the more I consider it the more I think the most subtly deranged thing this film does is to play the entire second-to-last movement of Beethoven's Ninth, a symphonic structure designed to build towards one of the most iconic and bombastic moments in the western musical canon, and then just never actually pay it off by playing the ode to joy
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š¶ I got soul but Iām not a soldier. š¶
not me six beers in explaining thatās the song that was playing during the friendly fire incident between Abilene and Taverner because they were bleeding into each other at the time because the army was experimenting on them with fluid karma
would be cool if Richard Kelly actually gets the graphic novel prequel adapted to the screen as heās said in interviews recently but at the same time i worry that explaining too much (like it does at times) diluted the incredible energy that the film has
Unfortunately for the world, the era of people giving Richard Kelly money to make movies ended a decade and a half ago
Such a shame what happened with The Box, feels like bad marketing and an awful title needlessly sank what could have been a slam dunkā itās biggest crime is it feels like a movie that came out in 2014, not 2009.
Itās not my favourite but it shouldnāt have been the second strike that sunk his directing career. Heās still young though and word on the street is heās been getting steady work doing uncredited punch ups since then so I kinda remain hopefully optimistic he can get a $10 million or so a24 or blumhouse type deal to mount a comeback.
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I unironically love the hell out of that movie, despite / because of / in gleeful recognition of all its myriad faults, contradictions, and just wild contrivances. Also, for the fact that it somehow launched Dwayne Johnson's postāThe Rock career, gave us yet another iconic Wallace Shawn hypercapitalist villain, Sarah Michelle Geller as a porn star, and a pivotal plot point involving two cars fucking each other.
i started working on a recut of this film combining pieces from the very different theatrical and Cannes cuts
i found that information about the film was very thin on the ground, but ended up with a shot list and comparison of several script versions and contradictions between the comics and two film releases
i like that the film is chaotic and absurd, but i felt like it litters in a lot of red herrings by accident due to shots that were in the script(s) but either never filmed or were lost to editing, so the payoffs never come and this makes a film that is supposed to be complex nearly incomprehensible at points
despite what it might sound like, i love this film and have watched it dozens of times
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