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History of Violence- I think there was a thread about this recently but I skipped it because I hadn't seen it yet. So I finally saw it (I've been meaning to watch it forever now) and was severly disapointed. While the movie wasn't horrible (it was ok) it was nowhere near as good as the reviews made it out to be. Supposedly "One of the Best films of the year" and made all these critics "top ten lists". It was borderline on boring and William Hurt was over the top and laughable in his role. I can't understand his oscar nom at all. When I hear someone gets a nom for 10 minutes of screentime I'm expecting a Rutger Hauer Blade Runner-esque performance. Without all the hype, I would have said the movie was decent but all the hype really soured me to this.
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In the
2+2 thread started by Andy Fox I thought it was OK mostly because my expectations weren't that high going in. Andy disliked it and the other 2+2 reviews were more or less mixed.
I just checked out the reviews on
Rotten Tomatoes and was surprised to see it had a very high consensous rating (86% fresh). I don't think it should rate that high and it sort of makes me wonder if there is a better web site around for consensous reviews (other than The Lounge on 2+2 [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img])
~ Rick