Interesting Discussion about Movies on LitNet

Happening at this thread.
I am keeping out of it because it’s clear everyone knows more about movies than I do, or at least have seen more.
Besides, I liked Gladiator, Lord of the Rings, Million Dollar Baby, and A Beautiful Mind. At least, I did when I originally saw them. Maybe some of the participants [...]

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Film)

Harry Potter returns in the sixth film of the series and this time he has discovered the ancient magic called teenage hormones. The film sets its mood and main topics right from the start with a scene that features three wizard terrorists known as Deatheaters blurring across the screen in order to abduct an innocent [...]

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Call me Roger Ebert?

A discussion over at LitNet that originally started with an inquiry into whether Tolkien’s books compared favorably to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films has transformed into a debate about movies in general with all the usual suspects spouting the usual nonsense and hackneyed platitudes to the point where I was beginning to [...]

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Jacob’s Ladder….

I watched Jacob’s Ladder tonight.
This horror movie starring Tim Robbins freaking rocked my socks off. It is everything a frame story should be, where you don’t know where the frames begin and end, blurring reality with delusions and shattering any semblance of linear time. It is also fairly deep and poignant, with allusions to [...]

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Thoughts on Battlestar Galactica…

Many have been comparing this season and past seasons of Battlestar Galactica to our current political situation. This is reposting of my response during a discussion at Wotmania
This is not the first time I’ve seen this argument. I think the mistake people keep making is confusing “applicable” with “allegorical.” They are making a commentary [...]

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