Capitalism: a love story

This is a Michael Moore film, so it is a documentary. It was pretty entertaining, like most of his documentaries, but of course if you do not agree with his world view, or are the kind of person that is not open to someone else's opinions, you would probably hate his movies.

The movie opens on a foreclosure of a house, with the sheriff arriving and breaking down the doors. It is a horrible and scary thing to watch. But part of me wonders why or how these folks got into this predicament. And of course Moore gives his ideas about that. But anytime you sign your house over to someone for money and the note says they can take your house if you don't pay them, then they should be aware that this will happen. The real story is the real estate bubble and all these fucking flippers of real estate. Real estate should be an investment, but for landlords, and individual families, not for some fucker that just wants to flip it. But that is my take on the whole thing.

You should let yourself watch Moore's movies, he may not be completely right about the whole thing, but he definitely has an interesting perspective.

The Invention of Lying

This was a comedy with Ricky Gervais and Rob Lowe. It was kind of an interesting world they created, a world without lying. Their movies were readings of history. The main character is a screenwriter. His period of history to write from was 1300's.

Somehow Ricky Gervais' character invents lying and starts to get what he wants out of life. Pretty interesting stuff, especially religion.

44 Inch Chest

I saw this during a stay in Palm Desert for work. I went to a theater called the Palme de Or. They didn't ask me, but they sold me a "senior" ticket. I do have some grey hair, but I didn't think I looked 55. Oh well.

This movie was a very interesting psychological film dealing with uncomfortable issue of a domestic violence. Kind of an upsetting film. Ray Winstone stars in it. I did enjoy the film though.

Edge of Darkness

Sometimes you see a movie and it makes little or not impression. This was one of those movies. I think this was a movie with Mel Gibson playing some revenge crazed parent going after the killers of his daughter, who, of course, was killed right in front of him.

Guess what? He gets his revenge. Ray Winstone was in it, he is an interesting choice. Liked him in his roll.

Wolfman

I've really like Benicio del Toro ever since the Usual Suspects. He's a great actor. This movie was only a little scary, but very gory. It kind of had a black and white feel to it.

From Paris With Love

John Travolta plays a rogue CIA guy. Seemed like a propaganda film for the whole "war" on terrorism that we are spending billions on.

I enjoyed it simply for all the action, but other than that, not really.

Crazy Heart

Amazing movie. Even the music was good. Jeff Bridges was fantastic. It reminded me of Leaving Las Vegas, but not as sad. A very real movie, except for the part about him being a famous musician, but it is definitely the kind of fucked up thing that is going on all the time reaching the bottom and turning their life around, if they are lucky. But then living with all the shit they caused while drunk. Great movie.