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Le Samouraï – (1967 movie)

2017-01-10

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/

A hitman is witnessed just after a job, and becoming a suspect pushes his employers put a hit out on him.

While I can imagine this being really cool at the time, it certainly isn’t any more. It has a slow moody atmosphere with a main character stiff enough to be a walking corpse. It’s also just shy of being a silent film.

I only finished watching it because of the similarity Ghost Dog – (1999 movie) has with it, because I like that movie.

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Under the Skin – (2013 movie)

2017-01-09

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441395/
was undertheskinmovie.com

Something something Scarlette Johansson something picking up people to kill something skin? something.

Artsy trash.

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Spirited Away – (2001 movie)

2017-01-03

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/

On the way to moving to a new town, a girl stumbles upon and is trapped in a pocket dimension with an old Japanese bath house run by spirits and non-humans.

SHE SHOUTS A LOT

A spectacular movie. Youthful but with a balance of fantasy spectacle and horror.

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Swordfish – (2001 movie)

2017-01-02

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/swordfish

A recently-ex-con world-renown hacker is swept into the well-planned efforts to fund long-term anti-terrorist terrorism.

I-like-hyphens.

Ignoring the Hollywood-hacker bullshit, it’s a good movie, particularly because so few, at least at its release, would be so A-class and yet have this particular topic. It helps shape the understanding of the passion behind Lawful Evil.

Not related to the fish Swordfish.
Partially playing off of the Swordfish (password).

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Cloud Atlas – (2012 movie)

2016-12-30

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/cloud-atlas

During the thrashing of an epileptic seizure, an editor stitches together bits of various unrelated shorts into a single movie filled with famous people and great music.

If one can labour past the non science-fiction, it’s pretty good. In fact, I think if one cut out everything except two of the storylines, they would make for good shorts. I may do that one day.

I wouldn’t imagine this to have been a critical success.

Based on Cloud Atlas (2004 book), by David Mitchell

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Millennium – (1989 movie)

2016-12-27

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097883/

An investigator of airplane disasters learns their passengers are critical to the plans of a woman he falls in love with.

This is one of the early time travel movies which really grabbed me and brought me into the genre. I don’t know that I’d call it great or could strongly recommended it to others, but I like it a lot.

Based on Air Raid – (1977 story), by John Varley

Timestalkers – (1987 movie)

2016-12-27

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094154/

A scientist from the future goes back in time to do (stuff that I wasn’t paying attention enough to figure out), but his assistant’s daughter goes back to stop him with the help of one of the grandfather’s of time travel.

For an old TV-movie this is pretty good.

The actual movie is copyright 1986.

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The Internet’s Own Boy – (2014 movie)

2016-12-18

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/
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A documentary on Aaron Swartz and some of the major events he participated in.

2014-09-06
Film by Brian Knappenberger – Luminant Media
(old) kickstarter campaign
gpvcc9C8SbM (archive)
was vimeo.com/ondemand/internetsownboy
was itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-internets-own-boy/id880571554

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Lourdes – (2009 movie)

2016-12-05

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405809/

A woman in a wheelchair goes on vacation alongside various religious tourists.

I couldn’t get to the half-way point without succumbing to boredom. This movie has a kind of absence of flavour that drones on like one unwavering tone. I don’t know how the hell this movie got into my inbox, perhaps as a reality-questioning movie. Maybe it got into interesting things later, but I was unwilling to give it that chance.

It had no explosions or lasers.

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