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Status : Offline | I enjoyed The quick and the Dead, for a Rami flick it was quite different (Evil dead guy, more recently of Spider man fame).
I HIGHLY recommend Tombstone if you haven't watched it before. One of the all time best westerns imo. Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday was simply amazing, he should have won an oscar for that role imo.
Also another great western is Lonesome Dove, the original one with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
Then there two of my "guilty pleasure" westerns, Young Guns I and II. I loved these as a kid, just good popcorn westerns with a great cast of characters. Emilio Estevez as Billy the kid was hilarious. If you like TQATD you'll most likely enjoy these two films.
A more recent western that I found quite good was Broken Trail. It was made a few years back and also starred Robert Duvall along with Thomas HAyden church. Robert Duvall even said it was one of his personal favorite films that he's done.
If you are interested in Classics then:
Good Bad and the Ugly
Fistful of Dollars
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Magnificent Seven
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| 20 FEB 2011 at 10:46am |
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Status : Offline | Hey, thanks for all those rec's, Stiler! A lot of them are familiar names, but I haven't seen most of them.
Well, look what I found when I checked my usual online store for some of those: http://qualityrack.com/productdetail.aspx?ID=826831070070&Western-Classics-50-Movie-Pack---12-Disc-Set-
This 12-DVD set includes 50 western films. Titles include KENTUCKY RIFLE, VENGEANCE VALLEY, JUDAS PRIEST, THE SUNDOWNERS, THE SOUTHERNERS, ROGUE RIVER, GUNSLINGERS, HELLTOWN, MOHAWK and more.
Are any of those movies any good?
It seems like a lot of flick for your buck, but a lot of the flicks might be rubishy fillers too... :-/
Anyway, I do like Tommy Lee Jones, so any movies with him in it are cool in my book.
/me remembers MIB and laughs.
I've seen some more serious more "military" movies with him playing in them too.
Yes, I vaguely remember Young Guns, it might be worth watching it again.
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| 20 FEB 2011 at 2:17pm |
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Status : Offline | Last night I watched a really lovely movie called "Let Me In". The title (and case artwork suggest a horror movie, and indeed there are scenes with blood and gore, but mostly the story is just about a boy in a small town. He has no friends and is bullied at school. His mother isn't particularly responsive.
Then a girl his age, who doesn't go to school and only comes out at night, barefooted in the middle of winter, moves in next door---and dead bodies start appearing.
The only knock I could give the movie is that it has a mediocre soundtrack (being composed by the same guy who scored "Lost". Otherwise, though, it's a stellar film in every respect, and is a great way to spend a quiet evening. [smiley=thumbup.gif]
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 20 FEB 2011 at 2:27pm |
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By JKing (20 FEB 2011 2:17pm)
Last night I watched a really lovely movie called "Let Me In". The title (and case artwork suggest a horror movie, and indeed there are scenes with blood and gore, but mostly the story is just about a boy in a small town. He has no friends and is bullied at school. His mother isn't particularly responsive.
Then a girl his age, who doesn't go to school and only comes out at night, barefooted in the middle of winter, moves in next door---and dead bodies start appearing.
The only knock I could give the movie is that it has a mediocre soundtrack (being composed by the same guy who scored "Lost". Otherwise, though, it's a stellar film in every respect, and is a great way to spend a quiet evening. [smiley=thumbup.gif]
Isn't this that remake of: "Let the Right One In" ?
It was the Goodreads review of the book which inspired the films, that we were discussing in the "What are you reading?" thread the other day.
EDIT: Oops, sorry, - no it was in this thread.
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"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 20 FEB 2011 at 2:30pm |
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| 20 FEB 2011 at 2:38pm |
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By JKing (20 FEB 2011 2:30pm)
Indeed. I've no exposure to the source material, however.
Ah- you've not been keeping up either here or at Goodreads, then...
Anyway, as a Canadian, I've been wondering how your country's snow-coping capabilities measure up? [smiley=angel.gif]
Oh, btw - so you didn't find the movie very upsetting, then? I've been nervous of reading the book because everyone says it's so upsetting.
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"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 20 FEB 2011 at 2:56pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (20 FEB 2011 2:38pm)
Ah- you've not been keeping up either here or at Goodreads, then...
I do try, but I'm not as young as I used to be!
Anyway, as a Canadian, I've been wondering how your country's snow-coping capabilities measure up? [smiley=angel.gif]
That varies by region. In places like Quebec City, Montreal, Barrie, (probably) Edmonton and generally anywhere the least bit north, snow is simply a fact of life, and municipalities and residents tend to be quite ready for the eventuality. Schools do indeed close, generally every year, for two or three days here and there, but I don't recall it being that often.
Around here (being Mississauga and Toronto) a good decent snowfall happens once or twice a year, though, if that, and a truly heavy snowfall maybe once every five years. The municipalities tend not to be ready for anything but a modest snowfall, and buses can be late, roads take a while to get cleared, etc, etc. It's a bit of a pain.
Oh, btw - so you didn't find the movie very upsetting, then? I've been nervous of reading the book because everyone says it's so upsetting.
No, I didn't find it upsetting. Sad, definitely, in that the girl seems to lead a very empty and futile life, but I suppose we all do in a way.
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| 20 FEB 2011 at 4:12pm |
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (20 FEB 2011 10:46am)
Hey, thanks for all those rec's, Stiler! A lot of them are familiar names, but I haven't seen most of them.
Well, look what I found when I checked my usual online store for some of those: http://qualityrack.com/productdetail.aspx?ID=826831070070&Western-Classics-50-Movie-Pack---12-Disc-Set-
This 12-DVD set includes 50 western films. Titles include KENTUCKY RIFLE, VENGEANCE VALLEY, JUDAS PRIEST, THE SUNDOWNERS, THE SOUTHERNERS, ROGUE RIVER, GUNSLINGERS, HELLTOWN, MOHAWK and more.
Are any of those movies any good?
It seems like a lot of flick for your buck, but a lot of the flicks might be rubishy fillers too... :-/
Anyway, I do like Tommy Lee Jones, so any movies with him in it are cool in my book.
/me remembers MIB and laughs.
I've seen some more serious more "military" movies with him playing in them too.
Yes, I vaguely remember Young Guns, it might be worth watching it again.
Most of those seem like Fillers, I haven't watched many of them but looking at IMDB, aside from The Sundowners and Gunslingers, most were low rated.
Originally Posted By JKing (20 FEB 2011 2:17pm)
Last night I watched a really lovely movie called "Let Me In". The title (and case artwork suggest a horror movie, and indeed there are scenes with blood and gore, but mostly the story is just about a boy in a small town. He has no friends and is bullied at school. His mother isn't particularly responsive.
Then a girl his age, who doesn't go to school and only comes out at night, barefooted in the middle of winter, moves in next door---and dead bodies start appearing.
The only knock I could give the movie is that it has a mediocre soundtrack (being composed by the same guy who scored "Lost". Otherwise, though, it's a stellar film in every respect, and is a great way to spend a quiet evening. [smiley=thumbup.gif]
I have watched both Let the right one in and this American version. For a "remake" it follows the other one VERY closely compared to most remakes, but like most American remakes, they toned down things and let Political correctness in.
For example, a couple of MAJOR changes they did (spoilers for Let the right one in obviously)
Spoiler AlertYou assumed she was talking about being a vampire right? No, She isn't a she, she is a He, he was a castrated boy at a young age (thus he didn't develop more masculine as you hit that age he was when he was turned).
In Let the right one in, while it doesn't go back to that, it has a shocking scene where you see that the vampire is castrated, and thus not a girl. In the American "Let me in" they axed this entire reveal, but still had the vampire saying "I'm not a girl" and just left it hanging for no one to actually know.
Also another huge change was the older guy who was watching over her. In the American version you saw a picture of the vampire and guy when they were much younger, leading you to believe that he was like the boy? So it was as though it was a glimpse into his future if he chose to stay with her.
However in Let the right one in, the guy is portrayed differently, there's no picture of him when he's young or anything. The vampire was using him, she did not "care" for him like the boy.
In the Book the guy was a pedophile, definitely not the same relationship as the vampire had with the boy
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| 20 FEB 2011 at 10:21pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (20 FEB 2011 8:42am)
Now I'm going to see if I can find True Grit. I see the original was with John Wayne, huh?
Right. And I should clarify that the original movie was quite good and well is worth tracking down. It was however jarringly different in tone and intensity from the remake, which I had seen first and perhaps was a factor in preferring it.
I'll have to check out the films you and Stiler mentioned as I'm in something of a Western mood. I can second The Magnificent Seven, there are a lot of stars in that one. Too many perhaps, as it's hard to find enough screen time for that many great actors.
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 12:26am |
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Originally Posted By Andromus (20 FEB 2011 10:21pm)
Originally Posted By placeholder (20 FEB 2011 8:42am)
Now I'm going to see if I can find True Grit. I see the original was with John Wayne, huh?
Right. And I should clarify that the original movie was quite good and well is worth tracking down. It was however jarringly different in tone and intensity from the remake, which I had seen first and perhaps was a factor in preferring it.
I'll have to check out the films you and Stiler mentioned as I'm in something of a Western mood. I can second The Magnificent Seven, there are a lot of stars in that one. Too many perhaps, as it's hard to find enough screen time for that many great actors.
Although not a western, The Dirty Dozen was also a terrific, star-packed action flick from the same mold as The Magnificent Seven.
Heck, even football great Jim Brown and singer Trini Lopez were good in it...
Cheers, Terry
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 2:51am |
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Status : Offline | The Dirty Dozen is one of those films I'll turn on anytime it pops up on TV, it's such a quintessential guys film. With so many powerful performances by the toughest of classic action film actors, it's one of the most enjoyable films of its kind around.
On the subject of Westerns, one I've recently enjoyed was Quigley Down Under. It's not a classic by any means, but has a certain amount of charm, having attained a sort of cult status. Tom Selleck stars as an American cowboy adventuring in the Australian outback. Alan Rickman is, well, Alan Rickman, playing his usual sort of rather slick baddie, and Laura San Giacomo is an rather addled love interest who mistakes Quigley for her former husband.
In a similar vein in terms of not being a classic film, but nevertheless being very entertaining is Maverick with Mel Gibson. It's the Pirates of the Caribbean of Western films, just a lot of goofy fun.
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 4:10am |
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Status : Offline | Ah yes, Quigly down under, i enjoyed that one quite a bit.
The woman (the one from Pretty Woman) was great in it, started out a bit annoying but the way her character grew over the film was nice and you come to like her more and more as you find out about what happened to her.
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 4:30am |
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Stiler (20 FEB 2011 4:12pm)
I have watched both Let the right one in and this American version. For a "remake" it follows the other one VERY closely compared to most remakes, but like most American remakes, they toned down things and let Political correctness in.
For example, a couple of MAJOR changes they did (spoilers for Let the right one in obviously)
Spoiler AlertYou assumed she was talking about being a vampire right? No, She isn't a she, she is a He, he was a castrated boy at a young age (thus he didn't develop more masculine as you hit that age he was when he was turned).
[...]
However in Let the right one in, the guy is portrayed differently, there's no picture of him when he's young or anything. The vampire was using him, she did not "care" for him like the boy.
In the Book the guy was a pedophile, definitely not the same relationship as the vampire had with the boy
Personally I'll choose not to see these aspects as a bowing to political correctness. Something being risqué does not necessarily make it better: there's a certain poignancy to the foreshadowing, the sense of doom. To each their own, I suppose, but I'm glad some creative license was employed.
Switching gears, I actually went out of my way to watch a movie tonight---namely, Inception.
On the balance it was good, but like many recent movies it suffered from being too long. Unlike most of said subset, however, it mainly suffered from being too long. This makes it difficult to judge its other aspects objectively, though, because pacing can oftentimes be everything. I think I'll have to sleep on it.
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 6:14am |
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Status : Offline | Inception is just... bad. I honestly don't understand the hype. Everything is explained in the first 15 minutes, so I don't know where all these people get ideas that it's - pardon my language - a mindfuck. It's a boring, linear movie with shallow characters. And I watched it twice because I couldn't believe I disliked it the first time, since I love Nolan, Leo and of course, Cillian Murphy. Ugh.
I did see 127 Hours the other day and I thought it really good I hope it wins an Oscar or two.
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 6:44am |
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Status : Offline | Like they say - it's a wonderful world, and we're all different. I again, loved Inception just the way it was. I wouldn't change a single aspect of it...- except perhaps to add a little more colour. I've never believed the fallacy that all people dream in black and white. I certainly don't.
..but the length and pacing was just perfect, I found, as you find the protagonist's sad story gently unravelling. The pace that this happens at, I found was perfect - neither too fast or too slow...and as for the dream "technology" which is kind of cute but necessary for the events of the backstory, and the musings about the power of suggestion on the subconsious mind - I also found that the way the 'dream technology' was displayed also took place at just thre right pace for me.
All in all I found a lot to like about Inception, and hardly anything to dislike.
Everything is explained in the first 15 minutes
So did you know exactly what had happened and was going to happen to Dom Cobb in the first 15 mins already? I must really be dense...- because I only found out at the very last scene of the film, what the conclusion to his story would be... :-/
Will make sure to check out 127 Hours. But first I wanna check out Black Swan. Perhaps tomorrow, if I have time. 8-)
About 127 hours before I even watch the movie: [Start rant mode I'll bet the movie made no big deal about how incredibly stupid it is and against all mountaineering policy to go mountaineering on your own. Accidents happen very often, which is why you should take at least one person with you! This is a well-known rule in mountaineering circles, and the mavericks who are into "solo-ing" usually don't get much sympathy when they get their heads bashed in on the rock or die of exposure because of their idiocy. [ /rant mode off]
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 10:24am |
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Status : Offline | The "boring" aspect of Inception certainly came from monotone colours, that's for sure. None of the locations there were in appealed to me and visuals, although masterfully done, are something I've seen numerous times before, especially the Penrose staircase. I don't know, all ideas used in the film seemed like I'd seen them numerous times before. Dream within a dream (within a dream etc.), how one can change the world - I mean, it's a god damn dream, anything can happen. Most of it reminded me of The Matrix, minus the killer sentinels.
It's probably just me, since I loved Nolan's previous movies (except The Dark Knight, it was so loooong and Bale's Batman is tedious to listen to x_O).
Like I said, characters were so shallow nothing made me care about them. Who is Cobb? I don't care. I don't care what happened to him nor anyone else because the movie didn't make me care.
Black Swan is really amazing, I watched it twice already It's a mixture of flawless performance on Natalie's side and beautiful, haunting music. It does have it's "...they did not need that" moments, but overall, I'll be disappointed if it doesn't get awards for score and Natalie's performance.
Haha, I watched 127 Hours without knowing anything about it, not even the original story! Just that it was about a guy who gets trapped in a canyon for 127 hours. And the movie does address the issue of mountaineering solo. It has a few very powerful scenes near the end.
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 12:05pm |
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Donna (21 FEB 2011 10:24am)
The "boring" aspect of Dream within a dream (within a dream etc.), how one can change the world - I mean, it's a god damn dream, anything can happen. Most of it reminded me of The Matrix, minus the killer sentinels.
Hmmm. However, of course in Inception, the whole idea revolves around that dreams are constructed to induce certain subjects that they (the dream engineers) entrap within the dream, to give them vital information, usually for industrial espionage purposes. So they are not changing the world in any way via the dream, they are gleaning information via the dream.
Then they decide to try something which according to the story in the film, is something hard to do (but in reality shouldn't really be so hard- since the subconscious is very vulnerable to suggestions while you're in a trance-like (dream-like) state) - they decide to actually "change somebody's mind" so to speak via a dream.
This they then manage to do with the 'dream within a dream within a dream' spiel, but for me that was just the cover story which is there as window-dressing to show us the real story - the story of Dom and his wife and kiddies.
Inception does not involve alternate realities in any kind of space, but only in perception - simply whatever the participants are experiencing within an altered state of consciousness : the architecture of an engineered shared dream, which has no bearing or influence on actual reality beyond the fact that they are influencing a person's mind via the dreams.
I guess the similarity with Matrix is the illusion that the Inception agents were "going in" to the dreamworld in much the same way (or so it seems) that the agents in Matrix "goes in" to the cyberspace reality that was created by machines in order to subdue humans. You are right, I suppose, that in Matrix, people's perception of what reality is, is also altered by the engineered "cyber reality", in a way that is admittedly rather similar to the way that the dreams are "engineered" in Inception. Though the dreams are much shorter, and done for different reasons.
The contraversial aspect of Inception lies in the idea that one can share the same dream with other persons, let alone share an engineered, fabricated dream with other persons. It implies that it is in some way still unknown to man, possible to transfer consciousness like some sort of telepathy. Since consciousness exists out of chemical transmitters and electrical wave patterns, - who knows if thoughts might not possibly be transferred one day via non-verbal dreams, and if "shared consciousness" might not one day be possible.
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"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 1:19pm |
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (21 FEB 2011 12:05pm)
I guess the similarity with Matrix is the illusion that the Inception agents were "going in" to the dreamworld in much the same way (or so it seems) that the agents in Matrix "goes in" to the cyberspace reality that was created by machines in order to subdue humans. You are right, I suppose, that in Matrix, people's perception of what reality is, is also altered by the engineered "cyber reality", in a way that is admittedly rather similar to the way that the dreams are "engineered" in Inception. Though the dreams are much shorter, and done for different reasons.
If you're curious about movies which share something in common with The Matrix and Inception, there's both "eXistenZ" and "The 13th Floor", which both deal with multi-layered computer realities. They're both very good, too, though the latter is a bit on the cheesy side. :-*
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| 21 FEB 2011 at 1:50pm |
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Status : Offline | There's also Equilibrium, though it doesn't share the whole different r ealities/twists like the other ones it came out at a similar time and had a similar look/feel to it.
A great movie if you haven't watched it, starring Christian Bale before his batman days, about a future society where people have lost the means to "feel" through drugs that they must take in order for the world to become a "utopia" and how one guy rises above that.
Originally Posted By JKing (21 FEB 2011 4:29am)
Originally Posted By Stiler (20 FEB 2011 4:12pm)
I have watched both Let the right one in and this American version. For a "remake" it follows the other one VERY closely compared to most remakes, but like most American remakes, they toned down things and let Political correctness in.
For example, a couple of MAJOR changes they did (spoilers for Let the right one in obviously)
Spoiler AlertYou assumed she was talking about being a vampire right? No, She isn't a she, she is a He, he was a castrated boy at a young age (thus he didn't develop more masculine as you hit that age he was when he was turned).
[...]
However in Let the right one in, the guy is portrayed differently, there's no picture of him when he's young or anything. The vampire was using him, she did not "care" for him like the boy.
In the Book the guy was a pedophile, definitely not the same relationship as the vampire had with the boy
Personally I'll choose not to see these aspects as a bowing to political correctness. Something being risqué does not necessarily make it better: there's a certain poignancy to the foreshadowing, the sense of doom. To each their own, I suppose, but I'm glad some creative license was employed.
Well to me, the axing of those aspects changes both the truth behind a character and the idea that the realatiponship is different, the only reason they didn't do either is because it was too "risky," I don't see how that's not bowing to the pc people that many hollywood remakes often do in order to attract more viewers or not bring down hate/scare people.
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 4:49am |
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Status : Offline | Trav, I understand all that. The problem is that the whole movie was very 'logical' to me and I didn't feel like I've seen anything new. Perhaps because some of my dreams appear too real, to the point I confused a few with reality (I had to ask people if something really happened D: ) and a few years ago, where I was at a really low point in life, it's as if my dreams almost made up for not-so-bright reality. At times it felt like an alternate universe where everything is okay.
"Planting ideas" in Inception is like hypnosis (except people don't let you incept them willingly ) and "limbo" is like coma. I don't know, maybe I'll learn to appreciate the movie at some later point.
Man, I've been meaning to see "eXistenZ" for such a long time. "Equilibrium" is a good one as well, if not a little like "o Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (regarding their modified feelings).
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 1:07pm |
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Donna (22 FEB 2011 4:49am)
Trav, I understand all that.
Yes, I know, I know. :-* :-* I just enjoy rambling on about some movies.
Perhaps because some of my dreams appear too real, to the point I confused a few with reality (I had to ask people if something really happened D: ) and a few years ago, where I was at a really low point in life, it's as if my dreams almost made up for not-so-bright reality. At times it felt like an alternate universe where everything is okay.
Yeah, I know what you mean there.
As for confusing dreams with reality, I still don't know if certain of my childhood memories are based on dreams or reality. Perhaps even a mixture of both?)
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"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 2:22pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Ahh, glad I'm not the only one! I talked to my mom about my childhood memories and very few were true to reality D: I don't know if it was because of random dreams, the fact that children (supposedly) interpret reality in a different way or something else entirely. It's so weird.
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| 27 FEB 2011 at 2:39am |
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Status : Offline | I recently watched The King's Speech. Wonderful, heartwarming film. Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth are perfect in their roles. I was gong to be pulling for Jeff Bridges for Best Actor, but now I've got to root for Colin Firth.
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| 27 FEB 2011 at 7:47am |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | I caught up with The King's Speech and The Social Network. Both were brilliant in their own way.
TKS was interesting even for someone like me who isn't too interested in history and it definitely kept my attention.
TSN is just a plain good story about friend/business relationships. While half of it was hilarious (I just cannot take people seriously when they lose their mind over Facebook... "WHY DID YOU CHANGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP STATUS? WHY?!!!" Wow, FB is srs bizns), the other half was good, if not a bit sad.
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