I saw Before Sunset last night. Completely agree with the people who loved it. It was one of the few times in my movie watching career that as I'm thinking, "Here. The movie should end right here," it actually fades to black. That never happens! Great performances by Ethan Hawke (who I usually don't like) and Julie Delpy and the conversation was much better than the original (which I also enjoyed). It was also the most romantic movie I've seen in theaters in a year or two.
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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Maysa - Jul 10, 2004 5:06:06 am PDT #57 of 10001
Steph L. - Jul 10, 2004 5:08:55 am PDT #58 of 10001
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Teppyyyyyy!!! My sistaaaah! Neither did I! high-five of philistinosity
I double sniff disdainfully in your general direction.
Hey, I *watched* Rushmore AND The Royal Tenenbaums, so I'm not dismissing them out of hand (consider them, if you will, my cinematic white whales). I just seem to be sliding into Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel-ness.
tommyrot - Jul 10, 2004 5:23:51 am PDT #59 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I also don't share the Rushmore love. I just thought the kid was annoying.
I was once on a music mailing list--there was this really cool woman there who said that she'd never date anyone who didn't think that Rushmore was one of the best movies ever made.
Maysa - Jul 10, 2004 5:27:08 am PDT #60 of 10001
I was once on a music mailing list--there was this really cool woman there who said that she'd never date anyone who didn't think that Rushmore was one of the best movies ever made.
I sort of agree with her. Well, I would have agreed with her a few years ago, now the movie doesn't mean quite as much to me. (I still think it's great, though.)
ETA: I think what has really changed is that in the past I used to think if people I met didn't like certain books, music, movies that had had a big impact on me, then they weren't people I could relate to, but over the past few years I've come to think that that's bullshit.
tommyrot - Jul 10, 2004 5:35:17 am PDT #61 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Maybe I should give Rushmore another chance. Just so, you know, that I can get laid.
Maysa - Jul 10, 2004 5:44:12 am PDT #62 of 10001
Maybe I should give Rushmore another chance. Just so, you know, that I can get laid.
It's the underlying melancholy. Gets (some of) us every time.
Polter-Cow - Jul 10, 2004 5:45:00 am PDT #63 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Maybe I should give Rushmore another chance. Just so, you know, that I can get laid.
I've been wanting to. Both the former, and the latter, though not always as part of a causative argument.
It's the underlying melancholy. Gets (some of) us every time.
This is why people love Lost in Translation too, isn't it? Maybe I like my melancholy more overlying.
tommyrot - Jul 10, 2004 5:46:49 am PDT #64 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
See, I can get into melancholy underlying things....
I was under the impression that Rushmore was loved so much because people think the kid character is cool....
tommyrot - Jul 10, 2004 5:47:43 am PDT #65 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This is why people love Lost in Translation too, isn't it?
Oh god, yes!
Must. Own. DVD....
Nutty - Jul 10, 2004 6:01:12 am PDT #66 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I like Rushmore because the kid takes dorky fannishness (or, that's not the right word, but dork into-it-ness, where "it" may be anything) to embarrassing, destructive, achieving heights. He is his own worst enemy, that's the sad part, but he's also wonderfully generative.
(Also, knows way more about 1970s film than he should, although seeing a preadolescent boy play a cop dressed up as a nun ( Scarface ) is pretty fricken hilarious.)
I watch Rushmore and think, in 10 years, that kid will be a grownup worth knowing. But I'm not sure I want to know him while he's a teenager.