I don't know for sure what format it was originally but "Kasparov: My Story" or something is really good. I watched it on youtube. It is about 7-8 hours long.

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Thanks! I haven't seen that one!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWxRL7UKlIc&feature=related

Here is the link if you need it.

Thanks again!

Someone mentioned Warrior awhile back in the thread. I just finished watching it, I was pleasantly surprised. Acting was good & dialogues for the most part good(i especially liked the brothers chat). Predictable ending but still worth watching

That was me, yeah Warrior was good, I liked that one. Nice to see Nick Nolte back in a role too.

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I'm still working on this one, as it seems that I can take only small doses of Kasparov. It is very interesting though! I've gotten through probably two hours of it. It's kind of the same as another long series that was recommended here, "Bleak House", which I've watched four episodes of, but the camera work makes me have to take a break from it. It could be another month before I get through these films 

There's Something About Mary, and Meet the Parents; a couple of my favorite comedies.

Right, this is from my iphone, so bare with me for a wall off text. I just watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I'm a big fan if David Fincher, not all his work but a lot of it. His meticoulous attention to detail shines through here as well, and as a Swede it was fun to watch him go back in time and nail it as if had lived here all his life. Basically all actors speak English with various Swedish accents, and contrary to the opinion of most of the forum posters on iMDB that think they have a clue, they're doing it pretty well. Rooney Mara was said to do a terrible Swedish accent, but that's horseshit. It's very good and could stem from a few areas in Sweden mixed up with the more common "rikssvenska". Funny though, the only one not attempting an accent was the lead male Daniel Craig, which frequently made me leave the immersion as it really jumps out from the rest. I would sum it up as a fairly entertaining thriller, but nothing worth going to the theater for. Just grab it from the shelf when it's out on DVD and you find nothing better to watch. A heads up to anyone sensitive, there's a quite disturbing rape scene in the movie.

The Last Waltz 1978

The last live performance of The Band, directed by Martin Scorcese. Many consider it one of the greatest rock documetaries. I couldn't find the full movie with iterviews, but I did find the full album of the performance.

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I watched the original non-english version. It did have some quite disturbing scenes, but I liked Salander's character and Blomkvist's character. 

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Yeah, I think that's the best part of the movie/book, the dynamic between Salander and Blomkvist.

The original subtitled version doesn't have Finchers estethics in the cinematography, but other than that I found them pretty similar. Perhaps Rooney Mara's character Salander felt a bit more convincing at times, but that's def the hardest role to play in the movie.

The Humanitarian War (2012)

 This film investigates the claims of Human Rights organizations and N.A.T.O., regarding Libya last year, and where the "evidence" was gathered by these organizations. One of the most telling parts of this excellent film, was when it was disclosed that all the evidence is hearsay, with much of it being provided by the Libyan Transitional Council, with their Ministers of Media, Education, and the Oil and Finance Minister! I highly recommend this film. 

What theatrical releases of stand up comedians do you like? I think George Carlin was my favorite.

George Carlin and Bill Hicks are my favorites. 

You know, on the Bill Maher's show, the woman who was arguing that "God", or whatever, gets her through the day, is very typical of what I have argued against: The god crutch. I hate it. It is as if she doesn't understand what a belief in gods are. The people who believe in god are not saying that they are having the same thoughts as someone who doesn't believe in gods, but they characterize their belief in a different way. Rather, these people who believe in gods, think entirely different from what people who don't believe in gods, think. She probably thinks she's communicating to them by "understanding" them. She's not. She doesn't understand them, and she's as delusional as someone who believes in gods  

I've noticed that atheists present better arguments than believers. I have a friend who feels that embracing religion is a renounciation of rational thought. I think this is why they present better argumets. They have a world view rooted in the tradition of the Renaisace and reason.

Religious belief is based on belief in things that can't be proven and often don't make sense. It's hard to argue this type of belief in a rational way.

I guess i fall into the agnostic category. I don't know if there's a God, and I don't think the matter can be resolved.

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That is very clear and succinct. In studying philosophy, I have to pay attention to some of the clever rationalists in scholastic thought, such as Aquinas and Augustine. And I also have a solitary place in my heart for Kierkegaard, who was a very poetic person whose realization of hopelessness crippled him, and made him believe in gods. Maxims, such as "I believe, because it is not rational", came from the works of these philosophers. 

  I feel for them, for sure. I understand what they see before their "leap of faith". But depression and despair is no excuse for neglecting an honest assessment of knowledge. It is a distraction and an obstacle to knowledge, whatever value one places upon it. In my opinion, of course