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Foolscap
Member
09-04-2004
| Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 5:18 pm
Jedisan, thanks so much for mentioning the movie "Gridlock'd". I loved that movie, but I saw it awhile ago snd can never remember the name when I want to recommend it to people. It's also just obscure enough that people rarely recognize it when I try and describe it. Anyway, Thanks. I'm also very fond of "Dogfight".
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Jedisan
Member
01-11-2002
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 4:39 pm
YW Foolscap. If I can get one person to watch either of those movies (that hasn't already), then I have done my good deed for the day.
ETA: to correct spelling.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 6:21 pm
Babyruth, do you mean Children of Men? I couldn't find the movie Children of Heaven.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7:45 pm
Netflix Link imdb link Here ya go, Jasper!
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 8:47 pm
Thank you 
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 4:34 pm
I watched "Away From Her" today. Julie Christie plays a woman with Alzheimer's who has to go live in a rest home. It shows the struggle that she and her husband had with making that decision and how their life proceeds afterwards. It was a sad movie...but it also showed just how deeply a person can love another person. I enjoyed it. ETA: Babyruth, I very much enjoyed "Once". And...even though I'm Irish, I still used the subtitles! lol
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 4:38 pm
Lori I cried like a baby during that movie lol.
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 4:40 pm
Oh me too!! lol
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 5:19 pm
Okay, I just saw a movie made back in 2002. It is called Equilibrium. I had never heard of this movie before, but it is worth a rental if you have the time. Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Sean Bean, Angus MacFayden, and William Fichtner are all in the movie. It's set in the future where all human emotion has been outlawed to prevent war. People who break this law are subject to incineration. They keep their emotions in check by taking periodic doses of a drug; their leader is called "father". Bale plays an elite soldier/cop called a "cleric", who never missed a dosage of his drug until now, and the story unfolds from there. This movie has the best fight/gunfight scenes I've ever seen, even better than The Matrix and Blade movies. The storyline is very "Orwellian", in the "1984" sense. I don't understand how I missed this 6 years ago, but if you did too and you like stories like this, this should be a definite rental for you.
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 10:52 pm
Another one. "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door" It's not "The Girl Next Door" with Elisha Cuthbert, but a period piece from 1958. Strange and disturbing, it's a tale of suburban torture. The girl is supposed to be 14, but the actress that plays her is 22(and she looks older), so it sort of kills the effect. It says on the cover that it's based on true events, but it's really based on a 1989 fictional novel. Regardless, it takes a strong stomach for this type of film. Watch at your own risk, it's not fun.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 4:20 am
Equilibrium is quite good imo.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 5:01 am
I enjoyed Equilibrium as well.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 10:42 pm
I just saw Venus on HBO tonight. Brilliant performance by Peter O'Toole. Sweet, humorous and very touching story--with a pygmalion-like theme.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 10:29 pm
Once is lovely. For me, it evokes similar feelings that Lost In Translation does. On the surface, a simple movie. But so much feeling below the surface, the small actions, in the looks, in the words unsaid.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 9:29 am
Not a documentary any of us WANT to see. But just discovered this, and thought I'd share: Standard Operating Procedure
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:39 pm
Watched a wonderful little documentary on HBO today titled Autism:The Musical. I think everyone should catch this film. You can't help but fall in love with all of these kids.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Friday, May 02, 2008 - 9:09 am
Going to see Young @ Heart this weekend. Finally made it to our city.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, June 06, 2008 - 1:42 am
I watched a movie called Avalon on cable tonight. Wow, it was good, but also sad. One reviewer at IMDB said it best. So I'll quote them: " Absolutely charming and at times poignant account of the Krachinsky clan, spanning four generations of the Baltimore based Jewish immigrants, and the effects of suburbia, television and the decline of the closeness of American families at large." At the beginning of the movie, the family is gathered at the Thanksgiving table. So many people are there the table extends into the next room, and of course at the end of that are two kid's tables. The table is full of conversation, and of course the obligatory arguments/frustrations that family can give you. Later, as portions of the family have fractured off, one family (in suburbia), is seated at the Thanksgiving table alone. Then as the tone for the TV program comes on, they all grab their plates and run into the living room, leaving the Thanksgiving spread to sit at the table. In yet another later scene, the camera pans to the table, completely bare and unset, and the lone family is sitting with TV trays in the living room (in front of the TV of course), just kind of solemnly consuming the Thanksgiving meal, and not talking to each other at all. Looking back, even the obligatory arguments at the dinner table look better than that silent Thanksgiving meal, served on individual TV trays in front of the TV in the living room. And of course, two of the sons change their names from Krachinsky to names that are easier to pronounce. In one of the final scenes, the elder man is in a nursing home. He's talking to his grandson, and talks about going to different places in the old neighborhood, and all the different buildings and such are gone. Even one of the streets is no longer there. He finally finds a nightclub he used to own, and says something like, "thank goodness it was still there. Cause I was beginning to think that I never was." Hard to quote it here, cause I can't make it sound like he did, meaning it was starting to look like he never existed, cause everything he remembered about his life was gone. Anyway, it sounds sad. But it was just really good. It impacts the viewer cause you realize just how fractured FAMILY has become. At the start of the movie, the whole family comes together to finance bringing brothers, cousins, uncles, fathers, etc over to America. And the family members all pool in together to support each person they bring over as they establish themselves and get on their feet in the new country. What a different life we lead now.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 3:54 pm
Avalon is a wonderful film. I saw it years ago and still remember how it touched me.
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 9:28 pm
Just saw 3 movies today. Jumper, Funny Games(updated version), and The Signal. Jumper stars Hayden Christensen & Samuel Jackson and is pretty cool. It's about a small group of people who can teleport all over the earth and the other group of religious freaks who try to kill all of the "Jumpers". Funny Games is a thriller that is basically an English speaking remake of a 1990's German flick that reached a pretty high cult status. It's pretty scary if you don't know what's going to happen. But it's basically the same exact movie as it's 1990's counterpart, but with English speaking players. The Signal: One of the most violent, but coolest flicks to come along in a while. You have to see the movie to appreciate it, it cannot be explained. Put it on your Netflix list and judge for yourself.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - 11:00 pm
Don't know if its considered "under the radar." Since its an older movie..... Just finished watching "Music From The Heart" on STARZ. What a wonderful movie! We're ordering the DVD. The last 20 minutes of the movie alone is worth the price. That scene at Carnegie Hall, with all those famous violinists and musicians on stage together was simply stunning. I'm getting goosebumps just typing about it! I played violin as a child, learning under the Suzuki method. Every single song they played in the classroom, I recognized from my Suzuki class days! It was fun to hear them again!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 5:24 pm
I've not even heard of this movie, but your description has definitely made me curious. We don't get the premium channels, but I might be able to rent it or find it cheap on Amazon (we just found Short Circuit for $5.00!).
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 5:37 pm
THIS looks like a pretty good price Teach. Especially if (as one Amazon reviewer mentioned) it includes the original documentary that the movie was based on. I love Short Circuit!!!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 6:51 pm
I adore Amazon for these kinds of prices. 
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 8:08 am
Last night I watched Me Without you on PBS. It's a film from 2001 starring Michelle Williams and Anna Friel (from Pushing Daisies fame). It's a twisted little tale of two British best friends, one is always dominant (Marina, played by Anna) and the other frumpy and passive (Holly, played by Michelle). If you've every had a friendship like this, and I'm sure many women have, it's a movie you can relate to. I really like Michelle Williams and she does a find job in this film. Her British accent is actually pretty good! Good soundtrack as well. IMDB entry
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