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Time spent watching films, even crappy ones, is time well-spent.

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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

4/26/2002

Coming Home (1978)

Fonda and Voight are good, but the story isn't as brutal as it could/should be. Instead of being powerful because of the destructive impact war has on everyone, it focuses on the pedestrian destruction caused by the "neglected wife finds true freedom with sensitive stranger" storyline.

I had to pause the movie a couple of times in the last 20 minutes just to relieve my ears from the pounding "background" music -- even though the scene changed, the music REFUSED TO STOP.

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