― 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
This sentence in Rosenbaum's review had me reaching for the smelling salts.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Honestly, I don't even look out for his columns and reviews anymore. Dude has lost the plot.
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 18 January 2007 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm really voicing an issue I have with a trend in praised directors rather than saying "CHILDREN OF MEN: C+" or something like that.
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
"Hello, doctor, we are passing the Galapagos Islands.""Oh! I never mentioned this before, but did you know that my character I am an avid naturalist, and would really like to see the Galapagos Islands?""I'm sorry, but we're in pursuit of a ship and can't stop.""Well then be advised that this is a very dramatic moment, and a conflict now exists between the two of us."
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Exaggerated for comedy example: I mean OF COURSE the caff blows up just seconds after Clive Owen's character leaves it.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah me neither.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I should point out that (including in the works of Soderbergh, comparing Traffic to Ocean's Eleven, say), I tend to feel less of a need to acknowledge it (and risk offense by bringing it up around fans and/or trigger-happy ILXors) when the movie is less earnest.
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link