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The mask making scene was the best part. If more scenes could have come off like that. Or if there were at least 3 good scenes like that...that drew you in.

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Fashionable alienation
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Blue K, Custodian of the Cinema

Lawrence Phillip Pearce

17Mar10

Dude! I just added about 20 movies from your list to mine. Thanks!

I wrote something snide and smart assy on Shutter Island's wall about it being Scorsese's attempt at an M. Night Shamaylan movie. As always in any late-Scorsese picture, it's gorgeously shot and relatively watchable, but there's no hold to it, no real tension. More compelling from a cinephile point of view than, say, Bringing Out the Dead, but nowhere near as trashy and balls-to-the-wall entertaining as his Cape Fear. And it's always weird for me to see Marty using digital FX for some reason. All kidding aside, I wish late-Scorsese would be the man to bring Ubik to the screen.

thesecretlivesofcats

16Mar10

It's like an old "indie" film. Sundance and IFC has given the director a lot of support. It's a pretty good meditation on space madness. And being a musical doesn't hurt.

Lawrence Phillip Pearce

16Mar10

For so reason I missed The American Astronaut when it first came out. I remember it playing around LA when I was in grad school and everybody kept harassing me telling me that I must see it and for some reason I defiantly resisted all the recommendations. When it came out on video, I recall seeing it all over Amoeba yet still I resisted it for some mysterious reason. Well, it came on The Sundance channel a few nights ago and I finally watched it and I must say I LOVED IT!!! One of the best films of the 2000s! Jarmusch meets Lynch meets Stroszek meets The Sweet Hereafter meets Douglas Adams meets...I don't know what the fuck! And the lead guy looks like a cross between Harry Shearer and Hugh Jackman. The whole thing is fuckin' genius!!! And it's beautifully shot on real film. Amazing and laugh out loud hilarious! I should have the bejesus anally probed outta me for not seeing it sooner.