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“I have to admit it, it has been a while since I saw this movie and I should probably re-watch it at some point. Since this movie is a huge classic in France and the last big critical and commercial success for François Truffaut before his untimely death, I had some rather huge expectations towards ” read more
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this movie but since it belongs to the Disney classics, I thought I might as well check it out. First of all, I find it rather odd that this movie has been included in this fairly prestigious list since there was only one short animated segment (which was b” read more
“I always wondered if Claude Chabrol was really famous abroad but he was definitely a major director in France. Indeed, the guy really had an impressive career with a dozen of French classics with a career stretching from the New Wave until his death in 2010. To be honest, I haven't seen so many of h” read more
“If I recall it correctly, I actually saw this movie in the movie theater back then when I was living in England. The big problem with Michael Winterbottom is that the guy is such a workaholic, it is actually difficult to keep track of all the movies he has made and, on top of that, I believe that to” read more
“This year, I saw ‘Belgica’ and since I thought it was pretty good, I was quite eager to see the other movies directed by Felix van Groeningen . First of all, those Belgian movies are usually with subtitles when they are broadcast on the Dutch channels but, since I saw it on a Belgian channel, th” read more
“Some time ago, it must have been last year summer, my wife told me that she saw this hilarious trailer about an animated feature dealing with some pets. Even though I am a massive movie junk, I had seriously no idea what she was talking about but it made me curious and when I looked it up, I found o” read more
Movies the giraffe watched in 2016: July (38 movies items)
“To be honest, yesterday, I was actually planning to finally watch 'Whiplash' since it was soon to be removed from HBO but my daughter apparently wanted to watch something together so we ended up watching this movie instead. We had already watched the first installment last year and she was really ea” read more
“Obviously, I didn't expect much from this flick since I had some time left this Saturday afternoon, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, it turned out to be another rather lame Sandler production, that's for sure. I mean, right from the start, the whole thing was just so misguided. Basicall” read more
“Ever since I saw 'Control', I got intrigued by Anton Corbijn's work so I was really eager to check this 3rd directing effort. Even though it was another spy feature like 'The American' was, it was something much more ambitious, easily his most ambitious movie so far but I'm afraid it only partially ” read more
Victims:
- Michelle Monaghan
- Ashley Benson (ok, she was actually the love interest of one of his buddies but still)
Worldwide Gross: $244,874,809
Note: Even though I thought this movie was considered as a flop, it still managed to make $240m worldwide gross so, I guess, it was financially actually fairly successful. Even so, it turned out to be pretty lame, I'm afraid. I mean, to make a comedy about vintage gaming, after above all the success of 'Wreck-It Ralp', was in fact a decent idea but it just didn't work. What went wrong here? First of all, the whole concept of having some hardcore gamers saving the world was just weak and not really funny whatsoever. Seriously, even the game angle was poorly developed. 
