Movie What's the last movie you saw? (4)

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Seven Pounds- Was on TV last night, i think this movie had delusions of grandeur and should have been fantastic but in the end its just really hard to feel anything for Will Smiths character inspite of him being very good in it. Its too preachy for my liking as well. It's weird it just seems to be missing something.
 

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Elizabeth (1997) - One that I've kind of avoided simply because this type of movie doesn't really interest me. But as far as a period dramas go, it's very thrilling. Lots of deceit and backstabbing to keep the average movie-watcher intrigued. Moves swiftly and has a great cast doing great work. 8/10

The Conjuring (2013) - Really solid recent horror movie. I'm no horror fan, but I like when it's done like this. Forget the gore and constant scares and death. Careful and planned plotting with building tension to an explosive finale; that's how you do it. 8/10
 

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Watched The Hunter last night. An Australian movie with Willem Defoe, Sam Neill and Frances O'Connor about a guy tracking a Tasmanian Tiger. It was well shot but kind of a strange one. I enjoyed the sights and sounds of the Aussie wilderness though.
 

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Prisoners - For all its attempts at complexity I found this torture thriller lacked something. I liked the parallels that the characters represented to different aspects American culture and beliefs. Jackman comes closest to shouldering the movie, without ever seriously threatening to make it work. Still, he makes a better fist of his role than Gyllenhaal whose character seemed more like an exercise in acting, rather than a real person. The last, convoluted hour is full of plot holes and random thriller signifiers – cases of snakes, child mannequins, scribbled maps of insoluble mazes.

This film is trying to be Art, but in fact it is just more pulp fiction. A movie that leaves you only talking about the acting performances, rather than the stark storyline of moral decay in modern society that it tries to portray. The best I can say about it was that it was solid, but not great. Not one I'd ever want to watch again. 6/10
 
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