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Clerks – (1994 movie)

2016-01-11

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/
https://www.miramax.com/movie/clerks/

Instead of being allowed to sleep in on his day off, a man is called in to work an extra shift at his convenience store job, and his day goes to complete shit.

The acting is a little halted in places, since these are mostly or perhaps entirely first-timers, but the writing is spectacular. It’s got great flow and style, and is hilarious and memorable.

I first rented this as a VHS tape back in the day, and was immediately impressed. I’m glad this movie, and its author, have done well.

aka Clerks. (with a trailing period)
Takes place in Leonardo, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
Re-issued as “Clerks. X”

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Casablanca – (1942 movie)

2016-01-10

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/

The widow of an underground-resistance fighter falls in love but her life gets complicated when she learns her husband didn’t die.

I can easily see the allure of this movie, and I don’t have complaints, but it doesn’t do it for me. The legacy of this movie remains in all sorts of little quotes that I recognize. I know I must have seen this years ago, and it’s stuck in my head until even now. I don’t regret re-watching this, but it’s not something I’ll watch again.

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Gotham – (2014 show)

2015-12-08

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(on Wikipedia)
was https://www.fox.com/gotham/

The early days of Gotham City.

This loiters on all the named characters, trying to explore their backstories. I didn’t like it.

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A Beautiful Mind – (2001 movie)

2015-09-28

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/
https://www.abeautifulmind.com/

Based on the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr., the nobel prize winning mathematician, this film explores his life, genius and madness.

Media which explore intelligence, its quirks and consequences are (obviously) rarer than the geniuses themselves. That this movie has appealed to a broad audience, helping embrace and enlighten more typical people, is rarer still. This movie is very strongly recommended.

Inspired by A Beautiful Mind (book) (1998), an unauthorized biography of Nash.

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Suits – (2011 show)

2015-09-15

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https://www.usanetwork.com/suits

A lawyer who shouldn’t be one does lawyering in a law firm.

I watched two seasons before getting bored, but it has its moments. All in all.. meh.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081182/

A woman, dying in a macabre soap opera, is filmed by a man with cybernetic eyes.

Great movie, but the main actor’s performance is absolutely horrible.

Based on The Unsleeping Eye – (1973 book), by David G. Compton
- aka The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

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Boiler Room – (2000 movie)

2007-05-04

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181984/

to be re-watched, maybe

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Dead Poets Society – (1989 movie)

2007-01-16

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Dead Poets Society - (1989 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/

A coming of age story of a class of students learning poetry in an unorthodox way.

While I recommend and like this, it not great.

Something about it makes it feel somehow inelegant or simple, perhaps even predictable. Perhaps it stood out in its era, and it caught me at an impressionable moment for my first viewing, but as I watch it again it doesn’t grab me much at all. I think this would be weakly-mandatory for creating a well-rounded movie-learning experience in someone young.