I'm trying to watch
Girl 6,
mostly to shore up my Spike Lee, and...my god, this thing is creepy. Theresa Randle is consistently gorgeous and sexy, but am I supposed to buy into the idea that phone sex operators are constantly dolled up, and even his disinterested operators are pretty caught up in the idea of it.
I mean, I get that 6 is an aspiring actor, and part of it is her loss of identity, but there's isn't a sufficient distinction between her and her co-workers are still glam and showing nip, etc.
I will say, the soundtrack is absolutely amazing, but I've just reached the extended Jeffersons insert, and I feel too much like I'm watching someone (unappealling) wank all over the screen.
It's really creepy. I need to watch some normal Spike Lee to get rid of the taste.
I liked Girl 6, but I think I liked it in part because it was creepy and unsettling? Haven't seen it since it was in the theater, though.
I just couldn't help feeling I was supposed to buy into the wall to wall eroticisation of the profession, as opposed to it just being Girl 6's issue. Unless we were seeing her sexed up co-workers through her eyes, it was just too much.
Next you'll be telling me that strippers all want to bone the customers.
Man, I don't even remember enough to be intelligently discussing it, but that wasn't my takeaway. I
can
remember having heated discussions about it at the time but can't reconstruct my position or arguments, so, really, I should just shut up.
He won't be the first person to kill Batman.
The other day in the comic book store I came across a collection of various times Batman has died. I knew Grant Morrison had just killed him, but I didn't realize how many other writers had!
I knew Grant Morrison had just killed him
Darkseid actually hit him with the Omega Sanction and sent him into the past, which didn't actually kill him.
t /pedant
kinda enjoyed that one, ita, but it was strange.
"Clockers" is good. Of course, the novel it's based on is too.
Has anyone seen Drive, with Ryan Gosling? I'm debating movies to watch, and I lurves the Gosling, and it's got Carey Mulligan (Sally Sparrow!) and Christina Hendricks.
yes, we saw in back in October. What is your other movie choice?
I enjoyed Drive more than my better half did. He was kind of bored. I just went with it and I felt like the movie flowed.
I do kind of think the movie was trying too hard, but I think it is entertaining.
Note: there is a fair bit of violence in the film - especially the latter third or so. And the violence (in one scene) made me gasp out loud. You may not have needed that warning, but I like to err on the side of warning for graphic violence.
