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USA, 99 min, color
Sam “Evil Dead” Raimi (Director)

The Evil Dead along with a series about a nightmare on some tree street are films due to which we remember the 80s as a good time. Evil’s good time.
Those who grew up in the 70s still keep in their hearts the memories about Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House on the Left. Those who were lucky to go to school in the 90s will remember Scream.
But for us, the scholars of 80s all three series of Evil Dead are the same as that true green grass and that true delicious vodka which of course no one really does now.
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Popularity: 2% [?]

USA, 114 min, b&w
Howard Hawks (Director)

I slowly come to the end of classic Noire movies’ primary list and tonight I watched one of the American critics’ favorite – The big sleep. And admit I am slightly stumbled but more about that below.

So, we have screening a Raymond Chandler’s novel about of course the private detective adventures. His name is Philip Marlowe. The movie is famous first of all because three months after the shootings two of its main actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall married. That was probably the cause of some family squabbles so Bogart was on a bender during the entire shooting period. In those rare moments when he was able to appear on the set, I suspect camera lens steamed from his morning-after breath. But the film is not about that, of course.
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Popularity: 5% [?]

USA, 147 min, color.
Miсhael Bay (Director)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is not just the ultimate digital boost. This is cinematic cataclysm in all senses of the word, both good and bad. Everything we watch in the first series now multiplied by a hundred.
Two years ago the first Transformers left me completely indifferent and even made me feel some kind of disgusting. But at this time, I suddenly was able to get pleasure and it doesn’t confuse me.
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Popularity: unranked [?]

USA, 96 min, color&3D
Pete Docter (director), Bob Peterson (co-director)

The main idea with which I left the cinema that I’m not interested envy our ancestors. All these people who lived in the era when The Beatles released new albums and our fathers and grandfathers were waiting for them. And those ancestors, who saw on the screen Godfather in the premiere weekend, and told then in offices and telephone conversations that Marlon Brando cool even when he’s fat. And those ancestors, who watched through spyglasses at the sky, hoping to see a space satellite with antennas all around the body.
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Popularity: 17% [?]

USA, 112 min, b&w
Orson Welles (Director)

It is common opinion to take Touch of Evil the most recent classic Noire movie – the first was Maltese Falcon (1941) directed by John Huston.
Touch of Evil is also called the greatest B-Movie of all times. That’s quit funny for all who already read director’s name, but it’s true – in defiance of all common sense this movie was distributed as an additional bonus to ordinary drama The Female Animal and the US audience staid indifferent to it.
The reaction of rest of the world (and mine) on Touch of Evil differs.
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Popularity: 33% [?]

I used to know that Hollywood remakes anything that only comes to their hands. But the news about this remake makes me shit a straight brick work! In short, Howard Stern is revisiting Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. The one was in 1979.

Who would be instead of Ramones? Fallout Boy? Simple Plan? My Chemical Romance? Panic at the Disco? Avril Lavigne? Version accepted.

Popularity: 31% [?]

USA, 88 min, b&w
Robert Siodmak (Director)

As it was common for the Hollywood 30-40’s, the German Jewish director Robert Siodmak ran through the Atlantic in the United States not only to find work and refuge from Hitler, but also create a number of movies that made huge influence in one of genres, in this case – Noire. Overall, he filmed eight classical Noire movies, which is considered the greatest achievement of its kind (along with Fritz Lang).
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Popularity: 41% [?]

USA, 163 min, color.
Ben Stiller (Director)

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I’m sure, I did not see for a long time a comedy with such a bulk of top actors: Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, Tom Cruise, Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Nolte. Well, perhaps only in the “Rat Race” there was an attempt to collect such company, but all the actors were extremely clown roles there. And how many times I’ve seen Hollywood movies, where there was not a single woman in the list of the main roles? By the seat of my pants, they were Rambo: First Blood and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and that’s all.
Tropic Thunder stands out by not only no female roles, but the absence of a colon in the title!
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Popularity: 51% [?]

USA, 163 min, color.
Zack Snyder (Director)

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I have never seen the original graphic novel Watchmen, but already at the tenth minute of the movie I felt that those who had the courage to screen it had to carry too heavy weight. Dozens of the characters, the alternate history of Earth, and absurd but at the same time logical events – all this makes the viewers feel as confused as unfamiliar with Tolkien people felt at watching Lord of the Rings.
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Popularity: 68% [?]

USA, 126 min, color.
JJ Abrams (Director)

The director of “Star Trek” JJ Abrams is known by creating of TV series Lost and as a producer of Cloverfield (also in fact by his fiasco with the Mission: Impossible 3). This movie doesn’t give you any secrets of the series “Lost”, but totally reboots all huge stars-not-stripes universe.
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Popularity: 63% [?]