tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post9187722569316206123..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: A Whole Lot of NothingSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-36294810141561780662017-08-18T20:54:08.457-05:002017-08-18T20:54:08.457-05:00Yeah, I think there are movies, like this one, for...Yeah, I think there are movies, like this one, for which your reaction really depends greatly on your mood and expectations going in.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-42468434410743534832017-08-17T02:55:28.673-05:002017-08-17T02:55:28.673-05:00I see your point, Steve. It takes a certain mood o...I see your point, Steve. It takes a certain mood or angle of viewing it to appreciate it. Your reaction matches mine with L'Avventura completely, but since then I have come to expect something else than an actual story from these movies. I would not go so far as to say that I like them, but there is something to get from them.TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-85941458500295497232015-06-23T19:22:41.646-05:002015-06-23T19:22:41.646-05:00This was really style over substance for me. That ...This was really style over substance for me. That works sometimes, but in this case it really didn't work for me.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-89973762652712880732015-06-22T17:36:47.818-05:002015-06-22T17:36:47.818-05:00I guess I've seen enough of Antonioni's fi...I guess I've seen enough of Antonioni's films that I know enough of what to expect that they've grown on me and I can actually enjoy them. (Which doesn't mean that I understand them in any meaningful way. Or maybe it does.)<br /><br />I saw L'eclisse today and I liked it a lot. Mostly, it seemed like a brilliant slice-of-life film with beautiful awesome beautiful Monica Vitti getting over a break-up and sort of (but not quite) easing herself into a new romance with a stockbroker who is almost as pretty as she is. <br /><br />I loved the scene with the racist girl from Kenya, and Vitti dressing up as a Masai dancer (or maybe as an exotic dancer from a Star Trek episode? I wasn't sure about that). And then the scene on the airplane and going to the Verona airport, where Vitti was just looking around and amazed with looking out the window and talking about clouds and smiling and laughing.<br /><br />I'm sure it wasn't meant to be a slice-of-life film (or maybe it was?). That last scene - and the ultimate fate of the relationship between Vitti and Alain Delon (who looks like Legolas as a stockbroker) - was actually pretty amazing. I sometimes think of Antonioni as an Italian Tarkovsky, but L'eclisse is more like Bergman, especially the ending.<br /><br />The first Antonioni film I saw was L'avventura. I didn't like the movie, but I fell in love with Monica Vitti. That was at least 20 years ago. Now I want to see L'avventura again. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-71382241214787546802013-06-11T18:04:05.247-05:002013-06-11T18:04:05.247-05:00Malick's images are prettier. I was so disappo...Malick's images are prettier. I was so disappointed in this one.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-78866986603384346722013-06-11T15:52:17.396-05:002013-06-11T15:52:17.396-05:00When I saw your title I didn't even need to re...When I saw your title I didn't even need to read the post to know that I was going to agree wholeheartedly. To me, he's an earlier version of Malick who's got a lot of pretty images and not a whole lot of plot. That's not a movie to me; it's just a collection of pretty images.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.com