There was time and a place where this film meant a whole lot to me. Big, big stepping stone movie if you were fourteen or fifteen and seeing this in a theater in the Fall of 2003. I count it as just the second film I ever dropped tear at in public. This happening to you for the first or second time of your life; it means something. It's visible evidence that you've completely given yourself over to a movie.…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
I had just turned thirteen years old when I first saw this film during Christmas Break, 2001. To state that it was life-changing would be an understatement. But to also state how blind I was to Tolkien, how blind I was to the production of this film, how blind I was to the hype, how blind I was to "Fantasy" in general, would be an even grosser understatement. I knew next to nothing about Lord of the Rings. Zero. Some…
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen 1961
Visually stimulating in ways I've rarely seen before. The kind of film that uses every tool in the toolbox that was available in its time to bring fantastical imaginations to life. Truly awe-inspiring.
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Die Hard 1988
A simple fact: action movies have been neutered, half-baked, half-written and served cold for children with Attention Deficit Disorder. Die Hard has aged into a lost art. It has a wholly original, unpredictable screenplay, crisp with sharp dialogue matched with badass line delivery through the mouths of believable human characters (This sentence alone cannot be attributed to a single modern action film). There is a tight plot that gradually escalates, accumulating ZERO gaps in logic equaling to not a single…
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