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Grex > Agora35 > #20: Movies, movies, movies, movies, movies, movies, movies | |
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brighn
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response 67 of 323:
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Oct 2 14:02 UTC 2000 |
Fight club was underrated, probably because it was too niche -- most of the
people who could handle the pure gore of it weren't able to get the depth of
it.
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jerryr
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response 68 of 323:
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Oct 2 14:05 UTC 2000 |
i found it boring.
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polygon
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response 69 of 323:
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Oct 2 14:52 UTC 2000 |
I always make sure Sarah's closet door is closed when we put her to bed.
We were warned that children who sleep with a light always on at night
have vision problems later on. (per our pediatrician)
Yes, our cats often sleep on our bed with us.
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brighn
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response 70 of 323:
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Oct 2 14:55 UTC 2000 |
#68> QED.
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lelande
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response 71 of 323:
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Oct 2 16:26 UTC 2000 |
resp:67
that declaration sounds like it rubs right against what the more deeply
immersed ideas in 'fight club' are meant to reveal.
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brighn
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response 72 of 323:
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Oct 2 17:16 UTC 2000 |
#71> Plz clarify.
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ashke
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response 73 of 323:
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Oct 2 17:32 UTC 2000 |
I have to leave the door open, not only for the kitties to sleep with me, but
for the "kitten olympics" that happen every night, just AFTER I'm trying to
go to sleep. Open door means less broken kitties. Mine trade off, however,
Tanis (the younger) will sleep at my feet to begin with, and I usually end
up waking up with Precious cuddling in my arms. Only when I'm truly upset
do they cuddle at the same time with me. They're my protectors.
I like Fight Club, it was very cool. Once you started to TRULY understand
it, I was like OH! COOL! However, I must admit that they had me when they
were talking about Bob's (Meatloaf's) bitch tits. I said "Cool...hee hee"
Green Mile was beautiful. My butt didn't fall asleep. It was a great movie.
I like the way this particular man adapts Kings novels. He did a great job
with Shawshank Redemption, and this one as well. If you go back and read the
novel again after seeing the movie, they were so good with the staging of it,
you can see the movie and the people and hear the voices in your head talking
as you read. A wonderful experience all around.
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lelande
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response 74 of 323:
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Oct 3 12:51 UTC 2000 |
resp:72
nothing elaborate. i was just thinking that fight club was a remarkably
anti-intellectual pro-visceral-experience movie, and that the deeply
embedded meaning could well have been delivered like a crushing sock to the
jaw -- which can be duly 'ascertained' by anyone favoring the rock 'em sock
'em action 'n' kung-fu 'n' such genres. ne?
fight club doesn't 'deliver' its themes so much as it rapes you with them.
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brighn
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response 75 of 323:
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Oct 3 14:18 UTC 2000 |
Well, it was a very intellectual anti-intellectual movie.
Self-deconstructing, even more so than American Psycho.
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jazz
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response 76 of 323:
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Oct 3 14:20 UTC 2000 |
There I disagree. _Fight Club_ doesn't steep it's message in metaphor,
nor does it expect to convey a deep meaning about human existence by the
mise-en-scene of random rubbish about the condemned house the central
character(s) inhabit, but it doesn't stop at the end and absolutely spell out
the moral of the story, either, as several recent American films from _Do the
Right Thing_ to _American Beauty_ have.
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jazz
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response 77 of 323:
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Oct 3 14:20 UTC 2000 |
#75 slipped in.
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tod
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response 78 of 323:
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Oct 3 15:11 UTC 2000 |
I thought "Fight Club" was a place for gay men to meet each other at the
theater.
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jazz
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response 79 of 323:
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Oct 3 15:30 UTC 2000 |
Well, since they can't meet at the Boy Scouts meetings anymore ...
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tod
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response 80 of 323:
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Oct 3 17:11 UTC 2000 |
I know there's a Young Gay Republicans(or something like that).
Is there a gay NRA association? If there isn't, there should be.
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brighn
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response 81 of 323:
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Oct 3 17:16 UTC 2000 |
Damn, I knew I should've seen Fight Club at the theater instead of renting
it...
No wonder the Blockbuster clerk winked at me. And he'd been fired by the time
I returned it.
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tod
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response 82 of 323:
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Oct 3 17:18 UTC 2000 |
He was at the NRA meeting. You should've rented "Hang em High", too.
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bru
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response 83 of 323:
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Oct 4 00:36 UTC 2000 |
There are gay people who are members of the NRA, Republican, and have
concealed carry permits.
There are even some NRA members who are liberals!
The NRA is everywhere!
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tod
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response 84 of 323:
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Oct 4 15:03 UTC 2000 |
There are even Pro-Choice NRA Members!
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tpryan
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response 85 of 323:
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Oct 4 16:11 UTC 2000 |
Rocky Horror DVD Show is great! Amazing amount of extra goodies
on this two disc set.
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edina
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response 86 of 323:
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Oct 4 21:07 UTC 2000 |
Yesterday was Chick Flick Film Fest at the Edmunds household.
28 Days - A very good movie - love, love, love Sandra Bullock
Hanging Up - Annoying - could Meg Ryan please try to stretch herself as an
actress please
Where the Heart Is - Very much kept to the book - well cast - Stockard
Channing was awesome
I am partly through Snow Falls on Cedars - so far it is very slow and a bit
to artsy for its own good.
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mcnally
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response 87 of 323:
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Oct 4 22:22 UTC 2000 |
I found the narrative style used in "Snow Falling on Cedars" to be very
annoying. People who have read the book and seen the movie tell me that
the movie is very faithful to the book but I think that faithfulness is
not necessarily a virtue here -- movies and novels tell stories in
different ways and what works in a novel may not work in a movie.
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wyrefall
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response 88 of 323:
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Oct 5 03:03 UTC 2000 |
re86 If you love Sandra Bullock, have you seen _The Net_ or _Forces of
Nature_? I was just wondering about what you thought about her roles in those
movies.
Also, regarding _Fight Club_, One of the reasons I like(d) it so much is
because it seems to be a breathing contradiction (if that makes any sense).
The characters are all very multi-faceted, like the real people I know, and
not all glossed over and perfect-ish with only minor surface impurities. It
illustrates a thought process, a 'what-if' scenario very aptly. I would write
more, and make comments about some others, but I have to go do my laundry.
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edina
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response 89 of 323:
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Oct 5 03:16 UTC 2000 |
I have not seen either of the Sandra Bullock movies - but the one I liked her
in before this was "Hope Floats" - which I hated in the beginning, but now
I really like. I think she is a pretty good actress and has a lot of
character.
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aruba
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response 90 of 323:
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Oct 5 03:57 UTC 2000 |
I liked "While You Were Sleeping" a lot.
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mary
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response 91 of 323:
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Oct 5 11:48 UTC 2000 |
Bullock plays one-dimensional victims very well.
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