Hesher - Swimming Pool Scene

Very probably the best scene in the movie "Hesher". It doesn't really give anything away about the rest of the film.

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Two films I didn't finish....

Last night I came home from work and decided to sit down in front of a movie. I picked "The Conformist". A film I'd picked up because I'd missed it when it was advertised at an art cinema where I used to live. I was actually quite excited about this one. As it turned out, it was VERY seventies. A fair bit of sex, men talking together in serious tones, beautiful shots of little happening, the main character being driven around in the back of black cars. I was pretty tired so there were a number of points where I fell asleep and I may have been missing some of the context as a result.


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Then this morning I checked out "Perfect Sense", a sci-fi movie starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green. I'd heard that this was about an incurable disease that caused people to lose their senses. Right from the start things didn't bode well when a narrator started poetically talking about ordinary life in a way that sounded like one of those ultra-serious advertisements. If this was just at the beginning it would be fine, but after the third narration section it was really becoming unbearably annoying.


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More Reviews: The Devil's Double, The Whistleblower, Mystic River and Colombiana

The Devil's Double (2011)

The story of the double for Saddam Hussein's son, Uday Hussein. Both the parts of Uday and his double are played by Dominic Cooper.


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The Whistleblower (2010)

This is more evidence, if we needed any more, that Rachel Weisz is an absolutely fantastic actress. The first half of this film had me gripped. The second half of this movie had me thinking it was alright. And the final ending of this movie had me deeply disappointed. However, throughout the film Rachel Weisz is the one thing keeping me invested in the story, right up to the end where it ceases to work.


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Mystic River (2003)

In the run up to the Oscars, this film served to clear up for me just how worthless the Oscars actually are. Somehow Sean Penn and Tim Robbins won Oscars for this. I have absolutely no idea how. Marcia Gay Harden was also nominated and I could understand her winning an Oscar (she lost to Renee Zellweger), but not Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.


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Colombiana (2011)

First off, I have to say that the action scenes in this movie are fantastic. The intro introduces us to the central protagonist Cataleya as a young girl and, without the same neck-snapping skills, she ends up kicking ass in ways that "Hanna" could only have dreamed of. This girl truly knows how to evade capture and does so in much more interesting way than simply running down endless corridors to tunes from The Chemical Brothers. Even as a young girl Cataleya is a genuine badass.


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