It has been awhile since we discussed any movies! Here are two I wrote about today in my weblog (I love copy/paste!):
Good Night and Good Luck.
Tuesday night I saw Good Night and Good Luck. at the Palace Theatre in the Eastwood Neighborhood of Syracuse, in what would be the first of a two-night tour of old-school Syracusan theaters. The Palace reopened this year after a half-million dollar renovation. It's a pretty cool place... It even has a café. About 25 people were there. I estimated that the theater holds about 600.
Anyways, the movie was pretty good. McCarthyism is a pretty relevant topic again today. With Bush authorizing wire tapping and people randomly being labeled as terrorists simply because they look Islamic. It is quite ridiculous that Senator McCarthy got away with what he did for several years. A great moment in the movie was the rebuttal segment, where his arguments started falling apart.
The whole fifties flair was great too, including the TV cigarette ads, and somebody lighting a cigarette virtually every five seconds.
The Squid and the Whale
Tonight I went to go see The Squid and the Whale at the Westcott Cinema, in Syracuse's Westcott neighborhood, right around the corner from where I live. While the Westcott Cinema could desperately use some of the renovation the Palace Theatre in Eastwood has gotten, it isn't in too bad of a shape. I definetly want to see more movies there in the future, seeing that it's right around the corner and it generally plays good movies. A couple of weeks ago it screened Wal-Mart:_The High Cost of Low Price, which I unfortunately missed.
Anyway, I liked The Squid and the Whale. It had that kind-of "real feel" to it, probably aided by the use of 16mm cameras, and the movie is kind of a tragicomedy, a genre I like very much.
The movie has a ton of anachronisms, some of which I noticed while watching the movie. The film was supposed to be set in 1986. Two of the ones I noticed were the U.S. flag on subway cars (didn't appear until after 9/11), and a Purell hand disinfectant dispenser (didn't appear until a few years ago). Unlike some people, anachronisms don't usually anger me, with the exception of that really stupid one involving a video camera in The War of the Worlds, which I mentioned in my hate-rant about that movie this past summer.
Hey Mr. Ebert...seen any good movies recently. I personally am looking forward to seeing The Da Vinci Code, but other than that all the movies look like crap. What is your take on the subject?
I want to see Thank You for Not Smoking. Otherwise there's not much out there that interests me right now. 
I thought Inside Man was pretty good....
I heard Thank you for Not Smoking was pretty lame.
The trailer looked funny... Actually it's called Thank You for Smoking, but I suck at late-night posting.
...And for the record, I have no interest in seeing The Da Vinci Code.
Anything Dan Brown writes is white trash literature, hence the movie will just be an extension of that.. I don't want to see the movie either.
just to let you all know.... "cars" is a FANTASTIC movie!! it is highly recommended 
and the da vinci code was good, too. (just so you know)
Hahaha wow Thorsten. I didn't know you read white trash literature! The Da Vinci Code was definitely not the finest of literature, if you even want to call it literature, but I still liked it as an easy summer read. Kinda like reading a Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys for big kids. Oh and the movie wasn't bad but they changed the ending. meh. I want to see Over the Hedge!
I just saw Over the Hedge by Dreamworks and it was just so cute and funny!