Movies you've recently watched

[katmai]

Almost Famous.  15 year old travels with a rock band in 74 and writes an article for Rolling Stone.  It was so so.

DIAF

[vinraith]

Almost Famous.  15 year old travels with a rock band in 74 and writes an article for Rolling Stone.  It was so so.

DIAF

I agree with katmai again? This is getting creepy.

[Admiral Yi]

DIAF

Que?

[katmai]

DIAF

Que?

You're killing me mutton, killing me!

Die In A Fire it what it means, and to call Almost Famous only so-so is heresy.

[CountDeMoney]

Seedy, what the fuck were you thinking with your "Tiny Dancer" poll?

Hold me closer, tiny cornboy.

[Eddie Teach]

I recently saw "Higher Learning." It was one of those ensemble pieces chock full of young stars and soon-to-be stars, though a much heavier film than American Graffiti or Dazed and Confused. Placing faces was fun, but the movie wanted to be much more than that. Its major focus was race, where it was about as nuanced as a Spike Lee joint.

Michael Rapaport was woefully miscast as a militia member from Idaho, Omar Epps and Tyra Banks were track athletes, Kristy Swanson a preppy girl, Jennifer Connelly a lesbian activist. Also had Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Regina King, Bridget Wilson, Cole Hauser and some I forgot. 7/10

[Queequeg]

Jennifer Connelly a lesbian activist.

How active?

[Eddie Teach]

Jennifer Connelly a lesbian activist.

How active?

She kissed Kristy Swanson a couple times.

[katmai]

I recently saw "Higher Learning." It was one of those ensemble pieces chock full of young stars and soon-to-be stars, though a much heavier film than American Graffiti or Dazed and Confused. Placing faces was fun, but the movie wanted to be much more than that. Its major focus was race, where it was about as nuanced as a Spike Lee joint.

Michael Rapaport was woefully miscast as a militia member from Idaho, Omar Epps and Tyra Banks were track athletes, Kristy Swanson a preppy girl, Jennifer Connelly a lesbian activist. Also had Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Regina King, Bridget Wilson, Cole Hauser and some I forgot. 7/10

Was John Singleton film iirc, when he still had juice from his Boyz in the Hood flick.

[Grallon]

Watched "The Reader" last night.  Fantastic movie !  Kate Winslet manages a range of emotions in that role that's astonishing!




G. 

[garbon]

Watched "The Reader" last night.  Fantastic movie !  Kate Winslet manages a range of emotions in that role that's astonishing!

G. 

Seemed more like a concept film to show off Winslet's abilities.  On the whole, as a movie, it was nothing short of deplorable.

[Queequeg]

Seemed more like a concept film to show off Winslet's abilities.  On the whole, as a movie, it was nothing short of deplorable.

When Garbon and I agree on something, odds are one (or both) of us have a point. 

[garbon]

Oh god, it is coming back to me how horrible that film was. 
I'm so embarrassed that I don't know how to read that I'll join the SS and kill Jews.  Fast foward in time: I'm still so embarrassed that I don't know how to read...so I'll say I was the person who ordered Jews to be killed and go to prison for life.

[Korea]

I Am Legend - pretty good

Red Eye -pretty good but sort of meh

Star Trek - awesome

[Grallon]

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Ebert's critique: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081223/REVIEWS/812239989/1023

And here's the relevant part - pay attention it concerns you - both of you:

Many of the critics of "The Reader" seem to believe it is all about Hanna's shameful secret. No, not her past as a Nazi guard. The earlier secret that she essentially became a guard to conceal. Others think the movie is an excuse for soft-core porn disguised as a sermon. Still others say it asks us to pity Hanna. Some complain we don't need yet another "Holocaust movie." None of them think the movie may have anything to say about them. I believe the movie may be demonstrating a fact of human nature: Most people, most of the time, all over the world, choose to go along. We vote with the tribe.

What would we have done during the rise of Hitler? If we had been Jews, we would have fled or been killed. But if we were one of the rest of the Germans? Can we guess, on the basis of how most white Americans, from the North and South, knew about racial discrimination but didn't go out on a limb to oppose it? Philip Roth's great novel The Plot Against America imagines a Nazi takeover here. It is painfully thought-provoking and probably not unfair. "The Reader" suggests that many people are like Michael and Hanna, and possess secrets that we would do shameful things to conceal.

G.