I ended up not liking it because the participants seemed deeply stupid.
Exactly. I kept thinking I was supposed to root against everybody, because they were varying degrees of stupid, pathetic, useless, inept, and outright destructive.
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
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Volans - Jun 13, 2009 7:11:46 am PDT #2434 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Lee - Jun 13, 2009 7:20:35 am PDT #2435 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I decided after about 45 minutes that I was too bored to keep watching.
Polter-Cow - Jun 13, 2009 9:30:14 am PDT #2436 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I also wasn't sure whether the director was trying to make it funny or not. There were several moments that I thought were comedy, either Coen-brothers-dark humor or born-loser humor (and the cat scene! OMG hysterical!).
Yeah! Our audience was laughing at things, but I wasn't sure they were intended to be funny.
Scrappy - Jun 13, 2009 12:21:05 pm PDT #2437 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Watched The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford last night. I really liked it, although it's very slowly paced. The setting an acting is real and gritty, but the dialogue is very poetic, and the cinematography is breathtakingly beautiful. It somehow coalesced for me into a powerful experience, althoughj I could certainly see that it's not for everyone. Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck were both really impressive.
Hayden, you see it?
Cashmere - Jun 13, 2009 7:38:29 pm PDT #2438 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
We rewatched that not too long ago, Scrappy. DH and I both really like it. It can drag a bit but Pitt and Afleck were both fascinating in it.
And I never get tired of Sam Rockwell.
evil jimi - Jun 13, 2009 7:46:33 pm PDT #2439 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I was ruined for that movie -- along with The Long Riders -- by watching a documentary about the real Jesse James.
Polter-Cow - Jun 13, 2009 8:40:04 pm PDT #2440 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just finished Syriana. I had no idea what was going on, but I think it was good?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 14, 2009 6:34:43 am PDT #2441 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I do have two questions: Was the intimation that Oskar's father was gay, or was it that his friend was raping Oskar? I think it's the latter, but I'm interested in what other people think.
The impression I got was the former, and that some of Oskar's disassociation was due to his little bit of family time with his dad being hijacked by an outsider. I haven't read the source material, though.
§ ita § - Jun 14, 2009 6:50:30 am PDT #2442 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got the same vibe as Matt.
le nubian - Jun 14, 2009 6:56:15 am PDT #2443 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The book - as I understand it - is very disturbing and has a lot of references to pedophilia, but I don't think it had to do with Oskar.
I agree with Matt's take.