Saw Charlie Rose interview Anouk Aimee the other night. Still an amazing, captivating woman at 80.

Argo has some brilliant editing and cinematography, but the story feels, somehow, a bit rushed. The subplot about the Iranian house maid, though, is a wonderful touch.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

What a surprisingly touching film. Taking its broad structure from Douglas Sirk's All that Heaven Allows, Fassbinder's film is about prejudice, bigotry, and isolation. Like the Sirk film it takes cues from, an old woman falls in love with a younger, socially ostracized man. But whereas the character in Sirk's film was ostracized by class, Ali is ostracized for race and class. He's a young Moroccan immigrant, a "German worker," part of a group of men who do the German's dirty work but will never be accepted as one of "them." The film wastes no time getting into the central story: an old, 60ish German woman named Emmi, looking to escape the rain, and get a closer listen to the strange foreign music she hears on her way home from work every day, goes into a bar whose clientelle is almost exclusively Moroccan (Ali among them). On a dare, Ali, who is 20 years her junior, dances with her, and thus begins what on the surface might seem like a melodramatic love story, but ends up being a moving film that simply uses melodrama as its vehicle.

At first, Emmi's family and neighbors only look down on Ali, a dirty foreigner, but they soon reject her, too, for her very association with a foreigner. Ali, for a time, seems enough to sooth Emmi's pain. They're companions. Who cares if no one likes them? But soon Emmi realizes that though she tries to ignore the rejection of the people who once seemed to love her, the pain won't be denied. And though Ali's at first happy to perhaps finally have found an end to the confusion of living in a culture that refuses to embrace his foreign nature, only to integrate his usefulness, he's ultimately an outsider. Even when Emmi's friends and family about-face, they welcome them back only out of economic necessity. Emmi is a good German customer, a good mother, and Ali a useful hired hand. Ultimately, everyone in the film is a victim, prisoners to the dictates of the world they live in.

Do you want to hear something mindblowing? Maybe a species 100x more advanced then humans have space suits that doesnt look like the ones NASA use? Maybe a integrated biosuit is the best thing?


You saw the high tech technology they had and this is the hardest thing? UGH THEY DONT LOOK THE SAME! Maybe It's difference types n the same species? like a eskimo and a african? there are many answers, but you seem to lack imagination so not sure who I am arguing with

Prometheus was awful. Here are some highlights from it:

Werner Herzog is the villain in the new Tom Cruise movie Jack Reacher?!!!?!

Trailer is linked. Skip to :57 to see the man.

LOL! That's great.

watched punch drunk love on my flight home last night. what a waste of 90 minutes, would have been better served staring at the seat in front of me.

I believe the moderators get one discretionary perma-ban every year. This might be a good time to use it

But he gets a pass for "because robots are strong."

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V/H/S

Ok I just don't get horror films. Terrible acting. Not the least bit scary. Boring as hell. I was waiting for everyone to die so it would end.

I dug V/H/S Ti West's short scared me, and the finale was freaking cool.

Killer Joe was quite dark and in your face. I liked it, but not sure I liked it as much as I wanted to. Something was just missing for me, at least on first viewing. Still, quite good and will probably become somewhat of a cult film. Gina Gershon shows bush in it within the first 5 minutes.

The Campaign was sorta bad but still had some laughs because Ferrell is almost always funny to me.

lol... I wish I could understand your message... but I don't. I am not sure you do either.

I'm with you, I just find that genre really boring. when I was younger, I used to love Horror and sought out the really bloody underground/low budget gems... but as I have gotten older, I find the movies disturbing and really kind of sickening.

^nice...

another action movie for tom eh.

I knew going in that it was a pretty well received film but I don't really see what's so great about it.

I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark on TV the other day. It was some sort of HD version. The detail available was staggering compared to the SD version and it really shows that Spielberg covered every little detail. I was amazed at the perfect wear and tear on the vehicles and the details of the Nazi suits among many others. It was the details of the famed Medallion's though that literally drew me deeper in the film. It just made me immediately care more about what happens. Strange how the mind works.

Lastly many of the scenes now appear "soap opera-ish" in their appearance and that took some getting used too. Can someone explain what is technically happening here? thx

This will go down as one of the most ridiculous things I will ever say at a theatre, "Two for Paranormal Activity 4: The IMAX Experience." It's our only option here. =( two line TR tomorrow night. STAY TUNED

I don't understand the question

Everlastrr,

Here's an article explaining what's going on.

From the article:

Paranormal Activity 3

Ok I am confirmed a wuss. I watched the first two with people and laughed my head off. I watched this one alone at night and I was scared as heck. Mostly because of that stupid camera that moved back and forth. Small part has to do with not wanting the kids to get hurt. All adults in scary movies deserve to die.

Killer Joe


This is one seriously f*cked up movie. I loved it! McConaughey was outstanding. He is a lock for nominations during awards season.

+1

I had no idea how dark the story would get.

Whenever I see a scary movie with others it loses a lot of its flare. But when I watch movies like this alone at home at night it can get some legit scares on me. That's how you are supposed to watch scary movies. Not like ****ing "tough guys" or teens who sit and text or sit with their laptop/iphone in their lap being all HAHA BRAH THIS **** SO WACK AND BAD BRO, WHO GETS SCARED OF THIS **** *not looking at movie*

Thanks BR. Argghhh now you have blown my mind though because I can't reproduce it as it was on TV and on my brother's LCD. I have a plasma, of course and have watched all sorts of HD content for almost 2 years on it and never had the same effect on my screen. I'll def mention it to my brother. Interesting technical stuff actually. I learned quite a bit.