You know a movie's a good one, when...

[capri0mni]

All through the day after you've seen it, you're still coming up with new favorite scenes, and suddenly realising that that detail there was an echo of that one line, that seemed like a throw-away at the time, but really wasn't...

And you want to squee about all of those details, and really, wasn't that scene, there, the sweetest? And...

But you realize you can't, because to do so would spoiler the whole thing for the friends who haven't seen it yet...

So you wait, patiently, for them to go see it...

So hurry up and go see Be Kind, Rewind, already!!

Now, I want to Swede all the Doctor Who stories that the Beeb burninated. I think that would be the perfect solution...

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[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

Spoilers are why cuts exist.

I saw BK,R a couple weeks ago. I liked the DIY movie aethetic, and the Ghostbusters sequence was brilliant, but it was a little flat overall. Lots of small brilliant moments, but a rough whole.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

hm... that's kinda what Roger Ebert said...

I guess it depends on what you're looking for going in, whether or not you'll be satisfied coming out. The only way I even knew it existed was a report on the movie and the director on Public Radio.... So maybe that colored my reaction.

I think my favorite scene was when the neighborhood was gathered below Mr. Fletcher's window, "remembering" their stories of Fats Waller, and the whole making of that "documentary"

Mostly, it's the aftertaste of kindness that I'm remembering so well -- everyone, except for the commercial lawyer types -- were motivated primarily by kindness. And there's so little of that in movie comedies (or dramas) these days.

[jekesta]

I saw it!:) I did really like it, I like quiet films that don't try to do anything spectacular and are just kind and lovely, it had a real sense about it of what it was trying to do and like you say it had some lovely moments and a great ending:):) ::dances you::

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes... and the little scenes keep bubbling through the rough bits (and I don't argue the point that there were rough bits, but it's the sweet little things you remember...

Like when they were in the diner, all spontaneously agreeing that The Lion King was a great movie, or when Mr. Fletcher lectured that teen about disrespecting his aunt, and then playing him some Fats Waller, just because he liked Fats Waller...

I was thinking of you as I watched it! About the post you made a few years ago about why you love wobbly sets. This movie was all about wobbly sets, and yes. I was thinking how much this movie would please you, especially the cardboard cars.

[jekesta]

Yeah, the rough bits only made things better, the sort of bits that were a bit out of place. I kept worrying they were slipping into being TOO AWARE that they were making a sort of sweet movie which sometimes bothers me in things, but I think in the end they struck a really nice atmosphere with it:)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the rough bits only made things better

*Agrees*