What no Movie recommendations?

[Crackpot]

Just watched a movie called Bernie on a whim. I was kind of tired so I figured "Jack Black" and "based on a true story" was an odd enough combination to watch on a whim but not something I'd lose sleep over turning it off and going to bed to likely never see the end of. (Free time is a luxury nowadays). And at the beginning I thought I'd do just that. Knowing Jack's religious views I thought he was playing a parody of a man but as the story progressed I realized that he was playing the real deal one of those odd ducks with extreme magnetism a fact nailed home by a little clip at the end of the movie showing the real Bernie talking to a completely enthralled Jack Black. All wrapped up in a story that makes you wonder if there is such a thing as justifiable murder or barring that just what is "just" punishment in the case it sets before you.

[Gob]

It looks good!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704573/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_(2011_film)

[oldr_n_wsr]

I don't do movies.

[Crackpot]

Just went to see "This is the End" with my wife. Freaking hilarious as well as disturbing. it's a special kind of movie that can take you from laughing your ass off to feeling ill and back to laughing your ass off. to tell you the truth I'm amazed the movie got made since the movie had to have a budget enough to pull off a plausible and realistic apocalypse. Heck it was done well enough that I think it could be a good basis for a theological discussion with Meade about the apocalypse as presented in this movie.

[Gob]

Just got this on DVD. It's made where I grew up. If you want to know why I'm so screwy, here's your answer.

Twin Town opens with wide sweeping shots of seaside Swansea; to be the place of action for the next one and a half hours. The serene setting with miles upon miles of old semi-detached housing is suddenly cleaved apart by two young lads tearing through the neighbourhood in a two tone BMW 525. Julian and Jeremy are in deep trouble. Their dysfunctional family scrapes together a living from their dole money and odd-jobs offered to their father. The boys have long since turned to drug abuse and car theft leading a happy-go-lucky life in downtown no-hoper city. In due course the plot thickens as the boys are out for revenge against wealthy club owner Bryn who is not particularly helpful in providing compensation when their father is hit by an accident when working on his premises. The boys are fairly imaginative when it comes to planning their strike, culminating in scenes which all dog-haters and karaoke loathers will love.

Oh, Jim, have you seen this? Got this too

Produced at the height of the nuclear paranoia and economic gloom that drove the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and the USA of Ronald Reagan, Troy Kennedy Martin's landmark drama broke new ground and handled uncomfortable subjects with sometimes unsettling depth and accuracy.

The late Bob Peck, in one of television's greatest performances, is Ronald Craven, a Yorkshire detective whose daughter Emma (Joanne Whalley) is gunned down outside their house in what is initially assumed to be a revenge attack related to Craven's former, and shadowy, intelligence past in Northern Ireland. The plot unwinds from here and slowly reveals a grand, all-encompassing conspiracy extending to the very highest levels as Craven investigates the circumstances of, and the motives behind, his daughter's death.

Peck plays Craven with a subtle emotional intensity rarely seen on television, the deadpan delivery of a man in the depths of grief contrasted by the emotions which his eyes always betray. A supporting cast of renegade CIA agents (Joe Don Baker giving the performance he was born for as brash Texan Darias Jedburgh), amiable but slightly sinister civil servants who never quite make it clear who they're working for (Charles Kay and Ian McNeice as Pendleton and Harcourt), environmental activists, trade-unionists, police and self-serving politicians make for a plot that twists and turns unpredictably as Craven's grief-powered explorations lead him ever deeper into the shadows, until the final, devastating, unexpected dénouement in the last episode that almost leaves more questions in the mind of the viewer than it answers

[dales]

I do film noir.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Heck it was done well enough that I think it could be a good basis for a theological discussion with Meade about the apocalypse as presented in this movie.

Sorry CP; no can do. I already received instructions an after-death threat from Ray

fixed

[liberty]

In the footsteps of Alexander the Great In this award winning adventure Micheal Wood embarks on a 2000 mile journey in the foot steps of Alexander’s triumphal march from Greece to India. Traveling with Lebanese traders, Iranian pilgrims and Afghan guerrillas, by jeep, train, boat, camel and on foot, he interweaves the momentous events of the past with present day reality and brings us new insights into a man whose myth and achievements still resonate down the centuries