'Not Fade Away'
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I know people who talk like the people in Waking Life. It didn't prevent me from falling alseep several times.
I saw Hero yesterday. It was incredibly pretty.
I just came back from Vanity Fair. Also pretty, but less so that Hero. Rhys Ifans was surprisingly good and hot. I was shocked to see his name in the credits.
But it just felt like, after an hour into the film, my skull was going to split open from getting hit by all the metaphilosophical bitch-slapping going on.
I walked out of Waking Life (walked out of my living room -- we saw it on DVD) -- the way it kept trying to draw philosophical meaning out of scientific observations drove me BATSHIT because the science was ALL WRONG. I got tired of shouting at the screen, and so I left.
I watched Witness for the first time last night, and noticed a very young Viggo Mortensen in a nonspeaking, but prominently visually featured role.
Yes, and Happy Birthday PC.
Aw, and you even changed your tag in my honor.
I walked out of Waking Life (walked out of my living room -- we saw it on DVD) -- the way it kept trying to draw philosophical meaning out of scientific observations drove me BATSHIT because the science was ALL WRONG.
I really enjoyed Waking Life, and I didn't mind the bad science because I brushed it off as the opinions of a bunch of flaky characters, rather than something that was supposed to be true. And I liked how the movie unfolded, and how it wound up actually having a plot in the end.
a very young Viggo Mortensen
I know! And wasn't he cute? But (sigh) Alexander Godunov...
I agree. It was like...TALK LIKE REAL PEOPLE, DAMMIT.
Hey! Stoned Philosophy grad students are people too!
Hey! Stoned Philosophy grad students are people too!
Also a key ingredient in Soylent Green Edge.
If Buffistas were the kind of people who liked pretty boys tarted up and androgynous they might be interested in this tip:
Well, there is also Pedro Almodóvar, who has been channeling Fassbinder and Douglas Sirk in a really beautiful, interesting way. He captures something that may not be quite glamour, but has an emotional grandeur and dignity that melodrama used to have. He has "Bad Education" coming out this fall, another in his series of brilliant melodramas, with Gael García Bernal, sometimes in drag, as a troubled young man who was molested by a priest as a child.
I'm going to give the Blockbuster online movie rental thing a try, if for no other reason than that it's free for two weeks and the trial comes with two little e-coupons for free in-store rentals RIGHT NOW (and once a month from now on, which is cool.)
I'll let you know how it compares to Netflix. Selection seems just as good, or damned close at least, so service and delivery speed will be the big test.
I think I'm going to go rent the first disc of Six Feet Under Season 2 right now.
I have Waking Life somewhere in my queue at Netflix. I have no doubt in my mind that after hearing you guys talk about it, that I will either fall asleep or give up halfway through. I'm okay with that.
Last night I watched Henry: Portrait Of a Serial Killer, which, if nothing else, definitely took my mind off my current emotional state of dumped-ness.