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September 03, 2005
Movie Reviews from a Netflix Queue
I've spent most of my time in the last few days at work or watching CNN. When I get fed up watching the criminal negligence of the American government, I've turned to dvd's courtesy of mi chavo's Netflix account. Here are some thoughts on those films.
"The Fog of War a documentary conversation with Robert McNamara by Errol Morris
McNamara is a fascinating man. He was the youngest Harvard prof before being recruiting to be a pencil neck war criminal during World War II. He figured out the way to maximize civilian casualties via fire bombing of Japanese cities. Then he went into the corporate world and worked his way to the presidency of the Ford Motor Company. Five weeks into that post, he was selected to be Secretary of Defense by Kennedy. As SecDef under Kennedy and Johnson, he led the escalation of US involvement in Vietnam. According to McNamara, his desire to get the US troops out of Vietnam led to Johnson firing him and giving him the presidency of the World Bank.
It is a haunting film - well worth watching. To me, it is an important resource for history.
"Dear Frankie"
Mi chavo recommended this film, which he saw recently in South America. I forgot that I've seen a lot of previews for it on teevee, along with reviews on Ebert & Roepert (they did a second recap to remind people to catch it on dvd if they had missed it on the big screen). It's a great little film, that would've been even better if I hadn't seen those damn t.v. commercials. I am so damn sick of every plot point being spelled out it commercials! For goodness sake, I saw a scene from the end of the movie! What's up? Do the ad men really think we Americans are too dumb to see a movie we haven't seen in miniature? Can they think of no other way to advertise a movie besides giving it all away?
Plus, I watched it today in the midst of my obsessive CNN watching, so I wasn't completely emotionally attached to the film. But I was grateful for the break.
Entre Las Piernas (aka Between Your Legs)
This sexual thriller was amazing and disturbing. Nothing wrong with watching Javier Bardem have sex. Nothing at all. But thank goodness mi chavo called when it was over, because it's the kind of movie I don't like watching alone. I'm not going to say more - just watch it.
Posted by cj at September 3, 2005 08:27 PM