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500 Days of Summer

For a few weeks now, my brother had been bugging me to see (500) Days of Summer. He was pretty insistent that I watch it, starting from my first big awkward talk with her, when I mentioned to him all the ways I felt confused and stupid and hurt in my relationship, and how I [...]

The Rundown

So after finally seeing Up last night, I think this is how it all breaks down, at least for me, in descending order:

Two-and-a-half, continued

“You have a milkshake, and me have a milkshake. And my milkshake goes acroooooooss the room. And I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!”
One day, some fifteen years from now, Thomas will watch a semi-obscure movie from when his totally uncool parents were young, and he’ll finally understand where that one random thing he [...]

Subtlety

When I first saw 2001 at age 11 or so, the Blue Danube spaceship docking sequence was boring and overly drawn out. I had no idea why Kubrick picked this particular song, and why there weren’t laser beams, TIE fighters, explosions or other displays of interstellar warfare. 10 minutes of a ship approaching a space [...]

Tears in the Rain

Tonight, I had the pleasure of seeing what might be my favorite movie for the first time on the big screen.

The Final Cut edition of Blade Runner is excellent, perhaps even better than I had hoped. Much of it has to do with the experience of seeing it on a giant screen with proper cinematic [...]