there there, Magnolia. Ignore them. They just don't understand you the way I do...
Well, other bands know more than three chords. Your professional bands can play up to six, sometimes seven, completely different chords.
Oz ,'Storyteller'
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Jessica - Jul 13, 2010 1:35:01 pm PDT #9696 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2010 1:37:29 pm PDT #9697 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
While I'm hating, I must also mention my loathing of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I think there's just a genre of emotive movie I plain don't get.
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2010 1:38:39 pm PDT #9698 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Eternal Sunshine is one of my favorite movies. I saw it twice in the theater, which is rare.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2010 1:40:23 pm PDT #9699 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Everyone needed stabbinating in the face.
But in good health I'll happily see movies multiple times in the theatre. They don't have to be good--just fun. But good helps. I've probably seen The Princess Bride in theatres upwards of ten times.
JZ - Jul 13, 2010 1:46:18 pm PDT #9700 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I liked Eternal Sunshine pretty well, liked Lost in Translation less well but still quite a bit, and love Magnolia dearly. Magnolia totally hits me in my Flannery O'Connor sweet spot, with all the unpleasant and deeply broken and heartbreaking-without-being-the-least-bit-likable characters (I swear, the entire William H. Macy Quiz Kid storyline is exactly what O'Connor would have written if someone had time-machined her to 1990s LA and asked her to write a noir caper gone wrong) and glimmers of fucked-up, fragile but true and living grace among all the grotesquerie.
Amy - Jul 13, 2010 1:48:42 pm PDT #9701 of 30000
Because books.
I felt the same way about Boogie Nights, JZ. It's a family drama! With a prodigal son and everything! I ADORE it. But Magnolia just lost me somewhere.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 13, 2010 2:03:45 pm PDT #9702 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I enjoyed Paris, je t'aime but in general those random-people's-lives-intersecting movies are something I avoid like the plague. Would that I had kept that in mind when buying my ticket for Valentine's Day...
javachik - Jul 13, 2010 2:04:36 pm PDT #9703 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
JZ pretty much just described how I felt about those same movies.
erikaj - Jul 13, 2010 2:10:08 pm PDT #9704 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Eternal Sunshine freaked me out...I think disability made me look at that concept in a way not intended by the filmmakers. Most hated flick? Probably Garden State
JZ - Jul 13, 2010 2:14:00 pm PDT #9705 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I've been shy of watching Boogie Nights because I'm really easily embarrassed for other actors and I was worried the porn-world setting would make it too watch from the hall for me, but now you're getting me all interested. I have a terrible weakness for prodigal son stories.
I love sharing a brain with javachik!