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"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.." :) Robert DeNiro is a brilliant actor. I love him in Cape Fear 1991 and he is so funny in Meet the Parents, I love that film it's great! Goodfellas is an awesome film too. I don't think I have seen DeNiro in anything bad to be honest.
Watch Means Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, The Deer Hunter, and even Heat for more DeNiro goodness. There is one scene in particular near the end of Heat where there is only a front shot in a car of DeNiro's face, while he's contemplating doing one last thing before he gets on a plane to disappear. Its completely dialog free, but its some of the best acting I have ever seen.
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I thought the velociraptors were more influenced by Deinonychus? I don't think Utahraptor had been discovered when the first film was in production.
Utahraptor was discovered in 1991, you are right the raptors in Jurassic Park had more in common with Deinonychus, in the later films Velociraptor had features resembling a blend of the two. Nevermind that Velociraptor actually existed.
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Watched 'The Iceman' about Richard Kuklinski' date=' Michael Shannon was good.[/quote'] Michael Shannon is one of the few actors I can think of(Christoph Waltz, Christopher Walken) who has been good in every movie I've ever seen him in. He seems like the type of actor that will still try to hone his craft to the best of his ability even when he's just there to cash a paycheck. His General Zod in the last Superman was the best thing about that movie. If you want a deeper cut, go back and see Bug.
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I haven't really seen much with Michael Shannon, I have a few books about Kuklinski and he seemed to portray him well, according to what I have read and the interviews.. I will check out Bug, thanks. I can only recall Christoph Waltz in Django and Inglourious Basterds, off the top of my head, he was awesome in the farmhouse scene in Inglourious. I am going to see San Andreas tomorrow .. I hope I will not be disappointed :)

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Salem's Lot is a great book, and a brilliant audio drama, but I didn't think the movie was any good. The Shining is brilliant in pretty much every way. I just really like Shawshank though.

 

Anyway busting out the classics for this week: The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn Of The Dead, and Halloween are all on the watch list for this week along with the original Star Wars trilogy, Alien, and Jurassic Park.

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I thought Salems Lot was really good, really eerie. Geoffrey Lewis made a great vampire!   Watched Tusk the other night, was bizarre to say the least :)

I might have to re-watch it but I remember thinking it felt like a Nosferatu rip-off.

 

Elm Street is classic slasher material but not really scary if you ask me. Then again I tend not to scare during slasher films so it could just be me. The more subtle psychological horror films tend to get me every time though.

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Probably won't watch it for a little while. Forgot the Tour De France started this week and while a great man my find it dull I enjoy watching the cycling. Observing how each team's tactics play out, how individual riders treat each stage, it fascinates me and there's scope to adopt such tactics in some of my own races - particularly match sprints and criterions.

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