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Bresson's A Man Escaped
La, la, la, I can't hear you.
All I can say is you show excellent taste with Renoir. Glad to see Out of Sight and Escape from Alcatraz made the cut. I have an unholy love for both of those. And Stalag 17, but that's a more obvious classic than the other two.
This is what I hear about Shoot Em Up as well.
I had the 'throw sanity to the wind' response to both Crank and SEU. The first 5 minutes feel like you walked into a party where everyone is loaded but you...then, you just go with it.
It became, 'how much more fucked up can this get?' That much more? NO. WAY!
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm a little bummed that Staitham is in Crank 2.
I know. Madness.
But, the organizing principle of the first one...as I recall was that the insanity was in the service of his noble sacrifice.
Didn't his character clearly die at the end?
Not on a par with The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of course, but the death was integral to the resolution.
Perhaps I'm misremembering. And overthinking.
nevermind
Ha, Megan. The fact that I can tease you by mentioning Bresson is one of the reasons you are awesome. I wrote the Stalag 17 paragraph, too.
Is CRANK out on DVD yet? Because I'm going to have some long evenings to fill while I'm visiting Mom in the Old Ladies Penitentiary.
yes, Crank is on DVD. It's a Hard R for just about everything you can get an R for in case you're worried about scandalizing old ladies.
Apparently the DVD comes with a "family-friendly" version. Which still has all the gratuitous sex & violence, but they say "freak" instead of "fuck." I might rent it just for that.
And Patton Oswalt recently weighed in: [link]
Do yourselves a favor, Academy voters. CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE comes out April 19th. On April 20th, rescind all the voting categories. There should be one statue given out next year -- a 45-foot, sentient Oscar kill-bot, which Jason Statham will fight to the death at the next ceremony.
Oh that is good. I love Patton Oswalt. And not just because we have the same birthday.
I *just* saw Slumdog.
Other than having to close my eyes, pause it and grab a precautionary bucket in an early scene, I quite enjoyed it.
And when I got to the end, there was some notice about it being a screening copy. Um? A neighbor loaned it to me, figuring I might like it. Doesn't look like a bootlegged copy or anything. Weird.
eta: just looked closely at the label, and it's probably a very well done copy. Interesting.