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Yea, Witness is awesome to say the least.



Far more awesome than Midnight in Paris that I for some reason watch late Friday night. I like Woody Allen's stuff, but this just seemed short on a lot of things.
 

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Yea, Witness is awesome to say the least.



Far more awesome than Midnight in Paris that I for some reason watch late Friday night. I like Woody Allen's stuff, but this just seemed short on a lot of things.



i really liked midnight in Paris. but Im a big fan of Wilson and his nasel voice. maybe i liked it also because i get boners when artists are portraid in film.



what exactly didn't you like?
 

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i really liked midnight in Paris. but Im a big fan of Wilson and his nasel voice. maybe i liked it also because i get boners when artists are portraid in film.



what exactly didn't you like?



Besides the thought of you with a boner?
 

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i really liked midnight in Paris. but Im a big fan of Wilson and his nasel voice. maybe i liked it also because i get boners when artists are portraid in film.



what exactly didn't you like?





The premise and point of the movie are good, I just feel like the story outside of him travelling back in time was rushed into the move as a night before the release addition. Some of it kind of detracted and extended the already short movie, IMO. I do think the actors who play Picasso and Hemmingway were well casted. Wilson was also a good cast pick for the soul seeking whimsical author.
 

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I did a search for witness on my dvr to record them, and an old one came up from years ago so I recorded that too. I think it's the original series which this kind of follows. It was good, it was called Witness: Yung's story or something like that. It was about a kid in the Thailand or Philippines who got caught trafficking 42 grams of heroin which is an automatic death sentence there for anything over 15. It was about the struggle to get him reduced to a life sentence based on international law and such... It was on a channel I never watch because it was on demand, but guess who aired it originally... Aljadezra... or however you spell it, yep, that nasty propaganda network... /sarcasm... anywho, then I watched Libya and it was heart wrenching, and then I watched Jauarez which was bad too but for some reason not as bad as Libya. The worst part of the Juarez one was hearing the story about the guys dad. I'm hoping to catch the South Sudan one because it looks very interesting with the Kony story. (side note: Luol Deng is from South Sudan and is being introduce as such by the Bulls this year because he said if it get's even one person interested enough to google what south sudan is, they just won their independence, than it is worth it). There is one more and 4 total that I hope to get, I can't remember what it is though.
 

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Expendables 2 - Meh, wait for it on cable (* 1/2)

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Meh, wait for it on cable (**)

The Campaign - I really liked this, very funny, had some good laughs, worth a look (***1/2)
 

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The Raven - steaming pile of hot shit. Lots of chases and action, too bad you can't see it because it was filmed in the dark. When's the last time John Cusack was in a decent film? Thin Red Line? The Grifters maybe?
 

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Lincoln.

Amazing film. Brilliantly acted.

9.5/10



Yes, it's that good.
 

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It's number 1 on my list to see right now. Argo is close behind.
 

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I'm always hesitant on movies like that and Argo, mainly because of how they may decide to distort history for the sake of making a better film or making it "their own". To me, with those type of movies, the acting and pretty much every aspect of film making is secondary to getting history right/accurate.
 

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I'm always hesitant on movies like that and Argo, mainly because of how they may decide to distort history for the sake of making a better film or making it "their own". To me, with those type of movies, the acting and pretty much every aspect of film making is secondary to getting history right/accurate.



I think with movies like Lincoln if you are worried about the historical story one has to sit back and watch one of the greatest actors of the modern screen do his job. I haven't seen it yet but I am less interested in the story and mainly interested in watching Daniel Day Lewis act his ass off like he always does. I'll watch anything that man does and it will draw me to a film.
 

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You no like the DDL?

Most of the film people I know are giving Lincoln high marks, and giving DDL higher marks.

I saw it with a Civil War buff, and he was highly impressed at the attention to historic accuracy.

Most of the film is the debate to pass the 13th amendment, so people wanting Civil War battles will be disappointed. Very little on the war (in terms of literal coverage) except the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse (which was not shot on location).
 

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No I've liked a lot of the movies he's in, hell his character in "There Will Be Blood" may be one of my favorite characters of all time in films, and that's all a credit to how great an actor he is. It's just different for me when it comes to movies like "Lincoln" or "Argo", where again, to me, getting history right is what I'm looking for. That's not saying they didn't, I haven't seen it, it's just I'm always hesitant, no matter how many raving reviews movies like that get.
 

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I think with movies like Lincoln if you are worried about the historical story one has to sit back and watch one of the greatest actors of the modern screen do his job. I haven't seen it yet but I am less interested in the story and mainly interested in watching Daniel Day Lewis act his ass off like he always does. I'll watch anything that man does and it will draw me to a film.



Damn skippy! Even going all the way to earliest years and seeing him inhabit a supporting role like Cecil in A Room with A View to turning around and in the same year doing the co-lead in My Beautiful Laundrette---wildly different ends of the character spectrum and both completely convincing and awesomely acted. He is one acting ass motherfucker. . .though he was horribly, horribly miscast in Nine and that was probably the only time I have ever not "bought" him in a role or thought he was good.
 

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