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Slipstream   2008   written by, directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins
Another movie about a dream within a dream. Hopkins is a screenwriter whose characters start showing up in his real life...or something like that. Too many good actors to mention but John Turturro stands out as the crazy producer of the movie that Hopkins has written. Christian Slater does a great extended scene in a diner out in the desert (that is until he colapses and dies in the kitchen).
I liked this movie a lot once I stopped trying to figure it out. It's like Catch 22, don't try to figure out what's going on, just keep watching it happen.
8/10   (maybe 9)
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King Of California   2007  written and directed by Mike Cahill
The movie begins with a daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) picking up her father (Michael Douglas) from a mental institution. The dad doesn't take anything serious except the fact that there is Spanish gold buried beneath a Costco and he was going to find it. Wood does a good job portraying a teen-ager who has to be the adult because the mom is long gone and the dad is, well, mental.
I got into the movie early and stayed into it from then on. Douglas and Wood both do excellent jobs and carry the film because there's only a few other actors with small roles.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:


I thought it was a very novel idea. Since no one can yet dream within a dream, I think you need to cut them more slack for taking a stab at it and having it fit well as a plot mechanic.

But I suppose it's too much to ask for you not to look for ways to make an experience less enjoyable for yourself.

I think I am being very generous! It doesn't bother me that the mechanism is completely unexplained because I would poke holes in any explanation. And I understand that the movie wouldn't have been as exciting without the extreme extension, I just wanted to say that I can't accept the brain moving that fast. 
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And then to top it all off there's the painfully tacked on ambiguous ending.  Maybe it was real, maybe it was a dream and the entire story was a waste of time.  Either way, does it really make a difference?  It's not deep because interpreting the story a different way doesn't change any actual life meaning the movie might have.  For an ambiguous ending done right, watch Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker."  Depending on how you interpret the ending, the movie can mean two entirely different things about life and the human condition.  With Inception, it's just a frivolous argument about plot points.

The intention was that the physical location of Cobb doesn't matter because he's completed his emotional arc, and being somewhat ambiguous about it reinforces that. I'm quite certain it's not supposed to be interpreted that the whole movie was a dream. Also, they repaired Fischer's relationship with his father, which clearly meant a lot to him since that picture was all the way down, so it wasn't all malicious. And (if the end was reality), I think the implication was that Cobb could only get out of Limbo because he did it before, which is why Kaito had gotten so old in the 3rd layer time it took for them to go down. 
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Virtual JFK

Speculative documentary about what John Kennedy may have done in Vietnam had he lived, 2008's Virtual JFK is an exercise in 'counter-factual' history  -  or postulation of what decisions he might've made based on past actions  -  stringing together news conferences and private recordings in an attempt to illuminate this most dangerous moment in the Cold War and in American history.  Fresh on the heels of near disaster with the Soviet navy over Cuba, it puts in context the explosive period Kennedy had inherited and the intense pressures from even his most trusted advisors to go to war and, if necessary, to use nuclear weapons.  Highly recommended to history or politics buffs, the deadly era that was the early 1960s is no more clearly shown than in this film, and the significance of who is President during wartime explored.
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"Force: Five"
 
Mid-80's US-made martial arts action flick from the director and producers of "Enter The Dragon".
 
Story:  Martial artist hired to rescue daughter of rich guy with politcal connections from cult on remote island run by religious leader/martial arts teacher.  Hero brings 'diverse' team of five friends (black, Mexican, Australian, woman, crazy).  Basically, it's Bruce Lee and friends vs. The Reverend Jim Jones.
 
Several scenes were lifted/copied directly from "ETD" (Hero sneaking around the compound, the guards being punished, and of course the final fight, with a hall of smoke subbing for the hall or mirrors).
 
What saved this from being a total waste of time is that some of the fights are quite good.  The main hero (former world karate champion Joe Lewis, not to be confused with former world boxing champion Joe Louis) does know what he's doing, and the villain is played very well by Master Bong Soo Han, one of the greatest Hapkido fighters ever.  Included on Joe's team are two of my favorites, Aussie Richard Norton and US kickboxer Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, and their fight scenes outshine anything else in the movie.
 
Paint-by-numbers copy of "ETD" polished by a few good fighters and a few good fights.
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I wish someone would make a good martial arts flick-  last really good one was Bloodsport far as I know, and Crouching Tiger of course
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I wish someone would make a good martial arts flick-  last really good one was Bloodsport far as I know, and Crouching Tiger of course
 
Check out Jackie Chan's pre-return to the US movies "Police Story", "Police Story 2", "Wheels on Meals", "Dragons Forever", "Armor of God" (aka "Operation Condor 2"), "Armor of God 2" (aka "Operation Condor"), and "Drunken Master 2".
 
Here's a link to a clip from "Wheels on Meals", with one of the greatest fights ever filmed...Horrible dubbing, but great fight.
 
 
Another great (non-Jackie) one is "Shanghai Express" (or "Millionaire's Express"), starring Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao.  It's a martial arts/western/comedy classic and wonderfully done.
 
 


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Have you seen Hero, David?
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I wish someone would make a good martial arts flick-  last really good one was Bloodsport far as I know, and Crouching Tiger of course

The House of Flying Daggers (perhaps better than Crouching Tiger)
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 ^ you're right, both Hero and HoFD were excellent, China has been making some of the best films of our time I think
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Originally posted by El Pollo Guerrera El Pollo Guerrera wrote:

"Drunken Master 2".


loved this one, better than the first I think .. have you seen Jet Li's Fist of Legend ?  Born to Defence and Shaolin Temple also good
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Just finished watching "Max Lorenz-Wagner's Meistersinger-Hitler's Siegfried"-a very well done documentary on the famous German Opera Singer-most notably known for his performances in Wagner's operas.
                 I had known nothing of him until i saw this film for the first time a couple of months ago-there are interviews with people that knew and worked with him, or saw him in concert. He is praised to the skies (and rightly so), but his problems he encountered are not glossed over but presented in detail (he was a bi-sexual and married to a Jew in Hitler's Germany)
                   There is also sound and live footage of him singing, so you can hear his amazing voice
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:


loved this one, better than the first I think .. have you seen Jet Li's Fist of Legend ?  Born to Defence and Shaolin Temple also good
 
Loved "Fist of Legend".  I like Jet Li, but I've found his movies to be hit-or-miss.
 
Oh, and I also recommend "The Forgotten Kingdom", with both Jackie and Jet.
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recently saw Kingdom, it was very good, I liked the retro thing it had going










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The Jet Li movies I enjoyed are Romeo Must Die, Unleashed and The One.
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I liked The One pretty well, but Li's best films are the Chinese ones before he hit it big in the West
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Redneck Zombies:
An absolutely terrible Troma film, but terrible is what you are expecting when you watch a Troma film.  You don't go to Troma for good you go to them for cartoonishly gorey filth with over-the-top "acting" (heavy quotation marks).  As a B-movie this one is still probably a 6/10 but it's well worth watching once just to tell your more twisted friends you've seen it.
 
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I enjoy Jet's later movies and didn't know who he was until I saw him in a Lethal Weapon movie.
I thought War was an excellant movie with a twist at the end.
I also like Jackie Chan's later movies. Shanghai Noon had a good east meets west theme and he and Owen Wilson worked well together.
But I really liked the Rush Hour movies with Chris Tucker. Chan and Tucker really seem to enjoy themselves in these movies. The blooper and gag reels are very funny.
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I've always loved the 'blooper' reels from Jackie's movies...  they show just how hard he works to entertain.  Remember when he broke his ankle in "Rumble in the Bronx" (how could I have forgotten that movie)?
 
One of his best was from "Armor of God", where it shows him missing a jump to grab a tree branch...  he landed on his head and ended up in the hospital for a month.
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I remember those bloopers at the end of Rumble .. I also remember actually paying to see JCVD's The Quest  Dead
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