The Thread For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details — Page 96

#2376

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:30pm

I believe it's worth seeing if you think you can take all the emotion.

I normally work on films for several weeks or months, Nia, but sometimes work on films based outside of NY for a few days. If they're recording here and don't want to fly in their editor, I fill in.

Updated On: 4/22/06 at 11:30 PM

#2377

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:33pm

That sounds like a really neat job, Chloe.

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Wishes come true, not free.

#2378

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:34pm

Thanks, Elph.

Chloe, I think I'd try to stand it. I feel like I should see it out of respect for the people who died on that day, like I'd be selfish to try and ignore the truth.

#2379

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:34pm

That sounds neat, Chloe.

Has anybody had corn puff curls? They're like popcorn without all the kurnels. They're soo good.

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#2380

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:37pm

I do want to see it, because I think it's obviously important, but in some ways, I think it's a little bit too soon to be theatricalizing such an ugly truth.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#2381

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:38pm

A lot of people seem to feel that way, but I think it's about as untheatrical as a theatrical film can be.

#2382

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:42pm

Yeah... I mean, I understand that they've been very careful to make sure it's approved by the families and that it's accurate as far as they know, and everything, but something seems a bit not right, still. :-/ I don't want to say it's not important or that it's *bad* that the movie was made, because of the whole notion of having to pay tribute and be respectful and remember, but it was barely five years ago.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#2383

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:43pm

Movies CAN be done realistically and respectfully. Have you seen Hotel Rwanda? It was incredible, and not one thing was overdone, played up or invented for the sake of making the movie more commercially appealing. It was the truth, as close as any film can get to it. I hope that's how Flight 93 will be. It's a way of helping people understand, not mindlessly entertaining them.

#2384

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:45pm

It'll probably, in some ways, be something of a coping mechanism, too.

And no, but I'm going to, for several reasons, including the fact that I think Don Cheadle is absolutley brilliant.

Movies can definitely be done realistically, but I feel like making a movie is inherently theatricalizing and commercializing, as respectful as it may be -- and even if it's also being used to educate and pay tribute. A neccessary associative evil, maybe. I don't know. I certainly don't think this or Hotel Rwanda or any movies of the sort were made with the intention of being mindless entertainment.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 4/22/06 at 11:45 PM

#2385

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:46pm

Sorry to get off the topic, but there's this song on a CD that I've been playing, and after one of the verses, I SWEAR I can hear my mom calling out my name. In fact, the first 20 or so times I listened to it, I turned it off and yelled, "What?" Then yesterday I heard it and realized she wasn't at home. Eek!

#2386

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:47pm

Hotel Rwanda was amazing.

The fact that it might be hyper-dramatized or too theatrical is my only worry with seeing this movie, but I'm sure I'll give it a chance anyway. I think that that can be avoided, but the filmmakers have to be extremely conscious of that.

#2387

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:49pm

I also can't help but think of the stigma against handling such recent history -- one of my professors is always saying that you need to be sufficiently distanced from the past to understand, interpret and process it.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#2388

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:51pm

That's true, Emcee, but I'm hoping that this film will break the mold and not be overly sappy somehow.

Atrias, how does the song go?

#2389

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:52pm

Who directed the movie? What's his reputation like?

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#2390

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:53pm

It's during a musical interlude, Nia, there are no words at that point, so it's not a lyric. It sounds muted, so if I have my door closed, it's plausible that my mom could be calling for me.

Updated On: 4/22/06 at 11:53 PM

#2391

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:53pm

I'm getting to that point where I just have a few things left to pack, but I don't want to pack anymore.

#2392

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:54pm

I'm very interested to see what the response will be to it. I guess a lot of people feel it's too soon, and I'm not sure why it was decided to do this one so early. One possibility is that they were worried that witnesses and family members memories would fade. They were relying on those a lot.

#2393

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:54pm

There's a really funny white guy on "Yo Momma"

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#2394

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:55pm

So you can hear words in an instrumental section of a song? Scary.

I never have motivation to pack either, Snowbird.

#2395

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:56pm

Atrias, that happens to me ALL THE TIME. It's weird.

On a lighter banal note, I was just realizing how gay Raul looks in my avatar. Like a new-found revelation. oy.

*reads book like she's supposed to*

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#2396

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:56pm

I'm listening to The Sopranos theme song. I don't know what's gotten into me, lol.

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No day but today.

#2397

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:57pm

That's funny, Atrias!

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"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.

#2398

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:57pm

Dude, I noticed that the first time I looked at it.

#2399

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:57pm

Well, me too, but today's daily stare upped the gay-o-meter. I mean, that's really quite a pose.

... I'm really out of it.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#2400

Late Night Banality....

Posted: 4/22/06 at 11:59pm

Isn't it "gaydar"? I reeeallly should go to bed. Or study for AP World. Somehow, I'm not doing either.