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Posts Tagged ‘movie’

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Watched: Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike

Chase and I had been planning on seeing this movie with our buddy Jim, since this type of stuff is what we’re all interested in. We went up to the Rave theater in Chattanooga, my first time going there, and had a great time watching the movie. I must admit though, I had no idea that this [...]

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Watched: The Muppets

Plot summary: When 3 muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the muppet theater for oil Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the muppets who have been split up for years Kermit lives in his own mansion depressed in hollywood, Gonzo is a high class plumber at Gonzo’s Royal Flush, [...]

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Watched: Seven Pounds

Plot summary: Haunted by a secret, Ben Thomas looks for redemption by radically transforming the lives of seven people he doesn’t know. Once his plan is set, nothing will be able to stop him. At least that’s what he thinks. But Ben hadn’t planned on falling in love with one of these people and she’s [...]

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Watched: The Road To Guantánamo

Plot summary: In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once [...]

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Watched: Unstoppable

Plot summary: Unstoppable, a 20th Century Fox drama about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. Pits an engineer and his conductor in a race against time. They’re chasing the runaway train in a separate locomotive and need to bring it under control before it derails on a curve and causes a toxic [...]

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Watched: Red

Plot summary: When his idyllic life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive. Source Red was an action movie, with a bit of humor tossed inside.  In all honesty, it was good, but I really like either-or, not so much [...]

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Watched: The Social Network

Plot summary: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere [...]

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Watched: The Expendables

Plot summary: Barney Ross leads the “Expendables”, a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road and loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the merciless dictator of a small South [...]

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Watched: Taking Chance

Plot summary: In April, 2004, casualties mount in Iraq. At Quantico, choices focus on increasing troop strength or only replacing casualties. Lt. Col. Mike Strobl crunches numbers. Stung by his superior’s rejection of his recommendation because he lacks recent combat experience, Strobl volunteers for escort duty, accompanying the remains Pfc. Chance Phelps, killed at 19. [...]

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Catching Up For Saw VI

I usually like to do things in the order they should be done, and in the case of movies, watching them in the order of release.  But for the Saw movies, I started with Saw V last Halloween when I was invited to the movies to watch it.  I’m not big into gory stuff, but [...]

Sometimes in life we get so caught up in just doing, we don’t see what we’ve accomplished, the lives we’ve touched. We slow down and see the forest only when there’s a fire. — Donna Hill, If I Could