That's more or less the Slate Culture Gabfest's take on it as well.
Man, you just get darker and darker, and the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.
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Jessica - Jul 07, 2012 2:29:58 pm PDT #21518 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
le nubian - Jul 07, 2012 2:38:41 pm PDT #21519 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
get out.
well now I really HAVE to see this movie.
smonster - Jul 07, 2012 2:42:09 pm PDT #21520 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
le n, I wish you lived near me. I'd love to go see it with you.
le nubian - Jul 07, 2012 2:50:47 pm PDT #21521 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
totally. I have got to see this movie now.
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2012 2:56:59 pm PDT #21522 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd read that it was a conventional woman ... I dunno, pussy-shaming an outre guy into becoming sheeple.
juliana - Jul 07, 2012 2:58:09 pm PDT #21523 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
someone in my twitter feed loves "Magic Mike" because he sees it as a tale of how the optimism of youth gets corrupted by financial markets.
Salon calls Soderbergh "the most devoted anti-capitalist in American cinema". [link]
le nubian - Jul 07, 2012 3:00:22 pm PDT #21524 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So what is this "Saturday Night Fever" for 2012?
Yes, I will go read the review!
Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2012 4:38:30 pm PDT #21525 of 30000
brillig
So it's not just a movie about handsome men taking off their clothes? There's an actual plot?
Atropa - Jul 07, 2012 5:26:41 pm PDT #21526 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
We just got back from seeing Brave. That was a pretty, pretty movie. And I was happy with the story; it's a fairy tale, and that's what I wanted. And because I'm familiar with how fairy tales (and cartoons) work, I was braced for the scene where Merida thinks her mother is gone, and was crying that she wanted her mum back, and only cried a little bit.
Strega - Jul 07, 2012 6:33:50 pm PDT #21527 of 30000
It’s more like illustrated radio more than animation.
Somewhere (I dunno, it's hot and I'm sleepy) there is a nice essay or blog post suggesting that in the US, TV writers & actors were drawn from radio but in the UK (and maybe Europe in general), they came from theater. And that made a huge difference in how the medium was used and developed.
It might have been a Lawrence Miles blog post now that I think about it. Or something he linked to, maybe. Hm. I'll see if I can dig it up.
he sees it as a tale of how the optimism of youth gets corrupted by financial markets.
Dave White made a similar argument on the Linoleum Knife podcast. (And Alonso's take was sort of "I don't disagree, but I still didn't like the movie much," FWIW.)