Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[bab]

Well this is the new Jim Carrey movie. My husband and I usually check out a website call
www.rottentomatoes.com. This website gives you the average of all the critics ratings across America. If it is over 60% that liked the movie they give it a FRESH(Picture of tomoato). If it is under it gets ROTTEN(SQuASHED tomato)

Well, this movie was 93 % Fresh. 132 out of 142 critics loved the movie. So we decided to have a movie night..

Has anyone else seen this? Maybe I am not surreal enough, but I was squirming in my seat.. It wasn't terrible but it certainly was one of the strangest movies.. And you don't walk out with a good feeling.

I think critics are smoking something these days before they see some of these movie..

Just curious about other peoples opinions..

[james Haury]

I had the same kind of reaction to Flowers for Algernon.

[cyclezealot]

Well this is the new Jim Carrey movie. My husband and I usually check out a website call
www.rottentomatoes.com. This website gives you the average of all the critics ratings across America. If it is over 60% that liked the movie they give it a FRESH(Picture of tomoato). If it is under it gets ROTTEN(SQuASHED tomato)

Well, this movie was 93 % Fresh. 132 out of 142 critics loved the movie. So we decided to have a movie night..

Has anyone else seen this? Maybe I am not surreal enough, but I was squirming in my seat.. It wasn't terrible but it certainly was one of the strangest movies.. And you don't walk out with a good feeling.

I think critics are smoking something these days before they see some of these movie..

Just curious about other peoples opinions..

We saw it yesterday also. It was strange. We both sorta liked it.True love endures all challenges. Was surreal. Was it not the same writer as "John Malcovich's Mind?" ..... Do you not ever feel like some drunk psycho's are trying to exert control over our collective minds.? It had its points.

[cycletourist]

Was it not the same writer as "John Malcovich's Mind?"

"Being John Malcovich" was the strangest movie I have ever seen.

[Allister]

"Being John Malcovich" was the strangest movie I have ever seen.

I really enjoyed that movie. I may have to check this one out.

Strange movies: Wel, The Naked Lunch has to top that list for me. Maybe I'm a bit of a cultural neophyte, but I have no idea what that film was about. A close second would have to be Prospero's Books. Shakespeare made even more obtuse.

[cyclezealot]

I really enjoyed that movie. I may have to check this one out.

Strange movies: Wel, The Naked Lunch has to top that list for me. Maybe I'm a bit of a cultural neophyte, but I have no idea what that film was about. A close second would have to be Prospero's Books. Shakespeare made even more obtuse.

I vote the strangest movie of all time. "Brazil." Anyone tell me what that was about.

[Cipo]

I really enjoyed Eternal Sunshine..., funny, poignant, romantic, and one of the saddest movies I've seen in awhile. Kate Winslet is beguiling, Jim Carrey is restrained, and they seem to have some genuine chemistry.

Then again, I like movies that play with your head and push the boundaries of convential narrative, Charlie Kaufmann's previous films, Being John Makovich and Adaptation, P.T. Anderson's Punch Drunk Love, the Polish Brothers' Northfork. Brazil is brilliant, one of my all-time faves.

That being said, I gotta say I'm watching one of the all-time strange movies even as I type this (clearly it's not holding my attention very well), The Singing Detective (2003), with Robert Downey Junior and Mel Gibson - sporting major Ron Howard pattern baldness - in a perverse musical film noir detective story. Weird...

[pitboss]

Naked Lunch - read the book, it has twice the confusion and drug usage!
Brazil - it's all about the water
Eternal... - phenominal. not as good as 'lost in translation,' but it is up there.

[seely]

C'mon, no ones even mentioned Donnie Darko yet! Another completely strange love story of sorts, but an excellent movie.

[skitbraviking]

yea, loved it... despite myself. left feeling like crap because it is a film which is too true if seen at the wrong time. nevertheless, I loved it and will see it again, hopefully on the big screen, before it goes away. I thought they could have done a little more with some of the minor characters and the relationship between the office girl and the doctor. it was had lots of fresh ideas and some nice nods to Bergman and maybe a little Felinni and maybe others I don't know.

I head that it was based on a Philip K Dick story. Anybody heard this? If so, anybody know what collection it is in?

[AdrianB]

'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was my favourite movie of 2004 so far. Stylistically Kaufmann writing but throughly entertaining, moving without being sentimental. Positively uplifting, never taking itself too seriously...

[greaper007]

I really liked the movie. I find that non-realistic situations like the one that existed in this film are usually the best ways to discuss philosophy in film. You see this a lot with science fiction. I thought that the end message of the film was completely uplifting. I kept repeating it to one of my friends that had just had a bad breakup. In the end I guess it all depends on what you go to the movies for. Some people are really into film and dig the lack of realism when it is done with an intention. Some people just see movies to be passivly entertained. IE a formulaic story line that's easy to follow and somewhat predictable. I don't want to say that either one is bad. I guess it's like how some people choose to ride single-speed of fixed gear bikes, while others have 27 gears. Different strokes for different folks.