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Big Driver.

Stephen King story of a mystery writer named Tess, who after being invited to speak to her fans at a library, is told about a short cut to get home by Ramona, the woman who had invited her. Taking the back road out to the middle of nowhere, her tire blows out after hitting a board with nails. Soon, what she takes to be a good Samaritan - a gigantic, amiable, well spoken man - stops to help. Too late does she discover that the man is a psychopathic rapist who sexually assaults her, then leaves her for dead in a drainage pipe filled with dead, decaying women. Too fearful of the public accusations of leading on her attacker, Tess is determined to hide what had happened to her, then seek revenge. The terrible realization occurs to her, that this man - who she learns is called "Big Driver" locally - had not just randomly found her, but that the woman, Ramona, who she had trusted, had purposely sent her there. Pretty decent revenge movie.

Watching THE MASTER right now.

Joaquin Phoenix makes a great rotter. And Hoffaman's pompous character adores Phoenix's mysterious hooch. Which is composed of various deadly toxins, such as lacquer thinner. The two become great friends of sorts, but Hoffman uses him as a guinea pig for his faux Scientology exploitations.

It's one of those movies that's hard to explain but you'll be happy to have seen once you watched it, it gives a totally new viewpoint on what veterans face.

'The Master' would have been so much better if Joaquin Phoenix's character wasn't the focus of the movie. I wish it had been centered around Hoffman's character or literally any other character who I actually cared about and didn't actively dislike. I love Paul Thomas Anderson - 'Boogie Nights' is easily in my Top 50 films and 'Magnolia' isn't far behind - but 'The Master' is definitely at the bottom of my list of his films.

Actually, this is one of my favorite films Hoffman did. Along with LOVE, LIZA and OWNING MAHOWNY.

Have you seen PT Anderson's new movie Inherent Vice? If so, what is your opinion on it?

The Tinkerbell movies. Crackin' series, 10/10 would watch again.

Fave one is the Great Pirate Fairy. If you only watch one of them, I'd reccomend that. Was the first I watched and is done in such a way that you can understand and enjoy it without watching the other movies first.

Watching the 2nd Ip Man movie for the 2nd time. Love it more than the 1st one, and the actor playing Ip Man, Donnie Yen, was right- the 2nd one is more better than the 1st.

Anyway, if ever, Ip Man: The Final Fight is not my cup of tea due to it's a AU of the 2nd movie, and the guy playing IP there is NOT Donnie, so I was like "Am I even watching this one right?"

The last movie that I watched was Jesus Camp. It's a documentary about an evangelical youth camp. My partner wanted to watch it with me.

I recently went to Mocking Jay Part 1 in December which I really enjoyed. I thought it was better than the last two movies that came out. This one had more of a Star Wars feel to it.

The fact that you like MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS better than this amazes me. Joaquin may be unlikable, but it makes the movie (IMO). This thing is so gritty. No hero's in this film. They are all contemptible. But for me, this is what makes it amusing.

Snatch, good movie