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The Magnificent Seven - (2016 movie)

2020-01-31

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The Magnificent Seven - (2016 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404435/

7 gunmen, for approximately 2.5 reasons, fight on behalf of a town they don't actually care about.

Fair. I mean.. it's just fair. Why bother with a remake if it's not going to even attempt to be better? It's a knockoff of the 1960 version set in California United States. Recommended for fans of westerns, but only so you can say that you saw it..

A remake of The Magnificent Seven - (1960 movie).
Inspired by Seven Samurai - (1954 movie).

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Lord of War (2005)

2016-08-11

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170103204341/http://www.lordofwarthemovie.com/

A man runs guns.

Not bad, but forgettable.

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Regression - (2015 movie)

2016-03-16

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3319920/

A girl, hiding in a church, writes a letter to the police who, without evidence, raise a stink.

I couldn't get half way through this. Not only do the various genres in this movie not interest me, but it highlights "listen and believe". I fucking guarantee that's why Emma Watson is in this.

The title is based on Regression (psychology)

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Dead Poets Society - (1989 movie)

2007-01-16

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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.