Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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The Glass of House and Sand
I am trying not to cry laughing at my desk. I would love a synopsis of this movie.
It's a really fucked-up movie about a glassblower who has a nervous breakdown and tries to turn himself into replica of a Chihuly piece. The scene where he replaces his feet with glass spirals? Freaky.
Breaking the Waves is Bleaky McBleakerpants.
Bleak yes. Not really an action film, 'though. Or have we just moved on to bleak movies? I'm not against bleak necessarily.
It occurs to me that Pan's Labarynth was pretty bleak, and yet I loved it.
Oh but such a beautiful film! And so wonderfully realized.
The Glass of House and Sand
The funnniest part of that is that I knew what she was saying, but I couldn't parse the actual title.
From the IFC website: Put Julia Roberts On Hold: Seven Big-Name Movies That Have Yet to Reach Theaters or DVD
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With issues both economic and otherwise, there's a growing collection of films gathering dust, the latest possibly being the leftovers at Overture, where chief executives Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett resigned amidst speculation the company would be sold. It's made the fates of Matt Reeves' "Let Me In," the Edward Norton-Milla Jovovich prison drama "Stone" and Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut "Jack Goes Boating" uncertain, to say the least.
There's a good chance all will be released or find new homes, but whereas high-profile films were once immune from getting the cold shoulder, their relatively big price tags and limited appeal to niche audiences may mean they not even make it to Netflix. Here are a few that won't be coming to a theater near you anytime soon.
I think fairy-tale bleak is somehow more palatable than gritty realistic bleak. CTHD and Pan's Labyrinth both fall into the former category for me. (As do The Sixth Sense and Let the Right One In now that I think about it...)
I can enjoy them, whereas I have no desire whatsoever to see another Neil LaBute movie in my lifetime.
Yeah, Matt, bleak is way different than misanthropy!
A) I would totally go see the Glass of House and Sand.
B) That's the one with the moral of "open your fucking mail!" Right? B1) Todd was once in a play where a significant moral of the story was "break the tab on tapes you don't want someone to record over" This amused us a lot, especially since it was a pretty depressing play.
I agree with the Pan's Labyrinth assessment (that was actually going to be my example). What about (circling back to a previous "did you mean this?", only not) Children of Earth (Torchwood)? I thought that was up there on the bleak scale.
B) That's the one with the moral of "open your fucking mail!" Right?
Yup. So not only depressing, but also trite and pointless!
Oops, phone double post
Which reminds me, I need to check my mail.
I found CTHD incredibly depressing in an I-will-never-know-love way, but it's still one of my favourite movies. I think I can come down on the pro side of nihilistic action, quite simply.