Official Movie Talk Thread

[Sparrow]

Rogue Trader is a great movie for traders, definitely worth watching, thanks for the tip.

I've also got to see Rounders which was a lot more fun.

Here's a clip with scenes from a lot of different gambling movies.

[rock]

Ah! Owning Mahowny! Of course, how did I forget that one?!?!

I recently saw Eastern Promises. It was pretty cool entertainment to me. The fight scene is one of a kind but it may make ya squirm.

[AbeSmith]

Quest for Fire. Saw it last night. Very nice caveman movie.
Another caveman movie that I liked was One Million Year B.C.
Also would recommend a documentary, I think on Discovery channel, about the first Americans. Don't remember the name of it. It was well done. It suggested that some of the Native Americans came from Europe, not just Asia. And I think there is a new caveman movie coming out in theaters, don't remember the name or when it will come out.

And an update on American Me, on of the gangster movies I was watching. It was ok. The DVD came with a docomentary in the special features, which I liked more than the movie.

[Sparrow]

I watched Excellent Cadavers which is a documentary about Italy's war against the mafia over the decades. It's very interesting and shows the connections between the mob and politics.
Recommend it if you like that kind of movies.

[darthtrader]

Not a movie but a series of TV documentaries, I've been watching everything Adam Curtis has made thats up on google video this past week. Totally mindblowing stuff.
The Trap - Basically about Game Theory and how the ideas have crept into the modern world to create a very limited idea of freedom.
The Century Of The Self - Mostly about Edward Bernays/PR/propoganda and Freud and how these ideas have changed "the american citizen" to the "american consumer".
The Power of Nightmares - Mostly about the neo conservatives/Leo Strauss vs radical islam and how these ideas are shaping the world.

if you just search for the titles or Adam Curtis on google video and filter for "long" they should come right up.

[Sparrow]

I've just found a cool documentary, it tries to establish a link between astronomy and religion. It's pretty mind blowing and also received an award.
The beginning is kinda bit strange but once you get through the first 5 minutes it switches to ordinary documentary style.

Check out zeitgeistmovie.com if you're interested.
Also features 9/11 and conspiracy stuff ... which might or might not be true.

Had to find something to busy myself with because FX is so boring at the moment .

Here's the criticism section from wikipedia

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	In addition to attracting significant public interest, it has been criticized for relying too heavily on anecdotal evidence[8] and for using unidentified, undated, and unsourced video news clips, voice-overs, quotes, and book citations without page numbers.[9][10][11] In a piece entitled Internet idiocy: the latest pandemic, the Arizona Daily Wildcat (Student Paper) refers to the film as "internet bullshit" saying that "witty sayings, fear tactics and a cool, assertive air all enable them to convince the unwitting public of their points".[12] The Irish Times called it "unhinged" and accused it of offering nothing but "surreal perversions of genuine issues and debates".[13] Jordyn Marcellus of The Gauntlet felt it ironic that the film's viewers "have blindly followed the documentary without doing their own research." He states that, though the film is "well-edited and is truly compelling", it "glosses over inconvenient facts," uses "deceptive filmmaking" and that "for a film that rails against deception, there's a lot of deception implicit in its creation."[11] On March 10 2008, director Peter Joseph removed the 'Clarifications' section from the Film's official site, which The Guardian believed "alluded to dishonest filmmaking tactics that would otherwise help to discredit the film." It was replaced by a 'Q&A Section'. The new section responds to the film's critics stating that "All Part 1 "debunkers" do one or more of the following: (1) They attack/marginalize the messengers. (2) They do no real research. (3) They blindly ask "Where are the 'Primary Sources'?" (4) They projected their own subjective interpretation of a piece of information by using "semantic manipulation""[11]