Movies

[leah_jewel]

Just thought I'd start something for everyone to discuss their favorite movies, or movies they've recently seen or general ranting and raving that happens so often on MBs. ;D (I LOVE emoticons!)

Ahem.

Anyways.

I recently saw Garden State and LOVED it. It gets two ;D ;D . If anyone here likes indepent films or dark/quirky comedies/romantic comedies, I highly reccomend this film. The first 20 mins are a little.. odd... but it is such an awesome movie.

That is all.

[Feech]

I used to be somebody. Now I'm just some schnook watching movies, eating egg noodles with ketchup and staring at a computer screen. I own five movies and I watch them often.

The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2
The Godfather Part 3
Goodfellas
Casino

[Kirkus]

Anything by Aaron Sorkin. ;D ;D ;D

The Godfather trilogy is worth watching over and over ;D ;D

and Bad Santa because it's so sacreligious it just kills me. ;D ;D

[Sebastien447]

Anything by Aaron Sorkin. Â*;D ;D ;D


I've never seen Sports Night or The West Wing ... I know I'm missing out :-/

But I own The American President ... it is excellent :)

[Sebastien447]

i love the Godfather! I love it! My mom thinks theres something wrong w/me cause i like "inappropriate" movies. She thinks since im a teen girl i should like movies that have either Lindsay Lohan or <a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl2.asp?k=hilary%20duff" onmouseover="window.status='Hilary Duff'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">Hilary Duff</a>. My dad on the other hand is proud that i dont watch that and appreciate the finer movies. Another one i love is Silence of the Lambs.

maybe one of the few times you shouldn't listen to Mom ... there's nothing wrong with you. You have great taste in movies ... movies with substance!

[leah_jewel]

Am I bad person because I've never seen any of the Godfather movies? ??? ???

[Sebastien447]

I like independent movies. I saw yesterday Mr Ibrahim

http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-040304-movies-review-mw-monsieuribrahim,0,1298540.story?coll=mmx-movies_top_heds
atocha, je pense donc je suis

I typically don't like independent films. I watch a movie to be entertained for a couple hours. I don't watch them to have art flowing all over me. Mr Ibrahim sounds like one of those artsy-fartsy movies that acts as a sleeping pill ...

For Momo, Ibrahim represents the paternalistic kindness he never knew.For Ibrahim, Momo represents youth and renewal. The two finally embark on a car journey back to Ibrahim's village - a voyage that might seem dangerously sentimental, except for the empathetic, evocative storytelling ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It's probably an excellent movie and I'm just too thick headed to give it a chance, so no offense intended atocha ... but I'll skip it ...

I'll be too busy watching STAR WARS!!! Which FINALLY came out on DVD! Woooooooooohooooooooo!

[Sebastien447]

I recently saw Garden State and LOVED it. It gets two Â*;D ;D . If anyone here likes indepent films or dark/quirky comedies/romantic comedies, I highly reccomend this film. The first 20 mins are a little.. odd... but it is such an awesome movie.

That is all.

A colleague just came in and raved about Garden State ... practically insisted that I see it this weekend

so that does it, we're going tonight

[Sebastien447]

Hey Sebastien! ;)

Thinking is good. Don't let them wash the brain

Â* Latino critics in particular charge his latest Star Wars epic, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, toys with American paranoia about Mexican immigration with its cloned army of swarthy lookalikes who march in lockstep by the tens of thousands, and ultimately end up serving as Darth Vader's white-suited warriors.
Â* Modeled on bounty hunter Jango Fett, the clones, we're told, are genetically modified for docility and obedience. The breeding project, conducted by long-necked aliens who look like refugees from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, takes place on the planet Kamino -- soundalike for the Spanish word "camino," which means "road" or "I walk."
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Â* "He looked totally Latino," says Martina Guzman, a Detroiter who's managing a State House election campaign.
Â* "And his kid," says Wayne State history professor Jose Cuello, referring to the young Boba Fett, "looked even more Latino."
Â* It reminds Cuello a little bit of "those Reagan ads in the 1980 campaign, that suggested if Nicaragua went communist, you'd have wild-eyed Mexicans with guns running across the California border."

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Â* If the planet name "Kamino" caught some Latinos' attention, three Arab-Americans on The News' panel seized on the fact that Jango's son calls him "Baba."
Â* "I frankly think the bounty hunter is Arab," says college counselor Imad Nouri of Royal Oak.
Â* "He's basically a terrorist," explains Nouri, "and 'baba' is Arabic for 'father.' "
Â* Such allegations have a long history in that galaxy far, far away. A number of observers noted that the 1977 original was, at least at the human level, an all-white party -- looking, in Anderson's words, "like the Ku Klux Klan's fantasy of the future."
Â* The only exception was Darth Vader's basso-profundo voice, supplied by African-American actor James Earl Jones.
Â* Which leads to all sorts of ironies, intentional or not: Darth Vader has a black man's voice when he's bad, but in Clones -- before Anakin Skywalker does the Darth-thing and defects to the Dark Side -- he's a white guy, played by Hayden Christensen.
Â* The big question lurking beneath all this ethnic deconstruction: Could any of this possibly be deliberate?
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Thompson calls the imagery in Star Wars a "great big Rorschach test, not just for the people who watch the movies, but for Lucas himself." With the latter, that leads him to two possibilities.
Â* "One is that this is coming out of the id of the creator without translation -- a West Coast fear of the Latino population in America." (Lucas grew in the 1950s in Modesto, Calif., the agricultural town immortalized in American Graffiti, and one visited annually by thousands of migrant workers.)
Â* The second hypothesis, he notes, is that it's all deliberate -- a way to prompt deep emotional response in audiences by probing "a phobia that's afoot in America. And that's the scarier interpretation."
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Latinos are now the nation's largest minority. But box-office analyst Adam Farasati -- who argues Hollywood rarely takes minority concerns into consideration -- doesn't see any collateral damage to the film's profits.
Â* "The only real issue is that Attack of the Clones is one of most anticipated movies of all time," he says from RealSource's Los Angeles office.
Â* "And beyond that, any type of media attention -- even negative -- really just creates more hype for a film that has hype coming out its ears."

http://www.detnews.com/2002/entertainment/0205/18/d01-492788.htm


Thanks for reminding me why I decided not to go for my Doctorate ... I was actually starting to reconsider. Whew! You arrived just in time!

It's a free country and people are certainly free to see Mexicans or Rorschach tests or maybe even Rochefoucauld's Maximes as they watch movies such as Star Wars.

But for me, I like the cool creatures, space ships, and blaster thingies! ;)

[Sebastien447]

My dad bought the starwars movies the day they came out. We watched the first one tonight im watchein the 2


The original trilogy will be purchased tonight. I can't wait to watch them on the home theater!

I haven't been able to get into the "episodes" ... in episode 1 JarJar is just way too annoying ... that pod race is a blast though, too bad you have to sit through 2 hours of that idiot jarjar to see it!

There was just too much for the "new" Star Wars to live up to ... episode 1 and 2 are just average IMO

[Kirkus]

The original trilogy will be purchased tonight. I can't wait to watch them on the home theater!

I haven't been able to get into the "episodes" ... in episode 1 JarJar is just way too annoying ... that pod race is a blast though, too bad you have to sit through 2 hours of that idiot jarjar to see it!

There was just too much for the "new" Star Wars to live up to ... episode 1 and 2 are just average IMO


I agree, Sebers. I think the "new" episodes depended too much on special-effects and sacrificed story, which is what made the first trilogy the classic it is... imho.

[leah_jewel]

A colleague just came in and raved about Garden State ... practically insisted that I see it this weekend

so that does it, we're going tonight


I want the name and address of your colleague so I can write them a thank you note. :D

On the topic of SW... I heard a vicous, vicious rumor about the re-released trilogy. I heard that in the final scene in Jedi, where it shows Yoda and Obi Wan and Anakin that they made Anakin as Hayden Christiansen opposed to the old Anakin whose name escapes me.

PLEASE tell me this isn't true.

[Feech]

You like even the third part of the trilogy? Thank God, Sophia Coppola realized acting wasn't her thing.

Where's Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, A Bronx Tale, and especially Scarface on your list? It's ok, you probably forgot. Friendly reminder Â*:)

Yes The Godfather Part 3 is my third favorite movie.

I am currently saving up my pennies so that I can buy either The French Connection or a Bronx Tale. Man I'm a schnook!

[didgeridoo33]

Shawshank Redemption is really good

^ Andy's favorite movie!

Anyways, I am TOTALLY into horror movies! I lvoe them! A new one called ''The Grudge'' is coming out and I really wanna see it. Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in it. I love Sarah! You should all check out the trailer! Try searching for ''The Grudge'' on Yahoo or something and go to the website and watch it! :)

[shtexas]

I'm always surprised by what movies I end up liking or not liking.

Sometimes, I find a big epic dull ("Gandhi") and sometimes I love them ("The English Patient" - which many found boring).

Among independent features, in 2001, I respected "In The Bedroom", which everyone was raving about (I personally didn't care for the third act), but found "Monster's Ball" devastating. I didn't sleep all night after seeing it.

If you go way back - I respect "Citizen Kane", but did not love it. The film that beat it out for the Oscar that year, "How Green Was My Valley", moved me. I can see why they voted for it. I would have.

Martin Scorsese films - I respected, but did not love, "Raging Bull", but I did love "Goodfellas". Go figure?

I guess it just depends what speaks to you.