― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
(That could also be used on people confused after watching Inland Empire. Actually, never mind, the Lynch rabbits and Nastasja Kinski were on the boat.)
― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, see, I'm definitely on the side of appreciating this. The goal is to get her to the boat, and that gets accomplished, as much as tasks are accomplished in any contemporary setting. I have not seen that movie where Bruce Willis has to guide Mos Def across fourteen blocks, or whatever, but I'm guessing that their safe arrival doesn't end criminal behavior forever, which seems analogous to what some people in my audience expected from this one: that the unpleasant future would somehow be corrected at the end?
Theo dies in part because every single person who helps them dies. (The airstrikes obviously help with that, but it seems to be underlined when the Russians get shot.) Also: I really liked Sid's death, the sense of hesitance and repulsion on Theo's part as he bashes him. I appreciate seeing a film this suspenseful where the hero doesn't engage in any more action than knocking people with car doors, jump-starting a vehicle, and then showing great distaste in finally actually having to brain someone.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, out of the heroes in the movie, who actually carries a weapon? Do we ever see Julian with a weapon? Theo uses a car door and a battery, but carries nothing. Kee: nothing. Jasper: nothing. Miriam: nothing. Merickha: carries nothing, but brandishes a piece of wood in an emergency (poor Sid brings out the worst in everybody). The only unsullied "good-guy" who carries a weapon in the movie is the Georgian(?) refugee who leads them to the boat.
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Sick Mouthy (sickmouth...), January 17th, 2007 11:59 AM. (Nick Southall) (later)
i dunno, this seemed a little out of place to me.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Ready Or Not Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
The Jarvis Cocker tune just compounded the awfulness of the ending. The last two minutes is by far the worst part of the film. They should have made it half an hour longer.
Awesome movie.
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I think you're being a nitpicker.
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I still can't find fault with the ending. Seems like it's lose-lose for Cuaron - every possible ending would have annoyed someone.
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
x-post who's Rosenbaum? Is it linked here? I didn't read the entire thread.
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
For a couple of minutes after the film ended I was disappointed with the ending. The pair lost in the fog would have been a suitably modernist ending: despairing and symbolic at once. Then I realized that getting picked up by this crew Owen knows nothing about, whom we never see, whose motives we never know, is more legitimately creepy.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link
and i don't see how cuaron goes to any lengths to "conceal" anything, and frankly i think whatever gets you to that conclusion is a really fucking weird way to watch a movie.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link