Lord of War/White Diamond

Lord of War
Jesse: 1/5 Kay, so this movie epitomizes what historically stinks about Hollywood. They take a great story (surfacially and otherwise)--and Oyeah can they pay for it- and flub it up like nobody's business. The Church of the Holy Double Standard and Our Father of Contradictions are in full efficacy here as Nick Cage (a good actor continuing his 'One outa ten ain't bad' streak) sleepwalks through a hammy, watered down script. Opposite him is yet another model (she ain't no actress!) and a series of women with one-minute roles as 'hottie waitress he beds', etc. Come On! How many times will we sit through another thinly veiled exploration of western society's' ills by-way-of sex, mtv action edits and coke snorting?!?! Or is it the other way? I can't tell anymore
Aha! That's the point.
Allright, so I'm getting away from the point of this blog, which was to share good movies, say nice things. Life is short, right? Too short to waste your time watching the same plot over and over. To short to be spoon fed the lies we'd like to believe, sugar-coated with bling bling, lite fantasy and a trite ending. So get out of my living room!!!!
Whew! Now I can get back to exhorting on what I love about movies....

Beth: It was an action movie, and that I like. But yes, it was sloppy and egrarious, and I sure wish someone else had been handed that script. We rolled our eyes many times.

the White Diamond
Jesse: 3.5/5 Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, and so many more) does it again. I found the (dreamer) human subject of this documentary unforgiveably boring. And Werner (that's Vvvverner, baby) 's narration approximates the voice I imagine for the gates of Hell. But it's the incidental cinemotography of the landscape along with the soundtrack and even the musings in narration that are a joy. Beautiful, timeless, even profound. [Plug here for Herzog's Lessons of Darkness]
For some film makers it can seem effortless.

Beth: I don't know why Werner made this movie. This was the story without end. Maybe if I had more interest in balloons, or artificial flight, or the dreams and musings of wacky people drawn out into 10 minute soliloquies, I might have enjoyed it more. But I don't - I fell asleep.