TenderLovingKiller®
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Now go watch Synecdoche, NY; Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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TenderLovingKiller®
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Also, I guess Charlie Kauffman has a Novel out. Has anyone given that a go yet?
supahypeag
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The reviews have been...unkind
Hhabelt
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And Anomalisa.
And look out for I'm Thinking of Ending Things coming to Netflix in September.
TenderLovingKiller®
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That’s a shame. It seems like something that would grow in cult status as time progresses.
kvetcha
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I’ve seen them all and Malkovich was still somehow the wildest.
Love Kaufman.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I think Malkovich was my first Kaufman either that or Eternal Spotlight. They are all bonkers (in the best way possible) I think Adaptation is my favorite (because: Cage) I would have a tough time ranking them on surrealism though they are all just so out there like if you described the plot to any of them I think they would all sound like someone describing a dream.
I hated Anomalisa more than any movie I’ve seen in the past 5 years.
Adaptation rips though.
TenderLovingKiller®
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LOL, there was a reason I didn’t include it.
Hhabelt
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Oof. Tough crowd.
TenderLovingKiller®
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It’s all good. It wasn’t my thing but I know a lotta people loved it.
Bull Shannon
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Gotta throw my hat in as well. I appreciated the idea behind it and the themes it explored, and I was really glad to see some independent animation on the big screen. But the middle-aged white-male malaise...even as someone going through that experience, my thought was "oh boo hoo for you."
The ending with the weird sex robot leaking gross fluid in the entry room kinda redeemed the whole thing because it felt like the movie was saying it was correct to think the protagonist was a bit narrowsighted about his own problems and the people around him.
Tom Noonan, though. No choice but to stan.
Something about it also felt extremely misogynistic
Bull Shannon
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MASSIVELY misogynistic; it's about a man who feels so entitled to happiness and finds every single person around him so boring and interchangeable, then finds one person who he not only projects specialness on due to external traits (voice), he also finds her entirely accessible and attractive through her low self-esteem and submissiveness. I don't think that's very deep subtext, but I didn't exactly feel like the movie was condemning this guy so much as using him as a midlife crisis sounding board.
kvetcha
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Kaufman does seem drawn toward deeply sad, shitty men as lead characters, but it's generally in a sort of flagellant way.
ayayrawn
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Really? I've heard it's certainly a niche, but most of the reviews I have seen are good.
If Surprise Makes A Great Novel, 'Antkind' Is A Great Novel
Charlie Kaufman's doorstopper new novel could only have been written by Charlie Kaufman — which may seem vague, but we promise it fits the unapologetic, overstuffed Antkind perfectly.
www.npr.org
I imagine your enjoyment will derive from how much you like his work.
supahypeag
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Really? I've heard it's certainly a niche, but most of the reviews I have seen are good.
If Surprise Makes A Great Novel, 'Antkind' Is A Great Novel
Charlie Kaufman's doorstopper new novel could only have been written by Charlie Kaufman — which may seem vague, but we promise it fits the unapologetic, overstuffed Antkind perfectly.
I imagine your enjoyment will derive from how much you like his work.
Maybe it was just a small sample size of reviews from sites I frequent:
Charlie Kaufman’s Debut Novel Reveals His Genius Has Its Limits
Or at least that it would benefit from some.
With the massive Antkind, Charlie Kaufman disappears up his own ass
The filmmaker's debut novel is bloated and frustrating—less an embarrassment of riches than a complete lack of restraint.
aux.avclub.com
ayayrawn
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It's been a while since I've seen it, but I don't recall feeling that it was misogynistic at all. I remember thinking that the guy was obviously pathetic, but sympathetic to some degree. It wasn't only women that he viewed as the same, it was literally everyone. I remember being pretty moved by it in the end. Again, it's been a while though.