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it is good. very, very, very good.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Good!

I'd read a draft of the script, and to me it was the best thing that Kaufman's written to date. Packs an emotional punch that was somewhat lacking in Malkovich and Adaptation.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

except i'm now in the strange position of having a crush on jim carrey, which is kind of dud.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm really looking forward to this even tho i don't really like charlie kaufman. does he finally get the last act right with this one?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

theoretically this film seems designed to inflame my crotch and dull my mind

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i suppose that's better than the other way around!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

right?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

guys?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

potato, potato

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

that reminds me of a time my friend who was in music school told me about this audition he saw--the person who was auditioning chose "let's call the whole thing off" to sing (i guess she was auditioning for the vocal department). clearly this person had only read the lyrics and never heard the song cuz she sang it without pronouncing the words differently!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

boy can't wait for that one to show up on the laugh out loud thread!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i think he does get it right. the cast gets it right, too - everyone has their characters nailed. i'm surprised at how much i liked this, as i found most of being john malkovich irritating and just hated adaptation.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a funny little movie on the gondry dvd where jim carrey is driving around on this bed and he stops at a gas station and they make the bed.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the thing about charlie kaufman is i think he tends to have these really funny ideas that he has no idea what to do with.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

also i think spike jonze is not a very good feature film director. (and the jury's still out on gondry)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm very happy that kate winslet is in this movie though.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i am not happy, however, that she is married to sam mendes.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

in the crotch inflammation department: kirsten dunst dances around in her underwear, and kate winslet is kate winslet - rowr. jim carrey is all big-eyed sad indie rock, with a woolen beanie and a peacoat, hence my new crush of shame.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

NOOOOOOOOO

er xpost

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

When does this come out?

― B61 (calstars), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

OHHHHHH YEAAAAAAH!
http://www.chicagoredface.com/koolaid.jpg

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's out on the 19th.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i should ask my editor to send me to this as compensation for having to go see "twisted"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Your editor should probably also pay you and put you up for a series of massages.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

god yeah

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

did you know phillip kaufman directed that movie?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

it was one of those genre movies done by a semi-prestigious director who clearly just wants to pay the bills and thus makes the movie really dour and shameful-feeling.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

in retrospect i could have phrased that better

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

no, that was the only way you could have phrased it. Sad, but true.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

like that last mike figgis movie!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

it's so annoying, like, if you're gonna get off your quillsy perch and condescend to do a genre flick at least try to err on the "fun" rather than "important" side! don't try and class it up and shit!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

(that wasn't addressed to you, donna)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Philip Kaufman is obviously closely related to Donald Kaufman.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Thursday, 4 March 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

they're mother and daughter

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw a preview of this movie for the first time last night. I had only once heard about it, that Jim Carrey and Kirsten Dunst were gonna be in the next Charlie Kaufman-scripted film. I didn't think I'd want to see it, even though I'm a ginormous fan of Kaufman's stuff. Now it's the only movie I know of being released in the near future I give a god-damn about. And I give like seven god-damns about it. I'm excited.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mr. blue sky in the previews=automatic buzz.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

is it really good? I mean in my theory of film, the Winslet factor suggests it'll be terrible. Hopefully, the Carrey factor will neutralise the Winslet factor. I'll definetely go and see it.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

whaddya mean by that buddy?! the winslet factor is a good factor! a fine factor!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

If I had only seen The Truman Show, Batman Forever, and Man In the Moon, I'd think Jim Carrey was an excellent actor. Unfortunately I've also seen Ace Ventura, The Cable Guy, and *shudder* The Mask.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cable Guy is ace!!!!!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

as is Ace Ventura and the Mask, I thought Man in the Moon was a bit rubbish.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually Cable Guy was pretty good in a weird creepy/ha ha kinda way. I'm just being mean. The Mask makes me hurt.

Did you ever see In Living Colour jel? I think he was at his most funny on that show.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Not seen his TV shows :(

I keep thinking, should I rent the Majestic??

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Slotski, what on earth does "quillsy perch" mean?

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Man In The Moon is quite good, The Truman Show is okay in a Disneyish way. i liked The Mask but care not for Carrey's zanier typecast affairs.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

you know antexit, the movie "quills"

ah fuck it, i was high

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

antexit i accidentally posted a reply to that on the other eternal sunshine thread.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i just heard a commercial for it (it was playing on the tv in the other room) and they just called it "eternal sunshine"!!! WTF? that's like calling

couldn't think of a good one

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Close Encounters [Of The Third Kind]?

(Except everyone does that. So maybe not.)

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 326 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

anyway yeah the editing is awesome, which reminds me of the resnais influence. i still need to see je t'aime, je t'aime.

the dp was ellen kuras who is also helming the "Untitled Dave Chappelle/Michel Gondry Project (2005)" (!!!!). she started out in experimental films and has worked a bunch for spike lee (whose recent films, at least the ones shot on 35mm, have been pretty gorgeous as well).

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

the chappelle/gondry thing is that live hip-hop concert..

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 July 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

its been at least a year! maybe i'll watch this tonight.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 July 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

the first train scene with WInslet/Carrey is incredible.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 21 July 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

The whole bloody thing is incredible.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 21 July 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

I loved this.

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

it FUCKING RULES. yes.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

(and believe me, i expected to hate and loathe it.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

I like it well enough - I'm a Gondry fan and I like my oddball cinema. In fact everything about it is great. That said, it's by no means a favourite - don't know why. Don't get me wrong, I do like it a lot but in some ways I think they could've almost done even MORE.

Has Gondry directed any other feature films?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Human Nature

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Don't see that.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

why not?? it's funny!! (not great, but funny)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

should i assume this is great? i haven't seen most of his videos yet.

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Yeh that DVD is awesome - great value for money too as it's got shitloads of stuff on it (dual sided dvd innit).

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

it's awesome

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

So, I'm real real slow having only seen this last night. But. Wow. Too close to my own head, so much like what I'm writing at the moment, and strangely enough, it moved me greatly without really making me sad. Just moved.

But I NEED to watch it again. Argh.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

more liek eternal bumshine of the spotless behind am i rite?

― e-tard, Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

no.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 6 November 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

I just saw this movie and thought it was OUTSTANDING.

― Dan (Awesome) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just read Pete's point on DYS that there's an implied film from inside Clementine's head, where she goes through the same process with the same results. I'm not entirely convinced, because she was done some time before (I forget how long - Patrick says it just before he talks about stealing her panties), and I dunno, maybe she's been going to Montauk every day since for reasons she can't fathom.

I assumed a few days; they had the massive fight, he went out to buy her a make-up gift while she had her mind erased, she had already met the new guy and started dating him by the time he met up with her again, he went to friends to complain and David Cross told him the dealio, he went to the office, went away, then ran back and insisted they erase her from his mind that night. At most it seems like a 48 hour turnaround.

The answer to Mary's question about why they came to your house in a stolen van is twofold: 1) They weren't reputable and didn't have a gigantic amount of money; 2) They wanted you to wake up at home in familiar surroundings to recalibrate your erased brain properly; remember you aren't even supposed to remember that you had someone erased from your memory, so waking up in their office would be kind of odd.

― Dan (So So Awesome) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

i dont like this movie as much as i used to. i still prefer Adaptation. watching Eternal Sunshine again would feel like a chore.

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 6 May 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

i just watched this movie a few months ago and it was outstanding.

― jeffrey (johnson), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

i need to see this again. i kinda fear doing so, though, because i liked it so much the first time around. also because i might cry like a baby again, obviously.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

I saw this one. Sort of.

Not, like, the Boogie Nights kind of 'sort of'', though.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

i still think adaptation stinks but i am willing to give this another chance.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

i thought you liked it anyway!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

i was on the fence.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh, the fence. i thought i was on the fence after seeing it a second time, but after watching it tonight, i feel i am on the like-it! side of the fence once more. the one with the bbq and pitchers of cheap sangria. it's pretty sweet.

(You didn't even like the alligator part in Adaptation?)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 May 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Favorite movie of the decade.

― kenan, Sunday, 3 January 2010 15:00 (sixteen years ago)

seriously this movie is extremely visually inventive. i don't think i realized this until i walked away from the tv, trying to follow the film by listening to it (which you can do quite easily w/most contemporary hollywood movies), and i found it absolutely impossible, not to say utterly confusing.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, July 20, 2005 4:49 PM (4 years ago)

Precisely -- not just inventive, but visually narrative, even from the first moment. There is a full 15 minutes of movie before the titles roll, and all of it is in these over-saturated primaries, like a Polaroid. Then about 30 minutes in, the linear makes-sense-in-real-life stuff starts to break up and give way to dreams, everything gets fuzzier, bluer and then more red, sharper and then more indistinct, all of it in a rhythm that tells a story almost by itself.

― kenan, Sunday, 3 January 2010 15:15 (sixteen years ago)

The narrative device of "remembering" a relationship backwards isn't a gimmick -- it's maybe Kaufman's least gimmicky narrative device. And Kate Winslet couldn't be more perfect. So wrong, so "nutso" (as she insists that she is not), and so completely sympathetic.

― kenan, Sunday, 3 January 2010 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

I want this DVD to come in one of those old cardboard longboxes so I can give it a hug.

― kenan, Sunday, 3 January 2010 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

yeah this is good movie - winslet is so omg i know that girl - might rescreen

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

jim careys plastic face abilities in the service of portraying depression, impressive!

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:08 (sixteen years ago)

i like that carrey and winslet are basically playing each other's roles in this.

― Roz, Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

winslet is so omg i know that girl

I kind of am that girl.

― kenan, Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

dont see u as the yelling at people on trains type

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:55 (sixteen years ago)

Well, anyway I identify with her a bit more than Joel, who really is a bit of a sad sack. I dunno. I'm a little manic/depressive, so I got 'em both in spades.

― kenan, Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:58 (sixteen years ago)

I love this film, particularly Carrey's performance in it, so finding out very recently that he is an anti-vaccination idiot made me much sadder than I thought it would. I mean you expect it from the other chumps, but he always seemed pretty smart.

― Bill A, Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:59 (sixteen years ago)

Well, I figure whatever, the list of known Scientologists on wiki includes Chaka Khan. What the hell you gonna do.

― kenan, Sunday, 3 January 2010 17:55 (sixteen years ago)

My neighbor borrowed my DVD of this and then got evicted. Fuck the wowd!

― girl moves (Abbott), Sunday, 3 January 2010 19:12 (sixteen years ago)

I swear I read that as "My neighbor borrowed my DVD of this and then got excited." My only advice there would have been, lock up at night.

― kenan, Sunday, 3 January 2010 19:39 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Little to add besides that I found this almost perfectly acted -- in fact I think everyone in this movie turned in a better performance than I've seen them give in any other movie.

Receptionist named after Italo Svevo seemed appropriate.

Sort of assumed this had won best picture and then looked back at 2004 Oscars and what? not even nominated! million dollar baby, finding neverland, ray, sideways, the aviator -- i barely remember what these movies WERE. was million dollar baby the one where hillary swank was a boxer?

anyway, this was a charmer. had no idea there was any life left in either "sad sack redeemed by manic pixie" or "tell the story backwards"

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:24 (fourteen years ago)

I never made that Svevo connection before! lol awesome

― garage rock is usually very land-based (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:39 (fourteen years ago)

had no idea there was any life left in... "sad sack redeemed by manic pixie"

Like her "goddammit, I'm three dimensional - I'm not going to save your life or make everything better" speech in the dream bookstore.

― Comics can't all be syringes and scalpels poised before eyes. y'know? (R Baez), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)

found the ending a total success -- the point, i thought, was to say that their situation was NOT THAT DIFFERENT from what it was the first time around. clementine already KNOWS she gets bored, whence angry with each boyfriend after a time. joel already KNOWS he gets bored, whence contemptuous. yet each time we try again in the hope that it will be different this time -- what else can we do? the only difference is that this time the second go-round is with the same physical being.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:26 (fourteen years ago)

jim careys plastic face abilities in the service of portraying depression, impressive!

― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 3, 2010 11:08 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

hah i thought the same thing - he's seriously amazing in it, I can't believe he didn't even get nominated for an Oscar.

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

guys, c'mon re Oscars. It's a miracle that Kaufman and Gondry got one for the script.

― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:41 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

opened 10 years ago today (?)

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind-10

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:15 (eleven years ago)

Papassotiropoulos, Andreas, et al. "Human genome–guided identification of memory-modulating drugs." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110.46 (2013): E4369-E4374.

We identified several potential drug targets and compounds. In a subsequent pharmacological study with one of the identified compounds, we found a drug-induced reduction of aversive memory

Diphenhydramine is available OTC at your local pharmacy.

― Congratulations! And my condolences. (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:26 (eleven years ago)

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