Movie Nights
Watch A Movie, In SL, and In Character!
This Week's Movie: City of Ember
Date: Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Time: 3:30
Movie Nights will be In Character events.
Ever wonder what Parnell would think of "No Country for Old Men"? Whether Lex would find wisdom in "The Big Lebowski"? Whether Silker Vacirca would think "Shoot Em Up" is a documentary on his life?
Find out at Movie Nights, when the worst convicts of the Crack Den watch these crime classics in character.
The films are:
Awake
A young NYC socialite goes under the knife for a routine operation, only to find himself awake under the aesthetic and aware of a fatal mystery around him.
Balls of Fury
Child prodigy ping-pong player is enlisted by the US government to bust an underground table tennis tourney run by a Chinese triad boss with designs on world domination.
Big Lebowski
“The Dude” has a host of weird Los Angeles crooks gunning for him in the Coen brothers directed kidnapping piece featuring nihilists, dream sequences and one of the most kicked-back protagonists in film history.
Big Trouble in Little China
John Carpenter’s seedy action flick about iconic trucker, Jack Burton, busting into a Chinatown street-battle between ancient forces of darkness and the American Dream.
Clockwork Orange, A
The native brutality of youth is explored in the piece on dystopic future England, which follows psychopath Alexander De Large from his reign as gang leader rapist to his sordid end of test subject in a government mind control program.
Crank
A hysterical hitman must move at top speed to survive long enough to take revenge on the LA gangsters trying to double-cross him.
Death Proof
Taratino-directed grindhouse horror featuring a “death proof” stunt driver butchering foxy ladies with his muscle car.
Derailed
Blackmail and blindsides are central to this story of a family man ensnared by sociopathic blackmailers holding his one-night fling against him.
Eastern Promises
A young doctor finds herself targeted by the Russian mafia in London as she discovers their depraved activities and twisted codes of honor in this taut, carnal film.
Green Mile, The
A 1930s’ prison’s death row greets a doomed man with a miraculous gift in this eerie story of life and death by Stephen King.
Gone Baby Gone
Human weakness and the stark reality of south Boston’s mean streets is unearthed in this amazing mystery of a missing little girl.
King of California
A young woman’s father may be insane, he may be conning her, or he may know the location of hidden California gold in this mysterious and whimsical character piece.
Kingdom, The
A terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia is investigated by a crack team of FBI agents in this illuminating but action-packed piece on life and death the Kingdom of Saud.
No Country For Old Men
Coen brothers noir at its best, this story follows three men in West Texas as the events of a drug deal gone bad tear their collective world apart.
Sin City
Ensemble stories from Frank Miller’s comic book, telling film noir short stories about the grim life on the blood-drenched streets of “Sin City.”
Shoot Em Up
Over-the-top action abounds as an assassin inherits protection of a newborn baby sought by an army of mercenaries.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A barber, driven mad by falling victim to a perverse judge’s schemes for his family, cuts a gory swath of vengeance through 18th century London.
Trade
A young Mexican man pursues his little sister as she is abducted into sex slavery in America.
Vantage Point
Terrorists attack the US President in Spain in a way that unfolds mysteriously through eight characters’ perspectives.
Movies will be selected by poll of prisoners on a Forum thread before each Event.
More movies can be added at your suggestion. Post suggestions here!