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.
It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday, or the crazy melty land, or you know, the world without shrimp.
Anya ,'Showtime'
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§ ita § - Jul 13, 2010 1:40:23 pm PDT #9699 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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!
Kathy A - Jul 13, 2010 2:20:27 pm PDT #9706 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Liked Eternal Sunshine, am with ita on Lost in Translation, never seen Magnolia, loved Paris je t'aime.
le nubian - Jul 13, 2010 2:23:57 pm PDT #9707 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I didn't like Magnolia either! It's really a shame because that movie has one of the best introductions I have ever seen.
I'm going to confess a movie I didn't like that most people seem to:
Short Cuts. I did not care for that movie at all.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 13, 2010 2:27:16 pm PDT #9708 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I fell asleep many times trying to watch Magnolia. Much like my experience falling asleep many times trying to watch My Own Private Idaho, Memento, and Mulholland Drive, it was very confusing.
I watched Lost and Translation, and I think I liked it, but I tend to get it confused with Shopgirl, which I only read. Not sure why.
I LOVED Marie Antoinette, though. It was absolutely beautiful and scrumptious.