Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

if you like hitchcock you will like this polished, fascinating, extremely well-made but rather constructed movie. in fact, the only thing i missed was hitch doing a cameo in the first ten minutes of the film. (i do not like hitchcock all that much but i still found this movie pretty well satisfying).

it is by atom egoyan, that armenian-egyptian-canadian guy who shares with hitchcock an interest in how modern life makes us isolated and thus exceedingly prone to voyeurism, and overly attracted to fame.

"where the truth lies" stars kevin bacon (who is much better than i thought i would ever see him be) and colin firth, who is also great. because of some well-done steamy sex scenes the movie seems to have flopped in the u.s.: a nc-17 rating meant that people in the sticks would have had to drive 200 miles to see it, which of course they didn't. never mind, go get it on dvd when it appears.

i'll have to look at that; it sounds great. i like colin firth; he has nice eyes.

how can you not like hitchcock? hitchcock is so great. i have a box set of old vhs movies that my brother and i used to watch and he'd say, watching jamaica inn, now look at that angle, that's original.

my brother is a weird movie buff. he's actually the only person i have ever met who is not associated with movies at all that would notice something like camera angles but he studies film and teaches some aspects of film in the summer.

we have a joke with him that goes like this, notice the use of the color red, because he said it throughout some movie -- he's such a sweetie though, an easy target because of his sense of humor and self, very funny, confident person, so he can take it.

thanks that's a movie i'd probably like and i've seen some duds recently -- terrible, awful, where have all the decent movies gone? i stopped going to movies for a while and then when i did start going again my first thought was, i haven't been protesting money making, i've been protesting shit making -- as in how bad these movies are.

I bet this is probably a good movie I should see.

ah sarah nice reply. glad you liked my post.

about the british master. vertigo is one of the most perverse movies i can think of. jimmy stewart as a guilt-ridden former cop who doesn't notice the advances of the pristine miss ellie, but stalks a young prole girl who somehow reminds him of the wife of a friend who's violent death he couldn't prevent... it sounds messy and to me it is. some say hitchcock pulled it off well but i find it quite creepy. i agree it is a gorgeous, fascinating movie but still i find it unlikeable.

speaking of perverse and unlikeable, do you know anybody who likes to watch psycho? an impressive landmark of a movie but it's too insane for me.

in general i have a problem with convoluted criminal stories such as vertigo, which is why i also belong to the minority of people who dislike north by northwest. is cary grant believable in it? is the mount rushmore part more than disneyland-cinema? i don't think so and thus it leaves me cold.

on the other hand, i can enjoy some of hitchcock's work, such as rear window, or family plot, without qualification.

yes, rear window is awesome. it just is.

and i think you're right on the money as far as the voyeurism -- at least that one illustrates it well.

it's also very fitting as i'm currently "home schooling" a kid with two broken feet; hmmmm, maybe he'll witness some strange event and tell me about it . . . i doubt it.

and also i think we the people who visit websites are sort of voyeurs and exhibitionists at the same time, it's look at my thoughts, no, no, let me look at your thoughts -- (there is a song by, don't gag, dmb that goes something like . i have no lid upon my head but if I did you could look inside and see what's on my mind you could look inside and see what's on my mind . . . dave spoke too soon, now we all have lids ) anyway neat post. thanks again.

so i saw this at the movie rental store, and i didn't get it, but i thought of you, martino, in fact i didn't get anything, just looked around and thought this stuff looks depressing. . . boring . . . stupid, or depressing boring and stupid all at the same time, but i might get it later when i am in the mood. i haven't wanted to watch any movies since the french one whose title i can't remember -- i guess it's like if i see a good movie that fits my taste i don't want to run the risk of getting a taste of something bad to mess it up.

truly, i am disappointed when i see a stinker.

this gets me thinking though about why i like movies at all and i think it's my grandpa's fault. my grandpa liked westerns, when i went to stay with him and my grandma we'd have to watch westerns and baseball and also hee-haw, and i hated it, but i liked my grandpa, so i'd read and then he'd get done with hee-haw and go to the kitchen for a tomato biscuit and a coke -- but every once in a while, he'd take me to a movie, and that is where he really shined, he had terrible taste in television, but movies with him were a treat.