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Subject: Re: [I] Good, non-funny movies
Date: 12 Nov 2000
T J Wilkinson wrote:
<re: what to watch when your jaw is one big agonizing bruise>
> So any suggestions? (Stupid question: knowing AFP I shall have to
> take a month off work to get through them).
Ooh, I had mine out last year. Five of them, in fact. I'm a mutant. The insurance company only covered four, so we had to pay extra. I slept for twenty-four hours afterwards, and by the time I woke up the bruises had turned that strange yellowish color. Very strange experience. Still, now I have five fewer teeth, and that's definitely worthwile. Erm...
Right, things to watch. Well, I just taped the entire "Frank Herbert's Dune" miniseries on the Sci-Fi channel, and if you can find someone else who did the same, it would seem to be ideal.
It's absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful (the cinematographer won an Oscar for Apocolypse Now. Not many movies have a fantasy world so rich to work in AND the talent to create it AND the budget to do it right. I put a screen shot as my desktop wallpaper, although since the movie is letterboxed, it doesn't quite fit) and it's completely unfunny. It's about as deadly serious as the New Testament, and it definitely had me wanting to convert by the end (although, that's possibly just the effect Alec Newman would have on any girl...) There's the occasional wry moment, but I don't think wryness will be too painful on your jaw.
It's got a kind of trance quality that may, in fact, leave you kind of oblivious to things like pain. And best of all, it's three episodes, for a total of six hours. The best time to watch it has to be when you can't actually get out of bed, so you don't have to interrupt the rhythm. Can provide a lot of distraction.
Other than that... Well, almost all my favorite films are funny. Although often not intentionally.
Mary (but whatever you do, don't watch the new Dungeons and Dragons movie. You don't want to lose brain cells just because you've lost teeth.)
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