Share your thoughts, my friend. Leave the pedantry to the neoconservatives.
I'm sure you don't realize how hilarious that statement is.
Mindwalk is a hopelessly didactic rant written and executed by people too busy fawning over themselves to present well rounded arguments. None of the ideas pontificated on at such length are remotely new or innovative, which wouldn't necessarily be a flaw if they weren't presented as such, and with such sage pomposity. It's a good thing Ullman's neo-liberal, proto-communist high priestess is given such ignoramuses to preach to -- they have to be the only presidential candidate and well-regarded poet who have never heard that atoms are mostly empty space, and would thus suffer her remedial lesson on it. Christ, that was brought up five years earlier in Buckaroo Banzai, and in a about a tenth of the time.
Good God, this film is in love with itself. It's like watching the mating dance of three malignant narcissists. The writers are not interested in actually
wrestling with big ideas, with presenting the tension between different reference frames and sparking debate. Instead, the film is a polemic -- preachy, pretentious, and even implicitly advocating for the overthrow of western civilization. It's a shallow and ultimately ineffective excercise in preaching to the converted, because it can only appeal to people who already agree with its core positions.
Good actors and some few-and-far-between insightful observations can't save this sophomoric mess.
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17 years ago
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Cronenfly
17 years ago
I sort of had the same experience. I saw it in 1990 and remember liking it at the time. It happened to be on TV the other night, so I watched it again and ... well, you know what happened.
Sigh indeed.
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knightndey
17 years ago
I'm enjoying this thread. It is like the movie in relation to some of the vervbal structure.. People here, are tossing around words they apparently just looked up in the dictionary and, having chosen a meaning that sounds close to what they wish to convey, have inserted them with less than thought than a teenager attempting to write his first hall pass.
Should I know somewhat of this subject? I have been correcting papers for 30 years. And I have read and seen all the tricks.
This thread is more of an ego ladder, each person trying to grab the highest rung. This seems to be only true for those defending the lack of substance for this movie. Those who enjoyed it responded here and on several other posts, seem to feel that it is not required that they attack or bloat over what they believe is a verbal victory.
This movie has a little for everyone; you either love it, hate it, or sit in the boat I am currently in. I can see it for what it is. Newspapers are written for an 8th grade education. This movie might have opened many minds that otherwise would never have tried to 'learn' this much about life and the universe.
The movie also was a success because it does what is expected of art. It makes you feel something. This thread proves it.
But keep it real. In an attempt to appear deep, many look shallow. I have tried to use small words here and a simple approach to the subject so that everyone, including myself, can understand. Had I wanted to, I could run rings around anything written in 'junk', and with the right words.....
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krc2001
17 years ago
Couple of quotes from your post.
This thread is more of an ego ladder, each person trying to grab the highest rung.
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Had I wanted to, I could run rings around anything written in 'junk', and with the right words.....
Hilarious!
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