Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
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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.
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.
Dear Disney -
Return to Oz.
All I'm sayin.
Wait - I'm also saying shut your piehole.
Luv - The Empress.
I loved Return to Oz.
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.
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.
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."
I would have liked to see Kubrick's A.I.
I liked Spielberg's version okay, but I would have liked it more if it had ended with David at the bottom of the ocean wishing for the Blue Fairy to make him a real boy.
The Beast was way better than the movie anyway.
P-C, I remember reading somewhere that the ending after your whitefont was actually Kubrick's idea, not Spielberg's. I was completely shocked; I'd have bet any amount of folding money that the whitefont was Kubrick's original intended end, but apparently, no.