Nicolas Cage\'s Lord of War
 

This is an awesome movie. It's very witty, the acting is great, the action is good and there is an excellent plot.

I'm a poli sci major and that increased the enjoyability of my experience.. but the avg. use would clearly like it as well!

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This is an awesome movie. It's very witty, the acting is great, the action is good and there is an excellent plot.

I'm a poli sci major and that increased the enjoyability of my experience.. but the avg. use would clearly like it as well!

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And being a Poli Sci major makes you above average?

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I thought it was a bit uneven (and cringe-inducing at times) but overall it was an interesting story and a good performance from Cage. Jared Leto as the younger brother and Bridget Moynahan as the wife were pretty good; Eamonn Walker as the African warlord ("Lord of War") was awesome.

I also saw "The Constant Gardener" this past weekend, which was excellent.

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I was a poli sci major and I thought the movie was meh. The worst part was the retarded message they tried to bring out at the end.

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The worst part was the retarded message they tried to bring out at the end

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Ughh, I hate when they do that. Like that stupid end of the world movie where everything freezes, and it turns out to be just a long gloal warming commercial. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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I thought the lesson at the end was interesting. I haven't learned much about underground arms dealers, but I know that US, China, and Russia are amongst the worlds largest arms creators and exporters along with Israel... Maybe the idea of supplying weapons to both sides to create never ending war to create a demand for weapons is true.

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That's true, but I much prefer a movie that is about what it is about, rather than trying to make a statement...because I believe it is more powerful to let people come to that statement on their own terms, rather than being preached to.

That said, LoW was very good, and at times, hard to watch.

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I was not a poli sci major, and have not seen the movie.

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a good performance from Cage

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I've never found this phrase anywhere near appropriate. Surely you jest.

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I liked the addiction subplot that they brought into it (the brother's addiction to cocaine and cage's addiction to arms dealing).The whole point cage makes about "recreational use" was pretty interesting. Cage doesn't understand how his brother became addicted to cocaine, and looks down on him for it. At the same time, Cage himself goes beyond "recreational" arms dealing and cannot get away from it.

I think the movie got it's point across without having to roll out the "moral" at the end.