http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:15 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/060225.php#comment-23882 Just want to say, for those of you that walked out and didn't 'like' it: READ THE BOOK! This movie is based on the AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a real live survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. It's completely true to the book, unlike many or most movies, and it achieves to do great justice to SZPILMAN'S experience. We see life through HIS eyes and get GLIMPSES of things that happened around him... we are not MEANT to see everything in detail. 23882@blogcritics.org Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:15 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/060225.php#comment-11054 I paid to see it again, and sat through an entire hour ... and walked out again. The movie is unredeemable. Or at the least, for me, unwatchable. I have only walked out on two movies before -- the ultraviolent "Platoon" and Sam Peckinpaugh's "The Wild Ones." Oddly, I have never walked out on a sex scene. 11054@blogcritics.org Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:03:42 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/060225.php#comment-10404 Yes sir. I have a comment. Steve you are amazing. Polanski grosses me out, but if *you* can be detached enough to separate the art from the "man" then he produces great work - other than the Pianist, which I thought was sentiment drivel. But obviously, that's pretty much just me. I think you might also have a bit more than the "fair use" of the NY Times book review. 10404@blogcritics.org Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:46:17 EDT