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May 3rd Directed by: Mark Steven Johnson Astonishingly forgettable. Painfully 2000's, Eva Mendes being in this movie at all is evidence of that, nevermind her character being useless and vapid. That, and what I can only imagine is an grisly dumbing-down of the source material (at least I hope). There's a lot of cool ideas going on that don't seem to see their full potential, i.e. Blackheart just being a normal looking dude. Nic Cage is not as ridiculous as one would like, Sam Elliott is Sam Elliott. The movie is very okay, I wouldn't choose to watch it again, but it wouldn't kill me. Downloaded.

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May 2nd Directed by: Louis Leterrier Devoid of anything that makes a movie good. Somehow worse CG than the one from 2003. Imagine a modern MCU movie, now take out any comedy or visual pizzazz. This is a by-the-numbers, drab, brown movie. I was really excited for Tim Roth as soldier action man, and he actually didn't disappoint until he turned into an evil Hulk, a common problem with Marvel villains. Anyway, this one stinks. Downloaded.

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May 2nd Directed by: Ang Lee Oh, the age of early comic book movies. When we seemed obsessed with adapting comics as a format moreso than the actual contents of the story. I certainly get why, it was pretty much a new medium, there wasn't much to take influence from except the comics themselves. So we get the director of Army of Darkness and Darkman to adapt Spider-Man, and the director of... The Ice Storm and... Sense and Sensibility to do The Hulk? Listen, Ang Lee is great, and that is evidenced in this movie, just saying it's weird. The promotional material seems to be going for a Godzilla 1998 feel, and expecting that from this movie would be flat out wrong. It is not a spectacle, at least not intentionally, it's mostly about complicated emotions, father-son dynamics and repressed memories, with very few, but very memorable scene which you could call "action". The story is surprisingly fascinating, I had no idea Hulk was so complex. The comedy comes from the hilarious visual elements, emulating comic book panels with picture in picture, or other inexplicable flair. Ang Lee is a great filmmaker and what he was able to do with this, all things considered is amazing. Downloaded.

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April 26th Directed by: Joe & Anthony Russo Hollywood movies are becoming pro wrestling. A lot of these movies feel like they're obligated to come with storylines for all these masses of characters they have. Who's getting over? Who's gonna beat who, these blockbusters barely resemble what I know movies to be. However, Endgame mostly avoids these problems, the story is tight especially thanks to the fact that they literally just erased every character that wasn't crucial to this story in the last movie. I do like what they were able to do because of that, I found it satisfying to see characters like Nebula or Ant-Man get a spotlight. That's kind of it though, I don't really have anything else to say about it. It was funny, I guess. The endings to Iron Man and Captain America's characters were well done and pleasant. I feel like I left the theater with no strong feelings or emotions and I'm now left wondering if any of these movies have ever given me that. Like what I said before, these really can't be judged on the same level as real movies, they've created their own art form here. Under that lens, it was good... I was sports-entertained. Theater.

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May 2nd Directed by: John Singleton Now this is substantial. While there's nothing SUPER exciting going on visually, there's just too much passion, emotion, and poignancy. I couldn't even begin to get into it, but this is so much more than what I thought it would have been, I should have known, I have only been blown away by "black" movies from the 90's. I guess I expected a typical crime movie, but really this is more about growing up fatherless, how kids end up without fathers, having no regard for life, others or your own, but really it's about more than that, it's about an entire culture. Everything is full circle, told from a place of perspective. It is really a complete story and it's exemplary. Downloaded.

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CD Smiles rated Barry

 Barry 8/10

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August 13th Directed by: Wong Kar-wai 5th Viewing Previous Rating: 4 After: 4 ---------------------------- May 1st Directed by: Wong Kar-wai 4th Viewing Previous Rating: 4 After: 4

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CD Smiles rated Nadja in Paris

 Nadja in Paris 7/10

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April 29th Directed by: Kon Ichikawa I don't know how a film with a premise like this turned out so run-of-the-mill. Ichikawa is a classical filmmaker and I really wish some of the youthful Japanese New-Wave mentality made it's way into this film, it really would have served this story some justice. The truth is, most of the runtime is pretty much wasted, I felt my eyes glaze over several times, there was just nothing really engaging me. Not one of his best. Criterion Channel.

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CD Smiles rated To Venomous Depths

 To Venomous Depths 7/10

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April 29th Year: 2017 Genre: Melodic Death Metal [youtube id=OznYqDNpJY4] Forever Burned

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April 26th Directed by: Sheldon Lettich Double Impact stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jean-Claude Van Damme and it's even goofier than it sounds. I do have some appreciation for the fact that there was a lot of effort put into the story, at the beginning at least, people used to actually have to come up with ideas in the 90's. It eventually devolves into every other predictable action movie with useless love interest. The action is not good, the dialogue is terrible, my favorite part is the fact that they explained Van Damme's accent by saying he was raised in France, but that doesn't explain why the one raised in Hong Kong has the exact same accent. There's not much good about this one. LaserDisc.

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CD Smiles rated Change

 Change 9/10

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April 22nd Year: 2001 Genre: Post-Hardcore / Math Rock [youtube id=