Movies Watched 8.01.06 - 8.01.07
Submitted by Slothrop33 on Sat, 08/05/2006 - 01:17
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- 1. Why We Fight- Eugene Jarecki (Great doc about millitary industrial complex)
- 2. The English Patient- Anthony Minghella (An amazing movie, so damn sad though... the book is quite amazing as well)
- 3. Downfall- Oliver Hirschbaegel (amazing and terrifying)
- 4. Land of the Blind- Robert Edwards (interesting yet flawed politcal dystopia starring Ralph Fiennes)
- 5. Adaptation- Spike Jonze (if nothing, to watch chris cooper exhalt his disdain for fish again)
- 6. Poseidon- Wolfgang Peterson (this felt like a made for TV movie)
- 7. The Thin Red Line- Terence Malick (seen many times, amazing!)
- 8. Jesus Camp- Heidi Ewing (a good documentary about indoctrinating children toward the radical right)
- 9. All the King's Men- (1949) Robert Rossen
- 10. The Libertine- Laurence Dunmore (awful)
- 11. Flyboys- Tony Bill (flawed but I liked it)
- 12. X-Men: The Final Assault- Brett Ratner (mildly entertaining)
- 13. Flags of Our Fathers- Clint Eastwood (an excellent film on Iwo Jima, combat scenes superb)
- 14. Dark Man- Sam Raimi (Spoof on 50's B films, worth watching. You can see a little Spiderman in this)
- 15. The Prestige- Christopher Nolan (Liked it, could have shown more of London during the time)
- 16. Billy Bathgate- Robert Benton (worth watching)
- 17. Joyeux Noel- Christian Carion (great movie about incident in WW1)
- 18. An Inconvenient Truth- Davis Gugenheim (sobering)
- 19. Harrison's Flowers- Elie Chouraqui (amazing movie about the Coratian /Serbian War. A must see)
- 20. Lunacy- Jan Svankmajer (amazing!)
- 21. Great Expectations- David Lean (He just gets Dickens!)
- 22. Little Miss Sunshine- Jonathan Dayton (Hysterically funny)
- 23. A Scanner Darkly- Richard Linklater (an odd yet interesting movie)
- 24. Miami Vice- Michael Mann (average at best)
- 25. The Black Dahlia- Brian de Palma (god awful!!)
- 26. The Omen 2006- John Moore (not bad, no reason for it though)
- 27. The Illusionist- Neil Burger (Amazing! Best movie seen in 2006)
- 28. The Departed- Martic Scorsese (great cast and script, loved it!)
- 29. Catch a Fire- Phillip Noyce (very interesting film about south africa)
- 30. The Blood of My Brother- Andrew Berends (ok documentary about American occupation of Iraq)
- 31. The Descent- Neil Marshall (one of the better horror films in awhile)
- 32. Sophie Scholl- Mark Rothemund (brilliant film about a college student that challenges the nazis)
- 33. The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress- Mark Birnbaum (nice doc about DeLay's corruption circulating around Texas politics and PACS)
- 34. Hollywoodland- Allen Coulture (great movie, Adrien Brody is great)
- 35. Art School Confidential- Terry Zwigoff (hilarious!)
- 36. American Hardcore- Paul Rachman (loved it)
- 37. Borat- Larry Charles (hysterical yet terrifying!)
- 38. Children of Men- Alphonso Cuaron (amazing film, highly suggest you see this)
- 39. Blood Diamond- Edward Zwick (Loved it!)
- 40. Zulu- Cy Endfield (Michael Caine's first film about the Zulu Wars. Great!)
- 41. The Good Shepherd- Robert De Niro (loved it!)
- 42. Spiderman 3- Sam Raimi (Not as good as the first 2, but I will take it)
- 43. Thank You for Smoking- Jason Reitman (Hysterically funny)
- 44. Khartoum- Basil Dearden (flawed but interesting)
- 45. The Devil's Own- Alan Pakula (surprisingly good)
- 46. Notes on a Scandal- Richard Eyre (dark!)
- 47. The Joke- Jaromil Jires (Czech New Wave!)
- 48. The Last King of Scotland- Kevin Macdonald (I loved this movie)
- 49. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End- Gore Verbinski (I loved it!)
- 50. Breach- Billy Ray (fun movie, love chris cooper)
- 51. Tideland- Terry Gilliam (pretty disappointing actually)
- 52. Hunt for Justice- Charles Biname (made for tv, about bosnia war crimes, somewhat interesting)
- 53. The War Within- Joseph Castelo (excellent movie about a pakistani contemplating suicide bombing)
- 54. Pan's Labyrinth- Guillermo del Toro (amazing!)
- 55. A Sound of Thunder- Peter Hyams (fun adventure sci-fi)
- 56. Shooter- Antoine Fuqua (a decent political thriller)
- 57. The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair- Peter Epperlein (not very good)
- 58. The Road to Guantanamo- Michael Winterbottom (amazing movie, how wrong things are going)
- 59. Kedma- Amos Gitai (good movie about the establishment of Israel)
- 60. Network- Sydney Lumet (dark comedy about the underworld of TV and finance)
- 61. Stranger Than Fiction- Marc Forster (Brilliant!)
I haven't seen #53 The War Within, but it sounds very similar to Paradise Now. You should see that one if you haven't already. It's about 2 Palestinians who are chosen to be suicide bombers.
I will be sure to check it out, certainly a relevant topic.