http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/29/cinematical-postscript/ "bringing you all the news that's fit to mistrust" Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:44:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/29/cinematical-postscript/#comment-15977 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:25:32 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/29/cinematical-postscript/#comment-15977 <em>Life is Beautiful</em> doesn't set my teeth on edge to quite the same degree as <em>Forrest Gump</em>, which was made all the more painful by people walking around quoting it all the time. And I skipped <em>Schindler's List</em> and almost the whole Oliver Stone oeuvre because even though I was supposed to I just didn't want to, and life's too short for movies that don't move... Life is Beautiful doesn’t set my teeth on edge to quite the same degree as Forrest Gump, which was made all the more painful by people walking around quoting it all the time. And I skipped Schindler’s List and almost the whole Oliver Stone oeuvre because even though I was supposed to I just didn’t want to, and life’s too short for movies that don’t move…

]]> http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/29/cinematical-postscript/#comment-15936 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:12:08 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/29/cinematical-postscript/#comment-15936 Oooh I want to see Little Miss Sunshine! I dunno about El laberinto, people really went bananas over it but it just wasn't all that for me. But I also hate Schindler's List, Life Is Beautiful (I think that's the name of it--the one with big Italian goofball Roberto Benigni?) and Forrest Gump. Not that most people would dream of lumping those together thusly, but I might even throw in Oliver Stone--historical assassinations designed to make us feel good about things we should never feel good about--namely, the twentieth century. She said curmudgeonly. Oooh I want to see Little Miss Sunshine! I dunno about El laberinto, people really went bananas over it but it just wasn’t all that for me. But I also hate Schindler’s List, Life Is Beautiful (I think that’s the name of it–the one with big Italian goofball Roberto Benigni?) and Forrest Gump. Not that most people would dream of lumping those together thusly, but I might even throw in Oliver Stone–historical assassinations designed to make us feel good about things we should never feel good about–namely, the twentieth century. She said curmudgeonly.

]]> http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/29/cinematical-postscript/#comment-15923 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:39:17 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/29/cinematical-postscript/#comment-15923 Oh, not only have I not seen <em>Pan's Labyrinth</em>, I am now thinking I'll probably give it a miss entirely, being really not into the torture thing and so on and not having heard anything particularly redeeming, even though I had enjoyed hearing the filmmaker interviewed on Fresh Air last spring... Movies have been infrequent around here, the latest being <em>Little Miss Sunshine</em>, the ending of which left me laughing and crying at the same time, not to mention incredibly nostalgic for a New Mexican childhood of driving in cars without clutches and malfunctioning horns. Oh, not only have I not seen Pan’s Labyrinth, I am now thinking I’ll probably give it a miss entirely, being really not into the torture thing and so on and not having heard anything particularly redeeming, even though I had enjoyed hearing the filmmaker interviewed on Fresh Air last spring… Movies have been infrequent around here, the latest being Little Miss Sunshine, the ending of which left me laughing and crying at the same time, not to mention incredibly nostalgic for a New Mexican childhood of driving in cars without clutches and malfunctioning horns.

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