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Movies
- Film can be a great work of art, and leave room for endless intepretation and insights, or it can be purely for entertainment. I appreciate both.
- Some notes on Film Appreciation from a class I took in undergrad. Perhaps the best class at UNO of all time!
Critiques
- Inception - dreams w/in dreams, trying to unlock (extract) and insert new ideas
- P.S. I Love You - sad film about an amazing Irish guy who dies and gives his wife letters to get over him
- V is for Vendetta - (April 2006) The Wachowski Brothers at it again in artful scifi political statement of our times
- Munich - (2006) The 1960 Munich Olympics hostage taking and terrorism contiues to affect the world today
- March of the Penguins - (August 2005) National geographic tells the intimate story of emperor penguin life in Antarctica
- The Village - (2003) The perfect village of relative peace and happiness, controlled by fear and secrets of the unknown.
- Tao of Steve - (2000) The guy that gets all the girls.
- zeitgeist - 2006/2007, Christianity, Mythology, 9/11 and the Fed Reserve
Films to See
- The Artist (2011) - b/w film
- Edge of Love (2008) - WWII love film with Keira Knightley
- Taking Chance - dvd
- Good - rise of socialism in Germany
- The Fountain (2006) - 3 stories, eternal love/life
- JFK
- City of God (2002)
- brokeback mountain
- revolutionary road
- Goldfinger - James Bond, includes BWI/Friendship airport?
- The Pianist
- Natural Born Killers
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- transporter 2, transporter 3
- lords of war
- Bed Time Stories - with Keri Russell
- Forgetting Sara Marshall - with Mila Kunis
- After Sex - with Mila Kunis, good insight into reasons for abstinence?
- mad hot ballroom
- elizabethstown
- metropolis - potsdam.de
- ectasy - hady lamarr, sampson & delilha
- American grafiti
- the sea inside
- A Walk to Remember
- the jacket
- shakespeare - the merchant of venice (amc)
- the wedding date
- Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
- where the heart is
- king arthur
- North by Northwest - Carry Grant (rec: Gabe Sjoberg)
- Desert fox
- Bunker
- Bachelor party
- Saints and soldiers
- Gods and Generals
- The Longest Day, The Green Berets
- The Grifters - Anette Benning (with John Cusac NPR interview)
- The Corporation - movie
- Stepford wives
- Definitely, Maybe - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfUwvTvzrg8
- 500 days of summer
- It’s kind of a funny story
Seen List
- Quantum of Solace - latest Bond film, with Olga Kurylenko from Max Payne
- marley and me
- evan almighty? - jim carey and morgan freeman, funny good
- Role Model - comedy about guys
- there will be blood - great western film action film
- Buy: Bourne Trilogy - Christmas gift!!!
- 300 - Awesome action film!
- Inglorious Basterds - great action!
Max Payne- Max Payne, good, like the video game! awesome photographyTropic Thunder- ok, kinda funny. 3.5/5Wanted- AWESOME plot and sound, intense, a great action film!! JolieBella- great simple film about people, tough decisions, and choosing the best in lifethe Notebook ? w/ melissa?Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(great classic, fighting dirty politicians)The Last Samuri- actually good film! Tom Cruise chooses the samurai way of life over us military- In searching for the perfect snowflake... “they’re all perfect”
50 First Dates(funny of course, w/ a message -Sandler)pride and prejudice 2005(good, saw for free at NPS, beautiful more hollywood-ish, shorter)indiana Jones 4- not good, [http://brianwiese.net/blog/2008/05/26/indiana-jones-disappointment/ too much CG]the 40yo virgin(crude, but funny)the wedding crashers(Hilarious!)oceans 13<del> - great, like all of the Oceans! * <del>munich(Good!)casanovathe Village(shamalan, lots to say)hitch(awesome, funny, good date flick)Atonement- great story, Kiera Knightly- Lawrence of Arabia< - Epic long film, kind of boring but insightful
- garden state - old, cute and cheesy
- closer - interesting, “if you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking”
- memoirs of a geisha - fascinating and beautifully done
- run lola run - trippy, but good for practicing German
- Something Borrowed - good ‘true love’ story, good
- fistfull of dollars - classic clint eastwood, hulu
Wall-E - robot in the future- cute animation about the future, the need to protect our world, tendencies toward laziness/sloth
Zohan- in the light of Tropic Thunder, Sandler plays an Israeli Rambo with Austin Powers mojo- slumdog millionaire
The Hurricane- 2000, great film. “Hate put me in prison. Love’s gonna bust me out!”gran turino- great flick, character and grit, honor and humblness, cross cultural comms
