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You, the Living

  • 05-05-2008 11:13am
    #1
    G-Dogg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭


    There's a movie showing at the I.F.I. Dublin this week called 'You the Living'. Here's a link to the opening scenes...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOv_ByfRnu0&feature=related

    Roy Anderson has a way of making the way we live our lives look absurd, hilarious, and strangely heart breaking. His last film 'Songs from the Second Floor' was amongst the best I've ever seen. Here's a scene from that...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so5M8Mgf50c

    So if you don't get angry or freaked out by films that are a little bit different or in a different language, I recommend you gamble a couple of hours on this latest film from this guy. Alternatively, if that doesn't grab you, Will (Wikki Wii Wii West) Smith has a new film out called 'Yo, the Living', where he uses a haunted beat-box to defeat Al-Queda and rescue the last living humans from a post-apocalyptic Earth inhabited by giant robotic crabs etc.


Comments

  • #2
    MrGump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭MrGump


    Yeah I went to see it Saturday in the IFI. Gotta say, I initially thought I'd appreciate it, but I found the pace uncomfortably slow. There were moments of genuine humour in it, but they were rare and more often I was just annoyed by the characters (and those moments of comedy where few compared to the ridiculous number of unnecessary/arbitrary scenes.

    Your first youtube clip was one of the funniest moments but the rest of the film just didn't hold up to the intro.


  • #3
    Eirebear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    I kind of take offence to this post, why the need for film snobbery?

    If you REALLY wanted a wide range of people to go and see it, you wouldnt slag them off.

    Like MrGmp, i saw this a few weeks ago, and i was left feeling a little short changed by the movie.
    It had some fantastically funny and touching parts, but they were too few and far between...i could never really tell if it wanted to be a comedy or a melodrama.

    If you want people to start branching out into different styles, genres, countries of origin, driectors etc....then try being a bit more enthusiastic about the films themselves, and not so negative about the people your trying to convince.


  • #4
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,284 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Film sounds interesting, and might give it a go, but I agree with Eirebar. Loads of people on here who have a wide, eclectic mix in films, so no need to be so condescending.


  • #5
    G-Dogg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭G-Dogg


    It was a joke, Jaysus. I like what many would consider garbage myself the odd time. It's low brow or high brow for me, hate the middle. Anything with a bit of individuality, honesty and character. I do get a bit defesive though, when inverted snobs relentlessly defend the mediocre and accuse others of "pretending to like" different types of stuff. Also, I'm sick of half-baked main-stream mush being shoved down my throat by big marketing campaigns that eclipse other types of cinema/art. Didn't mean to be patronising though, that can be irritating, so aplogies.

    If this movie didn't work for you I hope you'd still try 'Songs from the Second Floor' if you didn't see it and if you can can find it on DvD, coz that one's a doozy.


  • #6
    B-max
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭B-max


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Film sounds interesting, and might give it a go, but I agree with Eirebar. Loads of people on here who have a wide, eclectic mix in films, so no need to be so condescending.

    Get a room!


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  • #7
    B-max
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭B-max


    G-Dogg wrote: »
    It was a joke, Jaysus. I like what many would consider garbage myself the odd time. It's low brow or high brow for me, hate the middle. Anything with a bit of individuality, honesty and character. I do get a bit defesive though, when inverted snobs relentlessly defend the mediocre and accuse others of "pretending to like" different types of stuff. Also, I'm sick of half-baked main-stream mush being shoved down my throat by big marketing campaigns that eclipse other types of cinema/art. Didn't mean to be patronising though, that can be irritating, so aplogies.

    If this movie didn't work for you I hope you'd still try 'Songs from the Second Floor' if you didn't see it and if you can can find it on DvD, coz that one's a doozy.

    Yo Dogg.
    Quit your pissing and moaning or take it like a biaatch!!!


  • #8
    G-Dogg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭G-Dogg


    B-max wrote: »
    Yo Dogg.
    Quit your pissing and moaning or take it like a biaatch!!!

    You're quite right sir. I apologise for my biaaaaaaaaaatch like behaviour. I don't know what overcame me, endorsing a movie that trickled by in such a slow and meaningless fashion as to only appeal to suicidal crackah's from boooorrrrriiiiing parts of the world. I feelin' you now my nigga. Vote Fine Gael.


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