Yelling into a chasm followed by kissing Natalie Portman in the rain…that has some aesthetic value, I think. I'm with Jay, I though the movie was cute, some of it very funny (dodging arrows), but not particularly deep. What makes this one of the worst movie scenes?
I think this scene especially highlights the inability of the director to say something profound without being totally obvious about it. It's so contrived.
I also think the point he's trying to make is stupid.
They are celebrating nothingness, they are celebrating that their lives are ultimately meaningless.
Gee, and I just thought it was a movie with a cute love story. I didn't know it was supposed to be "deep" or anything.
ReplyDeleteI guess knowing that I was supposed to get a deeper meaning from it that what I did marks the movie as an abject failure.
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Yelling into a chasm followed by kissing Natalie Portman in the rain…that has some aesthetic value, I think. I'm with Jay, I though the movie was cute, some of it very funny (dodging arrows), but not particularly deep. What makes this one of the worst movie scenes?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite movie review quote:
ReplyDelete"…generates about as much excitement as watching two snails on a collision course with fifty yards between them."
I think this scene especially highlights the inability of the director to say something profound without being totally obvious about it. It's so contrived.
ReplyDeleteI also think the point he's trying to make is stupid.
They are celebrating nothingness, they are celebrating that their lives are ultimately meaningless.
They are Nietzsche's last-men
I don't think it was a bad movie or scene. And it has the redeeming quality of being set to a Paul Simon tune.
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ReplyDeletecheck out this Neuhaus lecture
http://www.veritas.org/download/media/A96YALE01.mp3
i think this movie is advocating for a certain debonair nihilism
the lecture gets at it towards the end.