What Movies Have You Watched Recently? - Page 27

fyodor · #**261** 03-26-2007, 01:07 PM

I didn't want to question his sexuality but I too felt he was deluding himself in that regard.

Blarg · #**262** 03-26-2007, 02:09 PM

He was just a personality type you're not used to. Someone can be any number of things like vegetarian, or hippie, or a wanna be actor, or an animal lover, or a space case, or whatever, without being gay or deluded about his sexuality. He was deluded about other things, sure. It's being too clever, and more revealing of us than him, to posit that he's gay just because he's "queer" in other ways.

Blarg · #**263** 03-26-2007, 02:12 PM

See it, Katy. The movie resonates outside the life of its subject.

Runkmud · #**264** 03-26-2007, 06:02 PM

He was definitely setting off the gaydar, but hey, I'm not ballsy enough to go hang out with a bunch of man eating bears, so who am I to judge. It's a great documentary.

I mentioned this in the TV thread, but technically it's a movie, and it was so good, I'd like to mention it again.
TV Junkie is a documentary following the life of Rick Kirkham, a journalist for many news shows, including Inside Edition. It's all self filmed and covers nearly a decade of his life and his addiction and fall to crack cocaine. This is one of the best documentaries I've seen as late. It can be found on HBO on Demand, under their Addiction specials.

rothko · #**265** 03-27-2007, 02:36 AM

after yesterday's chatter, decided to watch some neo-herzog, specifically grizzly man. how fortuitous that everyone else did, too.

for a guy with a minidv camera and seemingly no training, he could certainly compose a shot. the cinematography that he managed out of that thing was pretty incredible. of course, he had the beautiful and lush landscape on his side, but i'm referring directly to how he framed it. some truly great moments of interplay with the animals, too.

this film is pretty raw. that scene when herzog listens to the audio of the death is intense and the helicopter pilot was brutal in his estimation of the circumstances. the viewer catches a glimpse of what treadwell was fighting when the hunters came to the grizzly maze. the one guy throwing rocks at the cub was simply disgusting, mindless narcissism (not the cool kind). as well, the way in which they taunted treadwell showed a lack of care for not only the animals, but also their fellow humans. treadwell displays this same trait with his rants against the individuals in the parks service. the monster that he opposed and despised lived within him, too.

herzog isn't trying to create a sympathetic picture of treadwell. his angle, for the most part, is fairly objective. he shows all sides of treadwell; that is, he shows treadwell: treadwell swearing, delighted by excrement, in tears, with tenderness to the animals, in vanity, everything.

the only agenda in this film is that of this is a life.

excuse the self-righteousness, but treadwell is neither gay nor straight. it's not for us to argue about his sexuality and it doesn't matter. treadwell was a person who loved animals, had difficulty functioning in the world of people and struggled to find himself. he was effeminate, but that doesn't equal gay any more than having the "balls" to live with the bears equals straight and to simplify the human experience down to this belittles him and all of us.

but, it's just the internets, so shut up rothko...

katy, how can you resist the cute little foxy woxy? watch it.

p.s. saw aguirre, too, like promised, but am weary of all this arguing, so no comment.

rothko · #**266** 03-27-2007, 02:55 AM

runkmud, tv junkie sounds great. wish i wasn't too lazy to go to the guest quarters and check the satellite. not even sure we get hbo, anyway. do you know if it was just a movie for television or if it's likely to come out on dvd?

diebitter · #**267** 03-27-2007, 02:59 AM

Well I for one can't wait till you're refreshed to talk about Aguirre..

Runkmud · #**268** 03-27-2007, 03:21 AM

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runkmud, tv junkie sounds great. wish i wasn't too lazy to go to the guest quarters and check the satellite. not even sure we get hbo, anyway. do you know if it was just a movie for television or if it's likely to come out on dvd?

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Hmmmm, HBO it typically pretty good at releasing their more sucessful stuff on video, so perhaps, but I'm certainly no expert.

Here's the IMDB link if you're interested or can gleen more info than I.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492494/

rothko · #**269** 03-27-2007, 03:31 AM

thanks, runkmud. really love the imdb description. hope i get to see it:

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A man tries to discover his purpose in life after searching through 3000 hours of video and over 5000 photos.

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fyodor · #**270** 03-27-2007, 09:21 AM

rothko I saw nothing wrong with the guy throwning rocks at the bear. It kept trying to come towards them (likely because Treadwell had gotten it used to humans) The people were less used to bears and probably felt threatened. Even if it was just a cub because pretty much everyone has been told not to get between a cub and it's mother.

I think a lot of the taunting of Treadwell was in his own warped mind. How paranoid do you have to be to read that smiley face on the rock as a seriously scary threat? Also people stack rocks all over the place. In Canada it's just copying the Inuit In Alaska it's probably the same thing.