; others have big reveals or fun twists that are less impactful once known. That said, the visual texture and...
The Sting - 8/10 - Very stylish, and an obvious forerunner to more recent con man and heist flicks. Gotta love the Paul Newman-Robert Redford combo. I enjoyed this film very much, but I doubt it lends itself well to repeat viewings once the twists are known.
The Town - 7.5/10 - A heist flick...
A Little Help - 4/10 - Caught this at the San Diego film festival and was deeply irritated by the whole thing. Jenna Fischer is eminently watchable, but I seriously could not stand her character in A Little Help. She plays an immature, alcoholic mother and the first 75% of the movie felt...
Animal Kingdom - 8.5/10 - Excellent, gritty modern gangster flick with almost no sense of humor, setting it apart from a long string of Goodfellas and Lock Stock clones.
Makes sense. That scene was deliciously creepy. So was
Also, when I rented EH, I got a bum disc that kept freezing up my PS3 and I was forced to skip about half a chapter. I really wanted to like the film, but the frequent stops coupled with some of the cheeseball performances kind of blew...
I totally don't get this. I saw EH for the first time about a year ago and I thought it was horrendously cheesy. The cast was almost uniformly awful, although Sam Neill managed to stand out as even more campy than the rest. I don't know, I liked the concept and the sets were pretty great, but I...
Get Low - 6/10 - Decent character drama thanks to Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, and Lucas Black, but otherwise pretty rote and unsurprising. Duvall and Murray especially keep it from being completely forgettable.
Adherents like Phineas are a symptom. The problem is institutionalized ignorance and credulity, which almost all religions demand, and extrication from which is considered punishable. In fairness, not all of his irksome behavior is directly attributable to Christianity, just as your aggression...
Un Prophete - 8/10 - Intense prison/gangster drama. Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup were both impressive. Several scenes stick out for me: two murders that neatly bookend the development of the main character, the flaming apparition of a dead man, and a tense confrontation between Malik and Cesar...
Intellectual integrity includes rejecting claims that lack sufficient evidence. The problem is that the religious lack it. The negative atheist position is at worst intellectually neutral, so I don't think it's arrogant to assume some superiority on that point.
I know we've diverged a bit... Anyway, I'm not sure how you can make the above claim. I'm an engineer and I never have and probably never will consider myself a scientist, despite having studied the sciences. Very few of my peers fit your description as well, anecdotally.
My point, I guess...
That doesn't sound easy to me. How could a scientist willfully ignore the scientific method when applying his mind to arguably the most important claim in the history of humanity?
There may be some overlap depending on the field, but technically speaking, an engineer is not a scientist nor vice versa. I would expect both to be more rational than people in many other occupations, but it behooves a scientist especially to reject unsupported beliefs through a strict process...
Neither I nor anyone else in the thread claimed an expectation for "absolutely EVERYTHING" to be explained. And sure, it was fun to theorize right up until the end gave us all the middle finger and it was obvious we had no chance to predict the nonsensical plot. :P
I don't see a problem with being passionate about important topics. Non-committal "live and let live" attitudes only go so far.
Still, this has turned into a bit of a feeding frenzy. I honestly didn't intend to make personal attacks on PhineasJWhoopee, and I think it's a little distasteful to...
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