tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post7555266492570296469..comments2008-03-22T11:51:26.361-04:00Matt Zoller Seitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16921028537989131859noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-28266620869352690282008-03-22T11:38:00.000-04:002008-03-22T11:38:00.000-04:00Anderson has a great ear for music. The tune he uses in There Will Be Blood reminds me of Kubrick's use of the repetitive piano chord in Eyes Wide Shut - I think it's Ligeti? - just to keep us a little on edge.amlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-57295874302552128712008-03-21T17:00:00.000-04:002008-03-21T17:00:00.000-04:00Tom: Yes, it's definitely something to argue, that the music underscores that tragicomic tone, as opposed to pushing it over into a kind of farce. <BR/><BR/>But I guess the whole shift in tone at the end came off as cheap to me. But I'm somewhat of two minds about it; it was a risk, an exciting risk. I admire the attempt. And it's not that I wanted to see him predictably floating off to some draconian institution. This just felt slightly exploitive in a movie that otherwise did not.Nomi Lubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07662026175506202868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-62145249288497997592008-03-21T15:27:00.000-04:002008-03-21T15:27:00.000-04:00Nomi:<BR/><BR/>Well, he does use the Brahms earlier in the film, as I recall, when the Little Boston pump is first turned on (I think, but I might be hazy on this). Anyway, the think the whole last scene is comically tragic (a contradiction in terms, but I think apt) and that the Brahms helps to underscore the "ha" moment of "I'm finished" (a more cerebral "ha" than some people may have taken it to be, but it is a moment of humor nonetheless). Anyway, that's a long way of saying I felt the Brahms was effective.<BR/><BR/>And at any rate, that Vader mash-up is pretty damn funny.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-27688778546152886052008-03-21T14:27:00.000-04:002008-03-21T14:27:00.000-04:00#3: Wow. Creepy good.<BR/><BR/>I'm still freaked out by the Brahms(?)at the end. Well, not freaked out -- rattled and disappointed. Don't really understand why Anderson went that way, the music just being the hit-you-over-the-head coda to what felt like a final scene from a very different movie. I know -- I'm months late on this . . .Nomi Lubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07662026175506202868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-10185424683826872362008-03-21T12:21:00.000-04:002008-03-21T12:21:00.000-04:00Re There Will Be Vader: Was the Howard Dean during Luke's rampage at the end of Jedi really necessary? Maybe they could have taken some of Eli Sunday's shouting instead. It seems so out of place in something so otherwise perfect.Dan E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03922932534988355330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-90815403204891481452008-03-21T11:17:00.000-04:002008-03-21T11:17:00.000-04:00I realized how much I missed Bassett when she showed up in "Akeelah and the Bee," a movie I liked quite a bit, but which really took off every time she was on screen. That said, I have to see "Meet the Browns" tonight and, as a virgin when it comes to Tyler Perry movies -- never seen one -- have no idea what to expect. Broad comedy? I hope not. Bassett is good at many things, but I'm having a hard time thinking of her playing alongside Madea, or whatever that character's name is.Discmanhttp://profile.typekey.com/Discman/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-81624041634597027682008-03-21T10:59:00.000-04:002008-03-21T10:59:00.000-04:00My goodness, There WIll Be Vader? That mightily disturbing DuckTales clip? Who ARE these people?<BR/><BR/>I want to thank them.pachecohttp://www.bohemiancinema.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-80980686293249555142008-03-21T10:35:14.232-04:002008-03-21T10:35:14.232-04:00Re: #1: It's about time. And I'm glad Bassett is being less "selective" (or picky) about the roles she chooses. Yeah, I'd love it if she only appeared in great parts. But she hasn't been as ubiquitous recently as she was in the mid-'90s, and I miss her.<BR/><BR/>Re: #3. Totally fucked up. And great. <BR/><BR/>Re: #4. Stories of humans dying freakish deaths at the hands of wild animals always become huge news, probably because they're so rare. It's almost as if it's humanity's way of reassuring itself that it hasn't completely shattered and subjugated the natural world.<BR/><BR/>Speaking of freakish: <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23731198/" REL="nofollow">this</A>.Matt Zoller Seitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16921028537989131859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-54779127199727132842008-03-21T10:06:00.000-04:002008-03-21T10:06:00.000-04:00Re: 4<BR/><BR/><I>"It's a bizarre accident"</I><BR/><BR/>Meet Captain Understatement.Ali Arikanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02293558856795196349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12917687.post-28857418939904401132008-03-21T09:54:44.276-04:002008-03-21T09:54:44.276-04:00The Knight Rider one remains my favorite, whereas the Ducktales clip makes me feel bad for laughing.John Lichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03036300430910824124noreply@blogger.com