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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:11 PM
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Anyone else here really enjoy the movie "Adaptation"?
I only saw for the first time a few months ago. What a great flick. I can't get enough reviews and interpretations of it.
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SweetLeftFoot Donating Member (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:12 PM
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1. Sensational
Great flick.
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:14 PM
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5. Now I'm going to have to see the John Malkovic one too
Ugh, maybe I should get to the movies in a more timely fashion from now on.
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SCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:13 PM
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2. I like Being John Malkovich more
It was a good movie but I don't think it was as good as Malkovich.
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:15 PM
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7. wow, I'll really have to see the other one now
cause I just loved this one so much.
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:14 PM
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3. LOVED that movie. They were all great! When Chris Cooper got his
--was it a Golden Globe award?--he said in his speech, "you've given toothless, stringy-haired men everywhere a lot of hope."
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:17 PM
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9. Now I notice him in everything
he was a "background actor" in my mind until this flick.
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 03:01 PM
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22. Now he's one of my favorites...
I noticed him in "Adaptation" and since then I'll watch whatever he's in. Loved him in "Seabiscuit" and thought he was great in "American Beauty".
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Imalittleteapot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:14 PM
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4. Saw it in the theater. I loved it. n/t
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:15 PM
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6. Good movie, but "Eternal Sunshine" was MUCH better
It's my favorite Charlie Kaufman movie yet. "Being John Malkovich" is second.
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:16 PM
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8. I didn't even know that was his too
another film to see!

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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:26 PM
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13. Don't just think about seeing it..
See it NOW! and then watch it again (It's even better the second time around). It's simply a beautiful movie.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 03:05 PM
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23. Oh wow... you *need* to see Eternal Sunshine
Best of his by far, IMO.

Should be best picture!
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swimmernsecretsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:18 PM
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10. I did. Very audacious. I can't imagine what the actual people think...
as it takes their personas into a completely unexpected direction, but I feel this is what film is about--taking reality and bending it. We know about how film can tell a story; how well it can interpret our reality and provide an alternate glimpse of the world is taking film to its highest level.
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:23 PM
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11. I didn't know the book and the people were real
until after I saw it several times. I was amazed and it made me just love it more.

For me the most interesting thing was something I didn't read in any of the reviews (not that I've gotten to them all) - when Susan Orlean is crying over John Laroche's body I kept thinking, "Yes, sometimes that is what it is like to feel passionately about something."
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:25 PM
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12. I loved how the film...
"Adaptation." became exactly what "Charlie Kaufman" railed against in his lunch with the Tilda Swinton -- a movie involving drugs, guns, chase scenes, and how the hero is transformed through the action in the film.

Kaufman's work is always so interesting -- even his "worst" work is 100% better than most of the Hollywood dreck out there.
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:35 PM
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16. I read that
so cool - I didn't catch it on my own though. drat.

I also read an interpretation that Donald's screenplay "The 3" is about the brothers and Susan - they are all the same character. When Donald is talking about how the "searial killer is leaving clues all over the place" he's talking about his own dialog which is a clue that they're all the same character.

Maybe. Maybe not. Fun to think about ...
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:31 PM
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14. I loved it.
Now I want to read "The Orchid Thief."
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WeRQ4U Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:34 PM
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15. AMAZING movie.
Love the fact that once his brother is allowed into the creative process the movie takes a cheesey "guns and explosion" turn.
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central scrutinizer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:51 PM
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17. was there really a twin brother?
My theory is that the twin brother was really just a plot device to show a mutliple personality - one persona knew how to be commercial and successful and could turn out mass market dreck, but the other side was the "tortured, misunderstood, underappreciated artist".
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 02:42 PM
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18. Yes, I think the twin angle..
was a representation of what every writer/artist deals with: stay true to the art or embrace the commercial and potentially inferior.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 02:43 PM
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19. Meryl Streep was robbed of an Oscar!
She was fabulous in that movie but that year Catherine Zeta-Jones was up for Best Supporting Actress and Zeta-Jones had her hubby Michael Dougles drop about $1million to win Catherine an OScar (which she did not deserve)
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 03:07 PM
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24. What did she win it for?
Please excuse my ignorance of Oscar-related matters. :P
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Cadence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 02:52 PM
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20. Yes. I write screenplays and that part where he sits down
to write and instead thinks... I should get a muffin... No I should write. I'll write and as my reward I'll get a muffin. A muffin and some coffee.

Makes me laugh out loud everytime... somedays that's exactly how it is and I've gone through a similar dialogue in my head many times.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 03:01 PM
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21. Yes! I loved it!
I need to see it again.
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