Wow ! Glad to see the messageboard back again. Hope Andrew is Ok out there. My movie Marathon Continues as I saw a few more films and documentaries. Here is what I saw while the board was down:
DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004) - This film is like a big advertisement from the environmentalist community and the acting is on level with a government industrial film. Some of the scenes were unreal. Even though the film had some bad parts the picture was above average overall in my opinion and the film gave me a chill as I was thinking it was January or February after this viewing this film. With storms that big you would have more problems than are projected on this film, but just sit back, relax, and you may still be able to get something out of this movie.
TEMPTATION OF A MONK (1993) - Wow, Great Hong Kong film directed by Clara Law and starring Joan Chen, Teddy Kwan, and Micheal Lee. This film is rich in color, gore, and much, much more. The movie is about a general who is dishonored and enters a monastery. The Buddhist dialogue at the 2nd monastery is the best ever put on film. The whole film is like a cross between a Kurosawa film and a Alejandro Jodorowsky film. Joan Chen is marvelous as the female lead and the visuals give a surreal feeling. The scene with Joan Chen getting her hair shaved for the monastery is way out there. The film also has many bloody heads and limbs chopped and cut off. This is must viewing if you can get a hold of it. I bought it at Borders for $3.99 on DVD. Anyone see this one?
THE RECRUIT (2003) - Good film about the CIA starring Al Pacino. Keeps you one the edge of your seat all the way through. Really like films that show the clandestine workings of secret organizations even if they are not accurate.
CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB (1970) - Good old fun Western starring Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda. It's the story of a Texas cowboy who inherits a bordello in Wyoming and has trouble trying to figure out what to do with it. It's great to hear Stewart and Fonda dialogue especially the type Fonda can deliver in a Western. Believe it or not Gene Kelly directs this one.
THE MOUNTAIN MEN (1980) - Really enjoyed this film starring Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, and Victoria Racimo who played Running Moon. The whole film was shot in the Grand Teton Mountain area. The movie is about fur traders in the frontier of Wyoming struggling against the Blackfeet Indians. Hestons character falls in love is an Indian woman named Running Moon and saves her from an Indian warrior. It was also neat to see a fur trader rendezvous portrayed on film. If you liked
JEREMIAH JOHNSON (1972) then you may also like this one.
CNN TRIBUTE: AMERICA REMEMBERS (2003) - Wow, relive the events of September 11, 2001 with this CNN DVD with all the footage and interviews. If you are taking the news at face value then you would and should want to vote for George W. Bush in the November election. His decisions were quite appropriate to the events of that day. The President was the man of the hour. Worth a second look lest we forget and how soon people do forget.
BUSH'S BRAIN (2004) - Here is a film that shows a rather diabolic image of the Bush administration adviser Karl Rove from his work in Texas elections all the way to George Bush's election to the presidency. This documentary is on par with Micheal Moores film which is also aimed at taking down the George W. Bush. Worth a look, but don't forget to vote for George Bush this November. No matter how bad the alternative news or the so called opposition portrays him. I just want to know how I can be part of this Presidents team?
THE FOG OF WAR: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) - Very good documentary originally intended for PBS, but was put to DVD as they had so much that McNamara wanted to talk about. Hired as Kennedy's Secretary of State after serving in WWII after being President of Ford automobiles. He tells us about WWII in Japan and the fire bombings of all the major cities before the use of the atomic bombs. The film plays very revealing audio tapes between himself, Kennedy, and Johnson related to the Cuban Missle Crisis and later how the Vietnam War was started. It shows how really close we were to a nuclear war during the Cuban Missle Crisis and the attitude going into Vietnam and some of the reasoning. You'll be amazed, but perhaps not shocked at what really went on and goes on in places of high power.
With God On Our Side: Bush (2004) - This documentary was on Sundance Channel tonight. Shows the rise of the religious right in politics during the 80's and the rise of George W. Bush to the Presidency. Interesting little documentary and it's an interesting side note to all that is going on. Sundance Channel shows alot of very good independent documentaries that you won't see on other channels.
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