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99 Ways to Die in the Movies

The Kobal Collection

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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There have been many spectacular, tragic, shocking and downright gruesome deaths in Hollywood films...

Acting: A Modern History of Filmmaking

Claudia Springer and Julie Levinson

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Screen acting is generally considered in terms of the on-screen performance, which is actually the...

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

6.8 (13 Ratings) Rate It

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Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in Nora Ephron's wonderfully romantic comedy about two people drawn...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Lone Ranger (2013) in Movies

Feb 12, 2021

The Lone Ranger (2013)

2013 | Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Western

6.0

(25 Ratings)

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Famous box-office bomb is, as usual, not actually as bad as all that, just absurdly overblown for what should really have mid-budget genre movie written all over it. Origin story for the famous pulp western character; what makes the film curious (and quite interesting) is the way that it tries to combine different styles and tones - pulp and revisionist western elements rub up against the same kind of offbeat comic fantasy Verbinski and Depp had more success with elsewhere. This doesn't really work, but it's an undeniably curious mix.

Still, curious only takes you so far, and this is unlikely to be a film that lingers in most peoples' memory, despite a decent cast and good production values. Earns another point for the last twenty minutes, which are a genuinely impressive piece of Hollywood blockbuster bombast and spectacle. The rest could be worse, but could certainly be better, too.

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Ana Lily Amirpour recommended Mulholland Drive (2001) in Movies (curated)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

2001 | Documentary, Drama, Mystery

8.3

(15 Ratings)

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"I was in film school when I first saw this film. I didn't understand it. Or, more specifically, I watched it and then couldn't grasp what had happened in any linear sense. I had conversations with film school friends about it, but I just couldn't really remember anything except a girl-on-girl love scene and an audition. I watched it twenty-two times this way, not really remembering. Then one night, on an MDMA comedown, I couldn't sleep and it was 8:00 a.m. and the movie was coming on. And suddenly I was able to process every second. It's interesting, because a fever dream is a hard thing to grasp, and I like Lynch's films because they induce these dreams. That morning I was living a fever dream, so the film was suddenly apparent. And it's such a complete portrait of the agony of Hollywood."

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