Anyone seen any movies that kind of disturbed you or maybe just made you sit and ponder for a while? At the weekend, i watched a movie (several years old now) called..Boy in the striped pajamas. ****ing hell, thought provoking, and learnt a lot from it... The final minutes are disturbing, but also teaches us as to how some of the Germans thought about jews etc. And how some of them never had a clue what was happening. Not often i think about a movie in this way.
I watched a documentary at the Odeon called Savage Man, Savage Beast when I was 16. Scared the **** out of me and I didn't sleep for weeks! Also, Playing for Time with Rutger Hauer, a true story, similar subject as Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, about a Jewish orchestra staying alive by playing in a concentration camp.
On a WWII theme 'The Pianist' starring Aiden Brody, this is an amazing film and a must see. But equally disturbing and the behaviour of the Germans (SS) against the Polish Jews is atrocious.
Its interesting all the atrocities in WW2 against the Jews that have been aired on the big screen are indeed thought provoking andnexcellent movies to watch; Schindlers List, The Pianist and the Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas to name but a few. Away from those type of movies I watched Interstellar last night and it left me pondering if that could be the way forward of space travel and finding new life, new civilizations. (I love my Sci Fi movies by the way)
Yes Interstellar was/is an excellent film, and how it pieces it all together at the end is very clever. Just a little slow to get going but excellent still.
The first 2 minutes of Grease with me and the missus when we were courting. I thought '****ing hell' have i got to sit through this ****e just to get a feel of her tits?
Murder In The First. Courtroom drama about a guy imprisoned in Alcatraz starring Kevin Bacon. He plays the role to perfection and you get a real feel for how prisoners were treated there. Shutter Island - just sat there for about 20 minutes afterwards thinking I had just watched a very clever film with amazing actors. No film, not even Schindlers List, gave me the hollow, empty, disturbing and cold feeling I got from walking the trainline through Birkenau on a cold February afternoon.
Just watched 71 about a young squaddie getting separated from his mates in northern Ireland. How much hatred there was then and perhaps now was an eye opener. Good to see that there were still some irish with humanity at heart around as well. Brought it back when those 2 squaddies got killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I did but it cost me a hotdog & popcorn i should have known then the twat was always going to be hard to please.
I took a lass to see the original Italian job even managed to get her in the back row but I ended up watching the whole film forgot she was there, never saw her again
12 Angry men is quite thought provoking. Imitation game was too to see how it ended the war early etc. The amount of lives saved mainly due to one man (although the movie does over play his part and portrays Alan Turing as a bit like rain man) got me to read a book on him which is fascinating.
