This movie is a thriller...

m kenya · (#1 (**permalink**))

Coming this december...to a store near you....
maze i have watched the preview..if you are interested in Geopolitical powerplay...then this is the movie for you..

Check it out at

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the Umma
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Delyteful · (#2 (**permalink**))

what's the movie called?

lilfox12 · (#3 (**permalink**))

What movie???? Stop messing with the movie buffs!
Just out of curiosity, does it take the preview only to get you all excited about the movie? Give us more...

thierry · (#4 (**permalink**))

I'm guessing you're talking about Syriana....with George Clooney. It's about how the whole world is controlled by oil conglomerates.....i ABSOULUTELY CANNOT WAIT to see this thing...it's one of the few i'm dying to see the other one being King Kong. I am delighted about this one coz i was so syking up for "All The Kings Men" which was about corruption in the white house but that was pushed forward to next year.

Jibril Cessay · (#5 (**permalink**))

I'm waiting for 'Syriana', 'Memoirs of a Geisha' and 'Mrs. Henderson Presents'. Steven Spielsberg's film Munich opens in January. it promises to be an enthralling movie recapturing the tragic 1972 deaths of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich olympics.

Here is a link to the synopsis of Syriana:

http://syrianamovie.warnerbros.com/about.html

thierry · (#6 (**permalink**))

Hey jib...

I looked at that link that you've posted and was tempted to go have a look but i decided not to coz i heard that this thing will have a plot like no other and that it's very very confusing and hard to gitch...it has like a thousand story threads....so i was tempted to go try and read the plot in advance but decided not to coz i want it to be a test.....i don't want to lose the headiness of it coz i guess that's part of the intrigue....i love those kind of movies...like 'The Insider' AKA the last good movie Oliver Stone wrote....speaking of which i heard he's making a movie about 9/11 and i cannot wait coz you jua how Stone is Mr conspiracy theorist....The Insider is the best Anti -Smoking campaign i've ever seen...never mind that i can't kick the habit..but if you don't smoke you'll be glad you don't when you see that movie. I love it coz it also slammed CBS which is Americas perfect little respectable network .

I also can't wait to see Munich esp coz i was disapointed with War of The Worlds...that Judi Dench movie also looks good...i just saw Pride and Prejudice and i swear the few minutes that Judi Dench is in it are absolutely riveting...forget Monster in Law..this is the real mother in law from hell. Memoirs of a geisha also looks good but i was disappointed that it is shot mainly in English...they should have shot it in Japanese with subtitles......the most painful movie that i have ever watched to this date is 'chasing papi' which is ..or wanted to be..a comedy about three chilles chasing this one guy..the actors are Latina and i mean that in the Penelope Cruz way not say J Lo or Jessica Alba...thick thick accents ...that is DISASTROUS when you're trying to pull of that witty lines and snarky comeback shtick...it was horrible horrible horrible......it was a bad movie to begin with but that just made it abysmal...anyway Geisha sounds like a totally different movie so here's hoping.....

I just LOVEW talking about movies .......in case you haven't noticed

I'm gonna check out Aeon Flux kesho....Charlize Theron in tight spandex kicking ass....yeah...have to see that one...I wanted to see North Country but it sounds depressing..

Later

Jibril Cessay · (#7 (**permalink**))

Interesting cos I have been pondering on movies for such a while mpaka I'm considering going to Columbia University's School of the Arts for the Film MFA program.

Imagine if we could produce Block buster movies about the sundry issues occurring in Africa. I'd like to see classics like 'Mashetani', 'Kaburi bila Msalaba' even 'Whispers' coverted into movies. Kwanza there is so much drama in Nai that is movie-worth. Life in a place like South B or Buru. Drama of matatuz. Drama of hubbies messing with the mboch. A school kid's ordeal going to school in a full ma3 packed compact with diabs all shapes, all sizes, all smells. Muziki kwa fujo, pickpockets plying their trade...The movie 'Constant Gardener' has been such an inspiration.

BTW check out the movie' The Battle of the Sacred Tree' when u get a chance.

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movie...ml?v_id=135702

Also check out the new South African movie, Tsotsi which was featured at the 'Toronto Film Festival'

http://www.tsotsi.com/

I hope 'Memoirs of a Geisha' won't disappoint. I also agree that the movie should have been made in Japanese with English subtitles. That would aunthenticate the story.

Judi Dench rocks! She was in 'Shakespeare in Love' and 'As Time goes by'. She is so dymanic, so fluid regardless her advanced age.

Jibril Cessay · (#8 (**permalink**))

Thierry, Constant Gardener has won the best film award in the British Independent Film Awards.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A6826278

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4487524.stm

There is another Brazilian movie, "lower City (Cidade Baixa)" which is being released in Brito leo. It promises to be as explosive as 'City of God'. It's about two childhood friends who fall in love with the same girl and start fighting over her.

thierry · (#9 (**permalink**))

Jib,

I just watched a couple of movies in succession and i have to say that "The constant gardener is the best movie i've seen in ages...
I was truly moved, ashamed, repulsed and inspired by it and it's one of those rare movies that will actually inspire you to ACT which is what i'm going to do after seeing it. We cannot stand by and watch while things could be better back home. I don't know what i'm going to do and when but i know i have to do something. Art should reflect life and should inspire one to change the world he lives in now and The Constant Gardener has done more than that for me. The best movie i've seen by a mile.

I also finally watched Syriana......now this is an entirely different beast altogether. ....first of all it's startling to me how similar in themes these two films are with Syriana dealing with Big Oil and Constant Gardener with Big Pharmaceuticals.

Now with Syriana i did not gitch about two thirds of the movie. ......and it's not like am a slow jamaa or anything like that...the thing is just too confusing.
That was the most disappointing thing...it's such a wasted chance. If i hadn't read more about the movie after watching it and seen an interview with Steven Gaghan who wrote and directed it, i'm telling you i wouldn't have known the first thing about the storyline in this thing. Yes it's very clear that it's about Oil and greed and how The US gov is in bed with Corporate America and they're practically screwing the whole world...but is that really surprising?
I'm thinking that the director had so much to say that he just decided to throw it all in and boy this thing is a mess.Too much info to process in one sitting. At some point i just wanted it to end so i could go home.

Constant Gardener was based on a book, and a good one, so maybe that's why it's more compact.Syriana was based on a book but not directly and it truly shows coz the thing is just all over the place man.

Contrasted to The Constant Gardener Syriana just comes of as kind of a show off.... mostly cos Gardner is simpler and yet has more impact.

Still it was definately an interesting experience to watch this thing. I didn't gitch about two thirds of it but there is one scene towards the end that is truly truly shocking, esp since after watching the movie, i learned that it was based on actual events. .

Now i'm syking up for King Kong...i'm tired of serious movies.

Jibril Cessay · (#10 (**permalink**))

When i watched Constant Gardener, I kept asking myself: 'What happened to pearl Omega?' May be that drug was the solution to AIDS but the West did not have any intention of seeking a one time solution to the epidemic because their pharmaceutical companies win run at a lose. I was also reminded of the time The Merck Company Foundation gave free deworming medicines to many West African countries in 1987 to combat River Blindness. I think the dawa is called Mectizan and was once used to deworm dogs.

Constant Gardener is by far the most innovative and thought provoking movie of the year.

I'm gonna watch 'Syriana' on Thursday. I watched 'Chronicles of Narnia' cos I have the book which I haven't read yet. My sis says it followed the book closely which is a good thing. I kumbuka the hype of 'Girl with a pearl earring' and how it was such a disappointment.

Another movie I have heard good raves about is 'Good Night, And Good Luck' which chronicles the beef between television news man Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House "Un-American" Activities Committee.
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