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In Reply to: A Beautiful Mind & Fight Club posted by petew on August 10, 2002 at 08:43:58:
I cried at the end of LOTR, does that count? A Beautiful Mind did inspire a direct emotional response in my stony heart - the longer I watched it the more annoyed I became. (Yes, I've seen that photo you mention, and one or two apt allusions does not a satisfying cinematic experience make.) I don't dislike this movie for messing with the facts - I don't like ABM because, depite a promising beginning, IMO it succumbs do the script's banalities and pat ending. The failure for me is in the execution, not the subject matter. Did I hear "formula"?Far from being unwilling to connect emotionally, I'm just more emotionally involved with a film when the "storytelling" is less determinedly self-serving. (I have enjoyed some of Opie's films. ABM is not one of them.) So we disagree. But here in the great digital 21st century, you can watch ABM to your heart's content, while I can happily avoid it, now Oscar season has ended.
Fight Club is a whole 'nother story in my book - it was indeed unfairly criticized. Maybe it was because it starred Brad Pitt. (Didn't anyone remember 12 Monkeys?) This was one of the boldest Hollywood films of the past decade. At least we agree on that. I'd much rather see a flawed but brave attempt than a successful nonentity.
I must confess total bafflement regarding my "harsh and arbitrary film standard worldview". Besides, there's barely a paranoid bone in my body (I reserve all my paranoia for John Ashcroft). I don't feel my fun factor is lacking. Not since the advent of DVDs. I am a fun audiogurl and movie lover, fersher. In fact, I just had some fun tonight with ...Say Anything and The Grifters. It was John Cusack fun night at Casa Harmonia.
This weekend it'll be back to the sackcloth and ashes, ploughing through the Sight & Sound top 100...
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Follow Ups
- Succumbing to emotional impact????? Embarrassed? Not moi... - Harmonia 22:52:15 08/13/02 (2)
- best John Cusack film: "Better off Dead" - petew 12:44:17 08/15/02 (1)
- OK - Let's do it! - Harmonia 14:57:54 08/15/02 (0)
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