Film Club

[jacey.ATX]

Originally Posted by the1thepwnly

Isnt the incentive of watching the movies (besides to watch the movie) to be able to pick the next movie. I know in the first couple of posts was that in order to be chosen you had to not chosen (until people are limited) and you needed to comment on the last movie. I do think this is a good idea to streamline the deadline but I think you should still have to watch and comment on the last movie.

That is an excellent point.

[Station]

I would think mist people would have a movie in mind regardless of weather or nit they think they will be picked. I know as soon as I heard about film club I thought "I'm gonna have to think of a kick ass movie" I've already got like 4 options. I don't think picking a movie in such a short time period will be a problem.

[jacey.ATX]

I loved The Fall.


Spoliers below!!

It was visually stunning, the young female lead was incredibly charming, and Lee Pace was convincing as a broken man on a mission. His performance in the penultimate scene that brought the two worlds together felt so genuine. I could feel him struggle between death and life, if only to live for this little girl. And I think often, when people's lives have fallen apart and they are at the depths of despair, it's usually only one or two other people they have to live for... and often, children. This, to me, was the height of the movie. And my only complaint is that everything that came after it felt sort of tagged on. So the little girl goes back to the orange groves? She never sees him again? I thought he promised to live so that he could be a father figure to her? And he was paralyzed, so that wasn't him in all the movie clips at the end. Did he really kill himself after all? I dunno, Film Club, am I missing something?

[xiques_brown]

Just joined the film club a couple of days ago and I am just amazed. This is the greatest thread on katg.......NO!! The greatest thread on the internet.


viva la film club

[the1thepwnly]

Originally Posted by Station

I would think mist people would have a movie in mind regardless of weather or nit they think they will be picked. I know as soon as I heard about film club I thought "I'm gonna have to think of a kick ass movie" I've already got like 4 options. I don't think picking a movie in such a short time period will be a problem.

Agreed. It's not about picking the movie (which I also have a couple picked out) but about picking the person and having them respond quickly. That's 2 people we would have to wait on, one not even knowing everyone is waiting for them

[DudeEMETIB]

Just wanted to say, KATG Film Club is awesome.

[Station]

Just watched The Yes Men Fix the World:

Spoiler Alert!!!

Elite rich Americans are fucking assholes. I'd hate to see film club turned into a political thread, but anyone who thinks that free market capitalism is great and we should all live in an Ayn Rand wet dream can suck all the fucking dicks. When it comes down to it, if you feed money to the rich, they just use it to make themselves more powerful, which is evident in the film. I was amazed that the companies that were very publicly humiliated didn't own up and do the right thing after wards, but instead just carried on without really a thought. I was also amazed at how easy it is to dupe these people. You'd think the BBC would catch on at some point before they let that happen. I always respected the BBC as a very straightforward and trusted news source. Check your sources much? I guess when money is involved though, they'll fall for just about anything.

[hellbent]

Originally Posted by jacey.ATX

I loved The Fall.


Spoliers below!!

It was visually stunning, the young female lead was incredibly charming, and Lee Pace was convincing as a broken man on a mission.

Talking with bitemdude, he was sad cuz he thought the guy dies at the end.... I imagine that they eventually lose contact and forever more she associated stunts with him.

On an interesting side note, read about how she got the role. Love that that guy went on to do a tv show I liked, pushing daisies.

[DudeEMETIB]

Awesome choice Naberdy, just finished watching the film and it was excellent.

It was kind of depressing though actually, I felt like it just kept constantly reminding me how the shitty our world can be, I agree with Station, this popular notion that a free market will regulate itself and fix society's problems, and that leaving everything to capitalist principles will lead to a more prosperous future for everyone is completely ridiculous. By nature it continually favors a smaller and smaller group of people eventually alienating two groups the elite powerful business owners and the poor/working class (everyone else).

If only we lived in a sort of world the Yes Men like to make up in their hoaxes.

Anyway, fun to watch, I liked it, and I'll probably try to get some of my friends to watch it.

Film Club ROCKS.

[missmilf25]

'the yes men fix the world' was really good. i literally laughed out loud a couple of times. and in contrast to that, i swear i also felt every ounce of their anxiety before each "statement" that they made to these companies, especially the katrina one. i felt myself tearing up a couple of times, too. but i agree with dude that it was kind of depressing to be so blatantly reminded that we live in a world where really shitty things are constantly happening around us, yet we are seemingly powerless to really make an impact on any of it, and we're just supposed to hope that the free market wil be our saving grace.