He actually looks more like Blue from The Corner.

looks a lot like Sugar Ray Leonard

Animal Factory

Twenty one year old Decker is a middle class collage boy who is convicted of selling marijuana and sentenced to prison. This is the story of his time inside and the unlikely friendship he builds with one of the prisons powerful inmates.

It left me a little cold. Ed Furlong puts in a good performance as Decker, forever on edge and constantly living in fear. Micky Rourke stole every scene he was in.
The Problem is William Defoe’s character Earl who is oddly saintly. The Morgan Freedman character in “The Shawshank redemption” fulfilled the same role but he starts out cold and indifferent to Tim Robbins character. They grow into friends naturally. Freedman is removed from the life of the prison he operates in it but remains a distance from the other inmates.
Earl is a career criminal, a junky and leader of a prison gang. His also smart educated and cunning. Unlike Freedman his actively involved in all the prisons power plays and intrigues and it some how rings hollow that the takes Decker under his wing and so selflessly protects him.
Were supposed to believe that he is in some sort of platonic love affair with Decker and doesn’t want to sully it. Early on were feed the idea that maybe this is all a play by Earl to make Decker his bitch but that’s pretty quickly abandoned. Earl just seems too smart and too in control of his emotions to be in prison in the first place. His selfless devotion to Decker just makes him too virtues.

I instantly thought of Omar too. Speaking of Omar I watched The Road today, good movie if you like em bleak.

Network - How the hell did they manage to make a great film containing that many basic truths about the world still 35 years later? I am continually amazed by this movie.

I watched The Candidate a few days ago and it reminded me a lot of Network. Not as good, or as spot on mind you, but along the same lines.

James Brooks has a series of interviews on youtube in which he can't stop praising Chayefsky (sp?) for being amazingly prescient in not just one but two movies.

I was thinking Sugar Ray Robinson. Or maybe Joe Louis.

It was a Seinfeld joke <g>

easy. good movies do it all the time.

This movie is excellent. I really like the style. Can you recommend some other movies like this?

Switchblade Romance

French slasher movie that's almost a classic of the genre.

check out Murder by Contract and Underworld U.S.A.; you might also like Out of the Past and Le Samourai , which are a bit different.

Which movie should I watch first? Michael Clayton or Insomnia?

Michael clayton

Love me some Michael Clayton.

Finally saw Inception!

Hooray! Liked? Disappointed? I hate seeing movies after so much hype. A good film will stand on its own, but a bad film seems even worse after so much praise.

Watched Raising Arizona yesterday for the umpteenth time. Not an ground-breaking observation, but the first part of it before they show the title is incredible.

Yeah, I really enjoyed the concept, albeit it was confusing at times. I didn't much care for all the ridiculous action, cause it was a bit over the top, but I guess it had merit. It was much better than The Dark Knight, imo. I would give it a B+ cause I like movies that challenge my brain a bit.

Dissenting voice: Insomnia.

Michael Clayton has an inflated sense of its own importance. I enjoyed it, but I thought it was pretty heavy handed at times.

Saw the Expendables tonight. It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen
I recommend this to nobody...

I just finished Soderbergh's Che Guevara movie (or was it a mini-series?, not sure but it was long and in 2 parts). Politics aside I really liked this as it turned into more of a war movie than the pomp and preening I was expecting. It depicted guerrilla warfare and the hardships of the warriors better than I've seen. Oh and Benicio Del Toro was excellent, he was born for this role.

I eagerly await your spam post.

Just watched Yonkers Joe. Really good movie about a LV/AC cheat. I think I saw Phil Ivey's name in the credits under Exec Producer.