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EightMilesHigh
09-09-2008, 11:07 AM
Wow.

I saw Adaptation for the first time a while back, and after finding out Spike Jonze has only directed two movies that I know of, (plus I thought his music videos were pretty cool) I went out and rented this and watched it. I'm still taking time to get my head wrapped around it, but I know I liked this (and Adaptation too).

Thoughts?
Tillius
09-09-2008, 11:48 AM
I saved this on my DVR a couple nights ago. I'll probably get around to watching it today.
iarescientists
09-09-2008, 12:40 PM
charlie kaufman
FakePlasticTrees
09-09-2008, 01:27 PM
Isn't Spike Jonez the guy from Jacka'ss?
Knifeboy
09-09-2008, 01:43 PM
Being John Malkovich is a classic in my book
Cocaine
09-09-2008, 01:47 PM
charlie kaufman

basically
iarescientists
09-09-2008, 01:51 PM
charlie kaufman supposedly went to high school with my mom but she says she doesn't remember him :(
Interstate
09-09-2008, 03:22 PM
Love this film. Haven't seen it in a while, must watch it again soon.
Iskandar
09-09-2008, 04:07 PM
This is a really neat and inventive film.
3FingeredHoek
09-09-2008, 04:09 PM
It's in my top 10, definitely.
Iskandar
09-09-2008, 04:13 PM
Only thing I didn't dig was the ending. It was kind of unresolved.
Tillius
09-09-2008, 10:56 PM
I'm watching it right now. Pretty damn great.
Gnarmageddon
09-09-2008, 11:07 PM
Isn't Spike Jonez the guy from Jacka'ss?

Yep.
beans
09-09-2008, 11:32 PM
great movie
Apocalyptic Raids
09-10-2008, 02:25 AM
Isn't Spike Jonez* the guy from Jacka'ss?
Jonze*, and yeah same dude.

great film, though I probably prefer Adaptation.
Cocaine
09-10-2008, 02:47 AM
i concur

i havent seen this in a long time though
Tillius
09-10-2008, 11:10 AM
Adaptation was the better movie but this was excellent as well.
cobert
09-10-2008, 01:56 PM
been a really long time since ive seen this, but I remember it being good and I want to watch it again.
EightMilesHigh
09-10-2008, 03:09 PM
One of the things I thought was really cool about Adaptation was how Charlie Kaufman took the idea of the novel, but went in a totally different direction of turning it into film. Like, instead of just making Adaptation a direct....adaptation of Susan Orlean's novel, used that as a launch pad for a completely original concept.
Cocaine
09-10-2008, 03:54 PM
And then wrote a script about writing a script for that completely original concept.
E sharp
09-11-2008, 09:14 AM
I started watching this today and stopped shortly after he manipulated him. Very entertaining. Gonna finish it now.