What Movies Have You Seen Recently?

[flowperson]

Bob...RLMAO !!!

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[wil]

Namaste Bob, I think this one may deselve a thlead of its own.

Prease letrieve the femare mackeler flom the baller, but reave the lest of the mare mackeler arone.

Ablaham Rincorn said, "Foul scoles and seven lears ago, our fathels blought to this continent a knew nation conceived in ribilty fol all...

Sarry serrs seasherres at the seashole.

Petel Peckel picked a peck of pickres.

[noctuary]

I saw Sweeney Todd on Christmas day. Very entertaining. I am not one for musicals, well except for Jesus Christ Superstar. But it kept me entertained

[path_of_one]

Just saw The Golden Compass- threw the review into B&S. My overall impression: OK. Not that exciting, but not a horrible "wish-I-could-get-my-$10-refunded" movie either. Just... OK.

[Pathless]

I recently went to see Juno. I didn't know this movie existed until I found myself stranded in the city of Spokane for an afternoon, needing to fill the hours. On the third floor of a mall, the movie poster made me smile and so I paid $7.50 to be entertained. And entertained I was!! This is an excellent, lovely, and casually life-like and life-affirming film about a witty, eccentric teenager who finds herself knocked up after giving her virginity to her good friend (is he her boyfriend? or is he just her friend who is a boy?) Paulie Bleeker.

If you find the everyday antics of modern life amusing, befuddling, and/or wondrous, then I recommend this movie for its humor and power. Juno is a great screen representation of all that is well, good, kickin', and brilliantly alive about youth confronting life in the post-post-modern post-post-post-industrial post-information age with all the vigor, compassion, intelligence, and humor that humans have to draw on.

Go see this movie, man!!

[greymare]

I just saw Condemnded with Stone Cold Steve Austin. YUMMY. not a bad movie, certainly not as bad as Steven Seagal movies are. I liked it and yes, Its not a intelectual movie but its a good action, good guy bad guy movie that I love. especially with that gorgeous wrestler in it. mmmmmmmm.

[wil]

Originally Posted by Pathless

I recently went to see Juno.

This weekend my kids picked 'The Bucket List' over Juno or National Treasure. I thought Juno would be great for added discussion regarding teen pregnancy and choices (my twins are 14, could be they know my style and didn't want to see the movie with me just to avoid the discussion).

But the Bucket List was good, fun, interesting. Average age of theater goer to this movie must have been 55, there were only 5 total in a full theater under 20, but the kids enjoyed the flick. (and we still were able to discuss various behaviours like cursing, casual sex, impatience, tolerance, compassion, etc.)

[Pathless]

Originally Posted by wil

This weekend my kids picked 'The Bucket List' over Juno or National Treasure. I thought Juno would be great for added discussion regarding teen pregnancy and choices (my twins are 14, could be they know my style and didn't want to see the movie with me just to avoid the discussion).

Too bad!! I can't say it enough, so I'll say it again: Go See This Movie!

[Pathless]

The Great Debaters with Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker and many other, lesser known, wonderful actors and actresses. This movie is about a small Negro college in Texas and how, in 1935, Melvin Tolson, a radical Negro professor, formed a debate team and coached them through victory after victory, then sent them to debate Harvard in a nationally broadcast (through radio) debate.

The story also revolves, as you can imagine, around the racism and racial tensions of the Jim Crow south. There are a few highly disturbing scenes that should be seen by all Americans (and anyone else) who believe that the civil rights gains of the 20th century make everything that has happened (and continues to happen) to African Americans at the hands of white supremacists hokey-dokey and annulled.

I highly recommend this movie.

[dauer]

I saw The Great Debaters on Christmas. It was a fantastic film and I recommend it to everyone.


edit: It's not entirely factual. They never debated Harvard.

[Pathless]

We Are Dad, a great documentary about an amazing family from Florida. Two HIV nurses, also partners, have fostered six HIV-positive children. Five of those children still live with them. One tested HIV-negative (although positive before) at three years old, which led to the state of Florida wanting to take him away from his foster family and put him up for adoption, targeting more 'traditional' familes. The Lofton-Croteaus family is fighting to keep him.

Make sure you watch the outtakes of this movie as well.

[dauer]

Rented Napoleon Dynamite from the itunes store.

[wil]

Originally Posted by dauer

I saw The Great Debaters on Christmas. It was a fantastic film and I recommend it to everyone.


edit: It's not entirely factual. They never debated Harvard.

What a freakin waste of a movie then.

I thought it was based on fact.

if

a. they didn't debate harvard
b. did the lynching occur and affect the debaters?
c. was the critical debate verbatum?
d. did the prof help the farmers?

I can understand a little license but since it was one of the pivotal moments of the movie (and I could swear they said folks were listening nationwide) than what else is hokum?

Next your gonna tell me Charlton Heston isn't Moses.

[dauer]

Wil,

I disagree that it's a waste of a movie but I do think the story could have been effective without faking a climax. *coughs*


In other news, I just rented Big Trouble in Little China from iTunes. That's always a fun film to watch.

-- Dauer

[17th Angel]

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