movies

[TimeForGuinness]

i found the dialogue in Hot Fuzz incredibly difficult to understand at times so i just turned it off.

[Vidor]

Well, there was one character whose dialogue was supposed to be hard to understand, for a gag.

[cardinalkarp]

Was bored the other night & watched the documentary Craigslist Joe. It was surprisingly interesting. I'd also like to watch the documentary Paradise Lost but its not on Netflix or Amazon to order.

[Freed Roger]

Was bored the other night & watched the documentary Craigslist Joe. It was surprisingly interesting. I'd also like to watch the documentary Paradise Lost but its not on Netflix or Amazon to order.

It seems that the documentary genre gets a higher avg ranking than other genres. So I did an IMDB search of documentaries by lowest rating to see if any documentary gets panned.
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres ... sc&start=1
The description of lowest rated documentary doesn't seem too bad though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1474278/

[docellis]

I'd also like to watch the documentary Paradise Lost but its not on Netflix or Amazon to order.

I've been looking for that also. Damian Echols was interviewed on Jay Mohr's podcast recently and it was pretty interesting. It's the only time I've listened to a Mohr podcast.

[Cole Burns]

West of Memphis looks great. Doubt it will be playing anywhere near me anytime soon. But with Peter Jackson on board it's likely an Oscar contender.

[heyzeus]

I watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi last night. The best parts examined the family dynamic in this sushi family; you can glean a lot about the dead seriousness of Japanese culture there. And it's inspiring to see an 85 year old man wax poetic about striving for perfection, and about his passion for his profession.

But really, it could have been half the length. One can take only so many slow motion shots of an old man molding a piece of sushi.

[cardinalkarp]

West of Memphis looks great. Doubt it will be playing anywhere near me anytime soon. But with Peter Jackson on board it's likely an Oscar contender.

So is this a new movie?? When I pulled it up in imdb it showed a release date of 1996 for the paradise lost documentary.

[haltz]

One can take only so many slow motion shots of an old man molding a piece of sushi.

lol

[BigDCardlvr]

Here is a tidbit I will share about the movie Lincoln. My nephew has a M.A. in History, and being born in raised Springfield he had a special interest in Lincoln and made it his specialty in his studies. He loved the movie, and was very impressed with the attention to detail and historical accuracy. He said some of those folksy type of stories that Lincoln told in the movies were exactly the same renditions he had heard. I thought maybe that was just some creative writing, but apparently these were stories Lincoln was known to tell. There were a couple of things he wasn't sure about - the letter he sent to congress saying he knew of no efforts by the South for resolving the war - but he said that if they got other details so right that he did know about that he'd almost be surprised that it was made up.

So apparently if you are a history buff and need historical accuracy you will get it with this movie. I need to see it again.

The movie is fairly meticulous about details including that letter which was interesting as I'd never read about efforts at negotiations to end the war. In fact, one thing watching the movie reminded me is how exclusively discussion of the Civil War in school focused on battles. We learned almost nothing about the politics, which I think are a lot more helpful in understanding ourselves and our past than troop movements.

That said, there's been some good commentaries on the movie's narrow focus allowing it to portray emancipation as a gift given by great white men, and on theme of compromise versus principled radicalism. See, for example this New York Times op-ed and this essay for Jacobin.

Went to see Lincoln, and jim's description of his nephew's reaction resonated with me. I read the links Arthur Dent posted, and I felt that maybe the authors were disappointed that Spielberg didn't include more African-American voices, but I thought that the movie worked for what it was. I must say the last scene made me sit bolt upright and think

[SHOW]

"That's Lt. Anita Van Buren in bed with Thaddeus Stevens!

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and like most of the audience was unable to get up and leave once it was over. Just had to sit there and take it in.