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Tambora

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Our Brand of Crisis

Sandra Bullock plays a political consultant that will stoop to any level to get her candidate elected.

Billy Bob Thornton plays a political consultant also, and just as ruthless.

They are arch rivals, and beating each other is as important to them as their candidate winning (maybe even more so).

Both are hired for opposing candidates for the presidential campaign in Bolivia.

This movie is a comedy and a drama rolled into one.
Some of the stunts they pull show just how far lies and manipulation are used in the political arena.

Good movie with good actors (you will recognize several), and some of the stunts they pull are hilarious.
 
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The Gift

Suspence thriller staring Jason Bateman (as Simon) and Joel Edgerton (as Gordo).

Simon has it all.
A beautiful wife, good job, and nice house.
He is ambitious and self centered, and schemes to get his way.
Simon and wife move to upper class home in LA, with plans to start a family together.

An old high school classmate of Simon (Gordo) runs into them.
Simon claims he barely even remembers the guy, and wants to brush him off.

Gordo is a bit creepy and illusive.
He keeps leaving gifts on their front porch.
And he keeps showing up at their home, uninvited and arbitrarily, usually when Simon is at work and the wife is home alone.

The wife tries to be nice to him, thinking Gordo is harmless, although still creepy, and just wants to be friends with them.

But things are not as they seem.
Gordo has a bad history with Simon during high school, but claims he is willing to let bygones be bygones.
When the wife questions Simon about what "bygones" Gordo is talking about, Simon evades the question.

Throughout the movie, you learn about their high school history bit by bit.

Without giving anything else away, it is a story of "did he really do it" (of both Simon and Gordo), and the debate will go on in your mind about which one of them (Simon or Gordo) is the bigger scheming monster.

Well worth watching.
 
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Diablo

Western, staring Scott Eastwood (son of Clint Eastwood) as Jackson.
Also stars Danny Glover and Walton Goggins (he was Boyd Crowder in the Justified series) as Ezra.

The movie starts with Jackson's house and barn on fire.
He races to free the horses and some tack from the burning barn.
In the turmoil, neighbors show up to help.
But Jackson tells them that the group of Mexicans took his wife with them.
So he sets out to track them down and rescue his wife.


A strange man, Ezra, keeps showing up out of nowhere on his journey.
He is a brutal sadistic man.
Sometimes Ezra helps Jackson, and sometimes hurts him.
Either way, he soon disappears as mysteriously as he shows up.

This movie has an excellent twist on who Ezra really is.


This movie was good!!!!!!
 
Ktoyou

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:shocked:I watched a movie about a homo.

It was rather good, he was a spy and a computer first. They decoded NAZI messages.

The name? It is not the Insider, as that movie is about a tobacco executive, fired for his concern about deleterious tobacco company practices and his telling of it to the media.

They were both good.
 
LoneStar

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Tambora said:
Diablo

Western, staring Scott Eastwood (son of Clint Eastwood) as Jackson.
Also stars Danny Glover and Walton Goggins (he was Boyd Crowder in the Justified series) as Ezra.

The movie starts with Jackson's house and barn on fire.
He races to free the horses and some tack from the burning barn.
In the turmoil, neighbors show up to help.
But Jackson tells them that the group of Mexicans took his wife with them.
So he sets out to track them down and rescue his wife.


A strange man, Ezra, keeps showing up out of nowhere on his journey.
He is a brutal sadistic man.
Sometimes Ezra helps Jackson, and sometimes hurts him.
Either way, he soon disappears as mysteriously as he shows up.

This movie has an excellent twist on who Ezra really is.


This movie was good!!!!!!
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That was a good one.
 
nikolai_42

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The Spanish Prisoner

One of my favorite movies - it's a bit quirky and the dialog is minimalistic at times. You're dropped right into the situation with no backstory given and no helpful dialog to tell you what you've missed (that might be important). It's Agatha Christie made modern by David Mamet (who has written some other better known movies like The Untouchables, Glengarry Glen Ross, Hoffa and Hannibal).

Of course, if you want more traditional Agatha Christie, by all means see Witness For the Prosecution (with Charles Laughton - 1957).
 
Ktoyou

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nikolai_42 said:
The Spanish Prisoner

One of my favorite movies - it's a bit quirky and the dialog is minimalistic at times. You're dropped right into the situation with no backstory given and no helpful dialog to tell you what you've missed (that might be important). It's Agatha Christie made modern by David Mamet (who has written some other better known movies like The Untouchables, Glengarry Glen Ross, Hoffa and Hannibal).

Of course, if you want more traditional Agatha Christie, by all means see Witness For the Prosecution (with Charles Laughton - 1957).
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Now I better understand why I did not like it, could not finish watching it. "quirky and the dialog is minimal, ... no backstory given and no helpful dialog"

I liked Hoffa and somewhat, Untouchables and Hannibal. Witness For the Prosecution was very good, I seen it when it first came to the theaters.

"Red Dragon" was, for me, better than Hannibal.
 
nikolai_42

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Ktoyou said:
Now I better understand why I did not like it, could not finish watching it. "quirky and the dialog is minimal, ... no backstory given and no helpful dialog"
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Yeah...it hit me right the first time I watched it and it just kept getting better as it went on. And the ending...

Anyway, it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea. I have to say, though, I have liked pretty much everything of Mamet's that I've watched. Just found out he wrote something recently called Redbelt. Going to check it out on Netflix when I have the time.

Ktoyou said:
I liked Hoffa and somewhat, Untouchables and Hannibal.
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I haven't seen Hoffa...saw the Untouchables ages ago - liked it. And Hannibal was good, too (though I admit to liking Silence of the Lambs better...that type of stuff doesn't really appeal to me anymore, though).

Ktoyou said:
Witness For the Prosecution was very good, I seen it when it first came to the theaters.
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Not sure which version that was since the one I'm talking about was released in 1957. Did you see that 58 years ago? I ask only because I know there have been multiple remakes which (I understand) have been subpar - if only because Laughton was masterful.

Ktoyou said:
"Red Dragon" was, for me, better than Hannibal.
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Honestly, I think I gave up on the series after Hannibal....
 
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