tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47824668531859760032010-08-28T11:44:36.031-05:00I want a good story well told. <br />I want a film to engage my interest and hold on to it.<br />I want something to make me think.<br />I want to be surprised.<br />I want to be entertained. <br />I want to be taken on a journey.<br />I want to learn something new.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782466853185976003.post-19767130481381167202009-11-06T21:04:00.005-06:002009-11-06T21:38:43.328-06:00

2006, directed by Harry Moses. This is a story of Teri Horton, a female truck driver and trailer park dweller, who takes on the art world elite. Teri purchased a painting at a thrift shop for five dollars, which she doesn't even like. I think it was meant to be a joke for a friend of hers. The picture is just paint spattered on a huge canvas. She and the friend decide to sell it at a yard sale

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The Soloist, 2008, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. Directed by Joe Wright.In this movie, Downey plays Mr. Lopez, a newspaper reporter who one day discovers Mr. Ayers, played by Foxx, outside playing music. Mr. Ayers is a talented and passionate musician, but he is homeless due to mental illness. Lopez wants to write some newspaper articles about Ayers, and does, and eventually comes to

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2008, directed by Peter Gilbert and Steve James.I watched part of the film and had to turn it off, it's disgusting.The preacher in this film, Rev. Pickett, says of one of the men whose death he witnessed, as the man lay on the gurney to die, the Rev. says he just wanted to "bash his head in." Then he says "No. That's not Christian. I didn't mean it." and goes on to explain "I just wanted to see

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2008, directed by Alex Proyas, starring Nicolas Cage.A little girl in grade school writes a list of numbers which goes into a time capsule. Fifty years later when it comes out, it is handed to a little boy. His dad then correlates the numbers with disasters. It has the date, longitude and latitude, number of people killed, and it's accurate - for things that happened after the paper was placed in

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Directed by Nick Broomfield, released 1992.The story told in this film has me thinking of this woman, Aileen Wuornos, long after I've turned it off, and I suppose that's a good thing for a film.We hear she's a horrible creature. There was a big budget Hollywood movie about her called "Monster". But you know what? This was a human being. Her mother deserted her soon after her birth, her father

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I've just been messing with my new digital converter box, for about the fifth time. It's a piece of crap. I can't watch any channels it catches, the video and audio quality are terrible. As in literally too awful to watch a program. Courtesy of the government, I'm going to have to sign up for Dish Network or whatever the other one is, I can't even remember. I'm going to be forced to buy

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It would be nice if a customer could send feedback, but since I can find no way of doing that, I will post here. Not that you would care what I have to say either way. Because if you cared what the customers thought, you'd have a way for us to send feedback.1. We need better search options. Multiple filters per search, searching of descriptions and titles and subject and genre, etc. - so we don't

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2007, Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Root, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper. Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen.A guy is out hunting and stumbles upon the scene of a drug deal gone bad. He looks for, finds, and steals the money. A touch of concern for a fellow human being in need takes him back to the crime scene, where he is spotted and

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2008, directed by Kurt Kuenne.When a popular young physician, Andrew Bagby, is murdered by an ex-girlfriend, a long time friend and film-maker, Kurt Kuenne, sets out to make a final film about his friend. When it becomes known that the woman, Shirley Turner, is pregnant with Andrew's child, the film becomes a letter to that child about his father, whom he will otherwise never meet. This is the

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2006, Directed by Tony Kaye.This is a film about the abortion debate, and it focuses heavily on the religious anti-abortion groups. It shows some post-abortion fetal tissue clips, which should convince anyone that abortion is murder. It shows a little of the pro-abortion side of the debate. The woman who was Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade is in the film and is now involved with religious anti-abortion

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2005, directed by Jessica Sanders.This is one of those films every American should watch today. Do you think everyone in jail is guilty? Do you support the death penalty? Do you believe prosecutors and police and judges are only trying to find the truth and protect us all? Would you hire someone who has spent 20 years in jail? This film has a lot to teach us on so many levels. We have got to

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2006, directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg.This is another good documentary. Darryl Hunt was convicted of rape and murder and spent almost 20 years in jail, even though he was innocent. Even though after ten years a DNA test excluded him from being the rapist. His defense team had to finally find the real culprit and still there are those who believe Darryl is guilty. Apparently this is

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2006. Directed by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack.If you're like me, you don't know a whole lot about oil and petroleum products or the industry. We hear, particularly now with political campaigns all over the television and news, about those who are for more drilling, those against. We hear a little bit about alternative energies now and then; lately there have been ads about that as well in

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2007. Directed by Alex Gibney.In Afghanistan a taxi driver picks up some customers and is subsequently stopped by Afghan rebels who turn him and his riders in to U.S. military forces claiming they have attacked the U.S. The U.S. pays people to turn in supposed terrorists to them. Turns out that a huge percentage of U.S. prisoners were apprehended in this manner. Not with any kind of proof of

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1995, starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt. Directed by Terry Gilliam.In 1996, a deadly virus is let loose in the world and destroys 99% of the human population, the remaining 1% are living underground in 2035. The scientists want the virus in the pure form so they can vaccinate the people and live on the earth's surface again. To that end, they send prisoners back in time to try and

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2006, by filmmaker Taggart Siegel.This is a great American tale which touches on a lot of topics, mainly a man's struggle to keep his family farm going. You may have seen films in the past about farmers struggling and losing, but this story is different because it has a happy ending. John grows up on the farm and goes to college in the '60s, where he is introduced to and comes to love artistic

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2005; Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. Directed by James Mangold.This is a story of country singer Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash. The story is focused on the time before their marriage, their long relationship during those years, and Cash's rising career and drug problems. I enjoyed the movie very much. The acting was great, and everything worked well. The music was

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The Secret is the "law of attraction." You "put in your order with the universe and it's delivered to you." All you have to do to get whatever you want is wish really hard for it. People would rather believe bullshit than face the truth. The Secret talks about the power of positive thinking, which is real, but they twist it into bullshit. What they are presenting is in some ways very close to

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1989, starring Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Rick Moranis, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves. Directed by Ron Howard.This film shows several scenarios within a large family regarding parenthood, marriage, and family in general. It manages to capture a bit of reality in the struggles the characters face, there is a truth to it. There are tender moments, but

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2005. starring Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, and Ed Harris. Directed by David Cronenberg.An ex-mobster just wants to live a nice suburban life with wife and children but his old acquaintances aren't going to allow it.This is another movie I thought was stupid. Almost every scene is dumb. There is no point to this story, there almost isn't a story. This film is about a humble tough

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1996, starring Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Matthew McConaughey, Kris Kristofferson, Chandra Wilson. Directed by John Sayles.Bad acting, boring story, lots of really loud mexican music.

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1979, starring Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Sam Levene, Robert Christian, Thomas G. Waites, Larry Bryggman, Craig T. Nelson, Dominic Chianese, Victor Arnold, Vincent Beck. Directed by Norman Jewison.Pacino plays Arthur Kirkland, a Baltimore attorney who actually cares about people and finding the truth and making a stand for what's right.

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1967, starring Richard Harris, Franco Nero, and Vanessa Redgrave. Directed by Joshua Logan.In Camelot lives a spoiled selfish queen who pouts because no men are fighting each other over her. The poor dear is married to a king who loves her and treats her better than anyone has a right to wish for. So the poor, unfought over queen decides to fall in love with a knight who lives to serve his king

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2006, directed by Stanley Nelson. November 18, 1978, 909 people committed suicide or were murdered at the People's Temple in Guyana. I was 14 years old that day, and I remember hearing about it. I never knew much of the story though. This film begins with Jim Jones' childhood, talks a bit about the church, and goes through to the murder-suicides. It touches on a lot of things. It includes

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2006, directed by Hunter Weeks.This film was made by a couple of guys who were working in corporate America and wanted to do something different. They decided to go across America on a Segway scooter and film it. The film follows the four young people across the country, shows their difficulties and successes, and shows people they meet. There is some nice scenery too.What I like most about this

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