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I remember clearly when the standoff was taking place the way the media presented the Dividians as this crazed group of cult rebels with David Koresh, the self professed reborn Jesus Christ, as their leader.
The loss of civilization, the loss of judgement, of self.
Anyone who finds this movie to be unrealistic is simply denying the self evident truths about life.
When I first heard that the subject matter for Checking Out was a self orchestrated suicide party, my first thought was how morbid, tasteless and then a comedy on top of that.
"Tommy" was over the top and heavy handed in direction, "Oliver" seemed like crowd control on the silver screen, "The Wall" was so much abstract self important and indulgent dribble, but listening to "Failure of the Flesh" from Hair sounds right for our times today, as it did in the eighties, as it must have in the sixties...truly Timeless.
Believe me when I say that I understand the inclination to compare an innovative filmmakers'movies by looking for trends and patterns, but for me it is more important to approach each new film as a self contained entity first, and then broaden my gaze afterwards.
Lorre's range as an actor is seldom as apparent as in this movie with his jovial, good-natured immigrant, to his depressing, melancholic, disfigured self searching for the truth behind what he believed America afforded him, to his suave, intelligent, better-than-your-average hood, to his sympathetic dealings with a blind woman with whom he falls in love.
There is a self deprecating, iconoclastic tone to the movie that is very appealing.
You never know what self depricating humor he's going to come up with next.
Your other self will be stronger, harness all the anger all the rage to use whatever means available to avenge the innocence of your parents onto that criminal, those criminals, any criminal.
He has done three paintings in particular: a self portrait, a painting of a shepherdess (which he has fallen in love with), and a painting of chimney sweep (of whom he is jealous).
The self portrait of the king climbs down out of his frame as well, and does away with the real king (You think I'm making this up?
Somehow, according to the plot, god is outraged that society has chosen to rid it's self of a fanatic who killed his own parents by starting them on fire while they slept defenselessly in their beds.
He is unable to affect humanity for good and unemotionally skates the edges of life waiting for mankind to destroy it's self.
Watch it if you want to: a) Suffer harsh self inflicted pain.
This film is self indulgent rubbish.
There just isn't anything to be entertained by watching this film unless you are fascinated by exhausting yourself with explicit scenes of incest, pedophilia, necrophilia, rape, self milking, parental and sibling abuse, and fecal dispersement.
Country music being changed by a young, polite, southern gentleman - who was also long haired, drug loving, popular with the ladies and ultimately self destructive.
Beat that guy at the end and win! Eh, who plays this by their self anyway?
When they catered to the junior high school crowd, any sense of self respect was tossed out the window.
He should leave these type of roles to less interesting actors who would fully commit to the film and spend his energy and considerable talent in more off beat roles and films where he can be his crazy interesting self.
So I realize that Extreme Makeover Home Edition is "doing good", but forgive me if I see it as more self serving than giving of itself.
My roommates & I nearly shorted out our TV from the numerous spit-takes we did while watching this hilarious piece of 1970s self important pseudo-zen dreck.
Isn't it bizarre that any real person would star in a film in which their supposed real self gets married?
All in all, unless you're a fan of The Young and Restless (etc...) or, are yourself, in fact, an insane Berserker who likes self torture, I'd probably steer clear of this drab piece of celluloid.
If one has such a high opinion of their self that they believe they possess an answer to everything like Him does, then I gotta see cash and a Blackberry which displays intelligence and good survival instincts to preserve that big ego which Him definitely has.
Dennis Hopper makes a few sparse appearances and is his usual disjointed self; his role was clearly not a stretch for him.
What a stupid waste of time , if you want to see(DIE DIE!!! "I WANT YOUR BABY DRAG QUEEN) Jennifer Tilly being her Freaky self then just rent out one Of the "Chucky" movie, oh ya , "The Bride Of Chucky."
Elizabeth Taylor never could act at all and she was just her usual annoying, untalented self in this film.
So I saw BTK Killer there on the shelf, all by its lonesome self.
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