What Movies Have You Seen Recently?

Two that I've seen recently are Little Miss Sunshine which I thought was excellent. Such a poignant story and, on the whole, excellent acting.
also Breakfast on Pluto which is also well worth a watch.
 
Dejavu...a very informative portrayal of the inventive and intrusive techniques being utilized with the new quantum technologies these days. Much in the genre of "Minority Report"...but more fun in a cops 'n robbers sort of way. Denzel is just great in it.

flow....:cool:
 
Green Street Hooligans!! :D
Hooligans (2005)

Awesome film about some yank that get's thrown out of Harvard, and moves to London where his sister lives, and his brother-in-law introduces him to the GSE (Green Street Elite) and the underground world of football hooliganism.... Sweet film...


Sex lives of the Potato men.
Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004)

More of an English comedy, so I only think people from my island will appreciate this one. It has it's moments.... Which are pretty funny, and yeah, quite entertaining.....

Dave: [Sees Ferris trying to do crazy paving] What happened here?
Ferris: It's crazy paving.
Dave: This isn't crazy paving Ferris, this is just s***.
Ferris: I was trying to... you know?
Dave: You've got no artistic vision here, have you? It's just a random f***** big mess.
Ferris: It's crazy paving, you just bung slabs down.
Dave: No, I think you're focusing too much on the crazy aspect, and not enough on the paving side of it.
Ferris: Have you come round here just to have a go at my crazy paving?
Dave: No, but...
Ferris: What then?
Dave: Nothing.
Ferris: [stands up and moves aside] You're standing on my string.
Dave: What kind of concrete are you using? Cause you know there's different kinds, don't ya?
Ferris: I'm not being funny Dave, but you're getting on my nerves.
Dave: I'm just saying there's different types of concrete. Use the wrong one and... you're f*****!
Ferris: It's just ordinary concrete!
Dave: Tolly is driving me round the twist. He never stops w******. I just had to get out of there.
Ferris: Try living here with Joan. Twenty-four hours a day it's either blowjobs or crazy paving.
Dave: Look at us. Half-eleven on a Saturday morning. We shouldn't be standing here like this. We're young blokes! We should be living life to the full. We should be down the pub!
 
I just saw that one with Ben Stiller about the museum that comes to life. It was very good. Someday I would like to go to a museum and watch it come to life and play fetch with a dinosaur skeloton because that would be cool. And then I will play charades with Atilla the Hun. The end.
 
Harry Potter
Very good, surprisingly so. It had a very different feel to the other movies, it was more character driven, and focused on the relationsips between different characters. It was thoughtfully made and has a great supporting cast aswell.
 
Quahom1 said:
Indeed Phyllis, I'd be interested in anything you find. You have a way of "ferretting out stuff", that might otherwise be missed. ;)

v/r

Q

p.s. you won't be disappointed in "The Guardian". If you go to the local Chicago Library, I think you can check it out for a few days without buying or renting it.
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I'll see if I can do an ILL (interlibrary loan.) I live in Milwaukee, not Chicago (other side of the Illinois border, sailor.) Did you botch your Navigation roll? Or just plain fail it? ;)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
Anyone seen Fitzcarraldo.........

The movie of a man who transports a boat over an amazon mountain? Made in a time before computer imagery the only way to create the story was to do the deed........ a crazy Irish German who loves opera and plays Caruso from a wind up gramaphone to the tribes, who first consider he may be the God in the boat they have been waiting for, then realising he's not decide to recreate their own myth and work alongside him...... amazing visuals,amazing movie.
And there really is an opera house deep in the amazon........

Made in 1982
Directed by Werner Herzog.
Stars Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale

- c -
 
dauer said:
I just saw that one with Ben Stiller about the museum that comes to life. It was very good. Someday I would like to go to a museum and watch it come to life and play fetch with a dinosaur skeloton because that would be cool. And then I will play charades with Atilla the Hun. The end.
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lol...

I myself want to find out what this "crazy paving" trend is all about and then do a little of that.

To be continued.

:D
 
Yep yep. Good flick. Transformers already came out in the States. Didn't bother to see it. Panned by reviewers and they know better than me what's entertaining. Would like to see The Simpsons Movie and Michael Moore's new film on US Healthcare. There's a movie about R.D. Laing that's been begging to be ordered from Amazon, that and a documentary on life in a Carthusian monastery. Can't forget the Peaceful Warrior movie either. I have a copy of the illustrated children's version of the story from when I was a kid. Don't think I have it at my apartment though. That's a great children's book, even better than Hop on Pop.
 
The Place Promised In Our Early Days gave me goosebumps. It tells the story of an AU Japan that was divided after WWII and of three young people whose lives are directly effected by a tower that "the Union" built in Hokkaido (I know. Too simplistic of a description.)

Here's the link to the anime online (you can also find it at some of your friendly neighborhood libraries and/or video rental places, I think): crunchyroll.com - Place Promised In Our Early Days. It gives a plot summary (and several reviews by members who had watched it.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
Wow, other people who LIKED 'Night at the museum' I loved that film really awesome... From time to time... Indeed I may have a crude evil shell, but child fantasy films touch me.... Touch me in here... *puts hand over heart* Great film, people around me have only negative things to say about it, but it was freaking sweet.
 
I haven't read all through this thread, so someone may have already mentioned, but I just saw "Whale Rider" on the TV tonight. Glad I checked it out.
 
Watched Planes, Trains and automobiles last night... That old chestnut never gets old freaking good funny film....


Watched OUT Law also...

Aboot a para(Sean Bean) who comes back from Iraq, He has been over there risking his life to make this a better, safer country, he has a cold welcome by a group of little kids... Finds his wife has changed the locks and has someone else, and just notices how much of a **** hole this country really is..... A bit like an English 'boondock saints' He takes a few people from the area who also have had issues with this country and had the law fail them... One who had scars all over his face from being beaten to a pulp for being gay... The offenders got out of prison on bail even before he got out of hospital and recovered... Another guy (Danny Dyer) Who is constantly bullied and forced to do what others want... A barrister... (Lennie James) Who is working on an organsied crime case.... Threatened to leave the case.... His wife(with child) Is stabbed in the gut... And both die... So he too joins..... And some nut case security gaurd who full stop dislikes not just crime anyone lol....

There are a few gaps in the film.... Why? How did they get there? What is that aboot? But... Still a fairly good film... Then again I laaaav English films.... They is well naughty ;)
 
dauer said:
There's a movie about R.D. Laing that's been begging to be ordered from Amazon, that and a documentary on life in a Carthusian monastery.
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Ah yes Dauer, Into Great Silence.

I've read a review of this and I'd love to see it; it sounds really good.

s.
 
Snoopy,

That's the one. It sounds quite incredible.


I recently watched Idiocracy. It's a fantastic movie in that it combines low-brow fart jokes with high-brow social commentary very effectively.

Imagine a future where gatorade is the new water, each member of society is given a barcode tattoo, trash keeps piling up with nothing done about it, and the most award winning movie of the year is a film called Ass, an extended clip of said body part from a single, direct camera angle punctuated by the occasional fart or scratch.

edit: I'm also in the middle of watching The Matrix Trilogy with commentary by Cornel West and Ken Wilber.
 
IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS

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Disconcerting. Sad. Makes me feel shameful (yes, again). This movie also made me think about how repression and oppression lead to more of the same. Even as the militant Shias of Naseriyah stand for independence against American occupation, they also stand for fundamentalist dogmatic religion and politics. The Kurds seem to have it best in Iraq. The children and women perhaps have it the worst, as is typical in cases of violent oppression. I found the lack of presence of women in this film remarkable. When they were shown, they were teachers, mothers, wives, and voters. The only woman in the Naseriyah segment was one who pleaded for release of her husband, who had been arrested by a militia for supposedly selling alcohol.
 
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