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[jul 27 2004, 17:49]
i think i'll have to make some things clear about my last post as it obviously provoked some not-really-but-almost-true ideas about what i think of 'this certain movie'.
i don't hate it. i don't hate peter parker, i don't hate m-j, i don't hate the aunt or the villain or anything else about it. well, i'm not so sure about the costume and the tights but that's a matter of taste.
what i wrote was:
however, i don't think that every movie conveys some kind of moral. lots of movies try, some succeed, most fail.
i don't say that what i wrote isn't true. it's true for me. this movie breaks too many hollywood-defaults to fit into this category and it obeys too many rules to be something else. that's something i don't like about this movie. i'll watch it again and again, however. i haven't seen the second part yet but i bought the first dvd a couple of days ago (i think it sucks).
i don't watch it because it's beautiful or nice or pretty or anything like that. i watch it because it's well done (yes, sometimes i notice things like that) and exactly because it's not beautiful and not pretty and not anything like that. at least not purely.
it's like... have you seen the bicentennial man? it ends with the death of the two main characters. that isn't nice or pretty either but it's... honest. it's the only viable (yes, feel the irony) solution, the only end to this movie that would fit. or take donnie darko (everyone who hasn't seen this movie go and do so now. NOW!). or take even the fucking lord of the rings. none of these movies (or tales) have a 'real' happy end. yet, i love all of them.
there are lots of movies without a happy ending. i don't despise them, not at all. i just hate movies that obey every single hollywood-rule so perfectly and then fail to fulfill the most simple rule... let the girl get the guy or the other way round.
all that talking at the end about 'yeah, it's my duty, sort of' and 'you gotta do what you gotta do' and 'every man must fulfill his destiny' and all that bullshit doesn't count - at least not for me.
perhaps it's just because this movie caught me more than i had expected any hollywood-stuff to catch me. perhaps this twist is the reason why i like (no, not love) and hate it at the same time.
fine.
and now i'll have to find something incredibly stereotypical to ease my mind.
charon
i don't hate it. i don't hate peter parker, i don't hate m-j, i don't hate the aunt or the villain or anything else about it. well, i'm not so sure about the costume and the tights but that's a matter of taste.
what i wrote was:
let's, for a moment, assume that everything you see in movies serves the purpose of telling you something, of conveying some kind of moral. it's quite narrow-minded to think so, i know, but let's just assume it for a second.
(whoa, quoting myself... that's weird...)however, i don't think that every movie conveys some kind of moral. lots of movies try, some succeed, most fail.
i don't say that what i wrote isn't true. it's true for me. this movie breaks too many hollywood-defaults to fit into this category and it obeys too many rules to be something else. that's something i don't like about this movie. i'll watch it again and again, however. i haven't seen the second part yet but i bought the first dvd a couple of days ago (i think it sucks).
i don't watch it because it's beautiful or nice or pretty or anything like that. i watch it because it's well done (yes, sometimes i notice things like that) and exactly because it's not beautiful and not pretty and not anything like that. at least not purely.
it's like... have you seen the bicentennial man? it ends with the death of the two main characters. that isn't nice or pretty either but it's... honest. it's the only viable (yes, feel the irony) solution, the only end to this movie that would fit. or take donnie darko (everyone who hasn't seen this movie go and do so now. NOW!). or take even the fucking lord of the rings. none of these movies (or tales) have a 'real' happy end. yet, i love all of them.
there are lots of movies without a happy ending. i don't despise them, not at all. i just hate movies that obey every single hollywood-rule so perfectly and then fail to fulfill the most simple rule... let the girl get the guy or the other way round.
all that talking at the end about 'yeah, it's my duty, sort of' and 'you gotta do what you gotta do' and 'every man must fulfill his destiny' and all that bullshit doesn't count - at least not for me.
perhaps it's just because this movie caught me more than i had expected any hollywood-stuff to catch me. perhaps this twist is the reason why i like (no, not love) and hate it at the same time.
fine.
and now i'll have to find something incredibly stereotypical to ease my mind.
charon