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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 06:26 PM
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I just watched the best movie I've seen so far this year.
"The Hunting Of The President."
Documentary about the right-wingers and Bill Clinton.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 06:37 PM
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1. I've been wanting to see that. Is is out on DVD?
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 06:38 PM
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2. Yes it is, I've got a copy sitting on my movie shelf :) n/t
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 09:43 PM
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4. I watched our library's copy on DVD.
Alec Guiness' line from "A New Hope" sums up beautifully the right-wingers, especially Starr and the "Elves."

"You will not find a more wretched hive of scum, and villainy."
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 06:55 PM
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3. Great, I need to see a good movie and not this action crap
I read the book and enjoyed it so a documentary sounds terrific.

I've been avoiding movies for years once this obsession with something blowing up in every quadrant of the screeen for two hours took over. No chance I'm shelling out cash for that talentless mush. But last week I was on an Alaskan cruise so I decided to watch the "free" recent movies every night. Pure rubbish. Even worse than I dared imagine. There might have been one decent clever verbal exchange among all of them. Actually one exception. Something with James Garner reading a book while trying to get his wife to snap out of old age dementia and remember their lives together. That was good, the only movie that didn't depend on smashups or speed or a simpleton plot so it won by forfeit.
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 09:46 PM
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5. you should go see crash....
some dude from canada sez:

a realistic, gritty, no-nonsense look at the way life is for so many...

After seeing this movie, I was able to really understand what "Six Degrees of Separation" means. There is a thread that weaves its way through the landscape of life connecting, influencing, and defining all. This movie is certainly thought-provoking, one cannot watch it without feeling either privileged to have become part of the fabric, or like a fly on the wall - seeing, yet unable to influence or guide. There is almost a sense of frustration at ones inability to be no more than an observer in this movie since it compels you to want to shout in warning, gasp in shock, cry in sorrow, and hold in comfort. "Crash" is definitely not a movie to use as a venue to escape life for a couple of hours, but it is a movie that certainly makes you take a second and third look at who you are within yourself. The actors are surprising not only for their depth of performance, but also because they do not play characters you think you know. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes drama, action, comedic relief, or just an appreciation for a well-thought out movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 09:55 PM
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6. Thanks, sounds intriguing
I don't mind action as long as it's not the primary focus of the movie, talkie scenes annoying transitional excuses toward the next pileup or group massacre.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 10:25 PM
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8. hey I saw that last night
about as good storytelling and acting as it gets. I was impressed too by the diversity of the audience.
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elfrangel Donating Member (661 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 10:18 PM
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7. Love that movie!!!
You're talking about "The Notebook". Such a great movie. Blubbered like a baby at the end....
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 10:39 PM
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10. Yes, thank you for the title!
I wanted to recommend it to my sister but couldn't remember the name. The Notebook.

I figured it out early but that didn't detract from the movie at all. At the very beginning I was worried it might be another nonsense action flick when they had the stunt atop the ferris wheel, then I was pleasantly surprised and transfixed one scene after another.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-05 10:30 PM
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9. Loved that Claudia in THOTP
I forget the lady's surname (she was the widow of some Arkansas stalwart) who weighs in on the whole Whitewater matter and especially the way Susan McDougal was treated. I may have forgotten her married name, but I don't forget her forthrightness.
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