Great view of Post War Japan. Lot's of local color
House of Bamboo is out on YouTube.
Posted on 09/02/2022 4:18:40 PM PDT by sphinx
It's no secret that we are in the midst of a cultural slump rife with bad films, television, music, and books. Fortunately, there hasn't been a complete absence of great modern art, as evidenced by these three films.
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“The Lives of Others” is a very good 2006 movie drama about the East German Stasi surveillance of a protesting writer.
I don’t hate comic book movies outright. They are an overplayed genre, for sure. I avoid the Marvel movies which are the worst offenders, as being derivative and appealing to the least common denominator using comedy.
The Chris Nolan Batman trilogy was fantastic IMHO. Dark, gritty and serious the entire way. Drama trumps comedy every time, Shakespeare knew this.
I think if I was forced to give praise to comic book movies in general, they do tend to push the special effects technology forward which benefits the rest of the industry. Basically, because their budgets are so large and they print their own money with profits.
True Grit 2010 was fantastic.
amen!
Yes, thanks for reminding me. I have it on my watchlist because of freeper recommendations, but I’ve not watched it yet. You have just bumped it up a bit. Freepers keep recommending it so I need to catch up.
Dead Man Walking is a great movie. I saw this with friends and each of us came out switching their opinion of the “Death Penalty”... One idiot liberal ended up “pro-death penalty”, I was leaning against the death penalty and came out “anti-death penalty” as well as one friend was anti and she came out as pro. I was surprised at how good it was. It wasn’t preachy like “The Life of David Gale” where people walked out smiling that the lead character finally stopped talking.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve not yet seen it. I did like Klavan’s review, especially his humorous take on how a bunch of looneytune liberals could make (in his opinion) a great Christian movie. In this thread, we have a couple of strong recommendations and one vehement dissent. Sounds like there’s enough substance there to be worth a watch.
Frankly, what caught my eye initially was the presence of Sean Penn. His politics are — well, it’s Sunday morning, so I will refrain from using appropriate language here. And his personal life has been beyond the pale. But I will acknowledge that he’s a very good actor. I was impressed a couple of years ago when he teamed with Mel Gibson in The Professor and the Madman, which I watched because I had already read The Surgeon of Cawthorne. The man can act.
He’s also been making some noises recently about how the big studios and streaming networks are becoming the Borg and killing creativity and independent expression. That’s another story, but it’s important to take note when people on the left start punching back against the commissars. That’s not an endorsement of Sean Penn per se, but when people on the other side are occasionally right about something, we should take note. That’s the only way to develop wedge issues.
That is where I grew up . I liked the movie because it was a real nostalgia rush for me. It was also an eye opener for me because places that I had taken for granted were revealed to have very interesting histories that I was unaware of.
True Grit 2010 was fantastic.
The Rescue . It is a documentary about trying to save the lives of somes boys trapped in a cave in Thailand. Not a well known film but I recommend it highly.
Great view of Post War Japan. Lot's of local color
House of Bamboo is out on YouTube.
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