What is the last movie you saw? and rate it.

Project X: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636826/

After starting the movie I realized that I saw it before especially when the parents interact with the teenagers planning the mother of all parties at the beginning.

You would think that watching people get drunk and jump off the house into the pool in the backyard would be boring, but there is enough story going on to keep one's interest. One amazing scene is when the teenagers get word from their kung-fu security guards that the police are coming. The entire party moves to the back yard and is silent. It's incredible. By the time the police come the second time, it's too late. They are now celebrities.

Any movie that I would enjoy a second time deserves a score of 10/10.

La stanza del figlio (2001). It’s an Italian move by a director called Nanni Moretti. When I first got it I wasn't sure if I would like it, but once I started watching it, I found it to be absolutely amazing.

The ending was simply wonderful. If you can find it I highly recommend that you watch it.

And of course I give it a rating of 10/10. Here is the IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208990/

Her (2013) with Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Rooney Mara. Actually I am still watching it right now, and for some reason it reminded me of this forum, and well I guess here I am. And it's really good so far, though it's making me a bit uncomfortable in some inexplicable way (probably because it hits a wee bit too close to home) because a lot of my correspondence is online now, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

This story of a young female concert pianist who inexplicably tries to commit suicide and then refuses to communicate with anyone stars James Mason at his silky best as the Svengali like guardian of his protege Anne Todd. Although he mistreats her badly, she has affairs with a young fellow student at the Royal Academy of Music and also with the society painter who is hired to paint her portrait. It is the psychiatrist, brilliantly acted by the charismatic Herbert Lom, who dedicates himself to uncovering the reason for her attempted suicide and refusal to speak. The reason is finally revealed as suppressed feelings for one of the three men in her life: no prizes for guessing who but that's women for you. The music is Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto and Beethoven's Pathetique sonata so it's romance writ large but, despite that, the performances more than compensate for the scenario. 7/10


http://youtu.be/uu1PHOZ9LGM

The trailer was pretty good on the Seventh Veil.

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The trailer was pretty good on the Seventh Veil.

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You can watch the whole film on YouTube if you are interested.

I'm not very big of movie-watching, let alone contemporary cinematography. I tend to avoid anything that's made nowadays in movies and books if they're fiction. Now, documentaries and non-fiction books are another story. They might have useful data.

Dead-end Drive In (1986)

Possibly one of the best films I've ever watched. Top-notch to me yet the Scottish girl (she actually speaks gaidhlig: Scotland's REAL language) who watched with me said she saw nothing in it. Quite uninteresting, according to her.

Mile, Mile And A Half

Best film I've watched in a long, long time.

Although it is not really a movie, and it's not really a documentary either. It's just sort of a story.

It's the story of a group of friends hiking the John Muir Trail, which runs approximately 200 miles from Yosemite to Mount Whitney. One of them does still photography, one does motion pictures, one does panoramic photos, one does sound. Along the way, one guy drops out, but several others join in. The scenery is gorgeous, but the story really becomes more about life on the trail, the people they meet, the experiences they have, the stories everybody shares.

I think avid hikers as well as folks who never leave the city would enjoy the film.

I Netflixed it

Not exactly a movie but an interesting little item from Youtube.

Fascinating to see Dick Cheney's 1994 view of what an attack on Iraq would do.

http://youtu.be/TC3tINgWfQE


9/10

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Not exactly a movie but an interesting little item from Youtube.

Fascinating to see Dick Cheney's 1994 view of what an attack on Iraq would do.

http://youtu.be/TC3tINgWfQE


9/10

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Enjoyable documentary, if that is what one calls these things. It confirmed my worst suspicions.

From a human nature perspective, there is that cute brunette in a white dress around 30 seconds in saying, "Airstrikes. Bomb them, bombing them again and again" (if I got the quote right).

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Enjoyable documentary, if that is what one calls these things. It confirmed my worst suspicions.

From a human nature perspective, there is that cute brunette in a white dress around 30 seconds in saying, "Airstrikes. Bomb them, bombing them again and again" (if I got the quote right).

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Having an interest in geo-politics, the events as described in this 'conspiracy theory' pretty much match the conclusion that I have come to. Having been forced off the 'Gold standard' under President Nixon, the cards are now beginning to stack up against the 'Oil standard' and, facing economic Armageddon, one wonders what the US will do in the event of a dollar collapse.

I figure we're headed for a deflation, but I know jack about economics. I also found that Seventh Veil movie on YouTube, but I haven't had time to watch it.

Anatole Litvak's screen version of Terence Rattigan's famous play was unfortunately filmed in Eastman colour when both the subject matter and settings would have been better in black and white. This resulted in very muddy colours and poor definition but Vivien Leigh and Kenneth More are good as the wife of a High Court judge, sympathetically played by Emlyn Williams, who leaves him for a former fighter pilot whose free-wheeling and hard drinking lifestyle is the opposite of the stolid sobriety of the judge. This is a recipe for disaster, for the failure of her efforts to reform her lover eventually leads to attempted suicide. Her situation is redeemed by Eric Portman's wisely pragmatic ex-doctor who has been struck off the register for some unexplained medical misdemeanor and the film ends intriguingly with the departure but possible return of the Kenneth More character.

7/10

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Not exactly a movie but an interesting little item from Youtube.

Fascinating to see Dick Cheney's 1994 view of what an attack on Iraq would do.

http://youtu.be/TC3tINgWfQE


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Ha! Well there's 22 minutes I'll never get back. And I feel stupider for having sat through the whole thing. I wouldn't exactly call that YouTube video a "documentary". In my opinion it didn't rise to that level. I don't even think it rose to the level of a compelling "conspiracy theory." In fact most 3rd grade science projects have more academic rigor than did that film.

What I'd call that piece is - commie propaganda. The film maker has a fundamental problem with inductive reasoning and evidently a profound misunderstanding of global markets, the Fed's monetary policy - and of currency in general. The dollar didn't go from a "gold-backed currency to an oil-backed currency" - the dollar went from a currency in specie (gold) to a fiat currency (backed by the full faith of U.S. government). The U.S. dollar is the dominant international reserve currency precisely because of its stability and liquidity. Markets decide what currency they'd prefer to do business with, and right now it's primarily the dollar.

One day that will change, probably gradually as happened in the middle of the last century when the preferred international reserve currency went from the pound sterling to the dollar, but certain events could drive a change quite rapidly - the Fed losing its sh*t and starting to print money willy-nilly, or the U.S. government defaulting on its debt. Neither is likely, in the near future anyway.

So what about changing the dollar back to the gold standard? I'm no monetary-policy expert either, but when the vast majority of serious economists consider that crazy talk, I'll throw in with them rather than the You-tube experts. Intuitively it seems to me that a currency backed by jewelry is a bad idea.

Hey, here's one I Netflixed:

The Unknown Known

It's about the political life Donald Rumsfeld, essentially a no-holds-barred interview by Errol Morris where he tries to hold the former Secretary of Defense accountable for the missteps and mistakes during the George W. Bush administration. It's a fascinating look into the way his mind works. He doesn't dodge any questions except the last one. Morris asks, "One last question - why'd you agree to this interview?" Rumsfeld smiles and replies, "I have no idea."

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Ha! Well there's 22 minutes I'll never get back. And I feel stupider for having sat through the whole thing. I wouldn't exactly call that YouTube video a "documentary". In my opinion it didn't rise to that level. I don't even think it rose to the level of a compelling "conspiracy theory." In fact most 3rd grade science projects have more academic rigor than did that film.

What I'd call that piece is - commie propaganda. The film maker has a fundamental problem with inductive reasoning and evidently a profound misunderstanding of global markets, the Fed's monetary policy - and of currency in general. The dollar didn't go from a "gold-backed currency to an oil-backed currency" - the dollar went from a currency in specie (gold) to a fiat currency (backed by the full faith of U.S. government). The U.S. dollar is the dominant international reserve currency precisely because of its stability and liquidity. Markets decide what currency they'd prefer to do business with, and right now it's primarily the dollar.

One day that will change, probably gradually as happened in the middle of the last century when the preferred international reserve currency went from the pound sterling to the dollar, but certain events could drive a change quite rapidly - the Fed losing its sh*t and starting to print money willy-nilly, or the U.S. government defaulting on its debt. Neither is likely, in the near future anyway.

So what about changing the dollar back to the gold standard? I'm no monetary-policy expert either, but when the vast majority of serious economists consider that crazy talk, I'll throw in with them rather than the You-tube experts. Intuitively it seems to me that a currency backed by jewelry is a bad idea.

Hey, here's one I Netflixed:

The Unknown Known

It's about the political life Donald Rumsfeld, essentially a no-holds-barred interview by Errol Morris where he tries to hold the former Secretary of Defense accountable for the missteps and mistakes during the George W. Bush administration. It's a fascinating look into the way his mind works. He doesn't dodge any questions except the last one. Morris asks, "One last question - why'd you agree to this interview?" Rumsfeld smiles and replies, "I have no idea."

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Well You tube is admttedly often highly suspect in its political/economic videos but even before watching this one I, like many others, had been asking why the US and its allies were so intent on getting rid of Saddam Hussein, Muahmar Gadaffi and Bashar al-Assad and turning the Middle East into hornets nest in the process. There has to be a reason and Donald's 'Stuff Happens' doesn't quite cut it.