Milk had some incredibly well-written characters in Milk and White (ironic), but it exposed my lack of understanding of the civil rights movement in the gay community. I don’t know whether the movie intended to be preachy, or it meant to show the hostile climate in the 70s. Great production and performances.
Frost/nixon review with spoilers:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=495988&view=public
watched Religulous…was underwhelmed
I kind of got that feeling from the previews and such. I mean, I’m an atheist, but I feel most atheists are as fanatical and one-sided as the religious.
Wow Lohman… alison lohman has grown up. The times, they changin’ :sad:
Movie looks like shit. Justin Long still can’t act for shit.
Are you under the impression that anyone gives a shit about your opinions around here?
That might have been true once, but I think times are changing. I’m beginning to find that most atheists simply don’t buy what religions are selling, and they arrive at the atheistic worldview through pure skepticism. Yeah, there’s the occasional loudmouth who bashes God as vociferously as the fundamentally religious would bash their own targets, but these people are a vocal minority. (It doesn’t help that many religious people view any criticism of their beliefs–even criticism that is cool and even-handed–to be hostile. This unfairly paints out-of-the-closet atheists with a broad brush.)
Then again, suffice it to say that this is neither the time or the place. I haven’t seen Maher’s film, but I hear it’s quite douchebaggy. I’d wager there are much more careful, less snide criticisms of religion out there. The Life of Brian is one of my favorites.
It’s funny, I have a much bigger problem these days with loud mouthed atheists these days than loud mouthed theists. I hate all loud mouthed people in general, so they both annoy me, but loud-mouthed atheists paint us normal ones in a bad light…
I’m also of the “reformed christian” group of atheists. That means I was one of the loud-mouthed variety at one time and have since reformed…getting older helped a lot too…
One of my best friend’s whos agnostic *cough copout atheist * and I were talking about religion the day religulous opened coincidentally but somehow never got aroudn to seeing it. Anyways from what I’ve heard it was as 1 sided as a michael moore flick I’ve been told he just interviews a bunch of religious nuts instead of well informed and intelligent theists.
Am I the only one who thinks Lanegella and especially eastwood were robbed of best actor award?
Bill Maher hasnt been insightful or on-point for years. he’s had some things to say on politically incorrect. but now it seems he’s gotten comfortable w/ being an obnoxious prick
I don’t know that they were robbed. It was definitely a tough game this year for actors, and while I’m not 100% sure that Penn was the best, it was most definitely an award-worthy performance.
They screened about 20 minutes of Borat follow-up BRUNO at SXSW last night and it sounds hilarious.
no not really, and definately not clint eastwood…
im outi
Roberth
Agreed but I’m in the camp that those 2 more deserved the award more so then penn.
After seeing imax watchmen my friend sold me 4 of his bd’s one of them being sunshine a film I’ve never heard of but he compared it to event horizon so I was sold. It’s a typical sci fi save the earth deal with each of the crew members fulfilling stereotypical roles such as the leader who prioritizes the mission first, the nervous GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER guy, the guilt ridden suicidal one, and so on. The first 2 acts of this film are much better then the third but Boyle elevated this otherwise average film to the point where it fulfills the criteria for an instant sci fi classic: Great visuals, smart action, moody atmosphere, good crew chemistry.
I highly recommend it for anyone who’s into sci fi shit:tup:
I heard good things about Sunshine, but I never got around to seeing it. What appealed to me about it is that, purportedly, the tension is generated by the entirely realistic dangers of space travel.
At least, for a while.
Yeah the “oh shit are they going to be okay moments” are all spawned from problems you could expect to face when traveling towards the sun, even the quasi-ethereal threat later on is believable. The only hard to swallow facet of this film is that the whole point is that they’re delivering a bomb into the sun to reignite it and that’s a non issue really. Because the last third of the film isn’t as great as the first two I’ll give it an 8/10 but definitely a must watch for any sci fi fans.
The extras on the bd are exceptional:tup:
edit: does anyone have that bentwookie list of movie remakes?
Saw it a month or so back and ditto. Tried to tackle way too many faiths in too short of a run time. I think there were some interesting tidbits and locations and it was a bit less smug than what I expected out of Maher, but it still felt like an extended preview.
Rented Let The Right One In last night after a couple of my friends had recommended it to me. Fantastic little film, easily the best genre film I’ve seen in ages. It was centered around two things I usually hate in films, child actors and vampires, and yet it was still somehow great.
Couple of interesting looking trailers on that dvd, too. Namely Special with Michael Rappaport, Splinter and Eden Log.
I’ve heard nothing but praise for Let the Right One In…gotta get that one off Netflix soon…
new Sam Mendes movie
starring Jim Halpert w/ a beard and Maya Rudolph. written by Dave Eggers.
seems a bit cliche and looks like a PT Anderson film.
I saw something about this today. I didn’t know Sam Mendes already had another movie in the works. Haven’t watched the trailer yet.