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Had consecutive viewings of Y Tu Mama Tambien and A Home At The End of the World this week.
I was surprised by the similarities between them and that I liked Home so much better, despite all the terrible things I'd heard about it. (Colin's Hair! Saptastica!)
Not sure why, but Y Tu Mama, which I really wanted to love, just made me crushingly sad...from the very beginning.
Perhaps a rewatch is in order...
For me, I guess the difference was that I really sympathized with Farrell's and Spacek's characters in the latter and could at least empathize somewhat with the others, whereas I just wanted to slap (or pistol whip) the idiocy out of all the characters in the former.
Well there you have it!
If I'd had been at all articulate, my thoughts would have been Matt's.
I know it's a minority opinion round here, but I really love Y Tu Mama Tambien. It just works for me.
I know it's a minority opinion round here, but I really love Y Tu Mama Tambien. It just works for me.
Wait, that's the minority opinion round here?
Woo, I'm in the majority!
Ah, good old Y Tu Mama Tambien, with the anvilly preachy voiceovers.
Honestly, a big part of why I didn't like the movie was that it had been hyped as this great deep, moving art film, when, basically, it was just Threesome set in Mexico.
Honestly, a big part of why I didn't like the movie was that it had been hyped as this great deep, moving art film, when, basically, it was just Threesome set in Mexico.
I loathed the voiceovers. They seemed to be telling me that if I was paying attention to the plot of the movie, I was Missing The Big Picture. And if there's anything I dislike more than pointless narration, it's condescending pointless narration. Feh.
Count me in on loving the movie. I liked the voiceovers and liked the class allegory AND the threesome part of it. Part of the reason I liked the voiceovers is that most films like to show you images and say whatever you are looking at is what we want you to think about. In this film the image said one thing and the VO said another and I liked the tension between the two.
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This is weird:
Although Oliver Stone's 19-year-old son Sean has shot the behind-the-scenes documentary for Alexander and while the video package is likely to include an examination of the actual life of the Greek conqueror and other informative material, Stone himself has indicated that he is not at all enthusiastic about the coming of age of DVDs. Video Store magazine quotes him as saying during a recent press event, "It's the end of movie-movies the way we know them. ... If you walk into a room with 5,000 DVDs, how are you going to respect movies? How do you know the good ones?," Stone asked. "It's going to the LCD -- the lowest common denominator. It's making movies into supermarket-shelf items, which is probably the best you can get at Wal-Mart. ... It's hopeless."
Have DVDs resulted in there being more movies? More movies available? Isn't it the director's job to instill respect?
Has he never walked into a Wal-Mart or video store and seen racks and racks of VHS tapes?