Milk

[Coggeh]

Seeing as Sean Penn won best actor I decided to watch it , it was one of the best movies I've ever seen , and the best I've seen in a long time .

Those who haven't seen it , see it now ! :)

[Sasha]

agreed

[Bilan]

I sat in on it for a while. (I work at the pictures)
It looks really good.
I watched a doco on him as well. Seems like a good guy. Very sad. :(

[The Feral Underclass]

I work at the pictures

Me too! :thumbup1:

[Kassad]

Incredible movie. Very inspiring. One of the best I've seen in a long time. I never got around to seeing Slumdog Millionare, but was it really good enough to beat Milk for best picuture?

[brigadista]

i watched it lst night sorry but i was quite bored by it

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I've been wanting to see it. I just haven't gotten to go see it. I don't want to go to the movies alone. I'll make it a date or something.

[x359594]

I never got around to seeing Slumdog Millionare, but was it really good enough to beat Milk for best picuture?

Not in my view comrade. Slumdog Millionaire was bourgeois claptrap, a regressive tourist view of Third World poverty with a happy ending to make it palatable to "concerned" liberals.

On the other hand, Milk was true to its protagonist and showed the strengths and limits of community organizing. I thought it an excellent film.

[che_diwas]

It was a great film. Sean Penn is the best of all times. I liked his acceptance speech at the oscars after winning the Best actor for Milk:

"Thank you. Thank you. You commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns. I did not expect this, but I, and I want it to be very clear, that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me often. But I am touched by the appreciation and I hoped for it enough that I did want to scribble down, so I had the names in case you were commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns, and so I want to thank my best friend, Sata Matsuzawa. My circle of long-time support, Mara, Brian, Barry and Bob. The great Cleve Jones. Our wonderful writer,Lance Black[/URL]. Producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks. And particularly, as all, as actors know, our director either has the patience, talent and restraint to grant us a voice or they don't, and it goes from the beginning of the meeting, through the cutting room. And there is no finer hands to be in than Guss Van Sant's[URL="http://sfist.com/2007/11/19/gus_van_sant_ha.php"] (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97245530). And finally, for those, two last finallies, for those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support.

We've got to have equal rights for everyone. And there are, and there are, these last two things. I'm very, very proud to live in a country that is willing to elect an elegant man president and a country who, for all its toughness, creates courageous artists. And this is in great due respect to all the nominees, but courageous artists, who despite a sensitivity that sometimes has brought enormous challenge, Mickey Rourke rises again and he is my brother. Thank you all very much."

Now I am planning on watching Frozen River, which was also a nominee at this years oscars.

[Elect Marx]

I really want to see this movie. I loved the documentary, which was of course extremely sad. The best part for me, was the working class man (I don't recall his name) that was a self-admitted bigot earlier on, realized homosexuals are human beings and perhaps shouldn't be mercilessly beaten by police. He developed this consciousnesses after being united in struggle, for various causes. He furthermore eventually gained a sense of respect and solidarity with these movements.

The underlying message I took away, was that struggles for human rights are all tied together.

[brigadista]

sean penn was TERRIBLE in dead man walking.....

[Janine Melnitz]

I'm very, very proud to live in a country that is willing to elect an elegant man president

What does this even mean

Edit: Haha oh wow googling it got me this:

In the same speech that Penn tried to incite some voters to shame, he went on to take a stab at all the past presidents of the United States of America, saying that “I'm very, very proud to live in a country that is willing to elect an elegant man president.” This, of course assumes that no president until this one has been elegant.

[Invader Zim]

It isn't a bad film, but it certainly isn't Sean Penn's best film, not even close. I think it is a 7/10 maybe 7.5. Good, and well worth the cinema ticket I paid for it, but lets not get carried away.

[Angry Young Man]

What does this even mean



It means that lots of people think that having an intelligent and cultured president is going to solve all social ills. Matter of fact, I'm working on Henry VIII for 2016.