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I really didn't like that. Up until that point, the suture was extremely effective and I found the blood jarring. After that, the film got a bit ridiculous with the baby and troops and then the boat. I never got back into it.

― coz larry (bundgee), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

re: blood on the camera, there were a lot of moments when I didn't know if I was looking at something real or computer graphics (but the baby wasn't one of those times)

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― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah how did they do the birth scene?

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

it was all filmed in reverse

― coz larry (bundgee), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

eureka

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

More post-apocalyptic movies should have a running joke about cigarettes killing you quicker.

― milo (milo), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The movie needed another half hour which I would have gladly sat through.

OTM

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 January 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

No, no more unnecessarily long films please. I don't get Seitz bringing Brazil into the discussion, as aside from the dystopian settings they're about as diff in tone as you can get.

Yes, blood on lens was accident (it vanishes digitally later).

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Ghettoizing Spielbergs into "serious" and not is as lazy as saying Scorsese is "back" bcz he made a superficial mob epic.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

no, it's as lazy as saying "longer" = "unneccessary".

see, i could do this all day, just like you!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

well, it wd've been unnec in this case (I like some 9-hr films).

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

The film opens with a scene where detail about the world is filled in by a voice on a television, which is blown up in a terrorist attack (OR WAS IT etc). Cut to an office, where our hero is working in his joyless job, surrounded by joyless people. I seem to remember something specifically Brazil-like about the office his supervisor works in - towering piles of paper or somethin else that suggests work being done for basically no reason.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Shoah?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

(grr x-post)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Clive's boss lots less funny than Ian Holm

(adjourn to new board)

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Ghettoizing Spielbergs into "serious" and not is as lazy as saying Scorsese is "back" bcz he made a superficial mob epic.

spielberg has very self-consciously bifurcated his own career that way (hence the scare quotes), at least post-E.T. i'm in the boring subgroup that thinks he made all his best movies before E.T. anyway, so i don't really care whether the later ones are "serious" or not. (and fwiw, i haven't seen munich because nothing else he's done has made me think omg i have to see munich. but i will eventually.)

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

(in fact i just added munich to my netflix AND bumped it up to #5. my expectations aren't too high, so maybe it'll surpass them.)

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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