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I was just considering a few minutes ago how it’s not in my nature to talk about love. I leave that to films (which I rarely watch) or books (which I never read) on that subject, seeing how eloquence — when measured and deliberate — always sounds so much better when not spewed randomly. We can’t always be perfect, can we? Romantic movies and books have that kind of perfection, we usually don’t. And I make it a point not to read anything that would remind me of giggly school girls, mills & boon(s) and such; I once made the mistake of doing so and I’ve been traumatized ever since.

And all of the above means I’ve just watched ‘Before Sunset’ yet again. Forgive me for being a right awful caveman, but I’ve not seen ‘Before Sunrise’ when I first caught its sequel. Before watching ‘Before Sunset’, I didn’t have a clue about its predecessor, and I didn’t want to know either. From all accounts it was romantic, etc. etc. So I can’t really say why I bought ‘Before Sunset’ when it arrived here, maybe I was motivated by the fact that I’d be seeing the gorgeous Julie Delpy again, or maybe it was because I’d be catching a thinner version of Ethan Hawke, who I last saw in ‘Reality Bites’ (yes, that long ago).

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I’m paraphrasing some of the bits below:-

Connie :”Ooh, Dostoyevsky, so dark, so gritty, so existential”
Jerry Falk (aside, thinking): “Who cares about Dostoyevsky when Amanda’s there talking to him?”
(and that is precisely the damn point!)
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Dobel stops the car, and turns to Falk. “I have this producer friend and he needs a team of writers to write comedy for him. And I was thinking maybe you and I, we could do it. ‘Course, it’s in California.”
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Morally ambiguous.

That’s how some people have described situations like those portrayed in ‘Runaway Jury’. The crux of the movie, the crux of the theme in the movie, boils down to my favourite scene, a confrontation between Wendell Rohr and Rankin Fitch (Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman). Rankin Fitch is a ‘jury consultant’ hired by gun industry big wigs to defend a case brought forward by the widow of a gun-violence victim represented by Wendell Rohr. The scene takes place just after the prosecution’s main witness is “disappeared”.
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Wesley snipes in another horrible movie.

That man does not know when to quit, does he?

I just watched “7 seconds”. I wish I didn’t. It wasn’t really ‘meh’ in any particular way. It was just plain bad.

Rottentomatoes says it all: no reviews because, most probably, no interest.

And now I must bathe, if only to get rid of the stink. No, this movie doesn’t even deserve the few minutes required to describe it.