The Movies Thread

[Rolo]

I've been a member of NetFlix for a few years now and I have reached a point where I have almost saturated all the movies I've wanted to see. My movie queue is running low and I need to add some new ones. If any of you know of any pictures that are worth watching and perhaps not as well known, please add them here. Hopefully we can keep this thread going for some time.

Foriegn: The Lives of Others and Mostly Martha
Tear Jerkers: Atonement and PS, I love you
Entertaining: 3:10 to Yuma

[oto]

have you seen "the lost city" with andy garcia?

jackass 2, the comebacks in the comedy area.

death sentence, kevin bacon

history of violence, with Vigo M

[Rolo]

Originally Posted by oto

have you seen "the lost city" with andy garcia?

jackass 2, the comebacks in the comedy area.

death sentence, kevin bacon

history of violence, with Vigo M

I saw all of those. I like Vigo M and have seen most of his movies.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by oto

have you seen "the lost city" with andy garcia?

Saw it, the first time I didn't like because it didn't coincide with how I know Cuba. The second time I saw it I liked it a lot.

I saw Mike Myers' the love guru a few days ago. I liked it and got a few laughs. I enjoy watching Myers work he always seems to have a good time. The guru's teachings are funny because they're based on solid psychological principles but are packaged for marketing. I don't know how this movie did in the cinemas. Anyone else like it?

[Rolo]

I enjoyed it too. I saw "Don't mess with the Zohan" yesterday. It was not bad, the first 10 minutes were the funniest to me. The movie did seem to be too long for that type of genre and it dragged.

Try to watch Mongol. I saw it yesterday and enjoyed it. I think Pantoja saw it too and liked it. You may enjoy it as it is a foreign movie and the director is Russian. It is about the early years of Genghis Kahn. It has fantastic landscape scenes and it looks like it was filmed predominantly in the steppes. It also had a mostly Mongol casts.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Rolo

Can you imagine the voyage these guys took to turn a corner of a river and not knowing what to expect on the other side. With all the Indians roaming around and vast unknowns. All these exployers don't get enough credit sometimes and usually viewed as colonialists just out for riches, but it must have been something in those days to cross an open ocean on a wooden ship and coming ashore to these immense unknown lands. Reminds me of the final scene in Apocalypto where the indians run on shore and see these huge ships anchored and Spaniards rowing towards them.

Apocalypto is a great movie.

[gerald]

Originally Posted by Dan

Apocalypto is a great movie.

Yeh, I kinda hope they'd make a sequal, it was setup perfectly for that...

[Dan]

If they do I hope it doesn't go the way of most sequels. Historical dramas are my favorite type of film.

[Rolo]

I seriously doubt there would be a sequel and I don't think the makers of this film intented there to be one. If you recall the opening of the film had a famous quote by Will Durant (who btw is one of the best American Historian ever) that basically stated that all great civilizations are destroyed from within. Thus the main theme appeared to be portraying the Mayan civilization initiating the seeds that led to its destruction even before the Europeans landed on their shores. Also, it being a Mel Gibson film, he usually tends to just direct films without sequels.

There are alot of films out there that I wish would never have had any sequels. This film was so good, I hope this will be the case as well.

[Dan]

I agree that Apocalypto didn't come across as having intentions of a sequel. And that the point of the film was made completely within that film. You have to remember though that sequels go bad when story lines are stretched too far or are shit to begin with. In this case the history following the arrival of the Spanish is fascinating and there's no need for embellishment to make a great film out of it. I think a sequel would stand a good chance of being just as good as Apocalypto if directed by Gibson.