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Movie Thread: Grab Some Popcorn, Enjoy The Show

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Brenthoven said:
So you're saying Leo will yet again walk away Oscar-less. ;)
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Oh... he may very well get one this time. That was a performance and probably THE reason to see the movie.

I'm not sure the movie will be Best Picture though.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Oh... he may very well get one this time. That was a performance and probably THE reason to see the movie.

I'm not sure the movie will be Best Picture though.
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I think I've heard that before....
 
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I watched an interesting documentary this weekend called Underwater Dreams. I think the movie was intended to be uplifting, but I actually found it to be quite sad. The movie is a couple of years old, but I don't recall seeing a review on it or reference to it in this thread.

It tells the true story of a small high school in Arizona that is attended by a sizable number of children of undocumented immigrants from Mexico. On a whim a couple of the teachers form an underwater robotics team as a way of trying to increase student participation in educational activities. The first team ends up consisting of 4-5 kids, all children of undocumented immigrants.

They enter a robotics competition that apparently has a high school and collegiate level, with the high school teams eligible to "elect up" into the collegiate level. This team makes that election on the assumption that they will fell less bad about themselves if they finish last in the collegiate level than they will if they finish last in the high school level.

Their team ends up competing successfully against perennial power MIT and the other teams. The movie tells the story of that competition, from both the high school and MIT perspectives. From that standpoint the movie is both funny and heartwarming.

However, the competition actually took place about 10-12 years ago, so we have the luxury of looking back at what has happened to the MIT and high school participants since the competition, including a reunion of the participants from each side. This is where I found the movie to be quite sad, even though it doesn't appear to be intended as such. You are given a stark portrait of the differences between outcomes created solely by opportunity.

I recommend it.
 
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Criterion Collection movies watched this past week:

Here Is Your Life or Här har du ditt live, Jan Troell (1966)
Very good Swedish coming of age film set in the early part of the 20th century in working class northern Sweden. Elements of class struggle, sexual exploration, and familial separation are explored through the meanderings of a young teen boy who progresses into manhood. Nicely shot on location.

The Pornographers or Erogoto****achi yori Jinruigaku nyūmon, Shohei Imamura (1966)
Not so much about pornography as the efforts of the protagonist in the film to understand himself, his own sexual identity, and those who control his life in the midst of the post-war economic upheaval. The Japanese title of the film actual translates: An introduction to anthropology through the pornographers.

Patriotism or Yūkoku, Yukio Mishima (1966)
A short film depicting "seppuku" in relation to what transpired after an actual event the Ni Ni Roku Incident of Feb. 1936. Both actors, as husband and wife, enact suicide on camera. Pretty dramatic to say the least. Mishima himself committed seppuku in 1970 after a failed coup attempt.

Pearls of the Czech New Wave, Eclipse Series 32 (2012) *
- Pearls of the Deep, various directors (1966)
- Daisies or Sedmikrásky, Věra Chytilová (1966)
- A Report on the Party and Guests, Jan Němec (1966)
- Return of the Prodigal Son, Evald Schorm (1967)
- Capricious Summer or Rozmarné léto, Jiří Menzel (1968)
- The Joke or Žert, Jaromil Jireš (1969)
These are pretty powerful allergorical and oppositional films made during the Prague Spring. So, many of them deal with the struggle against ideological repression. Really enjoyed them. The Joke is based on Milan Kundera's book of the same name and is a very good look into the psychology and functioning of individuals under party influence and manipulation.
 
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Re-watched Fermat's Room last night. Recommended if you're into mathematical puzzles. It isn't as interesting a watch after you know all the puzzles, but it still delivers some good acting and characters. B+.
 
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Even the cut version of "We're The Millers" is still funnier than hell, and has no business being this funny.
 
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Kepler said:
As the resident hater of all things Boston, that's great.
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Between knowing a couple Bostonians, and obviously a movie geek, and hearing all the criticism of Boston accents in movies....that clip was the perfect storm. :D
 
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Brenthoven said:
Between knowing a couple Bostonians, and obviously a movie geek, and hearing all the criticism of Boston accents in movies....that clip was the perfect storm. :D
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"Chock full of aerial shots of Fenway Park".
 
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Watched the movie Trophy Kids on Netflix last night. It will make you love kids, and hate sports. Guaranteed.
 
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SJHovey said:
Watched the movie Trophy Kids on Netflix last night. It will make you love kids, and hate sports. Guaranteed.
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That is why I do not want to watch it. Not that I hate kids, but I don't want my anger to rise against youth sports and the parents/officials involved.
 
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Brenthoven said:
That is why I do not want to watch it. Not that I hate kids, but I don't want my anger to rise against youth sports and the parents/officials involved.
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YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. No, but it does make me sad sometimes, what we sports fans have wrought. My own kids don't play any sport out of season nor any "travel leagues." It's drop-in hockey in the winter, saturday basketball, and school team track, golf, baseball, softball, CC. I admit I have traveled for the little league tournament for our firstborn, it tends to suck you in.
I've gone so far as to not buy an NFL or NHL ticket for about 10 years. Still support MLB with plenty of cash though... and college hockey, obvi. So I'm more part of the problem than the solution. But...
I feel like organized sports are broken to some degree. Kids need room to to explore, try things, fail at some things. Succeed at others.
Probably I should watch the film before spouting off, but I'm tired and venting a little here.
 
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geezer said:
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. No, but it does make me sad sometimes, what we sports fans have wrought. My own kids don't play any sport out of season nor any "travel leagues." It's drop-in hockey in the winter, saturday basketball, and school team track, golf, baseball, softball, CC. I admit I have traveled for the little league tournament for our firstborn, it tends to suck you in.
I've gone so far as to not buy an NFL or NHL ticket for about 10 years. Still support MLB with plenty of cash though... and college hockey, obvi. So I'm more part of the problem than the solution. But...
I feel like organized sports are broken to some degree. Kids need room to to explore, try things, fail at some things. Succeed at others.
Probably I should watch the film before spouting off, but I'm tired and venting a little here.
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I hear ya. I was probably playing Little League at the start of the big turn, and when I reached my last year, they told me I'd ride the pine for the most part in the highest level, but would play more at the lower level (A vs B Major or something like that). I just wanted to play. Yes, I was competitive, but I'd rather play and lose then ride the bench and win.
 
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Cartel Land

Documentary obviously slanted towards vigilante militias (touches on the US, more focused on the Mexican Autodefensas) fighting against the cartels. Pretty intense look at it, some gunfights caught on tape and such. However, it doesn't make the vigilantes look like saints. There's more than a few moments where you are shaking your head at what the vigilantes are doing/thinking. In the end, it does summarize the problem in Mexico with the cartels quite fairly...because it really is the truth.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Cartel Land

Documentary obviously slanted towards vigilante militias (touches on the US, more focused on the Mexican Autodefensas) fighting against the cartels. Pretty intense look at it, some gunfights caught on tape and such. However, it doesn't make the vigilantes look like saints. There's more than a few moments where you are shaking your head at what the vigilantes are doing/thinking. In the end, it does summarize the problem in Mexico with the cartels quite fairly...because it really is the truth.
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I thought the more significant message of that movie was that at the end of the day, vigilantes (no matter how good their initial intentions) essentially become like the cartels themselves. Lawless thugs leveling their own vision of justice. But I agree it's worth watching.
 
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