Boy, did you accidentally touch a nerve with me or what? I had such unpleasant experiences seeing both of those movies that you bring them up almost a decade later and I snap. "Niagara Falls! Sloooowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch..."
Please forgive me. You've been incredible cool throughout the whole exchange.
No, YOU didn't say "you didn't get it" but usually what I hear.
Honestly, if Waking Life had offered new philosophy rather just quote from Nietzsche and Sarte the whole time I'm sure I would've felt differently about it. As it was I wanted to chew my arm off to escape from it.
Considering the way Thin Red Line was shot- 3 hrs culled from a million feet of footage and loosely stitched together and a meditation on war- there's no wonder that it seemed to get up an go nowhere every 20-25 minutes.
"Aimless" might be more accurate. They both meandered endlessly with nothing resembling a narrative or story arc, regurgitating the most sophomoric of Philosophy 101 lesson in a way that was laughably pretentious.
...And if you say I "just didn't get it" you'll prove my point even more.
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"Niagara Falls! Sloooowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch..."
Please forgive me. You've been incredible cool throughout the whole exchange.
Honestly, if Waking Life had offered new philosophy rather just quote from Nietzsche and Sarte the whole time I'm sure I would've felt differently about it. As it was I wanted to chew my arm off to escape from it.
Considering the way Thin Red Line was shot- 3 hrs culled from a million feet of footage and loosely stitched together and a meditation on war- there's no wonder that it seemed to get up an go nowhere every 20-25 minutes.
"Aimless" might be more accurate. They both meandered endlessly with nothing resembling a narrative or story arc, regurgitating the most sophomoric of Philosophy 101 lesson in a way that was laughably pretentious.
...And if you say I "just didn't get it" you'll prove my point even more.
I also dislike 300 quite a bit