10-15-2007, 06:45 PM
This was made in '73, so apologies for being a few weeks late in checking it out.
I fell asleep four times while watching it. The first hour and a half were chaotic and stream of consciousness. Then it developed a plot, which played out over the next 20 minutes.
It's by far the best movie I've seen this year, and it was painful packing it up in the red envelope to send back. I'll be renting it again before long, no doubt, because you can't absorb something like this in one sitting.
I kept falling asleep because I was in a rundown state, by the way. I'd wake up and curse my disrespect.
I should've seen this back in my 20s. Oh, well. Always good to hook a car battery to a 50+ brain to see if there's any life left in it.
I kept imagining Dali watching this. I pictured him storming out in the middle -- partly out of a jealous rage at the surreal brilliance, partly out of disgust at the anti-Catholicism. At least I think that was part of the message.
A glorious and provocative feast for the eyes. As an extra on the DVD, the restoration process was described. They did an amazing job rescuing this masterpiece from decay and revitalizing it.
I suspect all of you saw this long ago (I'm always the last to know.) If not, you might think about checking it out.
I half-expected a message at the end, "No species were wiped from the face of the Earth in the making of this movie." But that's an exaggeration. Some animals do get harmed. But mostly you just see carcasses, which exist in this country by the millions, only you never see them.
In awe, cranefly
I fell asleep four times while watching it. The first hour and a half were chaotic and stream of consciousness. Then it developed a plot, which played out over the next 20 minutes.
It's by far the best movie I've seen this year, and it was painful packing it up in the red envelope to send back. I'll be renting it again before long, no doubt, because you can't absorb something like this in one sitting.
I kept falling asleep because I was in a rundown state, by the way. I'd wake up and curse my disrespect.
I should've seen this back in my 20s. Oh, well. Always good to hook a car battery to a 50+ brain to see if there's any life left in it.
I kept imagining Dali watching this. I pictured him storming out in the middle -- partly out of a jealous rage at the surreal brilliance, partly out of disgust at the anti-Catholicism. At least I think that was part of the message.
A glorious and provocative feast for the eyes. As an extra on the DVD, the restoration process was described. They did an amazing job rescuing this masterpiece from decay and revitalizing it.
I suspect all of you saw this long ago (I'm always the last to know.) If not, you might think about checking it out.
I half-expected a message at the end, "No species were wiped from the face of the Earth in the making of this movie." But that's an exaggeration. Some animals do get harmed. But mostly you just see carcasses, which exist in this country by the millions, only you never see them.
In awe, cranefly
I'm nobody's pony.
