"A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.“


-Roger Ebert

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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

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