Cinemaphilic Nonsense

[MrTickTock]

I recently watched "Once Upon a Time in America"

My reaction during most of the movie:



Seriously, I do recommend it, but it's one of the most relentlessly brutal, horrible, and sad movies I've ever watched. The main characters both succeed in going completely off the deep end in their own ways, and then fathoming the bottom of the damn Movie Morality Marianas Trench, and just when you think the movie's gotten as horrifying as it can get, it blindsides you again. Great movie, but it made me flinch more than "Saving Private Ryan" did.

On a completely unrelated note: never play the David Lynch Drinking Game. What is that, you ask?

It's where you watch a David Lynch movie and take a drink every time nothing makes sense.

It. Will. Kill. You.

[Beev]

i thought this thread was titled "cinemephallic nonsense", much better name imo

[Penakoto]

Is it anything like An American Tail? I liked that movie.

Russian mice getting chased by things, like cats, in America.

[Hoogie]

Sergio Leone is a very good filmmaker.

[MrTickTock]

Originally Posted by Penakoto

Is it anything like An American Tail? I liked that movie.

Russian mice getting chased by things, like cats, in America.

Yeah, it's exactly like that.

And then the main character sings a song in the rain, and it's the saddest song. Ever.

(That happens in An American Tail, right? My childhood memories aren't lying to me?)

Sergio Leone is a very good filmmaker.

Hoogie speaks words...of WISDOM.

But seriously, did YOU put this in the Rantings of Madmen board?

'Cause I may be a mad man, but I ain't no madman.

[Hoogie]

I was going to but someone beat me to it

[MrTickTock]

Originally Posted by Hoogie

I was going to but someone beat me to it

I will wear my honorary forum insanity as a badge of honor.

[Amon]

we played the david lynch drinking game to fire, walk with me

i expected worse

[Nicromanser]

I was just talking about eraserhead a little bit ago.

[Nuva]

Originally Posted by Amon

we played the david lynch drinking game to fire, walk with me

i expected worse

why did you punish yourself on purpose that movie is so bloody stupid

[MrTickTock]

Originally Posted by Nuva

why did you punish yourself on purpose that movie is so bloody stupid

Yeah, if you're gonna play the DLDG, it's gotta be to Eraserhead or something more...Lynch-y. I mean, he couldn't make ALL of his movies cryptic and inexplicable, everyone has an off day.