At the Movies

Way to go Henry Bowman!!! In compiling a list of favorite movies in the household, it is the same as your's with the exception of "Frequency", have not seen it.

And, it is great to see someone else is even aware of John Carpenter's version of "The Thing". Incredible special effects for its time.

A couple of recent favorites:

The Passion of the Christ

And starring Pancho Villa As Himself (Pancho only takes payment in gold!)

Phone Booth

And two older favorites:

Schindler's List

The Amistad (slave is asked "How does one become a slave in your country?"
the answer, one word, "DEBT".)

Sincerely,
truth

Just saw "The Majestic," with Jim Carrey. I am not what you'd call a fan of his (still prefer his very first movie, "Once Bitten." Then again, I think Lauren Hutton is one of the sexiest women alive....)

Anyway.....

GREAT movie. Takes place during the McCarthy era. Really, really some profound messages about true courage and standing up to BB!

Randy

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I agree Randy. Great flick. Not a normal film for Carey but he does a great job.

If you are into pieces that make you think, check out a really cool movie called:

"Waking Life"

Also check out an interesting Carey flick called:

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

I thought both movies were brain candy.

KT

Kind of opening up an old thread but here goes -

Matrix is good but it doesn't make you think much - everything is handed to you

Wizard of Oz was pretty stealthy. Took folks quite a while to figure out that a yellow brick road was a money trail and that yellow bricks are sometimes considered to be gold, that it ended in Emerald City (green, like greenbacks), that Kansas was now the corporate state of KS and no longer a de jure state, that when the landlady wanted the dog toto she symbolically wanted everything (latin term 'in toto'). That the landlady was told that the dog was usually gentle with gentile people, and on and on.

However, for the stealthiest movie consider Waterworld. A world covered with water .. admiralty jurisdiction everywhere. No, that is too far out to happen isn't it. Because God said that he would never again cover the land as in Noahs' day. Course everyone knows where the high land that they were all searching for could be found ... Sark Island in the Guernsey chain off the south coast of England . The only place on the planet where common law exists to this day.

[yor459]

If you can find it;

The title is ; "Not to Narrow, Not to Deep"

Author: LaSalle

This is a very deep book, it was in books thrown away in a dump years ago, and later burned when my house burned down, it is out of print even then for I check, I read this about ten times,

yor459

[2501]

I just watched it last night:

"THE TRIAL" 1962 Classic B/W directed by Orson Wells Starring: Anthony Perkins, Jess Hahn, Jeanne Moreau, Orson Wells, Romy Schneider, Billy Kearns, Madeline Robinson

based on the Franz Kafka (1883-1924) classic:
Contrary to Kafka's halfhearted instruction that his unprinted manuscripts be destroyed after his death, his friend Max Brod set about publishing them and thus became the architect of his belated fame. The best known of the posthumous works are three fragmentary novels. The Trial (1925; Eng. trans., 1937) deals with a man persecuted and put to death by the inscrutable agencies of an unfathomable court of law. above excerp taken from: http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm

[logos]

Some other good ones I haven't seen mentioned:

Harrison Bergeron
The Parallax View
Wild Palms

[idknow]

Originally Posted by virgil

Kind of opening up an old thread but here goes -

Matrix is good but it doesn't make you think much - everything is handed to you

Wizard of Oz was pretty stealthy. Took folks quite a while to figure out that a yellow brick road was a money trail and that yellow bricks are sometimes considered to be gold, that it ended in Emerald City (green, like greenbacks), that Kansas was now the corporate state of KS and no longer a de jure state, that when the landlady wanted the dog toto she symbolically wanted everything (latin term 'in toto'). That the landlady was told that the dog was usually gentle with gentile people, and on and on.

However, for the stealthiest movie consider Waterworld. A world covered with water .. admiralty jurisdiction everywhere. No, that is too far out to happen isn't it. Because God said that he would never again cover the land as in Noahs' day. Course everyone knows where the high land that they were all searching for could be found ... Sark Island in the Guernsey chain off the south coast of England . The only place on the planet where common law exists to this day.

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Fascinating! i lub this kind of stuff!
what is known about the author?

[idknow]

Originally Posted by Ice

Ever notice the first sign you see in "Justice for All" ?

The word "Person" sticks out like a zit on a pretty girl.

on your tagline, pinch it to see what's below the surface? ew ew ew
lol

[idknow]

Originally Posted by suijuris

Speaking of good court scenes, in Liar Liar, when threatened with contempt, Jim Carrey says:



"Your honor, I hold MYSELF in contempt."



... and off to the slammer he goes. I wish more lawyers would learn that line!

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The better scene in this movie is during the end-credits when he and Swoozy Kurtz are going at it and she begins to adlib and at the end of it, Jim calls her an ``over-actor'' !!! personally, it's the best scene NOT shown in the movie!

rofl