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[proximoception]

Her: sure worked on me.

Blue Jasmine: sure didn't.

Penultimate Mad Men episode: who could resist that? Them back together again, and how the end played like a glorious answer to the last seconds of that Everclear video, presumably not directly but by their referencing the same phenomenon - discussed earlier in the episode, where Don's asked if it had ever been like that and he says he can't remember.

Though not necessarily all that indirectly - in the late '90s it was still possible to be aware of most of what was mass-marketed if you at all felt like it, seems to me. And it was a hell of an image, probably the more so for your not expecting to see much of interest in an Everclear video.

Hope Pete gets dumped soon, though - he's hilarious when wretched. Sad seeing now-fired Brie.

I think Her could have ended a lot of different ways, though the "plasma state" choice was a funny one. But it had already done the more interesting thing by the middle. Too bad you can't end with a middle.

But even given that, so well handled! Jonze seems to be a natural. How we could see anyone's face for two straight hours and not mind, that's just amazing. And even the slow pace was just right, since your brain's racing to fill in the empty spaces with relevant bits of your own past.

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too bad you can't end with a middle

[wolodymyr.livejournal.com]

Yes! So frequently. And how often do we forgive ends for middles? People say the end's the most important part. But we say a lot of things.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Was thinking this about Mulholland Drive on a recent rewatch. With no confusion left about what's happening it seemed curiously front-loaded, up to that Cinderella moment at the rigged audition, but probably I just burned out after so many amazing scenes in a row, as when doubled over at The Room.

[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

high hopes for the, eh, last half-season of the Mad Men program. there's still time, you know, to include this Jimmy Webb-penned non-hit over the closing credits. ALSO: if they manage to lurch over into 1970 there is Sinatra's commerically-disasterous Watertown lp, said to be rivaled only by Joy Division's Closer in sheer unrelenting down-bringing. i mean, perhaps the final story arc will necessitate that sort of move ..

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Said to? You sound scared to listen to it, as though it were the video from The Ring.

We watch with the volume so low that we miss the tunes. Had to imagine My Way's.

[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

it is true : i do not have what it takes (presently) to take on Watertown / i still get totally sad during .. relatively unsophisticated cinematic fare. say, Snoopy, Come Home (1972) or - hey - Portrait of Jennie (1948) !

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

Her was a weird experience: strongly disliking the characters, but really enjoying the way everything was done.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much. The general was interesting enough that the specifics didn't matter - they just needed to be specifics. Which provided openings for a strange sort of comedy at times.

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like I didn't care about the feasibility of his job. It was cute and it did what it needed to do.

But really, Skynet > Scarlet.