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Best 5 Movies of the 00s?

Posted on 12/10/2009 7:56:02 AM PST by MNDude

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To: Lakeshark

All fiction is made up.


181 posted on 12/11/2009 6:10:57 AM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

Yes, but bad fiction is always bad. Those were particularly so.


182 posted on 12/11/2009 6:12:09 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark

Not all fiction is cookie-cutter from one event clearly to the next. The two films in question were Modernist and open ended. There’s nothing wrong with that.


183 posted on 12/11/2009 6:14:00 AM PST by Borges
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To: MNDude

1. Lord of The Rings 3
2. 300
3. Flags of Our Fathers
4. Letters From Iwo Jima
5. Walk The Line

If “Band of Brothers” counts it would be no. 1


184 posted on 12/11/2009 6:20:42 AM PST by NoDRodee (U>S>M>C)
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To: Borges
Modernist? You mean defeatist. Open ended? You mean revolting.

Wonderful attitudes to display don't you think? Personally I'll laud edgy and films from time to time, these two were just gross.

185 posted on 12/11/2009 6:25:34 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Borges
Modernist? You mean defeatist. Open ended? You mean revolting.

Wonderful attitudes to display don't you think? Personally I'll laud edgy and films from time to time, these two were just gross.

186 posted on 12/11/2009 6:26:52 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark

Burp.


187 posted on 12/11/2009 6:27:21 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark

NCFOM was a pretty faithful adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel. He’s not known for his boundless optimism and cheer. ‘Blood Meridian’ has been called the most violent novel in American literary history. (That film is coming soon.) I found TWBB pretty hypnotic. It was filled with great sequences.


188 posted on 12/11/2009 6:34:17 AM PST by Borges
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?


189 posted on 12/11/2009 6:38:51 AM PST by holidayidol
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To: Borges

Each to his own. It’s not hard to find examples of human depravity, I don’t need to watch a Hollywood director ratchet up their version of what’s horrid to understand depravity exists.


190 posted on 12/11/2009 6:42:19 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark

NCFOM didn’t even have all that much onscreen violence. It was probably less violent than the novel.


191 posted on 12/11/2009 7:22:59 AM PST by Borges
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To: MNDude

Passion of Christ
Inglorious Bastards
Taken


192 posted on 12/11/2009 7:59:06 AM PST by Eaker (Kaiden sez, "If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.")
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To: P8riot
IMHO, that’s a pretty violent movie for a 12yr old.

12 year old boys are a different breed today when it comes to media exposure. When it comes to a movie like Apocalypto, he watches with me, and honestly, I'd rather he see a film with some historical content rather than mindless fictitious violence.

My dad took see to see Patton when I was seven in 1970. Same idea.

193 posted on 12/11/2009 8:43:35 AM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Lakeshark

There will be blood, a movie about a complete a hole of a murdering, no-personal ties, sociopath, with homicidal tendencies. A true picture of the barons of business, made to tee off the public about the eeeeeeeeeevil of oil. A true propaganda piece.


194 posted on 12/11/2009 9:19:46 AM PST by runninglips (Lame-stream media, ignoring the stories that are too important to cover)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

My husband cried at the end of “United 93;” the only movie he’s ever cried during—and I’ve known him for 26 years.


195 posted on 12/11/2009 1:45:35 PM PST by olivia3boys
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I sat frozen to my seat for about 10 minutes, speechless. Then I got up, went into my home office and cried.

I’ve never had anything close to that reaction to any film in my life. I’m getting chills just thinking about it.


196 posted on 12/11/2009 1:54:20 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: MNDude

CASINO ROYALE!!


197 posted on 12/13/2009 6:46:25 PM PST by Armedanddangerous (I think youre so full of inconsolable rage you don't care who you hurt)
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To: olivia3boys

thats because real Americans will never forget what the moslems did to us nor will they forgive.


198 posted on 12/14/2009 8:20:32 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (I think youre so full of inconsolable rage you don't care who you hurt)
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