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10/28/09
09/11/09
Looks like a beautiful example of a rare and endangered species...a movie that actually looks interesting enough to brave the local ciniplex just to see it in 40 foot glory.
Tx you Mr. Terry for being so Gilliam
09/10/09
09/10/09
#@!
09/10/09
Except I'm Not There, and Todd Solondz' Palindromes.
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09/10/09
Palindromes, on the other hand, definitely did this, to a great effect. Also, saying "no other movie will ever attempt" it is sort of odd. Has Charlie seen into the future of filmmaking?
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a) Will people actually go see this one, and
b) If they do, will they be seeing it for Gilliam awesomeness or because it's Heath's last picture
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Poor Terry has a hell of a time making movies, and when he does finally make one, he has a hell of a time getting people to actually see it.
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08/12/09
Also - Tom Waits is awesome.
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Of course such things were commonplace in the era this film is set, but it's a bit of an uncomfortable concept to me, at least.
Having said that, I still cannot wait to see this. Looks utterly fantastic... may not have the most coherent of plots, but hey, this is a Terry Gilliam movie. We're not getting in line for great plots, we're getting in line to have our eyeballs blown out the back of our goddamn skulls.
08/12/09
You do know that 16 is legal age in England.. as in sex, bars and voting... right? :D
18 - 21 is not the legal age everywhere.... just here.
08/12/09
Doesn't mean that my American perceptions of the world are completely changed, though. Wooing a 16-year-old girl is still a bit of an icky concept to me. Honestly, do you think most 16-year-olds are ready for that sort of relationship?
08/12/09
In a lot of the states, the age of consent is 16.
08/12/09
Age of consent be damned, do you think your average 16-year-old girl is ready for that sort of relationship?
Think back to when you were 16. Were you or the people around you of the same age really ready for an adult relationship, or a relationship with an older person?
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Also not a fan of a guy bargaining away his daughter like she's a car or something, although I understand that this is a fairy tale convention from the dawn of time, probably.
That said, I can temporarily suspend my crazy feminist ideals because this movie looks like ten kinds of awesome.
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Throughout the thousands of years of history, we seen people of this age "be ready" for marriage and other relationships. You are letting a law stand in the place of morality, as a 16 yr old with an older gentlemen is only wrong depending on the society.
08/12/09
Do try and focus here; I'm talking about this film in the context of the here and now. If, as Grey Area asserts, this film does occur in the present day, then we're not dealing with those thousands of years.
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08/13/09
Age of consent be damned, do you think your average 16-year-old girl is ready for that sort of relationship?"
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Morality laws are a futile attempt to fight nature. Doesn't matter if you or I think it's a good idea, young teenagers (a heck of a lot younger than 16) are going to have sex. Old geezers seducing high school kids is certainly kind of creepy, but not as much as 2 16-year-olds having consensual sex, getting arrested, and being labelled as sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
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Seems to me we should probably just yield to biology, and make the age of majority 13 or 14... It'd solve a lot of problems - youth crime, youth sex... Besides, it'd give parents some kind of ability to control their kids - do what I say, or get the hell out an find a job. The current system that the US has, where you can drive a 5-ton farm truck as young as 12 or 13, can join the military in some cases younger than 18, but can go to jail for drinking a beer under 21 is just imbecilic.
-Kle.
08/13/09
@Klebert L. Hall:
08/24/09
Don't want to skeave you out but "set in the present day."
08/24/09
Obviously your not a fan of "Reaper" then
08/24/09
Hmmmm, don't really think so. The age of consent notwithstanding, 16 is the age that in most countries teh child is considered an adult, with adult reasoning. Hell, at 13 if your Jewish, at your Bar Mitzvah you even say "today I am a Man"
08/24/09
This is true, don't ask me how I know, and she swore she was 18
08/24/09
Here, here! Huzzah
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08/24/09
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Prepare to be Shocked. Shocked I say!
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