I adore Pulp Fiction. It managed to wrap a pretty fierce morality tale in a flashy cinematic playground--and both worked.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
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Scrappy - Apr 21, 2010 8:03:22 am PDT #7782 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
erikaj - Apr 21, 2010 8:15:11 am PDT #7783 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
wrod. Jackie Brown was good too, but since then? we've grown estranged.
-t - Apr 21, 2010 9:04:43 am PDT #7784 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I really hate the facile nihilism of Trainspotting or, for that matter, Fight Club, especially when that sort of adolescent anti-philosophy is glorified as if it were actually about something.
That is the complete opposite of how I see those movies. For me, they expose the non-utility of nihilism while accepting that the superficial appeal is actually appealing.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 21, 2010 9:08:33 am PDT #7785 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
That is the complete opposite of how I see those movies. For me, they expose the non-utility of nihilism while accepting that the superficial appeal is actually appealing.
Very well put. That's exactly how I feel about those two movies. I think that can come across to people as trying to have it both ways, but I didn't ultimately feel that way in either of those cases.
Aims - Apr 21, 2010 11:19:14 am PDT #7786 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Dear Disney -
Return to Oz.
All I'm sayin.
Wait - I'm also saying shut your piehole.
Luv - The Empress.
Gris - Apr 21, 2010 1:36:41 pm PDT #7787 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I loved Return to Oz.
Polter-Cow - Apr 21, 2010 3:02:20 pm PDT #7788 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I realized recently that the last four movies I saw in a theater were Dark Knight, Terminator: Salvation, Surrogates, and Inglourious Basterds. So I'm into... explosions.
ME TOO!
I love Fight Club.
I am mixed on Kubrick, I think. I love Dr. Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange, but I'm with Amy on The Shining, I didn't "get" 2001, and I have no idea what I was supposed to get out of Eyes Wide Shut.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 21, 2010 3:09:07 pm PDT #7789 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I have no idea what I was supposed to get out of Eyes Wide Shut.
Well, possibly a hilarious critique of Tom Cruise's closeted life, but I'm not sure how official that was in Kubrick's agenda.
Strega - Apr 21, 2010 5:25:46 pm PDT #7790 of 30000
I have no idea what I was supposed to get out of Eyes Wide Shut.I think the "Here's something humans do. Isn't that interesting/funny/terrible?" thing applies.
All this had me poking around on the Kubrick site for a while tonight, and this seemed relevant to the misanthropy discussion:
[A]s Kubrick himself remarked to Gene Siskel, "You don't have to make Frank Capra movies to like people."
Sean K - Apr 21, 2010 8:56:25 pm PDT #7791 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I would have liked to see Kubrick's A.I.