Movies with a message

[inuvik]

I've noticed a great new trend in two new movies I just saw, The Constant Gardener and Lord of War. These movies are gently digging at the collusion between government and private business. They both deal with morals and ethics. They don't end happily either, and the fundamental problems confronted in them are not resoved at all.

I think moviemakers are beginning to realize that stories that examine our fundamental beliefs (capitalism, free enterprise, etc.) are a welcome change from summer popcorn fluff. I think any medium that can cause people to think about our world is a good thing. There are books about this, but movies likely reach more people.

I hope that "radical" movies like this continue!

[doobrah]

Part of it, too, is that Hollywood saves it's best movies for the fall and Christmas, figuring they are fresh in the minds of the Oscar voters.

Memorial Day to Labor Day is the "popcorn movie" period -- big blockbuster on Memorial Day/first week of June and big disaster flick on July 4th. They also save their mediocre & schlocky movies for the summer.

So it's kind of promising that the studio is releasing "Freedomland" in NY & LA in time to get it in contention for the Oscars.

[carl1951]

Hearing "blond" instead of "blind" does not only happen when watching an episode of Blind Justice.

Lucy was watching a movie with Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino, "A Second Sight", or something like that.

There is a line between Mira and her ex: She says she's met a guy who is sensitive, caring, considerate, and blind. Her ex says: "He's Blond?.. so? Mira says, no, he's blind.


(Hey, blond dude)

Later, Carl

[mlm828]

Time for some comic relief. I just received news of the following new movies scheduled for release this year: