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Old 04-26-2009, 04:47 PM   #136
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Even in Space Odyssey one monkey kills another!
Well... HAL 9000 kills a few persons and Dave Bowman kills HAL.
 
Old 04-26-2009, 05:14 PM   #137
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That's not the half of it. You're forgetting the original digital serial killer!
I recalled it before I saw your post and corrected myself above.

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I have to admit that my response to Natural Born Killers was "good movie. I don't ever want to see it again!"
Strange. I picked it to watching tonight just before I saw your post...
 
Old 04-26-2009, 05:31 PM   #138
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I've not seen that for about 20 years. All I can remember is: "what a weird film!" (I think I was probably stoned at the time ).
Warner Home Video released uncut DVD version of O Lucky Man! in 2007. ``Uncut'' means including some sequences missed in some earlier releases. On the other hand it's seriously ``cut'' version because Warner changed aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 by stripping the movie from top and bottom. Fortunately I have also old VHS in original aspect ratio.

Good review of O Lucky Man! is here: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/articles/o_lucky_man.htm but don't read it before watching the movie.
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Old 04-26-2009, 07:54 PM   #139
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I just finished to watch Natural Born Killers. It's movie about media. Mickey Knox said: ``Media's is like the weather, only it's man-made weather''.

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Natural Born Killers, a visually dazzling, wickedly funny slam of violence and media obsession that's ``the most radical film any major studio has released since A Clockwork Orange''.
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Old 04-26-2009, 08:05 PM   #140
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As I see I'm the only one here now. Page 10 is all mine. I like it. Taking an opportunity I recommend two great and extremely violent Polish movies:

Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Killing (Poland, 1987)
Krzysztof Krauze's The Debt (Poland, 1999)
 
Old 04-26-2009, 08:25 PM   #141
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I turned my machine off and then turned it on anew.

Media are like the weather though it's the weather made first of all from anomalies: downpours, gales, thunderstorms, floods, whirlwinds, tornadoes, typhoons, cyclones, etc. It's not reality -- it's creation. Or -- more precisely -- it's creative vision of reality.
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Old 04-27-2009, 09:33 AM   #142
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Natural Born Killers is about media and about us. There aren't any media without receivers. Media produce the pulp because we like to eat it. Media are made by people for people.
 
Old 04-27-2009, 10:26 AM   #143
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Natural Born Killers is about media...
If you want a film about the media, how about Network with Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall?
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I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!...
 
Old 04-27-2009, 10:48 AM   #144
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Outbreak. I know, I have a sick twisted sense of humor, huh?
 
Old 04-27-2009, 10:59 AM   #145
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If you want a film about the media, how about Network with Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall?
Thank you for that recommendation. I didn't watch that movie. Unfortunately there isn't Sidney Lumet's Network in the biggest lending video library nor biggest video shop in my country. I'll have to wait as long as it appears on TV.
 
Old 04-27-2009, 11:03 AM   #146
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Outbreak. I know, I have a sick twisted sense of humor, huh?
No, it's good, it'll prepare you for what's to come.
 
Old 04-28-2009, 07:43 PM   #147
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Here are three films I thought were really good and dramatic

"Empire of the Sun"

"Hotel Rwanda"

"The Killing Fields"
 
Old 05-01-2009, 02:56 PM   #148
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Have a few more to add:

He was a quiet man (do watch this one, it's very good)
Leon: The Professional
Conspiracy Theory
Falling Down (did I suggest this one earlier, again very good)
Taken
Shooter
 
Old 05-01-2009, 04:18 PM   #149
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Leon: The Professional
One of my top twenty favorite films.

Even at such a young age Natalie Portman was a talented actress. Gary Oldman's character was psycho -- he did a great job with that role.
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Old 05-01-2009, 09:04 PM   #150
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