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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Need For Speed (2014) in Movies

Jun 30, 2019  
Need For Speed (2014)
Need For Speed (2014)
2014 | Action
3
5.0 (7 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Why?
No one has seen this movie. It waste a good cast like aaron paul and micheal keaton.

Anethor movie based off of a video game. When will hollywood learn that you cant turn a video game into a movie.

All movies based off of video games, have failed. This is one of them.
  
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LeftSideCut (3778 KP) Jul 1, 2019

Detective Pikachu is pretty great
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T Bone Burnett recommended Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Laurie Johnson in Music (curated)

 
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Laurie Johnson
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Laurie Johnson
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"I liked My Fair Lady, though I thought Dr. Strangelove was a much more adventurous, subversive film that year, and should have won the Academy Award — listen to me talking like a Hollywood insider — but I loved that musical. So it beat Dr. Strangelove which is one of the most important films ever to me."

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1) in Books

Jul 25, 2017  
Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1)
Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1)
Lee Child | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
4
8.2 (17 Ratings)
Book Rating
A little bit of Hollywood machismo with flaky plot
As interesting as this story began, the main character turned out to be the usual Hollywood leading man where he does all the work, is invincible and everyone else are either damsels in distress or subservient admirers.

While the most intriguing part was the crux of the motive which was well researched and explained, it was brushed aside too quickly and then the Bond-like action completely took over the plot.

The book was written too much like it was going to be made into a movie - which it did - with a bonehead like Tom Cruise acting as the main man - which he is. Better to watch the film than read the action.
  
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Sarah (7798 KP) Jan 2, 2018

You should try reading all of them. I made that my mission as at the very least they're quick easy reads, but boy was that a mistake. They're all so formulaic and predictable, and instantly forgettable.
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) Jan 2, 2018

@Sarah serious kudos to you for reading them all!
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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) shared own list

Nov 16, 2017
You can blame the huge success of Fargo for this. Hollywood, even before that, had been moving more and more to exploiting movie properties on the small screen. But since Fargo married up critical acclaim to a good audience? All bets are off.

Here is a list of movie-to-TV projects currently in differing stages of production...
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Now To Love: Films Being Made into TV Shows

These epic movies are getting a small-screen spin-off, so you can now binge watch your favourite films to your heart's delight.

Watchmen (2009)

Watchmen (2009)

7.1 (47 Ratings) Rate It

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In an alternate 1985 America, costumed superheroes are part of everyday life. When one of his former...

superhero scifi dark crime
True Lies (1994)

True Lies (1994)

7.8 (20 Ratings) Rate It

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An international secret agent has to deal with terrorists smuggling weapons into the United States...

Divergent (2014)

Divergent (2014)

6.6 (31 Ratings) Rate It

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Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) lives in a futuristic world in which society is divided into five...

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Rickstrong23 (216 KP) rated This Is Us - Season 1 in TV

Jan 8, 2018  
This Is Us - Season 1
This Is Us - Season 1
2016 | Drama
9
9.4 (22 Ratings)
TV Season Rating
Family drama conedy (0 more)
Someone turned me on to this show.its a amazing family drama .ive watched 6 episodes back to back witch i do not recomend unless you can handel it emotionally.i was a wreck and homesick lol .great writing and charcters are awesome from the start.with cameos of 80s stars and real hollywood types.love it
  
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Andy K (10821 KP) rated All About Eve (1950) in Movies

Mar 5, 2018  
All About Eve (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
1950 | Classics, Comedy, Drama
10
9.0 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
A classic
You see so many influences on other films in this 1950 classic tale of rising and falling stardom in Hollywood and the constant attention toward youth.

Maybe not as visually interesting as other films of the period like Citizen Kane or Sunset Boulevard. The screenplay, characters and acting are enough to carry this film through.
  
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Irvine Welsh recommended Pimp: The Story of My Life in Books (curated)

 
Pimp: The Story of My Life
Pimp: The Story of My Life
Iceberg Slim, Irvine Welsh | 2009 | Biography
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This biography, written with a novelist’s stylization, was an incendiary moment in western culture. Ironically, it became the weapon that would win the cultural wars for dispossessed black, urban America. It’s impossible to think of what street culture of white Hollywood would look like without it. Slim is the most influential writer in English since Shakespeare."

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Kiernan Shipka recommended The Wizard of Oz (1939) in Movies (curated)

 
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
1939 | Fantasy, Musical
8.4 (117 Ratings)
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"Well, the first movie I ever saw was Wizard of Oz, and that was when I kind of realized that movies — almost in a way — existed, that this other world of movies could be my playground too, and that was definitely probably the movie that fascinated me and entranced me with, hence, Hollywood. Not to be cheesy about it."

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Haskell Wexler recommended Paisan (Paisà) (1948) in Movies (curated)

 
Paisan (Paisà) (1948)
Paisan (Paisà) (1948)
1948 | International, Classics, Comedy
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"Early on, surprisingly enough, Italian cinema broke the Hollywood barrier by making simple, down-to-earth stories. Most of the films were made without live sound but dubbed later by experts. It meant that noisy, unblimped cameras would give flexibility to image-making. Stories like Bicycle Thieves, Rome Open City, and Paisan all fell into that category."

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Laura Mulvey recommended Touki Bouki (1973) in Movies (curated)

 
Touki Bouki (1973)
Touki Bouki (1973)
1973 | Drama
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"There were a number of key films that taught me that great and startling cinema could come from outside Europe and away from Hollywood. I found Touki bouki (with its anarchic, vigorous style, brilliant colors and sounds, and charismatic heroine) completely surprising when I first saw it—and, more generally, it stands for the eye-opening cinema of Senegal."

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