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Loose Change: Second Edition (2005)
if nothing else, watchable treatment of very suspicious event
Well, hard not to be drowned out by all the government shills on this site, but I thought that despite the college-kid voice-over and overearnest presentation, the content was thought-provoking. Something was dirty about 9/11 in the same way that the 1934 Reichstag fire was. There's plenty of events we DO agree as a society on--that is to say, not every tragedy has a conspiracy theory attached to it. But 9/11 does, and for very many good reasons. If these filmmakers used sophistry and made factual errors, well, it doesn't come close to the government's record on the issue. Rubberneckers and the kinds of people who like to go to controlled demolitions will find it worth it just for the video footage of the buildings coming down.
Easy Rider (1969)
Moral overtones
Not just a road movie, but a pretty tight metaphor for 1960s counterculture, and a fairly unsubtle endorsement of early-Christian-type back-to-the-land communalism over the alternative--roaming on motorcycles through American towns that could compete with Dogville for bleakness and unfriendliness.
Peter Fonda stands for the typical upper middle class "beautiful person" of the 1960s, who radiates cool, neutrality and a touch of noblesse oblige. He has fallen in with Dennis Hopper, his crass, ungracious, annoying foil who drags him from one locale to the next.
There are two passengers in this movie who ride along with them, and how Hopper relates to each is a key to the film. In short, Jack Nicholson's Jack-ness in this movie tends to eclipse the first passenger--the Stranger on the Highway--just as the bad trip scenes in the cemetery are what everyone remembers most, not the playful commune scenes and the circular panning of the camera around a group of committed, loving men, women and children.
A Perfect Murder (1998)
until wild plot twists began, it was tight and stylish
Until the plot got really wild and dangling, requiring a lot of implausible resolutions, it was a pretty good one of those short TV-genre "unexpected tales".
I expected Douglas to be fine and he surpassed my expectations.
I felt the other male character was pretty well developed, too, in the beginning. Trouble is, they added two very tired formulas to the end of the movie. The movie could actually have been ended earlier, by just a straight cut - in two places.