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| lissa |
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billy - till I got to the end of whiskey's post, I was waiting for your step-in. When I read it, I HAD to reply in kind...GOTCHA!
But it begs the question...did you not read my input to the conversation this week regarding the film and your previous reviews...?
Oh, and I have the copyright on cute©. You guys can duke it out over funny™  |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:08 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Whiskey--I of course didn't notice your addition until I had gotten ready to write an angry retort.
You are altogether too cute and funny. Cute and funny is my territory. You've been warned. |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:00 pm |
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I'm so glad I didn't see Marley and Me in the theater...it was just on HBO and I'm a total wreck. billy, your review of it when you saw it was apt. It isn't overly sentimental but I wish they hadn't SPOILER shown the euthanasia scene...it brought back memories of when I had to put Toebi down, and we're talking 11 years ago, but it's still a tough memory. I don't know how you watched it so soon after losing Abner. Hat's off to you for that..
However, the humor is great, Alan Arkin is perfect in his role, and the arc of John and Jen's life in the span of Marley's is well portrayed.
Still, I need to go wash up - it's sentimental enough for me.
Okay, I'm a wuss. I admit it. That's why my kids need to know if there's ANYTHING in a movie that'll make mommy cry, before seeing the film...
(good segue, though - Wanda Sykes special right afterward...lightens things up) |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:54 pm |
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Jabberwocky was the first film Terry Gilliam directed and is many ways is like of his other films: Elaborate and meticulous look, in this case, the Middle Ages, with an simultaneous attempt to actually capture the period while setting a tale that spoofs it. It's also a bit too long and incoherent, with a feeling Gilliam is not entirely sure what he's trying to say. And, as usually happens to Gilliam, it was not a success at the box office. Despite that, there's a lot here to like.
In this case, he uses the Lewis Carroll poem as a starting point. It's actually recited in pieces through the movie, including in a puppet show. Dennis (Michael Palin) is an apprentice cooper (his last name is actually Cooper) who is more interested in commerce than craftsmanship, and wants to marry Griselda, the daughter of a fish merchant; she, however, is interested in eating a lot, but not in Dennis(although he's too dense to figure it out). His father disowns him on his death, so Dennis goes to the capital to make his way in the big city. Unfortunately, to make a success there, you have to break into a guild, and Dennis has no hope of doing that.
The kingdom is being menaced by the Jabberwock, so the elderly king decides that what is needed is a champion, so he decides to throw a tournament with lots of blood and death. His counselor tries to talk him out it for obvious reasons, but the king has to have his way. Whoever kills the Jabberwock gets half the princess's hand and the entire kingdom, or is it...
By this time, the princess has met Dennis, but he's still carrying a potato for Griselda.
You can see where this is going, and it does. It's often pretty funny. (The merchants want to keep the monster alive because he drives the people with money into the town, where they buy the merchant's wares. The bishop feels the same way because there's a sudden increase in tithes from people terrified of the monster.) In addition to Palin, Terry Jones, Neil Innes and Terry Gilliam are on hand, but Jabberwocky is no more a Python film than any other film directed by Gilliam. The real star of the film is its medieval look anyway, rather than any of the acting. It took me about three and a half hours to watch the 105 minute movie because I was so fascinated by the detail. That's not the sort of thing that's going to get you a big audience, but it can get you a cult film. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:42 am |
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There's also a peak-a-boo nude scene involving the princess. Another reason for the pause feature on DVDs.
I'm really grateful there wasn't a similar scene involving Griselda. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:18 am |
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| Sita Sings the Blues gives the director Nina paley an opportunity to use the Hindu religious story of Rama and Sita, known to every child in India and narrated or enacted in many all night sessions, to advance some feminist themes and to obtain catharsis for herself following her own divorce. Original 1920's recordings of Annette Hanshaw are delightful. The animation is not the best. The unsure commentary by three modern day friends is amusing. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:33 am |
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| I know some will not care, but Marilyn was the one who told Ebert about Sita (which I have been handing out profusely, and which will go out with several Xmas letters I'm hoping to get out this year). |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:39 am |
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| I care. Good for Marilyn! |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:42 am |
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lady wakasa wrote: I know some will not care, but Marilyn was the one who told Ebert about Sita (which I have been handing out profusely, and which will go out with several Xmas letters I'm hoping to get out this year). |
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| Whiskey, did I ever mention about the time that I talked to Rama and Sita in an effort to save their relationship. I ran into them at a little bar in Poona, as it was known then. This was in one of my past lives. I found Rama's Godlike attitude annoying and my mediation went nowhere. Sita was very nice and I think she dug me. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:11 am |
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marantzo wrote: Whiskey, did I ever mention about the time that I talked to Rama and Sita in an effort to save their relationship. I ran into them at a little bar in Poona, as it was known then. This was in one of my past lives. I found Rama's Godlike attitude annoying and my mediation went nowhere. Sita was very nice and I think she dug me.  |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:05 am |
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marantzo wrote: Sita was very nice and I think she dug me.
Nah, I doubt that - she only has eyes for Rama... |
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| I think it's great that Ebert liked Marilyn's review of Sita, but where does he say it was she who introduced him to the movie? He says he "got a DVD in the mail," but I haven't found where he says it was from Marilyn. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:14 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: I think it's great that Ebert liked Marilyn's review of Sita, but where does he say it was she who introduced him to the movie? He says he "got a DVD in the mail," but I haven't found where he says it was from Marilyn.
Personal knowledge on my part. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:21 pm |
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| Billy, if memory serves, she discussed it here. |
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