just... stunning. truly some of the most amazing, memorable images i have ever seen. i can't think of another film that was quite so visually jaw-dropping. it's a documentary with footage taken in the immediate aftermath of the first Iraq war, including some shocking images of the fires in Kuwaiti oil fields. but it's all arranged not as a traditional documentary, but as a science fiction narrative, as if all this was taking place on an alien world -- or so the narrator informs us. the result is a critique, not so much of this specific war, but of all war, and even more broadly all the folly, destruction, and environmental carelessness that humans inflict on this world. it's a film that really needs to be seen, period. totally breathtaking.

I liked it. Natalie Portman is quite the actress. 4 stars

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Originally posted by Red Medicine:
...just out of curiosity, has anyone seen Muderball yet?

yes. I'd say it's the best film of the year so far. I saw it back in April at Roger Ebert's film festival.

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quite sad.

Yayeeee. And I got it for only $35. I saved like two dollars. Yayeeee.

...i still keep hoping vern will get hit by the train.

If you picked up Simpsons Season 6 today, and agree that box is one of the worst DVD packagings of all time, peep this:


http://www.simpsonsbox.com

mr.arkadin


great

Crazy. And junk.

Dirty.

This was really good. Dustin Hoffman is so great. I can't imagine why he agrees to be in shit movies.

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Originally posted by kcp_stp:


I liked it. Natalie Portman is quite the actress. 4 stars

That, my friend, is a movie you love, not like.

Jean Reno is really awesome, by the way.

cute.


nothing to do with today's mr. and mrs. smith. good thing.

The series finale of Six Feet Under. Alan Ball might be a pretentious stooge, but the end sequence might be the best thing he's ever done. It was just awesome and completely depressing.

That Six Feet Under finale was fucking fantastic. I've never watched a finale that was done so well.

I didn't think the entire episode was that great, just the end.

I've been a fan of Six Feet Under ever since it came on. I'm guessing you haven't consistently liked the show at all?

I've been a fan throughout, but the show hasn't been consistently good, specifically the last two seasons. I think it was a better episode, but they tried doing too much with too little time. The episode spanned a couple of months. They should've been working towards the end way earlier in the season instead of finally delivering something they didn't have the balls to do three seasons ago out of the blue. The thing I'm talking about didn't even mean anything at that point. They only had like 4 episodes left before the end. The last time they tried a big thing like that was in the third season when David was taken hostage and beaten. That even seemed a little desperate because his character had grown so stale before that. But it worked because there was no end in sight and it would be something he would have to work through. Also it was different from anything else on television. And that's the same reason the end sequence to last night's episode was the best thing they'd done since that.

yayeeee

I saw Last Days and Broken Flowers on Sunday. Last Days was quite uneventful. Broken Flowers didn't wind up how I wanted it to. Then I fell down the movie theatre stairs. I have a bruise.

then this:



Christ. I can't stop thinking about this. It's great. My heart beats for Gallo anyway, pretty much anything this man does I go gaga over.