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Title: Can We Start A Movie Recommendation Club??
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URL Source: http://thejerk.com
Published: Feb 16, 2007
Author: me
Post Date: 2007-02-16 23:05:52 by tom007
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Views: 613
Comments: 45

We don't have cable etc, so 99% of our tube watching time is library videos. I watch alot of travel videos, and they can be interesting or total duds.

I know there is a huge body of experience out there that can recommend high quality productions, most all far more proficent than I.

And someone mentioned "The Weeping Camel" (sic) recently which. to me, was a remarkable film, and JUST the sort of film I want to watch.

So I ask that the forum recommends some of their choices of material that is excellent and may very well be overlooked masterpices, as the weeping camel surely is, for my edification as well as others.

I'll Start:

1) The entire "Horatio Hornblower" series

2) "Bride and predjudice", Bollywood and so much fun

3) National Geo's "The Weeping Camel" (sic) utterly wonderful 4)Most "Lonely Planet" Travel videos

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#14. To: tom007 (#0)

"A very long engagement" (French)- anti state- anti war- anti militerist- pro family- pro localism. High production value- unusual for a French film.

"Flight Plan". A not so hidden allegory about 9/11 being an inside job. Foster, the ex-pat, knew exactly what she was doing making this film without coming out and saying it.

"Downfall" (German). If you want to see a pack of scumbag ideologues, political hacks, and Peacocked coward generals- who- after decades of lies, self enrichment, horrific abuse of power, unspeakable crimes- all served up with incredible shameless hubris- realize that all of it is coming to end- that they stand exposed for the criminals they are- with no more trappings of the state or pretense of "law" to hide behind and justify their crimes- then this is the movie. It is delicious to see these scumbags squirm- to see them utterly reduced and exposed for the evil murdering theiving liars they were. Rarely do such evil powerful men ever meet this fate in their lifetimes. Usually- they get monuments and hordes of court scribes to paper over their evil and call their mass murder "tough decisions".

"Brazil". Anti State. Anti Bureaucracy. Covers the use of the false flag op by governments to justify power grabs and poltical repression. Speaks to this decade so much more than it did when it came out in 87.

"Arlington Road"- just get it. You will love it. Jeff bridges- Tim Robbins.

Burkeman1  posted on  2007-02-16   23:49:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#16. To: Burkeman1 (#14)

"Brazil". Anti State. Anti Bureaucracy. Covers the use of the false flag op by governments to justify power grabs and poltical repression. Speaks to this decade so much more than it did when it came out in 87.

Thanks for this I have been trying to remember to see this for years.

tom007  posted on  2007-02-16 23:56:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I took my daughter to see Downfall. She walked out of there with her mouth open. Bet when she gets to studying WWII, she'll have a few things to say. A brilliant movie...the acting is amazing. I was claustrophobic for a week.

Brazil is a classic. Terry Gilliam's best work. Not exactly what I was expecting from a former Python.

Haven't seen the rest.

Oh, another recommendation. Hope and Glory, a brit film about a 9-year-old coming of age during the London blitz. He has a different outlook than do his parents and older siblings. He thinks it's WAY COOL. The director makes it seem like you're there, but there's a lot of humor mixed in with the horror.

Not to be a spoiler (so don't read further), but at the end of the movie, they've moved in with relatives in the country, and food is pretty hard to come by with so many people in one house. Grandpa sends the boys out to fish in the nearby lake, a pretty dispiriting trip, but off they go, getting not a nibble. Suddenly a German bomber, trailing smoke, zooms overhead and unloads its bomb into the lake. Presto, a boat full of fish.

Mekons4  posted on  2007-02-16 23:58:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

"Flight Plan". A not so hidden allegory about 9/11 being an inside job. Foster, the ex-pat, knew exactly what she was doing making this film without coming out and saying it.

ROTFLOL! Oh brother ...

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-09 22:58:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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