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The Town (2010) directed by Ben Affleck.. One of my favorite bank robbery movies, What About You?
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I also liked everyone's performance in this movie. Personally, I always believed that Affleck was better as a director than he was as an actor, but he was also very good in this movie.
Also, did you like the ending of the movie?
I mean, Claire was so angry and devastated after she found out that Doug was one of the people who robbed her bank, terrorized her, and then manipulated her into keeping her from talking to the FBI, but she seemed to forget everything and forgave him when he went to her in the garden, and then she helped him to escape from the FBI in the end, after everything he did. Isn't Claire is considered an accomplice to a criminal in the end, and that Doug got away with it after all of this with her help? Why did she even help him?
What do you think?
Top Comment: The amount of times I’ve watched this on tnt at work is an unhealthy amount
Pixar film set in the fictional town of Santa Cecilia NYT Crossword Clue
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Top Comment: Pixar film set in the fictional town of Santa Cecilia NYT Crossword Clue - If you’re having trouble with any of the clues in today’s NYT Crossword...
Looking to develop some film. Any places in town?
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I have some 35mm film that I would like to get developed. I’m afraid my only option is Walgreens and I believe they outsource for that now.
Any other places in or near town that I can stop by?
Top Comment: There used to be a great shop on college near prospect. I've heard The Photo Touch in Loveland is good. And then Mike's Camera in Boulder
Syria hosts Jackie Chan film shoot in a town devastated & depopulated by Assad. "Building studios similar to these areas is very expensive, so these areas are considered as low-cost studios." Let this sink
Main Post: Syria hosts Jackie Chan film shoot in a town devastated & depopulated by Assad. "Building studios similar to these areas is very expensive, so these areas are considered as low-cost studios." Let this sink
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"It takes the perspective of diplomats who are Communist Party members, who braved a hail of bullets in a war-torn country and safely brought all Chinese compatriots onto the country's warship unscathed"
Chinese propaganda is the cringiest thing that ever existed
Russian town says bleak film depiction (in Leviathan) went heavy on the vodka
Main Post: Russian town says bleak film depiction (in Leviathan) went heavy on the vodka
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russia has been heavy on the vodka for about 1000 years
A clip from the film Twin Town with Keith Allen playing a strange character. This film is one of few 'Welsh' films and I hear and see most of my hometown in it.
Main Post: A clip from the film Twin Town with Keith Allen playing a strange character. This film is one of few 'Welsh' films and I hear and see most of my hometown in it.
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Its the only welsh film i know of
35mm film photos from around town
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Where’s that last pic from?
Gala Film Priority Pass On Sale Today! - Learn Town Star
Main Post: Gala Film Priority Pass On Sale Today! - Learn Town Star
Top Comment: 9.0k members in the GalaGames community. Gala Games and GALA Token Community.
Civil War (2024) - I did not like it at all
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Hello. I need to rant about Civil War and how offensively vapid it is. If you really enjoyed the movie, I am pleased for you, there are individual moments which I liked too but I am not actually interested in fighting in the comments.
I found this film to be offensively empty. And as a consequence none of the grander stakes mattered. Felt much closer to an olympus has fallen type deal wherein the use of images of great destruction of national monuments was used to imply and steal gravitas and emotional heft (also coincidentally looks great in a trailer), as opposed to a movie with anything to say. I couldn't find the storming of DC interesting or awe inspiring because I did not know why anyone was fighting nor what for. Wars are political they don't erupt from the ether, people appear to be fighting over the number of stars on the flag.
The film when you look at it as what it is, a road movie cum thriller about war photographers as adrenaline junkies is quite a lot of fun as its very stylish. And there's a bunch of truly tensionful moments - Jesse Plemons a true "when is he bad".
But it truly fascinates me how none of them seem to feel a particular way about the civil war at all. They seem to want to interview the president for alleged crimes (its suggested he did air strikes on american civilians during the war, this is the extent of the commentary on the Presidents politics, but given essentially every american president since the capability was invented has ordered an air strike on some people who didnt deserve it I don't think this says much at all). I don't think you can put a bunch of political paint on an otherwise utterly devoid movie without it feeling deceptive at best.
By stripping away the politics it just makes all of the most interesting moments more hollow, jesse plemons and his gang of war criminals. Seem vaguely xenophobic and thats it. The town where the civil war has seemingly not touched, apparently lightly defended by a local militia. There's nothing to pull back here, they're just sort of interesting moments that pay off with nothing. Even the president's final line, "don't let them kill me" its pathetic and that's fine it almost feels like an interesting thing to say but when there's literally no understanding of how we got here or why anyone is motivated into fullscale war the apparent revelation that the implied big bad is a big coward is just hollow.
TLDR wish I liked this more as its extremely stylish and at times thrilling. But for me, casting aspertians towards politics without actually having politics felt like call of duty level shite.
All of the performances rule though Kirsten Dunst is back baby and I want her in way more things.
Top Comment: I think Siddhant Adlakha had the clearest explanation of what I liked about the movie “Civil War essentially treats the U.S. the way Hollywood productions have treated Middle Eastern settings for the last few decades, as symbols and metaphors first and foremost, with tone and landscape superseding real-world specifics, despite the shocking, naturalistic violence of many modern war films. [...] As the notion of “It can’t happen here” has shifted slowly to “Maybe it could,” Civil War leaps forward to the idea of “It will, and this is what it’ll look and feel like” by employing America’s own reductive political and cinematic language as it’s long been applied to foreign policy, weaponizing it in the form of rousing scenes and nerve-wracking crescendos that resemble Zero Dark Thirty.” Frankly I just don’t see a version of a movie like this where the politics are more explicit and it’s anything other than trite and offensive. But to each their own