Quick! "Battle in Heaven" vs "The Shop Around the Corner"

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I can see the latter for the 12th time (so this is Xmas, etc) or the former for the first time. My friend says "Heaven" is a rather grueling experience.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

He's right.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

It would def. depend on my mood, but I don't think I will ever feel the need to watch Battle in Heaven again.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll only rewatch TSATC if there's outtakes of Margaret Sullavan going down on Jimmy.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha well then I think you've made your CHOICE.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

TCM shows Shop almost every month, and Battle in Heaven is maybe the year's second-best mindfuck after Laura Dern's wanderings. What did you do?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched both. BIH was a real grind; the anomie seemed chic rather than felt. Whoever played the girl's boyfriend is really hot.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Most recent example of "felt anomie"?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

There aren't many, although Hou's Cafe Lumiere was moderately convincing. Having a passing acquaintance with this film's milieu I didn't believe the chauffeur and his wife's detachment (posing them like David Lynch dwarfs didn't help either)

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I would prefer a mash-up of 'Shop' remake "You've Got Mail," but with edited-in sequences of hot-Spanish-dreadlocks-lady blowing a gnarled weenis every 5 or 10 minutes.

― Ben Boyer (Tiki Theater Xymposium), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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