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Waking Life- the movie. ie; GO SEE THIS NOW

· General · 6 posts · Jul 11, 2004 View original thread ↗

#1 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 - 09:21

Wow. I rented this because a few friends suggested it's worth watching... holy ****. I kinda doubt that any movie has made me THINK as much as this one.... in 2nd place would be the yellow submarine, but this one takes the cake. Kinda one big stream of consciousness / philosophical mind ****. It's very deep, but easy to watch, not to mention that the animation is pretty incredible. I realize they probably animated over the top of real shots, but it's still GREAT looking.

Anyone seen this?

- Rob

#2 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 - 10:35

Yes, I saw this a couple months ago. It was pretty much *sweetness factor +11*.

I read that for each different philosopher/idea section, there was a different artist doing the animation. It was really interesting to see how different all of that was while also soaking in the different thoughts of everybody.

And the music!!!

Very fine movie.

#3 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 - 10:42

Indeed. It's one of the better films of the past ten years.

#4 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 - 10:47

Saw it a long time ago. Cool looking with some interesting parts, but ultimately pretty boring.

It reminds me of those cool experimental shorts... but drawn out to a mind-numbing 100+ minutes.

Don't get me wrong... overall I still liked it, but only a 2.5/5 to 3/5 type of "liked it".

#5 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 - 11:09

I had to watch that movie like 7 times because I wrote a research paper on it. By the end I wanted to kill myself. You can only take so much of that movie...

#6 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 - 11:26

Enjoyed it quite a bit, and it's super cheap to buy on DVD.
Also, Linklater's newest, "Before Sunset" just opened.