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The Butler

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I am still not sure what to say about this movie.

I know what I think. It is hard to put it into words.

I learned so much from this movie. I saw the “Civil Rights” movement as I never had before. And I can see how far we have come and how far we have yet to go.

I felt a deep connection to this movie. I was sobbing uncontrollably in the theater and all the way to my car. Talking about it now I still cry. It is that powerful.

I hope this movie becomes required viewing like Schindlers List did when I was in High School. It is that important and has that much truth in it.

The cast and writer were on point and all AMAZING. I LOVE this film. Thank you Lee Daniels. It is a masterpiece.

The Spectacular Now

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This movie hit me very hard.

It was hard for me to stop crying once I saw it. I couldn’t talk about it afterwards for a bit.

It was like someone had taken the different parts of me and put them into two characters and made a movie about me and my relationship with my dad.

It was me minus the drinking. But the sad clown is me. Was me.

This movie is raw and wonderful and sad and funny and just truth. See this movie. It will rip your heart out and make you think.

The Grandmaster

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This movie was a beautiful, moving story about the man who became Bruce Lee’s master.

The series of seriously unfortunate events that leads to this man living in Hong Kong at the exact time that Bruce Lee happens to be a child and wanting to learn Kung Fu couldn’t have been planned by ANYONE.

This movie was so beautifully made. It was like watching a fine opera unfold before my eyes and seeing all this wonderful martial arts done so eloquently was wonderful.

See this movie. It is beautiful and brilliant.

Jobs

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The person who wrote this movie clearly HATES Steve Jobs with a passion.

This movie was such a one note debacle.

It started out really well. I thought that is was going to go really well. I was excited, but 20 minutes into the movie it went down the drain and never came out of it.

Ashton Kutcher was terrible and mean and I hated it.

Paranoia

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I had WAY high expectations for this movie. Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford? WHAT Happened?? This movie was so all over the place I got dizzy trying to keep it all in line.

It was the typical, I made you now I am going to take you down and squash you to bits movie. We have seen this before. But it was ALL mean. And Liam Hemsworth was TERRIBLE. Just flat and lame. Who cares if he goes down. I didn’t. It was just LAME.

Elysium

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I liked this movie, sort of. The special effects were tremendous. But the story was weak.

It is basically the Jesus story but told WAY in the future and Jesus is a bit of a jerk. But ultimately he does sacrifice himself for the good of all. His sins are the sins of man and he rises above them to save us all.

The bad guys are rich people who have no crime but apparently all LOCK their doors. Since the only way into a house is to break the glass on the doors. And in the future no one can get past a door that is locked. So it is good to know that some things will never change no matter how much technology we have. Doors will stop you.

It was entertaining enough but a 1/2 hour could have been cut out and I would have been happier with that. Matt Damon does a good job but there were too many bad guys. And I HATED that the good guy from District 9 was now a HORRIBLE person in this one. I know he is an actor and all that but I didn’t like it.

2 Guns

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Oh man. I was SOOOOO excited to see this movie.

Denzel and Mark together in one movie!!!!

WORST movie almost ever, but pretty close. The story was so horrible it was laughable. The script was a mess and the action was so unbelievably bad. EVERYONE is the bad guy in this movie. There is no one and nothing to root for. Just BAD!!

BOOOO!

The Wolverine

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Umm what more do I need to say other than Hugh Jackman gets pretty naked in this one?

OK a little more.

This movie was AMAZEBALLS!! It was more backstory on Wolverine, as if he weren’t awesome enough already, and one of the best action movies I have EVER seen.

It was non-stop action and real vulnerability from Wolverine that makes you love him even more. Hugh Jackman doesn’t disappoint at ALL and the story is excellent!

Girl Most Likely

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OK, full disclosure, I only saw this movie because Kristin Wiig is one of my all time hero’s so I really didn’t even care what it was about I was going to see it anyway.

But once again she showed why she is #1. This movie was wonderful and poignant. A touching family tale about deceit and  disappointment. This movie was funny and sad and made me reflect on my own life and realize that I have it pretty damn good. My family may be as crazy as hers but I have it pretty good.

Red 2

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This was a fantastic sequel!

I was a bit worried on how they would handle a follow up to the BRILLIANCE that was RED but they did it with ease. The cast was brilliant, especially Anthony Hopkins. He just brought it all to this role and you could tell he was just having the most fun.

There were twists and turns and so much humor. I LOVED this movie and had the best time watching it! I know you will too!