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!

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

300

Inglorious Basterds

Valkyrie - Tom Cruise and plot against Hitler amazon

Taking Chance - dvd

Good - rise of socialism in Germany

The Fountain (2006) - 3 stories, eternal love/life

JFK

Buy: Bourne Trilogy

Around the World in 80 days

Wall-E - robot in the future

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

the bank job

the duchess

marley and me

Benjamin Button [http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Case-Benjamin-Button-Blu-ray/dp/B001U0HBQ0/|amazon]]

City of God (2002)

Quantum of Solace - latest Bond film, with Olga Kurylenko from Max Payne

Casino Royale (1967)

Taken

From Here to Eternity (1953)

brokeback mountain

revolutionary road

evan almighty?

Goldfinger - James Bond, includes BWI/Friendship airport?

Role Model - comedy about guys

why we fight

there will be blood

atonement

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

memoirs of a geisha

fistfull of dollars

metropolis - potsdam.de

run lola run

exctasy - hady lamarr, sampson & delilha

American grafiti

garden state

closer

the sea inside

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

Lawrence of Arabia

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

Max Payne - Max Payne, good, like the video game! awesome photography

Tropic Thunder - ok, kinda funny. 3.5/5

Wanted - AWESOME plot and sound, intense, a great action film!! Jolie

Bella - great simple film about people, tough decisions, and choosing the best in life

the 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

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!)

casanova

the Village (shamalan, lots to say)

hitch (awesome, funny, good date flick)