'Serenity'
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I started reading Fight Club recently. It's pretty angry. I think I'm going to have an unhealthy relationship with Chuck Palahniuk soon. Sample chapters on the Kindle are like CRACK.
I want to see a movie today because my students drove me crazy today. It should be good, but not especially dark or depressing. I'm thinking maybe The Savages. Anybody seen it?
I think I'm going to have an unhealthy relationship with Chuck Palahniuk soon.
You know that he came out of the closet since he wrote FC, right?
Really? I had no idea.
I was told by friends who saw it that The Savages was good but...dark and depressing.
Darn it! Why are no Oscar contenders ever HAPPY?
I think I'm gonna see it anyway. As long as it's not about obnoxious teenagers, I guess I don't mind it being depressing.
Oh, once in a while they are. But it's been a while.
Little Miss Sunshine was mostly happy.
And so is Juno, mostly.
True, but I don't think Juno is a real contender for the best picture.
I was pretty much "eh" on The Savages. Its a dry indie film of the type that is pretty overdone these days. Lots of slightly off-kilter shots of people looking blank or worried or confused, set to extremely low-key acoustic singer/songwriter music and occasional score that's heavy on the whimsy. I didn't really care about any of the characters at all. And the only moment I really enjoyed is entirely attributable to Kurt Weill.
I felt much the same about The Squid and the Whale, but at least it had that awesomely weird kid.
I have a question about Juno.
I read a few adoption related blogs and those people all, like every single one, hated the movie and thought it was deceptive and did a real disservice to pregnant teenagers. But everyone everywhere else, here, for example, has seemed to really enjoy the movie - thought is was great, in fact.
ANyway, I'm just curious about how two groups of people could have such a different reaction to the same movie. I'd like to see it but not if I'm going to hate it, you know?
I'm sure it was completely unrealistic about adoption, but I would imagine it was unrealistic in the way that almost anything in a movie was unrealistic.