FWWM
Jane Asher
Pray for Rosemary's Baby
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Post by FWWM on Jul 31, 2005 13:14:13 GMT
www.imdb.com/title/tt0460829/It's a mystery about a woman in trouble. Not like he's ever done anything like that before, so it's great to see such fresh innovaition and creaitivity. Anyway, it stars Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons and Justin Theroux (hurrah!) and should be ready for next year's Cannes festival, but naturally the project is shrouded in secrecy. In all seriousness, I can't wait - David Lynch is one of the all-time greats and has rarely put a foot wrong.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on May 9, 2007 21:18:35 GMT
Words. Cannot. Describe. The. Torture. This was perhaps the most painful cinema experience of my life. Three hours of incredibly tedious, pretensious yet in-no-way-clever-or-telling-much-of-a-story shite. I had what could probably be described as a nervous breakdown. We would have left, but were stupidly expecting some sort of conclusion to the plot. Or at least evidence of a plot. Although! The bit where a lady got her tits out and then proceeded to do a song and dance routine to The Locomotion was an island of joy in a vast see of tears. Shame it only lasted 20 seconds. I also laughed a bit at the fact that a chinese lady speaking perfectly adequate english was subtitled. Perhaps this was some sort of statement about racist America. Perhaps not. Justin Theroux wasn't in it enough either. |
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on May 10, 2007 9:38:09 GMT
Hmmm I was so excited about Inland Empire, but didn't enjoy it as much as I have other Lynch films. I really think it's an hour too long.
There are some cool bits - the locomotion in particular, oh and the creepy conversation with the neighbour near the start. On reflection I liked a lot of individual bits of it, but there were just too many long parts where nothing was happening. It needed way more Justin Theroux too.
Laura Dern is pretty amazing though and she manages not to do her enormous square-mouth cryface (the scariest scene in Blue Velvet by far) too much.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on May 10, 2007 10:36:56 GMT
There are some cool bits - the locomotion in particular, oh and the creepy conversation with the neighbour near the start. On reflection I liked a lot of individual bits of it, but there were just too many long parts where nothing was happening. It needed way more Justin Theroux too. Oh I loved the neighbour, with her incredible cheekbones and entirely inappropriate conversation topics. I remember thinking in that scene "wow this film's going to be amazing". But no, it pretty much peaked there. I obviously don't 'get' the intellectual stuff. Although I don't think it was at all clever. It reminded me of the short films that the freaky guys who wear only black and sit at the front of my film lectures make. They can't get girls to act in them any more, after making one of the female drama students uncomfortable with their demands of a topless scene last year. |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2007 21:27:01 GMT
Everyone I have spoken to about this film has pretty much just said, "Well that was fucking mental wasn't it?"
I thought it had some very interesting things to say about the dark side of Hollywood, the rotting of the American dream, attitudes to women and choice vs destiny. However it didn't seem very interested in saying those coherently or accessibly, and the bit with the rabbit people was just "wuhuh?".
I was interested the whole way through, but I wasn't at any point enthralled. Although the bit where Laura Dern Creeps towards the camera with a scary grimace on was quite well done. And Justin Theroux could really have done with not fucking off less than halfway through.
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