Micah Tillman

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Tootsie
Surprisingly good. Movies about people living lies really bother me, but I survived this one.
Deals with some good issues regarding what it means to be an excellent person, and whether it would be good to [...]

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Cloverfield
Well-done thriller. Creates a lot of mystery through its limitation to the viewpoint of a single hand-held camera. (And you know how I feel about mystery.)
The character operating the camera through most of the movie is annoying — [...]

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Dr. Horrible
Joss Whedon continues to be a genius. Seems to run in the family, in fact (his brothers appear to have worked with him on this one).
It’s a musical, and today may be the last day you can [...]

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Hairspray
A perfect instantiation of joyousness in the midst of a problematic world. No bitterness. Haven’t actually watched it (technically), but it has been watched (multiple times, it seems) while I was in the room. And the songs are [...]

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is good.
The Wife and I finally got to see it today.
Just proves once again that any movie for which George Lucas writes the story but not the script is bound to be good.
The man is a storywriter. Not a scriptwriter.

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Does anyone else sing, “highway to the danger zone” over the end of the Universal Pictures opening theme?

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And no, I don’t mean Mr. Potter from the greatest movie of all time, It’s a Wonderful Life (even though it would be appropriate for this time of year).
I was watching Harry Potter 1 with my wife last night. There was so much about it I had forgotten. I ain’t never read the books, but [...]

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