Movie reviews

Can your friend sue them?

I don't know if he could have or not. He didn't, and it is probably too late now since that was quite a few years ago.

I like a lot of your choices quite well!

You should watch, "A Separation". In the right hands, everyday life is filled with compelling stories.

Cool, I could add hundreds to that list.... Really a movie buff. Is that the right word, "buff"? Sounds like someone who spend too much time at a gym (non native English here).

If you haven't seen it, I would strongly recommend Der Himmel über Berlin.

I've been reading quite a bit in this thread and there are some interesting discussions. There seems to be a strong opinion against mainstream Hollywood productions and although I can perfectly understand why, I'm a bit divided on the topic, as the way I see it a movie can be so many different things. I can watch a movie like Transformers 1 and really enjoy it because it's just such a ride. It's full of cliches, but some cliches I'm ok with. They become like stories you don't mind hearing again. Then there are of course many that I would pay twice the ticket price just to never hear again. Or at least not for another 10 years. US army saving the world, the universe, humanity and a kitten on the way being one of them, although I enjoyed Battle Los Angeles despite its plethora of the above. Avatar was another cliche-ridden movie that really got to me. What can I say? I like sci-fi and I like blue

The one movie I ever walked out on, after 15 minutes only, was Star Wars The Phantom Menace. Dear god... Watching Liam Neeson in such a farse was painful and Jar Jar Binks I would prefer to have shot on sight. Mi sa... BAM! No more rendering for you, you dirty polygon actor piece of bad writing/drawing/modeling/spawn of Lucas worst moments.

Howard the Duck was mentioned earlier as a disaster. I actually kinda liked that one, but I was very young, I think, and probably stoned. Point being, even though I would say that I normally have rather high demands for a movie in terms of script, originality and cinematography can still watch what I know is garbage and enjoy it. Go figure. And I don't even like McDonalds. There are of course a great deal of mainstream stuff that I couldn't bare 10 minutes of, like Twilight, that I tried to watch as I like vampire stuff (or used to, it's been done to death now). That was about as painful as I can imagine Chinese water torture to be. How that movie ended up at the top of the lists is completely beyond me.

By the way, I watched the Phoenix Lights documentary, fascinating indeed. I agree on the cheesy production, but felt there were enough interview material to forget about it. Good tip!

I am willing to give it a glimpse or two. Where can I find it? What is it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832382/

Thank you for the movie recommendation of "Der Himmel uber Berlin"!

Thanks....

It's truly a great film. Enjoy

 I checked out the ad for the movie. I hope it isn't subtitled, if so I'll have to watch alone. I watched another really good foreign film about a muslim woman who's husband wanted another wife  and could only afford one. He tried everything "within the law" to get her to leave, she wouldn't go. He got a local magistrate and some witnesses to lie and say she commited adultry. She was stoned to death by her community.Her own father tried throwing stones at her. The stoning prompted an international outrage for the equal treatment of women in muslim countries. I don't know the name of it.I'll try to find it.

A Separation is sub titled. It's well worth the trouble to watch, though.

Thanks for the tip, i will probably still watch it....

Bloody Sunday (2002)

 On January 30th, 1972, a protest turned to a massacre in Northern Ireland. This film is very effective at giving one a sense of what many protests around the world today have become. It's done in a documentary-style. The event is famous, yet I've read very little about that time. It's a very good film! 

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

David Bowie is an alien who comes to Earth from a planet suffering a catastrophic drought. He uses his knoweledge of alien technology to found a company and becomes fabulously wealthy. His desire is to find a way to transport water back to his planet, but just as he is about to leave he is detained by the government. He has a girlfriend who introduces him to human sexual acts and alcohol. By the end of the movie he is a broken man.

Bowie's performance in this movie is very good. He's credible as an alien, yet he is innocent and human and later corupt throuh experience and even more human. I saw this movie when I was 15, and never having seen the technique before, I was struck by the rapid editing.

You don't notice subtitles after a while. They are really not bad at all.

Actually, I turn subtitles on for most movies I watch, regardless of whether or not it's in English. Not sure how I got in that habit, but now I'm accustomed to it.

 loved the subtitles even my kids use it.

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