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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="06dd8c02dduajq.jpg"> <div>                                                   </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="256b93ac0.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="172" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Go To Movies</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id506.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Movies B"><U><B>B</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id520.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Movies C D"><U><B>C - D</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id317.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Movies E H"><U><B>E - H</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id522.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Movies I L"><U><B>I - L</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id422.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Movies M Q"><U><B>M - Q</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id524.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Movies U Z"><U><B>U - Z</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Judy & Lutz Perschon</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judy Lutz Perschon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >back to</FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><B>At The Movies With Lutz</B></U></A></div> <div> Movies  'A'</div> <div> <B>RATING SYSTEM</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="757" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 27 ><NOBR><div> Really Good Movie <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="82415150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="82415150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Good Movie<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="82415150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Mixed Bag  </FONT><IMG SRC="82415150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Fair Movie<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >   <IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Bad Movie<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >  <IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>Movies in blue text are reviewed. Click on title to see review.  Movies in black text are just rated and maybe a brief comment.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>A History Of Violence [2005]</B>   <img src="HTMLobj-13551/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </FONT>Judy<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >  <IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </FONT>Just didn't like this movie although there were good performances.</div> <div> <B>A League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </FONT></div> <div> <B>A Lot Like Love [2005] </B> <img src="HTMLobj-13552/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </FONT>It's a love story but not even Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet could make this a good movie.</div> <div> <B>A Man Apart (2003)</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <IMG SRC="11e15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> <B>About Schmidt (2002)</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13553/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">   ...it has a number of themes that will touch us all at some time in our lives.</div> <div> <B>According To Greta [2008]  </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> A movie with lots of good lessons for everyone, young or old.</div> <div> <B>Adjustment Bureau, The (2011)  </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  Pretty good movie to show real love overcomes great odds.</div> <div> <B>Adventures of Tin Tin [2011] </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> An animated movie but really fun.  We recommend this one.</div> <div> <B>Aeon Flux [2004] </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13554/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">   Fun to watch if you recognize it's fiction and comic book.</div> <div> <B>After The Sunset (2004)</B>   <img src="HTMLobj-13555/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">   ...just a good mindless bit of entertainment, but it has a twist at the end that gives it additional fun.</div> <div> <B>Against The Ropes [2004]</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13556/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  From our perspective the movie is a good nights entertainment.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id435.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Akeelah and the Bee (2006)"><U><B>Akeelah and the Bee (2006)</B></U></A></FONT>   <img src="HTMLobj-13557/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13558/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  </div> <div> <B>Alamo, The (2004)</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>  </B></FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13559/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  The story of the Alamo will have to go down as one of the most re-done movies in history. We recommend it.</div> <div> <B>Alexander</B> <B>(2004)</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <IMG SRC="11e15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> <B>Alfie (2004)</B>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> <B>All About The Benjamins</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>[2002]</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <IMG SRC="11e15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> <B>Along Came Polly</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>  </B></FONT><B>[2004]</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13560/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </FONT>Some of the humour is quite gross, bordering on offensive.</div> <div> <B>Amazing Grace (2007) </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  The story of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="arial" >William Wilberforce who led efforts to end the slave trade in the British empire is worth seeing.</FONT></div> <div> <B>American,The  [2010] </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Slow to start, but picks up enough to be an OK movie.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="arial" >  </FONT></div> <div> <B>American Gangster (2007) </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  Based on a true story of Frank Lucas and gives a stark insight to the drug scene in Harlem in the 60's.</div> <div> <B>Amelia [2009]</B> <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="11e15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </FONT>The story of Amelia Earhart. I little to slow and unexciting to be good, but worth seeing for the story.</div> <div> <B>Amelie [2001]</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>   </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <IMG SRC="11e15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </FONT> Unmemorable</div> <div> <B>Angels and Demons (2009)   </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> An entertaining movie.  Tom Hanks seems to have a lot of hair suddenly.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id364.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="An Unfinished Life"><U><B>An Unfinished Life [2005]</B></U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13561/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13562/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  </div> <div> <B>And Now Ladies and Gentlemen [2003]  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <IMG SRC="11e15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> <B>Antwone Fisher [2002]</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13563/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > ...</FONT>highly emotional story of a young man, who in spite of adversity, rises up in triumph.</div> <div> <B>Apocalypto (2006)</B> <B> </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="11e15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </FONT>Has merit in depicting the demise of the Mayan civilization. It's completely subtitled.</div> <div> <B>Aquamarine [2006]  </B> <img src="HTMLobj-13564/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </FONT>OK for younger children, but a little simplistic for adults.</div> <div> <B>Ararat [2002]</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-13565/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">   this is a serious movie and deals with some hard subject matter.</div> <div> <B>Around The World In 80 Days [2004]</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <img src="HTMLobj-13566/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">   I</FONT>t was at best, marginal.</div> <div> <B>Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="11e15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT> Slow and tedious and I don't like Casey Affleck.  </div> <div> <B>Assassination Tango [2003] </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <IMG SRC="11e15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </FONT>Robert Duvall wrote, directed, produced, and starred in this movie.  He should stick to acting.</div> <div> <B>Astronaut Farmer [2007]  </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <B> </B>This is more or less sci-fi, but it's a good story with a happy ending.</div> <div> <B>Atonement  (2007) </B> <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Sad but a good movie none the less.  Worth a look.</div> <div> <B>August Rush (2007)  </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  It's a fairy tale. </div> <div> <B>Australia  [2008] </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> A good movie in the genre of a love story woven into an historical event.  Definitely worth a see.</div> <div> <B>Avatar (2009)  </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    A big wow for the cinematography. Overall we really liked it. </div> <div> <B>Aviator [2004]   </B> <img src="HTMLobj-13567/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="262f15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </FONT>Too long disjointed and ends abruptly.  Cate Blanchett is great in her role as Katherine Hepburn</div> <div> <B>Away From Her (2007)  </B><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  About Alzheimer disease and how an older couple had to deal with one partner going into a home. </div> </td> </tr></table></body>