We Can’t Afford To Let Him In On The Joke
A elderly man walked down the subway platform his head bobbing and shoulders half raised like a little kids. With a long mangy beard, and a open flappy Hawaiian shirt with strange baggy parachute pants he stood out from all the businessman in suits. But more striking was that he had the LOOK, visible from 100 yards, the one that told you he was “
( Read more... )
Watched Peter Weir's The Last Wave, crazy cool movie. I don't think it could be made today. It's not shocking just shaman like in a subdued way. You turn it off and are quiet for awhile.
Near Dark, really cool vampire movie I saw as a kid, now I can appreciate the sublties. Poetic juxtaposition through and through.
Watched All The Little Animals again, still good, I guess it's got that Batman Returns dude in it. I forgot, didn't make the connection when he blew up recently that he was in it. He's got street cred.
Was watching Dune, realized that seeing it as a kid with Star Wars eyes doesn't give it justice. And realized reading the book years after seeing the movie wasn't too smart, but I think I was 8, give me a break. I think I'll get the really long Director's version. One thing I really enjoy was how much we get to read the Characters thoughts. Good acting you would think would make that superflous, but it's uncanny how it creates this immediacy in a scene when something happens and a character goes subliminally, "Jeez do I look fat in this still suit?" We instantly empathize, because we have all been out there in that emotional desert, haven't we my friend?
Started watching this old 70's "lost for years, restored, blah, blah" movie called Chac, about a villages quest for water, not finished yet.
Reply
Leave a comment