Lion face. RRRrr. Lemon Face. Ooooo.
So in a relaxing turn of events, my parents have delightfully taken our 3-year old for the weekend, leaving my wife and I to relax in the mountains. Part of said relaxation plan included a night out downtown last night, with J&SBSB part of the plan. I’ve gotta admit. It was a really funny movie. Parts of it were retarded, parts of it were fucking hilarious, and parts of it were kinda along Naked Gun lines, but all in all, an entertaining movie. I’d say my favorite scene included J&SB wrongfully thinking they had snuck onto the movie set they were trying to disuade, but in fact had found their way onto ‘Good Will Hunting II: Hunting Season.’
“Somtimes you have to make a safe movie, then you make an arty movie, Matt.”
“And sometimes you make ‘Reindeer Games.'”
“Now that was uncalled-for.”
Really great stuff in that scene, more than I’ll even try to go into. I just wish Jason Lee had been a bigger/better part of it. He’s always been my favorite. Too bad his scenes as Brodie were simply re-hashings of old Brodie sayings from the one movie he was in. I also don’t understand why Judd Nelson was mentioned as one of this movie’s stars despite the fact he’s in it for nearly 4 minutes.
And on another movie note.. I’d also recommend going to see ‘Ghost World’ at an arthouse near you. It’s playing at The Mayan in Denver. Very engrossing, and I’m told the comic book is good, too. It stars Thora Birch of ‘American Beauty’ fame (the dark one, not the ‘American Pie’ one) as a deadpan teenage girl inbetween high-school and whatever else (an apartment and job in the working world for her increasingly distant friend from said high school). She latches onto the unlikely character played by Steve Buscemi and proceeds to unwittingly ruin his life. If you see this film, please let me know what you think her getting on the non-existent bus at the end means. I think I might know, but don’t want to spoil it, at least on the main page.
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she killed herself… on to a better place… she actually made that turn around the corner (literally) as the music came up, but i wasn’t sure until I saw Buscemi’s character in therapy, living with his mom, and realized that time had passed, and we were kind of looking at the aftermath…
okay. that’s what i thought.. with some help from the people i saw it with. i guess it just wasn’t clear to me, the whole psychologist thing. it seemed to me like they just forgot to tell us something, instead of doing it on purpose.
i’m not so sure she’s dead. i took it as a metaphor for her moving on with her life, and following her dream to “just disappear one day, go to a different place and start over.” and because her take on the world was so skewed anyway, it makes sense that her departure was more fantastical than reaslistic.
she killed herself… on to a better place… she actually made that turn around the corner (literally) as the music came up, but i wasn’t sure until I saw Buscemi’s character in therapy, living with his mom, and realized that time had passed, and we were kind of looking at the aftermath…
okay. that’s what i thought.. with some help from the people i saw it with. i guess it just wasn’t clear to me, the whole psychologist thing. it seemed to me like they just forgot to tell us something, instead of doing it on purpose.
i’m not so sure she’s dead. i took it as a metaphor for her moving on with her life, and following her dream to “just disappear one day, go to a different place and start over.” and because her take on the world was so skewed anyway, it makes sense that her departure was more fantastical than reaslistic.