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I saw Unbreakable on TV recently...
a lot better than I was expecting beforehand. Maybe I'm just cynical about TV.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I thought that was a good movie when I saw it back in the theatres. Wasn't that supposed to be the first of 3 movies? It ended in such a way to lead to a second part...

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In the real world, Mr glass isn't going to break out of prison and bug the hero...

And the FBI would just track him down if he did... he'd be pretty high on the wanted list, after all.

I thought the ending was pretty solid.

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I liked Unbreakable. It was the best of the 3 movies so far IMO (Sixth Sense and Signs being the other 2). As much as I want to see his upcoming The Village, I'll probably only see it when it comes out on dvd. I hope to see some movies over the Labor Day weekend; that's when my wife goes to a family reunion in another part of the state. I usually stay behind so I can work my part-time job. If she goes this year, then I plan on seeing quite a few movies. I just hope some of the ones I want to see are still around by then.

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Don't know if they've already been posted but my two best movies I've seen recently would be Phone Booth and Runaway Jury. Not mainstream but definitely worth the rental IMO.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Seen Phone Booth. I thought it was pretty good. Fortunately, my cell-phone bill doesn't have an itemized list of calls made, so if I were contemplating about getting some extra on the side, I wouldn't have to go to a phone booth.

As far as Runaway Jury, haven't seen it yet. Loved teh book. I wander how much different the two are. Will probably wait until I see it on HBO to see it.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I never read the book but the movie is just plain awesome. The twists in it were done perfectly IMHO. I highly recommend this movie to all.

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A couple good movies I've seen recently: Pearl Harbor, and Payback. Payback is a little older (1999), and has quite a bit of violence and language, but the plot and humor was really good I thought. Everybody knows already what Pearl Harbor is about.

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I saw Hero.

A good sword-fighting action movie set in ancient China, in a similar style to movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Iron Monkey. Jet Li is an expert swordsman, with superhuman speed and accuracy. Some great gravity-defying fight scenes. Donnie Yen and Zhang Ziyi are in it too.

This movie is not out in theaters here in Canada yet. I watched the Chinese DVD with English subtitles.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As an amateur historian, and from some comments made by the director, I had a big problem with Pearl Harbor. Sure, the special effects were great, but some basic facts they overlooked or just plain ignored just to make what they thought would be a great movie. IMO, it wasn't. First of all, the director (can't remember his name right now) said in an interview that if people wanted to see the facts in the movie, they should go see Tora! Tora! Tora! That movie is my all time favorite movie for sentimenal reasons, and I found that remark disparaging. Second of all, why make a Pearl Harbor movie if aren't going to include the facts? Basically, Pearl Harbor was a movie about a love triangle. The war scenes were just the background for the drama between the 3 actors. So why would they care about the facts? I think the most galling thing in the movie was when Roosevelt asked something about survivors in the Arizona. He was told they could hear tapping from trapped sailors. The only problem with that was that no one survived below decks when the Arizona blew. The scene was meant to be about the Oklahoma, but obviously no one knew or cared to correct it. But being from Oklahoma, I cringe everytime I see that scene. There are other misrepresentation of the facts, like no pilots in Pearl Harbor at the time flew in the Doolittle Raid, but it was obvious no one cared too much for the facts in this movie. I finally saw the director's cut, and it wasn't much better. I'll take the director's words to heart. If I want to see a movie about Pearl Harbor, I'll stick to Tora! Tora! Tora!