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[challenge entry] Originally banned due to pressure from MI8

Edit: Bit obscure, p'raps.

From the Add One Word to Film Titles challenge. See all 1486 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! Bagpuss, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:07, archived)
# dont get it
and ive never heard of the film...
(I helped save b3ta! Johno says the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one But still they come on, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:12, archived)
# 'kay, explanation
Film: Dancer in the Dark
Darkplace: Vey good 80s horror spoof wot was on Channel 4 recently.
(I helped save b3ta! Bagpuss, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:18, archived)
# Dancer in the dark
with Bjork. She's Bjonkers.
(Cregol, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:13, archived)
# Is it any good?
I've not actually seen it.
(I helped save b3ta! Bagpuss, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:16, archived)
# It's interesting.
Which is film studies code for a bit slow. There are some ludicrous bits in it and Bjork is either an avant-garde icon or a bonkers mad piece of crazy taffy. It's a little bit like somebody from Germany trying to explain why Monty Python is funny: they understand what they are talking about, they just lack the language to articulate it. There are some cracking dance and song sequences in it and the end is devastatingly sad, I just found it ran, like most Dogme-esque movies, slower than my gran after a hip operation.
(Cregol, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:19, archived)
# The a capella 'favourite things'
in the prison cell is a fucking tear-jerker. It is slow, though.
(I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:21, archived)
# Funereal at times.
I think its one of those times that they feel they are already stretching credibility stylistically so you go all out to make it as realist as possible, which misunderstands the fact that once your disbelief is suspended, they're free to spank it like a punchbag full of puffins.
(Cregol, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:23, archived)
# Good point.
Especially the puffins.
(I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:24, archived)
# Thanks.
This feels like something that should really take place in the Talk thread, but I'm happy to sit here and natter away for a while.
(Cregol, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:25, archived)
# Heh.
I think I enjoyed the film overall. I admit I watched it because I like Bjork, and I think she acquitted herself well in her own way. I did have a lump in my throat and an angry adrenaline rush when the trapdoor opened...
(I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:28, archived)
# Yup.
It's one of those "big subject" films like Elephant that take this askance approach. It's nice not to have to stare down the barrel of a loaded LIfe of David Gale, but a little slicing and dicing would have been nice to make the film a little leaner and more explicit. LIke the old man said, "Take a rock and carve away anything that isn't walrus". Hope somebody gets that.
(Cregol, Sat 23 Oct 2004, 23:31, archived)