03-10-2005, 04:53 PM
dwa,Mar 8 2005, 06:49 PM Wrote:Hmm, to me, Napoleon Dynamite captures the essence of what shows like Seinfeld promised, yet (imo) failed to deliver; ordinary people in ordinary situations responding to them in the most hilariously wrong ways. It doesn't fall into the trap of turning every character into a "movie character", who spend every second of the film trying to come up with "great lines" instead of lines that actually work and are believable.
And as for Cellular??? I normally subscribe to a "whatever floats your boat" philosophy; after all, taste is almost entirely subjective, but to call Cellular's ceaseless insults to the audience's intelligence (the very premise throws any chance at one suspending disbelief right out the window) a great film while denigrating, well, just about any other flick, really begs a lot.
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In a slight hijack, I saw Traffic last night on DVD, rented from Blockbuster.
That was a pretty good film, wish I had seen it before. I confess finding a few of the "resolution" scenes a bit flaky.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
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John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete