It was based on an autobiography so there's only so much you can do about that.

what? that's completely untrue. like, the gay boyfriend thing, okay, there's no way to really play that without going for a laugh, it would be trite, but it's also a kind of stupid story to begin with. then the cheating dude is just SO OBVIOUS because for ten minutes we're given all these scenes of how happy they were and of course it's going to come crashing down.

you shouldn't excuse real life situations being played as cliches. I've read Persepolis, and maybe the change in media added it or I don't remember it well but I don't remember it being so predictable.

videodrome

you shouldn't excuse real life situations being played as cliches. I've read Persepolis, and maybe the change in media added it or I don't remember it well but I don't remember it being so predictable.

I'll agree that the book wasn't as predictable but that is how the majority of book adaptations go.  But, providing I'M remembering it right, it didn't ALTER anything from the book, it just couldn't fit everything from the book in.  It may have put undue focus on things like that, but I am pretty sure I remember them being in there.

It's kind of hard to remember this stuff right when the book and movie look so similar though.

videodrome

i've had this on my hard drive for months. i don't watch it cos i think it's gonna be gross and i like to eat something while i'm watching a movie and i don't think i'd be able to do that with this.

i thought the movie wasn't as good as the book because they kind of glossed over interesting things and in general it seemed very condensed but i liked the book a lot.  honestly the entire thing is comprehensive a narration of her life so i don't really know what you want her to do.  WHELP i'll omit this significant part of my life because its a lil "clich" lol

no dude do you remember how it was played? both times that shit was unbearably predictable. OH IM SO HAPPY NOTHING WILL GO WRONG *opens door* n...NOOOOO!!!

I found out filthy wrote a review of this that puts it in better terms than I can:

The movie has the feel of the comic book, a first-person diary of a girl life as she matures, enters adulthood and figures out who the fuck she's supposed to be. Satrapi's comic books are comprised of stark black and white images which have a stark minimalism to them. That works fine in print. In the movie, though, the same approach gets tiresome. By using the same aesthetic, Persepolis doesn't graphically illuminate the comics. It looks too simplistic and doesn't add information to what she's already done. Instead, it has the feel of some bad PBS show that wants to get artsy with animation but doesn't have the money to do it right. The only time there is color is when Satrapi escapes to France. That's a pretty fucking trite way to use it. See? Black and white is prison, and color is freedom. Ooooooo.

The soundtrack doesn't help, either. It's performed by a string quartet, or quintet or whatever, that is probably competent. However, they are used too simplistically and again not to illuminate. Visual and spoken punchlines receive cheap little string rimshots very much like I've seen on children's shows--usually about baby birds or lost penguins--where the same sounds are used to tell kids when to laugh, or at least to stop crying. Why do I watch children's shows on PBS? Because I think everyone should watch PBS to get more culture and be better educated. I watch the kid's shows because I don't understand the shit they put on for adults. Plus, I can't afford cable, so PBS is the only place IO have a shot of seeing any nudity, even if it's a documentary about African tribes..

Seeing the Islamic Revolution through the eyes of a young girl is an exciting prospect. Especially when she has westernized. We know the story is sympathetic to the Western opinion of the revolution. That part of the story is pretty fucking great. We get to see how a child can be confused and easily swayed by a protest march or her parents' opinions. We see how children sought out heros and also played at being them, while at the same time there was war going on and the games the kids played were real and fatal to adults.

The Revolution and Iraq-Iran War are not what the movie's about, though. Not enough, anyway. Persepolis is about Marjane Satrapi, It follows her to Vienna and through puberty, making new friends and discovering boys. That is way too much of the moive and is handled tritely. Satrapi comes across as a bit of a pain in the ass, and boring as hell. The first boy she made love to turned out to be gay. Cue the cutesy punchline music. The next one, whom she rambles on about being so perfect, is caught in bed with another girl. Of course he is. Why else would we have to endure all her poetic waxing? She also marries and divorces in quick order. The movie is her story and impartial at that. Satrapi wants us to know these things happened, but isn't bothered to tell us 1) why we should care, and 2) the other side or much information at all. Apparently, they have the Lifetime Channel in Iran or Vienna, too.

what does bother me is the Islamic Revolution parts ARE interesting, especially when it's so rarely covered in the West. but the movie was pretty fucking boring. also Persepolis 2, which is more about her life, sucks compared to 1.

hey were you guys aware this existed

what is this, "salvador dali's disney adventure"?

what does bother me is the Islamic Revolution parts ARE interesting, especially when it's so rarely covered in the West. but the movie was pretty fucking boring. also Persepolis 2, which is more about her life, sucks compared to 1.

yeah, i really wish there was more about the revolution and less about her life, i guess my main point was that i didn't think that made the movie bad...but i agree there should have been way more from the first comic since that's where the best parts are.

also her overdoes was way less fun without the GIANT BLACK RATS COMING THROUGH HER WINDOW, that was the best

i've had this on my hard drive for months. i don't watch it cos i think it's gonna be gross and i like to eat something while i'm watching a movie and i don't think i'd be able to do that with this.

it is pretty gross fyi

it is pretty gross fyi

what's it about?

gross how?

read the wikipedia, its pretty famous for being kind of nasty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome

that's the first time i've seen the word "titillate" used seriously

edit: weird. i just heard it again in a documentary... curiously titillating...

what's it about?

gross how?

this guy gets a vagina in his stomach and hides a gun in there

it's actually a really good movie though.

kurosawa's dreams is pretty gorgeous too.

what is this, "salvador dali's disney adventure"?

basically

I guess it's like Fantasia the Salvador Dali version

and I think it got finished btw, it was only shown at some certain place in Europe (the Dali museum?) but internet has everything so maybe it can be found

I really thought the Daft Punk video was clips from an old cartoon, or made to look like a specific cartoon from the 70s/80s, or edited from an old cartoon like Space Ghost or that Sealab show

Edit: As in designed to be reminiscent of something and not really meant as a serious plot that could be made into a movie

I mean stuff like the Sistine Chapel is pretty but some religious art seems kind of blingy and like the actual picture is like flat stick people in a field with no perspective (I realize they couldn't even do that stuff yet I just think it's funny sometimes ok)

Umm...
*opens up Gombrich's The Story of art*

I dunno if I could find the picture I had in mind it would be funnier