Movies you've seen recently (Part 1)

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@MikeF

We just watched In Bruges, again. Its one of my favorite movies and one of very few that I will watch more than once. Colin Farrell at his funniest. Black comedy at its finest. Two big thumbs up!

I love In Bruges! Funny, ultraviolent and oddly touching by the end. A zillion great lines in it, too.

@thdudescar

Greyhound Tom Hanks is the captain of the lead destroyer protecting a convoy from the west to England in WWII. I gets right to the action and pretty much stays there. Only a little over an hour and a half long, so not a great time investment. I think it’s only on Apple.

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Greyhound - Can a non-stop action movie with Tom Hanks be... boring?

I just watched Greyhound. There is exactly one half-hearted stab at character development: Near the beginning, there’s a 5 min scene where Tom Hanks’ character sort-of proposes to a girl, and she turns him down. We gather he’s a good guy and very religious. That’s all we ever know about him. We know nothing whatsoever about any other character. They are basically just extras or NPCs, uniformly competent at their navy jobs. Zero build-up of tension, just one damn thing after another in rapid s…