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Comment on The film feels older than it is, yet timeless by Shii

Shii — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:29:15 +0000

The ending gives me the creeps every time I watch the movie. It’s so incredibly beautiful!
I don’t think you have to see the “point” in the rest of the film though. For me, it’s not about a point. This meditative atmosphere packed with all of these symbolic puzzles fills my head in such a pleasant way that I’ve never experienced before with a movie. My favorite is the birdcatcher! AAAAH!!
I never thought of the comparison with Le Petit Prince! (I never liked it as a child too, because the priests in church used to quote from it and I never understood what they meant! )

My god, I’m sure I’m doing worse on your list! But that’s awful! XD And I don’t have any particular thing to do this evening, so I’ll just watch something off your list… Let’s see…

Comment on Not to sound homophobic, y’know, my best friends are gay, but… by Sasa

Sasa — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:07:49 +0000

Thank you. <3

Comment on Not to sound homophobic, y’know, my best friends are gay, but… by Shii

Shii — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:48:39 +0000

You can’t imagine how incredibly amazed I am because of your comparison with this cat picture. It’s perfection.

Comment on Not to sound homophobic, y’know, my best friends are gay, but… by Sasa

Sasa — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:32:49 +0000

Hahaha did the title shock you too much? XD

Personally I think you are nothing like any of those characters, but that is pretty much a senseless statement, as pointed out by the wise “Scenes from a Marriage”. Jokes aside, I know exactly why you like the film. And of course you *must* be into River Phoenix. Harr harr.

Yeah, Gerry is really beautiful, but Private Idaho has this freshness and it’s one of those “everything is in there” kind of films, whereas the others seem less grand. One could describe it with this picture where “My Own Private Idaho” is the mother node and “Mala Noche”, “Gerry”, “Elephant” and “Milk” are the child nodes.

Comment on Not to sound homophobic, y’know, my best friends are gay, but… by Shii

Shii — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:45:19 +0000

WTF, the title of the post!? XXXXD

It was pretty clear that you most probably wouldn’t like the film as much as I did and still do. I have a very strange relationship to the film too: I’ve seen it three times in a row the first time I stumbled upon it and never again, although I did rewatch some scenes over the years. I like the characters, even the minor ones (and among them, even Udo Kier XD), way too much. I can identify myself with every single one of them, and that’s a pretty rare case.

And the aesthetics are great. I think he outshined himself. Many of the techniques and ideas he developed further in Gerry, Elephant and Milk are already (either pretty explicitly or in their basics) present in Private Idaho.

Of course I have a huge crush on River Phoenix. XD (I want a good poster of him standing on a lone highway. And one of him in the bath tub. XD)

Comment on Not to sound homophobic, y’know, my best friends are gay, but… by Sasa

Sasa — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:22:47 +0000

Really? I never thought of it that way – it pretty much looked effortlessly timeless to me.

Comment on Not to sound homophobic, y’know, my best friends are gay, but… by Gorp

Gorp — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:57:39 +0000

somehow this film will never feel dated even though it kinda should? it’s odd!

Comment on Nashville should be ashamed of the Parthenon, not proud by Sasa

Sasa — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:52:51 +0000

Technically I did watch Philadelphia. (I used to be a huge Tom Hanks fan, remember?) It’s just been a very long time (10+ years?), and at the time of course I watched it in German.

Gosford Park is a little bit less black and more detective story than Short Cuts, but Short Cuts has the incomparably great Julianne Moore bush scene. (I took the freedom to make a silly reference to Knocked Up here.)

Yeah, yellow fever! It’s the best scene of the movie. Really, Nashville is the best where the film is really, really absurd. XXXD

Also, Nashville is nothing like Glee. The film does not have musical inserts, it’s not a musical at all. It just happens to have a lot of music in it, because it’s *about* the country music industry. Though in many ways, country music is not much better than teen pop music. Anyways, you should watch it! Especially as an old Altman fan as you (we?) are.

Comment on Nashville should be ashamed of the Parthenon, not proud by Shii

Shii — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:19:43 +0000

(Although, I must say, I hate musical inserts. Glee is unwatchable and gained something between boredom and rage from me due to its bad, cliched teen pop music.)

Comment on Nashville should be ashamed of the Parthenon, not proud by Shii

Shii — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:17:03 +0000

When I read the first sentece of this posting, I grinned – because you still haven’t watched Philadelphia! XXD (Not that I’d recommend it to you. On the other hand… it’s about OMFG GAY RIGHTS, so maybe I should! XD)

Even though your review was rather negative, I’m extremely interested now. Black comedy is my No. 1 genre right now and I loved both Gosford Park and Short Cuts. (Though I, like you, prefer Gosford, which I definitely have to rewatch.) Yellow fever, what?! XD