What was the general impression of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in the house?
Overwhelmingly positive, IIRC. I loved it a lot. "Eternal Sunshine" and "Sideways" are probably my two favorite movies of the year.
The money was too good. I got stupid.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
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Vonnie K - Dec 10, 2004 7:39:33 am PST #7013 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Consuela - Dec 10, 2004 8:19:16 am PST #7014 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Hero was gorgeous, but, despite my penchant for sweeping epic flicks, I don't think I'll ever watch it again.
It was gorgeous. And yes, it started very slow, but I did get caught up, a bit, in the endless revisions of the story. More so in the colors. What color will be next?! Hee.
I really want a screencap of the scene in the red iteration where Snow and Moon are fighting in the forest, and Snow stands with her sword high, and the red robes and the gold leaves -- guh. Just stunning.
Calli - Dec 10, 2004 8:30:42 am PST #7015 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I loved "Eternal Sunshine", not least because I could tell my friends that I'd seen, "The something something of the something Mind" and they'd know exactly what I meant. Plus Carrey didn't make me want to lunge through the screen to throttle him, which was something of an acting triumph on his part.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2004 8:46:49 am PST #7016 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I mean, after the 32nd identical-but-in-different-coloured-silk slo-mo wire-ballet fight didn't you start to wish Jackie Chan would turn up and just twat one of them?
Actually, it made me wish that Zhiang Ziyi would pop up in the next "Rush Hour" or "Shanghai Noon" sequel and kick his hyperactive ass in slow motion while twirling pretty silks in the background.
Jessica - Dec 10, 2004 8:48:47 am PST #7017 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bwah! Googling "hero screencap" for Suela, and I ended up here. What a small internet it is...
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2004 8:51:28 am PST #7018 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Heh. *I* ended up on a Stargate Jack site, and kinda got distracted.
Kate P. - Dec 10, 2004 8:54:19 am PST #7019 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I lovedlovedloved Eternal Sunshine. Actually, I felt about it very much the way I felt about Lost in Translation; I can't adequately describe it, but they made me both melancholic and hopeful. And they both ended exactly as I would have wanted them to.
Betsy HP - Dec 10, 2004 8:54:20 am PST #7020 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
B ut I wonder how that plays in Japan -- a movie about their culture, written by a white guy, starring a Chinese woman.
Could've been worse. Madonna really, really, REALLY wanted to play the villainous geisha.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2004 9:03:00 am PST #7021 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hasn't someone fitted her with a shock collar to condition against acting by now?
Dani - Dec 10, 2004 9:06:24 am PST #7022 of 10001
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
Afer the discussion of Natalie Portman earlier, I thought some of you would appreciate the first sentence of Anthony Lane's review of Closer.
The new Mike Nichols film, “Closer,” starts with a man falling in love with Natalie Portman. From this we may assume that the movie is concerned with universal, a-priori truths...