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7500 (2019)
Breathtaking
Highly suspenseful but same time very realistic and engaging. No Hollywood ending or big flash technical effects, just engaging acting and impossible dilemmas makes for a very highly believable drama.
Hexed (1993)
Hilarious
I taped this movie in 1994 and have watched it many times since; it's hilarious. It's been a few years since the last time I watched it but there are so many comic scenes in it that often plays out in my head. A few favorite moments from the film:
Simon (Matthews's jock-like obnoxious supervisor who behaves like Louise's husband in Thelma & Louise) and Hexina arrives at Matthew's apartment and starts going through his stuff. Simon looks scornfully at a bookshelf and hisses "books"!
Matthew borrows a tape recorder from his sweet coworker Gloria who hesitantly gives it to him with the words "Be careful, it's a Sony and I'm still making payments on it"
Hexina, having an orgasm, yells "Papa Papa".
Detective Ferguson, while chasing Matthew on foot, jumps up on the hood of a car and falls down flat on his face. When discovered by other detectives he utters "The son of a bitch hit me with a lead pipe"
The King's Speech (2010)
Excellent movie that leaves you reflecting on your own battles
A movie about great courage, facing up to one's biggest fear. A fear that may seem irrational and insignificant to others but is an insurmountable mountain to the individual. A debilitating and overpowering enemy that every instinct in your body commands you to avoid at all cost. King George VI again and again is thrust into a situation where he feels forced to do battle with this fear head on. Repeatedly he gives up only later to take up the gauntlet again and ultimately he overcomes; or at least finds a workable modus operandi with his deep rooted fear, that enables him to fulfill his full potential and be a guiding light to his people at a time of great need.
A courageous tale, eminently well played by Colin Firth, where he manages to be at once wooden, withdrawn and distant; yet vulnerable, sympathetic and all together absolutely convincing in the role of the stammering King George VI. Helena Bonham Carter also plays well as a supportive and persistent wife, even if her occasional application of a cold facade towards her husband's brother's fiancée and Lionel Logue's wife come across as inconsistent with the otherwise warm character she portrays. Geoffrey Rush is brilliant as the therapist who knows when to command, also in difficult situations when the king is behaving obstinately, yet shows a depth of vulnerability, humility and vainness when the king gives him a cold shoulder or an aloof amateur theater director works hard at coming up with multiple unlikely justifications for not awarding a role to Lionel. A great movie that will leave you thinking about the trials and tribulations the poor king had to face. Perhaps you will draw parallels to your own life and the particular fears you are either avoiding or facing up to.