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“Mystic River” (2003)  Director: Clint Eastwood

“Jimmy Markum: They put her in a bag. 
Theo: What’s that? 
Jimmy Markum: That’s what Katie looked like when I saw her in the morgue. Like they put her in a bag and then they beat the bag with pipes. Janie died in her sleep, all due respect, but there you go. She went to sleep, she never woke up. Peaceful. 
Theo: You don’t need to talk about Janie. 
Jimmy Markum: My daughter was murdered. They put a gun to her. As we stand here, she’s on an autopsy slab getting cut open by scalpels and chest spreaders, and you’re talking to me about domestic fucking responsibility? Good to see you, Theo.”

Rating: ★★★★☆

(Source: theater-and-cigarettes)

“King Kong” - Extended Cut (2005)  Director: Peter Jackson

We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign - and no memories. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there - there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. 

Rating: ★★★☆☆

“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (2010)  Director: Edgar Wright

“Scott Pilgrim: [after defeating Matthew Patel] So…what was all that all about?
Romona V. Flowers: Well… I guess… if we’re going to date, you may have to defeat my seven evil exes.
Scott Pilgrim: You have seven evil ex-boyfriends?
Ramona V. Flowers: Seven evil exes, yes.
Scott Pilgrim: And I have to fight…
Ramona V. Flowers: Defeat.
Scott Pilgrim: Defeat your seven evil exes if we’regoing to continue to date?
Ramona V. Flowers: Pretty much.”

Rating: ★★★★☆

(Source: theater-and-cigarettes)

“TRON: Legacy” (2010)  Director: Joseph Kosinski

“Kevin Flynn: The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day… 
7 Year Old Sam Flynn: You got in. 
Kevin Flynn: That’s right, man. I got in.” 

Rating: ★★★☆☆

(Source: theater-and-cigarettes)

“The Avengers” (2012)  Director: Joss Whedon 

“Tony Stark: Let’s do a headcount: Your brother, the demigod; a super-soldier, a living legend who actually lives up to the legend; a man with breathtaking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins; and you’ve managed to piss off every single one of us. 
Loki: That was the plan. 
Tony Stark: Not a great plan.”

Rating: ★★★★☆

 ”Chicago” (2002)  Director: Rob Marshall 

“‘C’mon Babe, why don’t we paint the town… And all that Jazz. I’m gonna rouge my knees and roll my stockings down… And all Jazz. Start the car I know a whoopie spot… where the gin is cold and the piano’s hot. It’s just a noisy hall, where there’s a nightly brawl… And all that Jazz”.

Rating: ★★★☆☆

“Straw Dogs” (2011)  Director: Rod Lurie

“David Summer: Just so you know, somebody broke into our house and killed our cat. 
Chris: What makes you think Flutie was killed? 
David Summer: Well, generally cats don’t hang themselves.”

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆

(Source: theater-and-cigarettes)

“A Dangerous Method” (2011)  Director: David Cronenberg 

“Carl Jung: Explain this analogy made between the sexes, the death instinct.
Sabina Spielrein: Professor Freud claims that the sexual drive arises from a simple urge towards pleasure. If he’s right, the question is why is this urge so often successfully repressed?
Carl Jung: You used to have a theory involving the impulse towards destruction, self destruction. Losing oneself.
Sabina Spielrein: Suppose we think of sexuality as futile, losing oneself as you say, but losing oneself in the other. In other words, destroying ones own individuality. Wouldn’t the ego in self defense automatically resist the impulse?
Carl Jung: You mean for selfish not for social reasons?
Sabina Spielrein: Yes. I’m saying that perhaps true sexuality demands the destruction of the ego.”

Rating: ★★★★☆

“Veronika Decides To Die” (2009)  Director: Emily Young

“I’ll go back to work on my new anti-depressants. Have dinner with my parents, persuade them that I’m back to being the normal one who never gives them any trouble. Then one day, some guy will ask me to marry him. I’m mean it’s enough, it will make my parents very happy. In the first year we will make love all the time, and then in the second and third, less and less. But just as were getting sick of each other, I’ll get pregnant. Taking care of kids, holding up a job, paying mortgages, it’ll keep us on moving keel for awhile. And then about ten years into it, he’ll have an affair because I’m too busy and too tired and I’ll find out. I’ll threaten to kill him, his mistress, myself. We’ll get past it and in a few years he’ll have another one, but this time I’m just going to pretend I don’t know ‘cause somehow keeping up a fuss just doesn’t seem worth the trouble this time. And I’ll live out the rest of my days, sometimes wishing my kids could have a life that I never had. Other times secretly pleased they’re turning into repeats of me. I’m fine, really.”

Rating: ★★★☆☆

“Dexter” (2006 - Present)  Developed By: James Manos Jr.

Meet Dexter Morgan. By day he’s a blood spatter pattern expert for the Miami Metro police department. But by night - he takes on an entirely different persona: serial killer. But Dexter isn’t your average serial killer as he only kills people who fit a very prolific and precise “moral code” taught to him by his late father Harry and developed very thoroughly throughout each kill. 

Rating: ★★★★★