From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 7:46:38 PM UTC-8, gggg gggg wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 8:59:48 PM UTC-7, Mike Henley wrote:   
   > > Having watched, over the past few weeks, some of Hollywood's   
   > > celebrated movies over the past few years (well, the ones that come to   
   > > mind include Happiness and Magnolia... *gag*), I watched two movies   
   > > tonight; Shawshank redemption and Ikiru.   
   > > I guess the fact that I watched Ikiru says something about not being   
   > > fully satisfied by shawshank redemption, which was one of those   
   > > superficial and fluffy   
   > > inspiring/moving/touching-inspirational/motivational movies that   
   > > hollywood seems to mass produce like cheese curd about values like   
   > > "hope"/Belief/Faith/You-Can-Do-It(TM) ... etc. (I can't believe that   
   > > its makers even dared to follow it up with The Green Mile *gag*). At   
   > > least it didn't suck as much as those other ones that set out to be   
   > > artsy but ended up being awfully pretentious and unbearably   
   > > unwatchable. Anyhow, As for Ikiru, I watched it and then watched it   
   > > again with the commentary running! Oh boy, I really should've gone to   
   > > bed much earlier, but yes, that's how good and compelling it was, and   
   > > the difference in filmmaking between it and Hollywood's recent "cool"   
   > > stuff is phenomenal. What art, what craft, what maturity, what   
   > > experience, what talent, what beauty, what simplicity, what   
   > > sophistication, what zen.   
   > > Hollywood seems to make wanna-be artsy movies for the wanna-be artsy   
   > > crowds. I'm now bothered at hearing that Dreamworks will actually   
   > > remake Ikiru and am quite annoyed, especially so that they signed on   
   > > Jim Sheridan for it; I disliked his In America movie (*gag*) and   
   > > thought it was very mediocre. I can already imagine scenes from the   
   > > Hollywood and Sheridan version (*gag gag gag*); in fact, I know   
   > > already that I won't be wasting 2 or 3 hours of my life watching it.   
   > Does this apply to IKIRU?:   
   >   
   > There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.   
   >   
   > Roger Ebert   
      
   And what about this?:   
      
   - I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have   
   done something to make others a little happier, and something to make   
   ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.   
      
   Roger Ebert   
      
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