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domino harvey wrote:

for a movie I've never heard of before this was very entertaining. A story with both a beginning and an ending. The middle was pretty good also!

Now I really want to see it! Those are the three things I look for in a movie.

This Roman Polanski crusade is greatly misunderstood. Try making a movie about Satanism and Devil Worship and see where that gets you in Showbiz and Politics. The “13 year old victim” is in, and of itself, what is known as an “Occult Signature”, and there are many swirling around Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate (his wonderful wife and actress). Roman Polanski’s Signature Film is, of course, “Rosemary’s Baby”, and this little movie is at the centerpiece of all of Roman Polanski’s legal and political troubles; all of the film was shot on Paramount studio property, except for 2 scenes — the exterior outside of the Bramford (actually, it is the Dakota Building) where Angela Dorian (Victoria Vetri) “dies” after “falling” from the roof, and the final shot in the movie, where the camera itself veers up and away from the EXACT SPOT where John Lennon was ritually assassinated 13 YEARS LATER! (The camera sequence certainly does come across the screen to the viewer as if it were an eternal soul departing from a dead body). Not convinced yet that making movies about Satanism and Occult Devil Worship can be hazardous to one’s own existence? Well, see if there are any innocent explainations among these facts: Sharon Tate made a grand total of 13 film/television appearances (including a cameo in the party scene in “Rosemary’s Baby”, directed by her husband). Sharon Tate’s FIRST movie was entitled “13”, before it was re-titled and released as “Eye of the Devil”, and her 13th and FINAL appearance was in “The 13 Chairs”, which was re-titled and released after her death as “12 + 1” (13!). This is all similar to what happened to poor Stanley Kubrick, who also only directed 13 motion pictures over his career, after he faked the “Apollo 11 – 17 Lunar Footage” for NASA while he was supposedly working on the four year shoot of his Signature Film, “2001: A Space Odyssey” — so isn’t it remarkably interesting that Stanley Kubrick just so happened to “die” on the 66th day of 1999 (March 7th) EXACTLY 666 DAYS BEFORE NEW YEARS’ DAY, JANUARY 1st, 2001!!! Now you may be starting to comprehend why Witches and Warlocks use the HOLLY – WOOD when they cast their Spells upon Society. Roman Polanski is the Victim in this diabolical public relations smear campaign (because if one cannot physically eliminate their enemy, the next best thing is to irreparably damage their intended Victim’s public image beyond repair); a counterfeit morals charge, such as Pedophilia towards “A 13 Year Old Girl” damages his worldwide public prestige and image quite thoroughly, don’t ya think?!

jindianajonz wrote:After glancing through his other reviews, that seems to be a common problem with him. In his Exodus: Gods and Kings review, he feels it necessary to unequivocally point out that the Bible is fiction, yet also devotes a paragraph to lambast the "secularist" usage of BCE to denote the date instead of BC.

eerik wrote: Speaking of Exodus, I've seen some local people complaining that the film, named Exodus, was biblical and not about Greek mythology as they expected it to be.

-No Shoah?!?

-Presumably omitted because it's non-fiction.

-Oops I didn't know it was non fiction

Finally I have to question her arm chair psychoanalysis of [Walsh]. She constantly compares him to John Ford. Ford made his movies emphasizing character development and scenery. He was a strange man in real life (read Maureen O'Hara's autobiography). Walsh emphasized the storyline or plot along with the scenery. Leave it at that.

George Drooly wrote:

-No Shoah?!?

-Presumably omitted because it's non-fiction.

-Oops I didn't know it was non fiction

Plus where is the good looking main characters like Luke, Solo and Anakin from the past movies ? No they have to cast a very ugly African guy as one of the new heroes, just to please the new Kardashian Fetish followers of these society.

Great movie to watch with Jodie Foster missbehaves as normal. It is amazing how O'Hara's Wife comes back from dead to gide Edwar Asner out of trouble with JF

Perhaps in no other film can moviemaking's magic be better experienced than in The Walk, Director Robert Zemeckis' touching, funny, and in every way inspiring and spectacular true-to-life recreation of the Philippe Petit story.

what can only be described as a movie as monumentally satisfying as the wire walk performance itself

Zemeckis, one of the great movie magicians of his, or any, time,

a treasure of the cinema world and certainly in the post-9/11 era

Who can say whether Philippe Petit's story would have been made into a film were it not for the events that transpired on 9/11. But that day did happen, and for all that's followed The Walk is, at least cinematically, perhaps the most important.

In Raoul Ruiz's THAT DAY (CE JOUR-LÀ), which we are told occurs in "the near future in Switzerland," the country appears to have added a fifth official language: boredom.

mfunk9786 wrote:Didn't know where else to put this since this is an example of 'Rediculous' screenwriting, but a producer is tweeting descriptions of women from actual screenplays and they are creepy as all get out

A middle-aged girl in ankle socks, long coat and woollen gloves stands expressionless in a room. Her shoes are too young for her. There is no movement in her face. Her name is Winnie.