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Fatal Attraction

4/8/2017

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B-
​2.61

A casual fling becomes less casual when one party refuses to break it off.

Directed by Adrian Lyne
Starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close
Initial Review by JR Peters

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Watching this movie in 2016 for the first time is a bit hard because since this movie came out, at least 40 more movies have dropped with the exact same premise and even some of the exact same scenes.  None of them were particularly good so I wasn’t expecting much from this movie except good acting and I believe that’s what I got.

The movie starts out showing the Gallagher family as they get ready to go to a party and that’s basically all we get of them being a family.  There are a few quick 2-3 minute scenes throughout that show them together, but none of it really does anything.  It doesn’t really show them as a happy family rather than a group of people that are together.

Glenn Close is the highlight of the movie.  She takes a slightly boring character (Crazed woman) and makes her intriguing, but all that Glenn does for the character doesn’t fix the movie.  Alex has no real backstory or reason given as to why she went so crazy.  What was it about this one night stand that made her snap?  Was this built-up over years of bad relationships?  There’s just nothing more given to us than she had a miscarriage and her father died of a heart attack.

Overall this movie is not great.  I’m sure it was good and people loved it back when it came out in the 80’s, but watching it now it’s pretty mediocre with some really good acting.  I’m giving the acting an A-, but the movie at most can get a C+.
 
I’ll give it a C.
 
Also I think the alternate ending was much better: https://youtu.be/GY_NQK7rJrY

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Malcolm X

1/7/2017

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A-
​3.56

A biopic of Malcolm X, fairly self-explanatory

Directed by Spike Lee
Starring Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, and Al Freeman, Jr
​Initial Review by JR Peters

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Malcolm X set how to humanize one of the most charismatic and controversial people of the 20th century.  Some might expect this movie to be very angry, but I found it to be a distinct lesson in empathy.  It provides with you with a look at Malcolm Little and the life events that led to him becoming Malcolm X and later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz.

As with the last movie I reviewed, School Daze, this movie was directed by Spike Lee.  With most of Lee’s movies, he attempts to make an impact with the opening credits and he successfully does it with this opening.  Showing the beating of Rodney King with a Denzel-voiced Malcolm X speech playing over it provides us with a reality that even though it has been decades since his death, his message is still just as relevant.  I have no doubt that if Lee were to release this movie in 2017 he would have plenty of footage to work with in this instance.  Eric Garner, Terence Crutcher, Philando Castile as well as many others.


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School Daze

8/26/2016

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C+
​2.47

Spike Lee chronicles the micro and macro conflicts within a fictional historically black college.

Directed by Spike Lee
Starring Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell-Martin
​Initial review by JR Peters

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I picked this movie out because I’m the only person in the group that had previously seen this movie and some of the issues discussed in this movie still need to be discussed today.  Also I’ve decided I’m only going to be doing “Black” movies from now on.
 
The first thing we need to talk about is the opening credits of the movie.  One thing I believe that no one ever really talks about is the opening credits of movies and Spike has the best with ‘Do the Right Thing’ and he has one of the worst with ‘Chi-Raq’.  These opening credits fall right behind ‘Do the Right Thing’.  The credits show African-Americans through the years, from slave times all the way through to modern times all while the old Negro spiritual ‘Buildin’ Me A Home’ is playing.  The pictures focus mostly the struggles black people went through to be treated equally and the education that they received and the way they united to achieve them. All of this composes the opening credits to a movie that starts out with a demonstration against a school to divest in Apartheid laden South Africa, and later shows the divides within the black community on an all-black campus even after these struggles.


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Oldboy

3/23/2016

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A-
​3.79

A boorish man is kidnapped and help prisoner for 15 years, only to be suddenly released with no explanation.  He seeks brutal revenge on his captors, whoever they may be.

Directed by Park Chan-wook
Starring Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, and Kang Hye-Juung
Initial review by JR Peters

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I decided on this movie because I watched the american version and absolutely hated it. I needed to cleanse my mind of any bad connotations with the word “Oldboy”. This movie has an 80 on Rotten Tomatoes so I assumed it was at least going to be decent. It definitely lived up to the score. I won’t be writing much because I feel like anything I say might ruin the movie for you.


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