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Post by cadd on Oct 11, 2005 0:52:08 GMT
Have just watched this.
Maybe not quite as life affirming as something like Amelie but I felt a good film and would recommend it.
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Post by John Brainlove on Oct 11, 2005 1:53:52 GMT
The movie version of Requiem For a Dream is very accomplished but totally fucking depressing. I love it as a movie, but the book is a lot better and more rounded I think.
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Post by cadd on Oct 11, 2005 12:01:46 GMT
I have only given up on a couple of books in my life. The last one was a Hubert Selby Jr one. Can't remember the title, some woman gets blinded by something thrown in her face and her boyfriend is taken in by a subterranean living street person. Closed it and took it back to the library about a third of the way into it as it just wasn't doing it for me.
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Post by John Brainlove on Oct 11, 2005 12:36:43 GMT
Last Exit to Brooklyn?
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Post by Tom-From-Sparks on Oct 11, 2005 14:05:08 GMT
It's a good film, the denegration of the lead's mother always affects me everytime I watch it.
Makes you think about it for days afterwards, which is always the sign of a good film.
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Post by ana milgram on Oct 11, 2005 14:16:02 GMT
yeah, I remember wanting to like this, but not quite being able to. It's well made, but there's something that it was missing in order to make up for all the harshness, for me anyway.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love really grim films (Dancer in the Dark for example), but this just left me feeling kind of grey. Maybe that was the point...
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Post by Smileadelic on Oct 11, 2005 16:59:25 GMT
Pretty good, but I like "Pi" a lot more.
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Post by cadd on Oct 11, 2005 17:09:06 GMT
No John, the book wasn't Last Exit To Brooklyn, which I bought recently. Have the movie on video. Is all his stuff so cheery ?
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Post by John Brainlove on Oct 11, 2005 18:31:50 GMT
Yup. Life for old Hubey is just one long barrel of um monkeys.
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Post by stuartmilgram on Oct 12, 2005 8:44:36 GMT
a barrel of monkeys. Now that would be fun.
where do i get me one of those?
re: requiem... I think i got more out of it than ana, cos maybe i identified with it more. can't remember much about it now, just that i thought it was good, and that there was a lot of truth under the fiction.
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Post by tafkac on Oct 12, 2005 11:07:35 GMT
Pretty good, but I like "Pi" a lot more. What, Magnum Pi?
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Post by Smileadelic on Oct 12, 2005 12:17:15 GMT
Pi in the sky.
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Post by tafkac on Oct 12, 2005 14:20:04 GMT
The EmPIre Strikes Back?
This doesn't make any sense anymore
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Post by Raanraals on Oct 12, 2005 14:41:20 GMT
PIrates of the Caribbean? American PIe? SPIderman?
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