I am not particularly knowledgeable about sci-fi. This movie helped me appreciate the genre...

Quoted: There are a handful of 'classic' SF movies that really demonstrate why this genre has appealed to intelligent lay audiences for so long. It's not the cheesy special effects and it's not _just_ the coolness of making contact with extraterrestrial cultures.
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The best of these films -- like the low-budget and sometimes horrid original _Star Trek_ that they spawned -- succeed in using the genre and the medium to present the cinematic equivalent of a morality play. And if some of them, like this one, come across as a bit heavy-handed today, it's because they have fewer cliches to overcome now.

New York Times article on Frank Lucas and the movie.

Quoted: It was the early 1970s, and every week nearly four dozen American soldiers were returning home from Vietnam in flag-draped coffins. Frank Lucas, who ruled a crime empire in Newark and Harlem, had a plan: smuggle the purest Asian heroin he could find into New York, stashed inside those coffins.

Enjoyed it, although I tend to like "based on true story" sorts of movies. Did not know about Frank Lucas or the rampant police corruption of the time until watching this.

Great (but violent) movie. Seems like many before me have already Faved it...I pretty much agree with their assessments.

I thought this was moderately interesting, but it had tons of plot holes and unexplained events that just made the movie feel kind of arbitrary.

The reviews say that the book is completely different from the movie.

Quoted: Things not explained in this movie include: the title, The Human Project, the infertility, the reason for the treatment of the immigrants, what happened to the rest of the world...and I could go on. Michael Caine is a complete sidebar with no real purpose to the story line with holes that you can already drive a tractor trailer through.

I thought this was just okay. I have two takeaways:
1) What Treadwell was doing was not really helpful. Historically, bears and humans have a balanced relationship where they just stay away from each other. Treadwell was threatening that balance by getting too close to the bears and "teaching" the bears that it is okay to get close to humans.
2) The bears (unlike gorillas or monkeys) don't really bond with humans. While Treadwell thought he was befriending the bears, they looked completely indifferent. They were just contemplating whether they should eat him or not.

Quoted: A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.

Watched this on Netflix "Watch Instantly". There were many amazing scenes, including
a) A male gorilla describing (using sign language) how his mom was shot when he was an infant.
b) Koko selecting a mate through video dating. She was very clear about who she liked and didn't. When she found her favorite, she asked her trainer to bring him to her.
c) Koko painting a picture of her favorite dog -- deliberately selecting only black and white from a palette of 5-10 other colors.

Quoted: Narrated by Martin Sheen, this installment of the Emmy award-winning PBS series Nature features the story of the famous gorilla named Koko. Collecting conversations -- in which Koko "spoke" via sign language -- from a decades-long dialogue with the ape, this program details the wants and needs expressed by Koko and her complexity and creativity.

Watched this because a friend told me it was the scariest movie she'd seen. Agree with the following review.

Quoted: Finally, a horror film that is aimed at adults, not your average teen-slasher film of the 80s and 90s with a script that let you figure out all of the major plot points within minutes of viewing. The script always stays several steps ahead of you and keeps you in a wonderful mixture of suspense that never fails to please. The first fifty minutes seem quite eerie, and it seems like nothing much happens, but after that, it is all thrown at you with full force. Utterly disturbing and dream-like, watching this film will relive your childhood nightmares of the bogeyman. The atmosphere is dark, creepy and intense.

Watched this a little while ago but didn't get a chance to give my review.

It's certainly a movie for the teen guy demographic...but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't entertaining. A couple scenes were a little over the top, though.