Titanic = Theoden King!
We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know...insane.
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Beverly - Apr 18, 2010 10:33:23 am PDT #7687 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Amy - Apr 18, 2010 10:34:30 am PDT #7688 of 30000
Because books.
The fact that they glossed over how many people died, and why, to focus on a fictional love story, seems a little gross to me.
Lots of movies get made with a huge world-at-stake backdrop, but no one decided to throw a budding romance into Schindler's List. World War II is one thing, the actual death camps are another.
Jack and Rose meeting might have been an interesting tragic romance if they met beforehand and he died on the ship on the way to her, or vice versa. But when hundreds of steerage passengers, including children, are overlooked and left to die, Rose and Jack getting their sexing on is a little strange.
That said, I still watch it. It's very pretty to look at.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2010 10:38:22 am PDT #7689 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I probably will not see Kick-Ass, because I was disturbed by actual cartoon Dash killing actual cartoon henchmen in The Incredibles. So unless Hit Girl is more cartoony than that, I'm not gonna enjoy watching it.
Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2010 10:38:24 am PDT #7690 of 30000
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But when hundreds of steerage passengers, including children, are overlooked and left to die, Rose and Jack getting their sexing on is a little strange.
I thought the scenes of everyone trying to escape added real tragedy to Titanic, especially the father trying to translate the sign on the wall that lead to escape routes while trying to be calm with everyone else in hysterics. That was heartbreaking.
Amy - Apr 18, 2010 10:40:33 am PDT #7691 of 30000
Because books.
It was, Connie. They didn't completely overlook it. I just think there were probably a lot more interesting stories to hang that disaster on than a romance, is all.
erikaj - Apr 18, 2010 10:48:32 am PDT #7692 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
"Casual murder" makes me think "Yeah, Sean, it means so much more when it's in a relationship." But I'm sick like that.
bon bon - Apr 18, 2010 10:48:36 am PDT #7693 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I was a little shocked that the last hour of the movie felt like a procession of horrible, technically complex deaths of mostly people we'd never seen before. It seemed exploitative but also just laughable. I remember thinking in the theater, "oh, here's another person dying in a horrible way! And here's someone I've never seen before having a tragic end! And this one and that one!" At least they all waited in Titanic heaven to applaud the reunion of Jack and Rose.
Amy - Apr 18, 2010 10:51:42 am PDT #7694 of 30000
Because books.
Yeah, there was just something surreal about the juxtaposition of people plunging off the sides and the captain blasted away by the water while Rose and Jack are running from her horrible fiance and his henchman, who seem to have NO IDEA the ship is sinking.
Sean K - Apr 18, 2010 11:01:40 am PDT #7695 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
The Professional is about a twelve year old girl killin people, but a) it makes no bones about it being assassination, and b) is at least in part about how killing people fucks you up. Kick-Ass the movie just wants you to laugh and cheer at grizzly murder.
erika, you are a sick, sick puppy.
erikaj - Apr 18, 2010 11:07:35 am PDT #7696 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Saw most of the Modern Classics. Bit short on Foreign and flicks made before the '70s. Netflix helps, though. The 100 greatest doesn't have "Sullivan's Travels" or "The Philadelphia Story" Nor Butch and Sundance. Or "The In-Laws That's some *bullshit* Swingers is cute and funny...it reminds me of college, and Doug Ellin is a big fan. But, really, see before you die? really? Did Ellin write this list? No, because the In-laws would be on the other list. I'd put "Clerks" in "Swingers" place, even though I like both. But in terms of saying more about the culture in '94, or filmmaking, Kevin Smith, imo, nailed that.