"Taken" is such a bad movie. I mean damn. It's a shame that's at the top. It was as bad or worse than "Righteous Kill."
Indeed. Unlike the cinematic revelation that is "Paul Blart: Mall Cop".
Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --
Mal ,'War Stories'
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billytea - Dec 29, 2009 9:50:22 pm PST #5854 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
P.M. Marc - Dec 29, 2009 10:31:08 pm PST #5855 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm not sure what I missed about that movie that everyone else got. Might have been my heart. Or my sense of magic. I totally didn't get it. I thought it was twee, and I didn't feel for either of the protagonists or care if they ever got together.
I found them unsympathetic to the point of disgust. It's one of my least favorite movies of all time.
Tom Scola - Dec 30, 2009 2:33:46 am PST #5856 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
-t - Dec 30, 2009 6:35:39 am PST #5857 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's kind of funny how little I remember Eternal Sunshine, considering the subject. However, I think I liked the movie while not wanting the characters to be together.
le nubian - Dec 30, 2009 6:39:27 am PST #5858 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
billytea,
ha! I can't speak to the Mall Cop movie because I haven't seen it. :-)
Scrappy - Dec 30, 2009 7:03:56 am PST #5859 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Now, I HATED Mulholland drive and thought it was just lynchian self-indulgence.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 30, 2009 7:05:32 am PST #5860 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I couldn't even stay awake for Mulholland Drive. I tried several times.
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2009 7:06:29 am PST #5861 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I stayed awake. I didn't see the point.
DavidS - Dec 30, 2009 7:24:16 am PST #5862 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love Mulholland Drive! Love the look, love the story, love the performances. It's one of my favorite anti-Hollywood movies - up there with Sunset Boulevard, Barton Fink, In a Lonely Place and The Bad and the Beautiful. The story [spoiler] which is mostly a fantasy by a suicidal woman who got dumped by her female lover evokes the danger and appeal of Hollywood's illusion-making.
I even love all the stuff with the director (the actor who played him went on to write Tropical Thunder), especially the creepy Cowboy.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 30, 2009 7:33:10 am PST #5863 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Per usual wrt to Lynch (Lost Highway excepted), I agree with Hec.
Mullholland Drive always makes me wonder where they were going to go with the series if it had been picked up. I suspect nowhere as interesting as where the movie went.