My "Angry Leftist" movie weekend.....

[marmar]

Just because I feel like being P.O.-ed this weekend, in the wake of the Repugnantcans' continued blocking of an end to this tragedy, it's all celluloid leftism for me this weekend, starting Friday night. I'll invite some tree-hugging friends over, and perhaps bake some cookies in the shape of Bush administration officials so we can bite the heads off.
:)
Anyway, these DVDs are stacked up next to the TV and ready to go:

Children of Men
The Corporation
Fahrenheit 9/11
V for Vendetta
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties

Any other suggestions? :shrug:

[evlbstrd]

1. Idiocracy.

By Mike Judge.

[gatorboy]

2. If you can find it: Bob Roberts

[marmar]

3. Is that the one with TIm Robbins? I've never seen it....

n/t

[gatorboy]

6. The one and the same. Very good film.

Idiocracy is also good. It's directed by Mike Judge and it's pretty freakin' funny.

[Yavin4]

11. "Bob Roberts" Contains The Screen Debut for Jack Black

n/t

[Atman]

4. I've got Children of Men sitting on the table still.

Haven't watched it yet...saving it for the weekend. But definitely get Idiocracy to balance out that list. It stays within your overall theme, but will provide some much needed laughs. Before you start crying.

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[marmar]

5. I will. Is it fictional, or a documentary?

n/t

[Atman]

14. Yes

Okay, it's actually hard to describe, but it definitely is not a documentary. It's a dystopian fantasy set five hundred years in the future, wherein corporate culture has so dumbed down society that they're watering their crops with Gatorade and Starbuck's sells handjobs along with your latte. Through an absolutely hysterical turn of events involving a massive pile of garbage (they've grown so dumb they don't know what to do with their trash anymore, so they just keep piling it up up up), the people discover "the most average man alive," a corporal who'd been frozen in a military experiment 500 years earlier. Now this relatively simple corporal finds himself the smartest man in the world, and they call upon him to solve their pressing environmental problems.

Fox ran it before focus groups and decided not to wide release it because no one "got it." It's one of those movies that you just don't how to react to...you feel like maybe you should feel guilty for enjoying it because that means you're like the people in the movie...except you can't possibly be like the people in the movie because they'd be too dumb to figure out they're being ridiculed. It's a bit uneven in places, but more laugh-out-loud moments than you can imagine. Awesome movie...in a scary sort of way.

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[marmar]

15. Hand jobs with lattes?

I'm laughing and I haven't even seen it yet. :spray:

[Atman]

17. Yeah...maybe that's not exactly dystopian.

Sounds kind UTOPIAN to me. "Extra foam, please." Mmmm. That's make a Starbuck's latte almost worth five bills!

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[blogslut]

7. Brazil

:)

[Beelzebud]

18. I second that one.

Get the Criterion Edition and listen to the Director's Commentary. Terry Gilliam is a genius.

[Atman]

22. I third it.

That's one of those "must own" dvds.

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[blogslut]

23. Yes he is

That film still blows me away.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. On Sundance, "The Road to Guantanamo"

I don't know if it's playing this weekend, but well worth seeing.

[lies and propaganda]

9. Can i come over?

sounds delightful!

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. "The Handmaid's Tale"

I've never seen the movie version, but I know the book is very much what the right wing Talibangelicals want for this country.

[Gruenemann]

12. Syriana and The Constant Gardener n/t

[Cerridwen]

13. Blood pressure medicine, a punching bag and sound proof walls

would be some things I'd add to your list. I'd also remove all easily breakable things from your video watching room. Boxing gloves might save your walls.

:rofl:

That's some heavy stuff you're going to be "consuming."

The sound proof walls are for your neighbors when you and your friends start ranting and raving.

Has anyone suggested "Who Killed the Electric Car" to add for your viewing, er, pleasure?

I've seen all but the last two. I have to take my outrage in smaller doses. I don't own boxing gloves any more and I have too many chatzkies around if I decide to start slinging things. Have fun.

:evilgrin:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. The Hunting of the President

Same content as the book, but with the main points of the conspiracy emphasized

That documentary about how the 2000 election was stolen in Florida. I forget what it's called.

The Bank--an Australian story (fiction, unfortunately) about an international bank where the executives are, as one employee puts it, "bastards without borders," and what happens when they hire a programming genius who is able to predict market trends.

[Beelzebud]

19. Videodrome

It's a nice little David Chronenberg movie about how great the TV is for mind control.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/

[blogslut]

24. oooh

I forget about that one. I need to rent that sometime. That was a hell of a flick

[Beelzebud]

25. Yeah it's a classic.

Just like Brazil, get the Criterion Edition. The Director's Commentary for Videodrome is just as enlightening as the one for Brazil.

[KillCapitalism]

20. Get Roger & Me

It's Michael Moore's first big documentary that is about GM destroying Moore's hometown of Flint, MI through outsourcing.

[Individualist]

21. Network