Films/DVD Asylum

Yes, quite a few good films but NO excellent ones

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tinear

In Reply to: RE: I think '07 was good year posted by sjb on December 12, 2007 at 10:13:23

which is rare.
Not one.
Not from the US, anyhow...

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Have you seen The Diving Bell & The Butterfuly? - Harmonia 16:02:00 12/13/07 (3)
I think that one's excellent. And it's from a US diector.
- Doesn't sound promising: Javier Bardim (sp?) was in a similarly themed - tinear 07:00:00 12/14/07 (2)
  movie a few years back.
  That being said, I'll check it out when it comes to DVD.
  Right now, I've received my six-part "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and I'm nervous about beginning. I hate beginnings with great art: the thrill of discovery is so intense I hate to know it's going to end.
  I have seen several of the parts during an inaugural show in NYC and it, justifiably, is considered Fassbinder's masterwork.
  - Similarly themed? Playing a guy who fought a long battle for the right to die - sjb 09:22:39 12/14/07 (1)
    is similar to playing a person who wound up with "locked in" syndrome and managed to write a book by blinking one eye?
    
    And I'm curious... lets say it had been true that they were similarly themed... why would that make TDBATB "not promising"?
    
    "You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
    - Similar ain't identical. Both were severely incapacitated, bed-ridden. - tinear 11:06:16 12/14/07 (0)
      I'm not a fan of the tragic theme-d films, the emotionally disturbed, the terminally ill, the cognitively challenged.
      Dustin Hoffman began almost a genre with "Rainman."
      Suddenly, we had DeNiro, Penn, and others stuttering, stammering, groping their way towards the Oscar Grail.
      A noble fight against a personal tragedy.
      I'd like to see someone that just gives up.
      Period.
      "Fuck it, I'm dead. Fuck the Fates or Gods that put me here."
      At least it would have the flavor of novelty.

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