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Movies that you think can inform and enlighten!

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I just saw an old movie this week. It was one I'd never heard of. Made in 1935. Gary Cooper was the star. "Mr. Leeds goes to Town"
I had never seen Gary Cooper but had heard of him. For a movie made so long ago this one is very entertaining. It shows how things have not changed as much as I would have expected since way back then. People then were going through hard times, just like many people are now. The effects of the Great Depression were still being felt by many US citizens.

What movie(s) would you categorize as informative or enlightening or simply a must see?
 
I love those old movies.

The greatest movie ever made: Cassablanca

There are more great one liners in there than any other movie. The writing is just superb.
 
V For Vendetta





[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Q0dfrbr10"]YouTube - V for Vendetta in Kinetic Typography[/ame]
 
I was hoping for a little more discussion about why you think a movie is informative or enlightning.

I saw Shooter the other night.
A 2007 movie with Danny Glover and Mark Wahlberg. It's about a shooter who is very good at long range shooting. He is asked by the government to review 3 sites and plan an assassination of the current president so they can have a shot as stopping an assassination attempt. Very well done, and I have to admit it makes me rethink facts about the Kennedy Assassination.
 
We watched Untraceable a few weeks ago. Great movie and shocking in the sense that we both spend a lot of time online and you never REALLY know how secure you are. I know at least one other person here has seen it because they were watching at my suggestion. I can't remember who it was though... :hide: Maybe they will give their thoughts on it...
 
Doc said:
I was hoping for a little more discussion about why you think a movie is informative or enlightning.
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Well Doc, I love Angela's Ashes because it's one boy's experience of growing up in Ireland amid poverty, then coming to America.
It's also a film based on Frank McCourt's real life experience.
It's the one single movie I have completely fallen in love with in the last 10 years.
It's sad, it's funny- it's all things.
Stirs me each time I watch it (and I own it on DVD) ;)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLpf1XDNko"]YouTube - Angela's Ashes (trailer)[/ame]
 
breakfast club - hit an awfull lot of chords with just about everyone I knew when it came out.
 
pirate_girl said:
Well Doc, I love Angela's Ashes because it's one boy's experience of growing up in Ireland amid poverty, then coming to America.
It's also a film based on Frank McCourt's real life experience.
It's the one single movie I have completely fallen in love with in the last 10 years.
It's sad, it's funny- it's all things.
Stirs me each time I watch it (and I own it on DVD) ;)
YouTube - Angela's Ashes (trailer)
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I read the book, and it was a moving story.
I didn't realize it was a movie :blush:
I'll have to get it. Thanks :thumb:
 
I suppose I'm one of the last ones here on FF to see "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson. Very moving movie. It gives an insight into the revolutionary war like I've never seen before. I'd give it 4 stars. :D
 
I liked that one, too -- along with the Daniel Day Lewis "Last of the Mohicans" which is much more interesting if you already have a decent grounding into the "feel" & history of that time period.
 
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