I saw this last night and adored it. I'm on a deadline right now, so more to come, but for the moment just wanted to share one of my favorite lines: "You can't avoid everyone you've fucked up with."
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Wesley
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So, this really wasn't just another movie about literate but aimless people just hanging out 'cause they've gotno better idea what to do? That's what the synopses made me fear it was. The aestheticisation of inertia and non-commitalness -ugh! - it seems to be a trend in movies and music by young people lately. Ugh, ugh! But everyone seemsto love this one.
na, it's more (mostly) smart people forced to work at adventureland bec. they can't find a job elsewhere (not unlike what today's college grads are facing). i haven't done a lot of the young people movies lately, i guess...which ones do you mean? I still have to think about this one, but i found it extremely charming....main characters hair drove me nuts though.
I had the normal upbringing with regard to movies, which is to say I went occasionally but nobody, including me, made too big a deal out of them. That changed in my mid-twenties, when I lived, for a brief and unhappy year, in Chicago. I knew few people, didn’t have a lot of work, was lonely, and needed to entertain myself. I discovered that I loved going to movies alone. That they left me in a contemplative, introspective state of mind that I really enjoyed.
When I moved to New York and began freelancing, I found that going to movies helped me write. I’d review my notes on a story, go to a movie, come back, sit down and the story—which had nothing at all to do with the movie—would just pour out. Maybe I was letting my subconscious work while the rest of my brain enjoyed itself. Maybe it was that contemplative state of mind I was talking about. Who knows? The only thing I really knew for sure was that it worked.
When I was writing my first book, I often saw a movie every morning as a prelude to the afternoon’s work. That meant I saw A LOT of movies, some great, some awful. You can’t be too picky when you’re seeing movies at that pace. My favorite movie experience during that time was when I went to see “Lord of the Rings.”
I had not read the books. It was long. I hadn’t read any reviews—I almost never read reviews (too many spoilers, and the critics’ views have a way of worming their way into your brain). I wasn’t totally thrilled about it, but I had few other choices. It was lunchtime, and on the way I stopped, on impulse, at Murray’s and got a sesame bagel with whitefish salad. And I picked up my customary enormous diet coke on the way in.
Well. The movie was beautiful—it was shot in New Zealand—and enormously entertaining. It had Ian Mackellan in it (a big plus), and the bagel with whitefish salad and (it almost goes without saying) the diet coke were sublime. And it was a LONG movie. So I really got to relish the experience. It was, in short…perfection. And that, my friends, is how this blog--which is, in essence, a movie lover's diary--got its name.
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So, this really wasn't just another movie about literate but aimless people just hanging out 'cause they've gotno better idea what to do? That's what the synopses made me fear it was. The aestheticisation of inertia and non-commitalness -ugh! - it seems to be a trend in movies and music by young people lately. Ugh, ugh! But everyone seemsto love this one.
na, it's more (mostly) smart people forced to work at adventureland bec. they can't find a job elsewhere (not unlike what today's college grads are facing). i haven't done a lot of the young people movies lately, i guess...which ones do you mean? I still have to think about this one, but i found it extremely charming....main characters hair drove me nuts though.
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