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Succumbing to emotional impact????? Embarrassed? Not moi...

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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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best John Cusack film: "Better off Dead" - petew 12:44:17 08/15/02 (1)
well don't pay me no mind...I enjoy the Hollywood dreck that gets VK in such a foam, and I love the foreign/indy films too.
but too much of the latter makes me depressed or insane...
i'm tired
it's nice not to have to think, just sit sipping and let Ron tell us a story with a happy ending...and then to sleep; perchance to dream.
we all know the story of our lives...we all see dead people...people who, like a Hollywood formula film, are just going through the motions of living...headed for that inevitable, predictable, "happy ending" {...a good husband and father...a dependable employee...solid citizen...never strayed from the straight and narrow, nor took the chance at chasing the white rabbit down the hole...never thought to step through the looking glass...died without ever having lived...Amen.}

after seeing Easy Rider I didn't sleep for weeks
then again I watched "Henry V", crying my eyes out at the beauty of the writing...Kenny B. God bless you, you are brilliant as Harry.
we few, we happy few...
oh yes, I see dead people
doesn't everyone?
so once again into the breach...
wearing the leek proudly on St. Crispian's Day.
i can't watch too much of the good stuff...
who's for invading France?...those bastards! catch me after a film like that and I'm up for anything...anything
holding on to my Hollywood sanity is a life's work enough.
- OK - Let's do it! - Harmonia 14:57:54 08/15/02 (0)
  Invade France, I mean. Good idea.
  Just bought the Criterion Collection Edition of Henry V this week. Like Ken's version too. (But like Walton's score for Olivier's better than Ken's soundtrack.)
  My fave JC films are the two I mentioned, in for 3rd & 4th would be High Fidelity & Grosse Point Blank, then Eight Men Out.
  Yeah, I know, sometimes I have same reaction to VK's posts. I'm snotty, but sometimes I just wanna be entertained. I like all kinds of films, commercial, classic, indy, foreign... LORDY - the SO just called we're headed to The Piano Player tonight. I better est up.

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