list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

To be honest, I started watching 2001 on Netflix but I got bored and stopped. I have a problem with music being set to boring visuals, even if it's music I like.

Lord of the Rings = Godfather with swords

The International- Clive Owens.... admittedly I was sort of skeptical going in, even though most of his roles have been excellent and well done.... the scary part about this movie is that it is largely based on fact, even though the story may be fictitious.  (made me think of all the 9-11 conspiracy theories and my friend told me about a documentary called "loose change" which I should watch; which is about a timeline of American foibles and conspiracies in our own government....) Awesome, well-thought out plot with a few twists that weren't that tough to predict... overall- very well done and kept my interest all the way through.  We kept joking about how the movie was just a bunch of rich old white dudes striving for power.... no token black men or men of other racial persuasion... so it was easy to get the names mixed up because there was no real longterm character development.... just surface nuances.. but this is a small complaint really (in the grand scheme).

8.5/10

Watched a couple old westerns recently.

I wasn't thrilled by High Noon but I saw it once a long time ago and would give it another chance

I think my favorite western was the Kung Fu TV series

Just watched The Killing of a Chinese Bookie once again. Stunning.

cant remember the last movie I have seen, need to get back on the bandwagon with movies again!~

Wanted    Highly entertaining and completely absurd actioneer with Morgan Freeman heading a fraternity of assassins who train a young man to avenge his father's murder at the hands of one of their own.  James McAvoy excellent as the trainee.  Well made, some good twists, based on the comic, reminiscent of the Remo Williams character.


 

Be Kind Rewind     One of the zaniest and most clever comedies I've seen in a while with Jack Black and Mo Def as buddies who start making their own no-budget versions of famous movies, culminating in a bio about Fats Waller.  Heartfelt and deeply funny.

 

Vompatti wrote: Saw a couple of Buñuel classics, Un chien andalou and Simón del desierto in the cinema, both insanely hilarious.

Just saw Viridiana yesterday. Not hilarious, but very pointed rebuke of Catholicism. Loved both of those you mentioned; I also loved Belle du Jour. Next up is That Obscure Object of Desire.  Still need to see Tristana, Los Olivados, and The Criminal Life of Archibaldo Cruz.