Posted on 12/05/2004 12:43:12 PM PST by eleni121
Another great film for the whole family. It deals with the search for freedom, a child escaping from the Communist bloc. BUT, it's not being released throughout the nation...just 14 states last I checked.
Saw it Friday night. Had lots of people from the cast of The Passion. Jim as a adult friend of the main character while he was in the prison camp, the guy that played Pontius, and the guy that played Peter in The Passion.
No great special effects, just a great adventure movie that IS, accept for a non-graphic shooting scene, suitable for children. A very eye opening snap shot at life in a prison camp....and the beauty of people and places outside of a prision camp.
I highly recommend it.
Thanks for your review. You are fortunate that it showed in your area.
If we boycott entertainers who abuse their access to the media to spout political diatribes, we are administering "a chill wind", yet when they orchestrate a smear campaign of conservative political commentators, they are proud of it.
It is leftist McCarthyism is what it is. Yet Senator McCarthy was RIGHT about there being communists working for the Soviets in our government and Hollywood. Zogby fudged his numbers and was wrong about Kerry winning the election. Rather was wrong about his critics and defended hoaxed documents...
Bush wins. Traitors lose.
The War On Error, to stamp out media lies, still has a way to go.
I thought that one film that showed the horrors of communism was "The Killing Fields".
I was thinging more along the lines of employing the same tactics that are used against our side. Our side needs to get meaner - frankly, from what I have seen in my 20 years as a GOPer, we don't have what it takes to get that mean.
Put me in charge of the counteroffensive, though - I'll end some careers and enjoy a nice cigar afterwards.
Actually, I'd put some people in wheelchairs, but that's just my hot-headed Sonny Corleone Sicilian side talking! :-)
"I just heard Laura Ingraham RAVING about this wonderful movie."
I liked Caveziel's little story about how the actor that he worked with in "I Am David"
also ended up as Pontius Pilate in "The Passion"...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794885/
"the guy that played Pontius, and the guy that played Peter in The Passion. "
Wow, you're right. I heard Caveziel mention the "Pontius" character, but maybe
I didn't hear about the Peter character (or he didn't mention him):
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1357161/
That is definitely another one.
So is "Eleni", the film that depicts Communists during the civil war in Greece in the 40s from the book written by the victim's son, Nicholas Gage.
Matt Damon is a leftie too, but he's an excellent actor, not afraid to do "small" quality movies. The others in Oceans are just pretty faces. And getting less pretty every day. Brad Pitt has had so much "work" to keep that baby face that he'll never be able to tackle grown-up roles convincingly. ButI think Damon will age appropriately and be around for decades. His pal Affleck, the prettier boy in Good Will Hunting, has already past his peak.
"Both films are getting terrible reviews across the board (for "David" there are some
positive reviews, for "Kranks" almost none)"
Maybe the "Kranks" isn't high art.
But if anything convinced me that I'll at least buy the DVD, it was the "stinger" to
Ebert and Roeper's review, available on-line at this URL:
http://tvplex.go.com/buenavista/ebertandroeper/today.html
Listen to the review from about 2:38 to end (2:50).
I wonder if Ebert (with ANY review partner) has ever complained about the
lack of mention of Jesus in a "Christmas" film before "Kranks".
"The Killing Fields"
Definitley a great film.
I was dragged to it by my younger cousin and his buddy on a Friday night,
during our collegiate days.
They thought they were going to see some sort of "action" film; I had heard of the
movie (and the history) and knew differently. But I kept silent.
I know this is a little cruel, but seeing the look of actual shocked horror on their
faces, especially at the swamp full of skulls/bones was...
PRICELESS.
Another example of the book being more reflective of real events than the film, although IIRC the film did all right in depicting the savage sickness of the Commies...and that they were in Greece.
I saw "Bobby Jones" and really enjoyed it. There were very few in the theatre, sad to say.
Not from what I've read about him. Something about, he wants to do pornography or nudity, or something like that. He's as pervy as the rest of them. Let me google it. Yep, I was right.
"Matt Damon has confessed he wants to star in a porn movie. The heartthrob actor said: "What I want to do is make a character-driven porn movie. It's all going to be about the character and the porn's going to grow out of the characters."
"Damon, 33, believes X-rated films and action movies are predictable and badly written and wants to break the trend by creating an adult movie in which the narrative is as important as the graphic sex scenes."
Unless I missed something, this is the only reference to the slaughter of tens of millions. History textbooks used in the USA for years described Stalin: industrialized Russia. Students should be reading "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" to find out what Stalin was really about.
Caviezel and Gibson are my Hollywood Heroes!
Of course. The Times, our govt., Hollywood, most of the world saw nothing inherently evil in Stalin, a savage.
They still don't. I am waiting for the Russians, the Georgians, or other former Soviet states to depict the truth because it will never come from Hollywood, which has its own Stalinist skeletons.
Remember how Hollywood elites treated Elia Kazan who had the temerity to name names! (sarcasm)
I guess he just looks like the All American Kid not the slime ball he is turning out to be...
"Caviezel and Gibson are my Hollywood Heroes!"
There are others, but certainly Gibson more than anyone besides the Prez has made H'wood uncomfortable.
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