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Your Highness (2011)
1/10
Bleh!
12 April 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Yet again another movie where dumb, fat, ugly, men get hot chicks to fall on their faces to please them. YAWN!!!!

Natalie Portman's character - "The strong female hero" is just a stupid and FAILED attempt at excusing their over the top degradation of women.

The fact that this movie was made for (and clearly by) 13 year old boys, is not lost on me. And, while I understand I fall way outside the demographic - because I have brains and breasts - this movie is a sad excuse for entertainment.

The gay humor is tired, over played and unoriginal - get some new material PLEASE! And let's be honest, the drug references were just GROSS.

The movie has no plot to speak of, no inventive or creative story telling, basically it's just an excuse for a bunch of wealthy actors to parade around acting like total morons.

Hooray for Hollywood and their continued aspiration of dumbing down an entire generation! Well Played - Bravo!!!
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Strays (1997)
10/10
Excellent Film
6 June 2008
Strays is brutally honest and... beautifully executed. It uses harsh words and harsher actions to portray a lifestyle that is real and not sugar coated for the audience. It does not apologize for this but instead asks us to understand the truth being portrayed. A war without blood would not be accurate. These lives without the brutal language would be false and would strip the movie of its commitment to honesty.

The acting, directing, and writing in this movie was done with absolute attention to detail. I deeply enjoyed this movie. It was fresh and new and at times so real and raw I felt like a voyeur. Rick's life unfolds before us and we are taken along on a journey through his emotional awakening. Gracefully it allows us to experience the lives of its characters without judgment.

This in turn gives us the freedom to feel and grow along with them. It evokes emotion and dialogue and is in my opinion a great work of art.
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