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watched Pi not to be confused with 3.14.... Pi is just awful, just awful. It's done in black and white, but it's like a solid black, solid white, not the pleasing flow of grays, it's not the black & white you enjoy like watching "Leave It To Beaver" or "Bewitched". It's very hard to watch just for that reason as it's too harsh on the eye and mind. It gets into some scenes early on and these repeat where the guy (brainiac mathematician) has epileptic episodes or something, and ends up in the bathroom on the floor, having to inject some drug, and take some pills, and the way it is done makes it out like a horror film, I mean worse! I couldn't watch any more of it and I like a number of horror films because you can enjoy the thrill while still feeling safe/detached. In this film it somehow brings you right there into something you want no part of. I guess that may have been the intention of the film maker, but I think this could have been done much differently for my taste anyway. Have to be in the mood to watch a brain bender type movie to see this one. It gets very analytical and math intensive. It's kinda like being in the room with "Sheldon" while playing Monopoly on your 12th hour with him and friends while also watching your friend work on the Rubix cube while he explains every detail of the moves and why the cube means in the scheme of life and hearing "Sheldon" add his 3.14 cents. It's all wayyyyy toooooo much. IMDB describes the film as "A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature" and viewers (surprisingly to me) gave it this rating

watched 10 Cloverfield Lane. Highly recommend. Avoid all spoilers and just go watch this film. Movie making excellence.

watched The Rover. Set in the Austrailian outback after 10 years of financial collapse a man loses his one prize posession, his car, to gang members and does what it takes to get it back. This movie is cinematic excellence and is way underrated. If you find it hard to watch, push on through, you must watch it to the end. That's all I will say other than be sure not to read any spoilers. It's a movie that leaves an impression bringing the entire experience to a climax. Enjoy.

watched LA Fifty Shades Darker. Save your time, money, and intrigue for something else. This movie is the sequal to 50 Shades of Gray which was an intriguing film. The sequal starts right into (spoiler alerts) Christian making every attempt to get back together with Anastasia who finds that spot within of submission once again. The prior movie ended with her taking control and not accepting abuse. That ending was awful but this sequal plays on that making the entire story even worse. Is this a soap opera one has to wonder when it starts off. Then there's not really anything that dark. Oh there's another submission scene or two, short and sweet (note sweet really shouldn't be a part of a "darker" movie) and really more on the "this is too much blatant sex" side of things as if we never saw that before in a movie.....so it's just so bad, don't bother. Watch a Disney film for more darker shades of movies. This one is just awful.

watched Our Brand Is Crisis. I couldn't even finish watching it, got so boring and unbelievable, and it's a script that should be believable. (spoiler alert) In the film one of the final scenes that killed it for me was when Bullock becomes crazed and forces a bus driver to pass another bus (political rival was in that bus) on a South American windy mountain road with cliff, very dangerous, and it's all about getting close enough for her to "moon" him. That is where it finally lost me. I really don't want to see anyone's ass out a bus window and especially Sandra Bullock's ass. Then there was the scene where the lama supposedly couldn't take being there with the film crew (play on how filming can be such a pain) that it wandered off set, out the big garage door, and immediately getting hit/killed by a vehicle. This was not funny but it was supposed to be. It was just stupid. Couldn't finish the film, shipped it back. What a waste of time.

watched 99 Homes. This is a must see. During the "housing crisis" of 2008 and beyond a young guy with a family becomes unemployed, his house is being foreclosed on and of all people he ends up getting work with, (SA) it's the shark who represents the bank taking back the homes. The plot thickens with some very interesting perspectives of "well what would I do" and who places what values on what and why. Very gut wrenching. The theme of the housing crisis hits home so to speak in a new way. I don't think any film has ever presented such a thing. Watch it soon, before the next housing crisis hits!

watched The Intern. This is a feel good movie. It has many moments of intrigue in the concept of this retired guy who becomes an intern (SA) and then becomes the boss of the girl who was his boss. Problem is though there became so many slow family at the kitchen island scenes that were boring, I couldn't finish the movie. Many would like it though. don't always know what others will like. Anne Hathaway as usual gives a stunning performance and the character played by Robert DeNiro is pretty cool.

watched LA LA Land. It started with a scene on the freeway overpass where people are stuck in traffic and get out of their cars and start dancing. Seemed odd and like "Where is this going..." and "I am supposed to believe this??". think this was a missed opportunity to use a lens filter to change the way it looked. It was too real yet the scene was total fantasy. The entire movie was a fantasy and with so many fantasy scenes in it, why have this part in traffic where everyone gets out of their car and dances and no filters? It looked like a flash mob on drugs. This scene is so impossible that in real life such an event would happen that what happens is it makes it look like the film was made by amateurs made in the street even though it had millions in it's budget. You don't want your movies to look that way.


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  think it took away from the film. Of course you wouldn't know that by watching a review by CinemaSins with it's "sin counter" which gives a review talking too fast to even understand and the parts you do understand are horrible critiques, like the part where he is making fun of the main character having a parka in Los Angeles, not realizing that there are mountains with snow 1 hour drive away, like duh, yes people in Los Angeles have parkas and it does get cold at night in winter especially in the mountains right above Los Angeles and yes people have them in their cars. That was a great part of the film, not a mistake at all. It's even a subliminal statement on how COLD people can be in those auditions and how COLD the entire process is. These kinds of subliminal "clues" are what helps a film be great.



felt the movie was an interesting journey and collage of movie making techniques. At times we are in the real world with the characters and at other times we are in places we have no clue where we are, it's like being in Snow White & Alice In Wonderland meeting Yellow Brick Roads and at the same time feeling like we are spinning around on the cover of a 45 record playing "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" while driving to work.

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had to force myself through parts of it, especially the beginning, but as it went on was intrigued. It had a good ending, no, absolutely stellar ending, and afterwards really couldn't say whether or not liked it. It was that good. To me that is a sign of a very good film as it suspended my ability to judge it. had to sleep on it and the next day realized did like it. give this film a 98% rating only because it didn't use filters in the odd and totally unbelievable freeway overpass dance routine at the onset. also have to give CinemaSins a 45% rating for rating/trying but doing so so poorly.

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watched Yellowbrickroad. laughed at the horror scenes they were so unbelievable. It was like watching the Road Runner and The Coyote cartoons that were trying to be real. This movie actually got an award for best film by the New York City Horror Film Festival. don't see how, it was horrible. One review stated it was "lazy film making". gave it a rating of 1 out of 100 for the fact that they actually produced a film, other than that it's a waste of time.

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also watched Florence Foster Jenkins. That was a good film. rate that at a 67 + 23.

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