05 Jan 08
apart from paris hilton does paris has anyone any good movies we might have missed, recently or at all ?
i have just seen ' shoot em up ' which was really cool.
saw 4.. not much.
transformers was cool. good script. great fx.
my own favourites.... 'sideways' and 'iron giant'
any films you have seen which we might not have heard of..... can we keep it 15 pg please ?
06 Jan 08
Originally posted by scoop122Welcome! (obviously... I'm in it)
apart from paris hilton does paris has anyone any good movies we might have missed, recently or at all ?
i have just seen ' shoot em up ' which was really cool.
saw 4.. not much.
transformers was cool. good script. great fx.
my own favourites.... 'sideways' and 'iron giant'
any films you have seen which we might not have heard of..... can we keep it 15 pg please ?
American gangster
Eastern Promises (you get to see Aragorn's willy)
06 Jan 08
Originally posted by TyrannosauruschexI'm looking forward to Charlie Wilson's war. That sounds terrific.
These are all quite gritty dramas you guys are quoting ( I have seen them all )
What about something with a little more heart - like the golden compas? That was not too bad I thought, although the ending could have been better.
06 Jan 08
Yeah, Pan's Labyrinth was excellent. Saw it twice at the cinema, and last week i bought the dvd and watched it again.
Anyone seen No Country For Old Men? I saw it the other day but dozed off toward the end (not the film's fault, just lack of sleep) and was a bit confused by the ending, which seemed kind of abrupt. Guess I'd better go see it again. I liked the bits that I did see.
06 Jan 08
Originally posted by shavixmirSynopsis:
I'm looking forward to Charlie Wilson's war. That sounds terrific.
Urged on by his staunchly anti-communist friend and romantic interest, Joanne Herring, Wilson leads the effort to provide United States funds indirectly to the Afghan Mujahideen. In the process, the film also reveals Wilson as a Congressman whose disdain for the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is supplemented by his gregarious social life of women and partying.
Herring persuades him to visit the Pakistani leadership who complain about the inadequate support to oppose the Soviets and insist he visit a major Afghan refugee camp. Deeply moved by their misery and determination to fight, Wilson is frustrated by the regional CIA detachment's insistence on a low key approach against the Soviet despite his firm pledges for generous funding as a member of two major Congressional defense committees. To solve that problem, Wilson befriends the maverick CIA operative Gust Avrakotos and his understaffed Afghanistan group to find a better strategy, especially including a means to counter the Soviets' formidable gunship helicopter air support. As a result, Wilson's deft political bargaining for the necessary funding and Avrakotos' group's careful planning using those resources, such as supplying the guerrillas with FIM-92 Stinger missile launchers, turn the Soviet occupation into a deadly quagmire with their heavy fighting vehicles being destroyed at a crippling rate. This effort by Wilson ultimately evolves into a major portion of the U.S. foreign policy known as the Carter and Reagan Doctrines, under which the U.S. assisted the mujahideen and other anti-communist resistance movements around the world. The policy was controversial, although some now credit the policy with contributing to the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, bringing about the end of the Cold War.[citation needed]
Despite the victory, Avrakotos warns that unless there is a serious effort to help Afghanistan rebuild back into a stable society, there could be dire and unpredictable repercussions for both that nation and the USA. Unfortunately, Wilson finds exceptionally little enthusiasm in the government for even the modest measures he proposes to heed this warning and his efforts are frustrated. The film ends with Wilson receiving a major commendation for the support of the U.S. clandestine services, but his pride is sadly tempered by his fears of what unintended consequences his secret efforts could yield in the future. The implied warning involves both the rise of the extremist Taliban regime and the September 11th terrorist attacks, though this is never verbalized.
The film also suggests, by the use of one brief scene, America's focus on foreign policy and in particular the emancipation of the Afghans from the Soviets occurred even while America's indigenous population were (and continue to be) ignored in their struggle for the reclamation of their land and ways of living. Charlie Wilson is seen emerging from his office and walking past (a la West Wing) a group of Native Americans who clearly have been waiting there for a long time and who are not shown again.
