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Movie Synopsis: Danish remake of Hot Fuzz reinterpreted as a psychological, noirish thriller. Why I Watched: Because Netflix said that users like me rated it 3 1/4 stars. Which is really high for users like me. (I gave it 3.) Biggest Question: Why is it so hard for lower-budget movies to maintain consistent facial hair [...]

About 3.5 years ago, I sort of reviewed the American Film Institute’s Top 100 Movies of All Time or whatever, which, I was later informed, constituted a crime against humanity. Such power. With that in mind, I’ve kind of been thinking I ought to do the same thing with the IMDB list since, you know, [...]

So I’m not doing the old version any more. It was too hard coming up with haikus for every movie I saw. Not that I see a lot of movies, but still — writing haiku for The Dark Knight et al gets irritating. The Road, then: I liked the book a lot better. I don’t [...]

Best Part: The first hour — nice occasional squickiness and the reveal of the backstory was, like, *interesting*. Biggest Question: Did the dude really think that he’d just fly up to the alien’s ship, get his hand fixed, then fly back home where everything would just be back to normal? Too Long By: 30 minutes. [...]

Best Part: The dog society. Biggest Question: Which laws of nature actually applied to this movie? (It was hard to think any of the main characters were ever going to be in jeopardy when it was revealed two-thirds of the way through the movie that dogs could fly planes. Also sort of cheapened all the [...]

Best Part: When the Lion-Christ jumped forty feet across a ravine in order to break the dude’s neck, then awakened His tree army to go out and kill millions of soldiers who, like all soldiers, weren’t fighting for “the cause”, but rather for the guy next to them. Biggest Question: When the pink minotaur was [...]

I sort of feel bad because the main reason I watched it was because Telkontar expressed a profound fondness for the movie. OTOH, this isn’t the first movie we’ve had different opinions on. Best Part: The first 45 minutes. Some pleasant, well-orchestrated tension and violence. Biggest Question: How did anyone accomplish any of the things [...]

Best Part: We don’t get to hear a whole lot about the German youth-resistance over here in the states, so it was kind of fun to hear a little about it. (Although I hear there’s a Helmuth Hübener movie currently in production starring Haley Joel Osment — odd.) Plus it had some good in medias [...]

Best Feature: I find 1940s women attractive — unfortunately, there was only one woman in the movie. Biggest Question: Was the source material as facile as this? Most Horrifying Truth: There were a lot of similarities between Captain Queeg and several people I’ve seen try to navigate leadership situations. Too Long By: 90 minutes — [...]

Best Feature: Really nice job of in medias res and of avoiding exposition, plus Lee Marvin was fun to watch. Biggest Question: How did they manage to hang out together for a month (longer?) without either of them ever learning a word of the other’s language? Too Long By: 20 minutes. Haiku Synopsis: On island [...]