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The $3 million Man

Advantages: Excellent acting, powerful story
Disadvantages: Dated now

and powerful way. I thought that they portrayed the suffering of an autistic savant person very well and did not make the character out to be stupid or less of a man than he was. I thought that Dustin Hoffman who played Raymond did an amazing job and I am so glad that he won an Oscar for his performance. He managed to make me feel a whole different range of emotions, one minute I was feeling sorry for him as he was unable to take being out of his routine and the next minute I would be laughing at him for some silly story he was telling Charles. He really did the role justice and had me believing that he really was a sufferer. Tom Cruise played the role of Charles and at the beginning of the film I did not warm to his character as he was quite arrogant but after about half an hour I did start to warm to him and I liked how he managed to portray ...

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Review of Rain Man (DVD)

The Imperfect Man

Advantages: Mildly diverting
Disadvantages: Unoriginal fluff

stereotype, is still good for a few laughs) and Jean's would-be suitor Lenny, full-time baker and Styx (lame US soft rock band) obsessive. Apart from Lance's bitching, the dialogue is almost quip free, running on accepted homilies (everything has two sides) and pseudo-philosophical musings on the nature of women from Ben. It's a shame the main would-be boyfriends are seriously under-written, existing solely to prop up the self esteem of the two female leads. However, it is refreshing to see a teen flick where the adolescent lead shares screen-time almost equally with her mother. But you have to be willing to accept the fact that the writers think that all women need a man to validate their existence. The majority of the comedy is situational but far from original, with the biggest laugh coming from a "Say Anything" parody that has Lenny climbing ...

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Review of The Perfect Man

Say no to this Yes Man

Advantages: It ends eventually
Disadvantages: The crude scenes, swearing

I've just had the misfortune of watching Yes Man, and you can probably guess that I was really disappointed. Synopsis Carl is a bank clerk in charge of approving or denying loans most of which he denies. After separating from his wife, he has withdrawn into his shell and no longer enjoys the company of his friends. In short he's turned into a grumpy old man, that is until he runs into an old friend whilst he's eating his lunch. His friends tells him of a seminar that's coming up in a few days, which gas changed his life for the better. The concept is simple, you can improve your life by saying 'yes'. And that's what Carl decides to do, but it's not as easy as it sounds, there are somethings you just want to say no to, the trouble is bad things happen when Carl says no. Cast Jim Carrey as Carl Allen Zooey ...

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Review of Yes Man