I did think Hawke looked like a heroin addict, which was a little creepy.
He DID look bad, didn't he? It was refreshing to see a movie with someone who doesn't have perfectly white teeth.
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Maysa - Jul 10, 2004 6:52:11 am PDT #72 of 10001
Frankenbuddha - Jul 10, 2004 7:03:01 am PDT #73 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I don't like Max, but I feel for him. And I love that he dives right in and lives out his obssessions. There's a fearlessness there which is lots of fun to watch.
Also, by the end of the movie, he seems to have grown. A lot. And learned. He's still obsessive (hence the staged Apocolypse Now), but he seems to have more of an awareness of himself vis-a-vis other people. It was the growth that really worked for me.
Stephanie - Jul 10, 2004 7:53:00 am PDT #74 of 10001
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He DID look bad, didn't he? It was refreshing to see a movie with someone who doesn't have perfectly white teeth.
My friend and I were whispering about this for about the first 5 minutes. I thought he looked really bad and it took me a few minutes to get beyond that. I feel really shallow that I noticed his teeth so much - what got me was not the whiteness, but they looked uneven or something. It distracted me until they got to the cafe. Once they weren't walking any more I was able to focus more on the story. BTW, I also loved the timing of the ending - it was the perfect way to end a romantic film. Sometimes, it's a better story if you don't know the end. Which I guess was the point of the first film as well.
Scrappy - Jul 10, 2004 7:54:47 am PDT #75 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The teeth didn't bother me so much (probably because I am a huge fan of British cinema), but the gauntness and bad skin did. That's what felt junkie-ish and squicky to me.
Maysa - Jul 10, 2004 8:41:22 am PDT #76 of 10001
The teeth didn't bother me so much (probably because I am a huge fan of British cinema), but the gauntness and bad skin did. That's what felt junkie-ish and squicky to me.
He didn't look like a junkie to me--more like a guy who had had a really rough couple of years. I was very surprised how much I liked him in this. In Sunrise, Delpy was the one I connected to, but in Sunset he just seemed so quietly defeated. That moment when she hugged him he really did seem like a guy who was aching to be touched.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 10, 2004 8:42:23 am PDT #77 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 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.
I watch it and think "in 10 years, that kid will grow up to be Ross Geller. Kill him now."
Scrappy - Jul 10, 2004 8:46:48 am PDT #78 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yeah, I liked Hawke too--they both gave really nuanced performances I thought. I just thought he looked ill.
Stephanie - Jul 10, 2004 9:11:19 am PDT #79 of 10001
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I thought perhaps the looking ill was part of the desperateness of his character. Plus, he was just finishing a whirlwind European book tour. I'm hoping it was an intentional paart of his character and he's not really ill or something.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 10, 2004 9:14:18 am PDT #80 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
Maybe Uma Thurman's family has put a hurtin' on him?
Maysa - Jul 10, 2004 9:19:34 am PDT #81 of 10001
I saw him on Letterman last week and he looked okay.