Every woman I've ever found deeply desirable sings here:

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Can I get an "AMEN" for this list of movies?
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I came late to the late Mr. Swayze's bandwagon, but I have discovered the following reasons to define him as, indeed, a bad-ass:

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Saw "Event Horizon" in the theater with friends. Watched "The Forgotten" on TV with wife, possibly while doing dishes.

( Event Horizon (**1/2 out of ****) )

The protagonists in most of Michael Mann's films live by codes, codes which, with the exception of "Heat," are always unspoken.  His films are often driven by the breaking, repairing, or inherent flaws of his codes.  The protagonists long for domesticity and think their codes can achieve it, when, in fact, it is the code itself that prevents ( Read more... )

2009 thoughts:  LOVE "Heat."  Love love love love love.  What boy wouldn't?  Doomed romanticism, "I love you but I must kill you," characters photographed as inferior to their vast uncaring surroundings.  And guns.  Guns like you wouldn't believe, given glorious vent in the best gunfight of the 1990s.  First viewing was a two-taper rental from " ( Read more... )

Entire movie: 3 stars
Last 20 minutes: 4 stars
( 2006 review )

The Black Dahlia (2006)
Day of the Jackal (1973)
Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)

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Stolen from a random comment on IMDb.

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2009 thoughts:   Enjoyable and engaging middlebrow indie movies for grown-ups, in the style of the mid-90s, before "Indiewood" became obsessed with quirk and junk like "Juno" and "Little Miss Sunshine."

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Clockwatchers (1997, 96 min, PG13) *** - Directed & co-written by Jill Sprecher, starring Toni Collette, Parker Posey, ( Read more... )

2009 Thoughts:: Oh, "Alien3," will I ever make up my mind about you? I love the production design and the acting and the score and the ending showdown really is something. But not only does it undo most everything great about "Aliens" (much like "Terminator 3" and, yes, "Star Trek III" do with their predecessors (although I'm the first to admit ( Read more... )