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[Buggy Loop]

Holy shit i love it when i rent a dvd movie, no idea if good or not and discover how awesome it is, should of got into threads about the movie way sooner. I'll end up buying it whenever i can, but this is definitely going into my collection, what a fucked up movie it is most of the time, all the little subtleties such as colors or words disapearing from signs or books, the scenes where it just doesnt make sense yet the camera always continue, it doesnt feel cut out, so cool.

Jim Carrey really impressed me, i remember suggesting to rent this with my brother before and we thought that its probably just another comedy, but boy were we wrong, he's pretty much flawless in that movie, really talented guy. And Kate Winslet, so many subtle face expressions she has in that movie, the kind of little details that makes you remember your ex or current girlfriend's face expression showing that she loves you just with her look but are easily forgotten, sadly. She's come a long way since Titanic.

Is it me or is Focus features making lots of awesome movies lately? 21 grams, lost in translations and now this. Probably more too since i recall seeing their logo many times this year.

Im so popping this movie in the next time i watch a movie with a girl

 

[XS+]

It's a great movie, but not one that I'd watch with a girl I'm dating.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Yeah, you need to concentrate on that movie, not necessarily the best choice with a girlfriend.

Plus some people just seem incapable of following anything but the most linear of plots, and if she was one of those then it would just be shit.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Yea maybe not, since that kind of movie mostly brings back memories of old relationships, would be a good movie to watch with an ex that you thought ended up wrong, if you could trick her into watching it

 

[Pimpwerx]

Great movie, but I didn't notice any of those details. Guess I'll have to give it another watch. PEACE.

 

[etiolate]

UHm, I watch this movie with my girl all the time.

 

[MIMIC]

Is it me or is Focus features making lots of awesome movies lately? 21 grams, lost in translations and now this.

I loved "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "21 Grams," but "Lost in Translation" bored me to tears. Maybe I was tired that day when I watched it. I'll probably have to give it another watch (because I ultimately changed the channel).

 

[Buggy Loop]

Great movie, but I didn't notice any of those details. Guess I'll have to give it another watch. PEACE.

hehe

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in one of the early scenes when he's inside his head remembering his memories, when he chase clemantine on the street with his car and gets out, starts running in front of stores, notice that the price tag disapear on his 2nd run, then the bottles and all sorts of products in the window disapear and so on at the end there's no cars parked either, and the street sign has no name. When he's talking to her in the library later, the books lose their text first, then their colors, same with letters. Its pretty much like that throughout the movie, some are very hard to notice but its such a cool thing, losing his memory little by little with the brain leisures.

 

[Odnetnin]

best movie all year. Followed by LIT

 

[newsguy]

OMG, I was going to post a "late to the party" for this film but I saw this thread. I have been wanting to see it since I read the movie reviews, but my g/f knew what it was about and would not go to see it. I was watching it tonight on HBO (from work) and I gotta say this is one amazing film. The cinematography, the psychological elements, the use of color, it's fucking amazing. If I'm ever single again I'm going to use the line "I was erased from your memory, but in my mind you told me to meet you at this bar at 3:00 am. Now let's make some new memories."

 

[shpankey]

fantastic movie.

 

[Diablos]

I really, really loved that movie.

I made a thread about it a month or two ago. I was confused about the ending, but now it makes more sense. And ulitmately, that IS the whole idea of it...

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there is no end to their drama, they are basically meant to fall in and out of love through a life of confusion... it's sad but romantic at the same time, they get to relive their relationship but what they were meant to have always gets 'reset', I guess, to the same thing.

 

[newsguy]

I really, really loved that movie.

I made a thread about it a month or two ago. I was confused about the ending, but now it makes more sense. And ulitmately, that IS the whole idea of it...

Spoiler

there is no end to their drama, they are basically meant to fall in and out of love through a life of confusion... it's sad but romantic at the same time, they get to relive their relationship but what they were meant to have always gets 'reset', I guess, to the same thing.

*goosebumps. I will buy it tomorrow cause I have to see it over to catch the little things.

 

[Megafoo Chavez]

diablos and I watch it together all the time.

 

[iced lightning]

One of the few movies I've seen multiple times in the theater. Great movie.

 

[GG-Duo]

i love love love the parts where he

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drags her through his memories. It just totally explores what a "girlfriend" can mean for many people --- a motherly figure / someone who lifts you up from your childhood trama... and the film has this very energetic movement in it that i just adoredddddddd.

 

[Fatalah]

i love love love the parts where he drags her through his memories. It just totally explores what a "girlfriend" can mean for many people --- a motherly figure / someone who lifts you up from your childhood trama... and the film has this very energetic movement in it that i just adoredddddddd.

Wow GG, I always loved that part of the movie too. I felt the meaning behind the scenes, but I couldn't identify it inside of me.

I bought this as soon as it came out. A week later they announced the special edition which would come out 4 months later. Bah.

 

[Solo]

best movie all year. Followed by LIT

Too bad LIT was from '03 while ESOTSM was from '04, though.

Anyways, fantastic film, another great Kaufman script, in my top 5 of '04 with Collateral, Kill Bill Vol. 2, The Aviator, and Spider-Man 2. If youve ever had a "Clementine", then I dont see how in the world you couldnt identify with, and love, this film.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

This is one of my favourite films of all time. Aside from the science fiction "twist" it's just so real. I swear some of it was lifted from my own experiences. According to an interview in the "making of" DVD featurette I'm not the only one who feels this way.

 

[Musashi Wins!]

Yea maybe not, since that kind of movie mostly brings back memories of old relationships, would be a good movie to watch with an ex that you thought ended up wrong, if you could trick her into watching it

I saw this right when it opened with an ex-girlfriend, probably the real love of my life. It was the single most bizarre and emotional movie trip of my life. It's probably responsible for our present communication. Strange that it happened, but I can't think of a movie more appropriate for that situation (though it wasn't planned that way).

 

[Flakster99]

Very good movie.

 

[AssMan]

The movie was pretty dull and boring. Both my dad and I feel asleep through the movie. :lol

 

[Buggy Loop]

The movie was pretty dull and boring. Both my dad and I feel asleep through the movie. :lol

Dur! no explosion or buildings being destroyed by aliens, no american heroes too! sucky movie, i agree!

 

[Memles]

Watched this last night, coincidentally, and it is absolutely fantastic...I really don't have any memories to identify with, even, and yet the film is so poignant, imaginative and just great overall.

 

[Warm Machine]

Yeah its a great movie but 21 Grams was not. That film had no reason for its narrative to be broken apart like that except for the fact that the movie would have been dull as dirt without it.

 

[Lathentar]

I had a relationship that was almost the exact same situation.

My girlfriend at the time and I were a little baffled by it all, but it was such a great movie.

newsguy, I think you're completely wrong about the point of the movie. Here is my take:

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At the end of the movie, I feel that they agree to try again, even if their relationship will fall apart just like it did before. Why, because the experiences and memories gained through a relationship are so much more important and valuable than never having them at all. You know the old saying, it's better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all.

Anyways, that's my take.

 

[newsguy]

newsguy, I think you're completely wrong about the point of the movie

Eh? I never gave my opinon on what I thought the ending of the movie was. I actually thought the exact thing you just said,

 

[Diablos]

I had a relationship that was almost the exact same situation.

My girlfriend at the time and I were a little baffled by it all, but it was such a great movie.

newsguy, I think you're completely wrong about the point of the movie. Here is my take:

Spoiler

At the end of the movie, I feel that they agree to try again, even if their relationship will fall apart just like it did before. Why, because the experiences and memories gained through a relationship are so much more important and valuable than never having them at all. You know the old saying, it's better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all.

Anyways, that's my take.

Spoiler

Of course they always try again. Didn't you notice during the final scene how it shows them walking along, over and over? It couldn't possibly mean anything else. It's basically saying, no matter what, they'll always end up falling in love because it was something in their lives that is naturally meant to be.

 

[Solo]

Yes, they keep re-meeting and falling in love, eventually breaking up and having their minds wiped, in a cycle. Gondry says in the commentary I believe that the original ending showed you that they had each done this 30+ times or something.

 

[GG-Duo]

Spoiler

Yes, they keep re-meeting and falling in love, eventually breaking up and having their minds wiped, in a cycle. Gondry says in the commentary I believe that the original ending showed you that they had each done this 30+ times or something.

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Eww. I'm glad he didn't use that ending.

 

[Diablos]

^ might want to put [ spoiler ] [ /spoiler ] between that text (with no space between the [] and the text)

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So there IS an end to their relationship? They eventually reach a point where they don't wind up back together again? That sucks. I didn't hear him say that. I think it kind of defeats what I thought was the purpose of the movie, which is that if two people are meant to be, they're meant to be.