Reddroast Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Happy birthday @Alpha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 (edited) @Alpha Happy birthday! Edited September 12, 2019 by cookie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 @Alpha Happy Birthday! May the Stars of the Fox go for 3 hours in Part 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 Late on the bandwagon but have a great birthday @Alpha!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Thank you all very much. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YM! Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 @cookie would flip his shit over DuckTales S2 finale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 (edited) Promised this yesterday, so here we go: Cookie's Preliminary Review of @SLAM!'s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Spoiler In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is not a film you come across often. At least not in CAYOM. On its surface, the film is about a descent into madness by a musician who got way into his own fantasies of saving a historical figure and let that bleed not only into his creative process but his personal life as well. Many of the film's more out there moments, some which are bound to make viewers pause as it skeeves into uncomfortable territory, aren't as much based in truth as they are in legend. It's not a representation of fact, but in my opinion it doesn’t have to be. It's not really about the external narrative anyhow. Most of the recordings go without a hitch, the band members all seem to get along just fine with only the occasional arguments, and they never face any great external challenges or failures. No, the film's stakes lie in just how far Jeff Mangum's obsession with Anne Frank goes before he either crosses an event horizon or he himself falls apart completely. I got the sense that Jeff isn't so much obsessed with Anne Frank as much as the version of her he's created in his mind. In his lucid dreams, that stand-in becomes a living person, someone Jeff can share his dreams, wants, doubts, fears and — perhaps most fascinatingly — his guilt with. Jeff bears no responsibility for what happened to Frank nor does he know anyone who does, but he still feels the obligation to either somehow save her or let her inspire him to make more music. The latter results in one of the most influential underground albums of all time, the former drives a man to have a mental breakdown. What might help ease the discomfort one gets when Jeff's interactions with this stand-in of Frank turns into a full-blown relationship is that even Jeff's delusions eventually fight against him, telling him to move on by making it abundantly clear that even his fantasies can't escape reality. Jeff's friends don't do much to help until it's too late, but their motives for being hands-off are all understandable, and you get the sense part of it is also driven by an unease they're all too considerate to do anything about. The only question mark, then, is the film's final moments, making it seem like Jeff is surrendering to his madness even if that same madness warned him not to. I think it's supposed to be left up to interpretation, and just how that scene plays out does give the feeling it's all another lucid dream, but it's difficult to tell. I'm reminded of last year's Yin where the experience is what drives the narrative. It's a window into a particular moment in Jeff's life (smartly avoiding many tropes that plague the usual music biopic), but when Aeroplane Over the Sea truly soars is when that window disappears and it more becomes a wave that pulls you into its world, only letting go once it wants you and Jeff to snap back to reality, wondering what just happened but immediately wanting to go back. I don't think I've had this lucid sensation watching any other film in CAYOM's life-span, and it's made me more fascinated to go and read up on the real Jeff Mangum than a film that would've tried to fill in more details would've done. It knows what it wants to tell, and it does so swiftly, and even viewers unfamiliar with the music scene Jeff inhabits will come out wanting more of it. A (Not that it has any effect on the rating, but it did feel more like 90 minutes than necessarily two hours, though the numerous songs could make up the difference.) Edited September 13, 2019 by cookie 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 4 minutes ago, YourMother the Edgelord said: @cookie would flip his shit over DuckTales S2 finale Well now I want spoilers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YM! Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 3 minutes ago, cookie said: Well now I want spoilers. DM me then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 (edited) ITAotS Light Spoilers: Spoiler Given @cookie's review, it looks like Slam did a good job of leaning further into the elements I suggested in my initial feedback pass. Can't wait to read the new version. Edited September 13, 2019 by Mr Pastaffelees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorschach Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 minute ago, Mr Pastaffelees said: ITAotS Light Spoilers: Hide contents Given @cookie's review, it looks like Alpha did a good job of leaning further into the elements I suggested in my initial feedback pass. Can't wait to read the new version. Congratulations @Alpha on apparently writing In The Aeroplane Over the Sea 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 @cookie Thank you for the review!! I'm out of likes atm, but I'm over the moon that you enjoyed it as much as you did! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Rorschach said: Congratulations @Alpha on apparently writing In The Aeroplane Over the Sea 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 12 hours ago, Rorschach said: Congratulations @Alpha on apparently writing In The Aeroplane Over the Sea And....this is why I dont trust myself in fever brain mode. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YM! Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 I am reading LucIId as one of my first reviews 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 2 minutes ago, YourMother the Edgelord said: I am reading LucIId as one of my first reviews The horror....oh the horror Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 @Xillix please bump the Lumberjanes theatre count to 3,751. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 @Xillix you can remove The Dreams We Live and Until Dawn from the schedule. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 20 minutes ago, 4815162342 said: @Xillix you can remove The Dreams We Live and Until Dawn from the schedule. Y7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 35 minutes ago, cookie said: Y7? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on whether I can fit them into what I already have planned for that year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...