list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

I took my ten year-old daughter to see Rango, a definitely off-kilter computer animated western. We both enjoyed it, but for different reasons. Imagine, if you will, an extremely well-animated High Noon-type western populated by chameleons, iguanas, moles, rats, rattlesnakes, hawks, rabbits, a tortoise in a wheel chair that has all the mannerisms and duplicity of John Huston in Chinatown, and a spiritual armadillo who we first meet as road kill dressed like Don Quixote (voiced sagely by Alfred Molina -- I am not making this up).

There's also guest appearances from the spirit of Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, a drive-by by a stoned Hunter S. Thompson in a convertible Cadillac and allusions to everything from Segio Leone to Carlos Castaneda to Looney Tunes to Blazing Saddles. Even the soundtrack by Hans Zimmer was an off-kilter Ennio Morricone meets Dick Dale (sort of the The Good, The Bad and Pulp Fiction).

Munich-a powerful and hard hitting film, but also very human, and one of the Spielberg's best ever-if you have not seen it, do so-5 stars from me


Edited by presdoug - April 18 2011 at 17:36

We watched Toy Story 3 this morning.  Definitely the best one of the three- well done.

 ^ or maybe you're picking bad movies, there are many excellent smaller films to choose from

"Black Belt Jones" is a mix between "Enter the Dragon" martial arts action and "Shaft" cool blaxploitation hero.  Some nice fight scenes (including one where Scatman Crothers kicking ass!), the bad guys are all stereotypes, hot chicks who can fight...  Just a fun movie.

A few clips of some westerns on a vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSMpm4jtaVo

I saw the Troll hunter for som days ago, cool eyh, nice moovie, and the trolls were beliveable

Edited by aginor - April 22 2011 at 10:26

Atavachron wrote: The Friends of Eddie Coyle One of the essential films of the True Crime genre in the 1970s, Robert Mitchum and Richard Jordan (of Logan's Run fame) star in a gritty depiction of Boston criminal culture from the George V. Higgins novel.  Mitchum is an aging gunrunner looking for one last big job and Jordan the detective playing both sides against each other, and though the movie was made for almost nothing, it captures the patois of ex-con life perfectly.  A classic of the period, it was released on Criterion in '09.

I started a thread on Richard Jordan with no response-thanks for the info on this, i will investigate the film

Marwencol

Following a brutal attack, Mark Hogancamp created his own miniature town populated by an uncannily real assortment of 12 inch posable dolls.  His meticulous attention to detail truly remarkable as he captures different moments in photographs of the G.I.s and their women cavorting in the fictional WW II Belgian town.  The film documents Hogancamp's slow return to reality and to a life he had no recollection of, one that he had to recreate from imagination and determination.  Mark Hogancamp's astonishing artistry is not to be missed, nor his story of survival and triumph.  My highest recommendation.

 

Finishing the four-pack of movies I listed earlier...