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Big Chicagoan
 Post subject: Prisoners
PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 11:46 pm 
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Very good movie. Very long movie, but keeps your attention. I found it to be similar in tone and styling to Silence of the Lambs.
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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:34 am 
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Big Chicagoan wrote:
Very good movie. Very long movie, but keeps your attention. I found it to be similar in tone and styling to Silence of the Lambs.


It bordered on unintentional campiness with some of the scenes. I heard some people giggle towards the last 30 minutes or so. There were a few scenes with pieces of the puzzle that you would miss if you were not paying attention. A movie that is 2.30 hours long should not have key parts of the plot shown to the audience on a newspaper headline or computer screen. I think having said that,overall I enjoyed the movie and so did my wife. I feel like anything that has Hugh Jackman in it has a chance of being pretty good.

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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:44 am 
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I finally caught this last night. Was a fantastic movie. Jake Gyllenhall gets two thumbs up.

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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:59 pm 
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Pretty good movie, nothing special. Paint by numbers storytelling.

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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 2:00 pm 
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Big Chicagoan wrote:
Very good movie. Very long movie, but keeps your attention. I found it to be similar in tone and styling to Silence of the Lambs.

Started watching it, first 3 mins, turned it off...didnt need to see kids abducted...maybe one night I will watch it, but doesnt seem like the feel good movie of the year.

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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
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bigfan wrote:
doesnt seem like the feel good movie of the year.

It came out in 2013.

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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
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Douchebag wrote:
bigfan wrote:
doesnt seem like the feel good movie of the year.

It came out in 2013.

I am on a FULL OUT Cable Release schedule.

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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
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bigfan wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
bigfan wrote:
doesnt seem like the feel good movie of the year.

It came out in 2013.

I am on a FULL OUT Cable Release schedule.

So am I, mostly.

This one sat on the DVR for about 5 months.

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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
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Douchebag wrote:
bigfan wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
bigfan wrote:
doesnt seem like the feel good movie of the year.

It came out in 2013.

I am on a FULL OUT Cable Release schedule.

So am I, mostly.

This one sat on the DVR for about 5 months.



Prisoners is definitely a top 2% HBO movie. For me, that means its one of the top 2% of all movies you can watch on HBO that weren't good enough to warrant a trip to the theater or pay per view.

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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
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Terrence Howard and Paul Dano are both high ranking members of the "Punch-Me-In-The-Face Face Club".
But Jackman and Gyllenhall were both great in it. Pretty disturbing movie, but I liked it alot.
Great camera work.

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Peoria Matt
 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
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bigfan wrote:
...didnt need to see kids abducted...


Out.

Can't watch that.
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Douchebag
 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
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Peoria Matt wrote:
bigfan wrote:
...didnt need to see kids abducted...


Out.

Can't watch that.

You don't see the kids abducted.

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 Post subject: Re: Prisoners
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OK. Thanks, DB.
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