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As for Touch of Evil, I think that it's a movie easier to love if you read Cahiers du Cinema than if you don't. It is often hard to love a movie if its appeal lies only in form and revolutionariness.
Add me to the bunch that responds to Touch of Evil on a visceral level. It's a deeply pleasurable viewing experience for me. Your Wallowing In A Seedy Baroque Noir Wonderland May Vary. For me it's not dissimilar to my pleasure in Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones. It's very transporting.
See, I loved the opening shot in The Player, which is not only one of those long, long tracking shots that set up the whole movie, but actually references Touch of Evil's long, long tracking shot that sets up the whole movie. It's just brutally meta.
I hated Forrest Gump the film, for its cloying stereotypes and the notion that the woman couldn't take care of herself, and needed the mentally challenged guy to live a decent life. I hated the book even more. Could never figure out the boxxachocolates love.
I felt the same way about Giant, long held as iconic. A virtual legend parade. Okay, James Dean and a luscious Liz Taylor, but comeon! Some of the worst acting evah. And bored? It made me want to stick something sharp and hot in both my eyes.
All the hoopla around it leads me to appreciate the power and tenacity of the big studios' publicity machines. If you say something is fabulous enough times, people will assume it is true. Like, ya know...brainwashing.
I may be the only remaining person in the world who liked Forrest Gump.
And I am indeed the last Buffista to see Spiderman 2, for I haven't seen it yet. Even though it's showing at a theater within walking distance of me. I want to see it, I just haven't drug my lazy ass there yet.
I may be the only remaining person in the world who liked Forrest Gump.
Did we kill or convert P-C? Otherwise, you have company.
The only enjoyable thing about Forest Gump to me was when Jenny was going to jump from her balcony while "Freebird" played in the background. Though the thought occurred to me that between her platform heels reducing the distance and her bell bottoms acting as parachutes, she'd probably survive the fall.
Janet Leigh at the motel. Yeeks. Yeah, on one level, it's cheese. On another, it's the most nightmarish part of a nightmarish movie.
You'd think she'd have learned to avoid cheap, out-of-the-way motels after this, but noooooo....
Alicia, I haven't seen Spider-Man 2 yet. I just last night saw Spidey 1. So.
And it didn't wow me, can't decide if it's worth the effort to see the sequel.
Now that made me laugh, Matt!
eta: I'm having a whole sciency, flying squirrel thing going on.
plus? I can't type for beens.
Spiderman 2 is better than the first, people say, and even though I didn't like it, I have to agree.