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Connie Neil - May 12, 2010 7:18:41 am PDT #8300 of 30000

brillig

Saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus last night. I quite like Terry Gilliam movies, he has very spicy brains, but I'm not sure I liked this one. I may have not been in a proper mindspace to appreciate a Gilliam-esque story of despair and what triumph can be retrieved from a twisted world. Self-destructive people and those who bring their own calamities upon themselves don't entertain me. But it did look gorgeous.

Did Gilliam do The Fisher King? Because there are similarities with the scenes where the protagonist follows the woman through an oblivious crowd.

It took me a while to pick up on the other actors playing Heath Ledger's character. All of a sudden I went, "Wait, that's Captain Jack Sparrow! Johnny Depp wasn't there before. Boy, this guy does a dead-on Captain Jack impression." I don't pick up on faces, but I do pick up on voices.

Sean K - May 12, 2010 7:30:57 am PDT #8301 of 30000

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Did Gilliam do The Fisher King?

Yes.

Connie Neil - May 12, 2010 7:39:48 am PDT #8302 of 30000

brillig

Yes.

Damned brilliant movie. And it amuses me that I've seen so many of his films that I can pick up his tropes.

I did love the monks who keep the universe going by telling stories. And Parnassus' glee at realizing that somewhere, someone else has begun telling stories. You can't stop the signal, indeed.

The Devil's dismay at having won was good, because he was in it for the game, not the victory.

Kathy A - May 12, 2010 12:32:41 pm PDT #8303 of 30000

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I love this commentary by the Flick Filosopher on the sheer blindness of Hollywood as to why women would want to go see Iron Man 2.

Daisy Jane - May 12, 2010 12:43:36 pm PDT #8304 of 30000

"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Ha!I love her! I try to spend time reading her blog at least once a week.

Yes, Hollywood, women might enjoy looking at RDJ for 2+ hours.

Dana - May 12, 2010 1:01:58 pm PDT #8305 of 30000

I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Yes, Hollywood, women might enjoy looking at RDJ for 2+ hours.

Or they like to watch shit blow up! Or both! All of the above!

This message brought to you by the woman who convinced her husband that we had to go see Iron Man last weekend.

askye - May 12, 2010 1:12:49 pm PDT #8306 of 30000

Thrive to spite them

I haven't seen the first Iron Man which is a tragedy.

It has everythign I like - explosions, fights, sexy men.

erikaj - May 12, 2010 1:20:54 pm PDT #8307 of 30000

"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I just watched "The Soloist", which I mostly did not like, but that also left me too unsettled to mock properly. But I will say it's um, heartwarming, how well RDJ fills out an old pair of jeans.

Laga - May 12, 2010 1:23:04 pm PDT #8308 of 30000

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Hey, some women like explosions and robots and stuff.

Steph L. - May 12, 2010 1:28:23 pm PDT #8309 of 30000

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

There were explosions and robots and stuff? I'm still back on RDJ building a particle accelerator by hand in a tank undershirt. All I need.

Oh, and Don Cheadle ain't bad, either.

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