if i only see one movie in the next 2 weeks, what should it be

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Human Nature's out on video. I think it just got a limited release in the theatres. Like all Charlie Kaufman scripts it starts well and peters out. There's definitely some really amusing stuff in it but it doesn't really hold together.

Adaptation really fucked itself with that ending.

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 2 March 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

the ending of adaptation is like, the whole point!

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 2 March 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bad point.

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 2 March 2003 07:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

don't you have to dismiss the whole film if you don't like the ending, in this case? i guess that's just repeating what zemko said. but he sells out, that's the joke, and it's not much of a joke unless you show it. the punchline is that you have to sit through it, i guess, and it works for me.

― Aaron A., Sunday, 2 March 2003 07:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

don't respond to that -- too much info -- i requested deletion

― Aaron A., Sunday, 2 March 2003 07:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nicholas Cage isn't in Jackass.

So, see Jackass.

― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 2 March 2003 07:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

zemko otm.
he doesn't 'sell out'!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 2 March 2003 08:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Adaptation, never seen the point of jackass

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 March 2003 10:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jackass, which has just become the best film ever. The penultimate stunt is the dumbest, most ridiculous, pointless thing ever, and, as such, abject fucking brilliance.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 2 March 2003 11:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

My main problem with Adaptation, which I think ruins the movie for me (although there's a lot there that I like) is that the movie ends with a great big gimmick, and not a particularly inspired or interesting one. It's not the first movie to do what it does (I'm trying to avoid spoilers here and talk around things), and for all it's cleverness, it's a cop-out, regardless of whether copping out is the point. Who cares if it's the point? It's still bad.

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

The sad part is I thought the ending was more fun than the rest of the movie, at least when it wasn't sappy.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 2 March 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

well i went with Jackass in the end cos no-one else i was with wanted to see Adaptation - still i thought 'Jackass' was largely fantastic, the intro and outro sequences being particularly outstanding, had me in awe and scratching my head wondering how they did it, and also actually envying them even more for creating such memorable experiences for themselves unlike my predictable mundane unactive life at the mo - so it inspired me basically. the film itself did tail off a bit for me - but 'golfers horn', 'roller disco truck' and all the japan bits were the best, i was hoping the final round of stunts would be the funniest or most ostentatious but the randomness of it all works too i guess.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 9 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

four years pass...

i only just saw Adaptation.

― blueski, Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link

reactions etc?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link

why is this on ILM? madness

― blueski, Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link

watched jackass 2 last weekend. classic beyond classic.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link

rubbish more like.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link

gayest movie evar - also v awz

― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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if i only see one movie in the next 2 weeks, what should it be - Jackass or Adaptation?