two things

[opabinia]

1.
Oldboy: Oof. Man, I felt better after watching 21 Grams. At least it wasn't Arlington Road.

2.
Thank you for all the dermestid pointers. I should have specified that I'm looking for a big, established setup, located away from my apartment, that I can use. It is not rad to have a colony of flesh-eating beetles in the house. Dermestid colonies, big or small, stink. I'll look into Hahvahd.

Comments

[rynsect.livejournal.com]

Sympathy for Mister Vengeance is a little more gory and slightly less oof. Lady Vengeance is almost cutesy after the other two.

[(Anonymous)]

Oldboy changed the way that I looked at hammers, awls and other useful household tools ... now instruments of death and horrible maiming.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

1. Don't forget scissors!
2. Who are you?

[cris.livejournal.com]

I'd say that I left myself anonymous as a nod to the existential angst of Oldboy

21 Grams

[jhimm.livejournal.com]

21 Grams annoyed the piss out of me.
why is it now considered hip and artsy
to edit a film backwards?

there are times showing a story backwards makes sense.
in Memento a man is piecing together his past from his present.
he -has- to work backwards and so it works.
i've heard radio dramas in which
because characters are following a recently left trail of evidence
from what just occurred back to what happened earlier in the evening
it makes sense to tell the story backwards.

but 21 Grams?
i just spent the whole film wanting the last 5 minutes
because they'd already given away the rest of the film
in the first five minutes.
a film can't be dramatic and gripping
if you already know what is going to happen,
in detail,
straight through.

HAMMERTIME

[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

At Newbury Comics we talked of giving deserving customers the "Oldboy Special."