THX1138 was pretty interesting. Excellent filmmaking for the time. Story in shades of Brave New World and The Machine Stops. Very … sparse, sterile even. Bowling for Columbine was interesting. Moore makes an interesting couple hours of watching. I enjoyed watching him pin the blame for everything on the shallow, plastic violence of the news [...]
Older movie (1973), The Paper Chase. I found it after a brief search for what a “paper chase” was, thanks to a lyric in a song by The Roots. Some memorable quotes include: “I’ve got a photographic memory. I’m a walking, talking encyclopedia. I got facts in my fingertips. Facts on the tip of my [...]
Yeah, so I would have NEVER watched this movie, but for netflix. General impression: It’s cute. Morgan Freeman plays a pretty decent God. There’s some cute one-liners, and overall it’s got a good mix of the whimsy that Jim Carrey is so well known for and the general awesomeness that Freeman does so well. Definitely [...]
Netflix movie number 2: The Princess Bride. As awesome as I remember it. Maybe even a little more. This is like THE canonical comedic fantasy. There’s just SO many great one-liners in there. Like the whole “To the pain” spiel. And Andre the Giant’s monologue about how it would be unsportsmanlike to bash Wesley’s skull [...]
So, I recently signed up for a netflix account, and one of the first things I got was a movie called “The Second Coming”. It’s an interesting watch. Basics: it stars Chris Eccleston (the guy who played Doctor Who in the new Doctor Who). It’s the source of a speech section from the Orbital track [...]
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