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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.224 |
I don't often post these kind of links, but look at these reviews. Anyone seen it? http://www.amazon.com/Synecdoche-York-Philip-Seymour-Hoffman/dp/B001P3SA8K | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I recommend it, but I was amazed it was promoted as a comedy (though it does have moments of black humour) and relieved to learn later that Kaufman set out to make a horror film. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
It's been on Film 4 a few times recently but I managed to miss it. damn | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.224 |
I've recorded it, but only watched the beginning. It had such a tone to it I think I might buy it already. It does sound, on paper at least, like a Jim Carrey sort of thing, doesn't it? I mean, I know it isn't... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
It's very good indeed but bleak and demanding – my mother (an expert on theatre) said that unless you know a lot about classic American stage drama, little of it makes sense. I found it scary and weird – yes, a horror film, or rather a metaphysical ghost story. Nowhere near obvious enough to be marketed as such, since commercial US ghost story films like The Sixth Sense tend to be at a level of literal-minded obviousness that makes Caspar the Friendly Ghost look difficult. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.224 |
Maybe someone should remake Jim Carrey films seriously. How truly horrifying they might be, reimagined as horror or drama. The Mask? Liar Liar? Yes Man? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.224 |
In fact didn't he try to do it himself once or twice, with Truman Show and Cable Guy? 23? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.252.26 |
I've not seen this, I curiously resist it somehow... I sense something about it - a "disturbance in the force," maybe... and this with me being a total Kaufman fan... but now, knowing it's actually a horror film?!? Well, I simply must. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
'The Truman Show' & 'The Cable Guy' are two of the most disquieting films of modern times imo. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I re-watched a bit of 'The Truman Show'last night for the first time since it was first out...what a brilliant film. I need to see it all again. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.224 |
Carrey's career is on the slide but what a career it's been, to be honest. And he's worked with Kaufman, remember, in the lovely Eternal Sunshine. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Eternal Sunshine...I love that film. And, yes, he's had a great career. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
"...unless you know a lot about classic American stage drama, little of it makes sense." His next one will be hidden in a radioactive casket in under a volcano. Sorry, I just couldn't connect with this one. David Lynch's films are oblique but still beautiful to experience whether you "understand" them or not. I don't think this one is, though. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
Ack. "in under" What the hell's wrong with me? I'm mangling prepositions like... an American. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.169.138 |
Hmm... bought it, after seeing only five minutes. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.209.97 |
Can't remember if him forlornly poking at his poo with a spatchula was in the first five minutes or not. ("This year's smash hit comedy!") | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.143.133.63 |
Mash shit, maybe. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 137.191.224.102 |
Damn. That's good. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Just watched Synecdoche, New York - what a peculiar film. It has the tone of Scorcese's After Hours and, as Joel rightly says, is a sort of metaphysical ghost story. Its also one of the most depressing films I've seen for quite some time. I know little about modern American theatre, but it didn't detract from my enjoyment of this weird little gem. |