The trailers make it look unwatchably bad.
I'll let you know my take either tonight or tomorrow. Assuming reading the next HP book doesn't distract me too thoroughly.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
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Gris - Jul 15, 2005 10:59:42 am PDT #5691 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Atropa - Jul 15, 2005 11:00:59 am PDT #5692 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The trailers make it look unwatchably bad.
I'll let you know what I think later. Or, I'll make Pete come and post his take on it, since he is not the devoted Tim Burton fiend I am.
Gris - Jul 15, 2005 11:01:46 am PDT #5693 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Bill Murray was old, depressed Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, but since his character WAS him, it was okay.
Jim Carrey was very un-Jim-Carrey like throughout the vast, vast majority of Eternal Sunshine. There were a couple of scenes where he became wacky, but they were perfect for those moments. Hard to explain without being spoilery, though.
bon bon - Jul 15, 2005 11:02:50 am PDT #5694 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The trailers make it look unwatchably bad.
Yes, they utterly creep me out, just like its predecessor did. God did I dislike Willy Wonka.
Jessica - Jul 15, 2005 11:02:57 am PDT #5695 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH saw it last week, and he didn't think I'd like it. And then he said that the Oompa Loompa songs sounded like early Oingo Boingo, which was just mean because if it's true, I desperately want to see that. But I may be better off just rewatching my Forbidden Zone DVD.
Calli - Jul 15, 2005 11:04:20 am PDT #5696 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Eternal Sunshine made me respect Jim Carrey as an actor. Since I would have bet folding money on that being impossible before seing ESotSM, I was very impressed.
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2005 11:04:58 am PDT #5697 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The trailers make it look not unwatchably bad to me, but disturbingly creepy. I will probably see it, but not in IMAX like my friend was trying to persuade me to.
It'd be really hard for it to creep me out more than Willy Wonka, though. And yet ... for a Dahl story, the book didn't really bother me.
Atropa - Jul 15, 2005 11:05:06 am PDT #5698 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
But I may be better off just rewatching my Forbidden Zone DVD.
I keep forgetting to buy that ...
-t - Jul 15, 2005 11:06:26 am PDT #5699 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just saw Eternal SUnshine last weekend, and Carrey was very understated.
I was loving it and then it ended and the end was kind of, I don't know. Disappointing, except I wasn't exactly expecting anything of the ending. It was just not the ending that the rest of the movie had prepared me for, somehow. And I don't know how.
It did make me think that there aren't any portrayals of tinkering with memory in fiction that I can think of in which it's a good idea.
Hayden - Jul 15, 2005 11:09:28 am PDT #5700 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Trust me. My hatred for Jim Carrey knows only one bound: he was flat-out incredible in Eternal Sunshine, mostly by playing neutral-damaged.
OMG, Corwood, Pike is almost like Frank Sobotka...clinging to his dream and his past on the docks way past its day...trying to do the wrong things for the right reasons... Ok, that's enough boring Wirehead epiphany.
I don't know. I think Sobotka is ten times the man that Pike was. For instance, Sobotka was rarely selfish in his choices (sure, he was a thief, but only for the good of the union), whereas Pike mostly used his "when you side with a man, you stay with a man" speech to deflect criticism for his cold-blooded murder of several of the Bunch in his rush to save his own hide. He's more of an analog of Stringer Bell, I think, unable to bring all that intelligence to bear on escaping from the trap he's set for himself.