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The Three Stooges (2012)
If you are a Stooge fan, this film is a Very Well Done Tribute
If you look at the ratings of this film, I have never seen such polarization among reviewers. Either 1's or 10's. So It's basically lovers vs the haters. Which is a very good guide as to whether you would enjoy this film. I would recommend renting and watching 5 or 6 Curly-based Stooge shorts before you go, so you can see what a wonderful job the actors did in re-creating the roles with great detail in voice, facial expressions, etc. The Story is Stooge-silly with tons of Stooge references and visual gags. Even the intro music to each segment is note-accurate to the original all beautifully re-recorded. Even the sound effects are either re-created or cleaned up version of the originals. Even the sound editing is an homage to the originals - with slight timing miscues - just like the originals. The Ferrelly Brothers attention to details is fantastic. It's too bad more people don't really get what made the stooges great. Sadly, ticket sales probably will scare away film makers for another 40 years from doing another, but at least I have another great Stooge film in my collection, which b.t.w. is far superior to any of their original feature length films done late in their careers.
Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
One of the most bizarre true stories in the history of popular music
Who would know that an unknown album from an unknown artist in 1970 (Rodriguez) would become a huge phenomenon in South Africa? As big as say, Paul McCartney. Rodriguez himself was never aware of his huge success, as well as most other Americans. This film traces two hardcore fans as they trace clues around the globe trying to find out what happened to this man. Did he commit a gruesome suicide as rumors say? If so, when and where? Almost nothing was known of this mystery man. The film unfolds a story that cannot be believed by any party. Not the South Africans, nor the filmmakers, or any member of the Rodriquez family. A story that you would swear would not be possible in this day and age of digital communications.