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River ,'Objects In Space'
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D'oh! Double post.
Am I the only one who thought Major Dundee was an extended version of Crocodile Dundee?
It's not?
It's not?
No, it is. That's the joke.
It is not.
Is it?
No, it's not. I think.
What???
Although I'd have paid folding money to see Sam Peckinpah's CROCODILE DUNDEE. And I think I'm not alone on that one.
Just watched The Iron Giant finally.
Brad Bird can completely and totally have my babies. Or vice versa. I'm flexible.
JZ and I saw Sin City tonight. She was disturbed that I was laughing as one of the bad guys came to his gory and gibbety end. She thought the movie's world was sorrowful.
I had to leave the theater during the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs. Nothing in this movie (which had scenes which were far more gruesome but far less humanly scaled) even tweaked me mildly.
First of all let me note that his movie is not Noir. This movie is a big Catholic passion play. It's a meditation on how much fleshly suffering you are willing to endure to be good. And not good in the eyes of the world, but to die justified. That is not Noir. Noir is Calvinist, fated. You don't die redeemed. You die because you fucked the wrong girl. You die because you made some stupid little half-assed mistake.
How many wounds to the male genitals were there in this movie? Six or seven at least. Because dicks are evil. Again...Catholic. Wounding the flesh again and again.
Anyway, it was gorgeous and fancifully badass. Bruce Willis is right about at the point where people are going to look at the whole of his career and start talking about him the way they talk about Harrison Ford. Except Willis is a better actor. But he's got that kind of resume now.