Comments | slightlyoffaxis: "Don't be a coconut," and other words of wisdom.

slightlyoffaxis

"Don't be a coconut," and other words of wisdom.

Jan 08, 2006 19:32

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transmit January 8 2006, 17:02:31 UTC

Diane Keaton (my favorite performance of hers)

Further proof that your irrational hatred of Woody Allen is warping your perception of everything.

slightlyoffaxis January 8 2006, 17:42:41 UTC

It's not irrational! Jeeeeesus, that's craaaaaazy.

rockmarooned January 8 2006, 17:51:07 UTC

Actually, the more I think about the ending to Brokeback, the better it seems. Is anyone here fearful of spoilers? Maybe I should just go into it in my own LJ.

rockmarooned January 8 2006, 18:17:52 UTC

Lemme guess: they don't end up together at the end, one/both of them dies? Spoil away. I'm still gonna rent it.

rockmarooned January 8 2006, 18:18:30 UTC

mushroom_kitty, BTW. Not logged in.

rockmarooned January 8 2006, 18:58:29 UTC

Totally worth the $10 trip to the theater, says me. But anyway, my feelings about the ending have more to do with how the last scene is presented, not a turn of the plot (a plot turn would only be revealed incidentally).

Thread 7

wonkywheels January 9 2006, 07:22:58 UTC

Wow, those lyrics are terrible.

I saw Match Point this weekend, and I loved it!! Although, it did turn me temporarily crazy and paranoid, as Ethan can attest.

And Dunya and Sonia. Razumikhin, Razumikhin...

**MATCH POINT SPOILERS** slightlyoffaxis January 9 2006, 07:56:17 UTC

I was with the movie for the first 1/3 of it (mostly setup), but then I got bored by all of the adultery stuff. I thought he included too much about the mechanics of juggling two women (I feel like I saw every phone call, every lie). And I thought that the movie was pushing you to want him to end up with Nola, which I don't like personally because I always identify with the nice, boring women.

Then, when it turned into a murder story, I thought it was awesome. It's funny how I thought the movie was much better when he was a murderer than when he was an adulterer! And all of the parts with the investigators made me laugh a lot.

Don't forget Sidney Monas!

Re: **MATCH POINT SPOILERS** wonkywheels January 9 2006, 08:10:33 UTC

I didn't like Nola, but I didn't really like his wife either. She was so whiny about the baby thing! I didn't see the murder twist coming at all, and it definitely made the movie awesome.

Sidney Monas 4-eva!

Re: **MATCH POINT SPOILERS** rockmarooned January 9 2006, 08:14:29 UTC

I think you're supposed to feel uncomfortable with Nola... at least after she starts yelling at him a lot. You want her to chill out and shut up more than you him to leave his wife, so you might identify, however uncomfortably, when he "does something" about it.

Thread 7

Another bad lyric wonkywheels January 9 2006, 12:44:25 UTC

Not that this will surprise anyone, but the Backstreet Boys have the following terrible lyric in their latest single, "Crawling Back to You":

Girl, I know you're mad
I can't blame you for being mad

Re: Another bad lyric slightlyoffaxis January 10 2006, 05:20:13 UTC

Oh, that's awful!