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29 May 2008

He rented Rambo. I rented... →[More:]The Piano Teacher. After reading some of the reviews I'm not so sure I want to watch. I'm kinda scared.

A quote from a critic:

It is depressing, ruthlessly pained and depraved, the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound.

Oh, goody!

post by: LoriFLA at: 21:26 | 10 comments

I haven't seen the movie, but I have read the book. It's one of those books that you kind of admire without liking very much. IMO.

posted by gaspode 29 May | 21:29

It seems that it's going to be that kind of movie. It won a few fancy awards but people booed the movie. It might be reserved for the artiest of art movie types, which I am not, but I'll watch anyway. I got sucked in my that darn Roger Ebert. I generally agree with him. I saw that he liked it and grabbed it.

posted by LoriFLA 29 May | 21:38

Oh, fuckinay. Piano Teacher is on my list of Top Ten Disturbing horror films! No kidding. Right up there with The Audition. Seriously. Please tell me what you think!

Oog. Sometimes I wish I could unwatch Piano Teacher.

posted by shane 29 May | 22:51

Oh, but, ya know.... Teacher still has to be better than an unGodly remake of Rambo. Go Lori!

posted by shane 29 May | 22:52

I couldn't finish watching it. I can barely remember why now. I don't remember being overly sicked out, but I remember thinking like, "Oh great, now this?" If it was depraved and depressing, my brain remembers it as a pile of depraved and depressing, just loading it on.

posted by birdie 29 May | 23:17

Oh, I remember it. I definately watched it all the way through. I think I liked it. It was to my depraved eyes, over the top, and yes, campy/horror movie like, but not in a way that made me scared.

I really need to see Audition.

posted by rainbaby 30 May | 07:35

I just looked up the Audition on IMDB, and it returned ten different titles. Which one is it? The plot synopsis that I liked the best concerned cows who were auditioning to be the country's mad cow. Is that cute, or is that sick and twisted?

posted by msali 30 May | 08:14

I'm pretty sure it's this one.

posted by rainbaby 30 May | 08:26

Msali, here's the thumbnail review I wrote of Audition:

Takashi Miike’s infamous 1999 shocker centers on a simple deception: a widower in search of a new wife holds a phony casting call, hoping to find his perfect woman among the candidates. From the beginning, Audition has the hallmarks of a delicately balanced romantic thriller, with some fillips: a tongue-in-cheek montage of the auditions, some compositional commentaries on the ironies of the plot, and a very few spine-numbing jolts for spice. But the last few sequences veer suddenly into vicious, visceral territory, mocking the measured urbanity of the previous hour. It’s ghastly. Is “ghastly” a bad thing? Only you can decide that.

Having seen a few other Miike films, where he wrings genuinely scary scenes out of (sometimes) not much material, I expected it to be filled with jumps and jolts, but it wasn't... exactly. I didn't find the events of the film "scary" so much as repugnant. I still can't decide whether it was any good.

posted by Elsa 30 May | 09:18

For a moment there, I confused Rambo with Son of Rambow. Oops.

posted by box 30 May | 11:39

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