Last movie you watched......

I saw that one. Not great, but interesting.

 

Just finished God Said, Ha!, the one-woman show from former SNLer Julia Sweeney. On Showtime, I was only going to check out a few minutes, but it was so compelling I watched the entire show. Good stuff, especially if you have had love ones die of cancer or are a cancer survivor yourself.

 

Better yet, read Bryan Burrough's excellent book this was taken from (cross thread).

Not only will it give you more depth and development into Dillinger and Purvis and the rise of the FBI from a bunch of bookworms playing cops and robbers (badly) into an actual legitimate law-enforcement agency, you'll get Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie & Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly (one of the most OVERRATED crime figures ever) and the Barker Gang thrown in for free.

 

'Being There' with Peter Sellers, yet another classic I waited much too long to see.

 

Freakin' hilarious. Loved it as well. So original and witty. Can't wait for the DVD with all the extras.

 

bruno. funny as hell, laughed the entire time.

sacha baron cohen is a mad genius.

 

Iris. Very depressing, but fun to see Jim Broadbent in something serious before I go see him tonight in Harry Potter.

 

jc, your bruno is my superbad.

as for bruno, it's playground humor, but it aso shows people at their most primal. it takes a special person to elicit the beast within, and cohen understands how to do that.

 

Yeah, but it's been shown that he strongly manipulated both large crowd scenes to get them that way.

 

the scene that shows the crazy ways bruno and his filipino boyfriend have sex was spotless.

dreunc, is there an article on the manipulated scenes? i'd love to see that. thanks in advance.

 

I don't know if there's an article per se but I know for sure that during the cage fight, the advertisements promised $1 beers, a $5 cover and tons of violence so obviously you were going to get a certain type of person to come in an watch that.

Oh, and it didn't help that he did this is the deep south where feelings towards homosexuality aren't exactly peachy.

That being said, I loved it. A buddy of mine and I have been texting each other with the message "BRUNO!!!" since we saw the final few seconds of his tv show during the focus group scene. (Funny stuff)

 

I believe one was posted on the Sascha Baron Cohen thread toward the end.