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Monster's Ball (2002)
Monster's Ball (2002)
2002 | Drama, Mystery, Romance
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8.0 (4 Ratings)
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Halley berry (0 more)
This is a sad movie
I hadnt seen this movie idk why i think halley berry won a oscar.i thought it was a little far fetched with all the deaths but i thougjt what a weird pairing billy bob and halley but really works out.billy bob thorton always seems to suprise me.and again here .good movie .also on how people deal with greuf and loss..
  
The Final Destination (2009)
The Final Destination (2009)
2009 | Action, Horror
Follows the same Final destination formula but it seems less impressive this time round. The deaths are not quite as creative as the other films on the whole and some of the effects used just don't fit in with the rest of the film. Probably put in for the 3D cinema release. Still ok for fans of the first 3, but probably the weakest overall for me.
  
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The Penelopiad
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood | 2005 | Fiction & Poetry
9.0 (5 Ratings)
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"I love Margaret Atwood's sequence, “The Penelopiad,” which shows us a side of Penelope that is always veiled in Homer. Atwood's Penelope struggles with the knowledge that she herself colluded with the deaths of the slave women, hanged by her son Telemachus. The theme of women's collusion with the abuse of women is an important theme, essential in our age of intersectional feminism and #MeToo."

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Final Destination 2 (2003)
Final Destination 2 (2003)
2003 | Horror
The deaths up the ante to such ludicrously satisfying levels - the double-whammy of the pipe forehead impaling and the dude getting sliced to pieces by the barbed wire fence less than a minute apart from one another is so righteous - but the talking stuff between them is pure radio static, empty space in comparison to the first one which had weaker + less deaths but actually semi-intriguing writing. This opens with the potential to be a cross-examination of the different ways in which we all react to death, but instead we get junk acting and shit characters doing a lesser repeat of the first film with absolutely zero emotional weight. But really who cares, Tony Todd comes back and that lady got her head cut off by an elevator. Watching these practical effect dummies get tossed around in hilariously explosive vehicle wrecks, blowing up, getting smashed, burning, and getting skewered is a blast even with the occasional spurt of CGI blood from time to time. Rory the cokehead is the clear MVP here, his sincerely funny (and... get this, not forced) comedic relief along with the deeply comedic barbeque ending is the only time this movie even attempts to have any fun outside of the no-joke genius domino-effect deaths even when Ellis' direction is as dull as always.