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- First reviewJanuary 8, 2016
- Last reviewJanuary 20, 2018
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3
Overrated Marvel movie
on May 19, 2017
Posted by: ejkousc
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The stakes folks are so low. The villains are so weak. The character arc Tony supposedly goes through is so fleeting (to be swiftly overrided by Avengers 2 of course). There is nothing imperative to this movie? I dont mind a bad movie being made but it does annoy the soul when fanboys and critics try to heap praise on this movie like its a real brave and bold "departure". There is nothing of lasting consequence to this movie. Its a lame follow up to what happened in Avengers. I truly resent this movie with a lot of my heart. Melodramatic much? Perhaps.
My Best Buy number: 2849909285
My Best Buy number: 2849909285
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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![The Great Gatsby [Blu-ray] [2013]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/d64653bb-ec36-4a75-bf0a-55085ee98ffd.jpg)
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5
Baz make more movies!
on May 19, 2017
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Baz Luhrmann takes too long for my taste. Make more movies sir! The frenetic modern pacing/music applied to a swinging twenties time is very cool to see. Very similar to what he pulled on Moulin Rogue. Leo is great as Gatsby (no pun) but he is always good. And Tobey Maguire also steals the movie (in my mind) even if most will find his performance thankless cause its so subdued. He's a mediocre man witnessing the drama and lifes of greater bigger people. That's the whole point!
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My Best Buy number: 2849909285
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2
What the heck?
on May 19, 2017
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It's like the filmmakers sat down and made a list of everything the audience wants to see. And then did the antonymous version of that. It looks gorgeous on a plasma screen and the giant white dudes (Engineers?) look creepy and cool but seriously what's up with this movie? Confusing. Weird. Detached. Uninvolved. Forgettable. And they're rewarding themselves by making more of these movies? Let it lie.
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My Best Buy number: 2849909285
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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4
No not trolling, Origins is the bomb
on May 19, 2017
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What is wrong with everybody? This movie is the bomb. For real. Way bettr than The Wolverine. It's a fine origin story. Some of the special fx are a bit shoddy but I dont understand the hate. It's not a transcendent experience but does the job. And as a simple prequel to X-Men it was the last thing to make sense before First Class came and completely and utterly confused the timeline in all sorts of gloriously chaotic ways! Oh and my man crush on Hugh Jackman reaches its peak with this film. He doesnt ever look better in the role than here.
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My Best Buy number: 2849909285
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![X-Men Trilogy [Blu-ray] [Includes Digital Copy]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/304b2327-370a-41e7-956a-951dd4939472.png)
This box set brings together the first three films in the franchise of movies based on the popular X-Men comic book series.
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5
Great unifying box set
on May 19, 2017
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I really like that they keep the old special features but seem to add new ones and retrospective ones on each new release to tie the trilogy together. These were back in the simpler days of X-Men before the XCU or whatever you want to call it got splintered off into a thousand directions (I dont think even the filmmakers now know the chronology anymore). And lets be real about one thing: X-Men The Last Stand is fine folks. Way underrated. Its a fine conclusion to this trilogy. Blame X-Men 1 for not setting a vast enough tone to accomodate the Dark Phoenix story. Last Stand did as best a job as it could given the parameters Bryan Singer stuck them in. Overall as a trilogy it makes for a moving cinematic experience.
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My Best Buy number: 2849909285
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3
Great premise, how did they under-deliver?
on May 19, 2017
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I wont take for granted that your average American knows how WW2 ended or how Hitler died. Depressing but true. Most might just be in suspense wondering if this assassination plot works out. So as a suspense film about assassinating the most notorious and threatening monster of the 20th century, it should have worked. It didnt. And its super hard to put the finger on why. Fine enough performances, everything feels right on the surface. Just something failed to click, to connect to make this a masterwork of the genre. Pardon my lack of articulation on this but that's how I feel.
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My Best Buy number: 2849909285
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2
Good special features but trainwreck
on May 19, 2017
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Sorry much love to the talent that made this movie but it is the weakest Die Hard film. And how is the unrated cut actually worse than the theatrical? Made weird arbitrary deletions like deleting Lucy McClane scene in the unrated version? Main villain's grand entrance he's tap dancing eating a carrot? And can we stop trying to make Jai Courtney happen? It aint happening. He has the charisma of this pencil I'm glancing at right now.
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My Best Buy number: 2849909285
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5
One of the greatest movies of the greatest decade
on May 19, 2017
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The 1970's is oft regarded as the greatest decade in American cinema and Taxi Driver is one of the reasons why. This movie is too gritty to really be a stunner on blu ray per se but just so far as a movie goes, you cant really have shuffled off this mortal coil without seeing this DeNiro/Scorsese masterpiece.
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My Best Buy number: 2849909285
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DEADPOOL / Blu-ray - Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool goes after the man who nearly destroyed his life.
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4
Not as obnoxious as I thought it would be
on May 19, 2017
Posted by: ejkousc
Verified Purchase:Yes
I bought this without seeing it first on the strength of reviews and because I obsessively own all the X-Men movies anyway. So I was gonna buy it even if I hated it. But to my delight the movie wasnt as obnoxiously snarky and self congratulatory as I thought (see Guardians of the Galaxy for THAT). The special features are quite good too. You know one minor gripe is I dont know if its a Best Buy thing but they slap these impossibly tough stickers wherever the heck they want on the box and god help you in pulling it off without damaging your cover art. Seriously guys I know you work in a factory and perhaps dont entirely care but try not to marr the product.
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My Best Buy number: 2849909285
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4
This movie has nerve!
on May 19, 2017
Posted by: ejkousc
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Again with the British accents. If you have a problem with understanding brits then put on the subtitles. And also try not to be easily triggered just enjoy the film. Even if you are religious, if you have a good sense of humor there's nothing really blasphemous about this movie. The movie is told from the perspective of your common idiot surrounding the events of Jesus in Jerusalem. You think there was a time when idiots didnt exist? I think not. And Brian is your classic literary idiot.
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My Best Buy number: 2849909285
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