The Isolated Blurt Thread XIX: Ice Cream Has No Bones

[spacekowboy]

Well that's true. Although I hate pizza.

Hmm. I guess it's the scenes he's in. When he makes his confession, when he's showing his home to Kay etc. They are still really great scenes and he is fabulous in them. And I like Garcia's performance in it too. And I love how Talia Shire's character has become the one to fear.

Her though. Fuck me.

And compared to 1 and 2, yeah it's nowt to write home about.

You must have horrible, horrible pizza over there...

 

[neci]

i could go for a good slice of pizza pie.

 

[neci]

and a beer.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Someone got me thinking of Chinese...

 

[neci]

and a big 'ol fatty.

 

[neci]

someone got me thinking of dick cheese.

 

[Shagly]

Did someone say beer?

 

[neci]

who let the KKK out?

 

[neci]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT1OKo1rT84

 

[Shagly]

who let the KKK out?

It was the Navy commander.

 

[Disgustipated]

Same person that let the pedo out.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Poor ole Cilla.

 

[lovetoread]

I had to block a few people today. Thats just too sad.

 

[ryan8558]

I had to block a few people today. Thats just too sad.

only a few?

 

[lovetoread]

only a few?

To be honest, when I opened the page I thought I was signed out as there was much ugliness showing.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Hot and thunder storms. At least the power is still on.

 

[JohnnySavage]

There are approximately 43,000 ZIP Codes in the United States. This number fluctuates from month to month, depending on the number of changes made.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The glass half-full: Reunion Island is getting its beaches cleaned.

 

[Jennifer]

and a big 'ol fatty.

I will gladly share with mine with you.

 

[Equinoxe]

Somewhat late to this conversation:

It's not a bad movie as an adequately-directed movie doing adequately-directed movie things. It looks good. I went to see it when it came out and initially thought it was alright.

When I watched it a second time much later outside of all the hype that had surrounded it, though...nnnnghhh... After reading some critical discourse over this film that couldn't understand the insane amount of praise it was given, I had to agree with most of them. The gist of it is that Translation is a weakly written, would-be French New Wave character film that uses Japan to say very little about Japan when it could've said many things outside of exaggerated stereotypes that we hadn't heard before.

Let's put it this way. There's a reason why Sofia Coppola isn't doing movies anymore. She couldn't do another Virgin Suicides and needed another "in" thing to keep her momentum going. You can only get away with using a foreign country in Asia as an easy background prop once in your career and 2003 was around the best time during the Hipster Age to do it in. This movie would very likely tank if it were made now.

I am inclined to agree with you on Lost in Translation, with the caveat that the film wasn't really about Japan qua Japan at all, but rather about Japan via two spoilt Westerners, so it's not surprising, or even necessarily problematic, that it has nothing interesting to say about Japan. It's a well-made film and by no means a bad one, succeeding on a technical level at almost every turn, and in a sense I can even respect its approach, in being about over-privileged people being over-privileged people straightforwardly without being a deliberately crafted comment on either privilege or people—but there is no 'there' there.

Now, setting the relative status of its subjects aside, with it being a film about people being people and not being a film 'about people'—that is with its not having a fundamental comment—this is how I feel about a number of films/directors who take that approach. I can respect it intellectually, but I'm not convinced it ever actually works. 'No comment' is always a comment. So it usually ends up being a celebration, just by virtue of choosing to tell that story, in some cases of privilege, in others mediocrity, in others even less.


But, for what it's worth, I legitimately and unironically adore and find powerful or thought-provoking a number of bad-to-mediocre movies, so...

 

[Fata Morgana]

That fabulous redhead with the big knockers has dyed her hair blonde and it looks awful. The Mad Men girl?

 

[yossi]

I love "The Festival of Living Art" episode of Gilmore Girls.

Yes! That's a great one. I should rewatch the show again.

 

[Disgustipated]

That fabulous redhead with the big knockers has dyed her hair blonde and it looks awful. The Mad Men girl?

She's super bueno. I've never watched the show and keep saving to just to binge perv on her.

 

[Fata Morgana]

She's super bueno. I've never watched the show and keep saving to just to binge perv on her.

I've never seen her in owt but she's super gorgeous. The blonde doesn't look right though.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Never in a million years thought I'd say this, but I may have a bit of a crush on Tom Cruise...

http://youtu.be/CW1_dUBzJV8