Except that Deleuze's point (and I must not have gotten this across) was that these particular detective novels failed to present a well-ordered world at all, and that the plots (and investigations) were generated from mistakes, misapprehensions, etc.
Chester Himes's "Blind Man with a Pistol" is the pinnacle of that sort of novel. Threads are followed, and the reader might get an idea of what was going on or who was doing what to whom after a lot of work and attention to detail, but the detectives themselves utterly fail in the traditional aim of the detective novel.
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Posts: 5120 | Location: Knoxville, TN, USA | Registered: January 12, 2003
Saw The Happening. Interesting premise, boring implementation. Too many 'character gives plot away' moments. Many loose ends. Mr. Night disappoints again.
Posts: 6458 | Location: Mexico City, Mexico | Registered: January 11, 2003
Saw Hancock and it was pretty good. They didn't spoil the whole plot and I enjoyed it, but then I am a Jason Bateman fan. Worth watching.
I also watched Return of the Living Dead 2, which had some zombie fun, but really wasn't all that.
And to finish my evening strong I watched the first five, count em, five episodes of The Wire, season one. Man that is good stuff. Definitely see why everyone has been raving about it.
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Posts: 2887 | Location: The Cliffs of Insanity | Registered: August 28, 2005
Originally posted by Oniichan: Saw Wanted on Sunday night, which was a pretty decent action flick. Plot sometimes went a little light, but eh... all the fights and special effects made up for it. Thought it was certainly worth the ticket price.
went and saw that with a girl on monday.
The best part was Jolie's tattoos.
but we wanted something to do for two hours in teh ac and it fit the bill.
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-- The gunfire around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even when it's not shouting. Even when it's just a whisper. Even the lowest whisper can be heard - -over armies... when it's telling the truth.
Posts: 5117 | Location: TPA in the FLA | Registered: February 05, 2003
Porco Rosso, last night, as my Miyazaki festival encountered some delays.
Wonderful, wonderful film. Just hits the sweet spot for me. Very little in the way of pretensions, just a sweet little story wrapped in a colorful package.
I believe this may the first time I watched it since learning Japanese(!). The language and the voices really shine in ways I don't remember noticing before. A couple of laugh out loud moments, which are quite rare for me normally.
On the plane, Charlie Bartlett. Not bad. Good performances from lead and Robert Downey Jr, and the utterly predictable aspects of it were handled lightly enough not to grate.
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Posts: 3875 | Location: Vancouver, BC | Registered: August 05, 2007
hancock - i caught something out the corner of my eye before seeing this, like on interview program or something, which gave me a spoiler. so i knew in advance bits of the plot, so girl i was with said she didn't see things coming and i did.. still its actually a pretty good film once it gets going, though some of the early "humour" feels like its trying too hard.
Yeah Remote, it does seem to try a little hard early. But overall much better than I really expected.
I watched the first few episodes of Deadwood again and it's soooooo awesome. David Milch knows how to make language work, especially with curses. I mean the genius of the phrase "limber-dick cocksuckers" speaks for itself.
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Posts: 2887 | Location: The Cliffs of Insanity | Registered: August 28, 2005
i sometimes think its me, getting old, or jaded, but i find a lot of films where they are supposed to be funny and everyone there is howling and i'm just not stirring in the slightest.
i was really surprised at the certificate that hancock was given in the UK actually. some of the language and content was a little strong for a 12A, or at least for the spectrum of what they seem to define that as. especially when there was a good deal of that was really unnecesary.
Originally posted by remotepush: i sometimes think its me, getting old, or jaded, but i find a lot of films where they are supposed to be funny and everyone there is howling and i'm just not stirring in the slightest.
It could be ticket prices have diminished the number of dour Scots in the audience leaving only howling English and immigrants.
I watched the first few episodes of Deadwood again and it's soooooo awesome. David Milch knows how to make language work, especially with curses. I mean the genius of the phrase "limber-dick cocksuckers" speaks for itself.
City of Men - The story of two long-time friends trying to survive growing up in a tough neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Apparently by the same creator of City of God. I think C of G has a slight edge but this is still a great film overall.
Originally posted by heavyboots: City of Men - The story of two long-time friends trying to survive growing up in a tough neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Apparently by the same creator of City of God. I think C of G has a slight edge but this is still a great film overall.
wasn't city of men a tv series? i have the 2 disc set, something like 3 episodes per disc. only watched the first so far.
After reading about the discovery of a copy of the original version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, I had to watch the Murnau Foundation release this evening. The prospect of seeing some of those gaps filled in has me in complete movie geek heaven. I can't wait to see what's been recovered.
Originally posted by remotepush: wasn't city of men a tv series? i have the 2 disc set, something like 3 episodes per disc. only watched the first so far.
According to IMDB, this is true. Hadn't ever heard of the TV series...
Originally posted by heavyboots: According to IMDB, this is true. Hadn't ever heard of the TV series...
i'd expect it was only ever shown in brazil, and released on dvd everywhere else. though, i have this vague recollection of something saying it was shown on one of those art house tv channels in the states.
Originally posted by Chris H: The prospect of seeing some of those gaps filled in has me in complete movie geek heaven. I can't wait to see what's been recovered.
