tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post5994091630176762802..comments2024-03-28T04:22:09.431-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: MONDAY, Feb. 26, 2007 - Peter A. CollinsRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54382955526697667302007-02-26T16:48:00.000-05:002007-02-26T16:48:00.000-05:00The Sylvia Plath quotation was a bit too depressin...The Sylvia Plath quotation was a bit too depressing for my liking.sonofdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07177442874914826830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64363663366390308062007-02-26T15:51:00.000-05:002007-02-26T15:51:00.000-05:00Love the existentialism/Good Times riff. In colleg...Love the existentialism/Good Times riff. In college, long ago and far away, I took one whole quarter on Sartre and Camus and practically dropped out of school, I took it so to heart. <BR/><BR/>I solved everything except TAIL END, which I couldn't *see* to save my life. I kept wanting Plath's quote to be IN ART, I don't know why, and the whole thing completely eluded me. It's weird how the most obvious things can seize you and wrestle you to the ground. <BR/><BR/>Rex, did you see An Inconvenient Truth? Out of its context, I Need to Wake Up is not very compelling; I had the same reaction you did to Etheridge's delivery of it at the Oscars. But in the context of the film, the way it was used, it had me in tears at the end. And that's what the vote is based on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6092820603702165102007-02-26T10:55:00.000-05:002007-02-26T10:55:00.000-05:00Wow, a full-on thoughtful and informed movie revie...Wow, a full-on thoughtful and informed movie review! And I didn't get you anything...<BR/><BR/>Seriously, thanks. I shall try to see both movies. I do love the crime fiction. <BR/><BR/>RE: DROID, thankfully I had several crosses before I ever saw the clue. That one stumped my wife pretty good. Though to her credit, OSTERS was a gimme for her (not for me) AND I couldn't have finished the Cranium-Crushing Friday Sun puzzle I did last night (an old DJ Kahn puzzle) without her help. Something about social reformers named WEBB!?!? Whatever. <BR/><BR/>RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84462256564719765952007-02-26T10:43:00.000-05:002007-02-26T10:43:00.000-05:00The below contains a few spoilers of The Departed ...The below contains a few spoilers of The Departed and Infernal Affairs (HK version). You've been warned.<BR/><BR/>I'm glad that The Departed won. I don't think Scorsese or the producer gave enough credit to whoever wrote the Hong Kong version, though. They should've thanked the Hong Kong guys PROFUSELY for giving them a badass story and structure. The Departed was essentially a scene-for-scene remake of Infernal Affairs, with only a few relatively minor changes and the addition of Marky Mark's character to make the ending a bit more palatable to American tastes (the Matt Damon character gets away with it in IA, which wouldn't sit well with American bad-guy-must-lose plot formula).<BR/><BR/>Still, The Departed was a great film and in some ways superior to IA. For one thing, if you've ever seen any HK cinema then you're probably familiar with some of its cheesier elements (flashbacks with sappy music in the background, overacting at points, etc.) that are thankfully absent from American films. So the acting and lack of sappy stuff in The Departed was more to my liking than IA, but I can't really fault IA or its actors for that because it was made for HK audiences, who apparently like that stuff for one reason or another. I did like the ending of IA better, though.<BR/><BR/>And, uh, this was a good Monday puzzle. I liked the them. The last answer made me laugh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55620657125837282502007-02-26T10:05:00.000-05:002007-02-26T10:05:00.000-05:00grrrrWhat I had, what it was1D SPAM, SCAM11D NONE,...grrrr<BR/><BR/>What I had, what it was<BR/><BR/>1D SPAM, SCAM<BR/>11D NONE, NADA<BR/>41A ROBOT, DROID.<BR/><BR/>grrrrAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com