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Christianity Today's top ten films of 2004.
Interesting that Dogville made the list, but Passion of the Christ didn't even get an honorable mention.
Just as a side-discussion, do you object to soundtracks calling attention to themselves in general, or is it a case specific thing?
Probably case-specific, but I'd have to think about it. Generalizing, I'd probably say that mainstream soundtracks should be invisible (like traditional editing), but that there are always going to be exceptions.
Not because Alibelle's crying, silly, but because the real story of Titanic is sufficiently upsetting that a romance tacked on front irritates me.
I completely agree about the real story, and I've watched tons of documentaries on it, and there's just no way a movie could do sufficient justice to the horror. However, the fiction tacked onto the real tragedy doesn't bother me. Mostly because I see it as a way of personalizing the tragedy for an audience that might not have learned much about it otherwise, and telling the story of fictional characters often feels like less of a violation of someone else's very real personal tragedy to me.
Alibelle, I believe that that couple are supposed to be the Straus's, who gave up their spots on the lifeboats.
I think you're right.
And Jilli, sometimes I'm shallow, too. Those are very very pretty dresses.
Michael Mann's soundtracks are always good.
I think the soundtrack to Eyes Wide Shut calls attention to itself, and if you don't like it, you probably won't like the movie. Love the track, love the movie.
because the real story of Titanic is sufficiently upsetting that a romance tacked on front irritates me.
I am of this type. Story-izing an event that is already quite dramatic is excessive in my mind. When it is on TV, I can only ever bear to watch the second half, and of that, only the parts about the boat itself going belly-up.
the Straus's, who gave up their spots on the lifeboats.
He was handing her into the lifeboat, waiting his turn--which he knew would never come--in another boat, and she stepped back out and told him they'd come this far together and she wasn't going to leave him now.
I wish they'd shown that.
Shut up! I am reading that Contino thing right now and it's fucking...disturbing, actually. Hello? Ellroy.(Hivemind creeping me out.) But he is very talented, despite being right there with Lehane in my personal "You think you have issues?!" lexicon making me think I write kids and puppies.
I liked Titanic as well. The thing that got to me the most was just the physical scale of the disaster - Here was this incredibly huge object that dwarfed any human that was slowly slipping between the waves. I could imagine myself being on the ship - my experience of the event and my desire to Not Die would be utterly insignificant in the face what was physically taking place.
If that makes sense.
I so coveted the "The ship sank. Get over it." t-shirt, you have no idea. Go ahead, act surprised.
There was a t-shirt at K-Mart that said something like Titanic Swim Team. It was one of those generic looking sports t-shirts, only the team was Titanic, and it definitely had something to do with swimming. It took a moment for the impact to sink in, when I saw it.
I so coveted the "The ship sank. Get over it." t-shirt, you have no idea. Go ahead, act surprised.
Heh, a close friend of a close friend (I was at a wedding with the guy in June) created those t-shirts. Made a ton of money off of them too.