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Just saw Open Range with Costner and Duval and Benning again tonite. What a truly great Western. Not without a few authenticity fudges, but overall a really great film.
Undertow, if you enjoyed Suspiria, you'll probably like Profundo Rosso as well
Undertow, if you enjoyed Suspiria, you'll probably like Profundo Rosso as well
Defiance, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Valkyrie.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: terrible. It's completely predictable, and filled with every cliche known to movies and Scooby Doo.
Some spoilers below:
The bad guys are nazis, the movie is set on an island, and the good guys are a reporter in trouble for trying to take down a corporation and a young, gothy hacker. How's that for a pile of cliches? The good guys have 2.5 hours to solve a whodunit (if anyone) where there are no more than 6 suspects (many suspects are introduced as possibilities, but since they're never shown, you know they didn't do it, women are almost never murderers, so you're down to about 4, and the guilty guy is always one you met earlier in an innocuous way - Law and Order rules), and the answer is discovered by the good guys in only a few days, though the dedicated cop who spent 40 years on the case got nowhere. Thanks computer girl.
Oh, and there are lots of murders that seem to be based on biblical mandates, which was a great idea when I saw it the first time, when they called it Seven.
Finally, don't forget the brutal rape scenes that don't do anything to advance the story. They just do more to explain the black lipstick.