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Best Picture Movie Reviews: 1953: From Here To Eternity
[Zip.ca] [IMDB] [WikipediaAnother wartime movie, this film takes place at a base in Hawaii in the months leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It won a ridiculous number of academy awards, but perhaps I'm missing the historical context, but I did not find it fantastic. It was good, as all these films are, but I don't see Oscarity in it so ( Read more... ) -
Best Picture Movie Reviews: 1945: The Lost Weekend
[Zip.ca] [IMDB] [WikipediaThis film, based on the same-titled best-selling novel from the previous year, is the story of an alcoholic writer, Don, who goes on a drinking binge on a long weekend, and it shows the effects on him, and those who care about him ( Read more... ) -
Bonus Movie Review: 1939: The Wizard Of Oz
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So, as you might imagine from the last poll, J and I just watched The Wizard Of Oz (1939). This wasn't a Best Picture (it lost to Gone With The Wind, but it seemed like something I would watch, since I had never seen it before ( Read more... ) -
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Best Picture Movie Reviews: 1942: Mrs. Miniver
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From World War I and right into World War II. Thank you zip.ca for sending all the depressing all at once...
Where All Quiet On The Western Front was about the horrors faced by the soldiers, Mrs. Miniver is about their families. Mrs. Miniver is a housewife in a village outside London, and this film is about her, her ( Read more... ) -
Best Picture Movie Reviews: 1930: All Quiet On The Western Front
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This film was intenseThe film takes place in Germany in World War I, where a group of young men are convinced by their professor to join the army for honour, glory, and protecting the fatherland. And then it shows, fairly graphically (esp. for 1930!) the horrors of war as they are sent and endure the trench warfare of ( Read more... ) -
More cleaning...
Again, I'm still looking to get rid of a mini-stereo system, $50 OBO :)
And I'm looking to part with my original PS2 Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2, with guitars. I never play them anymore since they're not PS3 compatible and am pretty satisfied with Rock Band. Free to a good home.
Hopefully someone else can make better use of these than I do. -
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Best Picture Movie Reviews: 1948: Hamlet
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I don't have much commentary on this film. It's Shakespeare, done traditionally, which you either you like or you don't. A pretty good treatment. The acting and delivery was such that I found it pretty easy to follow and understand, although I have seen Hamlet more than once before.
Laurence Olivier is both director ( Read more... )