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If you don't know, it is based on a true story of a Chicago criminal and cop. Some of the scenes and endings are based on their interactions IRL. I think Heat is in my "handshake" movies list - if people don't like movies like Heat, Cable Guy, Boogie Nights, Jaws, and Back to the...

I thought the same the other day when somebody recommended a horror movie with him in it - Awake. I try to remind myself that I liked him in Life as a House and others instead of thinking about the Star Wars prequels (don't think you've seen those, anyway).

I love that you still do these weekly/monthly themes. I am too scatterbrained for music themes so I have sunk into having 4-6 artists I listen to a lot, dig through albums, and make a playlist if I am liking it enough. I'll kick artists out of the group if I finish a playlist or get tired of...

Not a religious thing at all for me, and I own and love pets, but I guess I have a bigger separation between pet and human. The way I thought of it as I answered was I would be able to look into my family's eyes to tell them I had let the dog go to save somebody, but I couldn't do the...

Any plans for another of these? I'll have to start listening again to my artist soon. I am currently stuck on a weird foursome of Thin Lizzy, Aesop Rock, Megadeth, and The Sea and Cake. I've gone through all the albums and have been working on playlists. :lol: @zamboni - the plan is to...

I watched an underrated sequel from the century last night - 10 Cloverfield Lane.

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Blades of Glory and Hot Fuzz as a couple other comedies and Ratatouille is a fine Pixar movie to have for the year.

Assassination of Jesse James and Michael Clayton this year as well. I also had movies like Into the Wild, Gone Baby Gone, Walk Hard, The Savages, Once, Lars and the Real Girl, Eastern Promises, Black Snake Moan, Waitress, and The Simpsons Movie written down.

Not that many here care, but I just scanned the horror movie list from 2007: Frontier(s), Inside, The Mist, The Orphanage, Paranormal Activity, Poughkeepsie Tapes, [rec], Teeth and Trick R' Treat. I have a weird soft spot for Saw IV and Hostel 2, but I know I am really pushing it if I tried...

Speaking of Eastern Promises, but in a different way - I was thinking about how great of a year 2007 was for movies. I was just scanning a list, and I feel I could do a list of 40-50 movies just from that year I would rate a 7/10 and have no problem watching or recommending. I think another...

Eastern Promises rates higher on the Dongometer.

and I would argue that this proves all our point.

They used to be. Too often they got to 120mins+ which is hard to sustain the laughs for. I get the idea of a 30min TV show being a better format, but even then the type of comedy is different now as people tip toe around topics more and play it safer. Also it is still hard to maintain...

I just scanned lists to see if my gut reaction was correct, and it seems it was - most I see listed are hybrids now. I see a lot of movies like American Fiction, The Holdovers, Banshees of Inisherin, Licorice Pizza, etc.. Long gone are the run of movies that ended about a decade ago of...