Movies (recently seen)

[Dragavan]

Last night I finally watched Big Fish. I am not sure how I missed this one, as I am a big fan of Tim Burton, but I did. I can't believe how good this movie is. It has instantly become my favorite Burton movie now and I can't wait to actually purchase the DVD to keep in my collection. The movie is beautiful, in every sense of the word.

When I get home tonight I will be watching it again, only with commentary track on, and not even cracking open the other NetFlix movies I picked up until I am done with everything this DVD has to offer... perhaps even watching it again with the normal audio track.

That's what I have recently seen.

[donteatpoop]

Last night I finally watched Big Fish. I am not sure how I missed this one, as I am a big fan of Tim Burton, but I did. I can't believe how good this movie is. It has instantly become my favorite Burton movie now and I can't wait to actually purchase the DVD to keep in my collection. The movie is beautiful, in every sense of the word.

When I get home tonight I will be watching it again, only with commentary track on, and not even cracking open the other NetFlix movies I picked up until I am done with everything this DVD has to offer... perhaps even watching it again with the normal audio track.

That's what I have recently seen.

Oh yeah, Big Fish was amazing. I think it really shows how far along Burton has come. He's always been stylistically amazing, but there were a lot of emotions brought to the table in that film that I wasn't prepared to experience in one of his movies. Fantastic film.

[apotheosis]

Big Fish was very enjoyable.


Oh and I Am Legend should be coming out sometime soon. I can't wait.

[donteatpoop]

I saw the previews for Stardust and got really excited, the book was great.

[End Master]

This weekend I'm going to finally set some time aside and watch Spirited Away and Pan's Labyrinth.

[donteatpoop]

This weekend I'm going to finally set some time aside and watch Spirited Away and Pan's Labyrinth.

Be sure to get some blotter acid first.

[apotheosis]

I just had my first drug/movie experience though it was very lame. I got drunk before watching the Borne Ultimatum. Sadly, even five or six shots of rum (in a 140 pound person) only made the movie bearable. I might finish off the whole bottle tonight just to try to wash my memory of the fact that every single Borne movie is EXACTLY the same.

[Vesnic]

Alcohol with movies does not produce the same effect as pot with movies, or certain movies at least. Have I mentioned this before? Some movies actually have a whole SUBPLOT that can only be ascertained through the influence of marijuana. A couple good examples are Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle and Orgazmo. I swear there is actually a whole new MEANING to those films if your brain is set to the correct potarameters.

[End Master]

Okay I saw both movies and I liked them, so I’m part of the club now I guess.

[apotheosis]

Just going to make a note that this is the biggest thread on the forum. Hurray for movies. We need a good insane thread like back in the old days though to rival it. Where everyone shows up and just starts posting perverse off topic shit and randomly flaming people and constantly hijacking the thread. Those are my favorites.

Also, no post limit on threads here so we could go all out.

[End Master]

I just saw a preview of Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween. I must go see it.

Just out of curiosity, how many people thought she just imagined all that stuff in Pan’s Lab, and none of it really happened?

[Vesnic]

Isn't the counterpoint between her vivid imagination and the grim reality she lives in kind of the whole point of the movie?



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I think her death was real enough though.

[End Master]

I suppose, but it seems like it could be open either way that none of it really happened and she was just using the fantasy stuff to escape reality. Maybe she was even suffering from some sort of mental illness.

Then at the end she took the Captain’s son away because he basically took her mother away. The bit where the Faun was going to stab the baby was probably her own warped mind wondering whether or not to kill her brother. (Kill his son, in revenge for her mother’s death)

But she realizes despite the Captain being responsible for the misery in her life, it’s not the baby’s fault so she doesn’t do it. The Captain shoots her and as she’s dying she imagines that she’s going to a better place where her mom and dad are. Why else would her Underworld mom look exactly like the Earthly mom?

Of course the problem with that scenario is how the hell did she escape in the first place when the door was locked, there was a guard next to it and there was no other exit, so there’s a strong case that she had to have used the chalk to get away in the first place. And the fantasy stuff really did exist.

[Dragavan]

Just out of curiosity, how many people thought she just imagined all that stuff in Pan’s Lab, and none of it really happened?

The movie was very much left open to interpretation. On purpose. BOTH "truths" are correct. There is no set way you are supposed to see it. It's something American movies don't do very often and never really in mainstream ones. We seem to have to have a set single answer to our plots here, which I think is a great disservice to our viewing public. More intelligent and well crafted movies that make you think and don't spoon feed all the answers to you should be made.

My personal interoperation is that she both died AND went to the land of fairies, as both worlds exist intermingled and real. But no matter how you look at it the movie was amazing.

[donteatpoop]

I suppose, but it seems like it could be open either way that none of it really happened and she was just using the fantasy stuff to escape reality.

Dude seriously, you need to watch Tideland. Talk about a chile needing to escape reality.