I can think of at least two things wrong with that title
Gilliam and Cronenberg are the only people who could possibly make an actual adaptation of that book
(Actually I think there’s been a few attempts but I haven’t seen them)
watched Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey in anticipation of the international holiday tomorrow and I don't think I ever fully reckoned with how completely gonzo it is
congratulations to William Sadler on what I can only assume was an Academy Award-winning performance though
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I can think of at least two things wrong with that title
Gilliam and Cronenberg are the only people who could possibly make an actual adaptation of that book
(Actually I think there’s been a few attempts but I haven’t seen them)
If “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” feels like both an act of self-parody for its director and also a radical departure from his previous work, that’s because it takes Kaufman’s usual fixations and turns them inside out. While this leaky snow globe of a breakup movie is yet another bizarre and ruefully hilarious trip into the rift between people, it’s not — for the first time — about someone who’s trying to cross it. On the contrary, Kaufman is now telling a story about the rift itself....The result is an surreal, erratic, and strangely moving experience that circles around a realization it can’t put into words
...And yet, for all of its self-insistent detours and high-minded indulgences, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” rarely feels like a concept in search of a movie. There’s a fullness and vitality to it that shines through even when the film is chasing its own tail, which is basically all it wants to do. It’s a trick Kaufman pulls off by following through on an approach that his screenplays have flirted with for as long as he’s been writing them: From the voiceover-driven prologue Kaufman has borrows from Reid’s book, to the sublimely disassociative new ending he uses to transcend it, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” feels less like a film about thought than it does a thought that’s been filmed.
If I’m giving you the impression that I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a fussy, pretentious bit of clap-trap, it’s not. It’s a beautiful, strange terrarium of a film, inviting us to gaze through the glass and wonder what’s going on underneath. Just as funny and creepy as it needs to be, the film is Kaufman at the top of his game, firing on all cylinders. A master of his own unique, unclassifiable craft. The cast here brings it all to life, with Plemons’ clumsy, awkward Jake both unlikable and lovable, and Collette and Thewlis as parents who seem to age vast years in the span of one night, both sinking their teeth into their uncanny roles. But it’s Buckley, front and center for nearly every scene, that we remain fixated on. “I’m thinking of ending things,” she tells us. And in telling us, she invites us to find out just what she means.
Charlie Kaufman is a celebrated filmmaker who has built a reputation for using surreal and metaphysical frameworks to explore very human themes of mortality, identity, and the meaning of life. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meditated on heartbreak through a sojourn of memories in the process of being erased. Lack of fulfillment became a core theme in the trippy Being John Malkovich. All of which to say that it’s easy to see what drew him to author Iain Reid’s bestselling debut novel, a dark, heady story steeped in psychological horror. Kaufman takes the bones of the book and rebuilds the tale into something uniquely his, resulting in a mind-bending awards season contender that’s scrubbed away much of the atmospheric horror from the source material.
...There’s a high probability that the lengthy runtime and the abstract approach in I’m Thinking of Ending Things will prove divisive. Perhaps more so for fans of Reid’s chilling novel, though the melancholy truth remains the same in this adaptation. For those on Kaufman’s wavelength, his latest will likely wreck you. It’s triumphant in casting a spell of heartbreak and longing. It bides its sweet time in showing its hand, though it is not even then easily accessible.
My review of Kaufman's scary, slippery I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS won't be up until later, but what I'll say is that it dazzled and disquieted me. A hall of mirrors that stares into you as you stare into it, existentially acrobatic, visually striking, and acted to the nines.
[Kaufman's] most ambitious work as a director yet despite the film’s seemingly simple premise. Awkward, deliberate, symbolic & melancholy with great performances, it’ll be impossible to digest in one sitting
I'll be there day one, and I'll be there multiple times
I watched Class Action Park, the documentary on Action Park, a very bad water park. It's...kind of a mess? There are a lot of stories about how wild and wacky the place was, told with this, "hey, wasn't it crazy how this part of our childhood was???" tone, and then it pivots to, "here is the grieving mother of a teenager who died in the park," and how the park's fraudulent, fake insurance company insured they couldn't get sued for any real amount of money, and how the park lied to the newspaper and the government about how and why he died, and then made no changes. And then it's back to, "it was so wild! it's probably good that the park existed! who knows!" and it kind of tries to bridge that gap at the end, but it can't pull it off because they're kind of enamored with the asshole who built the place
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I love Charlie Kaufman and I love surreal psychological horror soooooo...
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id say that a documentary really better pick a fucking lane between uncovering injustice and rubbernecking
but then again tiger king
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I feel like Action Park is always going to have some of those problems
Like, it was undeniably a shitty thing on a moral/conceptual level
But so many of the people who care about Action Park care about it because of their wild childhood experiences there, even if they acknowledge as adults that it never should have been open in the first place
I watched Class Action Park, the documentary on Action Park, a very bad water park. It's...kind of a mess? There are a lot of stories about how wild and wacky the place was, told with this, "hey, wasn't it crazy how this part of our childhood was???" tone, and then it pivots to, "here is the grieving mother of a teenager who died in the park," and how the park's fraudulent, fake insurance company insured they couldn't get sued for any real amount of money, and how the park lied to the newspaper and the government about how and why he died, and then made no changes. And then it's back to, "it was so wild! it's probably good that the park existed! who knows!" and it kind of tries to bridge that gap at the end, but it can't pull it off because they're kind of enamored with the asshole who built the place
I'm going to check this out, but it sounds like I'm better off with the version Defunctland made.
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I think there are two good ways to make an Action Park documentary.
One is the bait and switch, where you start with all the good stories of Action Park and how it was this wild thing that everyone loved, and then abruptly shift into the stories of how it was actually awful and people died and were seriously injured and the behind the scenes machinations of the owner. It sounds like this might be the way Class Action Park was trying to go, but you need to be really careful not to accidentally include any more fun stuff to balance it out. You are trying to make an unbalanced piece of work if you do this, and you can't ameliorate things with fun stories once you've started into the bad stuff (which might be hard to do with interview footage and stuff like that).
The other is to just... ignore that people had fun there? Like, if your documentary is about how bad Action Park was, don't bother mentioning the goofy stories. Those are out there, I guarantee you, and most people who are watching a documentary about Action Park are aware of its reputation. Just talk about it as a place that hurt a lot of people, because that is what it was, and your documentary can be about that.
I think there are two good ways to make an Action Park documentary.
One is the bait and switch, where you start with all the good stories of Action Park and how it was this wild thing that everyone loved, and then abruptly shift into the stories of how it was actually awful and people died and were seriously injured and the behind the scenes machinations of the owner. It sounds like this might be the way Class Action Park was trying to go, but you need to be really careful not to accidentally include any more fun stuff to balance it out. You are trying to make an unbalanced piece of work if you do this, and you can't ameliorate things with fun stories once you've started into the bad stuff (which might be hard to do with interview footage and stuff like that).
The other is to just... ignore that people had fun there? Like, if your documentary is about how bad Action Park was, don't bother mentioning the goofy stories. Those are out there, I guarantee you, and most people who are watching a documentary about Action Park are aware of its reputation. Just talk about it as a place that hurt a lot of people, because that is what it was, and your documentary can be about that.
So you're saying the best two to make an action park documentary is the film Action Point with Johnny Knoxville?
I think there are two good ways to make an Action Park documentary.
One is the bait and switch, where you start with all the good stories of Action Park and how it was this wild thing that everyone loved, and then abruptly shift into the stories of how it was actually awful and people died and were seriously injured and the behind the scenes machinations of the owner. It sounds like this might be the way Class Action Park was trying to go, but you need to be really careful not to accidentally include any more fun stuff to balance it out. You are trying to make an unbalanced piece of work if you do this, and you can't ameliorate things with fun stories once you've started into the bad stuff (which might be hard to do with interview footage and stuff like that).
The other is to just... ignore that people had fun there? Like, if your documentary is about how bad Action Park was, don't bother mentioning the goofy stories. Those are out there, I guarantee you, and most people who are watching a documentary about Action Park are aware of its reputation. Just talk about it as a place that hurt a lot of people, because that is what it was, and your documentary can be about that.
So you're saying the best two to make an action park documentary is the film Action Point with Johnny Knoxville?
I would not say that, no. That movie was not very good.
I can think of at least two things wrong with that title
Gilliam and Cronenberg are the only people who could possibly make an actual adaptation of that book
(Actually I think there’s been a few attempts but I haven’t seen them)
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I can think of at least two things wrong with that title
Gilliam and Cronenberg are the only people who could possibly make an actual adaptation of that book
(Actually I think there’s been a few attempts but I haven’t seen them)
it's a simpsons quote!
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I think there are two good ways to make an Action Park documentary.
One is the bait and switch, where you start with all the good stories of Action Park and how it was this wild thing that everyone loved, and then abruptly shift into the stories of how it was actually awful and people died and were seriously injured and the behind the scenes machinations of the owner. It sounds like this might be the way Class Action Park was trying to go, but you need to be really careful not to accidentally include any more fun stuff to balance it out. You are trying to make an unbalanced piece of work if you do this, and you can't ameliorate things with fun stories once you've started into the bad stuff (which might be hard to do with interview footage and stuff like that).
The other is to just... ignore that people had fun there? Like, if your documentary is about how bad Action Park was, don't bother mentioning the goofy stories. Those are out there, I guarantee you, and most people who are watching a documentary about Action Park are aware of its reputation. Just talk about it as a place that hurt a lot of people, because that is what it was, and your documentary can be about that.
Yeah, the real problem is that it spends maybe twenty minutes on the literal actual crimes the founder of Action Park is responsible for, ranging from mail fraud to buying off local officials and getting journalists fired for reporting on corruption. These are things that resulted in people in that park fucking dying, and he even got to buy the park back before he died. Like, even the stories where people get cut going down a slide because people's teeth are stuck in the padding is played as a sort of goofy joke.
It feels like they...ended up settling on the idea that "it's like an eighties teen comedy...but in real life!" angle and then slapped a, "but seriously, people died," segment on sort of haphazardly.
there was a water park in the eastern hills of my city when I was a kid which was like the default "expensive kid-oriented day out" destination
All i remember is that it had only one slide that was actually fun for anyone who wasn't a toddler, and that slide had a nasty drop halfway down which would give you a pretty brutal bruise if you hit it at speed, so you'd spend a while going down the slide on your butt until you bruised your coccyx to the point of not being able to sit, then try to strategically swivel your hips at key points to avoid landing on the sore spot until your entire rear end was a sore part, then try going down on your front (this phase never lasted as long but I can't remember what body part it hurt), then limp back to your parents and beg them for hot dog money for two hours.
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Gilliam and Cronenberg are the only people who could possibly make an actual adaptation of that book
(Actually I think there’s been a few attempts but I haven’t seen them)
turns out? just as fun the second time! my knees still hurt from watching
congratulations to William Sadler on what I can only assume was an Academy Award-winning performance though
it's a simpsons quote!
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I'll be there day one, and I'll be there multiple times
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but then again tiger king
Like, it was undeniably a shitty thing on a moral/conceptual level
But so many of the people who care about Action Park care about it because of their wild childhood experiences there, even if they acknowledge as adults that it never should have been open in the first place
I'm going to check this out, but it sounds like I'm better off with the version Defunctland made.
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One is the bait and switch, where you start with all the good stories of Action Park and how it was this wild thing that everyone loved, and then abruptly shift into the stories of how it was actually awful and people died and were seriously injured and the behind the scenes machinations of the owner. It sounds like this might be the way Class Action Park was trying to go, but you need to be really careful not to accidentally include any more fun stuff to balance it out. You are trying to make an unbalanced piece of work if you do this, and you can't ameliorate things with fun stories once you've started into the bad stuff (which might be hard to do with interview footage and stuff like that).
The other is to just... ignore that people had fun there? Like, if your documentary is about how bad Action Park was, don't bother mentioning the goofy stories. Those are out there, I guarantee you, and most people who are watching a documentary about Action Park are aware of its reputation. Just talk about it as a place that hurt a lot of people, because that is what it was, and your documentary can be about that.
So you're saying the best two to make an action park documentary is the film Action Point with Johnny Knoxville?
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Yeah, the real problem is that it spends maybe twenty minutes on the literal actual crimes the founder of Action Park is responsible for, ranging from mail fraud to buying off local officials and getting journalists fired for reporting on corruption. These are things that resulted in people in that park fucking dying, and he even got to buy the park back before he died. Like, even the stories where people get cut going down a slide because people's teeth are stuck in the padding is played as a sort of goofy joke.
It feels like they...ended up settling on the idea that "it's like an eighties teen comedy...but in real life!" angle and then slapped a, "but seriously, people died," segment on sort of haphazardly.
I guess I'm just unfriendly but I don't even like to get a whiff other people let alone get sluiced in the same water they got sluiced
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All i remember is that it had only one slide that was actually fun for anyone who wasn't a toddler, and that slide had a nasty drop halfway down which would give you a pretty brutal bruise if you hit it at speed, so you'd spend a while going down the slide on your butt until you bruised your coccyx to the point of not being able to sit, then try to strategically swivel your hips at key points to avoid landing on the sore spot until your entire rear end was a sore part, then try going down on your front (this phase never lasted as long but I can't remember what body part it hurt), then limp back to your parents and beg them for hot dog money for two hours.
The good thing is lazy rivers.
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