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Why 'Snakes on a Plane' will be an analogy for World War II.
'Snakes on a Plane': Phenomenon on the Net.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON INTERVIEW!!
Fandom Dedication Week.
Wife-swapping and pot-smoking with Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell.
Today was boring, I didn't do much other than make icons and walk the dog.
Everybody should see Kinsey.
Tonight I saw Ordinary People
Robert Redford directs Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton and OMGJAYNE ADAM BALDWIN in a drama about the recovery from trauma and loss.
Conrad (Timothy Hutton, who is gorgeous, powerful and baby-faced in this movie) is the survivor of afreak boating accident in which his older brother Buck died. First I had to get past the tragedy of their parents naming them Buck and Conrad. His mother (Mary Tyler Moore) is unsympathetic and cold, far more concerned about keeping up appearances and keeping a clean home than the fact that her son tried to kill himself. His father (Donald Sutherland) is easygoing and well-meaning but has no idea how to help his son. In a last-ditch attempt to get his life back under control, Conrad grudgingly drags himself to see a psychiatrist (Judd Hirsch - DADDY EPPES!) who eventually helps him through it all.
I think this is another one of those films that was groundbreaking at the time, when America was trying to get in touch with a little sensitivity. It holds up surprisingly well, though, even if most of the characters aren't as complex as you'd expect now. I'm taking a class called 'Trauma, Memory and Culture,' so it was interesting seeing the film from that angle (even if I didn't rent it for the course.) The use of flashbacks is effective and all the performances are really good - Robert Redford's a really good director, actually. The music's fantastic and the locations are great - the winter setting suits the movie so perfectly. I think it was a little too long and overwraught at some moments (one more mention of how people were feeling would have me throwing things at the TV), but the actors are strong enough to deliver some pretty dodgy dialogue without making it sound too corny or contrived.
Verdict: A powerful experience and a good first attempt to explore personal tragedy in the modern world. Also, OMG PRETTY BABY JAYNE!!!
8 out of 10
Love is the answer, isn't it? But, sex raises a lot of very interesting questions.
Green Queen
Why 'Snakes on a Plane' will be an analogy for World War II.
'Snakes on a Plane': Phenomenon on the Net.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON INTERVIEW!!
Fandom Dedication Week.
Wife-swapping and pot-smoking with Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell.
Today was boring, I didn't do much other than make icons and walk the dog.
Everybody should see Kinsey.
Tonight I saw Ordinary People
Robert Redford directs Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton and OMG
Conrad (Timothy Hutton, who is gorgeous, powerful and baby-faced in this movie) is the survivor of a
I think this is another one of those films that was groundbreaking at the time, when America was trying to get in touch with a little sensitivity. It holds up surprisingly well, though, even if most of the characters aren't as complex as you'd expect now. I'm taking a class called 'Trauma, Memory and Culture,' so it was interesting seeing the film from that angle (even if I didn't rent it for the course.) The use of flashbacks is effective and all the performances are really good - Robert Redford's a really good director, actually. The music's fantastic and the locations are great - the winter setting suits the movie so perfectly. I think it was a little too long and overwraught at some moments (one more mention of how people were feeling would have me throwing things at the TV), but the actors are strong enough to deliver some pretty dodgy dialogue without making it sound too corny or contrived.
Verdict: A powerful experience and a good first attempt to explore personal tragedy in the modern world. Also, OMG PRETTY BABY JAYNE!!!
8 out of 10
Love is the answer, isn't it? But, sex raises a lot of very interesting questions.
Green Queen
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Who did Adam Baldwin play?
Yes, it was a real gut-wrencher the first time out... not to mention the fact that I had a serious crush on Timothy Hutton afterwards - *L*! But I doubt that it holds up. It had a bit of a twist-ending feel to it, when you finally find out just why the family is so torn up about it all.
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He played the jock friend that Timothy Hutton beat up on. It actually holds up fairly well considering its age and the fact that there's plenty of movies out there now that deal with this sort of thing.
I think anybody who's studied even a little psychology could probably figure out what was tying the family up in knots. Lots of people could probably figure it out without learning any psychology. But as I said, that's in more modern times when we're more clued in.
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And, yes, I think that perhaps it was a bit of a first of its kind... although, being older than you, I do resent the "in more modern times" comment - *LOL*!!!
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LOL that's kind of ironic because my mother was saying it was an old movie (my MOTHER! And she's 51!) and I was like "It's not old." I have a cutoff, anything made before 1960 is old and anything made since about 1980 is recent and then there's an in between period.
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