I have to watch lots of films because I teach film theory etc.
Most of what I see is junk, but of the recent stuff the last one I watched completely was "Capote". I give it a 5 out of 10. Then I saw "Crash"...it crashed. I almost finished watching "Memoirs of a Geisha"..but it was too insipid to watch to the end. The book is better, as is the case with lots of movies.
I am now in the process of watching "The Onion Field"...the book was wonderful, but the film so far is dullish...although James Woods as the devious crook is shining.
Speaking of shining, when movies of the 10-15 years or so can't get any worse I just get out my Hitchcock/Ford/Kazan/Fellini/Welles/Wilder/Wyler/Kubrick library and watch those films again.
I'm still looking for *Deserthawk* on DVD. *Sigh* One day...one day...
Thank you for the input! Nice to see you in the Canteen!
Hey you teach film theory?
I took a class like that in college for an advanced elective.
The professor gave me an "F".
Since I was double majoring in Biology and Chemistry...I took it as a badge of honor from that leftist troll.
Crashed and burned!
"Crash" is available on cable here in my area for free. I watched it the other day. Gosh I keep forgetting that I saw stuff.
I thought that it was horrible. The entire first half of the movie had Americans from just about every strata of the country acting as complete and utter racists in virtually every endeavor of their (read our) lives.
I'm sorry, but I simply cannot agree with the Hollywood elitists who go out of their way at almost every opportunity to disparage all the rest of us with their warped perspective of ordinary Americans.
Many of those hypocrites sit in their proverbial little ivory towers heaping criticism on us the great unwashed because they are simply out of touch. I suppose that if I lived in a mansion and I had hordes of naive fans hounding me everyday for autographs and photo ops, I might myself become just a bit jaded. That is possible but I doubt it. We'll never know.
Hollywood and the weirdo left has us all pegged as ignorant and racist it seems. Watching some of the product from that cesspool sometimes euphemistically called Tinsel Town I'd use my own designation but prudence and a desire to keep being permanently banned from FR hinders me from expressing it here.
Hollywood would have the world think that America is nothing more than a stronghold for racism, and a place where slavery is revered, and subliminally practiced if not worse.
Someone ought to advise the weirdos on the left side of the political spectrum that America, and western Europe were actually the most powerful forces in the world involved in actually ending the practice of slavery. The battle continues in some places. Nowadays we must do something about the slavery of the minds which the propagandists on the left continue to utilize.
That is how I see it.
What are your top ten favorite movies that you think the troops would also enjoy watching?
I'm gleaning ideas now as I send a lot of movies to the troops in the war zones.