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I like the commentary for Donnie Darko done by Richard Kelly/Jake Gyllenhaal.

I just saw that this weekend and can you imagine the trauma Anya would go through if she watched it? Unfortunately, I think overall the film falls into the 'good, but forgetable' category for me--I loved the soundtrack, but I thought it kinda fell apart at the end.

And from that article that jimi posted:

“Ever since, she’s been telling her friends that her hulk has a willy. It sounds funny, but kids should not be exposed to this kind of thing. It should be taken off the shelves.”

Ah, the logic of hysterical parents. As a child I always thought there was some kind of tragic poetry in the fact that Ken had a girlfriend with breasts out to there and yonder, while he was trapped in a pair of unremovable plastic undies.

Don't recall if this has been mentioned but Seth Green has an uncredited part in Josie and the Pussycats. He's one member of the "boy band", DuJour. Mind you, even without Seth, the movie is well worth checking out. Very funny and suprisingly political. :)

The first ten minutes or so of that movie are absolutely priceless. Seth Green's little hissy fit over the other guy stealing his face cracks me up every time. The rest of the movie is very likable and funny, and as you say, occasionally quite biting in terms of culture and politics.

NEW BUFFY this week!

*shoves Numfar out the way and does the Dance of Joy*

Squeeeeee!!! New Buffy after FIVE FREAKING WEEKS. That requires a large-scale Dance of Joy featuring all Australian Buffy fans, hippos in tutus, cute gymnast boys in glittery hotpants, a llama, the theme from a Summer Place (sung by Jasper from The Simpsons) and a feather boa.

Unfortunately, I think overall the film falls into the 'good, but forgetable' category for me--I loved the soundtrack, but I thought it kinda fell apart at the end.

See, it's one of those movies that I love so much I just have no perspective on it. I fell giddily in love with it when I saw it at the movies - I loved the humour and the style and the mind-fuck. I felt like I was watching one of my own dreams on screen or something - you know how sometimes a movie or something feels likes its explaining something about you to yourself? I just managed to use 'something' three times in one sentence. I've seen it a bunch of times now, own it on DVD, all the fangirl stuff. That dream-like feel isn't there any more but I still love watching it.

I feel the same way Emlah--it's up there with the best of the decade so far for me.

By the way, Patrick evicted--YAY!!! I really don't mind who wins now, I like them all.

By the way, Patrick evicted--YAY!!! I really don't mind who wins now, I like them all.

Yep, he was the right person to go. I quite liked him - I enjoyed his sense of humour - but I think he contributed the least to the house dynamic. The three that are left are so great.

I felt bad for him when he was talking about Jo. Gretel and the entire audience know that she's still with her boyfriend, and he's sitting there talking about maybe being in love with her... at least he was honest, I suppose.

I know, I couldn't believe that Patrick OF ALL PEOPLE let his guard down like that!

I felt like I was watching one of my own dreams on screen or something

The dream imagery in Donnie Darko was definitely my favourite aspect of the movie, and I liked the sense that Donnie had a whole other world unfolding inside his head because it seemed intimately familar in a nice creepy way. But I found the ending too predictable, it felt like a cop-out in a way I don't think I can properly articulate--it was very much a nonsensical gut-reaction thing.

you know how sometimes a movie or something feels likes its explaining something about you to yourself?

Yeah, that's a great way of describing how I feel about Restless, oddly enough. Definite moment of instant recognition, there. In a way, my love for that episode is almost separate from my BtVS fanishness (that so isn't a word, but it needs to be, damnit!), even if my knowledge of the characters and such informs my reaction to it. I don't think I've ever felt that way about a film, though--I'm too cynical about the medium, or something. Maybe cinema is just too finite for me--a bad ending usually ruins the film for me, but a bad ending to a novel seems to have a less dramatic effect on my reaction, probably because I can't read a book in two or so hours.

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