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jackTwo more trailers left a lingering residue of sarcasm to be worked out of my system.
Knowing, Nicolas Cage
"Buried in a time capsule for give decades. These numbers predicted every global disaster for the past fifty years..."
The premise of the film is that Nicolas Cage finds a bunch of mysterious numbers a young girl left in a school's time capsule and discovers these numbers predict global disasters. It turns out that people are equally resistant to averting disasters they're told about from a wild-eyed numerologist, as they are to averting disasters they're told about from the newspapers every morning.
"What happens when the numbers run out?"
Uhhh... maybe people will stop dying tragically, and everyone will be happy? With bunnies?
NB: I hear the film itself may be quite good. I don't know. I was just feeling very, very sarcastic when I saw the trailer.
"wakes up in adult body..."
I tried to avoid the "17 again" posters, just in case looking at them would permanently impair my intelligence. Unfortunately, it seems that my subconscious invented an entirely different film, loosely inspired by them, about a teenager who wakes up in the body of an adult. Probably starring Adam Sandler.
It took me a little while to work out if this was a different film, or if I had completely imagined it, but it seems I did! (Unless anyone knows different.) However, I had worked up such a head of sarcasm about it that I had to let it out anyway.
I would say something like, a biting response would be to say that Adam Sandler is a teenager who's woken up in the body of an adult. A very biting response would be to say that a teenager is a teenager who's woken up in the body of an adult.
A teenage mind in an adult body is classic premise of much superb literature. The difference is that when Shakespeare did it, he did it because he was a keen observer of human nature, whereas Sandler had to invent some sort of magical macguffin in order to make a film about vomiting into beer glasses[1].
[1] To be fair, Shakespeare also made plays designed to be popular. But as I say, I was being sarcastic, not fair :)
Knowing, Nicolas Cage
"Buried in a time capsule for give decades. These numbers predicted every global disaster for the past fifty years..."
The premise of the film is that Nicolas Cage finds a bunch of mysterious numbers a young girl left in a school's time capsule and discovers these numbers predict global disasters. It turns out that people are equally resistant to averting disasters they're told about from a wild-eyed numerologist, as they are to averting disasters they're told about from the newspapers every morning.
"What happens when the numbers run out?"
Uhhh... maybe people will stop dying tragically, and everyone will be happy? With bunnies?
NB: I hear the film itself may be quite good. I don't know. I was just feeling very, very sarcastic when I saw the trailer.
"wakes up in adult body..."
I tried to avoid the "17 again" posters, just in case looking at them would permanently impair my intelligence. Unfortunately, it seems that my subconscious invented an entirely different film, loosely inspired by them, about a teenager who wakes up in the body of an adult. Probably starring Adam Sandler.
It took me a little while to work out if this was a different film, or if I had completely imagined it, but it seems I did! (Unless anyone knows different.) However, I had worked up such a head of sarcasm about it that I had to let it out anyway.
I would say something like, a biting response would be to say that Adam Sandler is a teenager who's woken up in the body of an adult. A very biting response would be to say that a teenager is a teenager who's woken up in the body of an adult.
A teenage mind in an adult body is classic premise of much superb literature. The difference is that when Shakespeare did it, he did it because he was a keen observer of human nature, whereas Sandler had to invent some sort of magical macguffin in order to make a film about vomiting into beer glasses[1].
[1] To be fair, Shakespeare also made plays designed to be popular. But as I say, I was being sarcastic, not fair :)
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Date: 2009-04-20 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 02:23 pm (UTC)I've suggested seeing it this (Orange) Wednesday to [Bad username or site: tifferrobinson' / @ livejournal.com]. It'd be great to see it with you too [Bad username or site: cartesiandaemon' / @ livejournal.com] if you want to see it too.
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Date: 2009-04-20 11:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-21 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 03:48 pm (UTC)I may not be a fan of the bloke.
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Date: 2009-04-20 11:23 pm (UTC)I actually quite like him. He can actually fit in an action role with some plot behind it, or something weird like this -- ghost rider was a problematic film in some ways, but he was about perfect for it. If this film's premise had seemed more interesting, and the film more entertaining, I might have liked it, though as it is, I'm not really interested, although it might be worth it if one wanted a thriller of this type.
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Date: 2009-04-21 07:10 am (UTC)If something appears that is OMG!!! Wonderful!!! with him in it I might (might!) give it a try, but until then his name is enough to make me look elsewhere.
Let's not even mention the Wicker Man remake.
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Date: 2009-04-21 09:59 am (UTC)Oh, yes. I tried to think of any of his films which were undisputed classics, and couldn't see any, so I'm not sure if I was wrong, or if none were just just right.
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Date: 2009-04-21 10:06 pm (UTC)Which Shakespeare play features a teenage mind in an adult body?
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Date: 2009-04-21 10:59 pm (UTC)