Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Robert Anton Wilson is probably something of a minor American shaman.
Dude, I did not give you permission to read my mind. My roommate made me read the Illuminatus! trilogy and now I'm doing Prometheus Rising, and I can't decide if it's shamanism or absolute non-shamanism. From what I've read so far, I get the idea that Wilson likes to tread the line between supporting and rejecting the mystical, often stepping over the line both ways in mid-paragraph.
They need to make an Illuminatus! film, just to really piss people off about the ending.
I get the idea that Wilson likes to tread the line between supporting and rejecting the mystical, often stepping over the line both ways in mid-paragraph.
That's a fair assessment. I adore Wilson's writing.
Wilson's all about stepping over lines.
But, you know, I don't want to destroy the moment for Robin and Corwood.
You'd better not. I've been waiting for this moment for years. Years I say!
But, seriously, it takes place in the mythical Old West, people get shot and ride horses and such: it's a Western. Y'know, I never saw Monte Hellman's Western, but it's pretty similar to Dead Man in my imagination. Has anyone else seen it? It's not out on DVD, so Netflix doesn't have it.
Y'know, I never saw Monte Hellman's Western, but it's pretty similar to Dead Man in my imagination. Has anyone else seen it? It's not out on DVD, so Netflix doesn't have it.
Is that the one with Jack Nicholson? I think it pops up on cable, and it was out on VHS.
eta:
Ride In The Whirlwind,
or
The Shooting.
I actually attended the movies for the pop culture survey class. They ranged from Blade Runner (this pre-dated the Director's Cut, which is the One True Blade Runner) to Night Shift. Dunno what the prof's point was, but I got to watch a lot of free movies.
My senior year of college, I just needed credits to graduate; I had already taken all the required classes. So I took Science Fiction Film, in which we watched (among other films), Metropolis, Nosferatu, Blade Runner, 2001, Making Mr. Right, T2, and both the 1956 Don Siegel version of Body Snatchers and the 1977 more paranoid version.
That was one of the best classes EVAR.
I did not give you permission to read my mind.
Read more Wilson and you'll soon discover that permission is an illusion. I needed no permission. Your mind was just sitting there, and I read it.
And yes, as everyone else pointed out, Wilson likes to tread all sorts of lines, and doesn't like to cop to being one thing or another. Reject labels, man....
Also, movies are nice.
Okay, weird.
Robin, I don't know what you were trying to post, but my first attempt at posting my last post (#7276) resulted in a null post.
I had to totally repost the content.
Well if you don't know, she's not going to tell you. Pllbbt.
I liked my "Philosophy of Humor" class, in which we read Peanuts, Doonesbury, and Bloom County (and I did my paper comparing Chinese and Japanese comic strips, with a sidetrip into manga), and watched The Gold Rush, The General and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Add to that Fr. Naus's first-day declaration that he didn't care if you fell asleep in class, just don't make it too obvious by bringing in a pillow or stretching out on the floor. Not that I ever fell asleep during that class--too much fun!
