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Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962)
Shocking, sad but important movie...
I rented this movie years ago and it was the first time I had seen any of the old archive footage of the atrocities of Adolf Hitler. The scenes of the ovens, the starving masses and the Allied soldiers helping the survivors and bulldozing the hundreds and hundreds of emancipated corpses, made me burst into tears. It may not be the quintessential "Holocaust" movie (Schindler's List perhaps?), but it is worth seeing. Even though it is painful to watch. While not for young children, curious older teens should only watch this with their parents so it can be discussed and their questions answered. This kind of movie makes us all witnesses and jurors to this horrid time in history, and keepers of the truth so that it will never happen again.
~Learn the lessons from History, lest we be doomed to repeat~
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)
Disposable Movie **POSSIBLE SPOILER**
This movie was disposable. A throwaway time waster. The movie itself disposes of everything:
(**WARNING!! Quite possibly you might get an idea how this movie ends just from this list!!**) (Which is not hard to do, I figured out the whole movie in the first 10-20 minutes!!)
1 Jetski 3 single man subs 1 stealth (?) pod 2 motorcycles 1 hi-tech video eye phone 1 sat dish & hi-tech accessories 1 disposable team mate/ex-lover 1 disposable sex scene + assorted other items
Everything that this movie produced was only there to show off and did nothing for the plot etc. Everything is contrived for show and is insulting!! This is a movie for 14 year old boys! You really have to stretch your belief to get any kind of enjoyment out of it. I mean, come on, if the Chinese detected a plane drop something like that pod, they would have gone totally ballistic!! The only reason for the Jet-Ski is to have LC make an extreme entrance and show off Angelina Jolie's hot body etc. (can you say Ursula Andress?).
The motorcycle scene is just so they can jump around and out bike each other, yet they trying to be discrete and unseen? I don't even know why LC got buddy out of prison. She knew how to get everything done. He was contrived for "love interest/final betrayal etc."
The other problem is how obvious that Angelina Jolie was on a wire for her stunts! Not that you could see anything, just her motion and landings seemed fake. Then again I guess this is a modern day female "Jane Bond"? At least the 007 movies don't take themselves as seriously as the Tomb Raider people. They seem a bit tongue and cheek. LCTR wants to be more than it is or ever will be: yet another video game movie. Angelina Jolie is a good actress that could become great ("Girl, Interrupted"), and should stay away from anymore of this crap.
Angelina! Take a page or two out of Nicole Kidman or Charlize Theron's book and stretch your limits. You'll be a superstar!!
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
Ghosts of Careers....
This movie has the distinction of being the first movie I've ever rented that I actually turned off before it ended! About 2/3 of the way through I didn't care if anyone lived or died. The acting was horrid, as shown by Ice Cube the one note cardboard "actor", a sadly amateur performance by Pam Grier (she looked lost and unable to get into the part, and a career ending role by Natasha Henstridge! The plot is the usual "save the colonists on another planet", the characters are unbelievably stupid and
**OOPS! MUST PUT IN SPOILER WARNING HERE!** (don't know why, you aren't missing anything, really doing you a favor!) the Mars/Alien evil/angry ghosts that come out, look like the entire cast from the set of the Thriller video!! An altogether horrible waste of time, careers, and our rental money. Sadly I expected much, much more from John Carpenter!