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Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:21 pm
by Wombaticus Rex
The problem with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is that once the filmmakers strip away the novel's postmodern pastiche and tack on an inspirational Hollywood ending, what's left — this story of a boy's search for a lost father — doesn't fully mesh with Sept. 11, and doesn't fully earn the right to use such terrible images from our recent past. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is extremely powerful and incredibly manipulative. When you dry your tears, you might feel, as I did, angry.
*dies laughing*
what a petulant little poodle
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:53 pm
by Iamwhomiam
Well, that settles it... Tom Hanks, our favorite American hero, after Jimmy Stewart, has announced our decade of national mourning over.
Seems to me that Hollywood wants to play with 911.
Just in time for an early Christmas 2012 release, probably the Sunday before.
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:04 pm
by barracuda
It's time for a 911 comedy, I think.
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:18 pm
by Project Willow
That's why they killed him.
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:19 pm
by Project Willow
Wait, wait, are we allowed to laugh on here?
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:40 pm
by Iamwhomiam
If not here Willow, where?
Petulant poodles be damned!
Obviously, Fish, CD.
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:12 am
by JackRiddler
Iamwhomiam wrote:Well, that settles it... Tom Hanks, our favorite American hero, after Jimmy Stewart, has announced our decade of national mourning over.
Seems to me that Hollywood wants to play with 911.
This was already true by the time of Cloverfield. Or this:
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:05 am
by MinM
Wombaticus Rex wrote:The problem with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is that once the filmmakers strip away the novel's postmodern pastiche and tack on an inspirational Hollywood ending, what's left — this story of a boy's search for a lost father — doesn't fully mesh with Sept. 11, and doesn't fully earn the right to use such terrible images from our recent past. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is extremely powerful and incredibly manipulative. When you dry your tears, you might feel, as I did, angry.
*dies laughing*
what a petulant little poodle
David Edelstein is a poor imitation of his predecessor at
CBS Sunday Morning. The late
John Leonard.
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:47 am
by psynapz
barracuda wrote:
It's time for a 911 comedy, I think.
Forgive muh iggernance, but wth is that from?
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:41 pm
by Luther Blissett
JackRiddler wrote:PS - Just found an old Michelin poster, eerily appropriate because it looks like "Bibendus" and his twin are in a command car near the embers of a No-Man's Land on the Western Front.
I had to add this to my meticulously curated, decidedly "Images Only"-influenced high weirdness, cold war paranoia, indie pop, and natural beauty tumblr:
Flatwoods Blonde (potentially triggering, though probably not).
Most likely.
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:57 pm
by barracuda
psynapz wrote:Forgive muh iggernance, but wth is that from?
I'm not sure, but I think it originated at an 119 debunking site.
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:10 pm
by norton ash
^^ The government is bullshitting when they say they didn't anticipate buildings attacking planes.
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:28 pm
by smoking since 1879
I guess the one at the wheel is sober, and only the passenger is drunk... paging Hugh
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:16 pm
by NeonLX
Ha! Flatwoods Blonde is a blast!
Re: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:04 pm
by Luther Blissett
NeonLX wrote:Ha! Flatwoods Blonde is a blast!
Thanks a bunch. I had some downtime last month and went nuts.
Oddly enough, Michelin runs some sort of "travel tumblr" and "liked" the Bibendum which is just insane to me.
http://michelinguides.tumblr.com/
http://www.tumblr.com/liked/by/michelinguides
They "liked" another image tagged bibendum, so they must be alerted every time a user posts that.