Yeah, I was about to add that I still really like the overall style of the film, especially when it gets further along into all his incongruent memories. Haven't seen Science of Sleep in ages. I think I remember cardboard cutout unicorns or something.

Not really defending the film, but couldn't you imagine in a moment of grief where everything else is obscured, that somebody could do that impulsively?

Sometime I wish I could. But that's me.

Anyway...
Pacific Rim
9/10 Goddam that was entertaining. One of the most awesome and epic films that I've seen in the theater in years.

Nah there's some angsty motherfuckers out there, trust me.

Maybe. I think what got me was the woman with all her dog's stuff. Like, everyone knows dogs live shorter lives than humans. She knew when she got that dog the he was very likely to die before she did. So why is she erasing all her memories of him? I could see the break-up thing a little more easily - people just want to put the past behind them and move on, but even then, I thought it was like Human Condition 101 that we have to learn how to learn from and be stronger because of negative experiences like that.

Wasn't one of the film's points that a place like that can't really function with humans? Despite their efforts to erase memory they end up finding each other in the end.

The Never Ending Story
8.4/10 I'll always have a soft spot for this one.

How's it end?

Having lost two pets very recently I probably would have, in the heat of being devastated by my loss, wished I could forget about them, but now that I've accepted that they are gone I can cherish the memories I had with them. You're not exactly rational right when you lose someone.

Since the whole point of the movie is that this guy agrees to have his memories erased as a reactionary emotional response to the hurt of knowing his girlfriend did it first and then ultimately realizing he's made a terrible mistake, it makes perfect sense to me.

Pacific Rim - 5/10

Due to the enormous similarities between the premise and that of Neon Genesis Evangelion, I couldn't help but notice what this film lacked that its influence had in tact.
So many questions: (spoilers) If you're going to plant gigantic, multi-million dollar+ super-high-tech robots in extremely dangerous scenarios where the entire world's existence depends on their success why not have seamless high-tech communication between all pilots and the base?? Where are all the scientists and engineers that worked on them making sure everything is working as it should? The crew consisted of maybe 5 people. Not exactly reassuring. Thematically it attempted to boast 'compatibility' and 'connections' yet with one female character ( who is basically silent when in the robot despite being the "best and brightest"... we never see her insight into her partner... when they first defeat a kaiju she gets no credit except from the one captain guy) the dialogue is full of macho cliches and that "silence" that implies respect between men but is played out to a fantastically ridiculously level of stupid - if the WHOLE world had been overtaken by monsters, wouldn't people be a little more shaken, broken, open and emotional? If your cunty Australian son is going out to certain death, tell him you love him! The only person who said anything explicitly emotional was the Japanese girl, in Japanese, before her black suga daddy exploded. I'm sorry but the overmasculinization (that's not even a word!!) of the entire movie almost ruined it for me, because it had ample opportunity to create really interesting intense emotional exploration and could have really expanded on its themes and become, well, Neon Genesis Evangelion. They stuffed what was left in the interesting-enough steam-punky monster-movie homage with overdone, overripe cliches as if to jerk off their audience rather than stimulate their interests in a less superficial way. And God FORBID another lead be a blonde-haired blue-eyed extremely boring symmetrical-faced abs-perfect brain-irrelevant fucking boring ass character. I am so bored of white men trying to look cool I want to pull my hair out. I admit the script was definitely riveting in moments and posed interesting questions and hinted at some really unorthodox directions the story could go -- but ultimately I left feeling a little flat and frustrated that it should only dip its toes in greatness without taking the full plunge. As soon as the idea of the Kaiju "drifting" with human minds became spun into plot I was admittedly hopeful for a twist that'd show some kind of intense parallel between our existence being "like vermin" and that of the kaiju to us and that there could be some sort of lesson about respect, maybe a bit too Miyazaki-esque in my hopes... I liked that we actually went through to the other side of the aliens' portal, some weird trippy shit in this movie. Really dug Ron Perlman too.

Yeah, I won't be seeing that. Thanks for the review. It looks like another over-bloated CGI film I wouldn't like.

After some discussion in the facebook banes thread, there was some discussion of starting a DDD film blog. I made one—we can see if it takes off: http://projecttreefingers.wordpress.com/

PM me with your wordpress account name (easy to make) if you want to be added as a contributor. We can change the appearance settings if wanted. I just picked one that looked not too shitty.

Also, I recently watched The Rules of the Game and Sansho the Bailiff and I laughed myself to death then cried myself to death. Two amazing films.

Watch more Mizoguchi!

And more Renoir, too, I guess.

I've seen Ugetsu