What's the last movie you truly loved?

[Islamosocialist]

Mine was "Na putu", which means "On the path", a reference to the line of the Koran where we ask God to lead us on the path of the righteous and not astray like the condemned.

It is just another fantastic movie by Jasmila, who has won just about every award there is in Europe for her painfully beautiful portrayals of the lives of Balkan women and the conflicts that result from existing on the border between West and East.

Here's a preview for "Na putu":

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Basically, the movie begins by introducing us to a typical Muslim couple in Bosnia. They're middle class and very liberal. He's an air traffic controller, she's a stewardess. They have a great sex life. They plan to get married, start a family, live happily ever after.

Then, the boyfriend's life goes to hell. He happens upon a former army buddy who is now a fundamentalist Muslim and finds his comfort in fundamentalism. He becomes more and more conservative, refusing to have sex with his girlfriend until they're married, lecturing her family about faith.

Meanwhile, she's losing her mind. She's losing her lover, she can't relate to what he now believes. She starts to act out, to provoke, trying to bring him back to the way he was before. Along the way, she becomes a different woman herself.

And the ending, you'll just have to see. ;)

But Jasmila makes both sides of the question seem equally beautiful and equally flawed. It's not a case of good guy/bad guy. It's just a case of... people... and the challenges we face. You leave this movie feeling... exposed. Like someone just pointed out something about yourself you were convinced no one buy you noticed. It's fantastic.

What about you? What was your favorite one lately?

[Column No.4]

Latest movie ive seen that i thought was great, although it needed to be R, was "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

[Dzerzhinsky's Ghost]

It's a toss up between, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Elusive Avengers and La Métamorphose des Cloportes.

[Islamosocialist]

I saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I liked that it wasn't all explosions and that sort of thing--I enjoyed it.

I'm not all that picky about movies... I really liked Friends with Benefits, for example, and Serenity. But I need to care about the characters.

A lot of the time I watch 20 minutes and think, "I don't give a shit what happens to any of these people..." and turn it off.

[Drosophila]

No Country for Old Men

[NGNM85]

Probably The Matrix.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Recently the movie I watched, for the first time, and loved was "Dawn of the Dead" the 2004 remake. Great film.

[Zav]

I've watched many movies recently that I liked, but the last one I saw that I truly loved was Land and Freedom.
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[RichardAWilson]

Have you ever watched the original Dawn of the Dead? It's better than the remake, which is much more commercialized. (In the original, there are a handful of elaborations to racism, radicalism and ghettos in Philadelphia during the 1970's.

[Zealot]

Probably The Matrix and The Butterfly Effect. I liked the butterfly effect because the theme of the movie was something I had always thought about.

[Revolution starts with U]

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[¿Que?]

Baader Meinhof Complex, and I say that not as some kind of adventurist violence fetishist or anything, but because I think the movie was well made and very gripping.

[RGacky3]

If you like Romantic movies nothing has beaten "reds" (not to mention its about John Reed and the russian revolution).

[Die Rote Fahne]

Have you ever watched the original Dawn of the Dead? It's better than the remake, which is much more commercialized. (In the original, there are a handful of elaborations to racism, radicalism and ghettos in Philadelphia during the 1970's.

Actually I'm 20 minutes in. Lol.

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

Inglorious Baterds.

Saw it twice in theaters, and no regrets whatsoever.

[Bud Struggle]

Wall Street. It has it all--billions of dollars, big hair, sholder pads, hot babes, great houses, pasta machines.*

Sigh. The Eighties. :crying:


*Now that's I'm a Communist I know all of this WRONG. :(

[Luc]

I don't really like anything fictional so the movie I love most would of been The Other Mexico about the Zapatistas.

[ComradeMan]

The Three Amigos. :)

That has to be one of the funniest films of all time...

"What is happening today. Are gringos falling from the sky?"
CRASH!!!
"Si el Guapo."

[Dean]

A Serious Man

It reminds me of The Trial by Franz Kafka

Mostly anything by the Coen Bros, though.

[Kamos]

The Matrix trilogy's movies. Yep, I'm joining the club.

[thesadmafioso]

I suppose Solaris (1972 version) fits this criteria well enough for me.

[CommieTroll]

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Nuff' said

[Ballyfornia]

Probably Gran torino. there's just something about Clint Eastwood

[Red Noob]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes > The Matrix

[Nox]

I don't know what the last movie I truly loved was, but I can safely say that Rise of the Planet of the Apes was the single shittest film of 2011 by far.

[Ostrinski]

I hate movies.

[Rafiq]

Rise of the planet of the apes. Should sum up the proletariat's position on violence very well, the part where the highly intelligent apes escape and flee to the redwoods.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

I'm struggling to think of a film in the last few years that I haven't found problematic in some way. Probably the last film I liked without thinking too much into it was a Korean film called The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008) mainly because of Kang-ho Song's hilarious performance. These days I'm a boring intellectual who likes bad films more because of the chance to pull them apart but I can never say I 'truly loved' them. D:

[NGNM85]

Probably The Matrix.

[NGNM85]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes > The Matrix

....Joking, of course.

[Red Noob]

Rise of the planet of the apes. Should sum up the proletariat's position on violence very well, the part where the highly intelligent apes escape and flee to the redwoods.

I think you're misinterpreting it.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes wasn't about proletariat uprising. Think about it, did the apes in captivity sell their labor? No. There is a bigger picture here everyone is missing.

Imagine: Apes are quick adapters, which means they evolve faster. At a much faster rate than us humans. If extraterrestrial life were to say, inform us of their quicker evolution, we might interpret that as a threat. Think about it. What if they evolve to the point they are the superior?

Rise of the Planet of the Apes was probably written by a government agent who knew about this and wanted to get his message out without really 'getting his message out'.

We've been suppressing, hunting, and practicing artificial selective breeding on apes to prevent them from evolving to a higher status than us.

Is such a thing possible?

Yes.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

Apollo 18
Best movie I have ever seen. Besides that, I'm really waiting for "the" movie.
The likeliness of "the" movie happening, is extremely unlikely.

Guess I'll just have to make it :p

[Rafiq]

I think you're misinterpreting it.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes wasn't about proletariat uprising.

Of course it was not.

But even if the directer didn't do it intentionally (I'm sure this is the case) it still is a great movie in regards to the mentality we should develop: Join us, or get out of our way.



Imagine: Apes are quick adapters, which means they evolve faster.

I don't think that is how things evolve.




Rise of the Planet of the Apes was probably written by a government agent who knew about this and wanted to get his message out without really 'getting his message out'.




We've been suppressing, hunting, and practicing artificial selective breeding on apes to prevent them from evolving to a higher status than us.

Is such a thing possible?

Yes.


I was going to ignore this, but now that I have realized it was a Joke I would say: Save it for chit chat.

[Red Noob]

Apollo 18
Best movie I have ever seen. Besides that, I'm really waiting for "the" movie.
The likeliness of "the" movie happening, is extremely unlikely.

Guess I'll just have to make it :p

I thought I was watching a Blair With Project/Cloverfield hybrid the whole time.

[Scrooge]

Midnight in Paris

[Ele'ill]

Closed.

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[Ele'ill]

Relocated. Reopened.

[Ostrinski]

On second thought, I did enjoy Hunger, a film about the 1981 IRA hunger strikes.

[x359594]

The 2008 restoration of Max Ophuls' great Lola Montes (1955.)

[Invader Zim]

Star Trek IV.

[Prometeo liberado]

Kiss of the Spider Woman. That piece of work left me both angry and hopeful, with a renewed sense of what is possible when ideas are not compromised, regardless of the situations you find yourself in. Two thumbs up.:thumbup:

[roy]

Animal Kingdom. It's an Australian film that probably isn't widely known elsewhere. The movie's about a small-time, suburban crime family. Gritty, down-to-earth and moving.

[coda]

"Nowhere Boy", the early life of John Lennon-

[Tovarisch]

Prayers for Bobby, it was the last movie I watched, but it was very touching

[Klaatu]

The Village.

This film is metaphorical to the way Capitalists and those in power are sucessfully fooling the public.

[Arlekino]

The Road Home (film, 1999)
Story of love set in Mao times is touching story and sweet, definitely gave me little rest from politics.

[Yuppie Grinder]

The Village.

This film is metaphorical to the way Capitalists and those in power are sucessfully fooling the public.

That was not all the intention. You're reading into it to much.

Good Burger is the only film I've ever truly loved.

[Pirate Utopian]

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

[Klaatu]

That was not all the intention. You're reading into it to much.

Perhaps not the writer's intention, but that is my own perception of the story.

Think about it; it can be a metaphor for our own society. Why not? ;)