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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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