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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Wow, on my way out, and this is the film....
I watched this a year ago, and I thought this film was a work of art. Now I'm watching it after finding out I'm dying from pancreatic cancer (so they say) and in addition to Kate winslet actually looking like the last love of my life, the story has multiple meanings that are manifesting after a couple viewings.
How it points out these things that almost universaly affect us all is just amazing.
I think of Amy and the the things about her that got to me early on, and then the negatives from us both that ended the relationship. Now as I contemplate, she having gotten married to someone else, and having sought me out when troubles were going on a couple years back,
well, this movie put's those thoughts in perspective.
I'm re-watching it now, and contemplating giving her a call, just to put this life's acts in a meaningfull perspective.
This film hits on those areas we sometimes don't take seriously enough.
Great movie.
Grindhouse (2007)
Camp b ...but I do like it...
All right.. I know how fashionable it is to love these two, and with reason.. BUT just to put it in a reasonable light.... The exploitation flicks were not done with what Q & R did here... They were done with the film-making excess of the 70's, which was a cultural phenom of that time. These are over the top stylistically, to emphasize this....
I loved it for that reason, even though it resembles an over the top approximation of these films. But I guess that was the point...
I'm right now watching "Joe" which is an exploitation flick about Drugs, Hippies, and the Staunch American Right.
(Mr. Bubble and Fantastic! products feature in this, so far) SOOO... It's interpretive, and as such, is what it is....
I loved it all the same.
Still want to see the process that made Pulp thrive again.. Peace
Sodbusters (1994)
Very funny satire
I thought this film was very well-made for the type of humor it was going for (and which is my type)- Dry, droll, and using scenes which happen in real life.
Take when Shorty tries to rally support to fight the "barons". At one point, he forgets a word, and though it's a common word, no one else can get his clues; just like it's happened to me before. It's frustrating, so it's funny. A paraphrase of the scene, which actually extends further into the film at an unexpected moment. "... so,what are you gonna do? Nothing? You gonna just stick your heads in the sand like a.. a... hell,a.. Big bird, runs like hell..(everyones looking confused, shaking heads) Hides it's head in sand! A big bird!
You know, real long legs, runs like hell...(no one gets it)
Then 15 minutes later, when Shorty and the others enter the saloon where the bad guys hang- a somber moment, you can hear a pin drop- Shorty suddenly yells out, "Ostrich!". This caught me by surprise, and tied in with the humor of the first part of the scene in a way that had me rolling on the floor almost. Or when they meet in Shorty's house _ where everythings scaled uncomfortably down in size for a small person- Shorty has a huge fire burning in the fireplace, and everyone's sweating, and the one guy says "is it dry in here, or is it me?" And his top lip is stuck way up on his teeth, very funny visual.
Or Fred willard's comment to his son about something, and uses the word "ironical".
Or when the dumb bad guy tries to outdo Kristoferson (sp) in rhetoric:
" where you from stranger?"
(dryly) "A little place you probably never heard of"
"Try me"
"Texas"
"Hell, I heard a Texas!"
" Well maybe you ain't as dumb as you look"
(Bad guys thinking hard for a moment) Then says: "Well maybe I am, and maybe I ain't" Good movie.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
A film that combines all genres while creating it's own
OK, I thought I'd write my review after seeing it for probably the 25th time, while straight, stoned and in between.
First, I'm almost a Tarantino character in real life.
Great for movies; sucks in real life.
Spent 15 years in prison for property crimes from a life of drug use/abuse. I'm also an accomplished blues/jazz/funk/rock guitarist HTTP://www.myspace.com/randallcasters (mostly rock, check out pulp fiction inspired surf; "conversation stopper"), and am also a maker of guitars and used to be a clandestine chemist who "dreamed" up "ecstacy" among other phenethylamine-type drugs. That's been over with for awhile now.
That out of the way, let me begin first, by how much Q.T's personal story of working in video shops and how he wrote and acted to get to the point of PF moved me.
I first saw the movie after getting out of the Joint in '98, after I'd heard about it, and it had been out on VHS for quite awhile.
I was sick as a dog from some virus and watched while laying on the floor in a fever induced delirium.
I didn't get it right then, or was able to appreciate the subtle and not so subtle greatness of the film.
That began a series of viewings over the years during which all the facets of this masterpiece, in writing, direction, acting, showed themselves, and made me appreciate the genius of QT.
From the start, it engrosses. Tim Roth's and Amanda Plummer's acting along with the dialog, just borders on the surreal. It's the concept of talking in a crowd while knowing your conversation is yadda yadda just like everyone else's, no matter your subject. All anyone has to do, is check the facial cues of those around you, to detect if anyone is actually listening.
Look at Roth's use of his hands as he speaks. How he accents lines by the ways he blows out smoke from his cig. Genius. The way Honeybunny effusively says thank you when the waitress brings more coffee. These little points are the essence of PF.
The film is full of them.
So much has been said about the dialog between Jules and Vince in the car, that I can't add anything, but that it is genius...period.
The scene in the apt., also, a perfect combination of well written dialog combined with perfect acting. The rub is that the imperfections, when they occur,actually ADD to the totality of the film.
it's like QT had the film god with him throughout.
Mistakes galore. My favorite scene is Chris waken's with the young Butch.
The way Walken permutes to soldier/racist in his delivery after
"this watch....", and his inflections are just hilarious!
"and..one place he knew he could hide it.."HIS ASS" "I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal..(up my ass), TWO YEARS>> No other film will approach this one in mt lifetime!!!!!!
get WI me for talk Y'all!.