I think one of the reasons I enjoyed Waking Life so much is that the three of us watching it actually paused it in the middle and had a half hour long conversation of our own before continuing. So even though I didn't agree with everything the movie said, I appreciated it for touching off a great conversation.

I really liked "Andre" when I first saw it years ago. I was enthralled by the conversation and wished that my own friends would converse in this manner. Since that time, I've gotten a little bored with the "watching people talk" flms. I find that I DO have more interesting conversations with my friends than what's going on in these films. Both Mind Walk and Waking Life both left me rather unfulfilled and I wonder if Andre would be the same for me if I saw it again now.

That was one problem I had, it really isn't a conversation until the last 30 minutes or so. Until then it is just Andre talking while Wally Shawn says "really" and "what happened then" and nervously chuckles. Until then it was a monologue of a hippie's wet dream of adventure travel.

Once Wallace Shawn worked up the gumption to participate I had no problem staying awake but that first 1:15 to 1:30 was where I kept zonking out.

I haven't seen Mindwalk in a decade and the first time I saw it was in a social setting and Fritjof Capra was there to talk about it afterwards (even at the ripe age of 17 I recognized him as a pseudo-intellectual twerp, but the discussion was interesting).

I liked Andy Kaufman's "My Breakfast With Blassie". I was never a pro-wrestling fan, but I enjoyed it anyway. And it was funnier than "Andre".

The big problem I had with 'Waking Life' was the animation. It made me nauseous. I left halfway through it to puke. (No joke.) I thought the movie itself was just okay. I found it to be pretentious.

Back to Kill Bill for a second:

Well good. I'll pay to go see that. Sadly, innerSpaceman will have to pass since he only sees the original theatrical versions of movies and anything else is an abomination (if I'm recalling correctly which I may not be).

Is this why the DVD of Kill Bill 1 was so inexpensive?

(I presume #2 was the same price, but I never watched more than 10 minutes of the first, so never bought #2.)

It's movie related and 06-06-06 related.

Baby Damien

I don't see what about Kill Bill combined is an abomination. It sounds as if it's the two movies run back-to-back, with an intermission in between.

This 'Whole-Bloody-Affair" DVD, on the other hand, sounds like changes afoot. I'm still more excited about that than the cinema re-release of movies I could watch right now if I were so inclined. As I've said above, I'm dying to get my hands on the international verion of KB I, and the expanded DVD may have that as one of the options.

We'll just have to wait and see, but I'm hopeful and optimistic and excited.

Thanks for the news, mousepod.