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Green. So this was 2/3rds a good movie. Edward Norton kept me interested at the beginning. When the hulks went mano a mano I fell asleep, the ultimate sign that all is not well with a movie. Sigh.

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Brilliant. I haven’t laughed so hard at a movie in a long time. The bouncing back and forth between side splitting humour and deathly seriousness was quite a feat. It made me laugh even harder as my brain kept going, ‘You shouldn’t really be laughing at this.’ Brendan Gleeson was incredible. I have so much love for his character, I can’t tell you. The rest of the cast wasn’t half bad either. Another must see movie.

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Fabulous. This movie was so intoxicating I still haven’t come down yet. Holy cow that was something else. Visually it was stunning though it did take a few minutes to get used to the visual stimulation, it was so bright. The acting was pitched just right in tone and the balance between live action and CGI was perfect. This was definitely one of the best movies we’ve seen this year. Wow! You must go see it.

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Enjoyable. Robert Downey Jr as a superhero rocks! This movie was great popcorn fun. I didn’t feel like falling asleep once which is always a good sign. We even got to watch with a fairly full auditorium which isn’t usually the case and that amped up the atmosphere. Plus I was finally rewarded for my obsessive habit of staying to the end of the credits. Can’t say that I found the movie entirely consistent, arms maker/dealer forswears weapons of mas destruction yet uses weapons of war to fight the good fight. Hmmm? Yeah.

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Fascinating. A very cool movie about the lead singer of Joy Division. Another exploration of the disintegration of a human being. Great insight into the creative process. Loved the music.

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Sweet. This movie was so much fun. The main performances were very good. A very enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours.

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Stunning. Another film of epic proportions that doesn’t drag for a single moment. Hauntingly beautiful, it just sucked me in. Elegiac for a past time and place, winding towards a predestined tragic end. A poem that tells how violence merely begets more violence. How this movie didn’t rack up the Oscar nominations is a complete mystery. The music and cinematography wove together intimately and evoked an aching melancholy.

(For reasons known only to them, our local cinema brought this movie back for two more screenings. I so glad they did it, it was spectacular.)

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Cool. This was a great little movie featuring a range of interesting quirky characters who I actually enjoyed spending time with. Ellen Page is one cool actress, it’s amazing to think she was the ‘little’ girl in Hard Candy. That’s quite a range for someone so young. I’m very pleased with the way the movie resolved the relationship between Juno and her baby’s prospective father. Initially, the script is written in such a way that he has your sympathy and you see his wife as a less lovable character. But as he develops a relationship with Juno things become creepier and creepier. Fortunately they bring things to a head before you think about deserting the cinema.

It was nice seeing Minnesota on the big screen though the film was clearly made on a tiny budget as the cinematography was not the greatest and the focus puller was having a rather hard time of things.

I laughed a lot and would watch this again.

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Harmless. So the young’un and I whiled away a few hours with this movie. Yes, the premise is rather odd as a father tells the story of how he met and married his daughter’s mother by anonymising his experiences with three women. And, yes, the male lead did not really have too much going for him in the way of personality, being of the vapid and bland variety. But I did enjoy watching Rachel Weisz and Isla Fisher create two interesting fleshed out adult female characters. The third main female role, played by Elizabeth Banks, had so little to work with that she really made no impression at all.

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Holy moley! Never has a three hour movie flown by so fast. Wow. That was amazing. Epic on a gigantic scale. Daniel Day Lewis was incredible and mesmerising. And not for one single minute did I know how it was going to play out. Who was going to do what to whom? That is a very rare thing with movies today. Watching the danger and awfulness of conditions in the early days of drilling for oil it makes you wonder how they ever managed it. I especially enjoyed the score which definitely added to the tension I experienced. There are so many layers and insights to be seen that I’m still boggling at the enormity of the whole thing.

Current temperature: here 12C/54F, there 19F/-7C