It's based on the book. I never read it but looked up some synposis about it. Supposedly there was a huge war (I'm assuming WWIII) that exposed all men and women to jacked up gamma rays that made us infertile. Mankind survived, but it was forever changed by the war. Seems plausible with all the hooplah about the WMD's running around and who has them.
'The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada' & 'The Virgin Suicides' I don't get what makes these movies so good. If I got The Virgin Suicides completely, then it was pretty crappy. Three Burials just confused the hell out of me though.
A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite movies. Its about western liberal values (or lack of them). Its was way ahead of its time. If everything goes and there are no base values how do you punish someone? Maybe you can reform a monster instead of punishing him. After all its not their fault, society made them that way. So they reform him. But once he is reformed he is not happy because he is no longer living out his true nature. Since everything goes its wrong to make him fit into their value system anyway. In order to validate their values they need to let him live how he wants, so they change him back into a monster.
Sorry, but how do you not understand Waking Ned Devine? That's got to be one of the most straightforward, predictable movies I've ever seen. And I absolutely loved it, btw. One of my favorites. Spoiler A guy named Ned Devine wins the lottery but dies before he can claim the cash. The town comes up with a scheme to get the money by acting like Ned Devine is still alive. The funeral scene where one of the old man, due to crazy circumstances, gives the eulogy for his best friend who is actually still alive is one of the my favorite scenes ever.
Well, there's a lot of funny one's, but I was thinking of the more touching scene where he eulogizes his best friend. That scene always had an impact on me, kind of similar to how I felt at the final scene in About Schmidt.
Ah, I'm not. I know I'm a little girl when it comes to crying in movies/tv shows. Scrubs gets me about 50% of the time. Hell, they had that Extreme Home Makeover show on one of the tvs at the bar yesterday and I was getting a little teary-eyed not even being able to hear it.
I can definitley see how most people would really dislike these movies. While the plots and the premise of these types of films are often tough to decypher, I really like them for their imagery and uniqueness. Your wife must feel the same way
Is this that old school claymation movie where Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and whats-her-name go adventuring through his stories in an airship? Man, that movie really blew my mind as a kid. The parts with Adam and Eve and then Satan... I thought that was probably the coolest "cartoon" movie I ever saw as a child. I loved Donnie Darko the first time I saw it. You have to understand that the film leaves a whole lot up to your imagination. Just fill in the blanks yourself however best you see fit. The deleted scenes make it a lot clearer what the director had in mind but it's a much better movie when you get to make important plot points up yourself. It doesn't hold up quite as well after repeated viewings but I was absolutely captivated watching it by myself for the first time. Mullholland Drive? The first half is a dream/fantasy. Duh. Why do you think the "dream monster" appeared at the beginning? That's not a clue? I usually don't feel like I don't "get" movies. There are just some that I find stupid or pretentious. "Magnolia" fits into the "pretentious" category for me. The director really seemed to be going for a true sense of wonder and understanding, real outside-the-box experiences. I thought that the movie was overblown, boring, and that he failed. I also can't see the appeal of that "Ichi the Killer" monstrosity. Was it weird? Was it Japanese? Sure, but there are GOOD weird Japanese movies, like "A Snake of June," and then there are r****ded ones, like "Ichi." There are good gore flicks and good weird flicks and that one is neither.
