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  • The movie Unstoppable with Denzel and Chris Pine about the runaway train is the perfect hotel movie. The one you put on at the hotel when you don’t want to pay attention to anything and just want to mindlessly have something on. It’s a silly movie that keeps your attention *just* enough.

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