Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Theme Song (click here!)
One of the greatest spaghetti westerns ever ... there is something addicting about this song. I can't get it out of my head.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Triumph of the Will.
I have a slight fascination with Adolf Hitler, only because I want to understand how such a evil man could come to power. I am convinced Hitler was a psychopath, or at least seriously mentally ill. I happened to see Roger Ebert's review of Triumph of the Will, the 1935 Nazi Party propaganda film, where he describes it as a terrible film, but historically significant. I started watching Triumph of the Will on YouTube, and the first ten minutes I thought was fascinating. Hitler in these scenes is almost comical, since he seems to struggle to keep his armed raised through a vast parade, and his slight plumpness makes him look clownish as he smiles at his success. In these scenes it is hard to take him seriously.
I found the first 50 minutes to be pretty interesting from a historical perspective, but the last 50 minutes is almost nothing but repetitious marching and parading.
From the video I think I understand better how such an evil man can come to power. About 25 minutes into the video, the Reich Party Congress promises people the world.
I found the first 50 minutes to be pretty interesting from a historical perspective, but the last 50 minutes is almost nothing but repetitious marching and parading.
From the video I think I understand better how such an evil man can come to power. About 25 minutes into the video, the Reich Party Congress promises people the world.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Canadian Bacon - In French, please!
It was not a great movie, but I thought that this scene was funny.
The idea is that a bunch of U.S. rednecks decide to go declare war on
Canada after someone they know is presumably arrested in Canada.
Oddly enough, it was written by Michael Moore, who is Canadian, and
all the actors are Canadian, but the movie never hesitates to make fun
of Canada. It is funny that Dan Aykroyd shows up just after they
mention "Driving Miss Daisy".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tdZkcV8o54&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The idea is that a bunch of U.S. rednecks decide to go declare war on
Canada after someone they know is presumably arrested in Canada.
Oddly enough, it was written by Michael Moore, who is Canadian, and
all the actors are Canadian, but the movie never hesitates to make fun
of Canada. It is funny that Dan Aykroyd shows up just after they
mention "Driving Miss Daisy".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tdZkcV8o54&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Monday, September 27, 2010
Netflix
From: Hebden, Daniel R
John,
I know there are some limits on streaming form Netflix.
One I don’t have a PC hooked up to my big screen.
Two, I don’t have a DVR yet and don’t have one hooked up to internet.
Three, they are a bit limited on selection, although it is getting bigger.
Yesterday I got a free box from my nephew who doesn’t have Netflix anymore and we hooked it up to our network and was
watching stuff in less than 10 min.
I spent an hour adding movies and TV series to watch to my queue, while my wife was watching “Dog the Bounty Hunter”.
I must admit it sure is nice to stream some movies.
Dan H.
Friday, September 24, 2010
FW: Great movie but hard to watch.
From: Witmer, Robert C.
I put all the movies on my Netflix queue that get an Oscar nomination. Sometimes I get the movies much later and forget why I thought I wanted to see them.
The 2009 film “The Messenger” starring Woody Harrelson nominated for Best Supporting Actor is a movie I got the other day. I remembered the subject matter and I watched it. I’m glad I watched it. It’s about the Military’s Casualty Notification teams that go to people’s homes and notify them that their soldier relative has been killed. The reactions that people have when they are notified are very heart pounding moments. Those scenes are hard to watch.
Here is a wiki page about the film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Messenger_%282009_film%29
Here is Ebert’s review: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091118/REVIEWS/911189998/1023
Bob Witmer
Monday, September 20, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
FW: The Mist
I’ll add it to my Netflix Queue.
From: Witmer, Robert C
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 9:10 AM
To: Coffey, John
Subject: The Mist
I saw this and loved it. It’s the first time I watched the movie twice and the commentary track for any movie in a long time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mist_%28film%29
Monday, August 30, 2010
Re: Carriers/Road
Hello John,
I assume you saw the Road this weekend.
I saw Carriers, with Chris Paine who played Kirk from Star Trek.
Carriers is about a plaque that killed mankind. It is a less epic, apocolypse movie.
It was an interesting character dynamic between 4 traveling survivors and other survivors.
Larry R. Trout
I saw it early last week sometime but didn't get to finish the last 15 minutes. Will do it tonight.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
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