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The Swollen Goiter of God wrote:Don't know. I can't say I've ever gone searching for Bobby-Fischer-Is-Disturbed movies. I can't, but I bet Josh Waitzkin.
What did you bet him?
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Right now I am looking at Selena Gomez. Yummy.
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Mal Shot First wrote:What did you bet him?
I bet him he'd best me at speed chess. I won.

If we had played at my pace, we'd still be playing.
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I've begun season 3 of The Americans this weekend. It's as great as ever, but now Frank Langella is in the cast! What more could anyone want from a show??
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Dolph Lundgren, Meg Foster, and Courtney Cox?

You know, for a Masters of the Universe reunion.
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I watched 10 Cloverfield Lane last night. I was totally into it until the very end. Then the movie lost me. The lack of a real resolution took my rating of the movie down a couple of notches.

Not that I'm against unresolved situations at the end of a story, but the movie basically began an entirely new plot line in the last 10 minutes that either led nowhere or will have to be continued in a sequel. I just think a movie should be a cohesive whole.
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I got some cream what made my hole more cohesive.
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Mal Shot First wrote:I watched 10 Cloverfield Lane last night. I was totally into it until the very end. Then the movie lost me. The lack of a real resolution took my rating of the movie down a couple of notches.

Not that I'm against unresolved situations at the end of a story, but the movie basically began an entirely new plot line in the last 10 minutes that either led nowhere or will have to be continued in a sequel. I just think a movie should be a cohesive whole.
Couldn't agree more. Every time that movie's come up I've told people it's 3/4 of a GREAT movie, and then...SPOILER: she leaves the bunker.
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For me, it wasn't even SPOILER: the entire segment after Michelle gets out of the bunker. I'm actually even okay with the genre shift that happens during that sequence. They could have pulled it off if half the movie had been dedicated to the suspense thriller portion with John Goodman and the other half to the alien resistance plot. As it stands, though, the ending is simply not satisfying because it opens up a whole other plot line and stops at a point where that plot line really should only have been getting started.
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Exactly! That's a much better way of articulating my thoughts on that. The trouble was absolutely SPOILER: that they spent 2/3 of the film telling but not showing, creating that GREAT suspense, only grazing past the possibility of an alien attack just to have it completely switch into that once she leaves the bunker.

THAT SAID, SPOILER: I'd have loved it if they'd not left the bunker at all and just had the entire thing be one great big John Goodman mind-fuck. Or maybe not? But maybe! We'd never know, neither would she, and it would've made for a brilliant film that they almost pulled off.

So close yet so very far.
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Oh and one other thing,

SPOILER: Hello Goiter, you great big spoiler seeker you.
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I'll probably watch it when I get back to St. Louis.
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PBS America (God bless her and all who sail in her!) - on Cyber Warfare!
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Superman Returns is on TV and I am really digging it. I think it is worth revisiting.
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I'm watching a horror movie on Netflix called The Invitation. Low-budget, creepy stuff. The guy who played Norm Son-of-a-Gundersson from Fargo is in it, and it looks like he hasn't aged a day.
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Hail, Caesar!

It's funny as hell.
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Was Young Han Solo funny and charming in it?
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He stole the show in a scene with Ralph Fiennes.
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Forces Of Nature with Professor Brian Cox.

It's talking about Space Time and my noodle has been baked.
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1974s Earthquake. It's no Towering Inferno.
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Introducing Future No Longer Ex (As Mother Of My Child) Mrs Dalty to some movies.

Star Trek 2009 down. An American Werewolf In London now. Then, if she looks like a keeper, Jaws!
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I rented Triple 9 and London Has Fallen today. Reports to come, but the latter had better be as delightfully awful as it looks.
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Kermode tried to warn you.
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Watching now-Gerard Butler is also about to be a father for the first time!
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