Last movie you've watched

[TimeLady Victorious]

I don't wanna sound like a broken record on the moonshine thing, but..



I hadn't seen this one before, but it's actually pretty OK. But I'm a sucker for anything early 70's & southern.

Now if Burt Reynolds looked like that, people would think he was gay.

Hey, wait . . .

[timmysoboy]

Bolt.  First disney movie I've watched in years, and really wasn't that bad.

[KDus]

Star Trek, better than expected.

Terminiator.. eh, I lost track of who the characters were since the casting is completely different than before. Well, except for a CGI Arnold.

[Richard Garner]

Bolt.  First disney movie I've watched in years, and really wasn't that bad.

I found it entertaining, especially Jack Black's hamster. Monsters Vs Aliens was better, though. (Great laugh out line that I got and nobody else seemed to: The Monsters had been locked up for fifty years to stop people panicking. Upon their release, one monsters says "it seems warmer. Has the world gotten warmer since we were locked up? 'Cuse that would be Convenient. A really convenient truth.")

[Bill Brasky]

Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, in the correct order. 

And No Country For Old Men. 


None of which I was wacky about.  They were okay, but somehow with all the rave reviews I expected more. 

[KDus]

Fred Clause. Way better than expected.

Talladega Nights. Way better than expected.

I'm learning the importance of having low expectations. It seems to make life more pleasant.

[BonerJoe]

I'm learning the importance of having low expectations. It seems to make life more pleasant.

Oh, that's true. It's easier to go through life expecting the worst so you're never dissapointed. And this way you're truly excited if something goes right.

[blackie]

King of Kong is on G4 right now...

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

A Fistful of Dollars.  Clint Eastwood rocks.

[MasterShake]

Let's see...

Paul Blart: Mall Cop --  Loved it

The Dentist 2 -- hated it.

Friday the 13th part 3 -- One of the best in the series...  which isnt saying much

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

American Swing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058058/

Anyone who ventures into "American Swing" expecting to see a documentary on Benny Goodman is in for one hell of a rude awakening - and that's putting it mildly. For the "swing," in this case, actually refers to the "wife-swapping" phenomenon that swept through middle-class suburbia in the 1970s. And no figure did more to popularize that trend than Larry Levenson - the "King of Swing" as he came to be called - whose "live sex club," Plato's Retreat, located in Manhattan's Upper West Side, served as the epicenter for so much of the action.

Let it be stated right up front that this eye-opening documentary is not for the prudish or the easily offended, for its footage is graphic and its language raw, often akin in its look to crude 1970's porn. It takes us straight into the heart of a scene that became famous for its flagrant nudity, its unbridled group sex, and - if the eyewitness accounts are to be believed - its really bad food (apparently, the smorgasbord that kept bringing the people in was of quite a different kind!). Directed by Matthew Kaufman and Jon Hart, the film features interviews with many of the now-aging club regulars who happily regale us with tales of their personal escapades there. A number of celebrities who frequented the club, as well as certain reporters and broadcasters who covered the beat at the time are also interviewed.

"American Swing" is most interesting as a social document, showing how the "free love" ethos espoused by the hippies in the 1960's expanded into the mainstream a decade later. Suddenly, ordinary businessmen and housewives, truck drivers and longshoremen could partake in the life of the sexually liberated. In his own mind, Levenson sincerely believed that he was serving a salutary purpose with his club, providing couples who didn't want to be stuck in a monogamous relationship with a more honest alternative to "cheating."

It is not the intention of Kaufman and Hart to judge the people who took part in what Plato's Retreat had to offer, but neither is it their intention to shy away from some of the less savory consequences that eventually overtook many of them: principally, the diminution of romance, rampant drug abuse, and the spread of disease. In fact, it was the sudden appearance of AIDS in the early 1980s that brought the decade-long love-train to a screeching halt. That, along with Levenson's own troubles with the IRS (including time spent in prison for tax evasion) and possible dealings with the mob, is what eventually brought an end to the place - and to the era of licentiousness that helped to spawn it.

So, was Levenson a trailblazing sexual revolutionary who made it possible for otherwise ordinary middle-class people to live out their wildest fantasies? Or was he an emotionally stunted individual who cast away the mores of society in a bid to fulfill his own kinky desires and make a kingdom and a name for himself in the process? To their credit, Kaufman and Hart provide no easy answer to those questions, neither for the prigs in the audience nor for the libertines.

All same for the movie itself - for even though Levenson's life ends sadly, "American Swing" does not play out like the typical cautionary tale. For, in the end, we are left to reach our own conclusions as to whether Plato's Retreat was in reality a hedonistic paradise or merely a moral cesspool - or, indeed perhaps, a little of both.

The only thing you can really do is check out "American Swing" and make that determination for yourself.

Wow, anybody else see this?  Would anybody actually want to bring their girlfriend to a place like this?

[Rillion]

Wow, anybody else see this?  Would anybody actually want to bring their girlfriend to a place like this?

I'd watch it, but it says Ron Jeremy is in it.  I'd want some kind of prior guarantee that I don't have to see him naked. 

[Harry Tuttle]

I'd watch it, but it says Ron Jeremy is in it.  I'd want some kind of prior guarantee that I don't have to see him naked. 

You speak for me in this matter.

[Keels]

American Swing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058058/

Anyone who ventures into "American Swing" expecting to see a documentary on Benny Goodman is in for one hell of a rude awakening - and that's putting it mildly. For the "swing," in this case, actually refers to the "wife-swapping" phenomenon that swept through middle-class suburbia in the 1970s. And no figure did more to popularize that trend than Larry Levenson - the "King of Swing" as he came to be called - whose "live sex club," Plato's Retreat, located in Manhattan's Upper West Side, served as the epicenter for so much of the action.

Let it be stated right up front that this eye-opening documentary is not for the prudish or the easily offended, for its footage is graphic and its language raw, often akin in its look to crude 1970's porn. It takes us straight into the heart of a scene that became famous for its flagrant nudity, its unbridled group sex, and - if the eyewitness accounts are to be believed - its really bad food (apparently, the smorgasbord that kept bringing the people in was of quite a different kind!). Directed by Matthew Kaufman and Jon Hart, the film features interviews with many of the now-aging club regulars who happily regale us with tales of their personal escapades there. A number of celebrities who frequented the club, as well as certain reporters and broadcasters who covered the beat at the time are also interviewed.

"American Swing" is most interesting as a social document, showing how the "free love" ethos espoused by the hippies in the 1960's expanded into the mainstream a decade later. Suddenly, ordinary businessmen and housewives, truck drivers and longshoremen could partake in the life of the sexually liberated. In his own mind, Levenson sincerely believed that he was serving a salutary purpose with his club, providing couples who didn't want to be stuck in a monogamous relationship with a more honest alternative to "cheating."

It is not the intention of Kaufman and Hart to judge the people who took part in what Plato's Retreat had to offer, but neither is it their intention to shy away from some of the less savory consequences that eventually overtook many of them: principally, the diminution of romance, rampant drug abuse, and the spread of disease. In fact, it was the sudden appearance of AIDS in the early 1980s that brought the decade-long love-train to a screeching halt. That, along with Levenson's own troubles with the IRS (including time spent in prison for tax evasion) and possible dealings with the mob, is what eventually brought an end to the place - and to the era of licentiousness that helped to spawn it.

So, was Levenson a trailblazing sexual revolutionary who made it possible for otherwise ordinary middle-class people to live out their wildest fantasies? Or was he an emotionally stunted individual who cast away the mores of society in a bid to fulfill his own kinky desires and make a kingdom and a name for himself in the process? To their credit, Kaufman and Hart provide no easy answer to those questions, neither for the prigs in the audience nor for the libertines.

All same for the movie itself - for even though Levenson's life ends sadly, "American Swing" does not play out like the typical cautionary tale. For, in the end, we are left to reach our own conclusions as to whether Plato's Retreat was in reality a hedonistic paradise or merely a moral cesspool - or, indeed perhaps, a little of both.

The only thing you can really do is check out "American Swing" and make that determination for yourself.

Wow, anybody else see this?  Would anybody actually want to bring their girlfriend to a place like this?

I, as somebody's girlfriend would not mind being taken to this.

[KDus]

A Fistful of Dollars.  Clint Eastwood rocks.

Never gets old.....