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The NeverEnding Story (1984)

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20100630: The NeverEnding Story reminded me a little of the 80's movie Labyrinth (1986) . Like Labyrinth , this movie presented me, t...
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Thomas Newman

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

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20100629: I'm not sure if the book was only set in the past or if like the movie, switched between the past and present, but I did read...
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Donnie Brasco (1997)

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20100627: Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. Donnie Brasco / Joseph D. Pistone (Johnny Depp) Overall, this was a great movie, but I will also...
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Cat Ballou (1965)

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20100626: Why can't all movies be like this one? I love it. Simple as that. I will elaborate. This movie is witty, charming, and has ...
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The Firm (1993)

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20100626: Overall, the movie was good. I suppose having the movie based on a John Grisham novel helps. Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) In ...
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K-PAX (2001)

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20100625: A little into the movie, I pinned this one to being close in plot to Don Juan DeMarco. The difference in the two is that K-PAX ta...
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Sin City (2005)

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Overview: A film adaptation of some stories from Frank Miller's Sin City, a neo-noir comic series. 20100625: I had read one of the st...
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

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20100625: I love the humor. Example: Italian? Yes. No. Yes. I love Italian, and so do you. Yes. I love the playful direction of this movie...
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Star Trek

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

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Kirk and Bones. 20100625: I didn't like this as much as Star Trek (2009) . Mainly, because it starts off unfamiliar, as I haven...
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The King and I (1956)

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20100624: Just like in West Side Story , you have foreigners who don't properly sound foreign. Overlooking this fact, then you get as g...
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The Interpreter (2005)

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20100623: Overall, I enjoyed this movie more than I enjoyed Law Abiding Citizen . This movie had a believable sequence of events. It was al...
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Harold and Maude (1971)

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20100623: What a beautiful movie about living life. I love it. The ending is appropriate; I won't say more than that. The only scene I ...
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Gosford Park (2001)

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20100622: This was a strange movie and I managed to sit and watch about one and a half hours of conversations before something interesting ...
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

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20100622: What a collection of actors. A good small laugh here and there. I like the spoofs of West Side Story. After reading the productio...
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)

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20100621: I really liked this movie. You don't know much about the protagonist's motives, but what you get is his attitude. He neve...
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romance

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

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20100621: Michael Cera and Kat Dennings were a good mix. Part of why I like this movie is due to the overall genre. I loved Juno (2007) , ...
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The Karate Kid (2010)

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20100619: The most surprising thing about this movie is all the funny lines. I think there must have been around twenty funny lines in the ...
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Edge of Darkness (2010)

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20100618: This movie has an enjoyable amount of action. But it's not purely an action movie. I liked the character Jedburgh. I watc...
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

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20100617: This is a hilarious and great movie. Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) Jonah Hill's role in this movie wasn't as great as...
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