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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

Chasseur

Call Me a Cab
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The Monuments Men... Interesting story, gorgeous production, excellent cast. But it was shockingly old-fashioned: it played exactly like an all-star WWII film from the sixties. This isn't the first time that Clooney as director has used old-school methods (e.g., Good Night and Good Luck in fifties-TV b/w, constructing The Ides of March like a paranoid political thriller of the seventies), but I found it strangely retro and clichéd. (E.g., the only members of the team who are killed are the two non-Americans!)

Still, definitely worth a look if you're interested in WWII.

Yeah, similar to my thoughts. I thought it doesn't actually work very well as an entire film. It starts off good and then sorta falls apart like a made for TV film...
 

Worf

I'll Lock Up
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"The Equalizer" - Solid film that takes the time to develop Washington's character. The groundwork is laid so well that the violence that follows... makes sense. It's also neat that he eschews the gratuitous use of firearms, preferring more personal and intimate ways of dispatching his adversaries. Good film that makes much more sense to me than the last couple of Bourne ficks.

Worf
 

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