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Le peuple migrateur (2001)
A masterpiece of technological innovation
This movie is a simple amazement. I could not believe the enjoyment I would get from watching a bunch of birds flap their ways across continents. But it's absolutely breathtaking.
The birds themselves are gorgeous. They are somewhat personified at times by the filming techniques, but generally the film tends to 'birdify' the watcher, so that you actually feel like if you honked, that white snow goose would honk back.
How they managed to mike up the birds without getting the sound of the ultralite, I have no idea. But it was masterful.
The scenery is unlike any other movie. Seeing other worlds from a bird's eye view really makes you wonder if evolution can be real - birds seem to have it better off!
The movie makes a point about human influence in the life of the bird, and makes you walk out thinking you'd throttle the next person who eats chicken. But you soon lose that, and instead tell your friends you had a thoroughly enjoyable time.
Donnie Darko (2001)
See this, see Cube, see Princess Bride
This is the kind of movie that you must watch a feel good happy movie (Princess Bride) after, just to allow yourself time to revel in the shock of it a little longer.
See this movie. I won't even bother to begin to talk about what it is about. I will say that it explores questions that are thought provoking, topical and intensely interesting. The fact <?> that the director's original cut was somewhat more religious was somewhat visible in the screen version, but instead it has been left hanging, which is a good way for a movie to be, if you can stand that sort of thing.
Did I say see it? Good. So do it already.
Mi ni te gong dui (1983)
Rent this and you'll wish you hadn't.
If you truly are a Jackie Chan fan, you will clutch your stomach in pain at the truly epic monstrosity that is this film.
This is a film about banquets. It begins with what you are lead to believe are WWII generals, such as Abraham Lincoln, being captured by the Japanese in Luxumborg. So the Chinese allies, who are so outraged by this eventuality, enlist the aid of, among others, a ratty asian in a top hat who opens the movie with a song and dance number, a psycho chick with a hypercolour bazooka, and our beloved Jackie Chan, who has a chicken.
After one person escapes from a prison camp, to be met with a banquet in the middle of the road, the band of merry mercenaries find themselves attacked by ribbon wielding amazon chicks, sleep in a chinese vampire infested house, and kill seemingly endless amounts of Japanese American muscle car surfing Nazis.
There is so, so much blood, and death. And a fight involving a chicken. To be honest, I had more fun reading other people's comments than I did watching the movie. Viva la Imdb.
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
If you actually know what Dungeons and Dragons is, stay away.
In a land where the people are split into two classes, the magic users and the peasants (everyone else), an evil wizard attempts to overthrow the Empire of Izmir using magic and political deception. Two young thieves get caught up in this tangled web of intrigue by a young wizardess, and go for a knock about romp around the fantasy world's countryside. If there was ever a movie to make Dungeon Masters throw in the towel, this was it. I heard the comment that any person who went to see the movie could write a better plot on the back of a postage stamp, and this is actually true.