Maybe I should give Rushmore another chance. Just so, you know, that I can get laid.
Eggs. The living legend needs eggs. Or maybe another milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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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.
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.
Maysa - Jul 10, 2004 6:04:39 am PDT #67 of 10001
Everyone I've met who didn't like Rushmore, didn't like Max. I've never thought of him as cool, exactly, (he's not popular at school, he's not that bright, he's more than a little obsessive, and throughout most of the movie he's falling apart), but he lives life at this sort of heightened pitch.
I think the key to understanding Max is realizing that he's never gotten over his mother's death, he's a lower middle class kid going to a rich prep school, he's only 15 and pretty immature, and he doesn't believe in doing anything half-assed.
Polter-Cow - Jul 10, 2004 6:08:51 am PDT #68 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Everyone I've met who didn't like Rushmore, didn't like Max.
I don't think I disliked Max. The movie just didn't do anything for me. I didn't see what the big deal was. I have yet to see Royal Tenenbaums or Bottle Rocket.
But like I said, it's one of those movies I've been meaning to give a second chance to because I'm wondering what everyone else sees in it. Lost will get one too some day, I guess.
Lyra Jane - Jul 10, 2004 6:13:30 am PDT #69 of 10001
Up with the sun
I'm in the "Hated Max, Hated Rushmore" camp. It just seemed like a certain kind of male fantasy set to film, and I think it's extremely overrated.
I did like The Royal Tennenbaums, however.
Is First Knight the Gere/Connery/Julia Ormond thing? It was extremely unintentionally funny.
Maysa - Jul 10, 2004 6:17:04 am PDT #70 of 10001
He is his own worst enemy, that's the sad part, but he's also wonderfully generative.
Yeah, that's him exactly!
But I can understand why someone wouldn't like Max or Rushmore. I mean, I've got a friend who doesn't like Lloyd Dobbler at all. It's all personal preference and what we bring to the table going into the movie. (Dustin Hoffman's character in the Graduate annoys me, for instance, even though a lot of people relate to him).