From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
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