VIDEO TB2K Movies - American Made 2017 - The Ninth Gate 1999 - Can't Buy Me Love 1987 - Anthropoid 2016 - Mannequin 1987 - Just Cause 1995 - Blade 2 2002 -

1911user

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There are 7 movies this week.
I recommend watching or saving these sooner rather than later.
Except for The Ninth Gate, all of the movies this week are smaller, less than 1 GB in size.

This thread on MAIN has the info about the movies and is the place for discussion about them, as before.
However, all of the movie and download links are located in a separate,
members-only, thread in the MEDIA CENTER at this link:

----------->>> Link to the thread containing the actual movie links <<<-----------

This should help protect the source of the movies and keep them available longer.


If you watch or download a movie, please comment or like to guide future selections.
Click the "movies" tag at top to see a list of previous movie threads.

Movie trailers (from youtube) can be found in post #9 of this thread.
Click the "movies" tag at the top of this thread to see a list of all movies posted in the past.

Enjoy the Show!


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The first movie is American Made. This 2017 Tom Cruise action thriller shows the story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair. This is a good, crazy film and it really happened...

It's 1978. Barry Seal, an airline pilot, is recruited by the CIA to fly special missions in Central America. Initially it is a matter of information-for-supplies but ultimately he ends up being a drug transporter for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel and supplying anti-Communist groups, including the Nicaraguan Contras, with weapons.

American Made (2017) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The second movie is The Ninth Gate. This 1999 Roman Polanski mystery thriller stars Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, and Emanuelle Singer. This well-done film is a personal favorite. It shows the skill of Polanski to tell a story that keeps drawing one into the film until the end. This is a good quality version at 2 GB file size.

- A rare book dealer, while seeking the last two copies of a rare text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

Dean Corso, an unscrupulous New York City rare-book dealer with the questionable ethics, is hired by a millionaire avid book collector and zealous occult scholar. He is to verify the authenticity of his most prized possession: The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows. As the diligent book detective flies to Europe to compare Balkan's edition with the only two remaining copies, a mystery begins to shroud his discoveries, while at the same time, a cryptic woman seems to follow his every step. Eventually, at the end of Corso's dangerous hunt for clues, the unfathomable secrets of the leather-bound opus will be unveiled only to the one who holds the key. However, who is worthy of its dark, yet glorious mysteries?

The Ninth Gate (1999) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The third movie is Can't Buy Me Love. This 1987 teen romantic comedy stars Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, and Courtney Gains.

- An outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month.

Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the "cool" clique. He offers her a thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. It succeeds, but he soon learns that the price of popularity may be higher than he expected.

Can't Buy Me Love (1987) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The fourth movie is Anthropoid. This 2016 WW2 drama is based on the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich is the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler. He is the leader of occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted self-exiled Czech and Slovak soldiers to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.

This film does a good job of taking one back into occupied Europe during WW2. It gives a realistic view of the resistance to the Nazi occupation, and the costs of such resistance.

Anthropoid (2016) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The fifth movie is Mannequin. This 1987 romantic comedy stars Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, and James Spader.

Down-on-his-luck artist Jonathan Switcher bounces from one dead-end job to another, never managing to hold onto any of them. But everything changes when he builds a mannequin, which he falls in love with. It is the first thing he has made that makes him feel like a real artist. Much to his surprise, Jonathan discovers the mannequin prominently displayed in the window of Prince and Company department store. When he saves the life of an old lady who happens to be the owner of that store, he is rewarded by getting a job at the store as a stock boy. The mannequin later comes to life as Ema "Emmy" Hesire, who was an ancient Egyptian princess living in the year 2514 BC. Gorgeous and vivacious, this femme fatale helps Jonathan turn his career around, inspiring him to become the best window dresser in town. But Emmy soon discovers that the real world is not very dear, when they run into competitors who want to bring them out of business - for good.

Mannequin (1987) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The sixth movie is Just Cause. This 1995 crime drama stars Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburn, Kate Capshaw, and Ed Harris.

- A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.

The year is 1986. In Ochopee, Florida, eleven-year-old Joanie Shriver is kidnapped, raped, and murdered. Bobby Earl Ferguson is arrested by 2 officers, who proceed to beat Bobby into confessing to the murder. Bobby is placed on trial, where his defense attorney McNair (Ned Beatty) puts up a lousy defense, and he is sentenced to be executed. Now, eight years later, Bobby hands a letter to his grandmother Evangeline and asks her to go to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to hire Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong (Sir Sean Connery) to clear Bobby's name. At Harvard, Paul is attacking capital punishment in a campus debate, when Evangeline arrives and hands the letter to Paul. He goes home, where his wife Laurie is throwing a birthday party for their young daughter Katie (Scarlett Johansson). Laurie reads the letter and encourages Paul to take the case, even though he hasn't practiced law in twenty-five years. They head to Florida, where Paul meets Bobby in the prison. Bobby tells his side of the story and what the police did. Paul begins to believe that Bobby was railroaded. Bobby tells Paul to speak to Blair Sullivan (Ed Harris), a man who is also on death row. Blair gives Paul some clues that could prove Bobby's innocence, and Blair's own guilt. But in the process of trying to clear Bobby, Paul learns some disturbing truths about Bobby, putting Paul and his family in a fight for their lives.

Just Cause (1995) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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The seventh movie is Blade 2. This 2002 vampire action film continues the story of last week's Blade movie. This stars Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, and Norman Reedus (Daryl from The Walking Dead).

Two blood-soaked years after Deacon Frost's nightmarish plan in Blade (1998), the indestructible half-human/half-vampire hybrid, Blade, finds himself in the middle of an entirely different war. This time, both humankind and the vampire species are under attack, as a feral strain of insatiable blood-suckers named the Reapers feed on mortals and immortals alike. Under those dire circumstances, Blade reluctantly agrees to make an uneasy pact with his eternal adversaries, and lead an elite squad of vampire assassins against the mutual enemy. Can Blade avert the imminent advent of a horrifying new breed of undead predators?

Blade II (2002) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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FaithfulSkeptic

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Thanks. Just watched Anthropoid. Uugh. Sobering movie.

Wife and I are currently watch Band of Brothers (again, for me), which is also very gut wrenching.
 
FaithfulSkeptic

FaithfulSkeptic

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And only after the Germans kill ~5000 of them in retribution does Britain decide they're "allies in the fight for freedom".

ETA: With respect to the actual assassination event, you'd think they would have had a few simple Molotov cocktails with them for backup. It would have finished the job on the spot.
 
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Thanks for your picks. Good Stuff. Now if I can just get my popcorn consumption under better control...
 
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