life... is a state of mind

[thehefner]

Saw Peter Sellers' BEING THERE at the AFI last week. I'm still thinking about it. I think it was excellent, but I just don't know. Even though the ending was spoiled for me (one of the worst endings to ever have spoiled! God! Still so pissed), my reaction after seeing this film was a hushed "... wow."

I'm so tempted to make an icon of that last shot, but I'd hate to spoil it for anybody else. Yeah, that film's going high up on my list of Top Ten Favorite Last Shots/Endings:

1.) Aguirre, Wrath of God
2.) The Long Good Friday
3.) Being There
4.) Blood Simple
5.) Birdy
6.) The Wicker Man
7.) The Fly (Cronenberg)
8.) Night of the Living Dead
9.) Spider-Man 2
10.) Ravenous

(although I'm still thinking about putting SHAUN OF THE DEAD, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, (for the same reasons as THE FLY) and/or REAL GENIUS up there. That's the problem with these lists, they're ever-changing.)

I need to see it again with someone else. Maybe fiveseconddelay even though he would decry it for being too "John Hefner paced." Just because *you* can't take Sergio Leone movies... ;p

Comments

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

I think you should exclude films with shitty sequels. It's kind of like having really excellent sex and finding out that later she boinked some hoser. Yeah, it's not like you can get hoser cooties ex-post-facto, but it really seems to cheapen the whole experience.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I prefer to go the other way around, embracing the original ending and pretending to Holy Herzog that the sequels don't exist.

HICKS, NEWT, AND BISHOP ALL SURVIVED, GODDAMMIT. *LALALALALA NOT LISTENING*

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

And Rocky lost.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I never did see any of the Rocky movies, but I will soon.

Because I understand the series utterly redeemed itself with the new movie. As one reviewer said, "ROCKY BALBOA couldn't have been made and wouldn't have worked if there hadn't been ROCKY II, III, IV, and V. It had to dig itself that deep into a hole for this last film to be such a success." I'm paraphrasing, but that's the idea.