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InvisibleMiddlemanM

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The Sunset Limited
    #13994113 - 02/20/11 03:22 AM (13 years, 13 days ago)

This film just blew my mind. Thought I'd share.


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Middleman]
    #13994441 - 02/20/11 07:45 AM (13 years, 13 days ago)

Thanks!  DL now.


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Cups]
    #13999043 - 02/21/11 12:15 AM (13 years, 12 days ago)

I bet I know someone on here who would LOVE this movie...

Just finished it.  It's tough to keep a single scene movie going for 90 minutes but I think they did a good job.  The last 20 minutes was worth the first hour all day long!

Thanks for the link. :smile:


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Middleman] * 1
    #14015150 - 02/23/11 05:28 PM (13 years, 9 days ago)

What blew your mind about it? I just watched it and thought it was alright.

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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Cups]
    #14015617 - 02/23/11 06:45 PM (13 years, 9 days ago)

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Cups said:
Thanks!  DL now.



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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: c0sm0nautt]
    #14017410 - 02/23/11 11:51 PM (13 years, 9 days ago)

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What blew your mind about it? I just watched it and thought it was alright.




Classic Deism vs. Nihilism. My mind was blown because of a few stark personal coincidences.
That and the fact that the darkness wins. I think one has to be old or suicidal to really hear it.

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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Middleman]
    #14017572 - 02/24/11 12:20 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

Spoiler

I didn't see it quite that way. I found it interesting that in the credits Samuel L is under "black" and Tommy Lee Jones "white". Although they were probably categorizing them by their skin color, I thought this was crude and saw it in a different light. Samuel's character was filled with beliefs, which aren't necessarily profitable. On the other hand Tommy Lee Jones' character seemed to accept, although cynically, the impermanence of the human experience. They both had qualities I admired and loathed. IMO, The transience of the human experience doesn't mean we aren't getting something out of this on some unperceived level. What Samuel describes as the "source" could be benefiting from the play of human existence.

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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: c0sm0nautt]
    #14018715 - 02/24/11 08:23 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

aaaaah i have it downloaded but i still want to read the spoiler.... must. not. read.

might watch this with a buddy tonight


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Chronic7]
    #14018759 - 02/24/11 08:38 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

Try not to read it....:smile:


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Cups]
    #14018794 - 02/24/11 08:47 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

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I think one has to be old or suicidal to really hear it.




I'm not old...

Maybe I'm an old soul. :wink:


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Cups]
    #14019208 - 02/24/11 10:34 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

It was OK but they were both being far too dramatic/whiney about it all IMO.


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Grapefruit]
    #14019226 - 02/24/11 10:37 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

Too bad it wasn't based on a book.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Icelander]
    #14019275 - 02/24/11 10:47 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

It was based on a play, hence the drama. :lol:

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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: c0sm0nautt]
    #14019292 - 02/24/11 10:50 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

Ever try to read a play?  Yuck.


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Icelander]
    #14019315 - 02/24/11 10:57 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

I've always thought Shakespeare to be overrated, and he was supposed to be the best.

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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: c0sm0nautt] * 1
    #14019389 - 02/24/11 11:14 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

I disagree.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.


I meant reading the dialog in written play form is for me very difficult.

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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Icelander]
    #14019421 - 02/24/11 11:22 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

Which one is that from? I had to read all the cliche ones in High School.

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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: c0sm0nautt]
    #14019467 - 02/24/11 11:33 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

Macbeth:


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: c0sm0nautt]
    #14019471 - 02/24/11 11:33 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

I like it when I hear stuff like that from Shakespeare but most of the time I can't stand to sit through any stage reproductions of his work. I don't know whether that's because it's hard to act/direct or it's just my shitty concentration. Mind you, I did use to love a midsummer night's dream when I was a kid.


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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Grapefruit]
    #14019483 - 02/24/11 11:36 AM (13 years, 9 days ago)

I agree. It's hard to understand old english.

But some of the plays are profound studies of the human condition.

I live within five blocks of one of the best shakespeare companies and theaters in the US.


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