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The Rite. 7/10.

Not a bad movie, but it was predictable.
I do love these movies about possessions so it was still fun to watch.

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wofford29 said:

Take Shelter - 10 out of 10

Best movie of the year.

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Wow!
Just read a short synopsis of the movie.

Watching now.

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jungle jom said:

I hated "Anitchrist" too pretentious.

Stupid talking fox... WTF was that all about?

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I thought that was the best scene!




Balada Triste De Trompeta - 7/10
Spanish film about two clowns battling for the love of a female acrobat in a circus. A pretty weird watch... interesting though.

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Take Shelter. 9/10.

OK, just finished watching this and enjoyed all of it.
Michael Shannon is good at playing this kind of role. I've seen him in Bug and the character he plays in that movie is very similar to this one.

By the way, did anyone catch the subliminal message right at the very beginning of the movie?

The first time you see Shannon, less than a minute into the movie, he's standing in front of his garage looking up at the sky. The next shot you see a huge, dark cloud, in the shape of a person's head. Now, at the very top of the head, where your brain is, the clouds are enormous. From the forehead, the clouds spread up and outwards and you can see lightning behind the clouds only in that area.

Very suggestive that 'this is all in your head.'

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The Shawshank Redemption. 9.5/10

What else can you say?

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The Grey - 8/10

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Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon: 6/10

I had to take 2 breaks while watching it because it was so mind-numbing. It really went on for much too long, especially the first hour to hour-and-a-half. They should have cut more than half of that stuff. I did enjoy the prologue in Cybertron. And I LOVED the building sequence. But the rest was overload.

I kinda want Bay to do something else besides these Transformer movies. I loved Armageddon and Bad Boys 2, and didn't think Pearl Harbor was so bad. He creates excellent action sequences, and all his movies are photographed impeccably.

I was trying to think back to the other two movies and for the life of me I can't remember the second one. I had to read the Wikipedia plot summary to refresh my memory, and I seem to remember the first half of the movie (vaguely), but damned if I can't remember the second half with all the action and resolution. I think that's very telling.

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He's going to make Pain and Gain next. A low budget true story something to do with body building. Said one car crash, no explosions. So, that's next. I'm excited for that.

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Interesting... Now that you mention it I had heard about that.

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CelticPredator said:

The Shawshank Redemption. 9.5/10

What else can you say?

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Hell yeah!!

Best buddy movie EVER!

Love the twist at the end too. That was pure win.

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Centurion said:

Take Shelter. 9/10.

OK, just finished watching this and enjoyed all of it.
Michael Shannon is good at playing this kind of role. I've seen him in Bug and the character he plays in that movie is very similar to this one.

By the way, did anyone catch the subliminal message right at the very beginning of the movie?

The first time you see Shannon, less than a minute into the movie, he's standing in front of his garage looking up at the sky. The next shot you see a huge, dark cloud, in the shape of a person's head. Now, at the very top of the head, where your brain is, the clouds are enormous. From the forehead, the clouds spread up and outwards and you can see lightning behind the clouds only in that area.

Very suggestive that 'this is all in your head.'

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Just went back to check that out. Never noticed that lol. I thought the movie was pretty refreshing in the sense that its been a while since I've watched a movie where I was really into it and it didn't need any out of this world action scenes or anything like that to keep my attention.

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So is the ending supposed to be part of his dream? Or is that storm actually happening? It almost seems like they're leaving that up to the viewer but has there been any official word on that? I tried thinking about both scenarios but I can't really decide =\. I'm leaning more towards the ending being a dream of his

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Drive, I dont even know what to give it. Parts were great and others were head scratchers...

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The Truman Show 9/10 with a 10/10 tear jerker ending

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CelticPredator said:

The Shawshank Redemption. 9.5/10

What else can you say?

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9.5/10?

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Justice League: Doom

6/10.

It was alright.

I really liked Batman's response to everything; he made the movie.

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Willy Wonka said:

Just went back to check that out. Never noticed that lol. I thought the movie was pretty refreshing in the sense that its been a while since I've watched a movie where I was really into it and it didn't need any out of this world action scenes or anything like that to keep my attention.

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So is the ending supposed to be part of his dream? Or is that storm actually happening? It almost seems like they're leaving that up to the viewer but has there been any official word on that? I tried thinking about both scenarios but I can't really decide =\. I'm leaning more towards the ending being a dream of his

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If you listen to the commentary the director goes the opposite of your spoiler leanings.

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Willy Wonka said:

Just went back to check that out. Never noticed that lol. I thought the movie was pretty refreshing in the sense that its been a while since I've watched a movie where I was really into it and it didn't need any out of this world action scenes or anything like that to keep my attention.

Spoiler:

So is the ending supposed to be part of his dream? Or is that storm actually happening? It almost seems like they're leaving that up to the viewer but has there been any official word on that? I tried thinking about both scenarios but I can't really decide =\. I'm leaning more towards the ending being a dream of his

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To answer your question, I would again refer to that subliminal picture at the very beginning of the movie. That image pretty much tells you the underlying theme/idea that drives the main character.

At the end,

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he notices that his daughter and wife can finally see what he sees. Extremely unrealistic, gigantic, double-twister tornados approaching. That's your first clue. Next, you see his wife reach out to catch the thick, yellowish substance falling from the sky just like he did at the beginning of the movie. That's the second clue. These are the hallucinations driven by the schizophrenia. It's all in his mind, as was suggested by that subliminal image at the beginning of the movie.

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Voorhees27 said:

9.5/10?

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Alright...a 9.9.5.9/10.

Spoiler:

fine. 10/10. After watching the features, and after listening to the commentary

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wofford29 said:

If you listen to the commentary the director goes the opposite of your spoiler leanings.

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Interesting, I wish I had a copy of the movie to listen to the commentary track.

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Centurion said:

Interesting, I wish I had a copy of the movie to listen to the commentary track.

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It's a good commentary and he just seems to lean that way but from interviews he's been putting out as far back as Sundance he's open to the idea of people making different interpretations because whats being interpreted is irrelevant to what the movie is about. Here's a great answer from a Q&A

Well, I said it last night in the Q&A, and I can reiterate here: His wife is the pivotal character. Michael Shannon is the main character, but Jessica Chastain is the pivotal character. Will she stay with him? Will she not stay? Will she support him? Will she not? The answer to that is the answer to this stress and this fear and, ultimately, the film. If this movie isn’t a film about marriage, commitment, and communication, what happens at the end, literally, doesn’t really matter. It can and hopefully will be interpreted in a number of ways.

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