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    Deja Vu (2006) is a crime/sci-fi/action movie directed by Tony Scott. The crime investigation in the beginning and action in the end are well done. The camera work and production values are very good. However, the science fiction element is improperly handled, and the resultant flow of events doesn't stand up to logical analysis. Also, some of the decisions made by the characters in the last half of the movie are questionable and seem to be there simply to create a particular climactic situation.

    I wonder if Deja Vu, The Prestige and The Forgotten herald a trend where a sci-fi element is introduced into an otherwise different gendre of movie. None of these films were advertised as sci-fi films.

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    I thought the car chase scene from deja vu was particularly clever.

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    Devil wears prada, great fun. After the Hours and this one I am slowly refinding my respect for Meryll Streep, she's quite the character here.

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    Owwww hilarity.

    Dark Habits, spanish comedy. Just too absurd. A whatsitcalled these things with nuns where everything is far from holy. The chief nun is a lesbian heroinaddict, another nun has LSD trips where she meets jezus, a nun is writing erotic novels and they even have a pet tiger you get the idea



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    Ok this rocks. The Queen. Helen Mirren has to be one of the best actresses ever and continues to stand firmly on my women that could be my mother list. She really is the queen. The guy that does Blair is just scary, seperated at birth? Awesome movie of a institution that was completily out of touch with the population at the time of Diana's death. Have to add one thing, refusing to meet the queen after playing her so passionatly isn't just rude, it's cruel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony
    Ok this rocks. The Queen. Helen Mirren has to be one of the best actresses ever and continues to stand firmly on my women that could be my mother list. She really is the queen. The guy that does Blair is just scary, seperated at birth? Awesome movie of a institution that was completily out of touch with the population at the time of Diana's death. Have to add one thing, refusing to meet the queen after playing her so passionatly isn't just rude, it's cruel.
    I get scared sometimes, Fragony, that our tastes in film and books coincide so closely. I agree, this is an excellent film (if one is interested in the subject) and extremely well acted - most impressively, understanding of Her Majesty's perspective in the hysteria, whilst not glossing over the colossal faultline in the monarchy that the Diana foolishness exposed.

    I can't agree however, that Helen Mirren should be on the mother list. Apart from her stuff in "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" and "Caligula" (the latter only worth watching for La Mirren) I saw her on stage as Lady MacBeth, and believe me, the desires she provoked were in no way maternal.
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    She was a proper hottie in The Long Good Friday. A bit older than me but hey what the hell, Mrs. Apache is a bit older than me as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
    I get scared sometimes, Fragony, that our tastes in film and books coincide so closely.
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