Rate the last movie you saw

[Nicky]

I just watched Now You See --

Freeman, Harrelson, and Ruffalo are good in it.

There was a scene in which a guy was "Gambit" throwing things.. :chuckles:
Wasn't great. There were unnecessary elements.
5.5/10

 

[-Akronite-]

Well, depending on when you watched Fight Club, a lot of other movies and some TV shows have copied the dual identity twist. If you saw the movie when it came out, I wouldn't call the twist contrived at all. It may seem like that now because of all the imitators.

That's the way I felt with Shutter Island. Had tons of praise but by the time I got to it I was like "Oh, that's it?" Still a good movie but it was better to see when it came out. Sixth Sense is also similar in this regard.

 

[col63onel]

Just saw Capt America. 6/10.

The Marvel movies are starting to fall into a trap of every movie having a lazy plot full holes that is serves as a 2 hour Avengers commercial. They are good movies on their own, but they seem less important because all they do is set up future movies.

 

[Akron330]

I'd give Capt America an 8/10.

I thought it was pretty solid, much better than the first one. I don't watch Revenge but I may need to start, Emily Vancamp is hot as fuck

 

[Cashius X]

Malcolm X

Great movie. Started out slow but in all was a really great documentary on a man who made a lot of noise during a time that is largely overlooked in American history. It's really crazy how I didn't know anything about him before watching the movie. What the fuck is wrong with schools nowadays? I barely learned about civil rights growing up and I went to some pretty good schools. Actually some really great schools. Now that I'm in college I've gotten the chance to take some African American Studies classes but regardless it's a shame how little American children are taught Black History. Needs to change. Black History is American History and should be taught as such.

Oh yeah, 10/10. Great movie. Learned a lot. 3 hours long but if you want to know about the man's life, it's really a great watch. I even researched more about his life after watching the movie because I wanted to learn more. I walked away with utmost respect for the man and I've even adopted him as one of my heroes. Him and Muhammad Ali.

Also just saw Training Day. Another great movie. I was really late in seeing it for some reason. I'd give it a solid 9/10.

 

[Fuggles]

Those schools don't sound too great. I went to a crappy school and I could tell you who Malcom X was and a fair amount of the civil rights movement before even taking high school American History.

Out of curiosity how long did you spend on the Civil Rights movement in high school American History?

 

[Fuggles]

Captain America was good but needed a slutty villain to wrestle Scarlet Johanson.

Unfortunately, they wasted the obvious one in the Wolverine 2: Japanese Bugaloo.

 

[Cashius X]

Those schools don't sound too great. I went to a crappy school and I could tell you who Malcom X was and a fair amount of the civil rights movement before even taking high school American History.

Out of curiosity how long did you spend on the Civil Rights movement in high school American History?

No, I really did go to great schools. That's why I'm so surprised that this part of history largely remained untaught throughout my elementary/middle/high school days. So much happened in the 1960s in relation to Civil Rights and such and my formal education really only scratched the surface. Sure, I learned about the Little Rock 9 and a little bit about MLK but that's really it. I remember learning about WWII, the Renaissance, and the Civil War for months at a time but we covered everything we had to learn about slavery in about a week or two.

I never had formal teaching on the Civil Rights movement. Never. Sure, we watched a movie about MLK and discussed his life for a couple days before and after his holiday in January, but for the most part I remained largely ignorant on the subject of Civil Rights as a whole; and I went to a Blue Ribbon elementary/middle school and a pretty good private, Catholic high school. At the time I didn't really care, but now that I'm taking a course that deals with these issues, Introduction to African American Studies, I see how wrong it is. I'm just now learning about Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Marcus Garvey, and Carter G. Woodson and wondering why it took so long for me to receive formal education on this subject.

 

[The Oi]

Catholics hate blacks and if the board didn't want to focus on black history then nobody could force them to.

There's your answer.

 

[gourimoko]

The men you mentioned are Black nationalists. Most high school textbooks deliberately only mention Black nationalism in passing for various reasons. The feeling is that the majority of students may not understand why Black nationalism came about and it may simply create divisions out of ignorance. The texts will mostly mention the 'Return to Africa' movement led by some Blacks and Whites, but not African-American Nationalism which did not want to return to Africa (as they felt it counterproductive) but to establish an independent, self-segregated, and self-sustaining Black culture within American society. These people are generally deemed racists and segregationists, so, they are left out of the textbooks.

Now whether the school boards and publishing companies are right or wrong is another story, but if you wanna know why, now you know.

 

[The Oi]

I went to a small religious affiliated private middle and high school and black nationalism was given a pretty decent amount of play. That's both in middle and high school. That doesn't mean that's the case nationwide at every small private school, but I don't know too many people who weren't taught about it.

Gouri, I'm not saying you're wrong, but why would black nationalists being racist prevent a school from teaching that they existed? What are you basing that opinion on?

 

[Mazer]

One of the most amazing films I have ever seen in my life. In my Top 5 movies of All-Time, of any genre.

I am embarrassed to say that I've had that movie recorded on my PC for about 4 years and still haven't watched it. That was after the Netflix disc sat around for 2 months and I recorded it just to send it back and get another movie.

Now I'm going to make it a point to watch it this weekend.

 

[kosis]

The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a favorite and a very important book for me personally during my schooling years. The film is great too, but isn't an absolutely accurate portrayal. For example, his brother Reginald introduced him to Elijah Muhammad and the NOI, not Baines.

Malcolm X was one of the great leaders not only in African American history, but in American history, period. He's up there with MLK Jr. in terms of importance/influence regarding civil rights and may be the most unjustly glossed over figure in this country's history. The reasoning, as mentioned, is because he was a pariah in white America, and even though he later adopted a more inclusive Islamic faith base and left the tenets of the Nation (which has very little in common with Islam) he will forever be remembered as the NOI upstart. I always argue that his anti-white rhetoric was necessary at that time and place because the threat of Black action was as important as MLK's peaceful approach. His controversial (at the time) stances on gun control seem obvious today. It's too bad that too few know his story and impact... choosing instead to paint him as the racist black guy that hated JFK.

 

[gourimoko]

I went to a small religious affiliated private middle and high school and black nationalism was given a pretty decent amount of play. That's both in middle and high school. That doesn't mean that's the case nationwide at every small private school, but I don't know too many people who weren't taught about it.

I'm almost exclusively referring to public school districts.

Gouri, I'm not saying you're wrong, but why would black nationalists being racist prevent a school from teaching that they existed? What are you basing that opinion on?

NAACP and ACLU reports are quite common of Malcolm X not only being absent from history books or only mentioned in passing (along with many other Black nationalist movements), but actually being a banned topic of discussion in many classrooms even today.

In the 1970s and 80s Malcolm X was simply erased from many history books altogether.

Racial inequality has been a part of U.S. history since the very beginning, but discussions about this reality are carefully controlled. Malcolm X, a prominent figure of the 1960’s civil rights movement, was cut from history textbooks because some saw him as a traitor to the country.

Even in this day and age, many history "teachers" don't know or understand American history let alone the people who created it. Here's a local council member's comments regarding a teacher's (backed by the school district) ban on Black History Month reports being about Malcolm X, as he was "evil."

CM Dromm opposes Flushing school’s ban on Malcolm X reports

“I am very upset that any student should be stopped from writing a report about Malcolm X or any other figure so essential to the history of civil rights,” said Council Member Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights, Elmhurst). “This sort of needless academic censorship is reminiscent of what happened in 2012 when Kameron Slade tried to deliver a speech on marriage equality at P.S. 195 in Queens. Rather than quashing students’ intellectual curiosity, we need to encourage them to explore and learn from our country’s complex and fascinating history.”

 

[MD13]

Anyone see The Raid 2 yet? Thoughts?

edit: If it's anything like the first, then it'll be the best action movie in years.