Comments on: Still 700 Miles from Sundance http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/ Movie reviews, news and opinion Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: joel http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/comment-page-1/#comment-3915 joel Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:55:03 +0000 http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/#comment-3915 As we've seen this year, critics can't always be trusted to get it right on a movie out of the gate. To be fair though, the negatives for Zodiac and Assassination of Jesse James typically didn't hit nearly the same level of utter hostility and bile that The Fountain accumulated. As we’ve seen this year, critics can’t always be trusted to get it right on a movie out of the gate. To be fair though, the negatives for Zodiac and Assassination of Jesse James typically didn’t hit nearly the same level of utter hostility and bile that The Fountain accumulated.

]]> By: Craig Kennedy http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/comment-page-1/#comment-3912 Craig Kennedy Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:35:55 +0000 http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/#comment-3912 I liked The Fountain a lot, but then quickly felt embarrassed as one critic after another dismantled it for being sentimental sci-fi slop. Mayhap I need to check it out again as well. I'm also curious about Sleep Dealer. The Tarkovsky/Aronofsky line got me. I liked The Fountain a lot, but then quickly felt embarrassed as one critic after another dismantled it for being sentimental sci-fi slop.

Mayhap I need to check it out again as well.

I’m also curious about Sleep Dealer. The Tarkovsky/Aronofsky line got me.

]]> By: Alexander http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/comment-page-1/#comment-3910 Alexander Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:34:57 +0000 http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/#comment-3910 Give it another try, joel. It's one of those films that works at least a little bit better the second go around. Jackman's performance hit me a bit harder this time, too. Cool coincidence! Give it another try, joel. It’s one of those films that works at least a little bit better the second go around. Jackman’s performance hit me a bit harder this time, too.

Cool coincidence!

]]> By: joel http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/comment-page-1/#comment-3909 joel Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:28:01 +0000 http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/#comment-3909 Wow, that's a coincidence. I was just moving up the Bluray for The Fountain in my queue (so many movies in my queue are unavailable right now) and I was thinking some space from all the hatred might make it a good movie to revisit. Your second viewing gives me hope Alexander. I initially liked it and then cooled a bit after reading review after review of pure hatred for it. Wow, that’s a coincidence. I was just moving up the Bluray for The Fountain in my queue (so many movies in my queue are unavailable right now) and I was thinking some space from all the hatred might make it a good movie to revisit. Your second viewing gives me hope Alexander. I initially liked it and then cooled a bit after reading review after review of pure hatred for it.

]]> By: Alexander http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/comment-page-1/#comment-3908 Alexander Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:17:48 +0000 http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/#comment-3908 Foundas and others should love Quid Pro Quo since it seems to be directed like a laser beam on people's fascination with disabled people. Or could it turn out to be so thoroughly enmeshed in its subject matter as to be called "disability porn," too? Sleep Dealer is one of those few films where the tiny little synopsis alone has me excited or at the very least interested. I just gave The Fountain another spin and liked it considerably more the second time out. I still think it has a few problems, but I feel like I understand what Aronofsky was trying to do with it. It'd be on my Top Ten of 2006 now, I think. In truth, I always *liked* it but some of the hyperbole surrounding it kind of turned me off and compelled me to look at what I preceived to be some of its flaws. Now, far away from all the hype, it somehow feels more alive than it did back when I saw it about fourteen months ago. Oh, and this has everything to do with Sleep Dealer because of the Aronofsky comparison by Ramos. Foundas and others should love Quid Pro Quo since it seems to be directed like a laser beam on people’s fascination with disabled people. Or could it turn out to be so thoroughly enmeshed in its subject matter as to be called “disability porn,” too?

Sleep Dealer is one of those few films where the tiny little synopsis alone has me excited or at the very least interested.

I just gave The Fountain another spin and liked it considerably more the second time out. I still think it has a few problems, but I feel like I understand what Aronofsky was trying to do with it. It’d be on my Top Ten of 2006 now, I think. In truth, I always *liked* it but some of the hyperbole surrounding it kind of turned me off and compelled me to look at what I preceived to be some of its flaws. Now, far away from all the hype, it somehow feels more alive than it did back when I saw it about fourteen months ago.

Oh, and this has everything to do with Sleep Dealer because of the Aronofsky comparison by Ramos.

]]> By: Craig Kennedy http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/comment-page-1/#comment-3907 Craig Kennedy Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:06:06 +0000 http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/#comment-3907 Im curious about Quid Pro Quo too Glimmer. It looks odd. I like odd. Looks like Foundas has a different take on The Wackness than the guy I quoted the other day. I've heard in a couple of other places that it was good too. At the very least it has Ben Kingsley, so at least there is that. Im curious about Quid Pro Quo too Glimmer. It looks odd. I like odd.

Looks like Foundas has a different take on The Wackness than the guy I quoted the other day. I’ve heard in a couple of other places that it was good too.

At the very least it has Ben Kingsley, so at least there is that.

]]> By: glimmer http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/comment-page-1/#comment-3901 glimmer Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:20:26 +0000 http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/#comment-3901 http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0804,foundas,78906,20.html http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0804,foundas,78906,20.html

]]> By: glimmer http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/comment-page-1/#comment-3844 glimmer Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:43:24 +0000 http://livingincinema.com/2008/01/21/still-700-miles-from-sundance/#comment-3844 ok you know i'm curious about quid pro quo.ah yes...sorry. you know that would be my pick from the things refed in your column. ok you know i’m curious about quid pro quo.ah yes…sorry. you know that would be my pick from the things refed in your column.

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