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Last movie you saw?

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southcampus;2160041; said:
I watched three movies this weekend.

American Gangster. Extremely well-done in my opinion. I really enjoyed it.
Michael Clayton. I liked it. A bit slow but I liked it.
Drive. Absolutely putrid. God-awful.
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American Gangster=my favorite Denzel performance.


And as for your opinion on Drive....

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Not for everyone, I guess.
 
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The Apartment (1960): Won several Academy Awards, I don't know if it was that iconic, but it was certainly a fun dark(er) comedy for the era and kept my attention for 2 hours. Shirley McClain was actually hot back then and I always like Jack Lemmon. Billy Wilder films are really growing on me. 3.5/5 to even 4/5, somewhere in there.

Philosophy of a Knife: Yes, unfortunately I sat through this entire thing (4 hours over 2 nights). For those that don't know, it is a "docudrama"/recreation/whatever of the horrible exploits of Japanese Unit 731 during WWII. It was made by a Russian filmmaker so it was basically from that POV, though it was also from the Japanese POV as well in a way. The most interesting parts were the interview segments with the Russian translator who lived in the town that U731 was located and who later worked during the subsequent discovery and trials (such as they were). It was complete Russian propaganda but it was interesting to hear that perspective. As for the vast majority of the film, it was absolutely horrific, both in terms of how badly it was made and also because despite how obvious it was that it was all fake, all of that stuff was really done to people, pretty much ver batim. The pressure and chemical gas experiments are just hard to fathom anyone being able to do to a person, and the frostbite experiments weren't much better. The film itself was terrible, the effects were pretty bad and there was about an hour they could have cut out that just had bad shots of fake snow falling in 2 minute increments throughout. Despite that, I will follow Roger Ebert's lead for the Human Centipede and not even rate it, because the rating is not even the point. I haven't yet seen Men Behind the Sun, so I can't comment on comparisons or parallels, but if you think too much about what you see in this one, based on the fact it really happened...it will haunt you for a long time. As a film though per se, I don't give it much.
 
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