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2/10
Give your money to the tax man
23 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The ratio has to be adjusted as it came out in the 1980

The movie is about a guy who is a writer where he and his forgotten son, go back to his childhood home town, and finds more have changed than the old family home. For the children living in the town when he returns, lets say that the marriage laws have changed a bit. The town folk make an offer he can not refuse to write about them.

He meets his childhood sweet heart her 17 and him 14 at that time, and she did not change. But then again she did not get any taller either, but it was a good trade off for looks and height. When they first meet it was a bit creepy.

When he was dictating the story I was expected to see dragon talk, but instead it was a audio cassette recorder. So, I reset my mind to remember it was the 1980's.

I was surprised with the language for the time. The kid swore more than the adults. I see what Maine's fixer uppers look like. It was nice to see the Perv'y old men get theirs in the movie, but I now tend to say clear of groups of kids because of the movie. The monster masks were pretty flexible for the time.

The acting was a bit flimsy as were the one liners. Not Michael Moriarty's best acting. Tara Reids role was OK but then again she was a kid. She had better roles in Van Wilder and American Pie. It was later in life that she had those fantastic eyes, that may have been contacts but who knows. It says her trademark was the deep raspy voice, but I go with the Eyes.

As a sequel it was a bad movie. It seemed there had been more thought to the music than the script, and was no credit to the great writing of Stephen King. However when I was watching it I found it was good background sound while doing paper work in the office.

I think you would feel better giving the money that the movie cost, giving it to the tax man instead of watching the movie.
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Ben-Hur (2016)
7/10
A good representation of Roman games and family honour
23 March 2017
Good day all Movie fanatics. Well let us talk about this movie. Relax I will keep it short. we are talking about the 2016 edition.

The movie had a mix in it Religion just the right amount not to offend any religion, the fight against army and navy and anyone who served in the Military knows who is he best. As I was Air Force, I go with the crowd. And of course the old, good guy wearing white and the bad guy wearing black. [ they did not have cowboy hats so they used colour coded amour] and that good can triumph against evil.

The DVD that I purchased overseas, had the very low volume on talking parts, and, as Microsoft 10 does not support my legacy equipment I am using Kodi to run my LG super multi drive so that fixed that. I would check with someone that purchased the movie in N.A. to see if they have the same problem.

The action was great, but if you are using 52 inch 4K make sure you have the correct distance as the race can be hard on the eyes if not.

The naval battle parts were great and gave you a perspective of an slave on the ship that many movies of that time has not given.

The race showed the horses dying but of course no animals were injured in the making of the movie but man, as you are caught up in the action you could believe it did happen. I loved the movie as they did not dwell on subject mater for too long in any one area but switched it up, but not to much like reading Game of Thrones.

Also the movie although taking some liberties, stuck to the story, but did not try and capture the filming of the 1950's or when ever the original came out. So if you hated the new Ghost busters because of it trying to be a remake of the original, no worries.

Morgan Freeman's part was done excellent as most of his movies are, but I wish there was a part that could have been added to give him a stronger role but there is nothing in the story that would allow it.

So if like moves in Roman times, i think you will like this very much. Insert the DVD and enjoy ! and for those of you that are saying DVD ? yes I am old school if it works don't get rid of it.

Good Viewing and thank you IMDb for the site, so we can s watch trailers and help us to decide to buy a movie or not.
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