I'm desperately behind on my movie watching, and I'd surely like to incorporate a few more movie reviews on the site. However, browsing through a Movie Gallery this past weekend, I realized there is hardly anything I want to see.
The new Bourne film. I'd like to see that. And, I plan to. But it will be there for a long while. It's one of those I could watch in three years, on a night when nothing else was available.
I enjoyed Mr. Woodcock this past weekend, particularly the performance of Billy Bob Thornton. It was no Bad Santa, but it was mildly subversive and generally humorous.
However, if it were totally up to me, these would be the next three movies I see:
1. Last King of Scotland -- Forest Whitaker plays Idi Amin, and he won an Oscar for his portrayal of the Ugandan dictator. The film looks exciting, and it has kind of a City of God, Midnight Express vibe about it.
2. American Gangster -- I'm not so much a Denzel Washington fan as I am a Russell Crowe fan. Among mainstream, ubiquitous actors, he's pretty much the best. He's what I would have liked Tom Hanks to be. Crowe picks great roles, can play the everyman, yet I can't think of many instances in which it felt like Crowe was portraying himself.
Not to knock Tom Hanks totally, I loved Cast Away, Big and Philadelphia from a critical perspective and You've Got Mail is one of my guilty pleasure movies of all time. But after I saw The Insider and A Beautiful Mind, I was solidly in the Crowe camp.
This film looks sort of like either the black version of The Godfather or The Departed, and my understanding is that there are some fairly deep, resonant moral underpinnings to the movie. I'd enjoy this, I suspect.
3. King Corn -- Among the movies that are supposed to turn couch potatoes into better informed citizens, this is the movie I'd like to see. I've had no urge to watch An Inconvenient Truth, as I'm not a big believer in man-made global warming.
However, I've heard Bill Maher preach for a long time that the primary reason for America's general obesity and overall health epidemic is corn. Corn that fuels a sugar-riddled fast-food nation.
And, a pair of filmmakers explore the industry from first plant to first bite.
And if you've seen any of these and can offer a recommendation or, perhaps, a warning -- feel free to post them in my comments.
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You haven't seen the new Bourne movie???? DUDE... take it from a Bourne fan... it was, BY FAR, the best one of the three. I bought the movie. Don't watch it until I come down next.