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[lauralh]

Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End: This movie was weird, especially as I had blocked most of the 2nd one from my mind. The hallucinations were cool, as was Keith Richards (duh). It was enjoyable and fun, but very guilty pleasure.

The Good Thief: Remake of Bob le Flambeur, with Nick Nolte as "Bub" and also, for no good reason, heroin addict. Other changes made the movie slightly more captivating than the original. If you haven't seen either, see this one. Heist movie, in a nutshell, former thief makes one last hit.

Revolver: Guy Ritchie's latest movie, a total piece of shit. Don't bother. Just rent Lock Stock or Snatch again. Madonna's religion made too much of an impression on him.

American Meth: Docu about the depressing impression meth made on blue collar america. Interesting to see the um, other side of drug addiction.

Inside Man: Spike Lee kinda made a good movie not about race. Heist movie with Clive Owen as a brilliant bank robber, and Denzel Washington as the "negotiator".

Kicking and Screaming: Noah Baumbach's debut film, I wasn't sure if I was gonna like it. It's one of those movie that just has people talking the whole time, but in a good way. The comedy is just really good, and the drama bits are worth it too.

Code 46: A soft sci-fi film about forbidden love. Awesome score by David Holmes. Worth seeing.

Comments

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Kicking and Screaming yet, but I just saw The Squid and the Whale and it is really, really good.

[asabass.livejournal.com]

I don't know why I haven't seen Kicking and Screaming.

I thought The Good Thief and Code 46 were both pretty great.

american meth

[lara7.livejournal.com]

>American Meth: Docu about the depressing impression meth made on blue collar america. Interesting to see the um, other side of drug addiction.

I thought this was one of the worst documentaries I've ever seen. awful camera closeups and bad edits, too many law enforcement talking heads (oh, you have a task force on meth? how interesting. please talk about it for 5 minutes). all the addicts they interview are already in treatment or not using, and could they not find one picture of an exploded meth lab to include? because if you want to show the impact of meth on communities, that's more visceral than some white trash dude getting treatment talking about how meth is bad.

and were the couple in the trailor actors? because it was sure interesting how during their "spontaneous" fight, they seemed to be wearing clip mikes, since a boom mike would have picked up the screaming children 5 feet away. My bullshit detector went off so many times in this film, it actually pissed me off that they'd gotten funding for it. Also, it made me want some meth.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I figured they were just wearing the clip mikes the whole time, i dunno. i did look at it as a piece of propaganda, though. and yes, i wanted meth after seeing it too. heh.