Subj : Re: quote of the day To : alt.tv.farscape From : Tyler Trafford Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 19:47:50 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape John Iwaniszek wrote: > John Iwaniszek wrote in > news:Xns96D5664928BF5joiwhnanri@66.26.32.9: > >> Tyler Trafford wrote: >> >>> Jim Larson wrote: >>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>> >>>>> _The United States of Leland_ >>>>> >>>>> "Maybe they're lazy." >>>>> -Jena Malone's character, on how guardian angels can exist >>>>> when 'everything's not okay most of the time'. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I really liked this movie. It's interesting how many positive user >>>>> reviews there are for this on Netflix and IMDb, while nearly all of >>>>> the professional reviewers didn't like it. >>> >>> >>> >>>> Wha? >>>> >>>> (Just tell me if I need to netflix it or not.) >>> >>> I think it's worth seeing. It was reccomended because I liked: >>> >>> Garden State >>> Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind >>> The Salton Sea >>> SLC Punk >>> Donnie Darko >>> American History X >>> The Jacket >>> Saved! >>> >>> -if that helps. >> >> In other words, you're a freak. >> > > Seroiusly, I think one thing that the members of the list above have in > common is that they explore morally ambigous themes. That's the heart > of film noir and many of the movies listed contain giant heaping > helpings of moral ambigousness. (I'm surprised Momento isn't on the > list.) Even Saved, a purely satirical movie lets some bad guys of and > brings harm to some of the good guys. And some of the bad guys are > really well meaning in the final analysis. Yeah. Though Saved was probably included mostly because both have Jena Malone and Martin Donovan (Pastor Skip) in them. -- Tyler Trafford Nobody knows what goes between his cold toes and his warm ears. -- Roy Harper .