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Little Children (2006)
Painful and Monotonous
This movie characterizes just how bad a Hollywood production can be - hackneyed, go-nowhere plot, stereotyped, pathetic characters, crummy acting (by good actors!), and gratuitous sex bordering on the X-rated variety to make up for the lack of any other interesting features - it has been shown on my local cable system more than once, and no matter how many times I attempt to watch it, I always have to turn it off in disgust before it ends.....I really wanted to like this movie, as it has some good actors in it, but I just don't. Perhaps after I forget about it (it won't take long!) and see it again in a few years, I'll have a different slant, but I doubt it.
The Dogs of War (1980)
A role made to order for Christopher Walken
Semi-spoilers ahead... Pretty faithful to the Fredrick Forsythe novel; not so much a war movie as a suspense movie; the short "war" at the end is the result of patience and careful planning - lots of international wheeling-dealing and intrigue. Walken plays the perfectly stoic aging mercenary who's beginning to wrestle with the moral aspects of his profession, and in the end decides to do the "right" thing instead of just what he's been paid to do............Well worth watching. Watch for Ed O'Neill in an early film role.