Movies/TV of interest

[C-Yo Dog]

What do we say to the God of death?

[G M]

What do we say to the God of death?

Not today!

[matinik]

here's an interesting indie film about irish travellers, http://knucklethemovie.com/
the doc deals with this bare knuckle fighting sub culture that still exist in ireland.

matinik

[G M]

http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html

Best thing on TV right now. Awesome acting, especially the "Imp".

Peter Dinklage wins Emmy for 'Game of Thrones'

by James Hibberd


 

Game of Thrones picked an Emmy on Sunday night, with Peter Dinklage taking the award for best supporting actor in a drama series for his portrayal of Tyrion Lannister.
 
One of the more eagerly anticipated acting categories had the actor thanking his dogsitter, as well as his wife Erica Schmidt. “Wow, I followed Martin Scorsese,” Dinklage marveled. “I couldn’t do this without David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the producers, they were the first to call me and tell me about this part. HBO you’re quite simply the best place to work for you — you let artists create.” Stay tuned, Thrones is also up for best drama series (though is considered a long-shot).

[G M]

Well, I'm glad that only 10 years after 9/11 we can start having movies that show the military as heroes. I guess it's ok since BooooOOOOOOooooosh is no longer president.

[G M]

Can't wait!

Great line from Tony Stark.

[jcordova]

Can't wait

[C-Yo Dog]

If you haven't see this movie and like zombie films, this is a must see.

Great action and some really gritty fight scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY4ui929TiE

[Cranewings]

Holy Smokes! Was that snake range followed by a false diamond and Florette?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptg2hIUw3jw&t=12m6s

[G M]

http://www.amctv.com/broken-trail/videos/broken-trail-trailer

Visually amazing. IMHO Duvall's best movie.

[G M]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34x6m-ahGIo&feature=player_embedded

Still more accurate and true than a Michael Moore "documentary".

[G M]

Well, I'm glad that only 10 years after 9/11 we can start having movies that show the military as heroes. I guess it's ok since BooooOOOOOOooooosh is no longer president.

A movie everyone should go see. It may be the best action movie ever made.


Be sure to stay through the credits. A good reminder why the fight is fought and the price is paid.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxm7uk7I07w

[G M]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqoja3iWWaE

SWCC

[Mick C.]

I'm always a couple of years behind in my film-watching, so I apologize if this has been discussed before, but has anyone seen "Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within"? It's available on Netflix streaming video in subtitled format.

It sounds like a cheesy sequel to an even cheesier Jean Claude Van Damme movie from the 1980s, but it's an absorbing, exciting, gritty  Brazilian film from 2010 starring Wagner Moura as an officer from the Brazilian military police's SWAT team BOPE, who gets a disciplinary transfer (which turns into a promotion) from BOPE to the internal intelligence service that oversees BOPE after a controversial shooting of a cartel leader inside prison.  It's a very exciting (and violent) action film from the writer of CITY OF GOD  that also explores the nature of police corruption, the interplay of politics and media in Brazil, trying to stay connected with one's family after a divorce, and especially, the law of unintended consequences.  Kind of like THE WIRE set in Rio de Janeiro. It's a sequel (unsurprisingly, from the number in the title) to an earlier film that I haven't yet seen but want to check out. It won an award at the Berlin Film Festival.  Well-done firearms sequences, fairly realistic if brutal hand-to-hand, even a couple of BJJ scenes (Moura and his son at a Rio BJJ tournament, and drilling with his son at the BOPE matroom) which advance the plot in some interesting ways.

Also available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Elite-Squad-The-Enemy-Within/dp/B005TZFYUM/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_text_b

Well-worth seeing if you haven't yet, and as I said, free for the viewing if you have Netflix streaming.

[G M]

Sounds interesting. If I didn't read this review, I'd never look it up. I met a few Brazillian cops about 12 years ago at a seminar in Quantico. I got the impression from some things they said that they had done things that would get an officer in the US imprisoned and it seemed like part of their police culture. It was interesting getting their take on the Jon Benet Ramsey case, to say the least.

I'm always a couple of years behind in my film-watching, so I apologize if this has been discussed before, but has anyone seen "Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within"? It's available on Netflix streaming video in subtitled format.

It sounds like a cheesy sequel to an even cheesier Jean Claude Van Damme movie from the 1980s, but it's an absorbing, exciting, gritty  Brazilian film from 2010 starring Wagner Moura as an officer from the Brazilian military police's SWAT team BOPE, who gets a disciplinary transfer (which turns into a promotion) from BOPE to the internal intelligence service that oversees BOPE after a controversial shooting of a cartel leader inside prison.  It's a very exciting (and violent) action film from the writer of CITY OF GOD  that also explores the nature of police corruption, the interplay of politics and media in Brazil, trying to stay connected with one's family after a divorce, and especially, the law of unintended consequences.  Kind of like THE WIRE set in Rio de Janeiro. It's a sequel (unsurprisingly, from the number in the title) to an earlier film that I haven't yet seen but want to check out. It won an award at the Berlin Film Festival.  Well-done firearms sequences, fairly realistic if brutal hand-to-hand, even a couple of BJJ scenes (Moura and his son at a Rio BJJ tournament, and drilling with his son at the BOPE matroom) which advance the plot in some interesting ways.

Also available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Elite-Squad-The-Enemy-Within/dp/B005TZFYUM/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_text_b

Well-worth seeing if you haven't yet, and as I said, free for the viewing if you have Netflix streaming.

[Crafty_Dog]

"It was interesting getting their take on the Jon Benet Ramsey case, to say the least."

Do tell , , ,

[G M]

Well, as far as they were concerned it was clear that the parents were the perps (I agree) and then they made statements to effect that as case like that in Brazil would be adjudicated outside of a courtroom.

[Mick C.]

Well, as far as they were concerned it was clear that the parents were the perps (I agree) and then they made statements to effect that as case like that in Brazil would be adjudicated outside of a courtroom.

Yeah, from what I've seen of Brazilian law enforcement it seems to be run more on the model of the American frontier.