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We watched 3 films this weekend: Punch Drunk Love, Magnolia and Solaris.
I like all three, as they were each weird in their own special way and at least they made me think.
Magnolia was probably the hardest one for me to get into really, I just had a hard time sympathizing or caring about the characters very much. THe fact that their all tied together (however loosely) was interesting, but in the end I think all of these people were a little over the top.
Punch Drunk Love was probably the oddest film I've seen in a while, I can only presume that it's one of those films where you get out of it whatever you want to get out of it. It did ratchet Adam Sandler up a notch in my book.
Solaris, while I enjoyed it, was probably my least favorite of this batch. I like the story and the philisophical ideas it brings up, but kind of like the Matrix, I found myself that the science-fiction involved was a too flimsy. Too many things happened in the movie where I wanted to ask, "but didn't this happen just a few scenes ago that doesn't mesh withw what you just said?" In then end I guess it just tried to be a second-chance love story and a sci-fi story at the same time, and while it pulls it off pretty well it left something to be desiered