Blu-ray Review: 127 Hours

Started by arad Apr 15, 2011 3 posts
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127 Hours doesn’t sound like it would work. Everyone knows what it’s about, and most people know how it ends. So how do you build tension? How do you keep the audience interested? The answer is simple, get Danny Boyle to direct and James Franco to star in it. It’s directed with masterful skill and has one of the best acting performances of 2010. This film is also very well paced. Almost an hour of it was spent in a canyon with a guy’s arm pinned down by a boulder. Not once did I look at my watch and wonder...

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I'm finally going to respond to movie reviews (Blu-ray or not) in this forum. Every time I receive one, I thank Firetrust Software for Mailwasher, which allows me to remove emails from my post box on my IP's server. I now have it set to automatically set for delete any email that contains "Blu-Ray Review" in its subject. If I wanted to read movie reviews, I'd go to a website that specializes in movies. I don't - especially in this forum. Hence, thanks to Mailwasher. But I would just as soon the filter were never used again.

Thanks for the chance to say this, and, yes, I expect to hear about this post.