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  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #90 - May 19, 2010, 02:47 PM
    I liked Shaun of the Dead and Bowling for Columbine too. I had to write essays and analyse Bowling for Columbine in Year 11 and then again in Year 12 for my exams... Basically, about gun culture in the USA and such and such and such. Found it pretty interesting.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #91 - May 19, 2010, 02:51 PM
    Bowling for Columbine-- Moore has some hits and misses in that one. Some of his analysis is good, but some of it is just bone-headed gun control propaganda.

    If we're including documentaries, The Weather Underground was pretty fuckin awesome.
    fuck you
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #92 - May 19, 2010, 02:54 PM
    I was put off Bowling for Columbine by the way Moore acted like a wanker at the end when he was interviewing Charlton Heston.
    "Befriend them not, Oh murtads, and give them neither parrot nor bunny."  - happymurtad's advice on trolls.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #93 - May 19, 2010, 03:25 PM
    Yeah, that was pretty shitty of him. George Clooney's comments about Heston were even worse, though.
    fuck you
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #94 - May 19, 2010, 03:35 PM
    Oooh, what did Clooney say?
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  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #95 - May 19, 2010, 03:47 PM
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    In February 2003, syndicated columnist Liz Smith reported that while speaking at a National Board of Review event, Clooney had made the following remarks: "Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's." Clooney later said, "It was a joke,... They got the quote wrong. What I said was 'The head of the NRA announced today ...' (Filmmaker) Michael Moore had just gotten an award. Anyway, Charlton Heston shows up with guns over his head after a school shooting and then says in the documentary it's because of ethnic diversity that we have problems with violence in America. I think he's going to have to take whatever hits he gets. It was just a joke. That was someone else trying to make a bigger story."[39]  When asked if the actor went too far with his remarks, Clooney responded by saying, "I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association; he deserves whatever anyone says about him."[40]  Heston himself commented, "It just goes to show that sometimes class does skip a generation," referring to Clooney's aunt, Rosemary Clooney.[40]  Heston further commented on the Clooney joke: "I don't know the man—never met him, never even spoken to him, but I feel sorry for George Clooney—one day he may get Alzheimer's disease. I served my country in World War II. I survived that—I guess I can survive some bad words from this fellow".[41]  Clooney said he subsequently apologized to Heston in a letter, and that he received a positive response from Heston's wife.[11]


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clooney#Political_views

    I liked Clooney until I heard about that shit. So basically, if you believe in the right to keep and bear arms, you deserve to have people make fun of you having a degenerative, terminal illness. Fuck George Clooney.
    fuck you
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #96 - May 19, 2010, 03:52 PM
    Sheesh.  And he always seems so nice.   wacko
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  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #97 - May 19, 2010, 05:46 PM
    I do agree that Michael Moore does tend to be a bit of an ass in some scenes. Farenheit 911 is perhaps one of the poorest documentaries I have seen, especially when compared to "Loose Change".  I was quite young when I saw Bowling but it definitely made me sit up and take notice of an issue that I knew nothing about, which was an achievement in itself. I also actually liked the Charlton Heston scene at the time, but it may be something  need to watch again.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #98 - May 19, 2010, 07:17 PM
    Fuck Charles Heston for the comment he made.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #99 - May 19, 2010, 07:21 PM
    What comment?
    fuck you
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #100 - May 19, 2010, 07:22 PM
    The one in Bowling for Columbine.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #101 - May 19, 2010, 07:22 PM
    He made lots of comments in that movie. Which one?
    fuck you
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #102 - May 19, 2010, 07:39 PM
    Fuck! I don't remember it like this. First, Michael Moore is a douche, years back this scene slipped past me as Charles Heston being the asshole. OK what I didn't like was the mixed ethnicity comment. I guess because he didn't explain it and you think NRA, old white man, hollywood etc etc this guy is racist, which is ironically prejudiced of me. He might very well be a racist but I can't tell that from here. In fact he said I wouldn't call it an ethnicity thing. And I totally understood his point about violent history in America.

    When I read some other people's critique of Charles Heston I somehow remembered him insinuating that non-whites were behind the high gun crime. Those were not his words though  wacko

    Still, I have a hard time being OK with that comment.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1iuEcu7O50
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #103 - May 19, 2010, 07:50 PM
    Well, dude did turn right-wing in his later years (as many old coots do) and there were some disturbing comments on race made by him in his old age, but to his credit he was very much active in the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s.

    Here's a picture of him at Dr. King's March on Washington in 1963:



    So while he may have turned into a racist right-winger in his old age, when it really counted he was on the right side of the struggle. Weighing that against some offensive comments he made when he was starting to go senile, I'd say in the balance, the moral scales tip in favor of Mr. Heston.
    fuck you
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #104 - May 19, 2010, 07:52 PM
    Ah right I didn't know that. You were preparing to chew my ass weren't you  Cheesy

    I guess you are very argumentative in real life? You still a cool dude, yeah I know you'll say you don't care about my approval* but fuck you, you'll have it anyways.

    //end of web psychoanalysis of an avatar

    *Just don't go Fredo on me.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #105 - May 19, 2010, 07:56 PM
    Yes, I am just as argumentative in real life, except when my job requires me to be diplomatic and smooth over disputes between union members.

    When I was a kid, most of my family thought that if I didn't grow up to be a professional soldier, I'd be a lawyer because I argued/debated so much.
    fuck you
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #106 - May 19, 2010, 07:58 PM
    Grin

    Sorry I don't know why I just laughed.

    I am probably the least argumentative person you'll meet, I don't have the fucking energy. Unless you piss me off. Or put your foot in your mouth then I just have to say something. But usually I'm mellow. Probably too mellow people get the wrong impression of me.

    Oh one more thing I usually don't get along with people that are argumentative unless they're intelligent and make solid points. Which is a drag, because not only will I be dragged into an inevitable argument, I have to make an effort in order not to lose face.

    Why the fuck am I talking so much about myself? Fuck this shit.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #107 - May 19, 2010, 10:37 PM
    Quote from: Q-Man on May 19, 2010, 07:50 PM
    Well, dude did turn right-wing in his later years (as many old coots do) and there were some disturbing comments on race made by him in his old age, but to his credit he was very much active in the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s.

    Here's a picture of him at Dr. King's March on Washington in 1963:

    (Clicky for piccy!)

    So while he may have turned into a racist right-winger in his old age, when it really counted he was on the right side of the struggle. Weighing that against some offensive comments he made when he was starting to go senile, I'd say in the balance, the moral scales tip in favor of Mr. Heston.


    For some reason I thought of politicians kissing babies when I saw this photo.  Tongue
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #108 - May 19, 2010, 11:39 PM
    Then you don't understand the historical context. In 1963 USA, supporting MLK was extremely controversial. Heston showing up to the March on Washington was not a cheap PR stunt like being photographed kissing babies.

    Try to keep in mind lynching was common practice at the time, and law enforcement was complicit or even active in such crimes, fairly openly. Klan terror was quite real, not just isolated incidents and a bogeyman.
    fuck you
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #109 - May 19, 2010, 11:43 PM
    Quote from: Q-Man on May 19, 2010, 11:39 PM
    In 1963 USA, supporting MLK was extremely controversial.

    Wow. I thought it was mostly the South.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #110 - May 19, 2010, 11:52 PM
    Has Agora been mentioned already? Watched it today and it's a fantastic movie. Smiley
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  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #111 - May 20, 2010, 12:06 AM
    Quote from: Iraqi Atheist on May 19, 2010, 11:43 PM
    Wow. I thought it was mostly the South.


    Mostly-- but consider this...by 1963 the North had allowed, for close to 100 years, the South to return Black Americans to a state of near slavery, run a one-party state, enforced through state terror and paramilitary violence. And the Civil Rights movement didn't lose steam until it ran up against the wall of de facto economic, social, and geographic segregation in the North.

    Was it as controversial in the North to support the Civil Rights movement as the South? Well, no, of course not-- but that mainly meant you weren't likely to get shot or beaten over it, not that racial equality had become popular or mainstream by 1963 in the North...it was getting there, but not quite there yet.

    And for an actor like Heston, there were plenty of movie theatergoers down South too, dig?
    fuck you
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #112 - May 20, 2010, 12:19 AM
    Quote from: BlackDog on May 19, 2010, 07:58 PM

    Oh one more thing I usually don't get along with people that are argumentative


    Sorry, had to respond. Then you wont get along with me Tongue

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    Why the fuck am I talking so much about myself? Fuck this shit.


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  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #113 - May 20, 2010, 12:34 AM

    James Baldwin, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte and Marlon Brando right there. To say nothing of Mr Planet of the Apes. That is one sexy crew of talent right there.

     
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  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #114 - May 20, 2010, 12:37 AM
    @Q, good to know.  Smiley
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #115 - May 20, 2010, 03:56 AM
    Quote from: Ephemeral on May 20, 2010, 12:19 AM
    Sorry, had to respond. Then you wont get along with me Tongue

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  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #116 - May 24, 2010, 02:01 PM
    In Bruges, one of the most overlooked films this decade.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE9edjEDCI

    Once.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #117 - May 24, 2010, 02:08 PM
    I gotta say, I disagree with a lot of people's choices.

    Some of mine:

    Trainspotting

    Across the Universe

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Fight Club

    Garden State

    Moon

    28 Days Later

    Avatar is the best ever in terms of cinematography, but the story is pretty mediocre.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #118 - May 24, 2010, 02:33 PM
    Fight Club is from 1999

    Trainspotting is from 1996

    Garden State was definitely a good film.

    Never even heard of Across the Universe.
  • Re: Best movies of this decade
     Reply #119 - May 24, 2010, 02:48 PM
    Oh shit. Should've checked the dates.

     lipsrsealed

    Across the Universe is a Beatles musical.

    Also: Precious. Best movie of 2009.
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