Today, since I’m totally out of anything interesting to post about (like anything I posted before was interesting…), I’ll write about three awesome movies – Donnie Darko, Boondock Saints, and Equilibrium. None of these movies is appropriate for people who take issue to an R rating, especially for violence, language, or both. So, if that applies to you, you can just ignore my praises and go on with your lives as normal.
Donnie Darko is a genre bender. It seems to be a drama, but once you’ve watched the whole thing, you might be more apt to call it sci-fi. It’s about a troubled teen named Donnie Darko who has an imaginary six foot tall bunny for a friend. As the movie progresses, we see Donnie becoming apparently more troubled, doing all sorts of naughty things that his imaginary friend Frank tells him to do. And then the ending happens, which totally changes the whole meaning of the movie, but I won’t give that away. This movie has a fair amount of swearing, but is otherwise relatively calm. This movie makes you think, and for that it gets a 5π rating (out of 900º). See if you can figure out what the hell is going on in only one viewing (I couldn’t).
Boondock Saints is a very violent movie. Very violent is actually putting it lightly. We’re talking blood, fingers blown off, toilets dropped on people from the top of a ten story building… the whole nine yards. Boondock Saints is about two brothers who believe they are on a mission from god to kill the bad guys. All of them – the mob, the pimps, the drug dealers, everybody. And they’re good at it. The whole movie is awesome, but I especially love how it transitions between scenes of the detective looking over the crime scene and the actual things that took place. This movie is not for the faint of heart, it includes large amounts of violence, swearing, and a hint or two of nudity… but it’s so cool. 5π.
Equilibrium is also violent. Though it is not as bloody as Boondock Saints, more people die in Equilibrium. The story is somewhat akin to 1984. The world has been devastated by the third world war, and in response has taken action to prevent a fourth by destroying man’s ability to feel emotion. Everyone takes an emotion inhibiting drug, and there’s an iron-fisted force to ensure that “sense-offenders” are caught and given their just reward. The Grammaton Cleric is the main strength behind this force, a person trained with near supernatural fighting ability. We start the movie by watching one take out a room of men with machine guns using only pistols. An awesome movie with a pretty good story line, it’s a shame it got buried by the Matrix in theaters. 4.5π.
There are so many great movies in the world, but these three are definitely worth putting on your list.
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