What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[philipchevron]

The West Wing I'm up to Season 5

[O'Blivion]

Brazil



The scenes of paper raining down after the explosion of the Ministry of Information play far differently today than they did in 1984; on another level, my own job as a cog in a sometimes ridiculously bureaucratic government office makes me laugh at stuff that I didn't even notice before.

Maybe a tad too long, but still a great flick.

[Benno]

The Ugly American

I'm sharing it via Rapidshare here: http://www.warez-bb.org/viewtopic.php?t=1443235&highlight=

From my topic:

One of my favourite movies which I am so happy to be able to share: The Ugly American. I've had it on VHS for years and waited weeks to get the torrent. Now here it is in all its glory for RS users. The quality is alright; It`s about as good as it would be if you were watching this on a VCR using a new tube TV. This is my first share, so let me know if I've boned anything up. The degree to which this movie was ahead of its time in terms of being able to predict the outcome of American foreign policy is astounding. Where policy was once thinly veiled as promoting democracy and economic development abroad, is now more frequently being challenged as war mongering and systematic subversion and suppression. This movie may not shock in terms of its political message now, but keep in mind this film was in pre-production long before Vietnam was a common house hold term associated with American politics. Aside from the politics, this is arguably Brando`s best performance, at least his most difficult and mature piece. This is from around the time when he fell in love with the South Pacific, and also became aware and involved in the global issues which dominated his post WWII era. Enjoy all, and thanks to Warez as always for letting this stuff happen.

[Niall]

dark knight, really enjoyed it, leaves a few questions for the next one

[O'Blivion]

yeah..like who the hell's gonna have the balls to take Heath Ledger's place?

[Niall]

yeah..like who the hell's gonna have the balls to take Heath Ledger's place?

i was thinking more along the lines of the next villain. Bane perhaps?

[O'Blivion]

I'm really not up on my latter-day Batman villains. I just know the
classics, and they're all too silly for this version's dark vision.



I've always wanted to see them do Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns.
And the Joker has to be in that. He's the perfect Batman villain - as
Ledger says to Bale in the movie, "You complete me."

The biggest question mark of the current movie is the fact that the Joker
is left hanging, literally, ready to return in the blockbuster finale of the
Batman Trilogy.

[IrishRover]

Poirates Of The Caroibbean: At Woirld's End

[dublinrambler]

I'm really not up on my latter-day Batman villains. I just know the
classics, and they're all too silly for this version's dark vision.



I've always wanted to see them do Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns.
And the Joker has to be in that. He's the perfect Batman villain - as
Ledger says to Bale in the movie, "You complete me."

The biggest question mark of the current movie is the fact that the Joker
is left hanging, literally, ready to return in the blockbuster finale of the
Batman Trilogy.

yeah ixnay on the (slight) spoliernay!! luckily i have seen it....i reckon maybe the riddler for the next one?

[DzM]

i reckon maybe the riddler for the next one?

I desperately hope they avoid the trap of Villain Of The Sequel and instead concentrate on telling a compelling story arc from movie to movie and, perhaps, just happen to have a variety of villains in them.

The last batman franchise in the late 1980s and early 1990s fell into that trap. It became embarrassingly bad (and one of the villains went on to rule Kalifornia with an iron fist despite having been defeated by Batman).

[firehazard]

The Dark Knight. Good fun. Nicely dark.

Last night I watched Life of Brian again. Classic comedy by Monty Python. This film is never not funny.

But this is still probably my favourite film of all time. There's never really a time when I'd not like to watch it.

[philipchevron]

Redacted (Brian De Palma, 2007)

A dramatisation - a "fictionalisation" - of one of the most infamous events of the Iraq war - the rape and complicit rape of a 15-year old girl by US soldiers, and the subsequent trail of cover up which began when they shot dead the girl and her family and then set fire to her body in an attempt to destroy the DNA evidence of their scummy semen, Brian De Palma became a sacrificial lamb of the Fox News Right last year when this hit movie theatres, up on charges that the director was a commie faggot liberal, an unpatriotic American. In the other corner, film critics condemned it for just being a bad movie.

Both are wrong. Nobody who truly considers himself a "patriot" can legitimately support either the Act of War itself ("She's a spoil of War", one of the soldiers explains to his buddies) or the fudging, lies, cover-up and bullshit which ensued. And De Palma uses webcams, CCTV, television news pictures etc, to bring an immediacy to the images he's filming. In many ways inspired by TV's ultra-influential "The Wire", this multi-source filmmaking has not yet quite become a cliche and De Palma utilises it well: such images, with their varying degrees of fidelity and subjectivity, have in themselves become part of modern warfare, part of how we tell each other stories in the 21st century and are, therefore, now part of the story themselves.

When you hear of an atrocity such as the real-life one this movie is based on, it has a way of replaying itself in your head, as if by confronting and rewinding the horror, it may somehow become more explicable to us. It is these "small" stories that help us get to grips with the bigger picture in all its hideous mendacity. Not many directors are prepared to take these horrors out of the darker corners of the brain and explore them on the big screen. For so doing, Brian De Palma has earned himself a place in the history of war filmmaking.

[Nemanjic]

Heartworn Highways (1981)
...bunch of true renegates, drinkin, all the time, lots of moving scenes, for all those fans of steve earle, townes van zandt, guy clarke...
only wanna say "god bless america"...

[Niall]

i reckon maybe the riddler for the next one?

I desperately hope they avoid the trap of Villain Of The Sequel and instead concentrate on telling a compelling story arc from movie to movie and, perhaps, just happen to have a variety of villains in them.

The last batman franchise in the late 1980s and early 1990s fell into that trap. It became embarrassingly bad (and one of the villains went on to rule Kalifornia with an iron fist despite having been defeated by Batman).

funny, i watched batman forever the other day. I think they should introduce new villains, well new in the sense that they havent been in the old franchise films. Dunno what will happen with the joker

[philipchevron]

In Bruges (McDonagh, 2007)