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Scribbles About Movies: Mini Movie Reviews- March 2016- May 2016

So I think I'm going to challenge myself to watching 1 movie every week. Why? I was reading entertainment weekly and they weighed in on the Oscars controversy saying that they didn't quite think that a lot of the older, male voters would watch "Straight Outta Compton" because "It wasn't really their type of movie." My Grandfather is 85 years old and he saw Straight Outta Compton and liked it, even though it isn't really "his type of movie." He goes to the movies every week with my uncle and they'll see whatever's playing... not just what's interested... and I figure if they can do it, I can do it and the Academy should be able to do it as well. I'm not going to actually go to the theaters to do it, I'm just going to see whats on TV or things that I haven't seen that I own on DVD or something and watch it. If its a movie I've seen before and can remember... for the time being I'm probably not going to includ...

See it or Skip?- Mini Reviews

Since Netflix/ Amazon/ On demand websites have a lot of movies that maybe you didn't see in theaters or anything I'm going to write about those. They're basically movies I missed, but maybe you want to watch or something. I don't want to go into great detail or anything, but I'll go into some detail just cause I've seen these movies now and I would like people to know whether or not you should see them or not. Conception - This is on Netflix, I watched it a few months ago. It was an ensemble comedy with all different plotlines about how babies were conceived. It was clever and a lot of it was funny... but it was just weird. There was a lot of sex and it was just kind of weird. It was basically about people having sex and how/why and what happened after. I don't love ensemble comedies and this one was just a bit weird. I'd say SKIP IT!  The Puffy Chair - I like Mark Duplass. This was an early film of his that he made with his brother and his (now)...