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Heat 1995
"Well ya know, for me, the action is the juice."
I can't think of many non-comedy films which are as quotable as Heat. The dialogue is amazing.
"What are you doing?......What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone.....I don't understand......'Cause there is a dead man on the other end of this fuckin' line!"
The scale of this sucker is epic, the score perfect, the action meticulous...the bank raid....holy shit!! Pacino goes BIIIIIIIIIG! For me personally, too big, especiallyβ¦
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Edie 2017
The big letterboxd watchlist clear out #28
"It's never too late for you Edie!"
Octogenarian Edie(Sheila Hancock) freed from the shackles of her unhappy life with, and caring for, an abusive and controlling husband, takes on the adventure of her lifetime. Before her daughter can dispatch her to a retirement home, Edie grabs her old backpack and wellies, jumps on a Sleeper to Inverness with a view to climbing to the top Suliven, a Graham in the north of Scotland,β¦
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Trading Places 1983
"Strip, you little shit, before I tear you a new asshole!"
Super rich brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche), own a commodities firm in Philidelphia. The greedy devious old bastards set up an elaborate experiment/wager, switching the roles of pompous upper class commodities broker Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and young street hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy).
From the days when Eddie Murphy could do no wrong, comes one of my all time favourite comedies,β¦ -
The Boston Strangler 1968
This earlier version of the Boston Strangler, follows the police hunt, led initially by detective George Kennedy, joined later by head of the "Strangler Bureau", Henry Fonda.
Having watched the most recent version of the story, I fancied catching up with this version again, so why not strike while the iron is hot. In comparison this version takes a number of liberties and I would question its accuracy. Roger Ebert described it as a work of fiction based on trueβ¦
