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Appurushîdo (1988)
LOL funny
This movie is (unintentionally) hilarious.
There is more swearing than any other genre of movie I know (including Tarantino and Sam Kinnison concerts.)
The 80's genre is crippling in its obviousness. It's all here: shoulder pads, jazzercize, and women with really big hair.
Think of it as a cyberpunk NC-17 version of the original 80's Transformers TV show.
The archetypes are ham-fisted and the character relationships are nebulous at best, farcical at worst. And the dialogue is on the nose the way a really angry 14 yo would write it.
Appleseed (1988) So bad...it's good. May want to watch under the influence of something, however...
In closing I leave you with this pearl excerpted from the scene where the villain is slain:
BAD GUY: "What the f.ing hell?! Christ...The f.ing c..cksucker!"
(move over Shakespeare... move the f.ck over!)
The Fountain (2006)
Did I totally miss the point?
I've read the user comments and I don't think we saw the same movie! I may be mistaken but I believe this story is not about time travel: it's a Sethian Gnostic allegory.
The entire story takes place in the present. I don't know why people say this takes play in three eras. I think that was either the marketing department or obfuscation.
The Conquistador story exists in the imagination of Rachel and Hugh (it is the story she is writing and is NOT literal. She is telling Hugh to write the story himself. To imbue his life with meaning and assume responsibility for being the author/hero of his own life.
The future story takes place on the Platonic, or ideal level. The intention of the protagonists are revealed at their purist level.
The movie focuses on the doctor as a Platonic "Third Man"- Not ideal (Anthropos, or the future dude in space), not material (Ialdaboath, or the guy trying to get a potion), but something in between.
Message: we are neither pure thought or pure matter. We are the "Son of Man" in this Gnostic cosmology.
It's a bit of a stretch, but not much given Ararofsky's Kabbalistic interests. It's JMHO. Any takers?
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
What the "Bleep" is this movie about?
I believe the level of resistance to this movie proves it has succeeded in rattling some people's self-constructed cages of identity.
The message of new age quantum mechanics, occult Western philosophy, and the Buddhism from which it derives are upsetting because they threaten the foundations of a sense-real identity.
The fictional narrative, didacticism, and the language of metaphors that connects the two were very well conceived and executed, IMO.
Most religious people are materialistic nihilists. All atheists are materialistic nihilists. Two sides of the same comfortable coin.
Sure, Ramtha looks like she needs to lay off the silicon injections but I couldn't find a single thing that didn't ring true in this movie.