Saw crazy, stupid love. I freakin hate steve carrell, but I gotta say, this was his best movie. It was awkward, funny, stupid and well acted. Excellent movie
a super drug that allows you to access all of your brain but a horrible side effect, you die if you quit using! but that's ok for giant dooche bradly cooper! he got so damn smart using that damn smart drug, he was able to ween himself off and still retain all his new smartness! and hollywood gives fans another happy ending. we all breathed a sigh of relief when the real dangers of the drug weren't fully witnessed on our douchey hero. the moral of the story is, you don't have to be who you are to succeed!. a magic smart pill will get rid of your worthless reality you f*cking loser! i have no qualms with recreational drug use, i think it's great. it's those damn performance enhancing ones, the ones whom don't get you all loopy, that i despise. besides all you need is alcohol to be successful. think about hemmingway, and kerouac, and thompson. they wrote great books and there are others
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(08-12-2011 09:25 AM)Lush Wrote: besides all you need is alcohol to be successful. think about hemmingway, and kerouac, and thompson. they wrote great books and there are others
(08-12-2011 09:25 AM)Lush Wrote: besides all you need is alcohol to be successful. think about hemmingway, and kerouac, and thompson. they wrote great books and there are others
Thompson? Did you read his work?!
well to be honest, i haven't. i catch your drift. but i want to. was just thinking of some mainstream authors who's muse was booze. i've got such a backlog of books to read and my used bookstore's got bedbugs.
Hemmingway and Kerouac were bipolar. Thompson, I'm not sure about. But it looks that way to me. When Hemmingway was manic, he wrote. When he was depressed, he drank. It's not the same, Lush. The alcohol was a symptom of his disease, which was the main reason for his genius. The alcohol had nothing to do with his writings...
Many artists of all kinds (writers are a kind of artist) have been bipolar. But they go through periods of intense output, followed by a year or 2 off (drinking/doing drugs/fighting depression), and then another period of intense work, another off period, and so on. It's a rough life, and usually ends early...
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I got the impression Lush was being mostly tongue-in-cheek and piped up because, if you read even a little of Thompson's work, you'll understand his affinity for chemical enhancers of many kinds.
And I know this is the movie thread, Lush, but try to push his stuff closer to the top of your list. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas at a minimum. Don't watch the movie or, if you have, imagine it represents the book very well. No sane person would think that HST would translate well to film.
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(08-12-2011 06:28 PM)Brookes Owl Wrote: I got the impression Lush was being mostly tongue-in-cheek and piped up because, if you read even a little of Thompson's work, you'll understand his affinity for chemical enhancers of many kinds.
And I know this is the movie thread, Lush, but try to push his stuff closer to the top of your list. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas at a minimum. Don't watch the movie or, if you have, imagine it represents the book very well. No sane person would think that HST would translate well to film.
i watched fear and loathing and wasn't impressed. though that might just be because of terry gilliam's direction. i've only other seen dr parnassus, which took me twice to really understand and appreciate. he was trying to work on don quixote (which incidentally my girlfriend just bought for me), but couldn't do it. i need to watch brazil.
(08-08-2011 07:37 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote: Saw crazy, stupid love. I freakin hate steve carrell, but I gotta say, this was his best movie. It was awkward, funny, stupid and well acted. Excellent movie
i do hate "joke" actors like carrell and will farell. but sometimes they're in films that aren't their usual fare. steve carrell in little miss sunshine and will farell in stranger than fiction come to mind. i loved both of those. looking forward to this one. ryan gosling's great.
(08-15-2011 02:34 PM)bitcruncher Wrote: I thought crazy, stupid love was a crazy, stupid movie. IMO it was a waste of time...
i haven't seen it, but from what i know about the film is that it isn't viewed as either a romantic comedy nor a hangover style fratboy love affair. maybe a mingling of the two genres.
wow, i thought it was an excellent movie, one of the best of the summer. But what's interesting is that my parents didn't care for it either. my dad is 60 and my mom is 55. Mom thought it was way too sex-centric and my dad thought it was another example of baby boomers who are too immature to grow up.
(08-15-2011 05:26 PM)bitcruncher Wrote: I think you're Dad has the right of it, swoosh...
now i understand when my parents said they think it's a generational thing. all the young people I know who saw it, thought it was excellent. part of it has to do with the fact that people my age aren't shocked by anything anymore. hollywood and the media have crossed the line so many times that we cease to find anything appalling. it's a sobering thought