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[cleolinda]

Yesterday's Horoscope of Eerie Aptness: Confusing dreams you had during the night could leave you feeling moody today.

Okay, now I'm just freaked out, because I had some superweird dreams the other night.

So we saw The Fountain, and I loved it. I mean, I didn't think it was Teh Best Movie EVAR, and I can see why it might not have been to

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[crumpeteer]

I'm conflicted in my feelings for Stardust. I'm not sure whether to like it or hate it. I'm particularly conflicted about the costuming. Conflicted as it "what the heck party store did they raid for that" kind of conflicted.

[cleolinda]

Yeah... so far it's not half as pretty as the Vess illustrations.

[bunnymonkey]

I absolutely loved The Fountain. I agree with you completely, though -- not the most top #1 movie ever in existence, and definitely not something everyone is going to like. That said, I had a very emotional reaction to it, and I cried into my scarf a couple of times.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, there were a few moments that--I don't know if I'd call them flaws or not, because I was mostly okay with them. Like, the scene with the bathtub, which was totally hot by the end of it, but started out not making a lot of sense. "I'm choking!' "Heat the sponge for me!" "I didn't want to tell you I was losing sensitivity because, you know, YOU'RE A DOCTOR AND MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT." And then the part where he, like, meditates on into the temple in his intergalactic soap bubble and the Mayan priest is like, "Forgive me, First Father!" It was ridiculous, but I liked it anyway.

I managed to not actually cry, but I have no idea how.

[bunnymonkey]

Flaws is a fair description -- the whole bathtub thing was shaky, and the temple thing, yeah. There were a few other points where I was like, "Oh, this whole thing is about to fall apart," but then it came back together. Naturally I can't remember them right now.

I loved, though, how the whole movie is simultaneously hokey and profound. (As all profundity should be.) Aronofsky even said that the "message" in the movie is... recycling.

[cleolinda]

See, exactly. I loved the part where he actually got to the Tree of Life and the sap, because--as bizarre as it was--it was like, 2006!Izzi was right the whole time: there's immortality, but it's not the kind you're thinking of. And I loved that "Finish it" essentially meant "plant a tree over my grave," because that actually made sense given what she had told him previously.

[saint_kat]

Aw. I liked watching a lot of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons when I was a kid, watching Nickelodeon and such.

I read about the news surrounding the arrest of the first suspected Yorkshire prostitute murderer on BBC and I couldn't help but to feel a bit creeped out about the guy.

Just hearing about a second possible suspect arrested in the case? Really suprising.

[jaded_lady]

what's...going on with ScarJo's face in that picture? is it just me or does she look kind of strange?

still irked about the casting choice for that part. :l

[adoresixtyfour]

The Christmas Kraken would go so well with my Christmas Cthulhu...

I sense...

[theintrospectre]

....we should hook them up. Set up a play date? How do you set up near deities, anyway? Ah, you know what I mean.

Thought you'd enjoy this:
http://blog.introspectre.com/node/296