JonnyRadar
The Living Force
Have been waiting to see if anyone would post on these two movies but no one has so far. They're two of my favorites and i thought i'd fly 'em up the flagpole for the other forum readers here...
Masked & Anonymous - written by and starring Bob Dylan
_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319829/
this movie totally drew me in the first time i saw it. the hulking, obscene machinations of john goodman combined with dylan's writing style is enough to make one go "hmmm?" what's more is that almost every second of the film contains a nugget worth pausing and discussing (imho). dylan is a musician looking to play a benefit concert amidst an atmosphere of revolution and instability. the sense i got from this film was akin to that of walking around a music festival, with the smell of the mud and the sweat... and the dialogue is great, too. one of my favorite monologues is that of val kilmer's character, from which the title of the film is taken. here's an excerpt:
Land of the Blind - written by Robert Edwards and starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland
_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433405/
another film that, for me, was quite an experience. ralph fiennes is a prison guard in a near-future-everything-is-gone-downhill kind of world. he's guarding the cell of a famous playwright and revolutionary, played by donald sutherland, who's been imprisoned for speaking out against the dictator who rules with stark similarities to that of mr. bush. fiennes ends up (early on) assisting sutherland's character in overthrowing the dictatorship, and as the movie progresses we see fiennes' character developing and becoming disenchanted with his role in the new government. i don't want to say too much more, it's really a great film.
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that's it for now! if anyone checks these films out, i'd love to hear what you thought of them...
Masked & Anonymous - written by and starring Bob Dylan
_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319829/
this movie totally drew me in the first time i saw it. the hulking, obscene machinations of john goodman combined with dylan's writing style is enough to make one go "hmmm?" what's more is that almost every second of the film contains a nugget worth pausing and discussing (imho). dylan is a musician looking to play a benefit concert amidst an atmosphere of revolution and instability. the sense i got from this film was akin to that of walking around a music festival, with the smell of the mud and the sweat... and the dialogue is great, too. one of my favorite monologues is that of val kilmer's character, from which the title of the film is taken. here's an excerpt:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You know who's destroying the earth? Not the animals. The tiger, the lion, the cheetah, the snake, the monkey, the baboon, the giraffe, the bear, the panther, the dog, fish, the birds, all perfect in their original forms. Then--man came in. Who created him and for what purpose? Still a mystery. Why is he here? A mystery. He's a trespasser. Doesn't know his place....A spoiler, an agitator, stirs up trouble wherever he goes. The zoo, the aquarium, prisons for animals....I avoid looking at human beings. They disgust me so much with their atom bombs and blow dryers and automobiles. They build hospitals as shrines to the diseases they create. Human beings are alone with their secrets. Masked and Anonymous. No one truly knows them....The only righteous human beings in my book are the children and the elderly.
Land of the Blind - written by Robert Edwards and starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland
_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433405/
another film that, for me, was quite an experience. ralph fiennes is a prison guard in a near-future-everything-is-gone-downhill kind of world. he's guarding the cell of a famous playwright and revolutionary, played by donald sutherland, who's been imprisoned for speaking out against the dictator who rules with stark similarities to that of mr. bush. fiennes ends up (early on) assisting sutherland's character in overthrowing the dictatorship, and as the movie progresses we see fiennes' character developing and becoming disenchanted with his role in the new government. i don't want to say too much more, it's really a great film.
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that's it for now! if anyone checks these films out, i'd love to hear what you thought of them...