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    Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York

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    Image of seancasio seancasio
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    Joe Bob Briggs has informed me that Synecdoche has a grand total of zero titties in it, so I may have to pass.
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    I haven't seen it yet, but isn't she doing what a critic is supposed to do? Advocate hard for a talent she believes in?


    Now if this turns out to be the equivalent of Andrew Sarris's championing of Lola Montes as ...


    (sullenly gets up to consult DVD cover)


    ..."The greatest film of all time," (?!!!?) she'll have to live with that silly judgment.

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    Image of maevemealone maevemealone
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    I loved "I'm Not There" but didn't get it until I watched the supplementary discs that explained it all (so what if that's anti-intellectual! It really helped!). I recommend watching the extra material if you came out not liking the movie. Also, Lost in Translation I found to be dullsville and overrated. I can't get into Sophia Coppola's stuff at all.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    The Virgin Suicides. Seriously. I think that film just annoyed me, more than anything else, so I didn't want to spend time 'figuring it all out'. 'Twas a pretty film though, I will concede.
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    Image of kjack kjack
    01/05/09

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: It was much better as a book. Most of the time I think that a great book faithfully adapted for the screen should suck...mostly because I want different things from books than I want from film. I did enjoy the film version of The Namesake ...precisely because it was so different from the book (which was still better).
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    01/05/09

    @kjack: I've heard that the book is good, but the film really, really put me off wanting to read it. Which is unusual, given that I'll read anything if it's in front of me and I'm desperate.
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    Image of wattwatt wattwatt
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    I liked Synecdoche, and I don't think a whole lot of head scratching is in order. For me, it's just about the visual textures, the character relationships, and a whole lot of loneliness. The abstract musings about life do indeed get annoying and repetitive, but I don't think they diminish the project much -- by way of comparison, the really annoying psychological "explanation" at the end of Psycho doesn't wipe out that film's greatness.


    OK, but what which ones ARE like Richard's saying? Obviously Crash. I'm Not There (a stupid, stupid film! -- which I had such high hopes for), the first third of Fire Walk With Me, all the Bertolucci I've seen, most of Brian De Palma. Sideways. Cache. Match Point. Adaptation.


    That's just off the top of my head. I know I'm missing some big ones.

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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    01/05/09

    @wattwatt: Oh yeah, the loneliness. Some of those scenes of him cleaning Adele's apartment were like being punched in the gut.
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    Image of Mediokra Mediokra
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    I'm surprised no one has brought up David Lynch yet. I love him, really and truly, but my god, Inland Empire? I desperately want that two hours of my life back. Or was it longer? It felt longer. Ugh.
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    Image of HereComesMyBaby HereComesMyBaby
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    Um, you didn't see the movie. It was awesome. Please don't talk shit about movies you haven't even seen. As the kids say, "srsly, wtf."
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Clearly Dreyfuss' best work.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    I loved "There Will Be Blood." Didn't care that it was weird, didn't care that it broke every structural rule in the book, didn't care that Daniel Plainview seems like a horrible person.


    Love.

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    Image of franklinshepard franklinshepard
    01/05/09

    @PerhapsNot: What structural rules did it break? I can't think of any, offhand. Are you just talking about the ending?
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    01/07/09

    @franklinshepard: I felt like the first act went on for days and days and the conflict was pretty clear from the very beginning, rather than being something that Daniel runs up against exactly 15 minutes into the movie.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    01/07/09

    @PerhapsNot: Which Goodfellas also does, actually.
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    Say what you will about Ashton Kutcher but the Butterfly Effect was fantastic!
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    Image of Astroblack Astroblack
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    I saw it. It was clever, insightful and memorable enough that I went to see it again but I would hardly think of it as the Greatest Film Ever Made or any shit like that. If Adaptation's navel-gazing didn't put you off then you'll probably like it. From the reviews (and discussions like this one) I was expecting something tedious that I had to "work" to follow. Instead I found it enthralling from beginning to end. You can't get bogged down in all the metaphors. Really, its just a story.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    01/05/09

    @Astroblack: That's how I felt about it, I never spend very much time "working through" a fiction film's "message". I tend to respond impressionistically, either "wow" or "ugh" and that's what stays with me.

    Only with documentaries do I worry a film's theme to death.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    Benjamin Button. My... God.
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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood." It's both a title and a life lesson.
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    I'm going to mention how much I love Magnolia and I'm going to hold my breath until someone starts yelling, YELLING at me about the frogs.


    I shouldn't have long to wait, if past experience is any indication.

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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    01/05/09

    @Dr. Nick: Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt!!!


    (Does that count as yelling?)

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    Image of Mediokra Mediokra
    01/05/09

    @Dr. Nick: I love Magnolia. I also love Vanilla Sky. These are facts I usually don't share with people.
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    Image of divinationjones divinationjones
    01/05/09

    In reply to Manohla Dargis' Campaign to Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York
    I just saw "The Fall" last night and was totally enamored with it from the get-go. However this morning I've been telling everybody about it with the tempering of, "but you may hate it..."
    But I GOT IT, man...
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    01/05/09

    @divinationjones: I just saw that too! I couldn't figure out why I liked it so much, because I didn't understand it at all and it was ridiculously, crushingly sad.
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