I saw it. Yet another genius Kaufman wrote the screenplay. Ken, Andy, and Charlie. Talented name, it seems.

If you have ever been really angry enough at someone to never speak to them again, especially if it is a significant other, you have to see this movie. It was seriously an awesome, awesome movie.

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yeah, its pretty good, but aparently tanked at the box office (bad bad bad release date, this kind of movie should be out in early may or mid febraury). Jim Carrey always had an eye for choosing smart dramatic roles, when he's not doing the whacked out comedies.

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There was once a man who said:"nothing is true!". Although later it was found out that he was lying.

I'm looking forward to this coming out over here, as I love Michel Gondry's work. I just bought a DVD set of all his music videos and short films, and the guy is a genius.

Gondry is pretty damn good, although in my opinion it's hard to fuck up a Charlie Kaufman script.

Man, I can't get that movie out of my head. It was beautiful.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

I'm skeptical about it, but the last movie I saw with a ridiculous amount of good reviews(Lost in Translation) was awesome, so maybe I should ditch my skepticism.

I don't know... a music video director directing a movie? I don't want to see another Requiem for a Dream-type thing... that made my nose bleed.

Requiem for a Dream was awesome. But this is not like Reqiuem for a Dream. Eternal Sunshine is for people who have ever gotten so mad at someone close to them that they momentarily, maybe even repeatedly wished to forget they ever knew them. And that boils down to just about everyone. Great fucking movie, possums. Check it out.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

Eternal Sunshine will go down as the best movie of 2004. i'm going to see it again tonight; the first time (at a preview), i walked out saying "poor movie... it's gonna bomb." i was right.

on the other hand, critics have been nigh unanimously behind it, and IMDB's top 250 has it at #49 (it entered the charts in the 100s and has climbed steadily since). yay eternal sunshine!

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

Totally, habnem. It is worth seeing again. Of course it is going to tank. I think it might be because a lot of people are sick of Jim Carrey in non-comedic roles. But he was pretty fucking good in this one, and it actually wasn't all that non-comedic.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

Fuck you.

That allready makes it one of my favorite movies ever.

I'm not even going to start on Requiem. Seriously. My review on IMDb wasn't accepted because it had so many curse words. Quote: "Darren Aaronofsky's inflated ego really needs a cock in it's mouth. That self righteous son of a bitch should take all the film used to create his D.A.R.E commercial that he tries to pass off as a movie and BURN IT."

I really would give it -165 stars if it were possible, but I'm gonna have to stick with 0.00.

hmm... i didn't think Requiem was so bad. i didn't think it was so good, either. i can definitely see the "D.A.R.E. commercial" angle, but my problems stemmed from how relentlessly depressing it was. every once in a while, a movie like that comes along, wherein the screenwriter and director could have saved everyone some time by taking out a full-page ad in "USA Today" that says "Dear viewers, we hate you, and we want to make you very sad." "Leaving Las Vegas" immediately comes to mind. couldn't they just, like, kill our grandparents or something?

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

I don't know, guys, I found Eternal Sunshine to be pretty fucking sad, and I loved the movie.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

Pshh. I find it hard to be depressing. I mean, I wanted the characters to have the worst things done to them from the start. Even Ellen Burstyn is kind of loathsome as the mother. But Jennifer Connely hasn't done anything good since Once Upon a Time in America, the son guy just sucks, and I was let down by Marlon Wayans... he was just sad.

There are tons of reasons why I hate requiem, but I'd much rather take it to IM rather than fight about it here in a thread about a different movie. If you want to chat about it online, my sn is Psychosquirrel66.

WHAT? You didn't like Labrynth? Jennifer Connelly used to be hot as HELL until she dropped all that weight. God, I hate it when big-boobed, sweet-assed actresses drop half a midget of weight and look bony.

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No kidding. She was hot in Labyrinth, but she was absolutely smoking in Career Opportunities. Me and my friends saw that at the theater for the sole purpose of seeing her in a tank top for a good part of the movie.

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Didn't she also get breast reduction surgery?

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

God, I hope not. I was hoping maybe we could toss a few pounds back on her and those puppies would pop out all over again. Oh, and she was smoking hot in Dark City. The original script for Dark City called for her character to make love to a hot Japanese woman. Why don't these fucking directors ever consider the artist's concept?

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

re: Eternal Sunshine

yes, sad, but sad and depressing are totally different things. the sadness of Eternal Sunshine is bittersweet, and for that matter there's a fairly happy ending i won't talk too much more about for fear of spoiling for people.

re: Jennifer Connelly

everyone track down The Hot Spot, which is hard to do. it is by no means a good movie, but it does have some pretty great Connelludity, if you will.

(:

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

Mmm...damn, she is hot.

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If you like this movie, please, don't read this. You won't afterwards.

I'm sure you all probably think I have terrible taste in movies. You've seen me berate Requiem for a Dream on this thread, and you've seen my bottom five worst movie list, which contains Schindler's List. I must have bad taste. But you know what? That's just going to have to be okay.

I hated this movie so much I walked out. How the hell can you like this? If David Lynch is weird for the sake of being weird(which he's not, it's in his blood), then C. Kaufman must be trying to market weirdness outright. I'm not even going to touch Adaptation or Being John Malkovich. I don't want to see anything by him. Some people say this is a great script. I believe this is the movie that has the line, "It's something that does a... thing." I won't even go in to how it rips off J'taime J'taime. I will however, say that the memory erasing company is a massive plot device.

Like I said, I was wary of the direction, and unfortunately, expectations were met. It's another f**king music video with cute little digital techniques. The direction is missing one thing: polished craft. It reminds me of how Francis Ford Coppola could just shoot everything from different angles and then spend two years in the editing room, only this time, I could tell how sloppy it was to begin with and then messed with using cute digital tricks.

The characters aren't just one-dimensional, they're loathsome. Saying nothing of the two main characters, Mark Ruffalo and Frodo talk about shtuping Kate Winslet while she's unconcious. Do I really give a f**k what happens to these characters?

Everything is so friggin' stupid about this movie, right down to the cutesy score. What sickens me the most is how overrated it is. 50 Five star reviews? Please! I'd rather watch the jesus movie!

You know what? This will probably be a film for the ages. But if someone up there really likes me, it will be the next Valley of the Dolls.

I am definitely curious as to what movies you consider your top ten best, possums.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

MORE SPOILERS FOLLOW

your comments are interesting, but misled. first off, no one ever says anything about doing anything to kate winslet's character while she's unconscious. while she was unconscious and getting her memory erased (before the events of the film), elijah wood's character takes off with her personal effects (the ones regarding joel, used for the brain mapping) for the purpose of seducing her later, once she's conscious. he also takes her underwear, but they're clean ones, as he points out (: anyway, it's still an unethical and creepy activity, but it's kinda funny, in the way that fucking her while she's unconscious would not be. this is kaufman's bread and butter--he treads that line in all his movies.

as for the "plot device," okay. yes, the memory erasing company is a plot device, in the same way that in "star wars," the death star is a plot device--they're things that don't really exist, but that the movie wouldn't be interesting without. what if someone's life were really a staged television show? obviously, no one's life is likely like that, but if we couldn't imagine it, there would be no "truman show." if you're unwilling to suspend your disbelief for a couple of hours, perhaps you should stop watching movies altogether.

as for the characters' supposed one-dimensionality, the central premise of kate winslet's character, which is revisited throughout the movie, is that people perceive her one or more ways, whereas she is in fact completely different from those perceptions. meanwhile jim carrey's character, who at first glance seems archetypically mild-mannered, in fact is very capable of defending himself and can even be a prick. how much more fleshing-out do you want in romantic leads?

finally, i hate to disappoint you further, but as of this typing, 8961 pretty film-savvy voters at IMDB have moved Eternal Sunshine up to #44 with an 8.7/10 mean vote. i don't really feel the need to back up my opinions with the opinions of others, but you said "50 5-star reviews," and i thought you should know that the official reviewers' ratings aren't a fluke (:

for the record, i've already said i didn't much care for requiem, and i'll say now that i don't much care for schindler's list, but i'm pretty sure you're wrong about this one.

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

Habnem, did I mention I love you?

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

If you can find some ungodly way to get your hands on J'taime, J'taime, watch it. It's the exact same plot, but without the cheap memory erasing company.

And what I heard was, "remember that girl we did the other night?" Um... that sounds to me like "remember that girl we fucked the other night," whether that is the case or not. As for the complexity that you speak of, I must not have seen it. I walked out when Jim Carrey was doing is shitty four-year old self. More fucking great dialogue right there. "Here's my crotch, the same as you remember it!" "Gross!"

And the characters are fucking one dimensional, plot aside, they act one dimensional. Don't get me started about the fucking script. "Joel... do you think I'm ugly?" God fucking damn this piece of shit cutesy feel-good assblasting maggotfaced turd that people call a film!

I'm not great at making top ten lists, so chances are I'll accidentally leave one of my favorites out. Here goes.

in no order:

The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
The Godfather Pt.2 (Francis Ford Coppola)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Resevoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)

All of those movies shamelessly outclass this piece of tripe.

Um, Godfather Part 1 is better than Part 2, silly.

But yes, well done on putting ResDogs there above PulpFic.

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Um, Godfather Part 1 is better than Part 2, silly.

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