Don't forget the sorority girls vagina dentatis movie.
Somehow I managed to miss that one. And gee, it seemed like the very definition of "appointment viewing"...
Hunh. I actually enjoyed all the family squabbling. It reminded me of Zelazny's Amber royalty, or, better, the Greek gods.
I started to find the Amber siblings tedious after a while, too. Maybe it's just me.
Hunh, I think other than Delirium wanting to find him and maybe a time-is-out-of-joint thing that was about all the plot there was. But Dream guarded his kingdom, didn't he? And they certainly mess around enough in the affairs of mortals....
In that case, I suppose they're just an extra set of gods with a specific mandate to mess with humanity's heads. It seemed like they were meant to be somehow more profound or cosmic or abstract or something, but I guess perhaps not.
Actually, the slapped-togetherness of the forgetting machine or whatever it was called reminded me of Brazil, too (the aggressively cheerfully incompetent plumbers).
Yeah, that was a bit Gilliam-esque, wasn't it? But there was some of the same kind of crummy semi-competence on display in "Being John Malkovich," too. Good point about the Pythonosity of the memory-crawling, too.
I just honestly don't care to watch Tom Cruise at length in much of anything (it's sort of like my Tom Hanks problem; I just don't like looking at them).
Fair enough. Maybe you could check out "Abre Los Ojos" for me, then...
HA, ha ha, oh lord, that was so bad. Ghod that was bad.
Did you know that the American public would rather live in a chaotic world of violence and crime than live with the merest possibility that a single innocent person might one day perhaps be unjustly sentenced to, uh, a long nap? Did you know that Spielberg is a complete frickin' crackhead whose attempts at social commentary are laughably puerile and naive?
Apart from Bladerunner and possibly some bits of Total Recall, Hollywood has done Dick no favors, but they've ripped off his vision consistently (well, so did cyberpunk, so....).
I think they've tended to rip off his plot devices, but generally not the underlying ideas they're meant to embody - the unreliability of our perceptions, the frustration and heartbreak of living in a flawed, imperfect world, all that Gnostic stuff. Every now and then I see a movie that strikes me as similar in spirit to Dick's work, but I can't think of a lot of examples right now... maybe the last couple of David Lynch movies, or that "Wild Palms" miniseries way back when.
I mean, we don't know Martin Taylor is the devil, he's just....diabolical.
And yet he ends up doing some good, however inadvertently. This gets me thinking again about the whole concept of the villain-as-protagonist; if heroes generally protect the status quo against disruption, and the status quo sucks, then doesn't the guy who's trying to shake things up have at least an outside chance of making the world a better place whether he means to or not?
Re: I must buy some mints to hide the smell of sulfur
Somehow I managed to miss that one. And gee, it seemed like the very definition of "appointment viewing"...
Hunh. I actually enjoyed all the family squabbling. It reminded me of Zelazny's Amber royalty, or, better, the Greek gods.
I started to find the Amber siblings tedious after a while, too. Maybe it's just me.
Hunh, I think other than Delirium wanting to find him and maybe a time-is-out-of-joint thing that was about all the plot there was. But Dream guarded his kingdom, didn't he? And they certainly mess around enough in the affairs of mortals....
In that case, I suppose they're just an extra set of gods with a specific mandate to mess with humanity's heads. It seemed like they were meant to be somehow more profound or cosmic or abstract or something, but I guess perhaps not.
Actually, the slapped-togetherness of the forgetting machine or whatever it was called reminded me of Brazil, too (the aggressively cheerfully incompetent plumbers).
Yeah, that was a bit Gilliam-esque, wasn't it? But there was some of the same kind of crummy semi-competence on display in "Being John Malkovich," too. Good point about the Pythonosity of the memory-crawling, too.
I just honestly don't care to watch Tom Cruise at length in much of anything (it's sort of like my Tom Hanks problem; I just don't like looking at them).
Fair enough. Maybe you could check out "Abre Los Ojos" for me, then...
HA, ha ha, oh lord, that was so bad. Ghod that was bad.
Did you know that the American public would rather live in a chaotic world of violence and crime than live with the merest possibility that a single innocent person might one day perhaps be unjustly sentenced to, uh, a long nap? Did you know that Spielberg is a complete frickin' crackhead whose attempts at social commentary are laughably puerile and naive?
Apart from Bladerunner and possibly some bits of Total Recall, Hollywood has done Dick no favors, but they've ripped off his vision consistently (well, so did cyberpunk, so....).
I think they've tended to rip off his plot devices, but generally not the underlying ideas they're meant to embody - the unreliability of our perceptions, the frustration and heartbreak of living in a flawed, imperfect world, all that Gnostic stuff. Every now and then I see a movie that strikes me as similar in spirit to Dick's work, but I can't think of a lot of examples right now... maybe the last couple of David Lynch movies, or that "Wild Palms" miniseries way back when.
I mean, we don't know Martin Taylor is the devil, he's just....diabolical.
And yet he ends up doing some good, however inadvertently. This gets me thinking again about the whole concept of the villain-as-protagonist; if heroes generally protect the status quo against disruption, and the status quo sucks, then doesn't the guy who's trying to shake things up have at least an outside chance of making the world a better place whether he means to or not?