Subj : Re: quote of the day To : alt.tv.farscape From : Tyler Trafford Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 20:00:40 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape John Iwaniszek wrote: > 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? I didn't say it doesn't fit your catagory, just that 'same actors' was probably more influential. -- Tyler Trafford I can give you my word, but I know what it's worth and you don't. -- Nero Wolfe, "Over My Dead Body" .