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Jack Nicholson - The Shining
Warren Beatty - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Ray Liotta - Goodfellas
Bruce Willis - 12 Monkeys
Essie Davis - The Babadook
Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby
Tippi Hedren - Marnie
Judy Garland - The Wizard of Oz
Faye Dunaway - Mommie Dearest
Wasn't aware. I don't come here all that often.
The movie was already ruined from the start. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's childish script that borders on adolescent wish-fulfillment, never once convinced me in any way that it was anything resembling genuine, human drama.
Then why are you responding?
Yeah, she was quite cute, wasn't she?
That's the beauty of Sam Raimi's direction. He's great at melding absurd, over-the-top cheesiness with the right dramatic subtext underlining it. That scene may have been silly, but it also works to underscore the overarching conflict of the film. The same could be said about the "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" montage in Spider-Man 2. If you sit down and watch the film in its entirety, you'll see what I'm talking about.
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It's great that you can cite Richard Dawkins to beef up your apparent smarts, but it doesn't change the fact that you missed the actual point I was trying to make. When I say something "should be a meme", I don't mean it literally should. At the end of the day, memes don't benefit anything or anyone. All they do is elicit brief, momentary amusement.
When I say something "should be a meme", what I really mean is that I myself, would LIKE to see it be turned into a meme as I find it funny. Nothing on this planet needs to become a meme, as whether they do or not won't affect the world on any actual basis. All I'm doing here, is sharing what I personally, would like to see be turned into memes.
Do you get it now?
That's the case sometimes, but a lot of memes really aren't. Just look at the amount of memes based on the Spider-Man movies, for instance. How many other instances can one say "pizza time"?
How does it work then?
Chicken noodle soup, didn't you know?
Psychopaths like her hardly have any friends. When they do, there's always some alterior motive involved. I met one of them recently, and she broke up with me just 'cause I didn't provide her enough legs in becoming an attorney.
She's my crush too. I have a professor that looks just like her. *drools*
Hugo Strange from Batman.
I didn't really have a problem with the dialogue, it's the actors' deliveries that made it a struggle for me to get into its characters. Wes Anderson really likes that dry, stilted delivery for all his scripts and it always ends up leaving me cold. It's not funny or quirky when every character is doing it, it just comes across as obnoxious. Then again, the guy always seems to commit more to his aesthetic than he does to story. The day that Wes decides to finally make a film that prioritizes characters and themes above all else, is probably the same day as when Mars is effectively colonized by humans.
The guy sure has talent. If he keeps up this quality of work, chances are, he'll be a cult favorite in a couple years from now (before finally getting mainstream recognition from critics and audiences alike). It's just a shame that Hollywood is currently sitting in this loony leftist echo chamber. A man like Zahler is the hero Hollywood needs, but not the one it deserves.
Why not? He portrays such a complex, nuanced role here of a man questioning his sanity yet regaining his humanity at the same time. The amount of emotions he goes through over the course of the film, is something that can only be portrayed by the most gifted of actors, and it's a height of which Willis has never been able to climb again.
Yeah... and?
That's certainly a part of it, but that only amounts to a small fraction of the deeper pathology I just described. You're grossly oversimplifying it.
I haven't seen it yet, but everything I've heard sounds like what you said, Oscar bait. That's sorta been Sam Mendes' MO his entire career (not including the Bond films). It's a shame, because unlike hacks like Tom Hooper or Stephen Daldry, Mendes actually has some skill behind the camera. He can get some great performances out of his actors, and he most certainly knows how to shoot a scene. It's a shame then, that he always picks such safe, disposal Oscar bait material.