|
MotM is back  . This sounds interesting (especially in being compared to Blue Velvet and After Hours in that essay) so I'll try to watch it in the next couple of weeks
|
#
¿
Feb 5, 2019 06:31
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 17, 2024 13:43 |
|
|
It starts out as a light road movie and something that'd probably inspire chameleonic identity thieves and people suffering from dissociative identity disorder alike. The hard shift halfway through is a jolt but it's not unbelievable. Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels) has to turn into a wildman. It reminded me of Dustin Hoffman's character shift in Straw Dogs (1971). That Criterion essay mentions Melanie Griffith's similarity to Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box (1929) but I was also reminded of Najwa Nimri's Nuria in Open Your Eyes (1997). Idahoant posted:While Something Wild, Blue Velvet and After Hours all play on the ordinary joe getting in over their head in underground stuff because they are attracted to a woman, they are also quite different takes on the topic. But they are all excellent movies in their own ways. I mostly remember Something Wild as the first movie I saw Ray Liotta in, and he is amazing in it and really demonstrates the qualities that would go on to make him such a big star. Yea, I can see the comparisons. The film I was most reminded of was probably Bad Influence (1990) in regards to the dynamic between James Spader and Rob Lowe's characters compared against Jeff Daniels and Ray Liotta's characters. Bad Influence itself feels like a precursor to Fight Club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5qkRX-d_2Q
|
|
#
¿
Feb 17, 2019 01:02
|
|
|
Franchescanado posted:I am curious: What are some thoughts about the ending? I thought it was a crowd-pleasing ending. The more realistic ending is probably Charlie being murdered. Franchescanado posted:Is Charlie and Lulu going to live happily ever after? I doubt it. Charlie seemed to reject the yuppie lifestyle by the end. Franchescanado posted:Or should we just go ahead and steal how TBB does Book of the Month? People suggest films, I make a poll, everyone votes, I write the OP for the winner. Many years ago in the halcyon days of MotM we did a nomination process and then created a poll each month. Whoever nominated the winning film then had to make the thread itself. That lasted for a time but then it went to more of a free-for-all. It looks like some people are lined up already in the GenChat thread. But if it ever slows down then I think the poll option would work since it did before.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 26, 2019 22:11
|
|