Waking Life:

it's overrated. oh wait, are you talking about a movie or something?

It was the worst movie I've ever seen. At least Dr. Katz was amusing and intelligent and didn't resemble someone jacking off for 4 hours in a philosophy class.

Can't wait for Josh to read this one.

I didn't see Waking Life at the NY Film Festival because I was seeing The Royal Tenenbaums.

We were a little nicer the first time around. Y'all just need to learn to tune out dialogue.

But I don't even know what or who Dr Katz is.

The pictures are disgusting.

We tend to not have classes for more than an hour and a half at a time. Jerking off is too tiring.

I saw this movie over the weekend. Perhaps not coincidentally, in the company of a number of other philosophy graduate students. I can understand why people might find the dialogue (often monologue) tedious, but I don't think it was as bad as some people made it out to be (especially Fred, in the review on his web site). Some of the theorizing was more wild than other parts, but a good deal of it was at least based in more plausible ideas or ways of thinking that one might be willing to entertain if given reasons to - lots of those reasons were glossed over in the film, of course, which made the philosophies hinted at seem a lot more half-baked. I thought a lot of it was more interesting to entertain than, say, what made up 'Pi', which I happily ignored even though it had the potential to make me cringe as a mathematician and philosopher. Waking Life just had the unfortunate problem of making an entire movie out of that sort of thing.

Philosophy is bullshit. My only philosophy is The Safety Dance.

I guess I had better just shoot myself in the head, then.

I'm watching this right now, and it's interesting. Why the hate? Why do postmoderns fear "pretension" more than death?

One always hates those qualities they see reflected in themselves the most.

I really liked it. This thread made me buy it.