Movie Suggestions

[SlimPickens]

Right on Tyzack I\'m probably going to see this one in the theater when it comes out. Coming from someone who 99.9% of the time waits for DVD-rip torrents to catch a flick, well I don\'t know I think the guy gets bashed way too much and I don\'t think he\'s even really extreme in his views. Then again liberals and progressives were once labeled Communists in this country in the modern-century witch hunt known as the McCarthy era...

He\'s the liberal\'s Fox news.

While Michael Moore may select facts that make his documentaries more compelling, I haven\'t seen a fact on Fox "News" since their daily US Department of Homeland Security Fear... err, Terror Level Warnings.

Watch out it\'s orange! Michael Moore\'s new movie might just bump it up to red!

A more accurate comparison would be Keith Olbermann and Rachael Maddow vs Sean Hannity and Bill O\'Reilly. Except these liberal MSNBC primetime news hosts actually cover the news and take pride on being factual in doing so (although with more of a focus on issues that interest liberals like myself).

Sean Hannity and Bill O\'Reilly and whatever other clones I\'m glad to be mostly unaware of on Fox News are true mockeries of the honorable profession of journalism. Facts be damned, let\'s get Ann Coulter on here to talk shit about Hillary for an hour...

If I actually want to learn something I watch BBC World News or PBS News Hour or I listen to WAMC Public Radio out of Albany. If I want to see what retarded shit facists are currently up to I\'ll just fire up Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

Point of this post long forgotten...

I totally agree with your message.  I totally think Hannity and O\'Reilly are ass clowns that insult the idea of journalism with every story they report.

But I sit there and talk to family members who are staunch conservatives (and intelligent people) and they truly believe the exact opposite.  In their eye\'s Olbermann is lying to his viewers.

[Drew_Kingsley]

So the pundits you agree with are telling the truth, and the pundits you disagree with are lying?

[TeddyT]

i heard johnny depp was signed up and goin to do a Dali film.. anyone hear anything about that?

the film Taking Woodstock is coming out August 28. I got up there to shoot the mud scenes so hope i maybe get some seconds on screen, but regardless, it looks like it will be a fun film for the whole fam... cant wait til its out

Last March the New Zealand Herald reported that Depp was "auditioning screenwriters" for a Dali biopic.

BillyGencs, you should change your avatar to this. Just makes sense.

[bdfreetuna]

So the pundits you agree with are telling the truth, and the pundits you disagree with are lying?

Which came first, the truth or the pundit?

[SlimPickens]

So the pundits you agree with are telling the truth, and the pundits you disagree with are lying?

The pundits I agree with are telling my truth, which may be false to you.

i heard johnny depp was signed up and goin to do a Dali film.. anyone hear anything about that?

the film Taking Woodstock is coming out August 28. I got up there to shoot the mud scenes so hope i maybe get some seconds on screen, but regardless, it looks like it will be a fun film for the whole fam... cant wait til its out

Last March the New Zealand Herald reported that Depp was "auditioning screenwriters" for a Dali biopic.

BillyGencs, you should change your avatar to this. Just makes sense.

LOL!!!  Indeed!!

[SlimPickens]

I think it was the music that made me keeping thinking about American Beauty through the entirety of Revolutionary Road.  Little did I know both movies were directed by Sam Mendez.  It\'s like Sam found a movie that is all the horrible life drama, pain, and regret of American Beauty, without getting bogged down and distracted with that "hope" and the joy of re-birth.

It was definitely a high quality movie, and I felt the writing was interesting and unpredictable.  But in the end I just wondered what I did to Sam Mendez to make him hate me and want to torture me?

[tyzack]

There was an editorial apology in the NYT this sunday about their "failure" to cover the ACRON scandle. Tucked deep inside that "apology" was a very nasty dig at Fox news and other outlets who do not have anchors or journalists who report news but instead have enterainers who get rattings.

What is truth?
-Pontious Pilot

As far as a news broadcast that has a wide-ranging scope of views not commonly see here, I recomend LinkTV\'s "Mosiac" news program. It is 30 minutes of 5 minute headlines (6 in total) from news outlets around the middle east.

This is last nights program:

[lilblondie]

I think it was the music that made me keeping thinking about American Beauty through the entirety of Revolutionary Road.  Little did I know both movies were directed by Sam Mendez.  It\'s like Sam found a movie that is all the horrible life drama, pain, and regret of American Beauty, without getting bogged down and distracted with that "hope" and the joy of re-birth.

It was definitely a high quality movie, and I felt the writing was interesting and unpredictable.  But in the end I just wondered what I did to Sam Mendez to make him hate me and want to torture me?

i do agree that it was a great movie....but man it made me want to slit my wrists when it was over...not uplifting what so ever....

[SlimPickens]

I think it was the music that made me keeping thinking about American Beauty through the entirety of Revolutionary Road.  Little did I know both movies were directed by Sam Mendez.  It\'s like Sam found a movie that is all the horrible life drama, pain, and regret of American Beauty, without getting bogged down and distracted with that "hope" and the joy of re-birth.

It was definitely a high quality movie, and I felt the writing was interesting and unpredictable.  But in the end I just wondered what I did to Sam Mendez to make him hate me and want to torture me?

i do agree that it was a great movie....but man it made me want to slit my wrists when it was over...not uplifting what so ever....

The guy that wrote the novel (Richard Yates) clearly had some seriously f\'ed up issues with the institution of marriage.  I wonder if it was his parents failed marriage or his 2 failed marriages that gave him those issues?

Wikipedia fun fact:

His (Yates) daughter Monica once dated Seinfeld co-creator, Larry David and David\'s first meeting with the writer was the basis for "The Jacket" episode of Seinfeld\'s second season.[6]

[tyzack]

As anyone seen
Wings of Desire or Faraway, So Close?

I think I am going to netflix them and was wodnering about y\'all opinions...

[Drew_Kingsley]

I know I\'m a bit behind on this, but I just watched Doubt. Incredible writing and incredible performances all around. I guess it\'s a good thing that it was adapted to film (because I wouldn\'t have seen it otherwise), but it\'s clearly a play first and a film second. Who would have thought that, in a film featuring great performances by Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep, the defining, tour de force performance would be by Viola Davis?

[KEN RAFLOWITZ]

ZOMBIE LAND has a few laughs!

[SlimPickens]

I know I\'m a bit behind on this, but I just watched Doubt. Incredible writing and incredible performances all around. I guess it\'s a good thing that it was adapted to film (because I wouldn\'t have seen it otherwise), but it\'s clearly a play first and a film second. Who would have thought that, in a film featuring great performances by Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep, the defining, tour de force performance would be by Viola Davis?

ZOMBIELAND has a few laughs!

2 movies that are definitely on my list.

Not enough hours in the day.

[leith]

ZOMBIELAND has a few laughs!

Some are even out loud.

[Mamalakabubadaya]

this is more of a warning than a suggestion. this movie is a huge disappointment and really goes no where. it is basically 90 minutes of a child who throws temper tantrums hanging out with a mangy monster who has the voice of tony soprano (i could not get past the tony soprano voice). there is really no climatic final moment or message in the movie and it gets pretty dark and depressing-not at all what you would expect from a movie that has been advertised as a family/childrens film. i would not take my 5 year old cousin to see this because i really think it would give him nightmares. not worth seeing at all.