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- First reviewDecember 17, 2014
- Last reviewDecember 10, 2017
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![The Revenant [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray] [SteelBook] [2015]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/304b2327-370a-41e7-956a-951dd4939472.png)
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Best movie of 2015
on November 7, 2016
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My pick so far for the best movie of 2015 that I've seen. Just an amazing experience. Inarritu's best movie since Amores Perros. His movies have all been sort of a drag since then, but The Revenant never becomes repressively bleak like some of his other movies. Dicaprio gives perhaps his best performance here, with little dialogue and truthfully not a very deeply written character, but it doesn't matter, I was all in with him throughout the movie. The Revenant really is an experience, and that's something you can usually only hope for with most movies. Beautifully shot (wouldn't mind at all Lubezki winning Cinematography for a 3rd straight time), with some "best scenes of 2015" quality moments (the opening, the bear scene, at least one or two others). Tom Hardy is also really good. An intensely moving film.
In terms of Oscars, Inarritu is doing it all backwards, you're supposed to lose BP and director with your best film (The Revenant), and then the Academy gives the award to you for a lesser work (Birdman).
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JOY is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce. Allies become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and outside the family, as Joy's inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces. Jennifer Lawrence stars, with Robert de Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd, and Virginia Madsen. Like David O. Russell's previous films, Joy defies genre to tell a story of family, loyalty, and love.
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Left field entry from Russell
on November 7, 2016
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Well, I can at least say it turned out better than I was expecting. The title is not aptly named, as the movie conveys mostly the the opposite feeling (yes I know it's her name). Solid movie for not the most interesting of stories. David O Russell seems to have a real fascination with families that drag down his main characters.
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Better than expected
on November 7, 2016
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Another of the YA adaptations that turned out better than I was expecting. I think the way it presents is setup is pretty decent. Some of the characters could have been given a little more I think, but with movies like this, it's hard to make full characters out of people who basically all have amnesia. The ending leaves more questions than answers (setting up for the obvious sequel), but overall I think The Maze Runner was solidly made and put together.
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Ridley Scott in top form
on November 7, 2016
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Great script, assured direction from hit-or-miss Ridley Scott, and a really good central performance from Matt Damon. Has the combination of crowd pleasing along with artistic merit to perhaps win the Best Picture Oscar. While not my favorite of the year so far, I can see it being in the higher section of my top 10 when I've seen most of the major 2015 releases.
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![Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story [Blu-ray] [1993]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/e451a2a9-93ed-4a7b-9540-145a1df0fd6d.jpg)
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Good biopic
on July 15, 2016
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This was my true introduction to Bruce Lee when I was a kid, as I hadn't seen any of his films yet.
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Solid if largely overhyped horror movie
on July 15, 2016
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Solid horror movie, but is still basically The Ring with intercourse switched in for video tapes. It's not some all-time classic that some reviewers are trying to say it is. I think there's such a dearth of good horror movies (and especially great ones) that when one comes out that is "merely" good nowadays, it gets overpraised due to such low competition. Still a very worthy effort.
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Very good Coen Bros. comedy
on July 15, 2016
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Hilarious if uneven comedy. A lovely ode to cinema and specifically the old Hollywood studio system. I loved all of the stuff dealing with different films being made. I think the stuff with Brolin was a little heavier than it needed to be, but I guess those were the things the Coens wanted to explore the most. I think the movie's greatest weakness is that we never get enough of any one character (besides maybe Brolin's), I would have liked to see Tatum or Johansson or Fiennes or McDormand or Clooney or even perhaps the standout performance of Alden Ehrenreich as Hobie Doyle get more screen time. Actually, never mind about Fiennes; his scene with Ehrenreich is already in my mind classic, and I'm pretty sure will stay with me as among the best comedy moments of the year. I look forward to enjoying this even more on a rewatch; almost every Coen Brothers' movie gets even better after the first watch.
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![The Equalizer [Blu-ray] [SteelBook] [Only @ Best Buy] [2014]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/d61d524c-2295-4e95-a05e-5f43943ae6e0.jpg)
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Decent Denzel movie
on July 15, 2016
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Solid Denzel Washington actioner. Kind of a retread of Man on Fire, but still entertaining and solid.
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![The Walk [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray] [2015]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/9877eedf-46fb-4a33-95c4-9e85f7e87cad.jpg)
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Solid movie
on July 15, 2016
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It's kind of difficult to ascertain how much The Walk works for me completely as its own film, because I saw the doc Man on Wire kind of recently and it's stayed enough in my head to influence how I see The Walk quite a bit. Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives a very good performance, it's a little weird seeing him with his Pepe Le Pew sounding accent (and that's not a dig at him, as that's pretty much how the real Philippe sounded, at least in Man on Wire). The problem is that The Walk mostly feels like a live action reenactment of Man on Wire, and not its own film. That's totally my own bias, though. I imagine it works better for people who have not seen the doc, or at least don't have it as freshly in their minds as I did. Phillipe's relationships with his "team" were unfortunately underwritten, and Ben Kingsley's character felt like plot device and not an actual character. Otherwise I mostly enjoyed The Walk.
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Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, and Winner of two, including Best Director for John Ford, THE GRAPES OF WRATH comes to Blu-ray for the first time! This American classic based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows Tom Joad (Henry Fonda in an Oscar-Nominated role) and his family as they escape the Depression-era Oklahoma dust bowls for the promised land of California. But the arduous trip and harsh living conditions offer little hope, and family unity proves as daunting a challenge as any other they face.
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Great classic
on July 10, 2016
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One of the best literary adaptations ever, Fonda is iconic.
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