What Movies Have You Seen Recently? - Page 14

Snoopy · 05-05-2007, 04:21 PM

I can't say, I've never met her.

Miss Amy · 05-07-2007, 05:59 PM

This weekend my husband and I watched The Good Shepard and Blood Diamond.

The Good Shepard was good, a little hard to follow at times because it goes back and forth between twenty years and Matt Damon doesn't look very different in either time period. And I don't really want to see Angelina's face in movies anymore since I see it everywhere else...

Blood Diamond was pretty good as well... however I loathed Leo D's accent.

I also saw Half Nelson a while ago. I like my fellow Canadians however as the sister of an addict it isn't as intresting to watch it on-screen howver I found the relationship that he has with his student quite fascinating... it never quite goes there but was very inapporpriate just the same.

17th Angel · 05-08-2007, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Pathless

Great film--Hemp Revolution is a documentary that showcases the wonders of the hemp plant (hey, it's not just for stoners anymore!)

What do you mean.... -Anymore- ? It has always been used by everyone not just people that enjoy smoking it.... Your own military in WWII used it for many things... And in the Nam...

But meh, the best wonder of the plant is getting off your face..

17th Angel · 05-09-2007, 11:10 AM

The Last Castle (2001)

Pathless · 05-13-2007, 10:26 AM

U.S. vs. John Lennon

An amazing and moving account of John Lennon's role as peaceful revolutionary in the late 1960s and 1970s. This film includes interesting interviews with personalities ranging from Yoko Ono to G. Gordon Liddy. I've always loved and admired this period of American history for its spirit and vitality. Watching this movie also opened my eyes to just how absurdly the presidencies of Nixon and Bush resemble each other.

Check it out.

17th Angel · 05-23-2007, 11:03 AM

Smokin' Aces!!
"When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing."

http://stage6.divx.com/user/SalTheMa...4/Smoking-Aces

This film kicked buttocks....

Oh and I also watched last night, 88 minutes now this is predicatble.... But a good un...
STARRING AL PACINO
A thriller about a college professor who, while moonlighting as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat telling him that he has only 88 minutes to live.

http://stage6.divx.com/user/trevor20...mando-Pa-cinez

Pathless · 05-27-2007, 10:07 PM

Running With Scissors based on the memoir of the same name by Augusten Burroughs. This was difficult to watch at first--I literally clenched my teeth through the first fifteen or twenty minutes or so. Then, I let go and enjoyed the ride. It was hilarious, disturbing, cartoonish in its humanity, desperate, dramatic, and definitely worth watching. Makes me wanna read the book.

Currently about half-way through Born on the Fourth of July. I watched this movie about ten years ago and had forgotten many of the details. It is amazing to watch Ron Kovic's life unfold--quite a journey. Again, a very human story--difficult and compelling. Great perspectives on war, its aftermath, and the conflicts that arise in a technologically-advanced democracy informed of the horrors of war.

Snoopy · 06-03-2007, 03:10 PM

Baraka.

Beautiful, depressing, spiritual, challenging....

No plot, no actors, no script...

Baraka is an ancient Sufi word, which can be translated as "a blessing, or as the breath, or essence of life from which the evolutionary process unfolds."

- Baraka - a film by Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson, music by Michael Stearns, shot on 70mm film, contains time-lapse

Check out the website to get an idea...

actually I think the website has too many images from the film...

s.

juantoo3 · 06-03-2007, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Snoopy

Baraka.

Beautiful, depressing, spiritual, challenging....

No plot, no actors, no script...

Baraka is an ancient Sufi word, which can be translated as "a blessing, or as the breath, or essence of life from which the evolutionary process unfolds."

Ah! The description sounds remarkably like "Koyannisquatsi" by Francis Ford Copolla.

Snoopy · 06-03-2007, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by juantoo3

Ah! The description sounds remarkably like "Koyannisquatsi" by Francis Ford Copolla.

Well spotted juan.

Taken from the website:

Koyaanisqatsi was director Godfrey Reggio's debut as a film director and producer. Ron Fricke was the principal cinematographer on Koyaanisqatsi.

Coppola was executive producer for the film, whatever that means? Maybe got all the money up for it? I can’t see his creative input; I think that’s Reggio, Fricke and (Philip) Glass. Great films IMO, as is Powaqqatsi (not seen Naqoyqatsi).

s.

wil · 06-03-2007, 11:22 PM

Bug

You'll wonder what the heck you are doing watching it 5 minutes in..

and again a half hour in...

and again an hour in...

truly almost continuously...

I wanna see it again.

I don't like horrors, or blood and guts...its more of a bloody drama...more blood than I like...

I wanna see it again.

Miss Amy · 06-04-2007, 09:08 PM

I saw BORAT...

Yeah, I saw Borat... my husband and my cousin were watching it and I kept meaning to lift my book up to my face however I sat mesmorized for two hours, staring at the screen in horror... They loved it. Now they talk about and like Borat...

Is this the seventh circle of hell?

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine · 07-04-2007, 03:43 AM

Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru, an anime that deals with a rather "difficult" subject (read: taboo).

Boku wa ImÅto ni Koi o Suru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It dealt more with the mental and emotional aspects of the taboo than the physical ones and it left me

(a self-imposed exile for one of the characters, and it ended with him crying on the train headed for his new school.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

wil · 07-04-2007, 06:01 AM

Fantastic Four - eh

Oceans 13 eh

Ratatoullie yeah much fun

Die Hard...full of impossible situations action packed if you like that

Evan Almighty....great sequel...some good stuff to contemplate amongst the fun.

Knocked Up - ridiculously embarrassingly funny...40% 50% 10%

You Kill Me - dark comedy wonderfully done.

17th Angel · 07-04-2007, 10:17 AM

Voces Inocentes... (Or innocent voices to English tounges)
Awesome film would strongly recommend it, I know it is also in English subtitles for those who cannot speak Spanish, so no excuses.....

It is based in the 80's with the El Salvador "civil" war...... And shows the tragic conditions the people had to live in, and how children are FORCED to go to war, they started taking children at 12 but come the end of the film/war they needed more "men" and took children even younger.... It follows one boy's life in particular... Called Chava and how he tries to avoid/surivive the war... The other AMAZING thing about this, this is a true story....... How he surivived is just unreal...
Voces inocentes (2004)

Also watched last night "Left in Darkness"
Left in Darkness (2006) Too early typed too much basically the girl dies and goes into a kinda "purgatory" and has to face demons and tests to try and get to heaven good film suprisingly..