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[sanpaku_backup]

The fam has decamped to Long Island, so here I am. Due to the paucity of buses I decided it might be better to do the dinner-movie thing tonight than on Saturday. So I went downtown and checked out the Cable Car cafe, then went to eat at a brewpub, and then to Providence Place, where I picked up the new Apples in Stereo album and saw Adaptation. Got out just in time to catch the bus back. The late buses only go as far as the Providence-Cranston line, so there was a mile-long walk to cap it off. So very glad it's not as cold as it has been lately.

Felt pretty good. Maybe I'll try it again on Saturday after all. Lot of movies out there I'd like to see.

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[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

I just saw Adaptation last night too. I think they robbed my standard 5-Disk Shuffle for the soundtrack: Beck, The Folk Implosion, & The Rolling Stones.

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[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

I noticed the Beck, not the others. Whadja think of it?

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[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

There was some Elvis Costello in there too. I liked it but it seemed about twice as self conscious as it needed to be. The deconstruction jokes, the masturbation jokes, etc... Even still, I thought it worked. And a nice commentary on some of the stupid shit people decide to turn into movies. Not that the source itself is stupid, but the idea of making a movie out of it is absurd. Jay had an editor pimping out one of his stories to Good Machine for a while there last year and I kept thinking "this you want to make a movie?"

Have you seen Human Nature? All the critics hated it, but I thought it was really funny.

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[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was sort of my basic reaction too. I mean, on one level, it was kind of hokey and we're all smart enough to "get" it without having even seen the movie. On another, if you want to make a movie about solipsism, you have to make a solipsistic movie, so the way they went about it was quite clever. It's a movie that I might not have enjoyed while I was watching it, but I have found myself musing over it a lot in the past few days.

I identified with the guy a lot. The one thing I can't get over is how many reviews said, "We can't tell whether for the last 20 minutes, he was parodying Hollywood or embracing it!" I mean, if you think about the movie for 30 seconds after you leave the theater, it's obvious what he was up to! Jeez.

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Human Nature? All the critics hated it, but I thought it was really funny.

Rented and watched it tonight. Some cleverness, although I think it sort of ran out of gas in the second half. It bottled some of the weirdness from Malkovich but without really giving you much of a connection to the characters -- so it was sort of hard to get more than mildly amused.

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[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot to mention, we are very easily amused. Sock puppets on a saturday night-- that sort of thing.

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[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Sock puppets? I'm in!