movie/director mismatches

[koyaanisqatsi]

I watched Sin City today, which was pretty great, and then Sleepy Hollow, which was not. I think what I didn't like about Sleepy Hollow was all the ways it was different from the story I've known and loved for decades, and part of the cause of the changes is that Tim Burton likes the macabre but he's also got a terminal case of Kid Gloves (not as

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[adnauseum]

I saw the majority of "Primer" today and thoroughly enjoyed what I saw.
I was thinking Kubrick the entire time and then looked at the box...
Something to the effect of "The most Kubrick movie in years..."
Heh. Good story though and the technical talk didn't sound stilted.

[all_words]

I was actually very satisfied with the movie Se7en just the way it was.

[kokopopo]

Interesting question - have to think about it.

I would start with Quentin Tarantino for A History of Violence, which I thought fell flat because Cronenberg could not make the violence relate to the characters. Maybe I'm alone in thinking this.

[nebris]

"Clueless" - Federico Fellini
"Predator vs Alien" - Alexandro Jodorowsky
"Time Cop" - Sergei Eisenstein
"Home Alone" - Pier Paolo Pasolini

I know. I'm not a well man. =)

~M~