I was planning on catching it whenever it came to Netflix. It certainly looks pretty.
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I'm not sure if you mentioned your actual opinion of the movie. How did you feel about Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive? I FUCKING loved it. From the Hammer fonts to the argument at the end that they would turn the couple and who would turn who and just oh my such a good movie.
ETA And the great freeze frame at the end!!!
I really liked the cinematography and of course Tilda Swinton is captivating in anything, but I think I'd have liked it better if Jim Jarmusch's idea of brilliant music didn't map so closely to my idea of discordant noise. Had an easier time buying Hiddleston as an ageless supernatural creature than a successful Rock musician.
I'm not sure if you mentioned your actual opinion of the movie. How did you feel about Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive?
Incoherent, hand-waving glee? It was a lush opium dream of a vampire movie, and I watch my BluRay of it A LOT. And am very happy that Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab's "Blood Popsicle" scent from their Only Lovers Left Alive line works well with my body chemistry.
if Jim Jarmusch's idea of brilliant music didn't map so closely to my idea of discordant noise.
I really like the soundtrack, but I also get how it would be discordant noise to other people. And the scene in the super-underground club of people dancing to Adam's music was kind of laughable to me, because dark noise music hipsters don't do anything as uncool as dance to the music they listen to.
Incoherent, hand-waving glee
There is so much pretty there. It's pacing wasn't quite what I expected but I love watching it. I like my vampires pensive and existential.
There is so much pretty there. It's pacing wasn't quite what I expected but I love watching it. I like my vampires pensive and existential.
So so pretty! The blu-ray will be at the top of my Christmas list this year.
I like my vampires pensive and existential.
That, or gleeful killers. None of this "I am a monster and I am overcome with despair! No, no, don't come near, I am A KILLER" whinging.
In other words, I want Adam, Eve, and Kit from OLLA, Lestat, or the vampires from 30 Days of Night. Oooh, and the vampires from Penny Dreadful.
I had no beef with the instrumentals in the Tangiers scenes, and I really liked "Trapped by a Thing Called Love," but whenever Adam or anyone else was supposed to be playing his music it sounded like feedback to me.
All the music just FLOWED over me. I'm not sure what that means. But dear doG, the end scene made me cackle with laughter for so long I think the people in the theater I saw it with thought I was demented (which I might have been).
Saw Interstellar tonight. Loved it, though the friend I saw it with brought up a good question, although I think I answered it to myself on the drive home.
Basically why if Coop could just take a ship out to get to Anne Hathaway's character hadn't anybody else done so. The answer I arrived at was that he'd basically just woken up after who knows what and hadn't gotten around to telling anyone about her. And then his daughter told to go to her, so he did. Terribly sentimental, but the movie was very sentimental in a Nolan sort of way.
Also, can I just say - I want a TARS of my own for Xmas, please please PLEASE! Chunky but one of the best robots ever!!!