just try to remember the great things shotzi…dancing in the bowling alley, sucking back master cylinders, gunboats, i’ve been playing lap steel way longer than that, seeing the rat in the alley right before a first kiss.
d.g.g. really does try to give you it all in this one…rarely can a film capture a lot of different types of moods, let alone render them pitch/note perfect. this film offers a wonderfully large range of emotions…a bit like life itself.
i am kicking myself for forgetting to put this film in my auteurs list, i like it that much.
i demand a recount, mr. cook…otherwise you aren’t my number one good friend anymore, hell you ain’t even in my top ten.
It’s been all downhill for David Gordon Green since this movie. Snow Angels, sadly, is about as tepidly conventional traumatic realism as American indies can get, indistinguishable from the continuum of You Can Count on Me In the Bedroom We Don’t Live Here Anymore Reservation Road Revolutionary Road.
i wouldn’t say that he has lost it or anything…the parts in snow angels with michael arangano and olivia thirlby were amongst my favorite scenes last year…same thing with random bits and parts of pineapple express.
i think that might just be a problem when a filmmaker sets himself to change tones multiple times during a film, sometimes things don’t mesh well as a whole. however, i would never refer to david gordon green’s work as indistinguishable from the above films…especially considering he eschews the use of laura linney and mark ruffalo, the homecoming king and queen of said movement.
I loved You Can Count on Me, but haven’t seen In the Bedroom, thought We Don’t Live Here Anymore was dumb, and didn’t see Reservation or Revolution Road. I don’t even know what Reservation Road is.
Anyway, I’ve got another fun topic to start. Even more drunk than before!
All the Real Girls is my favorite of Green’s. Snow Angels is definitely more conventional and mainstream, if for no other reason than it has known stars in it. But I still loved it and thought it showed that Kate Beckinsale has some range (and I should admit I have a bias towards Sam Rockwell – I think it’s incredibly interesting to watch, no matter what the film). But definitely check out Snow Angels and if you like David Gordon Green, check out the film he did after All the Real Girls, Undertow. Not a great film but still good and definitely worth watching.
I Love (I don’t know why) that movie.
I have a real problem with this film. There are so many great moments, but the film just falls into this Hollywood melodrama… I mean I’m supposed to believe this girl has stayed a virgin for about 20 years, then goes out with a guy she eventually falls in love with, doesn’t have sex with him after months of dating, but just randomly decides to have sex with a guy at a party… for what? It’s gimmicky. The film pulls at my emotions, and forces me to feel angry, or sad, or whatever. It’s all very manipulative, not bad, but not much more I would expect from oscar-bait films, and doesn’t offer that much more insight into relationships. A semi-enjoyable, if not completely shallow film.
“….this girl has stayed a virgin for about 20 years, then goes out with a guy she eventually falls in love with, doesn’t have sex with him after months of dating, but just randomly decides to have sex with a guy at a party…”
went to high school with her…..art imitates life
That rang wholly untrue to me. I didn’t understand the motivation of any character. It just felt like a plot device placed in the film to force me to feel something the director, and writers couldn’t create naturally on their own.
Shotzi
…and now I want to die. This movie neared Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind upsetting. Spoiler: WHY DID SHE DO THAT AT THAT PARTY!?!?!? FUCK!
Anyway… David Gordon Green is something else. This guy. I loved George Washington, now this one ripping my heart out. Need to see Snow Angels. I had to open a bottle of wine twenty minutes into this one. Now I’m all drunk in the middle of the afternoon thanks to the horribly upsetting and incredibly good movie. I hate everything. I like you guys, though. You guys are alright.
Um… I guess… uh, what are your thoughts on this movie? That validates starting this thread, right? I think so.