yesterday saw a hilarious comedy movie on the US intelligence community starring George Clooney, John Malcovich and Brad Pitt called "Burn Before Reading".
burn after reading is next on my to-watch list. directed by the coen brothers, who also directed no country for old men, big lebowski, fargo, barton fink, raising arizona, and oh brother where art thou, among others. yeah, their movies kick ***.
1. batman dark knight. a good movie whose awesome financial success makes it great and gives me hope that american culture isn't as dumbed down as cable t.v. would have you believe.
2. escape from new york. kurt russell: badass soulja seized by the feds and implanted with a chip that will detonate unless he rescues the hostage president. president held in future state of new york, which has been turned into a maximum security prison, sort of. anyone who liked blade runner will like this
3. texas chainsaw massacre. thorosius wanted a horror flick, here it is. carefree college friends on a roadtrip pick up whackjob hitchhiker, one of an inbred family with a taste for human flesh. it was after this movie that parents stopped letting their hippie kids hitchhike or pick up hitchhikers.
edit: what the hell
4. freaks. tod browning, 1932. this movie was censored for a while because its cast is composed of real-life carni-freaks, and the ending would make any pre-king kong's housewife's head explode.
5. amadeus. mozart as the in-movie soundtrack. prague theater behind the iron curtain. and a hero seeking vengence against god (fittingly, 'amadeus' means 'love of god').
6. one flew over the cuckoo's nest. another milos foreman flick. jack nicholson with a bunch of jokers cooped up in a loony bin. nuff said.
7. the unforgiven. for anyone who likes mystic river, this is another clint eastwood directed, except its a western. 1992 i believe, so its a more nuanced, sophistocated western.
8. funny games. very nihilistic sinister movie adapted word-for-word, scene for scene from the 1997 original, a german made movie. directed by michael haneke, all of his other movies are in my queue because of this one.
9. fight club. a quaint little picture whose popular success again i find heartening. plus the final scene plays pixies' where is my mind
10. big lebowski. coen bros doing their thang. i have never laughed so hard.