I know you're there so I'm not scared.
Australia
2008 4/5 - just wonderful
Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.
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I remember wanting to see this when it first came out. I have no idea what took me so long. It was a good movie and a good story. If I'm being honest, I held out hope till the very end that they would sing.
Moonrise Kingdom
2012 1/5 - bad
Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down -- which might not be such a bad thing.
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I don't know why I watched this. I don't even know what this movie was.
High Society
1956 2/5 - nothing special
Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra
C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate. She is on the verge of marrying a man blander and safer than Dex, who tries to win Tracy's heart again. Mike Connor, an undercover tabloid reporter, also falls for Tracy while covering the nuptials for Spy magazine. Tracy must choose between the three men as she discovers that "safe" can mean "deadly dull" when it comes to husbands and life.
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It was like she was stringing along three men. Her dresses were fabulous!
Every Time We Say Goodbye
1986 3/5 - good
Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach
An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to each other but she is convinced their diverse backgrounds mean it could never work; not only is he a gentile, his father is a protestant minister. So though they keep running into each other in the small community, they find themselves just as frequently parting again.
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I liked the movie, but I hated that that girl never smiled.
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963 1/5 - bad
James Darren, Cindy Carol, Cesare Danova
Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.
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I hated it! I hated that Moondoggy dumped Gidget for this Roman chick, but when she rejected him, he just went back to Gidget.
Love and Other Disasters
2006 3/5 - good
Brittany Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Santiago Cabrera
Emily Jackson lives a fast-paced life. Always on the go, able to talk around the clock, with a sensitive soul she loves playing matchmaker for her friends. It's Emily's gay roommate and frequent companion Peter, who becomes again the subject matchmaking skills when handsome new photographer assistant Paolo arrives at the Vogue offices, where Emily works. She makes it her mission to bring the two men together. Unfortunately for her, she is so busy arranging a love connection between Peter and Paolo that she remains completely blind to the one suitor who longs to provide her with the loving companionship that she so cheerfully arranges for others. And so it does make sense that Peter, a screenwriter in the making, starts telling the story from his own point of view.
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I liked this, it was very cute. Great cast.
Dreamland
2006 2/5 - nothing special
Agnes Bruckner, Kelli Garner, Justin Long, John Corbet
A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.
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I had some conflictitng opinions about this movie. I liked the story, I liked the characters, I liked the actors, but it just seemed to go on and on forever. This 90 minute movie seemed to last for hours.
Breaking Dawn part 2
2012 1/5 - bad
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Micheal Sheen
The final Twilight Saga begins with Bella now a vampire learning to use her abilities. And happy to see her daughter, Renesmme is flourishing. But when someone sees Renesmme do something that makes them think that she was turned. This person goes to the Volturri, because it is a violation to turn a child. And the penalty is death for both who turned the child into a vampire and the child, cause they deem a turned child too dangerous. Alice gets a vision of the Volturri coming after them. So the Cullens try to convince them that Renesmme is not a threat. So they ask friends and family to come stand with them. But when someone who has it in for the Volturri shows up and tells them they should be ready for a fight. And they get ready.
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Ridiculous! Michael Sheen is great. I was a bit confused at the end...I've heard all about this big twist and it just didn't come. I didn't get it.
Hotel Transylvania
2012 2/5 - nothing special
In 1895, Dracula builds a resort in Transylvania, hidden from the humans, to raise his beloved daughter Mavis in a safe environment. In the present days, the place is the Hotel Transylvania, where monsters bring their families to spend vacation far from the frightening humans. Dracula invites his friends - Frankenstein and his wife Eunice; Wayne and Wanda, the werewolves; Griffin, the invisible man; Murray, the mummy; the Bigfoot, among others - to celebrate the 118th birthday of Mavis. When the party is ready to start, the 21-year-old Jonathan is walking through the forest and stumbles at the hotel. Dracula sees Jonathan and disguises him as a monster to hide Jonathan from the guests. But Mavis also sees Jonathan and Dracula forces him to pose of a monster. Soon Mavis believes that Jonathan is the "zing" of her life despite the advices of her father about the humans.
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I liked parts of it, but overall it wasn't so good.
Celeste and Jesse Forever
2012 2/5 - nothing special
Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Ari Graynor
Celeste and Jesse have been best friends forever. They dated in high school, got married, and now they're getting divorced. Their best friends don't think they can maintain their friendship throughout the dissolution of their marriage, but Celeste and Jesse don't think there will be a problem. But that's before Jesse gets into a relationship that Celeste doesn't think he can handle, and Celeste finds it harder to move on than she originally thought.
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I've seen better indie flicks, but I've also seen a lot worse.