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Comment on American Splendor: Being our own life’s comic relief by Chris

Chris — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:08:31 +0000

The seamless mixing between reality and the actors was, perhaps, the best feature of this film. Paul Giamatti did an excellent job portraying Harvey Pekar; everything down to the voice and mannerisms.

PS: Check your email!

Comment on American Psycho: The corporate version of Clueless by Studio Concrete

Studio Concrete — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:45:57 +0000

Love the comparisons you draw. Really good review!

Comment on American Psycho: The corporate version of Clueless by Chris

Chris — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:30:36 +0000

If corporate culture is anything like in American Psycho, I don’t think I want to go to law school. :p

Great blog though. Mila Kunis starred in the second one. It was pretty bad.

Comment on The night three became one: Why you should give The Human Centipede a chance by Ofelia Legaspi

Ofelia Legaspi — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:43:48 +0000

It definitely paints a picture. It’s not my diagram though. This was in the movie. I was a little hesitant to put it up actually, thinking it might put off readers, but the pay off is, it might intrigue readers too.

If only people would give this movie a chance… I’ve never encountered a movie that has gotten as much as heat as this one.

Comment on The night three became one: Why you should give The Human Centipede a chance by Seth

Seth — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:45:16 +0000

I’m not really sure what to say about your little diagram here…haha…it’s going to be stuck in my head for quite some time…

Comment on One crazy week later … is another crazy week by Ofelia Legaspi

Ofelia Legaspi — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:55:26 +0000

Thanks James! What a coinkydink. Existere is a lot of work, but really fun.

The Toronto After Dark was amazing this year — at least the two films I saw anyway (The Human Centipede and Evil in the Time of Heroes). Hopefully next time I can get accreditation, because tickets to these things aren’t cheap.

Great to have found your blog too! I’ll be looking around. Cheers!

Comment on One crazy week later … is another crazy week by James McNally

James McNally — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:18:25 +0000

Ofelia, great to have found your blog and glad you enjoyed Toronto After Dark! Interesting to note that you’re working on existere. When I was at York, I was on the editorial board, from 1990-1992. Keep up the good work!

Comment on | 500 Movie, 365 Days / Now Playing | Movie 2: Shedding some Eternal Sunshine on concept-driven Inception by Ofelia Legaspi

Ofelia Legaspi — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:09:00 +0000

Dear readers (particularly Inception fanatics), Inception might be ripped from . . . a Scrooge McDuck comic book?.

Comment on | 500 Movie, 365 Days / Now Playing | Movie 2: Shedding some Eternal Sunshine on concept-driven Inception by Ofelia Legaspi

Ofelia Legaspi — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:00:57 +0000

Thanks for the comment Zak! I guess that you could try to categorize films based on their strengths and weaknesses, but I still think it's not fair to reduce art, which is what I think film is, to its genre. However, I think I am guilty of this. See my review of Salt. Also, I'm sorry to break this to you but Nolan might have derived Inception from a certain grumpy duck .

Comment on | 500 Movie, 365 Days / Now Playing | Movie 2: Shedding some Eternal Sunshine on concept-driven Inception by Zak

Zak — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:21:05 +0000

Ah…been searching for a review that dared to be brave to be different. Let me be frank and say I’ve not seen Eternal Sunshine…so cannot delve into your comparisons there. But honestly, I know two things…every film has its audience, and the more you can come near Pure Heart or Pure Mind the more you can expand that audience.

According to one of my film theories, films ultimately tell us only three different types of stories – Intelligent ones (Mind Flicks), Emotional Ones (Heart films), Usual Ones (a mishmash of both) and the rare Unusual Ones (excellent mishmashes, right amount of Mind and Heart). I believe this since I live in the land that produces around 1000 movies ranging – and I’m quoting a cousin of mine – from “Fantastic Realities” to “Realistic Fantasies”, ergo “All mind no heart” to the other end.

So, though I love your take on the absence of Heart in Inception, no one can deny that its one hell of an intelligent movie. I thus believe it has drawn in more people who start a sentence with “I think” rather than “I Feel”.

I’m one of them, and my wife’s the complete opposite. I’m going to show her Inception soon, and my theory will (of course just for me) be either proven right or wrong.

As an aside, the debate here in my land of computer geeks (who by the way just love the film) is “will we ever be able to make an Inception”. (And this from a land that has produced masterpieces in “Heart films” like the Apu trilogy from Satyajit Ray and more down the line). Goes to show you what a great Magic trick can achieve.

I guess at the end you judge a creation based on the creator. Nolan has consistently tried to mesmerize us – Prestige, Memento – and tried in some places to give it heart – Dark Night, Memento. In one of his interviews he explicitly stated that this is a Heist movie. As such its a good one, though I also “feel” he could have given it more heart…but I still “think” his Mind is eternal sunshine!