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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Bad Moms (2016) in Movies

Sep 12, 2017  
Bad Moms (2016)
Bad Moms (2016)
2016 | Comedy
6
7.6 (30 Ratings)
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Usual chaotic comedy
As with a lot of these American comedies, it's brash, over the top and totally in your face, with a dollop of moral ethics. A mother, stretched to the limits, decides to let go of being perfect and do what she would rather do. She is judged as a result by other mothers, insecure with their own issues of attempting to reach perfection. It's a little silly, and I switched off engaging after a while.

The usual Hollywood C-rate comedy.
  
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Tim Stubbs (9 KP) rated Camp X-Ray (2014) in Movies

Apr 4, 2018  
Camp X-Ray (2014)
Camp X-Ray (2014)
2014 | Drama, War
8
7.5 (2 Ratings)
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The subject matter is harsh but the story is very well executed. Acting performances stand out. This is prokative cinema at it's best, Even the soundtrack is deep - check out The Antlers' song, Kettering. (0 more)
Not much. (0 more)
Wow!
I rate this film highly. It makes you question your own moral compass. It deals with such provocative subject matter is such a provocative way. It's ultimately a sad indictment of the fact man can't live in peace with man but, in the end, it's an uplifting experience.
  
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Yann Gonzalez recommended Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) in Movies (curated)

 
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
1974 | Drama, Romance
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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"To start with, a unique film from Scorsese’s career, rediscovered recently, and a feminist melodrama with constant emotion. The humanity that transpires within the slightest exchange, the slightest look between actors (a beautiful group led by Ellen Burstyn) can almost be seen as vestiges from another time – contemporary cinema having lost (momentarily?) this sort of innate grace, the pleasure of acting, of crying and living in front of a camera. Today’s “naturalism” seems quite faded when one sees a film of this moral fiber."

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Sam (228 KP) rated Trolls World Tour (2019) in Movies

May 28, 2020  
Trolls World Tour (2019)
Trolls World Tour (2019)
2019 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy
6
6.7 (19 Ratings)
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Good moral message (1 more)
Cool images and scene
Weird twisted music (0 more)
Kinda Cool Kinda Weird
The storyline was kind of thrown together but it makes for a happy kids movie with upbeat music and a happy message at the end. Good for entertaining the kids but not if you want to watch it ugh yourself. All in all the music was a little overdone but the actual film was cool to watch, just not something I wanted to sit there and pay attention to for another two hours.
  
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Rob P (30 KP) rated Best Served Cold in Books

Jan 22, 2019  
Best Served Cold
Best Served Cold
Joe Abercrombie | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry
9
9.3 (4 Ratings)
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Morally taxing (2 more)
Satisfying story line
Exploration of side characters from the Abercrombie "First Law" universe
Brutal in places (although I'm fine with that) (1 more)
Not for the fainthearted
Best Served Cold
If you couldn't tell from the title, this is all about the revenge motif. If you've read Abercrombie, the savagery of the opening chapter (and plenty of others) should not bother you by this point, but having said that there were moments in this even I winced at.

This standalone novel takes place in Abercrombie's universe established in the "First Law" trilogy, and much like other offerings (The Heroes, Red Country) it's charms for me lie in the characters that play only a fleeting part in the previous books. Seeing where they are from and how they operate is so satisfying to me as a reader.

The very next facet of this read that made it so excellent for me, is theme of moral bankruptcy. At the start, Murcatto is a leader, betrayed and left so horribly injured that it sets a moral precedent. She sets out to kill the seven men who carried this out (one of which is a despot who looks to name himself King of Styria), and as they fall, one by one, more and more of the moral right she has is chipped away and spent, having to turn her hand to more and more depraved acts, associate with lower and lower people, and be part of more and more hideous scenarios in order to exact her justice.

If you've had the pleasure of reading the First Law trilogy, this is the book to start with next, it then leads brilliantly into the Heroes, and most recently Red Country.

Overall, a savage, visceral, compelling read.

- Rob