he's probably talking about making a plateamacaroni.

haw haw haw! sorry, in-joke with 'Last Days' thread.

//RE last line of the film-

I read some interview with Scarlett Johannsen and she said she didn't want to break the spell by sharing, but what he said to her genuinely made her cry like that.

Well, I DO want to know what he said to her, foetusboy! Please! I watched it for the first time last night. I loved it, but then I'm pretty fond of Bill Murray. I was interested to see you say that your friend thought it was racist, Jet. I'm with Heather on this. You see Tokyo the way each of the two main characters see it - that's most dramatically illustrated in scenes like when Bob goes to the nightclub with Charlotte. There's all those weird patterns, and a swirly, hazy, strange cinematographic thing going on. I can relate to standing in a nightclub full of people in their twenties and feeling like that. Charlotte's Tokyo is beautiful, Bob's is harrassing........but for both of them it's lonely, until they connect with each other. Anyway, I thought it was great.

Unengaging?? what movie were you watching???

I can see how someone would find it unengaging. Pretty quiet and as with most American movies that get labelled as art-house or whatever it's very, very self-centred. Or "reflective" if that's a more ameliorative way to put it. Either way, if you're in a "shit, just get over yourselves" mood it's probably excruciating.

I love it. One of the very few movies I own (admittedly all are gifts - I never have the urge to own a movie) and I've watched it probably a dozen times now.

One of my closest friends in the world, someone whose opinion I care about a lot, finds the movie racist. Which always niggles at me in various scenes. Some of the thing's Bob says seem a bit racist to me, which is not the same as a racist movie, but I dunno... it fucks with my guilty, liberal sentiments from time to time. Heh.

Actually, I just got a haircut from a Japanese woman who asked me if I'd seen the movie, saying it's an accurate taster for what it really is like in Tokyo...

//One of my closest friends in the world, someone whose opinion I care about a lot, finds the movie racist. Which always niggles at me in various scenes. Some of the thing's Bob says seem a bit racist to me, which is not the same as a racist movie, but I dunno... it fucks with my guilty, liberal sentiments from time to time. Heh.

Yeah, I've heard that before, but I think it's unfair. Bill's version of Japan is pretty derogatory - all silly commercials, mad prostitutes, weird shouty tv personalities and plastic - but that reflects him as this old jaded cynic more than the city he's in; and it's rebalanced perfectly with youthful romantic Scarlett's version - a stunningly beautiful, ancient and dignified culture. So the overwhelming theme for me wasn't a racist view of the place, but just that while both experienced completely different versions of Japan, they could still both relate to each other in their detachment from this alien world.

Bah, I watched this under some of the worst circumstances imaginable, so I can't find anything redeeming to comment on. I just wanted to say hello to Jo ;-)

I do? Hot dang.

Let's bee friends.

You were supPOSED to say "and it has a picture of a beeeeee on it"

Or a reference to trains.

But, well, you've got a lotta moxy.

Mmm. Moxy.

Yeah... *sigh*... I GUESS.