When the book, The Road, came out, I read it. Bleak. Devastatingly bleak. Beyond that. The ultimate in devastating bleakness.

After reading the book, it took me a long time to be able to walk the driveway between our barn and house at night without getting creeped out. The mood of the book stayed with me quite a while. It was so well-written, though, that my husband and I decided to see the movie. (Warning: While not a horror movie in the traditional sense, IT IS HORRIFIC and ABSOLUTELY NOT for the squeamish or anyone needing an uplifting movie!!!)

The movie was done well and was quite true to the book, although I think they erred by adding earthquakes. In the book, you never quite know if the devastation was geological, made by humans, or what.


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hmmm, I agree, the not knowing would have a bigger impact, the danger your aware of but just cant place will cause for more suspense than the one you can name...

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Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?

I'm gonna be seeing "Eat, Pray, Love" but the critics seem to be underwhelmed by it. Not that I allow anyone to influence my opinions but I do give them some importance. *Sigh* I really love the book. I hope that if someone sees the movie first, they still read the book.

Fame. Ok but not as good as I remember the original series being. Then again, I was pretty young when that show was on.

Ok I just went and saw inception at the movies, and I wrote a brief summary of my thoughts about it for my friends so I'll share them here.

PLEASE DON'T READ THIS IF YOU ARE GOING TO SEE INCEPTION.

Well I have to say that I left the movie somewhat dissatisfied. My friends all thought it was great, but for me the technical premise was all a bit too much to swallow. I can happily accept a good hypothesis for the sake of enjoying a movie, so long as it holds consistantly throughout its duration and is based upon something that I can relate to. Inception just didn't do this. It starts with the concept where a technology exists that allows people to enter other peoples dream states, and in doing so may interact freely within their dream so long as they don't change things up on the original dreamer too much. The reason for this being that the original dreamers subconscious mind will try to correct what it perceives to be as anomalies, and will become increasingly hostile to the source of the disturbance.

So my first issue is this, if a technology such as this exists, and we are basing it on the orthodox model of dreaming that views dreaming to be a purely brain related function ( which I don't subscribe to anyhow ), then we would have to assume that upon connecting the various persons to this device as it was proposed in the movie, that this device somehow measures, interprets, and then inserts one persons brain signals into another persons brain. Now we look at the next supposition that the movie presented to us. It went on to suggest that by using this device, an interested party could enter into a targets dream and divulge a desired piece of information by interacting with the dreamers psyche construct or world, and "physically" extracting it from a representitive place of storage.

I can't speak for anyone else, but this immediately strikes me as being fairly frail rational. If we have a device which is inserting and collecting data from someones brain, why oh why does it need a human intervenor to enable it to access specific areas ? Ok... so assuming that there is some good reason for this, when another person does enter into someones dream, why does it take the quality of a "normal" reality with all the respective participants interacting with everything just like normal life as in the movie. Why were the boundaries so specific and quirky. I know that my own dreams only loosely follow the paterns or normal life, so what was the explaination for this in the movie ? I could go on for ages on the various concepts that were offered, but it seems to me that at the end of the day you either accept the movies propostions or you don't, and for me there just wasn't enough to relate to to make it feel engaging.

I definately found the concepts appealing, and there was a bunch of stuff in there that gave me some wow moments, but all in all I just didn't feel connected with this one.

Inception spoilers below:




Lightform, I wasn't buying the dream machine premise either. It made what could have been a smart movie dull. Inception was a giant metaphor for film making as a dream, a shared 'suspension of reality' that we all share. Because the entire movie was a dream we're supposed to accept the flimsy dream apparatus/opiate delivery system without question the way extremely odd, impossible, and fantastical things can happen in a dream and be accepted at face value. It's a huge problem when we don't though. It's as if we've woken from the dream, but can't escape the dream state. So, for me it's as if the film maker failed at making the movie that's supposed to explain his ideas on movie making.

The need for all of the characters had nothing to do with the dream apparatus, it was simply to propel the metaphor--Saito, the big shot producer funding the project, Ariadne, the set designer, etc.

Thanks Veg.. seeing another person with a similar sentiment makes me feel a little less rebellious and obstinate .

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I saw "Misery" last night. It was okay but I didn't think it was all that. I can't believe it's 20 years old! Yikes!

Crash. I wish I hadn't though, it was disturbing.

Just rented "The Visitor" (a man with a boring life learns to live) and "Dean Spanley" (starts slow, but stick with it; interesting character development; set in Edwardian England).


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Cold Souls with Paul Giamatti. My Gawd, what a movie. Left me with the same sort of feeling as Dead Ringers, The Cook The Thief, In The Company Of Wolves, Being John Malkovich, and one or two others. Strange, bizarre, wonderful. Man, I love enigmatic off-beat films.

This reminds me ive not been to the cinema in ages, although not many movies have taken my interest.

Salt with angelina Jolie.

Was it good? I generally like her in movies, she's a believable actress and even when a role is weak (not often) she's still a pleasure to watch. I think she is the most beautiful woman in hollywood today. Really, just gorgeous.

I'm in the middle of Love in the time of Cholera but finding it difficult to finish. It's hard to make a good movie based on an exceptional book, so much gets left out.

Coco,
Yes, I enjoyed the movie alot! I like her alot also. I never got into the 'smiths' or whatever. For some reason I didn't like the role she was playing. The Laura croft I really enjoyed, even though it wasn't a likely story. I sometimes just like enjoying those things, just because it IS unlikely and rather fake.

Salt had me on the edge of my seat almost from the very start, and nearly at every moment till the end. Although there was a few things which made me say "oh, yeah, like that would really happen". But could quickly suspend them to enjoy the rest of the film.

I recorded 10,000 B.C. just out of curiousity. It starts slow, but I FF to get an advanced view of the rest, to see if it would be worthwhile. I was like WTF?!! it went from hunter-gatherers on the tundra, with wholly mammoths, to egyptians building a pyramid, apparently enslaving them, and using the animals to haul rocks. I thought, thats a very unlikely story, and it seems out of sync with historical facts. I thought w mammoths were extinct 50,000 years ago. And how old is even the oldest pyramid? (it looked like they were building 'the great pyramid' which I understand is pretty new comparitively. So this is another example of where I say intellectually "yeah, like that would happen", but I am really curious how these people got to egypt.

There was a totally hillarious (spoof on 10,000 BC?) movie starring Jack Black and a few other comedians that was similiar. It was VERY inappropriately funny, I laughed a bunch.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo....Excellent movie and there are a series of 3 books about the main character if you'd rather read it then see it.

Oh, and I watched Wonder Boys on my computer at hulu.com..very funny movie. Has Michael Douglas in it.

Love,
Prism

"Mother & Child" is a drama about the lives of three different women with adoption as the basis of each of their stories. Annette Benning's acting is especially wonderful as an awkward character who grows throughout the movie.


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Wonder Boys was terrific. Very weird, I liked it a lot.

I am sorry to say it's been ages since I've seen a movie at a theater and almost as long since I've checked one out from the library.

But I've seen a lot of movies lately.

Last few I enjoyed:

Wanted (horribly violent but arresting imagery, some elements of cuteness/creativity)
Made of Honor (totally fairytale but I enjoyed it)
Becoming Jane (I started crying about 15 minutes in and never stopped)
Casino Royale (Daniel Craig has a lovely rear end)

Nothing worth writing about, except for Becoming Jane. We always want the intelligent, gifted women to get the gorgeous guy but it never seems to work out that way in real life. Both of the "girl" movies were more wish fulfillment than anything else but I still enjoyed them.

You, Me and Everyone else. Or maybe it's Everybody else. I forgot I had seen it before but that's ok, it was totally worth watching again. Quirky and wonderful.

I see "Me and You and Everyone We Know" is a movie title. Coco, could that be the name?

I just saw The Town with Ben Affleck because it had a great review in our local paper; however, it was a disappointment. I rented the old classic, The Big Country" and enjoyed seeing an old western.


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Has anyone seen "I Heart Huckabees?" My boyfriend really enjoyed it and me? Meh. It was aight but not really my cup of tea. I don't do quirky although I enjoyed the writer's other movie "Flirting With Disaster."

I recently saw "Inception" that was really great. I also got "The last starfighter" an old 80's b movie.

i liked the huckabees movie And the last starfighter, that was funny. Yup Mislu, pretty sure that's the one i meant. quirky. i likes it.

I just saw "LennonNYC" about John Lennon's life in America. Very timely as it turns out. And poignant. Even if you think you've seen everything about John, I recommend it. It just came out this year and apparently was on "American Masters." I checked out the DVD from the library...

last movie i rented was Eastern Provinces - very good, but I'm a sucker for most Viggo Mortensen films.

Last time I went to the theater was for the latest installment of Resident Evil. Walked out about 20 minutes into it. What horrible, horrible garbage. GARBAGE

Saw Inception not too long ago. I didn't have a problem so much with the dream machine as I did with character interactions. Their conversations were very unnatural. It made me feel like they needed to talk that way because I'm an idiot and wouldn't understand if they didn't. They were probably right. Oh, and pass on the Resident Evil.

I should have read other posts first. I loved the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull and was unaware a movie was made. Apparently some people didn't think much of it. How unfortunate. By the way, if you ever have the opportunity to read that book or watch the latest installment of Resident Evil read the book.

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I just finally saw how to train your dragon, and inception, and Zach Pilgrim vs the world, I believe that is what it was called...I enjoyed all 3 of them greatly., inception not as much as the other two though...

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Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?