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Billy Bathgate (1991)
Billy Bathgate (1991)
1991 | Drama
Little known gangster film similar in ways to Casino, Goodfellas set in the 1930's. Has a strong cast including Bruce Willis and Nicole Kidman.
  
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Brian Fallon recommended track Highway 61 by Bob Dylan in Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan in Music (curated)

 
Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
1965 | Folk, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
7.8 (5 Ratings)
Album Favorite

Highway 61 by Bob Dylan

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"I love Highway 61 by Dylan and the first three Bruce records are great. I absorb that stuff like a sponge, I just love it"

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Frank Black recommended Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen in Music (curated)

 
Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
1982 | Folk, Singer-Songwriter
7.6 (5 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I have a daughter who is six next week. I played her some Bruce Springsteen. She's really into sad songs. I played her 'The River' and she really locked into that song [Black suddenly starts singing, doing an amazing impression of The Boss]. She asked: ‘Is this a sad song? I like the sad songs.’ She really likes Bruce Springsteen. I really liked this record, and I downloaded it for our kitchen listening. I really got into some of the other tracks. 'State Trooper' is so great, so minimalist. It’s fucking two chords and a few words. It’s the most and the best example of that Bruce Springsteen song where he’s the character of a down and out desperate guy. And it isn't going to get any better. I’ve got into listening to Suicide. I didn’t realise that Bruce Springsteen covered a Suicide song. It made sense he’d get into the vibe of the song. It’s a song called 'Dream Baby Dream'. Suicide are so good at the psycho-rock’n’roll-landscape. Even though Bruce is not trying to be ironic, I think that Bruce Springsteen is trying to retain some primal instincts while being a modern guy on the street with a story to tell. Bruce Springsteen gets a lot of bad press because people like his songs so much. I’m OK when someone I really like does something I’m not totally into. I’m not worried. I still have the records I really love. If they’re really going to go to the top of the mountain, they can’t be there all the time."

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Dear Sister (Sweet Valley High, #7)
Dear Sister (Sweet Valley High, #7)
Francine Pascal | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry
4
5.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Ahhh, the Paper Cup Seduction Technique. Reading this book at 30 is a bit horrifying, because the last bit features Bruce trying to rape a drunk Elizabeth. Yeah. Of course, the book never uses the word "rape", but that's what happens.
Even worse? Nobody calls the police. Since Elizabeth had been behaving in a flirtatious manner, I guess they thought Bruce should get off scot-free.


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Cop Out (2010)
Cop Out (2010)
2010 | Comedy
5
5.7 (7 Ratings)
Movie Rating
OAP jump street
You can find all the things encountered in this movie done better and funnier. The Other Other guys or 21 Crap Street. Bruce Willis plays Bruce Willis often in his bald and on edge style, I never know if that's a good thing but in this case I am going with bad like the flow of the movie.

Once in a lifetime viewing, thankfully
  
Can't Stop The Music (1980)
Can't Stop The Music (1980)
1980 | Biography, Comedy, Musical
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I love musicals, and so one that features the Village People AND Bruce Jenner is my kind of movie. Bruce didn’t do much else, but where can you go from there? It’s like the guy who wrote the Bible, where are you going to go? Margaret Mitchell had the good taste to get hit by a car. She knew she could never top Gone with the Wind."

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Tony Jaa recommended Way of the Dragon (1972) in Movies (curated)

 
Way of the Dragon (1972)
Way of the Dragon (1972)
1972 | Action, International
8.5 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris are the main characters and you can find perfect kung fu fighting in this movie. They are my two favorite kung fu actors."

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Birth of the Dragon (2016)
Birth of the Dragon (2016)
2016 | Drama
5
4.7 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
At first I was curious about the movie that was meant to be about Bruce Lee titled Birth of the Dragon. I love Bruce Lee. I grew up watching his movies, I watched episodes of The Green Hornet, and I voraciously read everything I could about him. One of my titos (that's Tagalog for uncle) told me about how he met Bruce Lee before and how kind he was. I am Filipino and white so I grew up with both these cultures and I'm grateful for it. My family has all kinds of people from all over and all walks of life and I love them dearly. When I would visit my Filipino family I loved that we would often gather round together on the couch with popcorn and snacks and watch Bruce Lee movies. This was special and it's one of my favorite memories from my childhood. I would watch Kung Fu Saturday when I was a kid and I would be excited when they would feature a Bruce Lee movie. My grandparents weren't really into it, but they would watch with me and my brother Rob sometimes.
I will always love Bruce Lee and his movies. He was an incredible person and so talented. Watching his movies was a huge part of my childhood and when I see that there's a Bruce Lee movie on, I always watch it.

I didn't know anything about Birth of the Dragon. There was a trailer that looked interesting. Then I kept hearing negative things about the film such as it's racist towards Asians and they made Bruce Lee the secondary character yet claimed it was a biopic about him. Then I read this: http://www.asamnews.com/2016/09/29/birth-of-the-dragon-biopic-enrages-bruce-lee-fans-buries-asians-in-favor-of-a-white-guy/




Birth of the Dragon is disappointing to me for this. It IS insulting to Asians and if we're really being brutally honest, it IS insulting not only to Bruce Lee, but to his family and friends who loved him. I don't understand making the white guy the main character when this was shopped as a Bruce Lee biopic. On top of this, it seems they made Bruce Lee appear to be this very one sided character who was just arrogant and stupid and it's simply not true. While Lee himself owned up to being foolish when he was younger, he was never stupid. Bruce Lee thought about each and every thing he did and in his movies there was always a political theme and the ideas expressed were intricate and well thought out. They provoked ideas and discussions as well as entertained. Read any of his books on martial arts and you see a deep philosophy and calm practicality to his teachings that show someone who was an incredibly thoughtful person.

The Filipino kid in me is extremely disappointed by this and a little angry too because Bruce Lee is one of my heroes and I'm disgusted by what appears to be blatantly anti-Asian propaganda in a film that was being sold as a biopic about him. This is irresponsible and Asian people have every right to be angry about this because once again Hollywood is shoving us into the background and telling us we're not as important because we're not white. I loved Bruce Lee because he was amazing and I loved that there was an Asian person who was the main character in his movies; someone like me and my brothers and my sister. That meant something to me and it still does. The people who made this movie should apologize for the horrible lie they told about this being a biopic about Bruce Lee and at least be honest about what it really is a film stating that white people are better than us. We'll never get that apology of course because these are the kinds of people who run Hollywood and have for years. I do know that I for one will not see this film and I will watch Bruce Lee's movies and celebrate the amazing person he was.
  
Looper (2012)
Looper (2012)
2012 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt (0 more)
Science behind time travel a bit sketchy according to boyfriend (0 more)
You Spin Me Right Round
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I don’t have time for a full review so here’s an abbreviated one. It was good. You should see it. Acting was awesome. Plot was engaging. Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks weird with Bruce Willis nose. Dystopian society scenes were fascinating. Emily Blunt is a total babe.
  
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Evil Dead (1981)
1981 | Horror
Evil dead one of the best horror movies of the 1980s made a star of Bruce canpbell as ash spawned two sequels a remake and a TV show groovy