Subj : Re: quote of the day To : alt.tv.farscape From : John Iwaniszek Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 19:52:35 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3p5r2mF8ptp4U2@individual.net: > 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. So the least squares model they use to aggregate movie viewers doesn't take into account moral ambiguousness? .